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"Economic growth today is about -2% per year. Why is this? If you own more than 0.01 Bitcoin, chances are you don't do anything with your money. There is no inflation, and thus no incentive to invest your money."

See, if you don't invest your money you simply make everyone elses money more valuable, until someone actually does invest it.

You need to stop looking at money and start looking at resources, time, etc.. Those stay the same, no matter how much money is spent.

"Just like the medieval ages had no significant economic growth, as wealth was measured in gold, our society has no economic growth either, as people know their 0.01 Bitcoin will be enough to last them a lifetime."

You know the Industrial Revolution happened when wealth was measured in gold.

Do I really need more excuses to stop reading this bullshit?
The whole post is satirical, in case somebody here did not notice that.
Travel back in time and travel faster than light are logically equivalent, and seem to be utterly impossible in our universe. “c” does seem to be the iron law, the speed of causality, but of course who knows? I don’t see a universe without causality having people in it though!
I'm expecting a 20k BTC before end of 2018. 100k BTC within 3 years.
It was not the original argument. Search the original bitcoin paper for a word fee, the first occurance explains it.
High transaction fees and appreciationary speculative loop
Thank you (and others) for pointing out that affiliation should always be spelled out. I'm very sorry for unintentionally causing such a stir but grateful for the learning lesson. I'm part of the team working on the site and will make sure to make that clear in the future. Thank you!
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>diversify your investments

Diversify into what though? Once market crashes, it takes everything down with it.
What about both non-capitalist and non-state controlled?
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" we are creating currency, not value"

+ The point of any new tool or innovation is to add value. Without currency, we could not have an economy, ergo, currency creates value.

+ "Do you know how the federal reserve works? It puts more money into the system from nowhere." This is false and misleading. The Fed exchanges TBils for USD. It pulls one kind of asset off the market, and exchanges it with another, which is more liquid. It does this with specific objectives in mind.

"You can buy things with it, that is the point of money."

You can't buy jack with BTC. It can be used as a currency, but it is not, and never will be.
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Actual time zone boundaries have on average 2-3 changes a year. Sudan recently hopped back an hour for example, a separatist state in eastern Ukraine switched to Moscow time and Russia changed the time zones of a bunch of cities last year.

What does happen more often is people screwing around with Daylight savings. Each year probably a dozen countries decide to change how they're going to do daylight savings, either by canceling or reintroducing it or moving the date when the changeover happens. And the you get some real oddities like Morocco (I think it was) a few years ago the decided to temporarily suspend daylights saving during Ramadan (what do you mean your software cannot handle having an arbitrary number of dates for the start and end of daylight saving each year)
Tencent migrated to new back end architecture based on .NET Core and ASP.NET Core
By Capitalism people usually mean the freedom to own capital, the freedom to invest or spend it as one likes and the freedom to benefit individually from the fruits of one's labour. These are all real freedoms.

If we redefine it so that Maoism, Leninism and even Marxism are all forms of capitalism then it really loses it's usefulness as a term and makes it impossible to understand what most people have ever said or written about it.
The wikipedia article for the "Bitcoin Mania of 2017-?" almost writes itself... c.f. Tulip Mania and The South Sea Bubble.
The text implies there is a way to try out the new one, but I have yet to successfully decode the meaning of their words.

"You can find this new experience by clicking "more" after conducting a search on Google for finance-related information or "Market summary" in the finance section of Search. For those who visit google.com/finance, you’ll see this new experience as well."
How it (generally) works now: intermediaries pay the restaurant in fiat the equivalent price in BTC on the time/day of the transaction. They facilitate the trade without the restaurant needing to worry about price fluctuations or digital currency exchanges.

How it may work in the future: Off-blockchain processing solutions like the Lightning network (1) have been proposed to decentralize some degree of transactions.

However, this inevitably takes some of the power away from the miners/those who make money off every transaction fee. This has in essence been the struggle/division behind many of the most recent forks or proposed forks; a tradeoff between scale and economics for those that are generating coins or facilitating transactions.

The Bitcoin drama is far from over, and for it to be anything other than (primarily) a store of value in the longer term will require significant technical changes. In fact, at this point, no existing cryptocurrency can support the scale of, say, VISA. It's early days and the race to solve this problem (or fail) is a fascinating drama to watch.

1. https://cointelegraph.com/explained/lightning-network-explai...
The solution space for a cross logging/monitoring systems tool has a non-polynomial number of permutations. The permutations of (Splunk, Pingdom, Elasticsearch, Icinga, Prometheus, etc., etc.) is at least 6! or 720.

Each is a snowflake. Each will change independently over time as each product changes. Each user will have different configurations and use cases. There is a combinatorial explosion.

It is an interesting problem. But there isn't likely to be a general solution.
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The history you see is all there's ever been.
Did you follow your own advice?
I'm not sure whether you're trolling or whether you truly don't understand the issue here, but your hostility is not only rude, it makes for an incredibly boring thread.
Ask HN: Good datasets for studying RDBMS in depth
Hello All,

I have a fundamental knowledge on RDMS and have done data modelling in Postgresql (to some extend). I could able to make sense of what is Normalization, Joins, locks (specifically optimistic locking) etc.

I have learnt all these in my side projects mainly, or in production where the data isn't much huge. I haven't got any chance to debug a slow query or even select Indexing strategies etc which I guess is really important to understand RDMBS or postgresql in general.

I wanted to know are there any open source datasets, which will helpful for self studying or even debugging slow queries / seeing their indexing strategies etc.

Any answer would be appreciated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Reporting_Standard
I did test on tenta.com but couldn't get any result https://imgur.com/a/iK8Yh
I found an Ask HN this morning about googling yourself, so I did. And found that my old personal site was proper broken.

No surprise, since it was written in Cold Fusion and built to run on Internet Explorer 4 and Netscape Navigator 3, and thus relied heavily on document.all and such. So I fished most of it out of the wayback machine and taught it about document.getElementById() and some other things. I thought it might be fun to have a look back at what passed for cutting edge back in the day.

Surprisingly, many of the demos ran faster on a Pentium 1 running IE4 than they do today in Chrome or Firefox on the fastest machine you can buy.

I'll stick around to answer questions, though sadly I lost the source for the real-time networked version of the Joust game, so I won't be able to take anybody on head to head.
Same issue all over. It was also flagrant with Apple you notice people who try going through proper channels it's a flip of the coin whether they'd be handled or given the run around, whereas media would trigger a PR scramble. Then Apple has the gall to tell you "going to the media never helps".
Thank you for clarifying that, the general issues quickly get interwoven with intra-US issues and I lose track.

I am not really here to preach. I just wanted to point out something, so that people who feel like me can make their own judgement with this extra data. It is not related to US nor the current anti/pro Trump craze, just a long-time wariness and dislike of the man based on what my father has told me (we emigrated from an asian country to Europe when I was young because of negative effects of Soros's games, and that's as much as I'm willing to share online about my reasons).
They just proved that Google never forgets anything, even when you do your best to remove/delete/erase/destroy your personal information.

I thoroughly and repeatedly deleted all stock-related information from my Google account: all portfolios removed, all search history erased, all past Google Now topics suppressed, past emails deleted, Google chat conversations removed. Just everything (and I know really well how to control data on a Google account, I was once a Google fanboy and explored every little feature I could get my hand on, so customizing my Google account/products settings is something I'm quite good at).

Guess what? Going to their new google.com/finance brought all the stocks I've once added to Google Finance and removed. More than a dozen of stock tickers were automatically added to my account, and listed as "following".

It's impossible for me to completely delete my Google account because of some work-related obligations, but Google just proved that it will NEVER allow you to get forgotten.

We're forced to feed a beast we can no longer escape.

PS: the only Google things I occasionally use now are Gmail & Google Contacts (planning to switch to ProtonMail, but waiting for a contact syncing service on Android) and search (when Qwant isn't good enough).
wait you're telling me op is NOT actually a time traveller?
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The dream of "buying a cup of coffee" with bitcoin is not realized right now. While it's not as bad as you point out, it's still not ideal. Fees for an average transaction regardless of the amount of bitcoin are $1-$2 USD unless you manually set fees lower, and time to confirm isn't normally an issue for most vendors, as they are fine with zero-confirmation transactions for small things (as long as it shows up in the mempool and the fee is high enough that it's probable it will eventually be confirmed, it's fine). And that's all assuming we don't hit a massive amount of congestion like happens every now and then.

However in the future the lightning network will really solve this problem hopefully once and for all. Read the overview about how it works at [0] but the gist is that you can create a network of trustless "deferred" payments that you and another party can agree on new balances for each of you off the blockchain, and at any point either of you can "settle" the latest balance on the blockchain.

And by building a network of these "deferred" payment channels, you can pay parties that you don't even have a direct channel with by routing it through others that you do have a channel with. It was a pretty mindblowing idea once I was able to grasp it. I really encourage anyone that is even a little curious about it to read the website at [0]. The abstract is very approachable, and the actual paper does a good job walking you through the details.

[0] http://lightning.network/
I'm not saying it to any investor, I'm arguing it from a purely disinterested perspective.

I think it's a fascinating project.

That the SEC thinks risk of insolvency is more of a problem than risk of corruption is irrelevant.
> It is a well practiced speech he gives.

You can tell he pretty much has it memorized. Still a great story.
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HP installs system-slowing spyware on its PCs
There's probably useful commercial applications for this "attack" for companies that manage large fleets of vehicles. If you already have some the hardware/software infrastructure to manage it (like company cell phones or tablets) you could toss all the keys in a central office somewhere and never worry about losing them or making duplicates. $30ish for a box that plugs into the 12v (or OBD2 if you want to collect that data) and $1 for a usb cable to connect it to the $100 tablet that you already have mounted in the company vehicle for doing work things. Obviously the details would need to be fleshed out and I'm sure someone (like OnStar) already offers similar services but being able to hack your way into a cheaper equivalent would put downward pressure on price.
For some reason, I stumbled across this website way back in August, before it was at all publicly discussed or advertised. So I secured tickets early on, filed for vacation and am gonna enjoy this so much.
May add, if you mmap(2) a memory segment (even a very large one, say 1Tb), nothing happens with regard to page mapping. It is not uncommon to see java tomcat processes allocating north of 80 Gb. But only a small percentage of these is actually used.
Do you all remember when Gold went up to ~$1850 in 2011 (about $2015 in today's money) never to reach those prices again (today's gold spot price is $1294.57)? The price did skyrocket, but what goes up must go down, especially in the financial field. Also, BTC reached the price of about $1150 in November of 2013, and then didn't get to that point until January of 2017 (If I'm reading the data on coinmarketcap correctly). The prices of BTC at the moment were largely driven to this point due to rising political and social upheaval and uncertainty in the market. Bitcoin is currently a bubble that's ready to burst. Also, if you want "privacy" use Monero or Zcash, not Bitcoin.
Yeah, this right here. DRM might be technically impossible to get 100% right but you don't have to get it 100% right if you have regulation to back it up.

The alternative is that there is no way to protect IP on the web, which means that there is no incentive to transmit IP over the web which takes a shitload of value off the table.

These anti-DRM arguments smack of blind ideology.
I'm also a frequent user of meetup.com. I've found that the likelihood of forming lasting connections varies wildly based on how the events are run and on what types of people are targeted. I've made quite a few of my closest friends through the site, and I've noticed that the more successful groups from a friendship perspective tend to be the ones that recur frequently (weekly) or the ones where there is some kind of strong and relatively rare commonality between the participants outside of career, age group, relationship status, etc.

Either way, meetup.com is just a platform for hosting and discovering these events. There's not much that makes meetup groups inherently different from other types of clubs/organizations. It's up to the organizers and the attendees to actually make the events worthwhile.
The problem is, the utility has not grown by anything like enough, whereas the speculative side has exploded. And the more Bitcoin is used as speculative instrument, the worse it becomes as an actual currency or a long-term store of value. As a regular consumer, you need to know that the money in your wallet one day is going to be worth roughly the same the next. Likewise, you need to know the gold you're buying to put in your vault isn't being sold at a price 1000x its long-term worth.

Yes, in the short term, it's nice if you have some Bitcoins and they keep increasing in value, but does anybody really think the current surges are anything other than a bubble? If you accept that, then you have to accept that there will eventually be a correction. In which case, accepting Bitcoin in lieu of traditional currencies is like a a cafe letting customer pay for goods using a collateralised debt obligation or some other risky security.

If Bitcoin is going to make it as a digital currency, or even just as the "digital gold" that some of its adherents now seem to settling for, then it needs to get past this bubble phase. And the quicker the better, because the harder the correction, the more wary people are going to be of going anywhere near it afterwards, and the more likely that governments are to introduce hefty regulation to avoid a second bubble.
Basically every language has ad-hoc products in the form of tuples. They aren’t structurally typed in ocaml, which is the interesting part. Typescript has labeled products that have similar subtyping rules to ocaml’s anonymous sum subtyping rules. Eg {x:a, y:b} < {x:a}.
There's just a generalized lack of understanding about web technology among web developers. I don't think many web developers even pay attention to browser features until they are popularized by some new framework.

Frontend developers are bad, but backend developers are guilty too. While frontend developers are breaking scrolling and the back button, backend developers are busy breaking authentication, security, and caching.

I think the only solution is to form some kind of developer's association dedicated to training and best practices. I hesitate to say "union," because the problem of over-under-engineering could be our fault, not necessarily our employers' (although pressuring new grads to deliver code at the same pace as their peers may contribute). It would be great if there were more bootcamps that just trained frontend devs on the latest HTML, CSS, and plain Javascript before WASM and React abstract the frontend away entirely.
"but that's not enough information on its own to predict the size or timing of a correction"

This is not a stock so there is no rational way to price BTC

BTC pricing is a total fantasy.

It's whatever the guy next to you thinks it's worth. That's it.

With all other assets - you get a range of prices built around various predictions of future events (sales, weather, geopolitics) - and knowledge is built into that. You get some 'consensus'.

BTC is just a number.

1 Trillion?

1 cent?
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It makes me sad that Knuth will no longer be at a prime age, but on the other hand, one more year and he will return to perfect power.
A behind-the-scenes exchange could make all crypto accepted anywhere. Trading just needs to be fast and seamless. i.e. you swipe your card/phone, bitcoin(or alt) is subtracted, usd is given to merchant.
My point was that these services are using technical terminology to soften and obscure the stratifying of spaces based on power/money. You've responded by softening the terminology again.

I see others pointing out in sub-threads that these services are better than buses because there are "no hobos, gangstas, creeps, drunkards or other people creating a nuisance for fellow travellers".

Should I break down those labels and across which lines they are dividing society? :)
If it's so obvious, why don't you buy a futures contract to short it and reap your rewards in a year or two?

You can make millions of dollars if you're right.
Are you planning on supporting european stock markets?
It's much worse than that though because this isn't a case of measure throughput with, then without and see which is best. Rather, your application is sailing toward a submerged iceberg that when it hits (could be next week) will stall your process, and potentially the entire box, for 60 seconds.

And it doesn't print a message like "yeah I stalled your box for the last 60 seconds in order to shuffle deckchairs around, sorry" in syslog.

So you pull your hair out trying to figure out why your nice stable service all of a sudden sets off Nagios at 2am for no obvious reason, every week or two.
See also: https://coredns.io/ (also Go)
Doesn't Postgres do everything that MongoDB does? I still see MongoDB's popularity coming primarily from ignorance about what PG can do.
Yes, I find it interesting that DO would change random kernel flags.
admins: imo this post should not be penalized because it includes bitcoin in the title. This is a pretty huge milestone and deserves some time on the front page.
But someone else again submitted the same link you posted with different title - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15796503
Using the contactless relay is obviously much lower risk.
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Personally, I disagree with your premise and I do think the killer app for Bitcoin is to be transactional--unlike Ethereum you can't build anything on top of it, it's just "money" or "wealth" which do need to be spent, although you can think of the current incantation of Bitcoin as "wire transfers" (a few hours to a couple of days to get your money) instead of a "debit card" (instantaneous transactions).

However, I do not at all understand why you are apparently being downvoted for a calm and logical counter argument supported with good use cases.
I think the most promising project to create a decentralized stablecoin is MakerDAO's 'Dai': https://github.com/makerdao/docs/blob/master/Dai.md

I have been reviewing the mechanics and I haven't found any major weakness in the system. I'm really curious to see how it performs once released.

Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with or have any position in MakerDAO.
Not everyone values, or even claims to value, the idea that no culture or value system can be strictly preferable to another. From the perspective where such preferences can exist, there's nothing inconsistent about expressing one.
> And who says most of the bandwidth goes towards static assets?

It obviously depends on the application but generally you'd expect that to be the case for web sites (ie not services that act only as an API backend).

> 99% of our requests are dynamic (thus the NodeJS frontends)

I don't know your business so you might be transferring more dynamic data rather than static but your argument here doesn't help explain your business as you're mixing metaphors. eg most of our requests are dynamic as well but JSON APIs will generally return smaller chunks of data compared to an image. So in real bandwidth terms on our application, more data is transferred for static content rather than dynamic. None of the static content touches our web servers though. In fact a fair amount of the dynamic content doesn't either since a lot of that isn't user specific so is served from caching services.

If you don't mind me asking, how much bandwidth you transfer each month? Even taking the above into account, our bandwidth costs (which is nothing compared to when we self-hosted) gets dwarfed by our computing costs (VMs and DB).

By the way, how are you finding node.js for your workload? I find it a weird choice if 99% of your requests are dynamic based on bottlenecks I've experienced when deploying test systems on it. But I ask about your experiences because I've not used node.js for anything at scale (ie just a few thousand requests a second).
Sorry, I didn't want to move the discussion in that direction. The recent 'Show HN' of the page was a different user (I assume author, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15758440). So I was wondering if the other account is a co-author/employee/second account of the same user because "hey, author here" comments often lead to good insight, e.g. features, comparison. Shameless plug is fine, it's a highly relevant service now that Google removed features.
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Citation please, preferably a meta-analysis.
> So that’s one reason to use a credit card, though likely not any reason Frank would suggest (he’s going with their better protection and coverage)

He does mention it: by giving his sons a credit card, one benefit is that when they graduate college, Frank has essentially built their credit for them.
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