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I agree that most computer scientists working on anything "neural" would benefit from a more biology-based understanding of the brain. But I think the article was using "synchronicity" in a different way, in that the bad thing about synchronous hardware is that it forces all computations to fit into a set time period, even though computations take less time. So removing that barrier is an efficiency increase.

And I think the "fire together wire together" thing is more about synaptic plasticity and doesn't really relate to the concept of synchronicity as described in the article (to my understanding). Fire together wire together means When a neuron fires as a result of signal from another one, certain molecules are created to strengthen the neurons relationship. There is nothing timing / synchronous about this, using timing in the sense of requiring a third-party "scheduler" to regulate firing.

Individual neurons are not regulated by this constraint. But yes, there are so many other amazing features of neurons that we don't fully understand and that aren't used in computer design because of a lack of basic knowledge about the biology and chemistry.
Good guess, that's exactly it :) I love this composer and was listening to him a lot while developing this app. Additionally I think this is a name that's easy to remember and type, so it felt like a good choice.
> Is it expensive to do so? Yes. But it is possible.

That's a fair point. Perhaps I should have said "impractical" or "cost-preventative" instead.

> paypal automatically knows who gave what to whom.

Correct, but my point was that the number of opportunities to directly pay someone bitcoin for a physical good are so limited as to make using it for what most people need a "currency" for impossible.
And if it didn’t lose 75% or more of its value every so often. Guess what you don’t want money to do? That. How would you feel if the dollar in your pocket was worth $0.10 tomorrow?
Do you know which excluded_ads labels it was tagged with?
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I offer phone, email and skype support (as a solo developer). Ratio of support queries I receive is roughly:

90% email
8% skype
2% phone

On my website's contact page I have a few sentences beside the email address saying that you should give as much information as possible about the problem, and that we reply within 1 business day but normally sooner. I think that implies two things: [1] we do actually reply to emails quickly, and [2] email is preferred for support.

Some people just prefer to talk to a human being, at least the first time they contact you. This is either due to them checking to make sure you are responsive and can be contacted, or they are frightened of technology and need a little hand-holding. If I didn't put my phone number of the website I might lose these customers. It doesn't really take much time to deal with, overall.

The only minor issue is that some people (mostly other developers, usually from India) seem to want submit all support requests via skype, and I have to push back at that because [1] it's intrusive and [2] it means I don't have a record of their previous support queries in my email. Unless it's a quick question, I usually email them back. Of course you have to balance the need to provide the support in the way the customer wants to make them happy vs not letting them suck up too much of your time.
Can you name a nation state/principality/empire that survived on voluntary monetary contributions rather than taxation or plunder?
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Haven't you guys heard? Just trade bitcoins IRL. Fast, convenient and secure, why would anyone bother with a bank?
I just tried it. No CalDAV, just plain IMAP... and only if you don't use the "iCloud upgraded notes", meaning that you cannot format the text.
I would consider MARPAT and other digital camos related but distinct from Dazzle.
> I've seen plenty of advertisements for government services.

For basic things like roads?

> The "duplication of effort" is a plus for a functioning market bringing competition, cooperation, lower cost, and increased standard of living. [1]

Cooperation beats competition. Think Linux and Balkanized Unix (if you want to stay in the tech analogies)

> Whether they have this or that department will be greatly outweighed by the massive bureaucratic burden and special interest groups.

What would those SIGs defend?

> If they are to have competent people to run the program

Not everyone competent work for money. Maybe that will weed out the sociopaths from C-level positions, at least.

> Will be replaced by the armed enforcement department.

I'd love to know your reasoning behind this.

> There is but it is outsourced to the IRS or other department

Which cuts costs because they are already doing it and there is no increase in their workload.

> Like it or not, access to the internet is a scarce resource

Yes, but you only need to assess health and ensure QoS levels are maintained. It's completely understandable to be throttled in peak load times and enjoy more resources off-peak.
That's an interesting point. Unlike dollars, made money doesn't sit in a bank, to be loaned to lenders creating a profit for the bank, part of which gets paid as interest. This drives economic expansion.

I don't even know how you would do something like that with bitcoin.
It would certainly be better than the current Randian cryptobullshit circle jerk it is right now...
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How do you define good money and bad money? I feel like Bitcoin used to be a currency, but it has evolved into an investment game.
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2 weeks back, my colleague Anurag came up with this idea and built this simple website to spark debate over big philosophical questions. This week, it's trending on twitter. Be part of it.
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Post your thoughts and let's take this debate to next level.
Yep, that is what I use for the same usecase. There is really very little point to a hardware KVM at this point.
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I can conceive of a situation where bitcoin "banks" use people's deposited bitcoins for investment while paying out interest, similar to traditional banks. Then it'd pretty much be the same for markets. Not sure how likely that is, but as it gets more integrated into the system I can't think of a reason why it wouldn't end up being invested.
I'm semi retired so not that much, certainly nothing like I used to work.

When I was a kernel engineer at Sun, there were stretches where I worked around 14 hours per "day". "day" had a different definition for me, I worked on about a 34 hour "day". Which meant that my day time hours were constantly shifting. A coworker put a clock on my door that said "where's larry?" and it showed when I'd be in next. I think it was a joke but some people said they liked it.

The reason I did this was I would be working on stuff where it could take ~8 hours just to regain the state I had in my head when I stopped working the previous day. So if I did 8 hour days I'd never make any forward progress. So you do 8 hours to page in the state and then you go as far as you can go to move things forward.

I didn't have much of a social life back then but I didn't care, I was getting stuff done at Sun and loved it. It was a super productive time of my life.
Any form of advertising would likely be unacceptable on a platform like this, as would any attempt to enforce copyright or limit the redistribution or reuse of content. Creators would just have to find another way to make money and accept that they have no practical right to "ownership" over the content they upload, regardless of legality.

To clarify: I don't believe the set of people willing to adopt a FOSS distributed peer-to-peer video streaming platform and the set of people who believe advertising to be tolerable would likely overlap enough to provide a better or more stable market than the existing web already provides. And advertising on the web is already breaking down and likely doomed to fail as a concept.
Seems Uber's solution to every problem - throw money and see it disappear. If it comes back say - well that was not the intention.

Threatens to become a whistle blower? Pay the guy 4.5 million and his lawyer 3 million.

Stolen data? Pay the hacker to delete data.
Paraphrasing Upton Sinclair: It's difficult to get a man to understand something when his portfolio value depends on his not understanding it
This whole thing looks rather silly. Like, you either find a decent exchange, expect it to be legit and that includes cooperating with IRS and other parts of the government when needed. You know, like you expect responsible financial institutions to do. Or just find some maybe less legit ones at your own risk.

Coinbase can't be both legit and 'oh look we resist The Man'. Urgh.
Related, but on my mind: How could we ever know how many bots are transacting on the blockchain? It seems that it is ripe for manipulation by those that benefit from higher transaction numbers.

Are exchanges audited to ensure they aren't artificially inflating the price by using artificial buyers and sellers? It seems like there is every incentive to keep the price high, and it seems like doing so maliciously would be quite straightforward.
You can twist a narrative about using an app with 'self-destructing messages' to sound like a malicious act but what's stopping any individual or company from wanting privacy? Wickr is a very popular app, especially among technically-savvy people.

With widespread surveillance and hacking there are a hundred other reasons besides hiding evidence from an IP trial for using an app like that.

Uber's claims the letter from the security employee, who highlighted the use of 'special laptops' and self-destruction messaging apps, was of an 'extortionist' nature and led to him getting a payout. Calling that employee a 'whistleblower' is another potential spin.

Which is why that statement rightfully includes "On the surface...".

Paying off someone is far more directly relevant but again there is a presumption of innocence for very good reasons. And I don't think we should ignore that
A better set of questions might be: who is already deciding what to filter? How are they elected?

I think the answer to the latter is "by being wealthy". The former has too many answers.

/tinfoil
> so long as the power holder acts benevolently

History fills in the rest.
It should be outlawed for its environmental cost alone.
I think ceo compensation is another topic, but its very important to understan that CEO compensation does not come from workers, it comes from investors.

If you could effectively limit what CEO's make, the savings will go into the stock and investors, it will not raise wages, because wages are not set by CEO pay.

Think of the effects of a maximum wage in an economy. It cannot possibly help workers. It will definitely help investors/capitalists/employers.
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My largest Bitcoin question is this; Bitcoin's continued growth requires the addition of new coins to pay for the cost of verifying transactions. This creates pressure for the price of Bitcoin relative to the dollar to increase, leading to deflation of the dollar, and most other currencies relative to Bitcoin. This will lead to one of two conclusions.

Either the hyper-valuation of Bitcoin relative to fiat currencies continues above the rate of rise for the cost of verification, or it doesn't.

If the accelerated price of Bitcoin fails to outstrip the rise in cost, due to public perception, regulation or any other reason then the network will cease verification and exchange within the network will stop.

If the accelerated price does continue to outstrip the rise in cost, then people won't sell their Bitcoins because they will be worth more tomorrow than they are today. So exchange outside the network will stop.

So in both scenarios you have a cease of exchange, the only difference is that one ceases within the network and one outside the network.

Isn't this a failure in both cases?
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It could though, if places like Coinbase decided to transition into a banking role. The issue with Bitcoin in my mind is that people now view it as more of an investment than a currency.
From a work perspective, I recall reading that in the next 10 years, 6 of 10 people on a development team will be security related. [Looked for the source, can't find it, due your own diligence]. 1.8 Million security jobs vacant by 2022. https://venturebeat.com/2017/06/07/global-cybersecurity-work...

The need for very seasoned professionals who have BOTH security and heavy development/business/architecture backgrounds will be a scarce thing.
I guess similar to how royalty payment suits are settled.
That's not what Gresham's law says. As Hayek put it in denationalisation of money (section VI The confusion about Gresham's Law):

> Gresham's Law will apply only to different kinds of money between which a fixed rate of exchange is enforced by law

(Emphasis in the original)
Thanks for response. I assumed it was a bug and i'm sure there are quite a few start outs which find themselves on here via the power of copy pasta. That said it was the idea of having geolocation on by default which irked me. Is there a reason for this?
News to me that people still use bitcoin to buy drugs. Everyone i know got out of that game years ago.
Monero is fully private/anonymous and cannot be tracked.
Relevant HN discussion of the Bloomberg article from yesterday regarding Stiglitz's opinion of Bitcoin (not a dupe): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15812247
Fire code requires that fire alarms be networked to alert people in all rooms in the event of a fire. Older un-networked units are grandfathers until you begin replacement. Wifi networking is allowed by the code, but for obvious reasons, the inspector has to verify that it works and is set up correctly which requires running wifi.

Personally I would not purchase a home that was configured with nest or other home automation equipment for several reasons.

1) It's a huge security risk. When you buy a home the first thing you do is change the locks because you don't know who the previous owner may have once loaned keys out to. Now you have a bunch of computers in your house giving remote access that may or may not be giving other people access and you can't tell.

2) Most consumer home automation systems have incredibly bad failure states. Those wirelessly networked alarms? When you cheap Chinese wifi router catches fire from a faulty power supply the failure mode is that you die. That's a pretty big oversight. Remember when NEST pushed an untested software update remotely and caused dozens of houses in the Northern Midwest to lose heat in the middle of winter and then be destroyed by broken pipes?

3) Vendor lock in. I don't want the previous owner to lock me into a line of products. Period. I'm sure everyone here remembers when Phillips decided that their smart light sockets would embrace DRM and only accept Phillips brand LED bulbs. They backed down but it is bound to come up again. Not to mention simple incompatibility between competing products and stacks.

4) It's just a damn pain to use most of the time for gain that can be measured almost entirely in novelty factor.
Maybe, but the series before that had nothing to do with flask or news.

For instance a video in a series about writing a Go web app had these tags: golang, http, server, redis, gorilla mux, go-redis, web, application, tutorial, howto

And it was demonetized. Every single video I've uploaded seems to have been until I request manual review (which takes a couple of days).
I agree, there are other uses for sure. But, again, you have to look at the full body of evidence.

The most notable part to me is that Uber stopped using the app. What would change in the privacy world to make them not need that app if they had a use for it before?

Add that to all the other context of the case, and malicious use is a lot more likely to me.

> Paying off someone is far more directly relevant but again there is a presumption of innocence for very good reasons.

If I'm not mistaken, this is a civil suit and subject to "more likely than not" rather than "beyond a reasonable doubt". I find a hard time making an argument that it's more likely Uber didn't use Levandowski to steal trade secrets from Google.
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97% reduction? Not really. Given how the price of BTC/ETH is going up, they will soon have to report pretty much every user that put more than a couple hundred dollars initially.
From a technical standpoint, Bitcoin makes no sense. Bitcoin supply is fixed. How can, then, a currency be valued 100x within a few years when there's no major possibility of finding a magical utility of it. But, neither does Facebook's success. I couldn't have imagined anyone could create a $400B+ social network company.

I guess if by being rational you're avoiding burning your hand, you're also missing out on the hen who will lay golden eggs in the future. In a few years, $10,000 might look peanuts to pay for Bitcoin. It seems logically absurd to think so, but time and again, the skeptics have been proven foolish and the believers have made the gains.
so you think going back to pre 1900 isolationism will work let alone the moral issue of abandoning the USA's role in the world is a good idea.

I suppose Liz II could take you back and put Prince Hal in charge :-)
THis was down voted, but there's a significant amount of literature devoted to precisely this motivation and function from the perspectives of both men and women. E.g. it's a set piece of every Jane Austin novel.
A permanent option sometimes required for headless operation: a hardware emulator/terminator such as https://amzn.com/B00FLZXGJ6 ($8.50).
I actually bought a 4-port USB/HDMI switch model fairly recently. It's really just a clutter and convenience thing. I have a few computers, including Raspberry Pis, that I just fiddle around with sometimes. While I could do things in different ways, it's just simple to have one monitor, keyboard, and mouse and plug the computers into the switch.
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To me, this is why the arguments over Net Neutrality are really an argument over which corporations are favored by existing regulations. Google isn't neutral and it is integral to the way people use the net.
I would hardly say it's supports job to focus on one thing at at time.

Most people that reach out to support are calling about a specific question or problem. Yes therapy calls do happen. They're not terribly common, but you'll hear about them because they are funny/egregious examples.

When a customer calls about their 1 thing, I can definitely look up the 1 answer or do the 1 fix for them. This is bad support though.

A good support team will listen to that customer, understand what they're needs are and fix that thing while make sure they are set up for success in the future. This means I'm checking different account/user statuses, feature usage, and billing history. I dot his while talking to them, but never letting them know I do this.

If I can understand their 1 question AND know who they are holistically, I can set them up for success and prevent more support tickets down the road.

If you've ever had a user or a profile sent to you in a bad/extreme state, you can bet that a series of 1-off support solutions could have lent to that.
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Thx @cfontes - The model has already been stress-tested for Series B/C and it scales. We just didn't want to over-complicate the app at launch. If more people share your pov, we can get this released pretty quickly...
1.) Transacting on the blockchain costs fees. It would be very expensive to fake bitcoin transaction volume. Even if you're a miner, your fake volume would be displacing real volume that would be paying real fees.

2.) Transactions on exchanges never hit the blockchain, so exchange volume and blockchain volume are unrelated. Furthermore, keeping the price high would not be "quite straightforward". What method do you have in mind? The only way to artificially keep the price high long-term is to place infinitely-large buy orders at the minimum price you want. This will obviously cost you unbounded amounts of money and would be financial suicide.
While the article doesn't mention it, I think the recommended uuid function for postgres is uuid_generate_v1mc() from https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/uuid-ossp.html

This generates a v1 uuid, so the first few bytes are time dependant, which reduces fragmentation compared to v4 uuids. At the same time, it generates random values for the "mac" section, so it isn't as host-specific and low-entropy as a normal v1 uuid.
Contractor, currently with a large ag company, remote. I work 1 or two hours out of 8. The rest spent waiting for their antique tool chain to get stuff done. Read a butt-ton of HN the last month.

Previous contracts - I worked an hour for every hour I billed, moving their project forward. Usually 5 or 6 hours a day. The rest spent working on more contracts etc.
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Born a Crime by Trevor Noah. Highest possible recommendation. Everyone I've urged to read it has loved it.
You can implement a distributed application as an application running on a blockchain. This can achieve comparable throughput to a centralized exchange. Tendermint outlined this use case for their Cosmos network.
I don't think that they like tulips either.
I cannot live without this software. I'm using it to control several computers with a wall of screens. My T460p is the server.
Sure it was a victory. But that was not the point of the case. IRS had already agreed to the 97% reduction as seen from the previous post. They went to court because they wanted it to reduce even more. That didn't happen here.
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Just remember that tax evasion is criminal and you only get to make 1 mistake.