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My hypothesis: Suppliers of goods rank by satisfaction, the web search pages show them first. Front page ranking is the endgame: nobody goes to the second rank. Completed sales. foreign delivery sales rank higher than domestic. So a seller who can make a real sale, and couple into it a fake gift as a satisfied sale overseas gets a cheap 2x legup in the ranking. They sort higher, therefore they get more primary sales. Therefore they make more money.
When I worked in downtown Chicago standard work day was 9-4. So your train gets in somewhere around 8:30 and you then have a 10-20 minute walk to work. Then the reverse to catch your 5:00-ish train home.

Not sure if that was widespread but by 6pm the Loop proper was basically a ghost town.
What devices (not chip) on the market that they support? I can't seem to find it anywhere.
What are the most practical applications of the biggest numbers, like cryptography?

Inversely, what are the most practical applications of the smallest numbers?
Just a reminder that most software engineers don't work for one of the big five, and don't get compensated in the region of 300k.
It takes a while to go from 98% confident to 99.9%. And a lot of refactoring. Internal tools can be really sloppy, especially when we were selling like 3 items a day.

Something that's paid for and trusted to manage several million dollars worth of inventory has to be a lot more robust.

Investors didn't like the idea. I guess we didn't sell it well as one of them invested in someone else doing the same thing but with less experience.
Typing in a form field on a private forum page I wouldn’t expect that my conversations are also available to the advertisers posting banners to that page.
Charles Stross recently said it should be outlawed based on the environmental impact of Proof Of Work. http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2017/11/unforsee...
"a foot-print of one car parking place"

Yet they've slapped it down right in the middle of a pedestrian area - kind of defeats the message I think.
If they wanted to do that, there are easier ways to do it than to release a speech recognition system and the speech data that makes it work.
Because its true. Unions can only increase wages by reducing the amount of workers. Unions dont get wage increases by reducing the profits of capital in the long term.

If uber drivers unionized and made uber pay them more, then less capital would go to uber and eventually have less workers. Ultimately the return on capital will end up being the same, because capital looks for returns and will move. So in effect, it would only increase wages of drivers as long as it can prevent other drivers from showing up.

For anyone at home that wants to listen to someone that knows more about economy than any of us:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzYgiOC9cj4
The ignorance displayed by very smart people with regards to cryptocurrencies is fascinating.
> you would have to buy your own cable box, dvr, and modem if you want to go completely pre-pay.

Which I consider - independently from this discussion - as a very good idea. Indeed: In Germany when getting a Digital Subscriber Line most providers will also give you the option to rent the router or modem. But nearly all subscribers know that increasing running expenses this way is nearly always a bad idea, so they know that one should better buy some decent router/modem that one owns.
Bitcoin seems like it's custom designed to create bubbles, rather than be a useful currency. It is limited to 21 million units, which means that it cannot support a growing Bitcoin-based economy without rapidly appreciating in value versus other currencies, and depreciating the price of assets.

One of the core purposes of currency is to provide a relatively stable store of value as a medium of exchange. Rapid inflation or deflation is very undesirable. Currency is not supposed to be a get-rich-quick scheme. It's the oil of commerce. But, bizarrely, it's fundamentally architected into Bitcoin that it will fail at that, preferring instead to promote a rush to scarcity that grabs headlines but provides little utility as currency.

Having said that, a cryptocurrency that does its job -- that is, has the features of an actual currency, such as being a stable store of value, by expanding the money supply in proportion to the amount of economic activity it supports -- seems like a very valuable concept. Do any of them do that? I looked at Ethereum, and its design doesn't seem better in this respect.
I wonder if some three letter agency is paying facebook to build them the biggest face recognition database in the world.
I remember the emergency Java patch after Flashback. I think it also had an issue.
Governments should make it illegal because governments need to have control over the money supply.

We need taxation. We need monetary policy. The Bitcoin obsessives think these are bad things. No. They are very important and good things.
We should ban video games and porn too then. The amount of electricity going into powering all the consoles and computers around then world toward a useless endeavour is immense.
Most pilots don't work at a major airline, and don't make 120k.
I don't really see how "it doesn't serve any socially useful function" yields the statement "it should be outlawed." The former applies to many, many things that are still legal. Disappointing to hear such weak reasoning from someone who is lauded as one of the greatest minds of our time. I can't watch the video, so perhaps that particular statement lacks some context.
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My opposition is to funding both the DEA et al. and the dealers.
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This guy is an idiot who also doesn't understand bitcoin and shouldn't be taken seriously.
But isn't that level of ideological punditry what Stiglitz's is today all about?
It meets the Free Software definition, the OSD, and the DFSG. And even anti-copyleft zealots rarely descend as far as to attempt to claim (falsely) that it isn't a FOSS license, rather than simply complaining that they find it distasteful.
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Don't forget Kaldi!

https://github.com/kaldi-asr/kaldi
People make these arguments like fiat currencies never crash.
What I remember seeing on hacker news is people blogging about spending three to six months of their free time making sure they can answer every single question on leetcode, that's a lot different from a one time, one day interview.
After all the shit MS got for very strongly nudging users into using MS accounts instead of local accounts and Apple's low key effort to promote OSX and iOS as better for the user (including privacy) than Windows/Android, I can't see mandatory apple account usage being a realistic probability.
"The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that's required to make it work. The central bank must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust. Banks must be trusted to hold our money and transfer it electronically, but they lend it out in waves of credit bubbles with barely a fraction in reserve. We have to trust them with our privacy, trust them not to let identity thieves drain our accounts." -Satoshi Nakamoto
Government can still extract money from your bitcoin wallet. It works like this:

1. Ask if you have bitcoin and how much. If you lie you go to jail for perjury.

2. Ask you for N bitcoin. If you resist you go to jail.

The entire technical advantage relies on you effectively lying to your government. Not a good plan.
Advertisers. If you've ever bought an ad on facebook and see you can pick your target audience by which types of food they shop for or their income range from 10k increments alongside thousands of other filters.... fuck man they have a helluva ad platform
Your assertion that bitcoin is "a vehicle entirely for speculation" is false. It provides convenient methods for transferring and storing value. Even if it were merely a vehicle for speculation, that is not the criterion for being a Ponzi scheme. Is gold a Ponzi scheme? ICOs are a different matter, but they shouldn't be lumped in with bitcoin any more than a little league baseball team should be lumped in with the New England Patriots.
No, how did you infer that from my post?

They'll get a $5 grant and then pay $2 back in taxes.
Any truly transformative technology is very polarizing.

The printing press and cars (horseless carriages) were followed by people who HATED these things when they were first introduced into society.
While I could learn C++ or Rust in 10 years, I'm not going to do it for a bug that isn't even biting me any more. I've long since worked around it. It makes more sense for me to donate to Mozilla so they can hire someone who knows what they're doing.
SV may mometoze the data, but Credit rating companies monetize identity and the protection of it. SV knows about you, but credit agencies can define who you are.

Of course, identity theft is a mortal wound and is hard to ignore. Casual mometization of every private action is death by 1000 cuts.
What? su doesn't even ask, just wants a new root password?

That can only happen when database folks are responsible for authentification business.
Two models are common in embedded systems: "main loop" or RTOS. In the main loop model, once initialization is complete, the program loops indefinitely, servicing various functions. Since the developer is responsible for a larger portion of the code, it is easier to meet timing deadlines.

An RTOS provides a convenience to allow various threads to block and thus simplify programming. I would choose an RTOS where there are a greater number of independent tasks which need to be performed.

Both are alternatives to a conventional OS which makes hitting deadlines difficult or impossible.
It's designed to appreciate in value / create depreciating asset prices. The fundamental issue is that people dislike depreciating asset prices. If people can adapt to depreciating asset prices bitcoin will work well as a store of value.

I see intrinsic issues as an in person medium of exchange due to transaction times.
Ideological punditry doesn't serve a useful purpose, so it should be outlawed.
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every consider that -coin and -currency were misnomers?

these are skeumorphs to a relatable asset class because cryptographic hash units are not relatable.

the whitepaper says peer to peer electronic cash system that allows payments to occur without an intermediary, it does that, it also attracts other people to use it because of its properties, that was the point and now you are adding way to much into the misnomers to rationalize your lack of participation.
Really? How do you do that? My windows machine informed me it was going to install the fall creators update when I shut it down for the night with no option not to (only to choose a different 8 your max active period)
"Profit" can be kept at zero essentially forever. Revenue is much harder to hide.
His argument seems willfully ignorant, at best.
If we're going to pass a law for that reason, we should pass a meaningful price on carbon. Then all the bitcoin miners using fossil-based electricity will go out of business.
Not really, no. I have a better "prize" at my current employer, and I didn't have to go through that hazing ritual to get here. I'm not working on toy webapp garbage for social media, ads or the like, either. Even if that weren't the case my answer would remain the same: encouraging juvenile hazing ritual nonsense is not something I care to do.

Also, it takes a lot of time and effort outside of work to keep that undergrad CS trivia readily available for discussion in an interview. So it's not just "a couple of hours."
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Video games and porn are so precious, though! I wouldn't call them a useless endeavour.
Is he like the Ann Coulter of Economics/Finance? Genuine question.
In the US, it's not usually the government that is the problem. It is the banks (or PayPal).

Ever had your PayPal account frozen for an unknown or arbitrary reason? It happens and it is scary and frustrating.
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Can you outline those ignorances in some sort of testable way? Or is this just a long way of saying “I disagree”?
People also think Bitcoin is complicated, while their understanding of fiat currency is shockingly inaccurate.
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When Stieglitz said:

it doesn't serve any socially useful function

he was saying that in relation to:

bitcoin is successful only because of its potential
for circumvention, lack of oversight

So what he's really saying is that circumvention and lack of oversight are not socially useful functions. I'm no fan of bitcoin and I'm a huge Stieglitz fan but I'm going to disagree with him there. Privacy (lack of oversight) is a socially useful function. However, bitcoin only gives the appearance of privacy while giving the reality of lack of oversight.
Still beats a 3rd party that yields immediately to lawful orders.
Have efforts been made to produce a cryptocurrency that is compatible with monetary policy? Such that supply can increase or decrease either on command or naturally?
Fiat currencies usually crash due to different reasons though
Each bitcoin can be subdivided by 100,000,000 units (satoshis).
"This guy" is a Nobel Prize-winning economist. He might be wrong. He might be speaking from ignorance. He might be in mental decline after a brief period of brilliance decades ago. But a claim that he's an idiot probably needs more evidence than "he disagrees with me about whether Bitcoin should be legal."
I think this shows the poor state of Apple’s QA. Theorically there should be a list of predefined tests with a binary output, to pass the test or not. Before deploying anything, tests must be run and passed.
It seems the procedure is very human-dependant.
I'm not a geologist but I am interested in the science and have done a bit of reading on it. His books, particularly Assembling California, have always intrigued me. I've always wondered how professional geologists look at them. Given that he spent a lot of time in the company of some highly respected scientists, I imagine he got most of what he wrote right.
Interesting. Can you describe these safeguards in any level of detail? Letting a human see clients' personal info seems fundamental to the OCR transcription process whether it's MTurk or Scale.
> Bitcoin seems like it's custom designed to create bubbles, rather than be a useful currency.

It's the other way around. It is designed to expose bubbles.
The guy is obviously clueless. Obviously. He claims that bitcoin’s value is derived from expectation of “future growth” implying that it’s not the case with literally any other investment in any other instrument be it a currency, a common stock, a commodity or a bond.

An “economist” that didn’t grasp the trivial notion that “inherent value” is a myth? Nobel prize my ass.
You can also be qualified to land at some airports but not others!
I found this [1] a more compelling argument, probably not from the future but pretty much nailed the 2017 valuation 4 years ago.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1lfobc/i_am_a_time...
They list 4 dev boards on their website, from Microchip, NXP, STM and TI. With the exception of the PIC from microchip it looks like they are all ARM based. Will be exciting to see if the ESP 32 becomes supported, since it already supports regular FreeRTOS
Wouldn't that suggest that the first rocket in a line, say the F9, would be very expensive, and subsequent F9s would be close to the cost of the raw inputs?
I think it would be difficult to make an automated currency that does that. However, the overall cryptocurrency ecosystem is similar to the competing privately-issued currencies advocated by Hayek, who thought they would make a stable monetary system without any need for central control.
PayPal only does that because if it didn't it would end up being regulated like every other bank. In Europe this is already the case.
You can unfreeze if you need access to credit.
> C has so many weird and painful quirks, and is missing a lot of things that a novice programmer will need to know (like object-orientation, especially).

I don't think you can understand OO properly without C or another sufficiently low level language. You might learn the concepts at a high level, but it's still important to know at a low level, you know to know about the vtable of function pointers that makes inheritance possible, otherwise you will never truly grasp OO.

Also, I'd prefer most devs learn to write functions that operate on data long before they learn how to combine them into a horrible mess.
I'm being facetious to make a point.
I don't play games, but give me something that replaces porn in utility and I'll agree with you.
They also were forced because there were strikes in France.

I got my flight cancelled because of that but got ~400$ in compensation.

BTW the exact same thing happened to Easyjet. My gf’s flight from barcelona to London got cancelled and she had to find a place to stay for one more day and a different flight. Easyjet refuses to refund or compensate her, mentioning strikes in France. Same shit as Ryanair, different reactions.

Anybody knows what are our recourse?
I’ve been asking this a lot lately. What is the canonical indicator, other than price, that a Bitcoin bull would point to, that shows it has increased utility this year?
Question: is Wired actively blocking archive.is? I tried to archive this article just to get a repeated "Network error" [1] which may be a sign of a Layer 3 block. A trivial search [2] shows no page is successfully archived since the end of September.

[1] https://archive.is/eU7Yn

[2] https://archive.is/www.wired.com
Some of the smartest people I know work on Wall St. and when the topic comes up of cryptocurrencies the conversation turns to outright borderline anger and instant dismissal. They simply don't believe it can have any useful value as a store of value or be used for exchanging goods or services.

I have seen this reaction twice before. First, I see it when we talk about politics. People on the other side just can't believe it when facts are presented that refute their belief.

The second, is when the internet came about. Talking to people in different industries about how it could be used to revolutionize video, news, and just about everything often resulted in a reaction of dismissal.

Wall St. is a deeply ingrained industry and Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc are already sucking a big chunk of transactions from NYSE and everyone on Wall St looses. So it is a natural reaction to dismiss it.
You missed the entire point of Bitcoin - allowing individuals to transact securely across distances without the need for a third party. The blockchain (the entire network) secures the transactions.
Please explain how video games and porn don't serve a useful purpose. I'm thinking it's possible that porn contributes to a lower birth rate, which would more than offset the amount of power consumed to produce and transmit pornography.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/all-about-sex/200904/do...
I work on T2, and boy do I have a fix for you!: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-t2-unlimited-going-beyo...
How do ppl like freertos vs zephyr vs nuttx?

Have any real comparisons been done? Both on flexibility (platform support and code portability... I know... Nuttx, POSIX) and performance (interrupts, context switching, etc)

I've been looking at zephyr which seems all around better, albeit a bit less mature. I have no hard data though... Hence this question.
> It is limited to 21 million units

A "unit" consists of 100,000,000 "satoshis", just as 21 million "dollars" consists of 2,100,000,000 pennies. It's just an arbitrary unit of denomination. I guess the difference is there would only ever be 2.1 quadrillion "satoshis", instead of basically an infinite number of "pennies".
I'd rather not be fighting my fellow humans because they've been claimed by a different empire - either violently through the funding of outright war or nonviolently through economic wage slavery. Governments are unable to resist the siren song of the inflationary treadmill, as the alternative is to fall behind the others. Uniformly diminishing their ability to conscript (militarily or economically) is one actual step towards world peace.

(disclaimer: I'm not personally bullish on bitcoin itself)
Expensify does pretty horrible categorization. It's does a really good job at determining what the amount is, but approx 70% of the time manages to screw up the categorization unless its really, really obvious (ground transportation for Uber) - it will even make rookie mistakes like seeing I classified a WiFi charge with United, and then classifying my next airplane tickets as "WiFi".

But - I've always assumed that Concur and Expensify had large groups of people manually correcting/categorizing receipts, so not too surprised here.
When you give a bank your money you become an unsecured creditor to the bank.

It really isnt your money at that point. Talk to the folks in Cyprus who had 10% taken off the top
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I grew weary of seeing it wrong, which is nearly all the time on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/macintux/status/464960888441552896?s=17
I don't know why critics like you always have this perspective that it must be an "all or nothing" situation, that Bitcoin must either be designed so that the entire economy can function based on Bitcoin only, or that Bitcoin must not exist at all.

«cannot support a growing Bitcoin-based economy»

Bitcoin doesn't need to support a growing economy. Our economy is fiat-based therefore Bitcoin can do just fine, serving its purpose as a parallel currency to the economy. Its purpose is to provide censorship-resistance, to allow people to escape inflation, to solve merchant fraud with irreversible payments, etc.
"Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz said “bitcoin is successful only because of its potential for circumvention, lack of oversight." - this statement demonstrates a profound ignorance of the subject matter. Bitcoin provides a way for individuals to make secure transactions across distances without the need for a third party to verify the transaction and that's why it's successful. What lack of oversight is he talking about? It's open-source! It could hardly be any more transparent.
They won’t want to though, so long as the value continues to skyrocket.
The problem with this is that no service is likely to maintain that level of profit indefinitely in the way that $2.2m of capital will.

In fact, it might be easier to build one product that millions of users pay $1/year for a few years than it would to get $1/year from 80,000 till one's death.
Stiglitz is in favour the government printing money as a solution to many economic problems. What he must be concerned about is that if bitcoin is the medium of exchange, that lever no longer exists. Monteary inflation controlled by public servants or politicians is no longer a thing in management of an economy.

I'm making no comment about whether he's right, or whether bitcoin is good, bad or indifferent. This is what needs to be considered about Stiglitz's position and it's worth discussing, with him as well as other economists.
...someone brake checking is the one running on ego. And they're the one likely to get hit despite being "technically correct".
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