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> I've been told that this is one of the main changes that resulted from Vatican II: there is only one God and it's shared by the whole world population. On the other side, the Catholics pretend to have the "right" way to praise that common God. (but that's not what you were saying)

To be honest I think you are misunderstanding Vatican II, but that would open a much longer discussion, so I'll go for a simpler, more direct argument.

A Catholic must believe in the Holy Trinity, i.e. that God is one in three Persons. This is in the latest edition of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, and in more than two millennia of doctrine.

In other words: other religions adore different Gods, that don't come in three Persons. According to the Christian doctrine, this is wrong, that is not the true God, and without believing in the Holy Trinity you are not going to Heaven (this is clearly spelled in the Athanasian Creed and in many others documents, has been said many times during the history of the Church, being also confirmed by Vatican II, see also below).

So, it's not a matter of just believing in some vague, universal God. The teaching of the Catholic Church is: either you believe in the Catholic God (one God, three Person, the Son become man, died, resurrected, etc...) or your soul won't be saved.

That's why speaking of only one God may lead to confusion: you may say that the Christian, Islamic and Hindu God are the same, but only one can grant you salvation, so they are not the same!

Other religions have a different concept of God. You may stretch the concept a bit, and consider it as the same God in disguise, however it won't save you soul. That's quite a difference!

(An exception is made for people who didn't get to know the message of Christ in their lifetime, see below.)

> "Today, the Athanasian Creed is rarely used even in the Western Church."

That's right, it is not used in day-to-day celebrations, except once per year.

However it is an authoritative text when it comes to the Catholic doctrine.

Its author, Saint Athanasius, is a Doctor of the Church, i.e. a saint of particular importance when it comes to contributions to theology or doctrine. Actually the main reason he's a Doctor of the Church is because of his Creed.

The main message I was quoting from the Creed, the concept that there cannot be salvation outside the Church, has been repeated over and over during the history of the Church.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extra_Ecclesiam_nulla_salus

Vatican II has established an exceptions in case of people who never got to know the Gospel during their lifetimes. The main point, that embracing the Christian faith is needed for salvation in case it has been announced to you, is although unmodified.
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Imagine a world where you can buy without a merchant, bet without a bookie, get insurance without an underwriter, access finance and loans without a bank, trade without an exchange, purchase commodities without a broker, have law without lawyers, courts and judges, create assets without an issuer, secure escrow without an agent, have internet without an ISP, verify records without a notary, establish reputation and credit without a credit agency, and create identity without a government.

Imagine a Bitcoin world.
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Perhaps, but what if the app developer is long gone, and I am a user hoping to keep using my favorite program? Apparently the original Raymond Chen article is gone but I think this quote captures it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14202707
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Bitcoin Cash was born out of necessity to save Bitcoin from disaster when it was hijacked by corporate interests (funded by AXA/Mastercard).

Both sides of the SegWit fork (SegWit1X vs. 2X) ~Nov. 16) are intentionally crippling transaction speeds/costs to move transactions off the blockchain and into the pockets of said corporate interests.

The true spirit and potential of Bitcoin lives on through Bitcoin Cash.
I get that people consider this a poor argument, but parent asked what the argument for bitcoins deflationary nature, and to the best of my knowledge this is the argument for it, and it is found within groups who identify with anarchistic economics and austrian schools of thought.
Oh is there a plan to move it towards community?

Here I thought the one big feature is behind a paywall. Competing with https://traefik.io/ in that regard.
I wouldn't keep a large portion of your "wealth" in it.
Don't get me wrong, I was hating mongo before it was cool to do so, but your example is one place which makes zero sense, just learn to write a mongo query already or use SQL straight up.
SQLite has a public domain license, which is problematic in some jurisdictions. If it used Apache or something this would be less of a concern.
Forks are a corner case. As long as someone is willing to pay for the minority coin, why not sell it: the fact that someone is willing to pay for it makes it valuable.

"The peons in Theranos didn't commit fraud, they didn't realise they were in a scheme, they were not lying, they were really convinced that they found the money tree and if only people buy in it will bear fruit forever".

You can't call every company that has failed a pyramid scheme.

You can't call every company that seeks funds through VC or IPO a pyramid scheme, yet they know that they'll only get rich if others buy in.
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I wish I could write that well :(. This is better than most write ups with fancy graphics.
I'd like to take a moment and look at this "what if" from the point of view of data archiving.

Zip files use a well documented, easily-reproducable and widely implemented deflate algorithm. It's reasonable to assume that someone could, 100 years from now, unzip an OpenDocument file. The contents are XML files - basically text - which can be read with any simple text editor and parsed. The XML is also at least somewhat self-documenting regarding the contained document.

SQLite databases have a binary format which is known to change periodically. An attempt to read a SQLite file in 100 years would have to know the exact version of the file, and be able to reach back through history to find that version of SQLite (or a compatible version), and find a way to compile it for whatever CPU architecture exists in 100 years.

This could be mitigated by including the appropriately versioned documentation of the binary format with the database itself - however to the best of my knowledge, full documentation of the binary format (outside the code) does not exist. The end product - a relational database - would also be less self-documenting than the XML version.

IMO, it would be much better to keep the inefficient zipped XML files.

[EDIT]: The binary file format: https://www.sqlite.org/fileformat.html

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What?? Surely you can come up with a better example than a house built on a collapsing cliff that was intentionally burned down.

Edit: your comment would be more helpful if it referenced improved construction techniques and materials that are commonly used in Europe that haven't been adopted in the US.
Or, for even more fun: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~junfeng/papers/deepxplore-sosp17...

Deep learning exploits at a button press.

Quoth: For all tested DL models, on average DeepXplore generated one test input demonstrating incorrect behavior within one second while running only on a commodity laptop.

One second for triggering a failure, on any tested model. On a commodity laptop.

That's just the technology you want to entrust with intelligence tasks.
Dumb question. If I buy a bitcoin today would it be assumed the associated bitcoin cash coin had already been spent or is there a chance I ended up with both?

Or am I completely misunderstanding? When it formed each coin holder got a new coin in the fork?
What do you do when you need to look at ads, or you have false positive?
What stops banks from dropping those fees to compete with TransferWise? Are they serving a fundamentally different slice of the market?
This happened to my brother and girlfriend at the same time.

Both iPhone users. We thought it was someone fucking with us, so I got the CNAM of the phone number and creeped the guy out by telling him his name (lol) and then we both came to the conclusion that something fishy is going on.
He says Python packages, many of which bend over backwards to maintain backwards compatibility. (I wish Django were one of them)
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You can seek to files within a zip file, tar doesn't have an index.
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In many cases people don't care about performance (CPU time) but they do care about problems, real or imagined, if they try something new. (Human time)
Ok! Thanks for letting me know. It just seemed strange.
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That's an adversarial picture, but not nearly as dramatic as the epsilon-adversarial examples -- and in particular there are no logical inconsistencies (confusing a cat for guacamole or a turtle for a riffle). I don't think anyone doubts a form of camouflage or isomorphic deception is unavoidable.
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Oh well, he should try a language with types ...

/me runs ...
Yet the Python 3 executable has the same name as the Python 2 executable...
Okay. Again, I don't mean any offense, I know this stuff takes time. It just seemed strange that so many people were saying the same thing.
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Certain parts of the API once able to respond with a value now just spit out '0', it means that whatever application that used it just continue to work even though that part is deprecated.
Adding continuations to the JVM would be really useful for JVM language designer. I worked on this topic a couple of years ago for my MSc thesis, I implemented continuations exploiting the exception mechanism, this made implementing async/await relatively easy https://andrebask.github.io/thesis/
I think it would be a great service if someone would write up a technical introduction to this for non-Clojurists. You seem to be communicating a subtle point that not many of us are getting ...
Nobody cares about "real" technologies anymore its all about zero value technologies like bitcoin. Praise the Golden Pig
You can get the same experience by just requesting the AMP version from Wired directly (just append `/amp` to the original URL), no reason to go through Google's cache for that.
Let me guess, you do not take any responsibility for what you do at work. I know plenty of folks who would love to make decisions and like thinking that they can do better, yet when their decision takes everyone down, they refuse to share any responsibility for a bad decision. And if you are not being held accountable that means someone else pays for your mistakes in business.
Reacting to visual stimuli is reflexive and not directly related to learning.

Human brain receives roughly 25-50 images worth of data per second, so less than 50 samples per second. (consciously we observe only 25 images per second).

Short-term synaptic plasticity works on a timescale of 20ms to few minutes, so also roughly 50 times per second timescale.

If I try to translate this to deep learning framework, it would mean max 500 training steps in 10 seconds per neuron.

Learning to recognize cat using _unsupervised learning_ in just 10 seconds would be really impressive.
I was going to hold onto mine for another year at least but the camera doesn't seem to work as of two weeks ago. I held out for 11.1 hoping it was a weird bug but that didn't do it. Must be hardware. Camera won't focus half the time and in video it won't stabilize at all.
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With launch costs coming down it'll soon be more practical to launch a satellite into orbit that can store this information for a long time.
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Current archeologists only excavate sites 'at risk' e.g. new building development or looting. In all other cases, they strive to do non-intrusive exploration e.g. ground penetrating radar and lidar.
It is a bit of a fraud to claim bitcoin can ever replace fiat currencies, though. Its deflationary, has a fixed coin limit, is incredibly centralized, and its tx rate is awful and costs a ton to move any of it around the chain.

The only value in bitcoin is in how much it exchanges for at this point, and that is definitionally a pyramid scheme, because current buy-ins need more adoption to drive the price up so they profit off their investment.

3% of all addresses control 97% of all coins. 0.01% of all addresses control 21% of all coins. And bitcoins mint rate is slowing every four years and almost 80% of all bitcoin that will ever exist already exists.

Its absolutely a pyramid scheme. Early adopters were incentivized with large quantities of limited coins to persuade them to mine and participate when the value was low. Those really early wallets (circa 09-12) amassed over half of all bitcoin ever and are now worth extreme fortunes. Those fortunes are based on demand for BTC, demand for the tiny amounts actually left circulating.

The real question is how much of that old money is actually dead - lost wallets and lost passwords - and how much is just waiting to cash out for absolute fortunes. All it would take is one early wallet carrying thousands of BTC to liquidate to cause a panic.
> Definitions of words are ultimately arbitrary

> If you want to use terms differently than I do, that's fine, just explain what you mean and we should be able to communicate.

That is the lamest excuse for losing an argument I have ever heard.

Within a given context words have a precise meaning. If we discuss computer science, we accept that, unless otherwise specified, the textbook meanings of the words "byte", "algorithm" or "concurrency" apply.

How would you feel discussing computer science with someone, just to discover that he made up his own personal definition of algorithm, that does not match the commonly accepted one? A waste of time, you say?

The same applies here, you cannot discuss philosophy, theology and religions without knowing the precise meanings of "metaphysical entity", "atheism", "agnosticism", etc...

And it's ridiculous to say that you argument it's still valid for some re-definition of the basic concepts.

And I am not going to teach you, exactly as I am not teaching people who don't know what an algorithm is and still want to discuss advanced topics in computer science.
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Bitcoin resists pithy statements about who has the power. Be skeptical of anyone trying to dumb it down to "it's the miners" or "it's the nodes". It's a complicated system of checks and balances, by design, and the fact that all of this was thought through in depth and then proven in practice is the reason we're having this thread today.

This essay does a decent job of summarizing the checks and balances:

https://medium.com/@twobitidiot/bitcoins-constitutional-cris...
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This doesn't seem to be especially newsworthy in general (it's a book promo piece) and it's not clear why it should be on HN since there's no tech angle.
It's not accounted for in the literature because brains do not work like computers processing 1 frame every x milliseconds.
Still not sure what you're saying. What do you mean by "negotiate"? Because there are certainly rules for resolving conflicts. As long as we're using Wikipedia, the article for consensus in computer science explicitly mentions Bitcoin.

Proof of work can be used to protect against denial of service. If you provide a web service, you can choose to require proof of work before serving a client to make the client commit some proportional amount of effort.
What does "regression" mean in this sense?
He is right. I’m sorry if he says “fuck” too much or whatever.
This is the killer quote:

> The agreement—signed by Amy Dacey, the former CEO of the DNC, and Robby Mook with a copy to Marc Elias—specified that in exchange for raising money and investing in the DNC, Hillary would control the party’s finances, strategy, and all the money raised. Her campaign had the right of refusal of who would be the party communications director, and it would make final decisions on all the other staff. The DNC also was required to consult with the campaign about all other staffing, budgeting, data, analytics, and mailings.

It was already known, since Politico broke the story, that the Hillary Victory Fund was "essentially... money laundering," but I don't believe that there was any public information that indisputably showed that the Clinton campaign was controlling the DNC throughout the primaries. It was widely suspected, obviously, but this new information from Donna Brazile seems to show that there was actually a formal agreement in place.
The lock could still be faster. atomic ops are more expensive than regular opcodes even when there is zero contention. On x86, a lock requires only a single atomic opcode and can be released with a normal write (because of TSO). Since it's uncontended it won't spin at all. Therefore, any alternative lock-free algorithm that uses more than a single atomic op is actually more expensive.
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"It's like a pyramid scheme in that so long as people keep buying in on the hope of a profit"

You just described any investment. FX market, stock market, housing, etc. It doesn't make them "pyramid schemes".
"I gasped". "I screamed". I don't know what the standard of writing is like at politico (I don't frequent it) but this reads like fiction
The original is much longer...

As that PDF weighs in at 513 pages and 33mb, you are not wrong.
Why not simply bake these contracts and tests into the actual software APIs so they are impossible to break?

That way the app would be "backward compatible certified" if it used this layer. The layer would only run during deployment.

I guess an approximation is the Passing indicator on Travis or GitHub.
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That sounds terrible.

That is a crazy amount of bandwidth usage to VPN out and then back into the the network through the same pipe is a waste. Not counting the licenses and even the ability to maintain that many connections at a given time. Going off of the use cases I have actually done.

It not hard to setup WPA2 Enterprise with assigned VLAN access, heck you can even assign it based on the device, meaning Joe signs in on his laptop and he gets internal access but when he signs in on his cellphone it goes straight out. Each connection is assigned based on need and checked by the IT department.

The OP doesn't even say they are given internal access just network access, which could be straight out to the internet. The majority of cellphones used in my company are VLAN straight to the internet but there are cases where tablets and cellphones need access to server and shares that they are assigned to a VLAN they are on.
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Most of his current generals are very much the confident type (occasionally even too much so), so I don’t really see a problem there. As long as Linus doesn’t anoint a RedHat employee, things will just keep chugging along.
Because its hard to say the least.

This sums it up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15610108
Isn't that just 'fail fast' behavior vs. silent ata corruption?
Definitely not. Relatively minor health benefits from standing vs. drastic health consequences from smoking.
> (b) a mistaken sense of principle of standing up to the perceived bulliness of Google, which, come to think of it, it's basically an application of (a)

But Google has been bullying around with their behaviour. I don't think that's even debatable.
How would you shimmy down the ladder?

But yes I suppose technically you can have rollers in vertical struts and have them roll down inside the rails, carrying the person.
True but there is more to it. Linus’s ambition is to also not break the unknown app in the basement, behind the leopard.
Why not just go for a non-smoking break without any pretence?
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aiiieeee no, don't do that
UK's nothing like Japan, most people use all of their holiday.
Considering that 2017 has been an unprecedented, huge year for all things crypto (whether for very good innovation reasons, or for frothy fraudulent ones), Hacker News barely talks about it at all. Conspicuously avoids it, in fact.
This stuff just strikes me as very petty. Something about smoking or smokers just drives people a bit crazy. Before she retired, my mom would regularly bitch to me about the smoke breaks her coworkers took. She’d say “maybe I’d like to just go outside for a little walk”. So do it then!

The smoking is bad of course, but the specific focus on it, to me, feels pretty hinky.

How about taking breaks every once in a while because you work hard, and you’re a human, not a robot? That should be ok without the passive-aggressive framing.

I dunno. Just seems a bit “off” to me.