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There's a creek on my farm that has several of those thick 25-pair cables running for hundreds of feet, mostly buried below gravel but visible occasionally. None of it is hooked up, since some genius decided that it was bad to run expensive cable through constantly changing environments like creeks. If the copper were that valuable, wouldn't the phone company have pulled these up by now?
What remains of Ripple now is awfully similar to a scam: Jed McCaleb has been selling thousands of coins a day, and duped noobs are the only ones buying it.

https://themerkle.com/ripple-labs-settles-lawsuit-with-jed-m...
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haha yeah seen a few threads mentioning that coinbase limits you to cashing out only 15-20k/week.

However I have heard of a few exchanges that will let you cash out 1m+ in BTC.
You should send Jeff a quick email explaining how you became a life long customer. I am sure he would get a kick out of it! Jeff wouldn't be writing games after all these years if he was in this strictly for the money.
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Lots of online brokerages do this. This is how almost every Forex brokerage operates - you buy above and sell below market rate, which is how they make their money.
WaPo is an operation mockingbird outlet through and through now, and has no credibility left over from its olden days.
Japan has been a functioning democracy for longer than any state outside of Western Europe or the Western European settler colonies. It had a functioning but fragile democracy from shortly after the beginning of the Meiji period until it ended after the Great Depression. That places it on company with Germany and Italy.

Could you expand on the aspects you think are remnantis of its past? The Imperial Family and Household are not mentioned in the constitution and there’s no aristocracy. I’m sure it’s dominated by Tokyo and the national government but it seems unlikely to be more centralised than England, or the U.K., tout court.
Ahem use gdax, it's 0.25% transaction fees. Coinbase started when people were buying btc here and there once a year and forgetting about it, the main benefit or their recent expansion is the ability to freely send money to and from coinbase to gdax and then trade with 1/8th of the transaction fees and automate with their gdax API...

If you are doing high frequency trading with coinbase and not gdax or any cashing out with the fee you are doing it wrong.
Does that match up with who they fund? My understanding is that they are funding lots of politicians who push xenophobia, homophobia, anti-feminism, and the drug war.

Unless I'm mistaken about that, I don't think it particularly matters what their personal beliefs are, since they are working against those supposed beliefs with their money and their actions.

If you're willing to sacrifice human rights to get tax cuts and deregulation, it shows what really matters to you, and what sort of person you really are.
We're pretty happy with our DSL: 25/4 or thereabouts.
I also expected a video upload.

I also wonder why these instructions are necessary. It somehow feels like a scam when "enter your first name" is pointing to "first name". Like you're guiding someone who have never used a website ever through something.

Why not just a big fat button "click here to get feedback on your swing"?
Because we assume we are objective observers. Which we aren't. Rom 1:18b
I like using info pages, pretty helpful when you use it with Emacs. Sort of wish more projects would use it.
The models justifying the "nuclear winter" scenario are wrong, and "nuclear winter" relies on politically motivated rhetoric to push a social agenda that is at odds with similar events in magnitude. The Kuwaiti Oil fires are a great example, as are events where forests the size of nation-states have burned, and caused no signifiacant cooling.

It's hyped exaggeration using rhetoric for political effect.
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With Stripe it would have cost $2.33, at 2.9% + $0.30
The WASM memory is just a Uint8Array in the JS VM. You can use a big byte array and du manual memory management in JVM too. It's a well known pattern on the JVM.
I actually have my dad’s HP-35 on my desk, and use it quite often. I patched it to a USB cable for power, just a quick hack. Would be nice to drop in a rechargeable battery pack someday.
> The author is a journalist. Facebook is anathema to journalists because without it only journalists would have a voice.

Yea, at some level I don't expect honesty out of journalists: there's no sainthood exam to become a journalist; they're people, and people aren't generally honest. It's just bizarre to see how credulous HN is when it comes to swallowing stuff like this (relatively) uncritically.

> The author is also female. Not that that is relevant to any point except your use of pronoun.

Thanks for pointing this out. I commented on a separate post about Facebook which was written by a "Jim Davies" and I think there was a crossed wire in there.
Here's how you might be able to double your cash flow, but not necessarily your money. Use it in a down payment for a multifamily unit, preferably triplex or quadplex. Live in one and rent the other. in 6 months use a cash-out refi to buy another quad-plex. Brace yourself for the terrible aspects of landlordship.
Interesting, I'm curious about the Netflix model for books, especially if it involved a nice space where you might connect with others, and where you might also make your own library available. Many enjoy reading physical books, but storage is a problem. What would a 'gym for your mind' with a subscription model look like?
If you put the best bits of a café, a library, and a gym into a blender, what might come out?
BTW, typo in your third slide, 'receive' not 'recieve'.
Ask HN: How do you discover great podcast episodes?
I'm willing to spend 5 hours per week listening to podcasts. Not every episode of a podcast is of the same quality, and ideally I'd like to listen to only the best 2-3 episodes from each of ~100 podcasts.

(It would be even better to only listen to episodes that are most relevant to my specific interests, but let's put that aside for the moment.)

Given 100 podcasts, each with ~100 past episodes, how can I get the best 2-3 episodes of each, so that I can just hit 'play', instead of spending half my podcast listening time choosing an episode and/or skipping a few duds?
> In the right group you may find more sense of community

Interesting, but I am not even looking for a community, I just don't want to put a post out there that will be "unsuccessful". It doesn't bother me if I only get a few likes, it bothers me that all my friends see how my post is "failing". I am not in panic but it puts me off from posting. Am I the only one with those thoughts? Facebook without the like mechanism would cater to me much more.
Yep, it's like Fiat currency is some crappy thing poor people use to live on while the rich accumulate actual scarce resources with infinitely appreciating prices.
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I don't have an established opinion here, just a question.

What's the rationale for forcing people who live in densely populated areas to subsidize those who live in remote areas this way?

Why don't we subsidize them for, say, gasoline as well, for their longer travel distances?
It would be helpful to explain why the answer is not convincing. After all, you challenged in your article to find a proof. Replying with "Nope, that's not it" is not really helpful.

In this case, if we consider the situation where we take a card from a pile, this leaves 3 cards left in the pile. We can't take another card from this pile this round, but there are only 3 cards left which guarantees that there is still one card available in another pile. This much is correct, but as you say it is not enough to prove the issue.

Once we take a card from one pile, three other cards are not available to draw this round. When we take another card, three more cards are not available. How do we know that there were not 2 of one card in the first pile and 2 of another card in the second pile (or some other annoying combination)? Indeed, this situation will exist. In order to prove the original assertion, you have to prove that there will always be another solution that will allow us to avoid doing that. That's much harder.
Like gjmarsh said, this might only apply to the US. I would probably be skeptical of doing this in (say) Australia at the moment. OP didn't mention what country he's in...
Now we’re getting into the weeds. Generally, telecom infrastructure is run along poles or conduits, usually owned by the power company, sometimes the telephone company (or jointly).

In New York City, a Verizon subsidiary called ECS operates a conduit network under an 1891 franchise. It pays the city a fee based on the assessed value of real estate, about $20 million per year. Verizon pays ECS standardized rates to use the conduit, but the city alleges that ECS sets rates too low, and the shortfall is about $260 million over six years. https://comptroller.nyc.gov/wp-content/uploads/documents/FP0.... Of that, 80% is allocable to Verizon, or about $42 million per year owed to the city.

The franchise fee is 5% of gross. Assuming about one million FIOS households in NYC in the steady state (consistent with Verizon’s uptake rate of about 40% and 2-3 million households passed), plus the average revenue per subscriber of $110 per month, that’s $65 million per year paid to the city.

On top of that, you’ve got to consider the value of build-out requirements. The city forces Verizon to build in neighborhoods that aren’t otherwise sufficiently profitable to justify building in. That’s a concsssion extracted by the city that also must be accounted for, because each house passed that doesn’t subscribe costs Verizon hundreds of dollars. (Going back further in history, this was the quid pro quo between AT&T and governments. My FIOS is run on a pole jointly owned by Verizon and BGE. Is this a subsidy to Verizon? On one hand, the easement is valuable. On the other hand, the pole was inherited from AT&T, who got the easement in return for running a phone line it otherwise would not have, into what used to be farmland.)

New York is also a bit of an odd situation because of ECS. In most places, the power company owns the conduit of the poles, and unlike ECS has no incentive to undercharge for attachments.
I doubt most of the answers here will provide you with better probability than going to Vegas and putting $100k on black.
Come to Australia, we abandoned a national fibre network and are now sticking with copper and HFC where possible... facepalm
in Japan you do not have to register if you are just visiting somewhere
The bitcoin is a financial asset with no ballast that people buy because they believe it will appreciate.

To liquidate your position and to make a profit you need constant inflow of new investors to keep the market going as BTC has no true value. There's no backing of any hard assets.

The revenue stream is based on new investments rather than the underlying product itself. That's a very common pyramid scheme/multi level marketing scenario.

This is very different from company stocks, as the stock unit itself is a guarantor of dividends and a small part ownership of the assets of a company. Its price is representative of the performance of the company, it is not the product itself. That company produces something (in theory), although to cash out you still need to find someone to buy it at a said price.
See, this is where I get tripped up. Because I'd think that it would definitely be the time to invest. That you'd want to cut a deal to deliver X amount of solar capacity / year for the next 20 years at what strikes today's buyer as a cheap price. Then you've locked in the payback for the next two decades as the cost to product plummets and your margins expand every year.

There was some talk about how this was the thinking behind the recent "below cost" bids happening in the middle east.
A word doesn't have an inherent meaning that extends beyond how it's used. Dictionaries don't dictate definitions, they describe them; at best, they provide a Schelling point.

Google's definition in this case isn't out of sync with common usage or with any other dictionary that I'm aware of. Think for a second about point you're trying to make exactly, because it sounds to me like a vague soup of paranoid anti-corporate gibberish.
Isn't this basically bubble sort?
> Yes, I have played with AKS. You do not pay for the Kubernetes masters, just the nodes. In the prior version of the product (ACS) you would specify a cluster size as a number of masters and a number of workers/nodes. In AKS, you only manage the latter and Azure abstracts away the Kubernetes API.

On GKE, if i run a Kubernetes cluster of size 1, I'm still charged for a single VM. You're saying that if I do the equivalent on Azure, I won't get charged at all?
I have lived in China for six years and I first met a foreigner with permanent resident status/ a green card last weekend. He said around 800 people have it and whenever he crosses the border the immigration officers call colleagues over to look at the card because they’ve never seen one before. It is very, very unlikely those people have permanent residency.
Even if you have a resident permit and work permit and own companies in China where you are the "legal representative" and lease your own home. If you are a foreigner, every single time you exit China and re-enter, even for one-day turnaround, you need to notify the local police station that you have left and have returned. Now, we have got this down to a We-Chat message with a picture of the entry stamp. Of course, better than the physical visit but it still must be done.
As usual on topics touching on the early days of computer gaming, Jimmy Maher has great posts on the subject on his Digital Antiquarian site:

http://www.filfre.net/2011/08/the-first-crpgs/

http://www.filfre.net/2012/03/the-roots-of-sir-tech/

http://www.filfre.net/2012/03/making-wizardry/

http://www.filfre.net/2012/03/playing-wizardry/
To be clear, I haven't done anything serious in WASM that would hit any limits here.
You don't need much inside knowledge to see this in action: the ability of a trending topic to change corporate behavior has been established for years at this point. And as I said, for tech, this problem is particularly bad.

For a very recent example, consider the Damore memo as a recent example. Leaving aside what action you think should have been taken (_really_ not interested in that discussion right now), there was a marked shift in Google's reaction to the memo once it hit the idiots of the twitterati and blew up. PR matters to companies.
There are plenty of things my government does (like invade Iraq or charge zero dollars for mineral rights) that I am forced to pay for. Cry me a river.
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The conspiracy culture around the Koch brothers is cringeworthy. Yes, they are rich, very politically active, and they lean libertarian (although they often choose the conservative side over the liberal side when they come head to head). But they do not control large portions of the government and do everything for their special interests like many Democrats seem to truly believe. They have an ideology they strongly believe in, like many other people, and they do what they can to advance it in a contentious political climate where liberals currently seem to have the loudest voice.
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Why? It follows the principle of least surprise. Imagine if coke bottles had the "mouth" in a different position depending on the size of the bottle. While not an insurmountable obstacle it's not great either.
+100! This is absolutely amazing! Would love to see a similar high-level overview of progress in other tasks where CNNs (or other neural nets) have had such a tremendous impact.
Exactly, them and Soros have enormous wealth to push their pet projects --that's worrying.
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I'm not familiar enough with the machinations of these groups, but could this be explained by loss aversion?

Like I've always heard that meteorologists predict rain more often than their models would actually imply -> because people get mad if they make plans and they get rained out.

Is anyone "mad" if PV beats estimates or conversely is someone at the IEA going to lose their job if they say: "this is the year that solar is blowing up" and someone invests and it's finally the year it takes a break?
They offer a product with lower fees for those who qualify. Others say this is standard for a brokerage. Seems like a fee for additional risk in serving less-vetted customers.
I read somewhere a while ago that someone was thinking of doing this with airplanes. Not sure if this made it past the drawing board though.
i am also looking for opinions on this :)
> The body needs variation in neurons so they can recognize themselves millimeters away and not connect with themselves.

Do you have a source for this? How would a neuron with a mutation be any different from the outside in terms of its axons?
Fresh food vending machine, isn’t that a revolution?
Time's "Person of the Year" is not necessarily an honor. It's often awarded to disreputable/notorious people because of their controversy (Hitler, Stalin, Khomeini).

Officially it's someone/something "[that] for better or for worse... has done the most to influence the events of the year".
Presumably, at least, you can vote your gov out, PM, MPs --can you vote away that tax?
So false! Read anything by Kushnick...

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-kushnick/the-book-of-br...
Everybody did not praise Amazon.

Amazon had a lot lower losses.
Anyone who choses to use FB is just not thinking. I could get joining Instagram, Snapchat, etc b/c of friends. But even if you don't care about privacy, don;t care about algorithms censoring human expression, and don't care about unauthorized physiological experiments to influence your emotions, why would you choose a platform with tons of ads, a terrible UI that fills up timelines with every time someone uploads a new profile, is slow as hell, and is a haphazard mess of sloppily assembled groups with all-caps titles. It's not attractive. It's not addictive. It's both morally and graphically disgusting at every level.

I'm beginning to think the latter is intentional, just like scam email with copious misspellings.
This article talks mainly about the capital inflows into the BTC market. US$16,650,000 per day.

Has anybody seen any indication of how much is being cashed out? That is, the level to which BTC are being converted back into USD, gold, etc. AFAIK, you can't buy homes, yachts, sports cars with BTC, so surely some BTC holders would be starting to convert their paper gains into real stuff.

Would also be interesting see any numbers relating to level of "commerce" being conducted in BTC.
The only terrible point of view I see is yours. Claiming to be morally superior because you view the law is not to your advantage. The rules are there for a country to keep track visitors. They exist elsewhere as well.
I'm sorry, but I fail to see your point. This does not have anything to do with his sexual relationships so I am unsure of why you are making that analogy. It is completely usual to have to declare your place of residence to an immigration officer upon entry to a foreign country, wherever you are visiting. If you are suspected of wrongdoing, expect calls to be made and questions to be asked.

It is entirely the traveler's responsibility to understand the requirements for stay and local laws of a foreign country. Ignorance can only get you so far.

The immigration officer – who has absolute power over entry – neither asked anything unreasonable of him nor made any false accusations. This is despite the reporter technically having broken the law. He got off lightly, since the fine for not registering within 24 hours after arrival can be up to $300.
I would welcome a decrease in social networks, and hope they're burning out soon. IMO we've become so desensitized to in-person communication, that it's lost a lot of its importance. When was the last time someone called you to find out how you're doing, rather than just liking a facebook post? Perhaps I'm too old fashioned...
It has already done it's job. "EV were impossible to build." just a few years ago when the Israeli PM met with top five auto manufacturers.

Then came Tesla and now the fastest car is Tesla Roadster.
It seems the karma thing on HN works like this.
It's still an assumption to connect the paper's content to Bezos though. That he has William Randolph Hearst level control in the WaPo seems like a common conspiracy theory.
Funny how busy that page is pulling in external scripting from at least ten external locations, each one shadier than the next.

Some writers have to make a living, I suppose.
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It's a reasonable assumption, given that their objective is to hook users for as long as possible.
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I have deactivated FB since last Jan. Never felt any urge to return. But Reddit seems to be hard to quit as the majority of the time it delivers the garbage disguised as information. As a person who was on FB only for news feeds, Reddit seems to be the perfect shelter for me.
No, the sources must be pre sorted for this to work. What this does is merge two lists of dynamic size like a set like a zipper.
This is like complaining that the rates at the airport currency exchange are worse than in your FX trading account.

Coinbase isn't a brokerage, it's more akin to a bank, and like a bank you're not going to get the market rate if you want to exchange currency. If you want to use a brokerage, use GDAX.
That's what I mean, they may personally be great folks, not any more venal or dishonorable than any activist or benefactor. But the fact is that they also use their wealth to accomplish their goals in vast, wide-reaching ways. In an ideal world, they'd be funding politicians who supported exactly their personal beliefs. But politics is never ideal, and the Koch Brothers have apparently rationalized that the ends -- supporting the GOP's hold on power -- justify the means.

So while I personally can't articulate reasons why the Koch deserve enmity, I sure as hell don't have the right to judge people who are directly disenfranchised because of the Kochs' choice in priorities.
"Of course, the whole article amounts to a description of how the island has healed"

While life has continued there it's more because of the absence of humans. And likely despite the radiation which makes the island inhospitable for humans. I wouldn't say 'healed' is the way to describe a place that continues to have poisoned water and food for decades to come.
You have to notify the USCIS, not ICE.
Sadly, I think nuance has all but been lost in today's political climate.