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Some of the key characteristics of a store of value are durability, limited supply, uniqueness, and portability. Unlike gold, BTC is neither unique nor truly in limited supply, thanks to forks that create "inflation" and altcoins that can substitute for BTC in all pertinent ways.

The vast majority of participants in this market aren't parking their money in BTC to preserve it, and neither to use it as a medium of exchange. They're doing it with the expectation of a return. If those returns fail to materialize, the money will move elsewhere.
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Hi, OP and also a long time Linux advocate here. I own a list called Awesome Linux Software and I was constantly searching for great software. That's how I jumped into your app and decided to post it here on HN.
You can lend your BTC out for interest on major exchanges to be used for margin loans.
I agree with you. Not super useful for day to day stuff, but still fun and enlightening.
True. Thanks for keeping me honest.

The irony is that most people, including me, would be willing to sign up for limited tracking if and only if we had transparency and strong guarantees about data governance, sharing, deletion, and ultimate/final control by the person being tracked. The ads really are better. But greed is greed, and people can't help themselves.
Mike Bennett, podcaster extraordinnaire of "Underwood & Flinch" fame, isn't bad either.

Edit: typo
Regarding the biology of neurons, it is important to know:

1) that neurons are a family of cells rather than a uniform, homogeneous thing.

2) initially it was believed that dendrites only propagated spikes. now it is accepted that dentrites generate spikes of their own. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendritic_spike

3) the concept of threshold has been challenged. eugene izhikevich for example presents some counterexamples for the idea of the threshold (where a spike a spike was expected and doesn't happen, or when a spike was not expected and happens), and provides an alternative explanation involving dynamical systems.

so, while useful, it is important to understand that most artificial neural models are simplified abstractions. eventually we will figure out why biology is doing what is doing. e.g: how much of the biology has to do with information processing, how much of it has to do with keeping neurons alive, and how much of it has to do with passing information around.
No its not being a purist at all. Legally, the law doesn't recognize any whataboutism whatsoever (unless its in the specific sense of legal precedents). So you can't argue your innocence in a bank robbery just because another gang also robbed a bank but did not get convicted.

The law is pretty clear; its just that most people are not prosecuted for it.
Yes, it sounds like GP’s problem is with the left hand, not the right.

And yes, GP could likely get caught up in the next round of layoffs. These seem like reasonable concerns to me. Not sure what your point is.
Where I live geothermo heating/cooling is listed in the ads for some houses. I recall when we were looking the realtor made sure we knew which houses had geothermo. We ended up with a regular air source heat pump, but geothermo is recognized as a selling point at least even if it doens't add value.
That having been said, it's good money to wager that all startups do bad things. Uber can be both in the spotlight and worse than most.
Also, there's no reason creators couldn't use "dumb ads" where they read ad copy during their videos, and sell the spots themselves. Seems to be the main revenue source in the podcast world.

It feels weird to be an advocate for something like dumb advertising (maybe "content-targeted advertising" is a better name?), but dumb ads and Patreon really are a breath of fresh air relative to the status quo of web content.
I'm not going to get dragged into a discussion on "efficient markets". You win by forfeit.
Is there a reason it shouldn't be? When i take notes i would like to capture as much metadata as possible. So when i reference them later i get full picture.
I'm sorry but no amount of introspection is going to make me go "You know what, he shouldn't pay his taxes!"

As for schadenfreude I have no qualms about people getting rich with bitcoin, good for them. People get rich lots of different ways. Just pay your goddamn taxes. I do and I didn't even grow up in the US.
In which case you can litigate. If it's baseless, the litigation should be quick, easy and painless. If it's not, then you have other problems.
Craigslist

If meeting in person is not convenient enough- well, this is really just the tradeoff you make choosing between Coinbase and Craigslist. Convenience vs security/anonimity.
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It's almost certainly against the Terms of Service agreement. Presumably, you click-through agreed to a ToS for each one, and you have no right to transfer that agreement to someone else. The agreement is obviously tied to the human who "read" it, not whoever happens to control the account credentials.

Not that the ToS for your light bulb dimmer matters much in practice, but technically it's probably forbidden.
You UN idea would kill all future innovation.
For anyone interested in reading more about this. You can see the docket, and a lot of the original filings for this case for free via the RECAP project.

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4609586/waymo-llc-v-ube...
FTA:

> Different needs. Both parties are likely to be in different mental and emotional states with differing sets of personal needs, and while this may seem self-evident, it’s striking how many couples forget this when they walk in the door.
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Filecoin is a huge disappointment to me.

IPFS is fantastic technology, but the main developers getting sidetracked with yet another scammy ICO is the last thing we need.
I've heard this idea mentioned recently. Is there suddenly a consensus that bitcoin (or crytpo in general) will never be used as currency? To me it seems pretty arbitrary to say it now. Outside of slow transaction times, I'm not sure what has changed. Volatility is just a fact of life until the market cap is significantly larger. Bitcoin may never get enough investment to stabilize but I don't see how that is now accepted as definite.
What will your Application do when its 'memcache' go down?
there was a quote by some well known graybeard that went something like "Computers are so incredibly complex, the fact that they boot at all, let alone do anything useful, is simply astounding".
That was coinbase's argument in this case. Commodity trading is largely unregulated in the United States and this request from the IRS is highly unusual for commodity exchanges (mostly it's very broad scope) .
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The fact that you and your family exist is already pushing tons of carbon into my atmosphere. What do you propose?
Of course, this would mean that YT has handed 4chan a laser cannon to demonetize videos at their discretion.
Title should say Cryptocurrency instead of Crypto
Bitcoin has the culture of hodling* so I doubt how much of the pre-existing coins go into the market. So mostly the local currency (yuan/etc) would go to cover the mining costs and salaries of employees and owners. Don't know the impact of closing down of exchanges in China some time back.

* - holding but culturally called hodling, perhaps some Grame of Thrones reference(?)...Satoshi did not move their coins and that carries on. So far it has been very resilient. Exchanges hacked and it carried on. But fear remains of some black swan events e.g. Suddenly Satoshi coins on the market etc.
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Is it still possible to link to?
The issue is economy of scale. Prosecuting a company for wrongdoing is an expensive undertaking, and startups ultimately may not have the capital to justify a prosecution---if the prosecutor wins, what then? The startup pays out its no-money, probably no-one goes to jail, and the founders just go found another company? There doesn't appear to be much of a back-stop on bad behavior.

(It's an exercise for the reader to determine whether "startup agility" and "disruption" are just polite synonyms for "taking advantage of the framework's weaknesses to dodge the legal and ethical responsibilities that big companies cannot afford to dodge" ;) ).
What tools are you using to do that?
So is anyone making one that emits on all (or some useful subset of) the frequencies a modern smartphone uses, has a ~30mm range and is powered by the phone?

The Chinese could crank these out and have the to your door $3.99USD.
Thanks for the response!

I'm curious, what would be the interaction between Batch and Fargate? Right now I use Batch to run a container and then exit out with as little thought about the underlying machine as possible. Is Fargate a push further towards serverless?

One concern I had with Fargate from the product description is around the configuration options. Our models require more than 100GB to build, but I'm seeing "Max. 30GB".
There's room for improvement. What about the "!"? Gotta catch those folks with poor eyesight.
I fully agree, but as Hacker News is a hotbed of pedantry, I must point out that a royalty of $1 per device isn’t ”taking $1 out of your bottom line”: it’s taking $1 out of your unit contribution, and simply adding all those dollar-per-unit x units back in does not add number-of-units$ back into your bottom line (because of tax effects).

Also, forfeit and bulk contracts mean that firms pay less than unit cost per unit, but probably don’t have the flexibility of starting to save right away as they gradually phase away. Also, the reaction by existing IP owners (ARM?) will be punitive, i.e, will involve hiking residual amounts on those who adopt a policy of moving away, on the pretext of low units, and with the hidden but transparent aim of favouring producers that are staying ’faithful’ to them.

Just my $0.02.
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The not adding value to the house bit is important. Nobody really knows about or cares enough about home automation to justify an added expense on the cost of the home.

I'd actually go further. I do care about home automation, because it is almost certainly a negative and possibly a deal-breaker for me to put any offer in to buy a place.

If it has anything installed that has any form of off-site access or any dependency on a remote service then I am going to require the existing owner to remove it and make good at their own expense as a condition of any offer (other than possibly a suitably approved alarm system with clearly detailed monitoring arrangements and contacts).

Likewise if there is anything installed that relies on any sort of sensors or "smart" control systems, I am going to require credible written guarantees about the security, privacy, safety and longevity of that system, or far more likely it is again going to have to be removed and made good at the current owner's expense as a condition.
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I have a long flight ahead and this would be really helpful! I hope it doesn't affect any ToS.
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What bothers me about this whole thing is that I never bought it like a stock. I mined it YEARS ago when it was worthless.

Now all of a sudden I have to pay tax on something I already own?

If you're subject to this ruling, aka you've by happy accident suddenly realized $20k in profit- consider that whether or not you like how things are working, you've still got nothing to complain about.
No point of doing it in Rust specifically, as opposed to any other language.

But the point would be no longer having to trade software freedom (or at least open source) for performance -- try benchmarking Numpy built on MKL vs OpenBLAS and you'll see what I mean.

If someone gets inspired by a new language to try and write a free or open-source MKL competitor, because that language has such-and-such features that make it more feasible than in Fortran or C, then that'd be fantastic. All I was suggesting is that it'd be cool if Rust was that language.
Does YouTube let sponsors/advertisers opt-in to advertising on "demonetized" videos at all? For example, let's say I really want to advertise on all of a certain channel's videos.. can I do that? Surely if I'm happy to pay money to do so, they should allow that to happen regardless of if big-name brands like it or not.
That could be a cool exercise for your home. Document the various quirks and routines in a Github repository, then the new owner can gain access by forking it. Taking it a step farther, your family could submit issues or pull requests for various issues as they come up, generating an easy list of things that should be documented or fixed.

Now realistically the person buying your house probably doesn't know how to use Git and your family probably isn't gonna make pull requests, but it seems like a novel use of Git and Github. Maybe if it were effective enough a wrapper could be made?
edit: Weird, I thought I was commenting on another thread, about Nobel laureates criticizing Bitcoin. I saw it on my phone, then opened HN at my notebook to comment. I misread the title and commented here, but now I can't find the correct thread (was it flagged?).

I am growing this idea that Bitcoin (and any cryptocurrency that is affected by aggressive price growth) is an anti-fragile indirect multilevel marketing scheme, the "diamond" of the digital era.

It is anti-fragile because it does not have a single point of failure, it is decentralized, its creators are unknown, it is adaptable to several use cases. So each attack on Bitcoin (be it exchange hacking, scams or celebrities' critics) that doesn't kill it, make it stronger.

It is a multilevel marketing scheme because it is mostly a zero-sum game, all earnings of bitcoin owners come from new money entering the game. It is indirect because the ones that are most fervourous advertising and defending bitcoin are holding it, not selling.

I believe it is the diamond of the new era because of some key similarities:

Both BTC and Diamond:

- Its original bump in value come from a marketing campaign (even if with Diamond it was centralized and offline, and with BTC is decentralized and viral)

- Its scarcity is artificially controlled

- Its main use case is black market commerce (for one side of the argument) or money laundry (for the other side).

For BTC owners the good news is that the "diamond bubble" it is still strong decades (centuries?) after its modern boom. The bad news is that Diamond was able to correlate to status, a strong (if subjective) value that is part of humanity since always. BTC only appeal is its value as money, so bubbly reinforcements (up and down) apply.
What's the benefit of doing this?
Where did the funding for this research paper come from, specifically?
If your intent is to hide something from the government, you really need to only do your business on the black market, with people who are already strongly disincentivized to cooperate with the government.

Otherwise, just pay your capital gains tax and feel good about supporting the general welfare, because every last person that depends on being in the good graces of the government in order to earn their living will roll on you in an instant.

All you U.S.-based Bitcoin speculators have been paying your capital gains taxes, right?~

If you don't want to realize a taxable gain, never buy anything from the U.S. with it, especially dollars. If you don't want to realize a taxable gain that the IRS will know about, don't buy anything from anyone with an EIN. If you're going to be a criminal, please at least be an intelligent criminal.

The only justification the IRS has for invading the privacy of thousands of people is because the stupid criminals are embarrassing them. They estimated only 7-9% of Bitcoiners declare and pay tax on capital gains? So if you don't want Coinbase to be forced to turn over your records, your other option is to volunteer to give them to the IRS yourself. Not much of a choice, but the government wants money, and they prefer to take it from the people who obviously have it, because it's easier. So you illegally conceal, or you legally comply. You can't do it half-assed in either direction.

If your intent is the former, you cannot do it through Coinbase, because they must comply to exist.

While I unequivocally despise the usual tactics of the government with respect to taxation, they are at least predictable, so anyone who is relying on Coinbase to protect them is acting foolishly.
I'm not a lawyer, but I was under the impression that the worst thing that could happen would be that Uber would be forbidden from using the stolen technology or its fruits.

... which would basically be akin to telling them "Get out of the self-driving vehicle business."
In my job, I edit the production database live because adding a special feature (or even a bug fix) takes like a year to get deployed to production, even if it's as simple as a one line change.
Mining groups can't roll back an earlier block.
Obviously I'm not by your own admission.

The problem with bubbles is that it's human nature to believe that you have an edge over others on the timing of events. So yes, for most people speculating on Bitcoin this way is objectively destructive.

If someone has an edge (superior technical knowledge, information on applications nobody has considered, or a time machine) I say go for it.

But it's very hard for people like the writer to acknowledge that they are no better advantaged/informed than 6 billion others.
I was wondering if they might not be baiting Google into doing that. If they start removing content critical of them from Google Docs that's another big story.
It's not unreasonable to want to be free of Google. I went through this process already, which is why I'm a Firefox and DuckDuckGo user and a FastMail customer, having used Google Apps before.

I'm glad to see your attitude, I guess I've read too much between the lines — personally I'm a little annoyed by a double standard I've seen here regarding Firefox, which is somehow held to a much higher standard.

So good luck to you and your project.
Do your clients use Video Calls with you?
It's very interesting to see, that with all the remote culture growing, more and more people have always on video for calls.

But it seems that not many people outside tech do use video. What was your experience?
Lights in light fixtures usually stay, while lights in lamps go. I don't know anyone who removes the lights from overhead fixtures, ceiling fans, etc. In the house I just moved into, all of those lights were there, even if the light switches were not.
> This has to be done at a granularity coarse enough that the function call overhead doesn't kill the performance. It has to be entire loops, for example, not just some primitive operation like a dot product.

Yes, You are right! I understood, that they wanted to add the branch to _every_ SIMD instruction. I concur with branching outside of loops.

Re Rust: I expect that one could use a macro around the function (or annotate it, if the macro system is good enough) that generates these different functions and branches to the right one.
Indeed, Advent of Code is easily one of the best computer games.
I see that I was wrong in my comparison. Yet I see the claim "This site is used by all major Linux distributions (for whatever)" misleading. Linux distributions directly don't use this site for anything. They happen to provide package for mentioned apps, that's all.

E.g. I can claim that my HDD-testing app is available in distros, but I would be wrong claiming that all major Linux distributions use my app to test HDDs.
>In other words, if you video has ads, then the probability of appearing in searches and related content is higher

So users that permit ads on their video get a virtual "fast lane" on the Comcast internet service. You know, I'm sick and tired of these internet service providers violating Net Neutrality principles.

Oh, wait. It's YouTube? Oh, that's fine then./s
Those at the forefront were already into cryptocurrencies back in 2013. Read Nuclear Phynance forums.
Filecoin is one of the ones I'd stay far away from. VCs got in before anyone else with special preferences, which taints the whole project. There are alternatives which don't come with the VC problem attached to them.
Most likely the Dutch tax payer.

Edit: Why am I being downvoted? The author even pointed out he is a student at this Dutch public university in a sister comment.
You can hedge to fix that problem, if you are so inclined.
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Actually, it looks like it's a combination of bitcoin-check and chopping off the first and last bytes. It matches then. Thanks for the bitcoin-tool hint, looks great!
Thank you for the information, I think the anti regulation people appreciate this law.
I think it would be helpful if the authors disclosed whether they invested in Filecoin. I didn't really see it anywhere. Did I miss it?
I did a lot of therapy in my teens and twenties and I journaled for a long time. Then I blogged for a long time to help me figure out what I really think so I am not merely "rearranging my prejudices." I also talk a lot with two people I trust who work well as a sounding board.

I look for patterns, both in my own words or behavior and in that of other people. I learned long ago to "trust my eyes over my ears." People frequently say one thing, but do another. In most cases, I think they don't even realize it. In some cases, they are outright lying because they have an ugly agenda, but most people seem pretty oblivious to their own motivations and goals. I try to not take it too personally while trying to avoid getting sucked in.
A bit of historical background might be good. Blockchain.info has had several high impacting bugs over the years that has led to their users losing funds, like biased random numbers and re-used r values. Another bug of this type shouldn't be too surprising.

Many people used to recommend against their wallet for these reasons, but on the other hand they haven't closed up shop and ran off yet, which makes them head and shoulders above the average hosted wallet provider. Bitcoin is a very special space.
Something like Filecoin is necessary to make IPFS what it could become, I recognize there are huge unsolved problems with it but it's not legitimately so that they can't be solved. It's worth a shot and sophisticated private investors took bets on this with eyes wide open, followed by the public of course which many consider problematic (I don't).

There are complaints about the discounts private investors got etc but at the end of the day I'm glad this is research getting funded and I think calling it a scam is straight up wrong. We'll see I guess.
From personal experience we can get pretty good results on our workflow from sphinx - but the amount of time it took to get those results was massive, and spread over years. It's probably worth it for most organizations to skip that and go for a vendor.

Results from Amazon are an unknown right now, but the other vendors vary a good bit and are focused on particular kinds of audio (kinds vary by: the number of speakers, the duration of the audio, the vocabulary, language).
Looks to me like he stumbled on a bitcoin payment processing system?

That would explain how the "bot" knows a transaction is about to occur and why the bitcoins were being transferred within minutes of arriving.

The addresses he finds are temporary addresses a customer is directed to send payment, and then transferred to a more secure wallet shortly after confirmation.
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