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>you don't have the choice to get another ISP

Is this a problem that cannot be solved?
With a domain like "think-liberty" the right newspeak circlejerking immediately makes itself visible and I don't even need to click the link. Yet I clicked through. The author's argument is flawed by blaming it on "big companies" like Google without realizing the scope or reach of telecom holdings.

If i had a downvote here on HN i'd use it.
I really doubt they were legitimate bit flips and not just software bugs, to be honest.

The likelihood that you’ve seen multiple flips on the same piece of data .. sounds like a typical threading bug.
Proof that any technology has a double use. Once is good to filter spam/fake news, but in this case the fast spreading of the news is crucial for rallying people to a cause.
Even if blockchains/cryptocurrencies replace fiat currencies and ICOs replace IPOs on a stock exchange, little about Wall Street does will actually change. Securitizing and aggregating securities into portfolios, lending, marketing and pricing securities, advising issuing entities, etc., the things investment bankers occupy themselves with every day, do not go away because of cryptocurrencies and ICOs.
A few points:

1. At 25% of a two-person venture, the potential to get screwed is large. Basically the majority owner can make rules that lock you out of some or all of the upside.

2. Because of 1, you want to be able to see the books.

3. Get everything in writing.

4. Figure out a way to get it to 50/50 equity. This may mean no salary or IOUs to the other person for a delayed salary/payout at a premium (since they have to wait). This can get tricky very quickly. That said, unequal equity can get tricker.

5. Note that all of the trust issues mentioned above may not have to do with your partner -- someone providing additional funding can dictate onerous terms for you.

Note that it is possible that you found a dream partner and nothing will go wrong. Also note that getting massively screwed in the stated arrangement is also possible. Adjust your expectations accordingly.
> “Free speech will suffer without net neutrality” I’m not entirely sure what those who argue this point think ISPs will do that will limit the freedoms of speech, as I’ve not heard any anticipated methods mentioned, ...

That's an easy one. ISPs may artificially degrade the quality of service to or block some sites and not others depending on whether the ISP agrees with the content on that site, whether the owners of the site give the ISP a kickback, or a host of other non-technical reasons.

It seems like the author of the article hasn't made a reasonable effort to understand the opposing viewpoint.
And, to an extend, I sympathize with the viewpoints of the singularity adherents.

Collective intelligence is a version of Conway's Game of Life, with more complicated rules. It is possible to manipulate the canvas and the rules each cells makes, resulting in the canvas dying (information explosion/implosion). It is possible to make a program that transforms the canvas into a single glider (singularity). Both would obviously be very bad for humans.

When earth faces a physical meteor, we have the science to detect it, track it and predict its future path. But what to do when we face an information meteor? The article states that Shannon's paper was the biggest contribution to information theory, but it seems to me we still have a long way to go on information theory. And we haven't seen the Einsteins and Manhattan projects yet, that physics has seen.
> But Mr. Grundfest said it was clear that almost everyone buying tokens at this point was buying them with the hope that their value would go up, not because the buyer wanted to use them on some future computer network.

So beanie babies were securities too?

This is just silly. Surely there's some better definition of what a securities are.

In some countries security is either equity or fixed income instrument. As I understand ICO-s are neither.
I was joking before and said that it is inevitable that Facebook, Google and Twitter will eventually sell SaaS (Silencing as a Service).

But maybe it wasn't a joke after all...

It is simply too tempting to not do it. They have information which the Stasis and KGBs of the past would kill for.

One thing Romanian government should be careful with is not listening to protesters. That is at least one country where they have learned to not piss off the people. In 1989 they rose up, caught and killed their corrupt dictator. All in the matter of days.

Nobody forgot that. In early 2017 I remember they passed some decree to weaken some corruption laws. People came out to protest and within days decision was reversed. It was quick and short. Everyone wiped hands on pants and went home.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/04/world/europe/romania-prot...

Occupy and anti-Trump protestors should study and learn how that works. You see to have effective peaceful protests, there has to be a credible threat of extreme and overwhelming violence that will follow unless the government listens. Government should be afraid of the people.

The interesting development is that with Facebook and large centralized social media companies, the strategy seems to silence and prevent these protests from forming to begin with.
Heard a similar story about a laboratory system with tight environmental controls. Every so often the humidity would spike and the room would go out of tolerance after typical work hours. The designers of the system were under quite a bit of pressure until someone finally stuck around long enough to catch the janitor mopping the floors.
Join Leela Zero in trying to replicate AlphaGo Zero: https://github.com/gcp/leela-zero

It's estimated that AlphaGo Zero took about 1700 GPU years to train. We can only reach this number by having a distributed effort.

400k games has currently been submitted to the Leela Zero project: http://zero.sjeng.org/ . It's still playing in amateur level. (AGZ had about 30m self-play training).
If a lottery ticket's prices goes up, and the purse goes down and/or the odds get longer, you'll be less inclined to buy a ticket.

It's the same with work. If hard work is less likely to pay off, or if you'll have to work harder, or both, you'll be less likely to work harder. Some people will work harder anyways, and many will be discouraged.

Marginal effects matter. This is why dynamic analysis is important.
Sorry, but I don't get the reference. Is Santa Claus Romanian?
I can't speak to everyone, but my artist friends all moved to Instagram because it's a better place to post photos/videos, and the comment system is preferable.
I don't want user groups where people can discuss.

I'm extrovert and I'm drawn to comment sections of everything. As a result I get stuck on facebook comment sections. And this kills the time I would use for face to face socializing.

Here I am, writing to comment section...
Now, C++ explicitly allows shouting yourself in the foot for performance reasons and for interesting features. You might actually want to have such code to programmatically create such static fields.

In a template tracking usage of the class is a common case. Another fine one would be to count separate instantiations. (How many times the function was used not inlined vs inlined.)
Etc.
> What specialized intelligence, then, is human intelligence?

I think the author just means "the skills needed to pilot a human body on Earth in a normal human social environment". I see no tautology, and the preceding sentence about octopuses makes the author's meaning here pretty clear.
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"Risk #2: Our governments could shut it down" this is the part that keeps me up at night.
I once worked on a retail time management game. The doors of your store would open and then close when the customers came in. After a while, the doors would just start swinging open and closed all the time, like the store was being visited by a vengeful ghost. We never did figure out what caused that.

This next bug (in the same game) we purposefully left in and it became an easter egg. A big part of the game was being able to customize your store with different retail stands and tables to put your merchandise on. If you edited your store layout while customers were in the store, you could trap them. The path finding code we wrote for the customers required a valid point of entry and a valid point of exit to the store. As soon as you trapped the customer, the lack of valid path to an exit had an unusual effect on the character animation. The character movement and animation speed would increase up to 2x, which made the customer look like it was freaking out. It also negatively effected the customer "happiness" state. A store's reputation score was based on the average customer happiness level over a particular time period. A trapped customer could absolutely destroy that score. I've seen it drop from 2000+ to 0 in seconds. As with the other bug, we never did figure out why this was happening.
I'm on Comcast. But there is some competition. Plus, we can live very comfortably without cable and on 55mb/s.
I think they're saying that people would be more sympathetic and supportive of the amendment if it turned out that the accused was innocent.
I guess my point is that the market would punish anyone for being foolish enough to do that in the form of competitors without egregious backdoors. Whereas with Intel... it is hard if not impossible to design/make competitors (AMD being possibly the sole exception)
https://ipleak.net
Is similar, but has some useful additional diagnostics.
Agreed. I got about half way through the article before realizing the author does not understand how an exchange works.
Socialism has a way seeing to it that it runs out of other people's money.
There hasn't been much 64 bit PPC shipped at that point, so not sure many things shipped all 4. But it was weird.
It absolutely is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_policy)
>The only substantive way to read "this was what gave Bitcoin its utility, and thus value" is through its connection to market cap.

Okay fair enough. What I was going for in using the word "value" was the intrinsic worth of having a free-flowing currency that can be use by anyone.

>other crypto currencies have implemented LN and are beginning to use it

>No one is near having a functional lightning network...it needs to be in widespread usage for its full potential to be reached.

Maybe I am too dumb to understand LN, but what gives BTC an edge over, say Litecoin, if both BTC and Litcoin have LN fully implemented.

>LN enables off-chain transactions and so would scale the effective transaction capacity orders of magnitude.

I never see anyone ever claim LN will allow +10x transactions. Most claims I read are 1.7x-4x . If you have a source on that I'd really appreciate it (I will read it.)

But all these are moot points. While BTC is waiting for LN to be implemented, other solutions (that have their uses) are available today. A bad analogy would be a restaurant owner telling hungry patrons that a new master chef will start next week, and the food will be amazing. Great, but people are hungry now and they will just go to other restaurants (and maybe the other restaurants are almost as good as this one and so the patrons will stop coming to yours.)

By the time LN is done, I hope there's enough left of BTC's reputation.
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I feel like the author missed the biggest problem. There is a huge dis-incentive to use bitcoin as a medium of exchange because it is inherently _deflationary_. If I know bitcoins will continue to increase in value because math, why on earth would I ever exchange them for something that doesn't?
Predatory companies love people like you. Now people have lost their homes and grandparents are being swindled out of their retirements – good thing the government allowed companies to do whatever they want! Corporations are awesome! It was pretty cool when the banks told people they were qualified for loans, knowing they shouldn't be, then used that to their advantage to steal those people's houses. Fuck the government, am I right???
With a side of extra spicy libertarian shitpics [0]

[0] https://www.instagram.com/thinkliberty/
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I wanted to take a moment to discuss these arguments honestly, and that list of net neutrality violations honestly, but I first want to state: While my arguments are against net neutrality I do not take positions against the sentiments these arguments are rooted in. I'm not entirely sure what those who argue this point think ISPs will do that will limit the freedoms of speech, as I've not heard any anticipated methods mentioned, but I can say confidently that free speech is under attack, and has been, regardless of any net neutrality regulations. I do not consider this situation to be a glaring example of why we need net neutrality, I actually consider it to be quite the opposite. As best I can tell this is a situation dealing with agreements between two companies, and sure, Comcast should have been more prepared before taking on an agreement with Netflix, but that's still not a situation concerned with net neutrality. Using Net Neutrality to solve this problem, is a classic case of trying to solve the symptom, and not addressing the cure. I'm not sure this kind of situation has ever existed or been mentioned as a possibility by the ISPs involved in the Net Neutrality issue. I am not against the sentiment or the passion that people feel when they speak of their support for Net Neutrality, just as I'm not against the sentiment of those who want to ban guns because they care about human life, or those who want to continue the war on drugs to try and keep bad substances and ugly situations from those who are better left unexposed to such things.
> ... put their mental energy and money on something ...

When thinking of it, I am often convinced that money is a poor solution to the most challenging problems. Sam likes the idea of universal income, but to me that's like supplying extra oxygen/fuel to an engine, but if the engine is broken it won't do anything, for example I won't be surprised that if every citizen gets extra $2K a month, the cost of "healthcare" will magically raise exactly by that same amount.
It's about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Nicolae_and_Elena_Cea... , i.e. we "trialed" and subsequently executed the Ceausescu couple on Christmas Day 1989.
Go make that money in a bubble completely separate from society and then maybe you can claim that society isn't entitled to some of it.
They executed Nicolae Ceaușescu on December 25th.
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It seems like the more obvious conclusion from the facts stated in the article would be: lectures are more efficient when people can dedicate their brain to understanding the content instead of having to write down everything being said/shown. I never understood why some lecturers thought that making students write things down would be a good way to teach them anything. Certainly did not work for me. I got much more value from mentally following the lecture and thinking about the topic.
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Here [1] is the first result on Google and it is a twofer. You might argue that the ACLU and EFF are publicizing their involvement, but I would argue that is because publicity of their fight is part of their political agenda. Thiel's political motivation was privacy so it makes sense that he wouldn't actively publicize his involvement.

Also while we may know that these organizations are funding this legal battle, we don't know who is ultimately funding these organizations. It is certainly possible that a random billionaire donated money and earmarked it for this specific cause. Would it be more acceptable to you if Thiel created some dummy non-profit, donated money to it, and then had that organization publicly back the lawsuit? That likely would have had the same end result and might have even nabbed Thiel a decent tax break.

[1] - https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-aclu-media-conference...
The author seems to want it both ways: he is skeptical that IQ measures intelligence (and certainly not general intelligence, the existence of which he denies), but he uses it in his arguments. As I see it, the author's IQ argument has three claims: that people with exceptional IQ do not generally achieve commensurately that much better than the rest of us, that this is because they are constrained by the state of the intellectual environment they live in, and that there is a threshold such that IQ over that level is unhelpful. This last claim is allegedly a conclusion drawn from its predecessors, but to me, it looks like the first two claims provide a possible explanation for why there might be an apparent threshold effect, regardless of whether there actually is one. Nothing in this passage convincingly denies the notion that a sufficient number of communicating, above-average intelligent agents could expand the intellectual environment faster than we are currently able to achieve.
here is a more specific scenario. By a confluence of events, a large number of bitcoin holders decides to liquidate at the same time. Price falls, triggering stops, at which point other people with significant bitcoin holdings panic and try to sell their holdings, triggering further stops, etc. Price rapidly falls by 75% or more within 1 or 2 days.
In this case my comment was not as much against dupes in general as it was expressing disappointment that yet another post about "Against the Grain" should reach front page and thus showing that it likely resonates with significant portion of HNers which I would rather not be the case.
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Not easily. In most places I have lived you have at most 2 options. DSL (if you are close enough) or cable. I guess anyone can do satellite but... shudders

Cable is like fiefdoms of old Europe and I'm they would like to keep it that way vs actually competing on the same lines
Your needs don't disappear just because your assets are appreciating. Therefore, you would sell some to purchase things you need.
A previous Romanian protest led to a show-trial on December 25, 1989. The sentence was execution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Nicolae_and_Elena_Cea...
> you don't have the choice to get another ISP

Patently false.

Of the several million developed US census blocks, 100% have multiple ISPs offering 10Mbps+. [1]

In fact, I daresay it is easier to switch your ISP than to switch your social network. The hooplah around NN is an effective distraction; ISPs aren't even close to being the monopoly to worry about.

[1] https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-344499A1.p...
>Third, linear progress is not the history of technology. The history of technology is exponential progress over and over again on everything from how far a steam ship could travel without refueling to the number of operations per second a CPU can carry out.

Actually the "history of technology" is 1-2 bouts of exponential progress in harvesting the low hanging fruits of a few areas of knowledge, and then long stagnation for millennia (and perhaps, after 1-2 more cycles, forever) as diminishing returns kick in.

The whole last century of medicine, for example, increased life expectancy less than what a couple of basic practices back in the start of that period did -- things like toilets and running water and antibiotics.
>Honestly the stock market is getting to be the same way. People should start moving money into safe investments and be prepared to ride out a storm.

If you have a way of accurately predicting when that storm will happen and when it will be over, you should look for ways to cash in on that.

Otherwise pulling money out of the stock market because you think there might be a bubble is a terrible idea. People have been warning of a bubble for the last 5+ years--there will definitely be a downturn, but it could be next year it could be 10 years from now.

The average person should adjust their portfolio based on how much time they have to keep investing, not based on reading the market entrails.
Okay, I had to double check the article to make sure I'm not seeing things. The complaint is that a higher-end computer from a couple of years back is using four times the power of a laptop?

The velocity of power to energy ratio is not static. I.E: You can do 80/MpH in a Prius but two Priuses will put you at 180/MpH. Also, the author complains about the number of fans on the G5 but fails to realize that at 100% utilization, over a number of days, the hardware on 'fanless' laptop will degrade at a much faster rate.
> Are you proposing their equity also be taxed "at rest"? How would that work?

Same way property is taxed. A taxing authority sends you a bill (based on duration of ownership), with the tax rate set by legislation. In this case, the custodian of your equity would send you your bill, with a copy sent to the IRS. I don't believe who accepts the payment needs to be defined at this time (although sending payments directly to the IRS or through your custodian are both trivial matters).
I also find myself to be skeptical of Net Neutrality. But I should be clear that I want the same end result as those who are pro-net neutrality - a transparent, fair, and working Intenet.

I just simply don't trust the government to be the arbiter of that, and I don't trust a regulatory agency to be making wholesale decisions regarding the enforcement of Net Neutrality or regulating speech on the Internet.

That doesn't mean that the government has no responsibility to enforce fair trade and transparent advertising. And it doesn't mean that ISPs are angels with customer interests in mind.

I want purchasing options with a transparent understanding of what I'm purchasing and clear expectations on what's being delivered. And I want elected officials making laws that determine any regulation of the web, not an agency that allows elected officials to hide behind it's regulatory fiat.

While you may not like the idea of the market correcting bad behavior, I find the government is even worse (and slower) at correcting bad behavior (and it is almost always overcorrects).
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I've still got a Quad G5. Annoyed that I never got around to selling it when I stopped using it so much.

Guess I should whack it up on eBay.
Your skewed view of my words led you to a strange end point.

Ill quit the sophistry when you stick to arguments that make sense.
A lot of it also exists because of capitalism, it's a symbiotic relationship. Capitalism produces more wealth which a government can tax to provide more infrastructure for capitalism to occur which produces more wealth.

Although this is one area where the interstate commerce clause seems to genuinely apply it would be interesting to see what would happen with some areas following NN and some areas not and what results...

I think the real key here is that gov't regulation is not a good substitute for genuinely competitive markets.
I'm glad I'm not the only one noticing this.

He seems to write to an audience that is less knowledgeable than himself, but lacks factual content and is often cringeworthy.
The track record of humanity's decision making indicates that your statement is not accurate for a significant portion of the population.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Ceau%C8%99escu#Death

I think that, coincidentally, Nicolae would be Romanian for Claus?
prob. one of the biggest risk ATM. But as other countries embrace it, there could be geopolitical factors added to the mix.
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