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It's just as easy to buy $350 worth of bitcoin today as it was 3 years ago. There is no real reason or advantage to buying whole coins.
Bitcoin is the world's first way to send money to anybody else, anywhere in the world, almost instantaneously, without asking permission from anybody, and without trusting any intermediary.

That's huge. Bitcoin is to money what the internet was to communications.
It would be much harder to figure out the cost to swing an actual vote. or motivate someone to actually go vote that wasn't before.
People within the "journalism" ecosystem can support itself with creative and different financial remedies. They strongly believe in their cause and benefit to humanity.

I would focus fundraising efforts to parties that economically rely on a free or paid press.
The problem is that bitcoin cannot be a currency - because it cannot facilitate more than 7 transactions per second, this is many orders of magnitude not enough for a currency. It can be something similar to gold - mostly a value store. But personally I have doubts - first of all the energy costs are crazy. I think it will be eventually replaced by a POS coin - proving that the value store function of something that new is not very reliable.

https://medium.com/@zby/proof-of-work-8d8265def194
I mentioned this in a comment below:

>It’s a 38” 21:9

>I had a 34 inch with a second 27”, but a single 38” hits the sweet spot of not needing another monitor.

For a short while I had the second screen with the 38” screen but it was just overkill (the 38” alone is enough to cover a large portion off the usable area of my desk, so the 27” mostly just sat out of view)
I think the $0 refers to the initial investment required to start a startup vs a conventional manufacturing business.
Looks cool.

Is it open-source?

You can also use this to create the UI: https://github.com/botui/botui
Just wanted to give you a quick shout out here. Between you guys and Morning Brew, I get my fill of daily succinct financial news/info.
I believe mass manufacturing drives down the prices. Book owners like to read something that is handheld ~6inches. Book readers won't buy large eink devices.

I don't think the eink screens are that costly. It may have something to do with the demand.

This is ridiculously expensive
https://remarkable.com
And the Sony Digital Paper is expensive too.

I would love to see more phone cases with eink screens.
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Back then Home economics was designed to teach "girls" to be a wife whilst boys did metal/woodworking.

School suggested that as a dyslexic I should do the typing course I didn't as that was for girls - in hindsight learning to type properly might have been a good idea
Perfect politicians don't exist.

Did you vote for Barack Obama in 2008, despite his opposition to gay marriage?
I'm curious about the mentions of Hackintosh. As I understand it, running macOS on non-Apple hardware (the essence of a Hackintosh) is a violation of the EULA.

I'm not here to argue the pros and cons, and I am not a lawyer, but I'm intrigued about the author saying -- and I paraphrase -- "I'm doing this on a computer that's breaking the licence agreement". That's an admission. I'm not judging, it's an observation. Hackintosh admissions on a personal site where they can be traced back to a person seem a bit risky to me.

I have no knowledge of Apple legal circling. Perhaps I'm just paranoid.
The danger is that "leftie" journalists hang out with leftie friends and they tell themselves "All my friends are voting Hillary/Remain, Trump/Brexit will lose". and then we lefties get shell-shocked the morning after.

At least these papers are intellectually honest and admit mistakes, one trait of the right-wing, and their press, is the metaphorical putting fingers in ears and going "La-la-lala!".
“a provocation operation in which Soviet aircraft would appear to attack US or friendly installations to provide an excuse for U.S. intervention”

what is that, if not a fake attack for political purposes?
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Dark matter makes the prediction that there is some kind of matter which makes no or little interaction with ordinary matter. None of those has been found so far. This makes it an assumption.

This theory makes no such assumption. One could say that it is simpler so it would fit Occams razor. Even further, it predicts that you can't find dark matter at all (although this can't be proven, so there's that) as much as special relativity predicts that you can't find "aether".

I think, "simpler" would be compelling enough, but I can't judge whether it is the case really.

On another note, does anybody know whether "inflation" makes testable predictions? From my little knowledge it also explains only already known phenomena. Nevertheless it is a widely accepted theory.
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With the switch to PowerPC architecture, Apple started a Licensing programme that would allow other companies to build official Mac clones. Power Computing was the first company to get into the business: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Computing_Corporation. Steve Jobs pulled the plug on the clone idea when he returned to Apple and bought out Power Computing.
Also looks like you went to prison for murder.
Does your pay get adjusted according to the current price of BTC? It's got to be strange to have money in your account that is worth 20% more over the weekend.
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I've found the easiest way to battle FOMO is not to compare yourself between then and now but more like what you would do if you DID purchase the coins in 2010.

More than likely, you would sell in 2010.2. There would be about 100 price points where your body would say CASH OUT. Markets are all about taking money from the inpatient and giving it to the patient.
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Scope creep also knows nothing of Chris Roberts at the helm a crowd funding runaway train. At this point it's now suffering from Hubble's law of the expanding universe, rather than scope creep.

I think they are at last at a scope now that makes sense for a full release. They had to build a hundreds strong, multi-location production team before even getting up to full steam. Games with significantly less scope have taken much longer, without hurdles like that.

It's a double edged sword, because open development has been what drove the crowd funding to such incredible heights (they made 2 million in 48 hours this week, for a total funding so far of 167 million). But it is also the reason for so many people being negative about it's development. People get fatigued of it.
You're preaching to the choir, I love BTC.

I realise that I haven't been clear.

The point I was trying to make is only that you don't need for Bitcoin to be a replacement to visa in order to justify current skyrocketing valuation.

I would venture that Bitcoin's censorship-resistant store of value use case is enough to justify current valuation.
What you have said is simultaneously completely true and totally pointless.

Yeah, we all know that brands have tediously anal rules about usage of their logos in particular. In practice, so long as you aren’t obviously abusing it, nobody is going to care. Have you seen some of the stuff what people do with social media logos??
Did the document record anything happening? No

Did it happen? No.

Did you (initially) falsely imply it did? Yes.

This is the equivalent of shouting that a startup is proven to be on the brink of failing and lying about their finances because you've discovered a memo which notes that one of many advantages of contractors over employees is that you can get rid of them at short notice.
I'm self-employed. I occasionally adjust my prices when the value of BTC changes.
Newspaper finance sections originally (the daily telegraph is the bests in the UK) latterly the intelligent investor and mags like the Investors chronical
NY Times is far from "considered left-wing". It's currently heavily criticized for publishing terrible articles sympathizing with and humanizing literal neo-nazis.
People learn in different ways and my experience is completely different: note taking, on paper, was critical for me to learn. Whether it is a differential geometry lecture (in college) or a test planning meeting having written notes is very important for me -- it allows me to think through the topics again at leisure.

The most important thing for me is to keep note taking at the "high secondary" importance level: not preempt thinking or participation in real time but high enough to ensure writing at least a couple of words or a quick diagram for each main topic. Break either and note taking starts to be a problem and not a help. Just my 2c, YMMV.
27" @ 1080p?
55" @ 4K ?

These all sound ridiculously low dpi - mid 80s.

My 17" pre-retina MBP does 1920x1200 - 130-something dpi and that's so old Apple don't sell parts for it any more.

How on earth are you using these or the previous ones, that everything, and particularly text, isn't just atrocious to look at?
Except it has happened multiple times in US history alone--the Spanish American War, Vietnam... Both began or were escalated as false-flags pumped up by the media.

The CIA attempted to overthrow Castro with the failed Bay of Pigs invasion. Not that I like Castro, I don't, but the point is that the whole episode was done via subterfuge.

Probably one way we'll find evidence that both world wars were ginned up for reasons of profit. It never ends--the lies and diversions by the shadowy elite few who run the world.
Can you define what you mean by “theoretical insight”? It’s true that AlphaGo was built using previously existing techniques (supervised learning, large dataset for training, reinforcement learning and monte carlo tree search). But if you consider something to not be a breakthrough because it does not literally introduce a novel fundamental technique, you have a very narrow view of research (in my opinion).

Here are a few points to consider:

1. The combination of the aforementioned techniques in AlphaGo was non-standard. Reinforcement learning bootstrapped supervised learning, before passing a value function to the monte carlo tree search.

2. AlphaGo represents a new achievement in solving perfect information games. The research team has moved on to Starcraft, which is not perfect information, but they didn’t try to tackle that before conquering a complex perfect knowledge game first.

3. AlphaGo’s research team improved upon the original AlphaGo with a novel algorithm for self-learning and mastering games using minimal policy improvement. The new AlphaGo Zero does not utilize human training data or supervised learning, and it was capable of defeating the original AlphaGo 100-0.

Beyond self-play, I think that AlphaGo’s methodologies can generalize to combinatorial search problems even if they don’t generalize to broader domains like partially observed games or robotics.
One of the corollaries to this, if you're teaching, is that your time should be spent NOT on the details––not, for example, on the step-by-step algebra to solve some complicated algebra to solve some integral––but rather on the bigger concepts (e.g., the general strategy of how to solve that sort of integral). Give students the rough path and let them fill in the details, rather than just giving the turn-by-turn directions.
What was the purpose of that, though? I can't imagine it.
By 1962 Russians already tested Tsar Bomba - so their nuclear capabilities were significant. What positive outcome could the US government have possibly hoped to achieve?
21M with fractions down to 0.00000000001, so while it's fixed it's also fractionable to a very small number.
What are you trying to argue? That Pearl Harbor wasn't a surprise attack?

That the Japanese didn't employ terrorist tactics against American civilians?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_balloon

> And since when did saying "I hate you, I'm going to war with you" make it OK to indiscriminately kill civilians

Maybe ask the Japanese? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Massacre

If you can't understand a strategic decision to bring a war to an end and avoid a larger loss of life, I don't know what to tell you.
Don't know why this got downvoted, it's the same as dailymail or the sun, or times, they have right wing donors and subscribers
7 transactions per second isn't enough for it to be an everyday currency for everyone.

It's certainly enough to be an everyday currency for the people who want to use it as an everyday currency at the moment, and Lightning Network will expand the capability massively.
It would be difficult to implement a membership model that doesn't have some tracking of whether you are a member or not. Exemption from third party trackers I totally agree with though.
We imagined that Amazon AWS was letting us use a few of their servers that were idle because it was not the Xmas rush. This was a convenient narrative at the time and it explained the competitive pricing. Reality was that it was a different gig.
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Probably something to do with floating point numbers; https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Units has a link to http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=(sum(210000*floor(50000...),+i%3D0+to+32)%2F10000000, idk what all that means but, 32 bits I guess.
Thanks for writing that out that was pretty much where I was thinking :)
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> begging letter

> begging message

I keep seeing this in many online spaces and for the life of me, I just can't understand how asking for money in exchange for value (journalism in this case) is considered begging.

Seriously, this [1] is their ask, can you (or anyone else) show me exactly which part of it is begging?

[1] http://www.niemanlab.org/images/guardian-membership-ask.jpg
We also had dedicated cooking/cleaning and health classes but basic finance was usually bundled in as a chapter or two in health classes. Having a dedicated class for personal finance would be hugely beneficial. Especially for High School seniors.

I don’t think the college prep courses really tell you what impacts student loans have. It’s more listed as an option you have if you need it but they glaze over the lifelong impacts.
Norvig is a beast. For those that don't know, he is high up in Google Research (AI director I believe) and also wrote the #1 AI textbook. He has the #1 AI course on coursera or edx too (can't remember which one). He's a big lisp advocate (look at his review of SICP on amazon), but also has the programs for his books in Java, and Python.
Yes, and before recent innovations in prescription drugs, all that people had was heroin.

That's what fentanyl and oxys are replacing, and it's a huge improvement.
I am a bit on the fence with Bitcoin.

A few years ago I brought a little bit of altcoin and 'believed' in it. I only put a small amount but I still was nervous spending money on some 'pretend' digital asset. Within a few days it was worth half what I started with.
Thinking I was in a low point of the chart, I invested a little bit more.

It then dropped again, so much I lost around 80% of the value within a week.

I then declared the money lost and saved my private keys.

Fast forward to the beginning of this year, I randomly picked up my private key from a backup drive that I was going to wipe and decided to check it's value.. around £15

As it was such a little amount I decided just to cash it out, buy a pizza and continue with my life. However, as it wasn't so straight forward to just 'cash out' I left it.

A few months later I hear the news that bitcoin is rising so checked on my altcoin (because the altcoin charts followed closely to the bitcoin charts), and there you go, I tripled my initial investment. I still declared the coins 'dead' so wasn't worried about losing it, but converted them into bitcoin as that felt most secure to me. The conversion lost me some percent but I stuck it out and have had 0.1BTC in my wallet since.

It's nice watching my little amount go up. It's not a deal breaker if I lost it, but it's now more 'alive' than 'dead' to a point I have started thinking about converting it into fiat and enjoy a good Christmas.
But there is that little bit inside me now, that refuses to listen to my 'the coins are dead, and I wouldn't really lose anything' mentality which is unfortunate because I feel as the price goes up that feeling will cement harder to a point I would never cash it out.
Ah, just like mathematics. Once proved, a result is trivial, but before it’s proved, a conjecture is a hard problem.
http://wirexapp.com/

There are quite a few others, but this is the one I know about.
To the extent that Amazon makes a profit on AWS (and I guess I'm not sure that they do), it would make sense for them to work on things that cost them money, but increase usage of AWS.
Which models?
I use curved 55" UHD from Samsung as a TV/monitor; you need to keep your distance from it as being very close the picture is a bit weird (first you need to turn your whole head as it's too much for eye movement only, second there are wide FOV distortions; like when you put your head close to a normal monitor). The dynamic range is much lower than EIZO/LG pro monitors, colors are washed out; generally, it's fine for SteamBox and playing games and as a real-world preview of how a movie/photo would look like on a real consumer device, but you won't get anywhere near pro quality a proper monitor gives you (even when you enforce 4:4:4 mode instead of default 4:2:2). I have 3x 4k displays (30.5", 28" and 55"), can't go lower than 30" now...
sorry, I’ve edited the word “planned” into my post as to not seem misleading. (forgive me for paraphrasing the title of the thread incorrectly).

unsurprisingly, it doesn’t actually change my point in the slightest. maybe we can have a more interesting conversation now.
But it shows again that attacking your own citizen and blaming the enemy is a tactic that was considered a few times(or maybe more times) by the US government, this seems disgusting to start a war with false motives, it puts everything to doubt, so some people around the world doubt that US interventions had any other motivation then self interest and not self defense
"Harry and Markle": A British prince marrying am American is celebrity gossip, but of the kind that makes the front page of quite venerable Western news outlets.

The CFPB official suing Trump is a serious ongoing crisis which is not about personal injury, but rather a dispute about who is legitimate head of a federal agency. It is the literal top story of the Wall Street Journal.

And whatever you might think about the the crisis about changing mores on sexual harassment and assault, it is right now hitting Congress and changing committee chairs, endangering reelections, and may lead to resignations.
This doesn’t feel like a competitor to Unity, it feels more like what I’ve heard of Second Life being used for.

Not an actual competitor to it, but almost like a reimagination without the social aspect, instead just being a sort of world builder. Like Minecraft with real objects
I can think of another possibility, which is that in order to compare a 1080p display and a 4k display properly, you need to ensure that both displays are reasonably calibrated for quality. TVs out of the box are tuned in a mode I think of as "claw your eyes out" mode, with horrid preprocessing and sharpening and all kinds of other things designed to make the TV pop out in the display room, with no regard what it does to the underlying video signal or your eyes over time. Two displays in different resolutions, both left in this mode, may look roughly equally crappy when you're sitting at home feeding it a normal video signal, rather than a crafted demo. The article alludes to this when it mentions turning down the sharpening, but typically the "mode" the TV ships in initially will do other things too, like pop the saturation up and such.

The first thing you'll want to do with a new TV is to take it out of that mode. The "correct" mode depends on the TV and some internet searching can help you out, but putting it in the cinema/movie mode is at least a first good guess.

Finally, of course, you need to feed the 4K monitor a good 4K signal, or the 4K monitor isn't going to look any better. And as the article mentions, that's sometimes easier said than done, because HDMI can't always handle it.

If after all that, you can't tell the difference at all between 4K and 1080P at point blank range on a monitor setup like that, you may have eye issues, yes, absolutely. And you may still find that you don't much care about 4K. I've got 4K on my laptop, which is nice in a couple of ways, but in general I'm really rather "meh" on it for development work. I've got two 1080P monitors at work and prefer that to a 4K setup. But I also don't care about pixelization very much compared to a lot of people, and never have. I used to read books on my 160x160 monochrome Palm Pilot, and I guess everything looks good after spending my formative years on a Commodore 64 with a 1980s vintage television. But I do at least see the difference and can easily understand why others have other opinions.
I think you're being too optimistic about the discount to defect ratio.
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That certainly highlights the importance of the right UX, but I wish they had invested in Patreon style features to allow support for specific authors.

I would pay £5/month to the Guardian and be happy for them to take a 30% administrative cut if they ring fenced the rest for writers I want to support.

The Scott Trust has failed to preserve a newspaper that is fiercely independent. Only experimenting with democratisation of commissioning and hiring is going to break it out of the nepotist trap it has fallen into.
Not us however.
Agree with this.

I rather like HyperPhysics here: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/index.html
How did exercise and sleep not make an appearance? Should've been #1 and #2.
Bitcoin mania appears to be well underway.

Yes, bitcoin has uses. (Including some cool, elegant and potentially very significant ones.) But despite the troubled state of the world, it does not appear to me that anything has happened that would justify the current ongoing explosion in price.

For an example of a mania in action, take a look at the price spike in tulip bulbs in the early 1800s:
http://www.thebubblebubble.com/tulip-mania/
Worse than the price is the larger ones don't actually have more pixels. I wanted something larger so it could handle textbook style books better, with code samples and diagrams that will actually fit properly. But this doesn't seem to exist.
Good point. I guess that the major bitcoin miners could already derail any emerging competitors with a few intermittent 50% attacks.
So basically, no evidence can convince you that they aren't doing this since the blockchain is afaik the only evidence.

There is no evidence on the contrary point either, many have lost the private keys to 2k ETH wallets at this point...
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Yes, fair enough, my comment was a bit tongue-in-cheek. Although by the description of the plot, I don't think any direction could have saved it.