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> If they tried to exploit their 'power' in any way, people would just fork the chain and move on.

You can't prevent someone from trying to mine, though. Bitcoin would have to develop some sort of defense or constantly be correcting whatever fork was the accepted truth.
The approach taken at my compiler course was one that I consider the best one for toy compilers, but it does mean having to deal with Assembly.

Do the generation to some kind of byte code as you are suggesting, but using an instruction format that be used as macro calls in macro assemblers.

Then just write the macros for each bytecode, doesn't matter matter if the register usage is bad, goal is just to have a plain native executable that runs.
Have you seen this conversion of a Cetus3D printer to a laser PCB engraver? Maybe the laser could be added as a bolt-on peripheral to the head.

https://hackaday.com/2017/11/27/entry-level-3d-printer-becom...
That is one movie, Hollywood often portrays Jessie James as a Robin Hood-like figure, taking from the rich and giving to the poor. In reality, he was murderous bandit.
It is no secret that for at least the past decade, the majority of Mozilla's revenue has been from search partnerships.

In what bizzaro world can you derive the majority of your revenue from a thing while simultaneously declaring independence from it?
He explained the dynamic. You responded with something completely unrelated.
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Need base depends on your parent's income and their ability to pay tuition. It has nothing to do with future income
Your conception of the amount of money involved here is off by several orders of magnitude
They can block transactions they don't like by refusing to put them into blocks.
They can mine any competing fork with all empty blocks so transactions never confirm.
Node owners, the peers in the peer-to-peer cash of bitcoin, laugh at your understanding of bitcoin.
Hey I really like that you said “relaxing doesn’t work”. Weirdly enough I’ve found that to be true. I mean there are times when you’re not sleeping enough where it becomes key, but that’s about it for me.

I noticed in “Daily Rituals”, a book about the day to day lives of artists, none of them really take breaks. 30,40,50 years go by, and they just find more ways to creatively renew themselves. I’m sorry I can’t think of any examples here but if you’re reading this you should buy a copy.
You can pay more tax strictly required. But by doing so, you allow competitors with more creative accountants to get a leg up. Markets select for efficient companies, and companies that make large chartible contributions to the government will be undercut and replaced by less ethical companies.

Governments can and should make fair tax laws. They failed to do so, and now it’s Apple’s fault?

Why would we want to move the responsibility of setting tax rates out of the hands of government and into the hands of corporations?
nodes define and police consensus in bitcoin, not miners.
How about when Ted Kennedy stopped Richard Nixon’s healthcare plan.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/201...
That is a gross false equivalence. Gender, not sex. No democrat will deny that your XX/XY chromosome differentiates you for sexual reproduction. Gender on the other hand, which is what you're referring to, refers specifically to social roles. Also even if somehow that was the case, how would the superficial incorrect labeling of sex be comparable to the denial of human caused catastrophic destruction of the environment?
I guess I don't really understand the point of it, but what is $1B "worth" of Bitcoin actually useful for? I saw one of the other comments link to daily trading volume, but I read those values as consisting of putting a dollar value on Bitcoin movement within the ecosystem, not crossing boundaries - am I correct?

So given the practicalities of shifting the value outside of the Bitcoin economy, the main value seems to be in speculating that this specific cryptocurrency is the future and will take on a dominant value in the real world in exchange for goods and labour, and its volatility seems to make that less likely lest everyone turns into the person who "paid X Bitcoin for a pizza on YYYY-MM-DD and now it's worth Y".

Am I missing something important here? I'm not an economist, and only have a broad understanding of the technology behind Bitcoin, but I don't see the point unless one day we start saying "$1 buys X bitcoin" and not the other way around.

Edit: It's telling that I hit post and then spent minutes obsessing over 'YYYY' and 'Y' being used in same sentence to mean different things :/
Any article that refers to mining pools as "miners" is missing the picture and misleading. First get the naming right, then we can talk.
Because when you pay 700 euros for a phone there is a certain level of quality expectations.
> It's more complex than that.

No it isn't actually.
With Gecko ? It's their original engine. You probably mean Servo (the experimental Rust engine).
US Senate Moves to Criminalize Non-Disclosure of Cryptocurrency Ownership
nodes define decentralization in bitcoin, not miners, because it is nodes that define and police consensus in bitcoin, not miners.
> just fork the chain and move on

It's not quite that simple - the chain will need to be forked with a protocol whose algorithm doesn't allow these miners to continue to dominate. And achieving consensus on that in the heat of the moment will be non-trivial.

Any fork that continues to use SHA-256 will be a trivial target for attack by these miners; they won't blindly continue to mine the "defunct" chain.
I'm confused because statecharts don't describe business logic - you might be confusing them with flowcharts which are inherently very different: there's no concept of state in flowcharts.

> the most efficient, understandable way to deal with these is in as-simple-as-possible plain-old-code if/else business logic. The further away you keep code like that from anything "frameworky" the less likely you are to regret it as tech debt.

A statechart is simply a JSON structure. You still have to write the code for the figuring out what to do given the current state, and also code for triggering events. So it's still up to you to keep them away from anything frameworky.

> representing different use cases as linear code as much as possible is a low-cognitive-overhead way to organize your biz logic.

Again, you'd still write linear code with statechart.

> your business logic is likely to be inherently complex. Don't intermix that complexity with the technical complexity of your application framework if you can at all avoid it.

With statecharts your business logic is anywhere you want it to be. Statecharts add the idea of limiting you of calling only procedures that are allowed by the current state; meaning that if you are in state "Submitting form" and you call a `goToHomePage()` transition, nothing will happen if there's no such outgoing arrow.

This concept of "changing state only if the current state allows it" is quite powerful especially in the construction of UIs.
If the Chinese act bad and there is a fork, even if the Chinese fork has more hash power doesn't mean the market will favor their coin, out contrary, no one will trust their chain, since they acted malicious, who will buy their coins.. it will also be an opportunity for new miners.
Kind of reminds of this one:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fracking-tillerson/ex...

Tillerson, former Republican heavyweight Dick Armey and other residents of a ranch-filled suburb of Bartonville north of Dallas filed suit in 2012 seeking to block construction of the 160-foot-tall (49-meter-tall) water tower, arguing it would be an eyesore.

The suit, filed in Denton County District Court, also noted that the tower could encourage the town of Bartonville to sell “water to oil and gas explorers for fracking shale formations leading to traffic with heavy trucks... creating a noise nuisance and traffic hazards.”
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I disagree with the premise of this article. Just because miners are based in China is not proof of collusion. I agree there is some fishy stuff going on with Bitmain and Antpool and others, but isn't it in their best interest not to break faith?

Wouldn't exchanges (who are holding all the money and are not (explicitly NOT) based in China still have the cash to fund withdrawals? Wouldn't the rest of the world STILL be free to fork the chain to a good faith ecosystem? Isn't Bitcoin Core largely made up of non-Chinese?
True, and yet those are also only several movies of many tens of thousands. I don't think this debate would be resolved back and forth example for example. Instead, replace the OP's use of the word never with "only sometimes", "don't usually", or even "more often than not don't", and the comment would be more reflective of its underlying nature: opinion, absent hard data.
iPhone 5s does. Not too big, not too small. RIP. Reaching the top corner on this 8 is horrible and I’m large, tall person.
May be France's shitty tax regime is more to blame here. French government should work with Apple to come up with a simplified tax code or show some balls and expel Apple from the country.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-5137359/Boy-18-inv... is more interesting from India today
The iOS version is a WebKit wrapper by necessity (Apple mandates that all alternative browsers use the system-bundled WebKit for user experience reasons), and while it’s possible they’ve ported Edge’s engine to Android I’d bet that Edge for Android either wraps WebKit or Blink/Chromium. The primary value proposition for Edge on mobile is syncing of tabs/bookmarks/history/etc, not its engine.
> "This actually will be a great way for me to be more involved in my neighborhood and work actively toward more progressive change," Garcia told The Hill.

And the other similar wording doesn't quite match "advance progressive causes", and sounds like commentary by the newspaper itself:

> Garcia is hopeful that the position will allow for pursuing progressive goals for the district through community organizing.

Still, I wonder why you'd think the "work actively toward more progressive change" quote couldn't be paraphrased as “advance progressive causes.”
the bitcoin gold algorithm, achieving consensus will be possible, because is a threat to bitcoin existence (user activated), won't be "that simple" but will be another attack and bitcoin will emerge stronger.
But I was demonstrating that the media is yelling at us. Making it look like yelling was intentional.

I didn’t know HN had guidelines specifically disallowing all forms of yelling.
The results page should always show what your search term was. Currently it only shows this when the search finds something. If nothing is found, all it does is tell you that nothing was found.

That leaves you with no way to check to make sure you entered the right term, other than typing it again. If you are typing it right but auto-correct is kicking in when you hit enter, even trying again might fail because your site responds fast enough that you might not have time to notice the change before the results page comes up.

Also, it might be helpful when someone searches for a domain at a TLD that you do not support to say on the results page that the TLD is not supported.
MySQL does have a system for two phase commit. I've seen it accidentally triggered on a system that executed queries that joined two different engines (InnoDB and TokuDB) and had the binlog turned off. It's called XA mode and it requires an fsync per commit to a transaction log file.
This article is so silly. How can it get front page on HN?

The important point that he's missing is that, even though the pools are centralized, the individual miners are not! And this is really the main difference.

As ASIC chips get faster and faster we'll reach a physical point that it won't be beneficial to keep large rigs running in a central location - because of the economy of energy distribution.

I'd love it if there was a greener solution for decentralization than energy, but there isn't, otherwise we'd be using it! It's as simple as that.
Yes, but this paper is old so they did the right thing by using SPECjvm98 at the time the paper was written.
True, I do conflate the two. But the article was about hashrate, and you do need enormous hashrate to modify even one past block. Attacks of that kind are fairly unreasonable, even on the scale of the Chinese govt.

Would I be wrong to think that every miner (or at least every entity who is mining, not nessesarily every computer that is mining) would have a vested interest in running a full node as well? That would put control of the nodes in roughly the same hands as those who control the miners right?
No doubt, homeowners are in no way incentivized to fix the housing shortage. Legislate away their ability to unilaterally prevent more housing to be built, which is what California is doing.

There is NO reason we can't have the same rate of home construction as Seattle, which built homes at the fastest rate in the nation. No infrastructure? Build it. No school slots? Build more. The Bay Aarea can easily accommodate double digit population increases with almost no perceived increase in density. It just requires action rather than whining about neighborhood "character" or traffic.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15832170
Does it make a difference which brand of access point you're trying to connect to?
Meanwhile Mark Zuckerberg is worth $70B so the nerds still win
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Let's face it - this is a dubious tactic adopted by schools. The latest leaks show universities stashing money offshore. Just clean up your act - Phds are free labor, don't swallow federal grants for exploiting them
Would you rather have people in standards groups to act more like competitors instead of coworkers? Cause that seems like a really bad idea.

As for:

> For anyone who believes money to be some kind of motivating thing, it isn't hard to come to the conclusion that Mozilla is Google-by-proxy
> edit: And apparently I have to have "hits" to my name to state that getting 85% of your revenue from Google puts your independence into question???

You aren't bring its independence into question, you are stating its an easy conclusion that Mozilla is Google-by-proxy.

The 85% was from 2011. As of 2015 Mozilla stop receiving cash from Google inpart to them changing there default searches (why google paid Mozilla). That may have changed recently with Firefox 57 as they change the default search back, but even then google announced a while back they were cutting how much they were going to pay, so I doubt it will be the same 85%.
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Nobody is forcing them to build this housing on their property. They own it, and it's theirs to do with as they like. They DON'T own the neighborhood and when others want to move onto another property they have no ownership interest in and that happens to be on their block, they don't have a property right to prevent that.
In a country that doesn't treat it workers worse than trash, retail workers don't get screwed out of pay when their employer cancels their shift on the same day due to protests over their abhorrent practices internationally.

Here in America, workers are trash as far as our society is concerned. Work harder! Ask for less!
Mostly irrelevant, but you keep saying Apple has no R&D in France. This has been untrue for decades. Apple’s Paris team is a thing.
There are undoubtedly royalties being paid as some (unknown) percentage of sales. The advance is essentially a loan against earned royalties. Publishers spread advances over numerous projects. The real money comes when a book sells well and the author earns royalties, unless that author is already a star and commands a very high advance like a former president, a sports star, movie star, and so on.
I posted Apple's problems and solutions to them here. It got voted down and I had to delete it. I thought that it was encouraged if you post a problem, you list a solution on HN?

It seems Apple is not the company it once used to be. I tried to help, but good luck to Apple.
Did I suggest they couldn’t? My post is calling into question the efficacy of this style of protest, not suggesting it should not be done.
The same reason why most people work anywhere? It's hard to find a job these days, much less a well paying one.
Li Xiaolai reportedly had over 100,000 BTC as well (https://www.coindesk.com/chinas-bitcoin-millionaire/).
That's fair but obviously they also have to deal with MBA school tuition.

I'm surprised that it's not as significant of a difference as I thought initially.
A stolen hardware key is likely to be noticed though.

Perhaps a better approach regardless of how it's stored is notification of use?
The low gravity is probably what I would have the most fun with. I can imagine all sorts of activities could get a lot more fun. I could learn to do a standing backflip, or even manage to finally break 400lb on my deadlift. :)
Daily trading of bitcoin is 5b$

Thats just one single exhange fuer one single fiat currency pair

Guess what there is Euros, KRW, Jen, Rimimbi.

Insane to see how buthurt HN is ober missing out on one of the best tech opportunities in the last decade.

Many here will probably hate the big family Christmas gathering because every relative assumes that the geeky guy surly must have bought some bitcoins.

But HN is no better then IBM or Dell. Its always easy to bash IBM and the way they went under, but beeing mid 30s and dismissing Cryptocurrency as fad of some kid traders is just the same.

Having said that, does anyone have an inspirational name for my Yacht? Satoshicruise?
You know that Google overwhelmingly hires and promotes men, right?
What other direct action can citizens take to force Apple to comply with the law?

Better to shut their stores down than let them keep operating illegally, the French tax authorities should be arresting and charging management with tax fraud for their illicit scam. Apple is stealing from you and me, increasing our taxes with these tax scams.
I observed the same. When women and blacks are topic, white poor men are consideration and victim or huge unfairness. Any other time, they are suckers, lazy, should have learn coding, don't have merit, yadda yadda.

Kinda like gentrification is good thing and people pushed away got what they deserve and no one is entitled to live there. Untill it is tech workers who can't afford live in SV and suddenly it is all about egoism and YIMBY etc.
And with Puppeteer/Devtools programmers can stay in text editors.
> It's his great-grandmother and his family. I imagine he would know a thing or two about the culture, history and customs.

My reading of OP is that he does not claim to have understood these until he read the source. And neither he nor his sources seem to have any grasp of the underlying economics. The underlying narrative of a prosperous society that collapsed because nobody was available to work the fields is extremely dubious. OP mentions that there is 30% unemployment in the region. Why can't they STILL get anyone to work the fields (Not to mention the massive productivity improvements that agriculture has gone through)?

> I don't think reproductive and sex rituals are uncommon and strange. [...] I don't think that needs rigorous sources.

I don't think these are uncommon at all (especially the premarital sex on which the interview frowns so much)... which is precisely why I doubt their causal link to the observed depopulation.

> It seems they still have more information and experience to draw from than an average HN'er here.

If they do, why don't they share that information, instead of talking about sex with farm animals and premarital relations? Even through the language barrier of the translation, the moral panic is evident.

> If you just want to say, "I personally dislike that culture or ritual or theory"

I do dislike the theory. It's a rancid mix of natalism and moral panic.

I do NOT dislike the culture. It's the OP and his sources who are claiming that Protestant Slovaks sheep shagged themselves to extinction. My baseline is that everybody has traditions, rituals, and the occasional dysfunction, so any contention that a particular set of these led to disaster needs to be backed by data, not anecdotes.
I'm definitely not arguing against the statechart being higher-level than a pile of state mutations. I think they're very low-resolution however, and I believe there can exist code that can serve the same high-level purpose as statecharts without discarding as much information.

I also think zoom is a very powerful visual metaphor for context, and I don't mean to discount the value of that. I just think the contents of each node in the zoom-context graph could be higher-fidelity.

> More importantly, statecharts limit your behavior - a specific state can only go into another state if there's an outgoing arrow. This limitation is quite awesome because, given any state, you know that the only thing effecting change are the transitions - nothing else!

This touches on a point that I think is important and would like to expound upon.

One thing that makes code easier to reason about is "locality", being able to see everything that affects what you're looking at.

One way of dealing with poor locality in code is to zoom out until you're only looking at a web of state transitions, and then you can find the state you're in and see where you could have come from (which offers hints as to how you got there) and where you could go (which offers hints as to what might happen next).

Another approach is to write high-locality code, code which describes the incoming arrows so that by design, whatever you're looking at is already revealing its composition, and fractally-organized at that. That can be hard to do in application code with existing tools, although (shameless plug) I wrote libraries to help make it easier in Clojure and Javascript: https://github.com/notduncansmith/factfold
Tencent becomes the publisher of PUBG
How did this even become a thing???? I absolutely hate it
>pretty disillusioned these days.

OJ Simpson's prosecutor posted a similar idea on Reddit:(1)

>Most of the prosecutors I know are good people who are committed to protecting us from those who would prey on us. But these days, I sometimes run into prosecutors who just don't seem to have the character we used to have 20-30 years ago. People need to understand that prosecutors are lawyers, and like my grandmama once told me, a law degree is a license to lie.

Personally I am sad to think we're currently in a slide away from constitutional rights and individual liberty, and how this relates to our cultural ideas about integrity.

Unfortunately, it's nobody's actual job to worry about this.

1 - https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/6oybbr/hi_reddit_i_am...
I have so much admiration for Firefox. With the increasing market share of mobile I'd love to see a well-funded, independent, compatible variant of Android.