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>Why bother with a second layer when new blockchain designs improve upon the designs of Bitcoin?

We can argue about how to scale layer one, but layer two always provides scalability benefits that layer one can't provide. So choose your favorite layer one scaling scheme and then use layer two on top of that.

>Second layer goes completely against Satoshi's primary design in the first sentence of the white paper - which is removing the need for third parties.

Satoshi in the whitepaper proposed SPV nodes which introduce semi-trusted third parties for the sake of scalability.

Layer two does not introduce trusted third parties. It, under certain conditions, is less censorship resistant that layer one, but that is why you want a scalable layer one as well so that transactions which need censorship resistance can fall back to layer one. There is no reason to bloat layer one with transactions that layer two can handle. Layer two helps layer one scale.

>The lightening network design is a siphoning power grab by Blockstream.

Even if this is true, and I very strongly doubt it, that shouldn't influence your view on the technology. Either it works or it doesn't.
They could also profit extremely by legitimately mining now. Even if you assume they had magnitudes better and cheaper hashing technology, the opportunity cost to them of such an attack would be massive.
The beer will be forgotten in 10 years (maybe 5)
Obviously there are better solutions but the technology is immature at this point and is being hyped way beyond its capabilities.

The "autonomous" cars that work are basically little trains running on digital tracks with collision avoidance systems. They are no where close to being "intelligent."
As I recall, Zimbabwe banned other currencies last time. Why do you think Bitcoin wouldn’t get banned with all the other currencies if the situation repeated? And don’t bother suggesting a Bitcoin ban wouldn’t be enforceable unless you can say why the same excuse wouldn’t also apply to every other currency.
I even try to pay for "good quality" content but it's increasingly mimicking viral sources that are sensational, rushed to publishing, and irrelevant.
Being a real parent is essentially pretending to be a good parent most of the time, because you have no idea what you're doing. This guy just does the same thing in four hour chunks for $200 a pop, while the real thing doesn't get a wage or keep fixed business hours.

Having acted as the perfect boyfriend, husband, and father, in bite-sized chunks, even while exhausted, subject of the article is in an ideal position to take on the real thing. The only difference is that the actors get to stop playing their roles when the scene is over, while the real people have to keep their masks on forever.

As screwed up as it may sound, this guy is actually removing one of the layers of mutually-reinforced illusion from Japanese society, by openly admitting that the other person in an interaction is playing a predefined role in exchange for valuable consideration. It's like that old cynical description of an older profession: you're not paying for that, you're paying for them to leave afterward. You're substituting cash for the emotional investment you would otherwise have to put in as your half of the exchange. It's brutally mercenary, but some people are happy enough with the illusion. Why else would novels and teleplays be so popular? If my entire life is a lie anyway, why not pay a little extra to make it a good one?

This article is one of the reasons why I think Japan will be the first to industrialize companionship AI, and thereby blow huge, gaping, unrepairable holes through their own culture within the span of a single generation. Some forward-thinking researcher had better install a secret matchmaking protocol into the model before version one ships, or we're all doomed.
But they claim to use their tech to do things like deliver news, ban fake news, control misinformation, etc. If they themselves are claiming this, do you want to hold them accountable?

Its the same thing as why people are upset with Fox News. ITs because they call themselves a news organization and are supposed to be fair and balanced. So obviously people are going to try to hold them to their own words. If they had just called their channel Fox's "made up crazy shit", I don't think there would be as big of a backlash against them.
This was my thought as well, dose is most likely the issue. A non tolerant patient will respond to under 10mg thc
It's fairly common to rent people for commercial purposes; the term is サクラ (i.e. a shill, basically). While I don't hear about renting people to imitate personal relationships, I wouldn't be surprised if it was more commonplace than it appears.
I'd like to see that too, especially since I've been doing fully-automated Let's Encrypt with dns verification for hosted domains for well over a year now. I might be able to offer a solution to whatever issue they've had.
In this case I would do
115 x 37 = 115 x (40-3) =
460 x 10 - 3 x 115 =
4600 - 345 =
4255

Since 15 x 3 and 15 x 4 are trivial calculations the only caveat is the subtraction which isn't too bad.
> The lightening network design is a siphoning power grab by Blockstream.

Please stop lying.
Bitcoin maximalists are a curious bunch who fail to realize the service Bitcoin offers is functionally identical to other Blockchain coins, and in many cases the newer iterations add improvements and features.. whereas the Bitcoin core team holds the software with ideological constraints prohibiting upgrades to the design, to the detriment of user experience.

Additionally, the majority of Bitcoins were minted prior to 2014 so the incentive is skewed for old users to attempt to psychologically convince new adopters to purchase the "coins" they produced for low capital input by selling for a higher cost.
So organized crime in the 21st century is algorithms replacing mobsters.
DNS challenges weren't broken, they technically worked just fine. But they added an additional step to our setup process, and we were losing customers during signup because of it. We can still do the DNS challenge it's just not how we guide people through our setup.

Basically with the DNS challenge, we had to send people away to make DNS changes, have them come back and confirm they were approved, and then we sent them away _again_ to make another DNS change. It was kind of brutal.

(edit: we also tweaked the article to not imply "broken"!)
John Stuart Mill talks in his autobiography about how he suffered from what we would call depression, and how this taught him the importance of feelings, via the arts:

https://www.utilitarianism.com/millauto/five.html
I did not say that at all, I urge you to re-read what I wrote.
There is plenty of autonomy to blame when someone chooses to use an absurdly large amount of energy when a trivial amount would solve the same problem.
Good point. Washington State is also suffering from a cultural divide. It almost felt nerve wracking and threatening to drive outside of King county last year before the election and see Trump signs literally everywhere. You're either in a technology or technology supported work in King county dealing with 18% annual housing cost increases, or you're broke in outlying counties and the other side of the Cascade mountains wondering where all the jobs went.
I think this was referring to sperm donation.
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Startup time can be fixed by running Emacs as a daemon on boot. (Not sure if that's possible with Windows)
For keybindings you can just use evil and get vim keybindings. But yeah, Emacs is not easy to get started with, though I feel it's worth spending time getting used to it.
Not an expert in visual impairments but this discussion made me curious. It seems like 'tactile drawings' is a related phrase/concept.

Here was a cool guide for using gimp and photoshop to produce them.
https://wiki.vcu.edu/display/texturepalettehapticslab/Develo...
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But they aren't just an anonymous background hosting provider, they algorithmically promote some posts over others. If Facebook just hosted static pages where all posts were treated equally I might agree with you, but they're actively seeking out "good" content and pushing it to other people.

Imagine you run a coffee shop, and a local political group hosts a weekly get together there. They're weird people, always talking about crazy theories and plans, but they're not hurting anyone and they're great customers, so you don't want to kick them out. If some other people come in and start getting freaked out at the conspiracy talk and "time to march" proclamations, shouldn't you walk over and say "hey don't worry about them, this stuff is completely crazy, I actually looked it up myself since they talk about it every week. I'd be happy to show you some articles if you're worried." Maybe you're not technically endorsing their ideas, but you're hosting them, serving them, giving them a prominent place in your shop. You could put a sign out front that says "I don't endorse anything said in my shop", but that just protects you, not your customers.

Now imagine it's not just a coffee shop, but the only coffee shop, everyone in town goes there, and half of them get all their news just by talking to other patrons. Is there any obligation to pay attention to what's being said and who gets to reserve your best tables? If you didn't want to be involved in this, you should have grown so much. If you buy up every other shop and meeting place in town, you have to accept the responsibilities that come with all that power.
D3D, Vulkan, OpenGL (optionally) etc. do use a bytecode format, but that only covers shader modules, which are a small part of the overall API. I'm not that familiar with CUDA, but it looks like a large portion of it is delivered as a C API, judging by the bindings I see online.
It's mostly new BTC but there's also ~1-2 BTC per block of transaction fees now too. Some spikes up to around 4.

https://www.smartbit.com.au/charts/transaction-fees-per-bloc...
Filecoin did some good improvements in cpu/energy usage and PoSpace
The long term usefulness is the transactions. Without that, the interest can dry up quickly.
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As of 2015, there were 576,000 hours of video uploaded to YouTube per day. As of 2014, Facebook users generated 4 petabytes of data per day - four billion gigabytes of photos, videos and text. Does anyone believe that it's feasible to manually review even a significant fraction of that content?

Social media is media, but it's also social. A lot of people are trying to apply the standards of traditional media to something that's fundamentally different. I'm not sure where on the spectrum social media lies between "private conversation" and "network TV", but I don't think that we can exactly apply the social norms of either.

The vast majority of people would agree that some degree of monitoring and censorship is necessary for the prevention of crime. Beyond that, I think we simply have to accept that some amount of content on social media might offend us.

Social media is created by people with a very diverse range of beliefs, opinions and standards of decency, so it's unlikely that we'll establish a universally agreeable set of standards. Social media companies have a limited ability to control the content on their sites reactively or via algorithms, but it's logistically impossible for them to consistently enforce their terms of use across all content.

Many voices in the traditional media would have us believe that occasional offence is a fundamental flaw in social media, but I think that's a bogus narrative.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/259477/hours-of-video-up...
https://research.fb.com/facebook-s-top-open-data-problems/
The article says that cancer cells have a “higher metabolic rate” which I understood to mean that they use more energy and thus generate more heat.
Some people prefer the gate of ivory to the gate of horn. It is not my place to choose for them.
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Read the page, they moved to a new repos a few years ago. If you go to the actual source files some of them are dated as early as October 1st 2007.
Why are people so fo used on Latex ? Do you print that much ? A wiki should be enough for most orgs (but wikis have their own ux issues, I agree)
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unrelated side note... I think this is a great example of how much we use loaded language in rhetoric.

you turned "cannabis" to "plant matter" and "beat your wife with a stick no bigger than your thumb" to "domestic violence".

It's also amazing that this rhetorical technique is only useful to a modern audience that has been conditioned to associate certain feelings to the words.

Not disagreeing with your point, just thought it was interesting.
You have to attract talent to Michigan though. California is in a prosperous loop where talented people move to the state for jobs which then encourages other companies to come to California for talent. The side effect of this is rising housing prices and rising wages.

Michigan doesn't have that cycle happening (or, at least to the same extent). Telling somebody to take a hypothetical pay cut to move somewhere with less appeal isn't a sound strategy for attracting talent.
Evolutionary algorithms/genetic algorithms (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_algorithm)
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Take a look at White Hat Academy, https://ex.whitehat.academy - we have some interactive labs on using Metasploit, web app security and some other intro topics that might help you out. We'll be building full course tracks soon as well, so appreciate any feedback on the content you'd like to see next!
So, people bring up inefficiencies, scalability issues, problems with energy use, and you claim it's politics, but then immediately start attacking Keynesism, the "left", and elsewhere digging up ghost of Ayn Rand. Do you see the irony?
how much of this would you attribute to the stdlib and popular libraries, vs the language itself?
I've had Advil, I've had morphine. There is zero comparison.
Can you elaborate on this a bit? It still has some edge case quality issues, but I haven't seen anything where Abby does better so far. That said, the default app is missing a bunch of preprocessing that you have to add (e.g. page deskew, flipping, etc).
I think of this everytime I see .io domains :/ It's a very sad story.
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Please don't fight what you perceive to be ideological boilerplate with your own—that's not what this site is here for at all. Would you please, instead, read the guidelines and then start commenting civilly and substantively?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> > [...] most bitcoin is mined by renewable excess energy

>Do you have any pointers to refute the claim? Can you give me a link to some numbers?

The largest cost of cryptocurrency mining is electricity. Electricity energy is the cheapest so naturally many Bitcoin mining operations are built in places that are over producing energy. The cheapest excess power tends to be hydro power, Bitcoin can be viewed as a small subsidy for new hydro electric projects when demand has not caught up to supply.

>Bitcoin mining operations – essentially massive and powerful datacenters - are located internationally, and usually concentrated where the cost of electricity is cheapest. That’s because the cost of electricity can make up 90-95% of total ongoing mining costs. These datacenter mines can be found in numerous countries, from the Republic of Georgia to Iceland, to Malaysia and Venezuela. The largest share of the miners are located in China, close to the border with Tibet where cheap hydropower is relatively abundant. - https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterdetwiler/2016/07/21/mining...

>Haobtc is also operating hydropower mining facilities in Kangding. Eric Mu, Chief Marketing Officer at Haibtc, said it cost a lot to build a hydroelectric plant, but later on it does not have a lot of maintenance costs and can use electricity cheaply. -https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@jycloud9/china-builds-a-hydropo...

Bitcoin miners move to places with very cheap/near free power. They can park the datacenter right next to the power plant so very little is lost in transmission.
That's a good point, although when you maliciously box out competitors from being easily compatible with your product once your audience is locked in...

Well, it starts to smell like antitrust behavior, honestly. These changes WOULD make peoples' lives better and easier, if they were allowed to be compatible with the products those people were previously using. To prevent that, incumbents do everything possible to stop any new/different systems from interacting with the ones that they sell.

And the whole point is that that would not be an issue if people were willing to hold their noses for a damned second and migrate to systems that ARE accessible and open and easy to use with various products from a plethora of different vendors. That way, the barrier of 'pointlessly changing things' will be vastly reduced in the future.

You say the managers are short-sighted and lazy, but so are the workers. It's only human.
I'm out of my edit window, so here's an example of what I mean:

https://flems.io/#0=N4IgZglgNgpgziAXAbVAOwIYFsZJAOgAsAXLKEAG...
Don't have a problem with that phrase in a vacuum but in context of this discussion I find it highly problematic. Who decides the standard? Which standards actually matter?

I guess I see information (esp with regards to video tutorials/demos) as agnostic. If you're reading a tutorial online, there's no telling whether the person who wrote it was completely naked while doing so. Does the information change simply because you thought they should at least throw a robe on before trying to share info? As long as she's sharing good info, I don't see why it matters what she's wearing. And no, I cannot see what issue other people have other than a difference in taste (which, again, has no bearing whatsoever on whether what she's sharing is factual and helpful or not...).
On what basis do you claim that this is the only possible side effect?
There are medications being developed for conditions like yours. Nav blockers that work only on specifically nociceptor circuits. I have high hope for targeted compounds like this, it would improve the lives of millions.
The truck driver was cited for 'illegal backing' so they were not exactly operating in a reasonable manner themselves.
Except the driver-less shuttle didn't take any evasive action, the way a human would have. Did it even honk the horn?

Clearly this company's tech isn't up to par.
You own the client. You can break any crypto it is doing.
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I really enjoy NMS but many aspects are boring. The generated landscapes are predicable, why is the climate on every planet uniform across the whole planet?
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Triptans work for me as well, but they’re too hard on my body. It’s aftually pretty scary how they work.
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Renewable energy exists yknow. We're not going to use up the sun's fusion energy with some dinky solar panels.
It is my understanding that if you win a case, you can request that the other party pay for some legal fees, within reasonable degrees, of course.

Banning private legal representation would be more likely to hurt everyday citizens, rather than CEOs. Large companies would just start to hire lawyers or equivalent as their CEOs. The law system is incredibly complex because our society is equally complex. This is why we train professionals for so many years, and expect them to take regular classes every year so their knowledge is kept up date.

I think it would be interesting to review outcomes of cases where a regular person or small company challenged a large company, as well as the inverse. Just how much power do large multinational companies have? I'd also expect more leniency to be shown to individuals and smaller companies acting in good faith. As I understand it, intent is a large factor in many cases.
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The story seems fake.

Does anyone have a link to this "Family Romance" corporation? Where is the proof?

Why would the guy be so ruthlessly candid about his immoral failings? Why does he talk in a carefully manicured, but cruel and amoral way -- why is he dissing his own product? Why would he plaster his face on The Atlantic when he depends on anonymity? They have 800 employees -- that's large; why haven't we heard of this before? Why is he so knowledgeable about what English-speakers don't know about Japan and so able to help us understand -- has he lived and studied extensively abroad? Why is he able to understand what he does is immoral but is unwilling to change even as it affects him so deeply -- why doesn't he get a new job? What would happen to his clients if he decided to stop working for them -- how legally binding would his contract be? Is he legally obligated to keep lying even if he changes his job -- that's impossible, right? No one is legally obligated to lie. Is the business really "booming" when it seems to be so unknown -- and, in fact, relies on keeping a low-profile for maximum effectiveness? How did the clients find them -- and how did everyone else not find them?

Where are other, reliable articles about this? The only other source I find is The Sun and people have mentioned Yahoo! Answers, which aren't reliable sources. Can someone in Japan confirm this?

It screams of fictional writing.
What's the margin of error?
Posting this, because I had the honor of doing the lightning talk on Proof of Propagation (us, Stanford, MIT) before Bram's presentation. Bram starts about 20 in, but I'm biased in recommending both talks. ;)

I can also help explain Bram's system, so hit me up with any questions you may have. I talked with him afterwards about it.
For yet another kind of action game in text see Doom, the Roguelike [1], which I've found thoroughly enjoyable.

[1] https://drl.chaosforge.org/
So typical user engagement/onboarding complexity funnel issues not something inherent to the DNS/LE/Fly.
Whose responsibility is it to ensure you don't have an echo chamber? Yours, or Facebook's?
Is it though? Not trying to be argumentative but I remember using dragon naturally speaking to do voice dictation way back in like 98 on a processor that makes today's average smartphone look like a supercomputer. I thought all the ML stuff was for figuring out context and the like, but straight transcription?
Similar, but the most on the nose example in gaming is The Last Of Us, wherein this type of fungus leapt from insects to humans.
Hm I hadn't heard of this, that's interesting. That seems fragile but I'm not an expert in this area.

I found this recent CppCon video pretty interesting. It's about running vanilla C++ on (nvidia) GPUs and what the implications are for the C++ memory model:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86seb-iZCnI
Reminds me of playing with Photoshop as a kid.
Companies don't like it when you air out their dirty laundry.

I'd say being able to speak openly about a company is one of the few ways regular people have a chance of standing up to multinational corporations.