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The Segwit2x effort began in May with a simple purpose: to increase the
blocksize and improve Bitcoin scalability. At the time, the Bitcoin
community was in crisis after nearly 3 years of heavy debate, and consensus
for Segwit seemed like a distant mirage with only 30% support among miners.
Segwit2x found its first success in August, as it broke the deadlock and
quickly led to Segwit’s successful activation. Since that time, the team
shifted its efforts to phase two of the project - a 2MB blocksize increase.

Our goal has always been a smooth upgrade for Bitcoin. Although we
strongly believe in the need for a larger blocksize, there is something we
believe is even more important: keeping the community together.
Unfortunately, it is clear that we have not built sufficient consensus for
a clean blocksize upgrade at this time. Continuing on the current path
could divide the community and be a setback to Bitcoin’s growth. This was
never the goal of Segwit2x.

As fees rise on the blockchain, we believe it will eventually become
obvious that on-chain capacity increases are necessary. When that happens,
we hope the community will come together and find a solution, possibly with
a blocksize increase. Until then, we are suspending our plans for the
upcoming 2MB upgrade.

We want to thank everyone that contributed constructively to Segwit2x,
whether you were in favor or against. Your efforts are what makes Bitcoin
great. Bitcoin remains the greatest form of money mankind has ever seen,
and we remain dedicated to protecting and fostering its growth worldwide.

Mike Belshe, Wences Casares, Jihan Wu, Jeff Garzik, Peter Smith and Erik
Voorhees

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Mike Belshe
CEO, BitGo, Inc
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The Segwit2x effort began in May with a simple purpose: to increase the
blocksize and improve Bitcoin scalability. At the time, the Bitcoin
community was in crisis after nearly 3 years of heavy debate, and consensus
for Segwit seemed like a distant mirage with only 30% support among miners.
Segwit2x found its first success in August, as it broke the deadlock and
quickly led to Segwit’s successful activation. Since that time, the team
shifted its efforts to phase two of the project - a 2MB blocksize increase.

Our goal has always been a smooth upgrade for Bitcoin. Although we
strongly believe in the need for a larger blocksize, there is something we
believe is even more important: keeping the community together.
Unfortunately, it is clear that we have not built sufficient consensus for
a clean blocksize upgrade at this time. Continuing on the current path
could divide the community and be a setback to Bitcoin’s growth. This was
never the goal of Segwit2x.

As fees rise on the blockchain, we believe it will eventually become
obvious that on-chain capacity increases are necessary. When that happens,
we hope the community will come together and find a solution, possibly with
a blocksize increase. Until then, we are suspending our plans for the
upcoming 2MB upgrade.

We want to thank everyone that contributed constructively to Segwit2x,
whether you were in favor or against. Your efforts are what makes Bitcoin
great. Bitcoin remains the greatest form of money mankind has ever seen,
and we remain dedicated to protecting and fostering its growth worldwide.

Mike Belshe, Wences Casares, Jihan Wu, Jeff Garzik, Peter Smith and Erik
Voorhees

--

Mike Belshe
CEO, BitGo, Inc
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Re: Malls, people might find the Dead Malls site interesting: http://deadmalls.com/
Chorogrid [1] seems appropriate.

[1] https://github.com/Prooffreader/chorogrid
> I didn't down-vote you but I suspect people reacted negatively because the implication is you have to stop learning after college.

How on earth does their comment imply that?
Regrettably, this is COMPLETELY normal.

I worked in the CEDIA industry for a number of years, and was in direct competition with Logitech-- at one point we were even going to buy their remote division. My company was allergic to sustaining engineering. We would toss a buggy 1.0 iOS / Android app onto their respective stores and then forget about them. It felt dirty. I hated it.

When Apple's 64-bit transition happened, I dutifully warned my managers, was given no resources to get out ahead of the problem, and a year later all of our apps were kicked out of the App Store. It was hilarious, but not for our customers. :-/
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Here is the archived version of the page: http://archive.is/BUktC
Same here. I am -8.0 and -8.5 with about a 2"-3" focus point and I can see very intricate detail that others have trouble seeing.
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Retail, where it still works, is about curation. I've been working recently with a specialised retailer and his stocking of a particular product is effectively a seal of quality.

The few shops I go to, I don't go there because they have every possible product, I go there because I know their purchasing reflects the opinions and qualities that I also value.
No, especially with its insistence on static linking everything and the
kitchen sink.
If I'm having a work related problem, the last thing I want is to spend my personal time dealing with it. Just because bosses choose to have working lunches doesn't make it acceptable to foist it onto employees.

Even if you're buying.
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I have never been a big shopper, but I find I do a 50/50 split. I also tend to buy gifts at physical stores so I can get ideas and know I have them in my hand. I also like stores when details matter like furniture or luggage.

If anything I am doing less online shopping over time as I keep getting burned. Though I also lived next door to a mall for years which changed my habits somewhat.
The study cited (Spanish):

http://www.realinstitutoelcano.org/wps/portal/rielcano_es/co...

Also, the author is not that Mira Milošević.
There are still some things you might want to buy in person. Fresh produce, for example, or clothing. Especially clothing. A lot of people like to try on clothes before they buy - they want to see how it looks on them, they want to check out the quality and weight of the fabric. Plus, if you're picky about color there's no substitute for looking at something in person.

I realize you can effectively do that online by buying a bunch of stuff and returning what you don't want. But that's more of a hassle than just going to a brick and mortar retailer.
Well if you want to service huge spikes you can run a hybrid env. with on prem. handling base load and cloud absorbing spikes or you have to bite the bullet and overprovision on prem/private cloud based on you specific business req.
I'd love to fill that in! If anyone would like a comparison, please add links in this thread and I'll reply. Later, I can collect it into a published page.
> But, seriously, why is the search so terrible

Because it's not just a matter of configuration/input-munging, the way getting to "good search" for text is. The existing solutions for search at scale (ElasticSearch, Solr) just don't work well for a code-document corpus the way they work for a text-document corpus. Trying to trick them into doing so will only get you half-way there, and then you're stuck in molasses if you try to improve from there.

You really have to build "code search" from the ground up, doing things like running language-specific parsers over each codebase and then building tries out of linearized AST node token sequences.
What do you think about that? Are there any Zcash miners who will switch to BTG?
Spend, spend, spend: shop till you drop mentality.

If you think malls are only about consumerism then you've misunderstood a big part of their appeal for a lot of people. Young people and groups of friends don't go to the mall on their own. Malls merge consumerism with social activity - they're for people who enjoy shopping with their friends.

If that's not you then fair enough, but don't disparage malls simply because they don't appeal to you. If they disappear society will be worse for many, many people.
About Reddit, they tell the story in this live episode of NPR's How I Built This: http://one.npr.org/?sharedMediaId=545635014:555389162
> Cambodia

> Vietnam

Buddy. I've got some news for you.
> Expect some drastic policy changes with real estate, corporate taxation and gold.

Nope. I don’t expect any changes on real estate or corporate taxation, except to help people who have/control them become richer and have even more lax regulation. A lot of real estate is held by politicians of all political parties. So there’s no reason they’d shoot themselves in the foot. One “maverick” Prime Minister cannot overrule hundreds of others with vested interests, however clean or idealistic he may project himself to be.

As for corporates, the NDA government is highly favorable to them. The tax rates are set to decrease as announced a couple of years ago anyway.

Gold is probably a slightly easier target. It has already seen restrictions before, which means the rich and powerful likely don’t hold too much of it or transact a lot with it.
Thank you! Would really love to hear your feedback on the product, warts and all. jonathan[[at]]pagedash.com
Preach
Signed up - saved my first page - and viewed my dash within 5 mins. Good stuff. Now, all you need is not to go out of business (or open source before you do). Seriously though, good luck on the business side.
Well the number was pulled out of the air, but you don’t think a family of four has 200 distinct items in their trash + recycling every week?
Not much of a shock. Their primary use case is what---power users' desktops? Those have been 64-bit for almost a decade. Other uses: anything low-power is ARM, even small dinky laptops (remember netbooks?) are 64-bit, and RAM is cheap enough that it doesn't really matter that your pointers are double the length.
I'm not willing to bet on specific prices or business models but I will bet you $100 that a traveler will be able to take a self driving car from Reagan Airport to The Hay-Adams Hotel on or before Dec 31, 2023.
Only if nothing is done by society to fix the problem.
Neat, thanks! I could see a few valuable use cases, from customs to personal.
But if you read the article it describes a lot of businesses which are profitable and could plod along, except they're saddled with tons of debt from leveraged buyouts.
I live in a country that is rapidly becoming cashless.

This was not a government program. It happened naturally and was deemed to be in the best interest of all. At every purchase people can freely choose to use cash or a card/phone.

An advanced economy, low corruption, efficient banking system, top level infrastructure and supreme faith in civilization are not things you can just implement.
Fewer people can afford those experiences. There's usually one or two nice parts of town with (search for Apple store, Nordstroms, or Whole Foods), where you can find new development.

But buying stuff made in China was cheap, even people who made $30k/year could do that. But going out for coffee, brunch, movies, massages, trainers, that stuff is way more expensive, and so is limited to the nicer parts of town.
From the perspective of an investor, there's really not all that much difference between a buyback and dividends.
If only stores would let you test audio equipment! I've yet to see an electronics store where most headphones/earbuds could be tested.
I live near Lenox Mall and Phipps Plaza in Atlanta, and they could not be any busier. It's packed at 2pm on a Tuesday when I'm going to an eye doctor appointment. On the weekends there are often traffic issues in from people entering and leaving.

I feel like it's not that malls or retailers are dying, but instead all the revenue is going to a few places with wealthy, urban locations. Perhaps this has to do with the influx of people moving from the suburbs into cities?
> I'm not sure what it is

Video games are perfect, especially for people who like to tinker and are curious, which to me has been every hacker ever. That's what it is. They literally are just really damn good at what they do.

What online video games (and here I am making sure to distinguish between online, competitive type video games, versus offline because in my experience offline video games hardly ever come up in counseling, it's always your CODs, CSes, LoL and WoW's of the world) do psychologically is they provide a structure, a way to advance and progress -- with a tight feedback loop of your progress and a way to socialize with other people. Ultimately these 3 things lead to a huge sense of accomplishment and dopamine rush. Your attention is kept because you have these short spurts of quests, or "you just gotta kill 3 more mobs to get that next level and unlock your new spell tree" or you got to check your auction to get that gold to buy the new gear to do the new raid with your clan next week because you really don't want to let those guys down, etc.

The problem is, outside that virtual reality, you see depression, lack of ability to focus at work, not getting work done on time, lack of interest in tasks considered "boring". The way to success is to create these same structures in your life, but for the goals you want to accomplish. Much easier said than done, but at a high level, that's what it is all about. We escape to our virtual reality to get our virtual high and virtual feeling of belonging and virtual progress because we lack any or all of these areas in our real lives and it pains us too much to be able to face that disappointment. And for some of us, that mountain of unfinished tasks, or incomplete projects because of our thousands of hours racked up on Steam seems insurmountable, so that even when we do have free time and no games, we procrastinate -- "it's too much, I'll never get it done anyways" (Procrastination -- especially habitual procrastination is almost always a defense mechanism, and not a moral/character flaw such as "I am just lazy")

Now why we escape to the video games? Any number of factors, be it depression, ADHD, or simply never having a good role model or someone to teach you structure and discipline in your life (the latter is usually the case), but that's besides the point. The point is to recognize it, realize you will never be happy unless you achieve what you want from your life. (Why every time I have a couple hours free, I can't work on my side project as intently as I play 3 ranked matches in League of Legends?)

I could probably fill up a book with information I learned about it, but everyone is unique. I want to help, if this resonates true in your life -- reach out to me. If you just want someone to email back and forth or talk to, it's my user name at google's mail service.
This article title sounds like a riff on the Jethro Tull song.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8uUh1xsL14
From the Dex README:

"Dex is NOT a user-management system, but acts as a portal to other identity providers through "connectors." This lets dex defer authentication to LDAP servers, SAML providers, or established identity providers like GitHub, Google, and Active Directory."

It seems like AuthN IS a user management system. So that's a big difference right there.
There are going to be a lot of homeless elderly in the future.
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I find the hexagon version slightly more visually pleasing since it breaks up the straight lines—see the link for comparison. But either way, both are a huge improvement over the surface-based shapes when conveying data that is totally unrelated to the geographical surface of states.

http://blog.apps.npr.org/2015/05/11/hex-tile-maps.html
How are online retailers any different? They are “fleecing” customers just as much. In fact, Jeff Bezos is currently the worlds richest man.
Or if, you know, we had social values where it’s OK to have your children take care of you.
Reading through your post, I was thinking "that sounds a lot like rxdb". Turns out it was!

I recently selected rxdb for an offline-first project I'm doing doing for myself. I expect it will be making my life much easier in the coming months, so thanks in advance for all the work you've put towards it!
Both of my parents are in this situation, and it's only exacerbated by the fact that my mom had to retire due to spinal surgery and my dad has a bad hip injury that he refuses to get surgery for because he fears missing rent. Despite my willingness to help with the rent and bills I can only provide so much as I live in a high COL area as well.

The next 15-20 years are going to be very, very tough for older Americans.
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If you are a small startup and do not have strict regulatory or other special req. run on something simple like DO, Vultr etc. and save yourself pain and $.
As you said publishing is not the problem these days (usually), but writing the book will take months of work and I will also need money to buy hardware and software licenses.

Furthermore a crowdfunding campaign can help measuring interest in the project and should also help building a community before the launch.
That would be great, thanks! Here are the links to the projects I mentioned.

https://github.com/coreos/dex
https://github.com/ory/hydra
In 2009 the Core 2 family (Intel's first real 64-bit consumer processors) was just under 3 years old, it's over a decade since then and even low-end Atom's are full 64-bit chips now - there's little reason to continue to support 32-bit systems considering their age (and anybody running them should really upgrade, these older systems are terribly inefficient both in general performance as well as power draw).
I've noticed when traveling, in smaller to medium sized cities there may be a failed mall; sometimes these failed malls become great community centers, until the owners noticed they have traffic and wreak it. So stupid.
>what is import tax

>what is road tax

>what is sales tax
Hum. Potential opportunity: Turn dead malls into senior centers with housing for the elderly.
Happened to me with a Samsung “Smart” TV which used to have Skype on it, but Samsung removed that app for no reason that benefitted me.

And I have a perfectly functional Epson printer/scanner whose only drivers no longer work on Windows 10.

I could go on and on. That’s just what came to mind with 5 seconds thinking about it.
It's hard to prove that, actually.
the problem is that the four big consumer z-wave hubs all have the cloud entanglement issue. Wink, Smartthings, Amazon and Vera all sell you a piece of hardware that only works as long as they're providing their free cloud service. It's completely unsustainable in it's current model. Vera purports to be completely local, but as of UIv8, they've made all communications steer through their cloud proxy service to enable a seamless mobile UI at the expense of reliability, latency, security and sustainability.

I've been working on moving my Vera controlled zwave network to home-assistant.io and an aeon labs zwave USB gateway, but haven't made much progress because zwave devices all rely on inputting rhythmic patterns of button presses locally to reprogram them.
...which you can also remove with userContent.css file.
Thank you. You're right, hopefully business side holds up. I'll keep it up as long as someone is paying me :)
Malls are super fun. I loved hanging out with friends at the food courts and just walking around the mall going into Wizards of the Coast or Spencer gifts.

When you're 13 it's like one of the few places that large where you can hang out without parents around.

But yeah that was when I was 13. They haven't really innovated much. It's a great place for kids but no so much for adults. I thought almost everyone had a great childhood mall experiences haha, but I guess not.
Everyone has all of the world's knowledge at their fingertips, the hard part is asking the right questions.
Even if they consented to such conditions in the past, if they have since changed their mind and wish to remove consent, how is it ethical to not allow them to do so?
What is Apple's effective tax-rate, world-wide (for, e.g., 2016)? I've not seen this spelled out anywhere, yet.
This is true of whole cities as well, and gentrified areas of cities.
https://auth0.com

I've just started dabbling on a small project and would be interested to understand how features overlap and differences in license/distribution model.
competing anecdata: if i just needed some batteries, i wouldn't use amazon for that. i already get too many boxes from them, which accumulate as unwanted guests in every corner of my house, so i try to consolidate small orders. and there is some additional friction there: making sure all my orders have been delivered, not allowing boxes to hang out on the porch too long in case they might get stolen, etc.

far more likely, i'll just put the batteries on my shopping list for the next time i am at the grocery.
In most countries you have to declare assets and pay tax over it.
Wait. It's not?
Why the super-rich aren’t leaving much of their fortunes to their kids (2014)
That setting will not work in the final release.

See https://wiki.mozilla.org/Add-ons/Firefox57#Compat._Table
I'm currently investing in JWT and have not done enough research on SAML to make it part of my plans. Happy to learn more.
I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, good news since it means more work on architectures people use. On the other hand, this means there is really just _one_ architecture which usually hurts portability, and that matters if arch linux ever decides to support arm or something.
The Communists were the root problem in that area, obviously they came about due to other forms of ostensible dysfunction, but they were the worst, possibly the worst ever ... and really the core of the problem.

And FYI Cambodians were not fleeing bombs dropped near their homes by Americans, they were fleeing Communists who murdered 3 of 8 million, making it one of the worst genocides in history, easily comparable (on the same scale as) the '6 million' who died at the hands of the Nazis.

Everyone from there hates the Communists, much like almost everyone fleeing Cuba hates Fidel, it seems their only supporters are those who are not from there , and who have a very academic view of it all.
The author misses one key point: it’s not only about debt coming due on their scheduled dates. It’s that much of this debt is also saddled with covenants that can cause a debt to be collectible at any time if the terms are not met. Things like a company's loan-to-value ratio, leveraged inventory through high accounts payable, and other financial metrics. In short, market troubles can force long-term lines of credit to abruptly come due.
No... SM is a bit wack. The prices are so high, only big businesses can afford to be there. So most stores are big franchises. And it's too touristy for any culture. Main St is better, and towards Venice.

I would also nominate DTLA. Downtown is lit. Parking is wack though.

Consumers are no longer interested in old retail chains. They follow influencers and their original brands, but they're mostly direct to consumer, and everything arrives in two days anyway.
The middle class is shrinking and can't maintain the same spending habits. Home prices/equity are a sustaining source of activity anymore because so many lost their homes in the last recession.

A breakdown of retail by their target income demographic might reveal more.
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