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I prefer eating with hands more than utensils. I prefer that as a respect for the food as it is the major reason for my health.
Not sure about the person you replied to but Preview on macOS has done this sort of thing for fucking years, and it stores/reads my digital signature (ie a vector of my actual signature) to/from keychain.

I never understood the market for web apps like this until I realised Windows must not have this out of the box (presumably?)
Ripple is a scam and Jed McCaleb has been dumping thousands of Ripples a day since forever. You shouldn't encourage new users to buy Ripples.
And a whole lot of trust.
I can't see ISPs doing whitelists (that would almost certainly become a public court document). I can't see just banning vpns (due to work etc), I could see them charging for a VPN line. At that point they have accomplished nothing?
You can't compare money and market cap directly. Millions of dollars can move the market cap by billions. It's because the books on exchanges are relatively thin.
I truly don't understand the content of that video, perhaps I'm ignorant of the way the US system works.

I see the donation/lobbying system as something wealthy individuals/groups can use to amplify their voices in political discussion. Equating limiting the amplification factor with censorship seems like a real stretch.

If policy makers are incentivised to make policy which benefits certain groups for reasons other than what best serves their constituents (i.e. to secure party donations) that to me is the essence of corruption.
As far as I am concerned, this is the only answer to the question. The Republican party has always supported ending net neutrality, and they have acted on it every chance they get. Democrats, for all their follies, defend it.

It drives me nuts that a lot of techies don't understand this. Abstaining, or side stepping, from politics because of some misguided sense of ideological purity does not help.
I know an anti-VAXer who went to DECUS and announced "If you're not playing with 36 bits, you're not playing with a full DEC!" Those PDP-10ers really know how to piss off the VAXers.

But as dang points out, this predictable, generic tangent is pointless now that the world has moved on to 64 bits.
> To be fair a lot of us stay away from these Tethers.

Especially after the Bitfinex "hack". I won't touch them with a ten-foot pole, but for large scale money laundering, nothing fits the bill better.
Do patches as binary diffs get us most of the way there?
Price is set by marginal transactions, not the amount of money converted over time.
A lot of good reads on the Medium [1] as well.

[1]: https://medium.com/@bitfinexed
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Tell your friends they should shutdown the company immediately to avoid prison time. Using USD to back any token or digital asset 1:1 is a serious crime as demonstrated by Liberty Reserve.
People could see lightning (which so far as I know, is a form of plasma) in the Middle Ages and relate it to the element of fire, no?
This is precisely what people often claim of the New York Times Israel coverage. Should we de-rank it? I think the NYT is the best newspaper in the world but wouldn't dream of reading it uncritically...
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"market cap" is a very bad representation of the overall value which is impossible to actually estimate. try selling 600 million worth of btc and see how that cap changes.
It could very well be vampires[0]. So please leave it alone.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Space_Vampires
That doesn't mean that things will be pleasant forever. There are plenty of shady non-profit organizations.
Tether won’t honor the tethers anyway
The DeX product page explicitly says Built-in cooling fan, so they're definitely aware of overheating.
Just as an aside, if you'd asked me a decade ago whether Al-Jazeera would have the highest quality journalism of any institutional news source and superior to the BBC I would have probably suggested this was vanishingly unlikely.

Not sure I'd get my news on Qatar from that source though.
There is no such thing as "too much information about a market".
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It's not hard at all. There's a few, very basic things that would change my tone:

1) Let users exchange USDT for USD no matter the denomination or status. If they can't do that, remove the thing that says "You always have 24/7 access to
our balance" from the website marketing.

2) Release an official audit (that doesn't say "this is not an audit")

3) Explain the large amounts of Tethers being minted. If they are legitimate, who is pumping $100m into Tethers almost every 3 days? No need to be specific, but records would be nice.

4) Tell us who their banking partners are that are holding the USD.

5) Put their transparency page back up [0]. Bonus points if they actually keep the "Shareholder Equity" number negative in the interest of transparency, or explain why it might have gone negative.

[0] Compare: https://archive.is/6os3c https://wallet.tether.to/transparency

The fact that they haven't done any of these heavily imply to me that Bitfinex and Tethers are a sham operation.
They just got hacked for $30 mil. Pretty safe to say they are in the red at this time.
Correct. It would require a Constitutional Amendment. Or it would require a reverse decision by the Supreme Court in a similar case. The later is unlikely to happen for at least another 6 or more years.
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Do you count Kings as dictators? I don't really (the middle eastern monarchies have weathered the chaos in the region, if Kings were no different from dictators you would expect at least some of them to fall too...) but there is of course such a thing as a 'bad king'. I recalled this simplified analysis of Polish monarchs: https://archive.is/QEY1n tldr 250 out of 835 years of bad monarchs, or a 30% failure ratio by time. 18 individual monarchs out of 48, or a 37.5% failure rate by person. Very few 20th century dictatorships have even survived into the 21st century.

I've seen similar ratings for Roman emperors as well but confess I don't remember the details, I wouldn't be surprised if someone has further compiled information to address exactly this question for other European lines of monarchs, the various Chinese dynasties, Japan's weird history, etc. (https://archive.is/I42xd is a good reminder of the excesses, no form of government is innocent.)
What if it’s submerged in coolant?
And then there is the whole "root of all evil" thing.
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They may not be. $30 mil is a small percentage though. Bitfinex makes a few million per day in volume. It's not unreasonable to think they might still be solvent, even with a 30 million dollar loss. But they also might not. However, they definitely won't be if their fix to block the stolen Tethers goes through.
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There was already a BTC price spike on Nov 19.

This change was from 14 hours ago: https://github.com/tetherto/omnicore/pull/1

Couldn't you just try to find exchanges where Tether volume spiked around that time?
Ok. What do we mean by "when land was cheap"?

There's plenty of land available cheap or free right now because it's worthless. That's always been true; it would make no sense to think of it as something that changed in the last few hundred years. Land cultivated before the Black Death and left unused since then would fall into this category.

I was aware that the Black Death severely depopulated Europe such that everyone left was much wealthier (well, the peasants -- the nobility were poorer, in that their wealth included their supply of peasants), but it seems odd to say that land was cheap then since as far as I know European feudal law prohibited the owner of land from selling it. I'm aware of some other examples of land going unused despite high potential for productivity:

Ukraine was historically very underpopulated because unrelenting slave raids kept the population down.

Most of tropical Africa never experienced much population pressure because human populations were suppressed by diseases and elephants.

What is now Xinjiang would have been pretty depopulated by the Zunghar genocide. On the other hand, it's not like the Chinese rushed to settle it voluntarily -- it was settled by forced relocations.

The existing population of what is now the United States was wiped out in advance of European settlement, and the land was highly fertile. Cultivating it was purely a manpower problem - you could go out, settle land, produce enough food for a household of a dozen people, and not be subject to much in the way of environmental dangers, or competition from other people who wanted your land.

Which of those sounds more like a period of "when land was cheap or free"? How are you defining "when land was cheap or free" such that it's not cheap or free right now?
"a normal common cause"

For better or worse, those no longer exist. Everything is politics now.
Good question. We need to be able to install offline with a USB drive.
I just went through much of this material using Knuth and various resources on the web, to do some work on elliptic curve cryptography alorithms. Man, I wish I had found this resource sooner! Glancing through the book, it looks like it does a very nice job of presenting algorithms and their proofs. I just downloaded the pdf and am going to save it as a reference.
It’s a great achievement, but the Dex dock costs over $200 so it makes more sense to just have an Intel NuC or a Compute stick mounted there instead. If the doc wasn’t needed and you could just plug it in to the USB-C it would make a lot more sense
> Each temple have their own tradition and they have the right to their own tradition

Hence the need for the government to step in and help out the hungry, instead of leaving it to temples, etc.

(Like I said, I don't necessarily disagree with who the temples choose to let in.)
Oh but wow would've probably demanded 3x more time which would've not been spent in the same fun way. Grinding daily quests is a distraction it is not fun. Want to play PvP? Oh you have to grind battlegrounds 20 hours per week in perpetuity to be competitive in arena. I can play clash royale for 45 minutes a day in 15 minute sessions and be happy with it, it never felt like work.

And that's yearly cost for wow, if you leave the game and come back in a year you have to pay another 60 upfront. I can leave the game and come back to play for free, I won't have any of the new cards but those are hardly essential and you can certainly make a competitive deck with the cards you have if your account is as farmed as mine.
In all fairness, this isn't much different from commodity ETFs promising that they have a warehouse of gold or silver somewhere that matches the market cap of the fund. There's no easy way to completely, 100% verify this, so people just trust them.
Patrick, I thought you are better than making these "non-proved" claims. I can make claims about Bitstamp or Gdax too. Their order book has increased 10-15 times in value since bitcoin price was in the 1000-1200 range too.

Tether certainly has a connection to Finex but they are not its biggest client. Tether is being used by crypto-only exchanges mainly Bittrex and Poloniex to give people the possibility to trade coin/usd.

A possible explanation of Tether growth is simply that: Polo and Bittrex started using them. Is that shady and tries to avoid regulation by placing a crypto sign over a real dollar? Yes.

> If you don't believe Bitfinex's $600 million in liabilities are worth a copper shilling, the only option for getting your value out of Bitfinex is to swap your liability for Bitcoin, which drives up the price of Bitcoin at the margin.

Except that the price of bitcoin in finex has been lower than other exchanges in the last few weeks and only slightly higher now.
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Ripple is a scam it also predates Bitcoin entire thing was a sever to server bank basically
> There were other data packs available; the "news pack" would let me....

Consider a hypothetical situation where you are talking with your friend and they tell you about a wonderful blog that they read recently. You
get very much interested in the idea that as soon as you reach home you want to read them all. Unfortunately you own a "video pack".

What you mentioned about the data packs make sense for many people. People who spend most of the time on Netflix, Facebook etc. But that is not what internet is all about. Internet is not Facebook or Google or Netflix. What makes internet great is the fact that any random unknown person can host any idea that they want to share with others and I can find that note and read it from other part of the world.
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A better solution is to allow only approved non-fake information to ever reach the reader. Any internet search should provide one true answer as determined by Google.
Dump large amounts of ANY asset and it will crash. It's only crypto that gets accused of having a "fake" market cap though.
Found the ISP shill. Literally the only people backing anti-NN are the ISP's. It's so blatantly and clearly to the benefit of ISPs. I don't know any consumer that isn't in favor of NN.

Call it bandwagoning, or consider it not to analytical to conclude what the intended purpose of anti-NN policy is based on who is for and against it, but the only reason why we're having this discussion is because, time and time again, ISP's push legislation or Republicans appoint FCC regulators to dismantle NN protection.

There is no 'other side' to this. It's pushed directly by the ISP's for their own benefit. Consumers get nothing. It's incredibly obvious.
Australia has some of the most draconian anti-libel laws in the English-speaking world.

A judge recently sent a blogger to jail for 4 months for "libel" even though the truth of the matter was not disputed.

A book on Chinese bribing of Australian politicians has been withdrawn after defamation threats from these politicians.

This was largely unreported in the Australian press, only in the New York Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/20/world/australia/china-aus...
It's true that I did not use the word 'disorder' and I understand that not everyone has given much thought to attention disorders. But being unable to choose where to focus attention or to sustain that focus is what an attention disorder is.
Yes, that's what I meant. Thank you.
This actually gives me a lot more faith in system than I previously had. That’s really good to know!
Depends on the way it unwinds. If it's through selling BTC to cover Tether redemptions, sure, that'd be bad for cryptocurrency prices. I have a feeling that it'll unwind like Mt. Gox, though - people who accepted Tethers or put deposits into Bitfinex wind up holding the bag when the fake money goes "poof".
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I don't think so. Compilers may change the output binary drastically, due to optimisations and other things, despite the source changes being small and localised. I'd argue that such behaviour, while desirable when creating a new binary, is counterproductive when trying to make a "minimal diff" of an existing one to fix something and not make other unnecessary changes at the same time.

There's also this to consider: https://blog.regehr.org/archives/294
> Found the ISP shill.

WTF! I'm literally trying to have a logical discussion about it. You're the one who isn't able to defend her position.
I remember that CA had a ofimatic suite that was stored on a few floppies on early 90's. I had a free copy somewhere...
Purpose of life is to collect iron and feed it's cells with oxygen using that iron. Unless it is anaerobic. Then I have no idea.
And presently the best news service in the world. A title they took from the BBC who are state median and heavily biased and always have been.

Shut them all down? I can't see that being good for democracy.
That's a statement that goes quite against the claims of the article and I kinda want to ask for a citation ... But I already feel that this discussion is way over my head and I wouldn't understand any journal articles that would clear this up ...
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Here too, please.

In some batch use cases, time is not an issue (i.e, I could spend 10x as long without anyone noticing) as much as cost.
The company in question GEMSA Pty Ltd of Australia got a patent on "Storage cabinets" on a computer. Pretty much a patent on folders or directories. Now they are suing everyone.

According to the EFF:
"As far as we can tell, GEMSA seems to think that anyone with a website that links to hosted content infringes its patent"

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/06/stupid-patent-month-st...
I think it's a shame that this story hasn't gotten more attention.

True, it doesn't tell us as much about the nature of the universe as the discovery of the Higgs boson, and it doesn't represent a major advance in engineering like gravitational wave detection. But it is the only chance we have ever had to directly view a largeish piece of another solar system, just millions of miles away. The next time probably won't come until we send a probe to Proxima Centauri.

To me, the thought of an asteroid being hurled out of the solar system that created it, then traveling through the cold void for millions or possibly billions of years, and then whipping around the sun (a mere 0.25 AU distant) is just the most incredible thing. The whole world should be having parties in its honor, to wish it well as it leaves us behind. (Instead of just fighting each other over nothing, as we usually do.)

This is an amazing time to be alive.
Which is why we have such dysfunctional results.
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This is a clever analogy. Did you get this from somewhere? I'm curious what other finance analogies mix with IT/business?
Yeah, I agree, especially about the mortality rate. Anecdotally, every grandfather-aged person I know has 4+ children, but almost all father-aged ones have 2 or less (only 2 exceptions, of which 1 had twins).

Thanks for the other information in your comment!
That's a nice Easter egg!
That is possible. However, the plasma state of matter cannot actually be observed (by a medieval person, etc.). How would they have determined that lightning, which is visible as a glowing plasma, does represent a state of matter different from solid / liquid / gas, but fire, which is visible as glowing, does not?

If you're willing to grant that they can't, then in what sense is it possible for them to observe plasma?
Apart from the downloading time, which varies depending on the connection - the vast majority of time during a windows update is spend calculating exactly what to update. Sitting on a 1gbps connection with a state of the art SSD, and it still takes a long time to update.
Extensive discussion currently #1 on front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15745441
The world of cable TV is exactly what they're dying to bring back. Those 30 years of monopolized cable were very good to the telecos.
> They don't deserve a knockout punch any more than FTP

Would you clarify what you mean here?
You cannot say that Stockfish is the best engine.

Komodo has the highest ELO ranking. Houdini leads the more important http://tcec.chessdom.com/live_mobile.php championship format.
This isn't journal article level stuff; if you are interested, pick up any undergraduate book on abstract algebra and start working through it.
Without making a comment on the crypto/tether aspect, I just want to express that it seems to me that the "cause of keeping track of 'who owns what'", as you put it, is precisely the singular technological achievement which has enabled the "human condition" to evolve to its current state. Money is literally the decentralized, asynchronous, dynamic, and continuous computation that has evolved to process the combinatorial coordination of signals/information on resources between 7+ billion unfathomably complex and independent agents. To me, the staggering thing wouldn't be that "70% of our resources and jobs are dedicated to this nonsense", but rather that the technology known as money is so incredibly efficient that it leaves 30% surplus (in this example) for society to further grow.
Come on man..

> The post I was responding to claimed Tether was specifically created to address Bitfinex's wire issues. That is false.

It does not claim that it was "specifically created for that", it claims that "Their solution" to the wire problems was "Tether". It does not state anything about why Tether was created in the first place.

> Secondly, there is plenty of reason to create something like Tether independently of any wire issues (specifically: to normalize prices between exchanges).

People will arb the effiencies away anyway, regardless of what tools the exchanges provide them. Besides tether a lot of people in Taiwan are arbing through the traditional banking system [0].

But you are right, it IS important that there are ways to flow money in and out. Which is exactly what Tether is for according to OP's argument.

[0] https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@kingscrown/living-in-thaiwan-yo...
Why would they panic over 17 years old code? Even installing Windows 10 a week ago it came with ALL CAPS long disclaimer that they are not responsible for any damages to hardware, software caused by this installation.
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> Basically everything about the parent comment is factually incorrect. I'm not sure why it's so upvoted.

patio11 is well respected in this community, so I guess the post is upvoted just because of the author. I personally respect patio11 on quite many topics as a very knowledgeable, but when it comes to Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies he seems to have some personal issue with them, which makes his posts on the topic not that objective.
Wikipedia isn't a good source, but it uses 3 as an element of Z[√-5] as an example so it's quite relevant: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreducible_element

For a more serious reference any abstract algebra book covering rings and UFDs should do, for example it is in Dummit & Foote.
News Feed Eradicator has seriously improved my day-to-day life in a noticeable way.

Enough useful social activity is contained on Facebook in the form of events and various pages that I have a hard time quitting it completely. I don't, however, get sucked into the bottomless pit of news feed anymore, and I don't miss it.

Checking facebook has gone from compulsive addiction to maybe once a few days, or "when I think of it" when I am helping organize events.
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Demo does not work for me (Chrome W10); the move/resize doesn't work at all.
Elongated is not a very natural shape for rocks in space. It is going to get real interesting if this thing starts slowing down.
Bitfinex got hacked for 119,756 BTC last year, and Tether got hacked for $30 mil today.

Both are owned by iFinex LTD, and had the same CEO till earlier this year. Total amount they have lost comes out to $1 Billion.

How are you still claiming "They may not be"?
And who says that Rand is not fake news?
What is close to work by in the US anyway? Looking at the commute distance of people in the US it seems that at least 50% live close enough to use a bicycle. I've seen countless articles about poor people in the US who can't afford a car and had to walk 2 hours every morning, that is most probably 30 minutes on a shitty bicycle even less on a decent one.

American Commute
Distance (One Way) Percent
1-5 Miles 29 %
6-10 Miles 22 %
11-15 Miles 17 %
16-20 Miles 10 %
21+ Miles 23 %
(source: US Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Omnibus Household Survey. )