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This is a pretty great way to stifle innovation and one of the most blatantly authoritarian programs I have seen.
They are essentially saying that no one is allowed to advance technology within their state unless they adhere to their arbitrary rules including passing a test and "a work record of four years or more of technical work or engineering work under the supervision and control of a professional engineer." 4 years before you are even allowed to publicly discuss engineering! Last time I checked math and physics work the same regardless on an internship.
These coins were mostly sold off to venture capitalist Tim Draper, for $50m: https://hacked.com/tim-draper-has-made-over-110-million-sinc...

Might sound like a success story now, but at a certain point he was down 70% on his investment!
My basic point was that "capitalism" is a term not understood broadly enough to be meaningful. Your (justified) complaint about "No True Scotsman" fallacies supports my point. As does your critique of the shifting feelings about capitalism over the years.

My main point was that people criticizing capitalism and the people defending it are rarely talking about the same thing. I have seen people defending capitalism (as defined in dictionaries and wikipedia) that obviously are referring to the canonical definitions. I have seen, though less frequently, people criticizing capitalism in the same sense. It seems like you might be one of these, though most of the time the solutions to capitalism look mostly like tweaked capitalism with another label attached. For example, a progressive wealth tax doesn't (directly) dispute the importance of wages, property rights, market-based pricing, etc. Likewise, proponents of rent control aren't in favor of a centrally controlled housing authority that sets and approves rents (as opposed to a market based solution).
Whales can only sell once. It's also not in their self interest to make a market collapse, why would they depress the price of the thing they are trying to sell? When whales do sell many smaller buyers then take ownership of their coins decreasing the chance of future volatility. These concerns are being exaggerated too much.
Can someone explain something to me:

So people mine bitcoin, which is really just validating the transactions on the network, and they get paid in bitcoin for doing so. However, they will receive fewer and fewer bitcoin over time because of the fixed supply. At some point doesn't mining become unprofitable, causing the network to crash. And if the price drops doesn't this exacerbate this problem? Would love some clarity here.
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They're just using the law to punish people who don't have the correct opinions. I've heard of similar things in medicine, if you don't have the correct opinions on nutrition, then you may be fined for practicing medicine without a license.
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Matt Levine answers this better in https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-11-28/regulator.... The short answer is no, because:

> if bitcoin speculators want to sell their bitcoins for dollars and nobody wants to buy bitcoins for dollars, then the dollar price of bitcoin will go down and the bitcoin speculators will be sad. But that is always true of everything; it is a feature of markets, not of bank runs.
Out of curiosity, were you already knowledgeable about lisp/scheme/fp before using nix ?
Does Tridactyl suck as much as Vimium-FF on FF57? I would guess so. I used to run VimFX, but I'm out of luck now. It seems we have to wait for the DOM to load before we can use our keyboard shortcuts...
If offering opinions on important topics without being licensed was illegal, almost every HN user would be guilty.
EDIT: Due to a blog post I was unaware of, the rest of this post is incorrect. Patreon will still make a bit more money than before, but with the new structure of billing each pledge on its own schedule, not nearly as much as I had outlined.

https://blog.patreon.com/updating-patreons-fee-structure/

ORIGINAL:

Most patrons provide many small donation amounts. Patreon will, as called out in the article, get a lot more money from those patrons.

If you assume a 2.9% + $0.30 CC charge fee (i.e. Stripe), and a patron giving $1 to 100 artists:

Before: Patreon gets $5 from their cut from the artists; the patron is charged $100, the artists each get $0.67.

After: Patreon gets $5 from their cut from the artists, and $34.70 from the additional fees; the patron is charged $137.50, the artists each get $0.95.
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I'd bet that large holders of gold sell small amounts all the time without the market going nuts and kicking off volatility swings. But I could be wrong.

It's less the mechanism and the implication that people imply by following whales. Why should a store-of-value market react when someone sells a small amount regardless of their current holdings?
In addition to mining new bitcoin, miners confirm transactions of existing bitcoin in the network. They get paid to do that as well (tx fee).
What are the use cases for the Titan V vs. Radeon Pro SSG?

Just ML? Higher memory bandwidth?

https://pro.radeon.com/en/product/pro-series/radeon-pro-ssg/
Used to be. Don't think they have the power over the market they used to have.
It's not unprecedented
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Great analogy and completely agree that we couldn't compete on overall opportunities. Would still argue we have a pretty unbeatable lifestyle though, which it sounds like you're pretty familiar with :-)

As far as recruiters, I can't recall a week here without at least one contact, but it sounds like it's even busier in NYC!
> Did you ever work in another country?

Yes. I'm currently working in another country and I've been studying in Japan for a year. So I have few points of comparison.

Terrorism is not just a question of numbers. The problem is more about how the government handle the matter. When you read things like terrorists getting welfare[1] for years, the fact they can keep the nationality[2] and returnees jihadists from Syria will be welcomed[3], in addition to no state reaction after Charlie (which lead to the Bataclan event), no real proactive mesures against 15 000 people suspected of terrorism acquaintance or support[4], the problem is not current terrorism, it is the future. Because almost nothing is done against it and you can except to see the trend of multiples attacks per year (or month, Europe wise) to continue for years.

Should I mention that if you ever got red-handed in a terrorist plot you're only sentenced to maximum 10 years of prison[6], that can be further reduced for "good behavior"? It's even creating more of them actually.[7] And that hosting them is not even considered prosecutable?[8] And let's not dive in rabbit hole of the hundreds of salafist mosques that can preach hate against the French in total impunity.

It also have impact on daily life. Multiples subway stations are closed for hours everyday because of suspicious bags, the train station like Gare du Nord are closed and rushed by the police on a regular basis.

Anyway I could simply have started my post with a question, like you did: did you ever had a friend got shot in a terror attack?

I guess not, otherwise you would not just speak about numbers.

[1] https://francais.rt.com/international/44967-2-millions-deuro...
[2] http://www.lefigaro.fr/politique/le-scan/2016/03/30/25001-20...
[3] http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2017/11/09/01016-201...
[4] https://www.valeursactuelles.com/politique/15-000-fiches-s-p...
[5] https://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/societe/justice/filiere-dj...
[6] https://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/societe/justice/filiere-dj...
[7] http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2017/03/30/97001-20170330F...
[8] http://www.lemonde.fr/attaques-a-paris/article/2016/05/26/ja...
Buying any asset pushes the price up and selling pushes the price down. It's a matter of sensitivity. The Chinese government could probably push down the price of USD a few percent by announcing a policy change today, but one guy could potentially push Bitcoin prices down significantly with a keystroke.
probably some realization that 99% of their actual job is ORDER BY, GROUP BY, SUM...not a bunch of cool math scrawled on a whiteboard

I tried warning people off of this field given that they would be doing sql query monkey work and drawing simple line charts...most definitely not an upgrade from software development like it was sold as
Francois Cholet (author of Keras)'s Deep Learning with Python will be complete and fully published on the 20th of December: https://www.manning.com/books/deep-learning-with-python The chapters released so far are very good, the outlook chapters were extensively discussed on HN: https://blog.keras.io/the-limitations-of-deep-learning.html and https://blog.keras.io/the-future-of-deep-learning.html

Wickham's R for Data Science came out in December 2016, I'd like to pretend that counts as 2017: http://r4ds.had.co.nz/
It's a very complete introduction to the tidyverse which makes working in R much more pleasurable.

The second edition of Python for Data Science came out in October 2017 - that one focuses on Pandas, numpy and Jupyter notebooks, reasonably good introduction to those libraries.

The second edition of Sebastian Raschka's Python Machine Learning came out 2017 too - that one focuses more on scikit-learn and tensorflow, have only heard good things but haven't read much in it.
It's how totalitarians roll. You can't have upward mobility, you can't have a level playing field where people can take on the state and win with common sense. We need that, but it leaves the autocrats out of a job.
The author is way off base in saying software engineering is about assembly rather than discovery. That's only true of the lowest-skill non-innovating software shops, and even then, developers are constantly having to discover how to use the new tool of the month.

On an unrelated note I don't really buy into the idea of data science as a distinct thing from computer science.
>It's certainly not enough data for an arrogantly overconfident position.

If that is not enough data, I doubt any amount of data is.

Interesting ideas to ponder are all well and good, but you're positing that a system of government is the best one and making a fairly outlandish claim about China with absolutely no supporting evidence of such a system being sustainable.
I don't know why what I said would require statist. Even the left libertarians would agree. Socialism is just changing who owns the means of production, that's independent of how centralized the government would be.
Out of curiosity (and not really related to the article) but I’m kind of surprised to hear there is a formula for calculating how long(?) yellow lights are on and that it relates to a red light camera.
AFAIK those cameras are hooked into the control system and only activate when the light is red, which seems like a pretty binary decision.
Can someone shed some light on this?
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A quick Glassdoor search places 'senior software engineer' in Melbourne at 101k:

https://www.glassdoor.com.au/Salaries/melbourne-senior-software-engineer-salary-SRCH_IL.0,9_IM965_KO10,34.htm

I agree with the parent commenter. I reached a salary cap around 5 years out of university and wasn't able to break it within Australia.
They also get the transaction fees as reward, and the difficulty (and thus cost) of mining adjusts down if progress on the chain slows down
It seems pretty obvious to me as well. Given huge speculation surrounding them at the moment I'm surprised we don't hear more people warning about these things. I don't think I want to live in a world where BTC replaces the USD/EUR/...

Untraceable money means that corruption and tax evasion would be easier than ever. Democratic governments would be worse off in dealing with that, because unlike totaliatrian regimes they won't be able to round up BTC-rich people and break their fingers until they give their secret keys.

Deflation means that the rich will get richer doing nothing while the poor won't be able to get a loan to bootstrap their businesses. Forget about trickle down economics, this is downright "trickle up".

I have yet to hear a reasonable rebuttal to these claims. Every time I see these points brought up in the bitcoin community it's met with a bunch of hand waiving and claims that they're "FUD" and that the poster doesn't know what they're talking about. So please, BTC enthusiasts, educate me so that I can stop spreading this "FUD", where's the flaw in my reasoning?
Who said anything about a small amount?
1,000 people is a really small number, and if mildly organized they can easily manipulate the market by controlling a great slice of the supply side.

Too much control on the hands of few.
At great cost to himself. Dumping coins like that is not free, you pay a huge price due to slippage.
I don't think it's gotten that far yet. As I did actually give them my information. It's really this odd "wrong number" thing that is bothering me. I just wanted to see if anyone else has even heard of it.
There is also no derivatives market for diamonds
He's probably just done with the whole thing at this point, but I suppose he'd have to counter-sue to recover the money? You'd think it would be an easy case— he was unfairly attacked and incurred costs as a result, therefore the entity doing the attacking needs to pony up.
No-one is manufacturing larger stacks of HBM yet so far as I am aware. If there are it's only a small amount.
I'm in a similar situation, I got a One Plus Onyx since I heard so much about how One Plus supports and updates their products and I haven't had an update in over a year.

It's probably time to install LineageOS...
Mm.

Counter point: Different people mean different things by the word “murder”. Does abortion count? I’d say no, but plenty of people disagree with me, violently. Does the death penalty count? I’d say yes, but again, plenty disagree violently. Does it count if you kill foreigners after invading their land? Does it count if you kill a chimp? If you euthanise a dog? A hamster? If you kill a prawn for dinner? People disagree on all of these.

Or “theft”: is taxation theft? Or is avoiding taxation theft?
these are exchange accounts that hold volumes of BTC.
In this day and age, often the same.

The older I get, the more I understand Turner's thesis on the frontier. Without a frontier, ambitious people turn into ever-more specialized rentiers, trying to squeeze the golden goose as hard as they can before it dies.

Seasteading, space, personal nanomachine universal constructors, or bust. Otherwise I'd welcome the destruction of, to paraphrase Nietzsche, the insane asylum of modern civilization.

Give us twenty thousand years. Maybe we'll be able to breed beings who have a high enough IQ to navigate a ”modern” world without various social status systems going completely insane.
> SEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ISSUER

Is this because in China you're expected to ignore all certificate warnings?

> I wonder what their performance is like compared to GPUs.

Me too. I tried to find a similar table and found this: https://github.com/tobigithub/tensorflow-deep-learning/wiki/...

25 ms/batch of 128 is 5120 images/second... Is that correct? Am I missing something?
The article that I quoted.
All the anti-Amazon Key articles mention the "service" costing $250.

I must not be seeing it all.

You get an indoor security camera, and a smart deadbolt for $250, right?

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I paid a locksmith $100 for a new strike plate, which was Amazon’s recommendation.

LOL!
It was all hype. All of it. I enjoyed learning about data science, but in the end, there were no jobs I could actually apply for and realistically get. I also don't think they were providing the big wins for the company that would justify what they were getting paid. Again, all hype.
I don’t understand how nobody downvoted this comment a la Weinstein
That's a good counter-point, and it's difficult to counter without some knowledge of manipulation within BTC markets.
It's interesting to see how this is playing out. Libertarians have long argued that government-issued fiat currency is a tool of state oppression. Now we have a real-world experiment demonstrating on a grand scale what happens when you create a currency by consensual fiat. I'd be interested to hear what libertarians think about this: Is Bitcoin truly the kind of currency libertarians have been advocating? Have I mischaracterized the libertarian position? What do you think about the concentration of Bitcoins in the hands of a small number of people? Where is this experiment going in the long run?
Lol trust. 90% of bitcoin traders have their money on unregulated exchanges.
Yikes. That is an insane way to do things. Silly inefficient to boot.

The only real winner in this will be Stripe and its ilk.

Thanks for finding and posting that.
That Radeon card has 2TB of onboard memory, and seems to be aimed at very heavy content creation workloads (8k VR). I think it's in a different (and ultra-niche) league to this Nvidia card. I would guess this is aimed at heavy ML workloads?
Some people's attitude about this would make you think they are actually suffering from this.
For the purposes of work (IT) or business immigration it's totally trivial
But this time it's voluntarily. Anybody can get it at any time. I've been telling my friends and family since 2012, and only one of them invested. Those who take risks, get rewarded. You can't win if you refuse to try.

Of course, there are truly poor people out there who can't have a dollar to spare, but it's mostly due to geography, corruption or war, not evil capitalists.
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It's not in their interest but things happen. Lots of these people live in China right? Let's say some economic downturn happens in China, or government policy changes or something and they need to liquidate some of their bitcoin assets in a hurry all the sudden you could have a market collapse.
On the other hand OP3 and OP3T have pretty impressive (for me) track record and are now on 8.0 with September security (I think). And out of the box 3T had 6.X something. OP is not a perfect company, not even close, but ok I suppose overall.
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They need to be better educated.
The Golem.de text that is mentioned in the article is now also available in an English translation:
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This one seems to have quite long legs, but no idea how profitable it is.
Seriously, this. It is such bs, since most lawyers are incentivized to take as much time as necessary since they work on an hourly basis.
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Based on statements such as "depressive episodes" and such, it seems in this case more like people with complementary disabilities. His body struggles, her mind struggles, they can each support the others' "weakness" as it were. Maybe that's the key really, because they're both caretakers of the other.
As soon as we had a child, we went from "doing OK on two professional salaries" to "losing money even with a modest lifestyle."

Outside Aus, we only need one income to support the family. That's a pretty amazing quality of life improvement.
To reiterate my earlier point, it seems you're disagreeing with and/or confused about what I'm saying capitalism is. That's basically what I'm getting at. That "capitalism" isn't a safe word to just throw around and assume you're understood and listened to.

But I do understand those critiques of "capitalism" though generally they don't go so far as to refute any of the core aspects of capitalism. People aren't generally arguing to centralize the means of production. In fact, most of the critiques of "capitalism" is that production and consumption have become too centralized in the hands of private parties and corrupt officials. So barring government seizure of markets (labor, housing, etc.), the argument is mostly that we don't really have functioning markets. Which means the person who is anti-"capitalism" really wants a working capitalism.

Which all are fair points to make. It's just confusing throwing the "capitalism" word around, which is my point here.
That's a very intelligent point, but let's think specifically of BTC's utility as a store of value.

A comparable alternative may be gold, and it would be fair to say that the gold market could be heavily impacted by a few large holders who choose to sell their holdings. However, those holders tend to be governments. Many of the top holders are fairly representative governments, so initialization of a mass gold dumping is less likely than if they were individuals or small corporate entities, I think. They would be throwing away value that belongs to a large group of citizens, and there would be trade ramifications because their trading partners would take it in the face on their own reserves.

The real reason many people don't initiate aggressive sales is that, barring a mass exodus from a collapsing financial instrument where the price is going to drop anyway, nobody wants to hurt their own mark-to-market by pushing down the prices. The only exception to this would be a fire sale where there is a mandate to liquidate a holding in order to return value to creditors.

Not only that, but price impact is often reversed by other, later trading. So even if your intention is to put selling pressure on the instrument, it may not have a very lasting impact on the price.

However, if you assume everyone else will follow suit and race to the bottom, then there's a definite first mover advantage. That's almost certainly not the case for precious metals, and generally not the case for currencies issued by stable and relatively uncorrupt governments, but it may be the case for BTC because it is new, volatile, and unsecured/unbacked.
Interestingly enough, that's how Société Générale lost huge amounts of money following the discovery of Jerôme Kerviel's misbehavior. They recklessly closed their positions, shooting themselves in the foot in the process.
You know what "risk" means, right?
What are you saying, you never read other people's code? That's actually my job.
Photo traffic tickets are just another tool for those with a monopoly on force to steal money from people. Fortunately, in Arizona the state is still required to serve in person in order for the ticket to be binding. My wife and I have got for or five of these tickets in the mail over the years. We just throw them in the trash.