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And in some cancer types the probability of death rises by 198% and becomes 97% without being insured. Prostate and breast cancer are common but they are not the majority of cases alone.

And in the context today, a very high proportion of Americans can’t afford parts or all of tgeir cancer treatment costs, in spite of being insured.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/23442307/
"No one cares" is interesting.

That's as if there was a frenzy to buy a new brand of car and no-one cared that the cars' engines actually break down after 50 meters.

That being said, I think it's true - but it's a hint that the current "mass adoption" is mainly fueled by speculators and not by people who genuinely believe in it's purpose as a currency.
I moved out of my childhood's room but still have an active conversation (if by WhatsApp only) with the folks. We have been discussing Israel a lot this week, for example.

You should appreciate your parents while they're there, they are finite beings.
That's assuming the return on investment is _always_ lower than the rate of deflation. Which is, nonsense.
What is being missed by your analysis is that the value in a blockchain comes more from the network than the tech. There are thousands upon thousands of blockchains of no value. You could fork bitcoin or some other chain right now and start it on your laptop. Doesn't mean anything - the network is the value.

So taking this into account, when the shackles of Bitcoin's simplicity and limitations become unbearable, the network will evolve through protocol upgrades or through a contentious fork where the hash power and development resources will move to. In either case your coins and value are retained.
Your felt your idea wasn't taken seriously in a discussion? You felt you unintentionally became defensive and awkward in some social situations?
Congratulations, you just experienced some of the most universal feelings being a woman in our current society.

This talk about "can't I flirt anymore?" and similar is just sad. Boohoo, of course you can flirt, but being socially awkward/stupid while doing it is what you can't. That means growing a social competence and empathy in general, then men wouldn't end up in these situations.

> How should we act in an era when one mistake will haunt us forever?

Stop feeling sorry for yourself and thinking just being a "nice guy" is enough, that you're somehow done when it comes to equality. You articulate some of my own thoughts so this is just as much self-critique. I struggle with this everyday. I think those feelings arise when shifting of power arises, we feel something has changed and changes often lead to confusion/defiance, even though it's a change for the better. A recipe for how to act is also terrible, it's not like there is a check list of things to do and then everything is ok, it's a complete transformation of your mindset (and some of our culture) and that realization is quite overwhelming. But if I had to give some suggestions I'd say start listening and take women seriously (first, understand what taking someone seriously means..)
Banks are allowed to emit debt at the condition that a fraction of it is backed by some liquidity.

Banks decide where and when to create this debt so yes, money production is indeed decentralized.

If you’re referring to actual coinage and notes then yes, facilities are indeed centralized, but with electronic debit cards the lines are blurred further
Yep exactly. App Store is curating an experience (like HN mods are), not hosting an open popularity contest. It’s a subtle difference that results in a different approach.

As template builders get more and more streamlined, we’re getting to the point where people are essentially submitting their webpages to the app store.
I was under the impression that attack would not work because as long as the majority of nodes are "honest" there would be no way for an attacking node to outpace the chain. Each node votes with their cpu so the combined compute/speed of honest nodes would always outpace the introduction of a corrupt block. Since the the most recent "confirmed block" is a hash of the previous successful block it just continues.

However I admit much of my assumptions are just from reading the original paper so i'm probably over-simplifying. I guess it would make sense they need some history but not sure why they would need all of it since the previous blocks are confirmed?
Anecdote: my grandfather's house had a tree with a pretty big beehive. The bees would be everywhere in the garden. He was least bothered by them and considered bee stings to be only marginally more annoying than mosquito bites. However, me and mom were not so nonchalant about the bees (this was during our annual visit during summer vacations in school so we were not really used to the bee scene).

A honey collector happened to be going around looking for honeycombs and grandpa called him to collect honey from the hive (probably to get rid of the bees). We watched as the guy skillfully climbed the tree (the hive was located fairly high) with just a net as mask while wearing normal clothes - no protective suit etc. Bees probably stung him hundreds of times but he didn't really care - if he flinched, we didn't see any of that from that distance. He got a whole lot of wax and three jars of honey of which he gave us a jar as payment. I enjoyed the honey but couldn't have too much of it at any time. Once I had more than a few spoons and started feeling hot and sweaty. Grandpa told that it was an indicator of it being "good" honey. He would daily eat a spoonful of it during winters.
Bitcoin, like gold, is useless as a currency.

humans trade on credit not by exchange. Always have done.
I think he referred to SegWit, which increases the block size a bit under special conditions. That's the thing about bitcoin scaling: instead of improving scaling by increasing the block size (which will be required anyway even with Lightning), a solution that requires only changing the thousands of full nodes, they go for SegWit, which requires changing millions of wallets. Then everybody wonders why adoption isn't instant.

And Lightning, yup. I tried to use two Lightning implementations on the test net and neither worked, but they have been declared "ready!" by fans.

And Lightning deserves skepticism. Releasing software 1.0 means nothing: it requires a totally new infrastructure, with new wallets (again) which have to be online to receive money, hubs which don't exist at all today, liquidity providers willing to leave money locked in channels, (but hey, at least we didn't have to upgrade full nodes) and has completely different failure modes than the blockchain on top of the failure modes that are already there. As far as I understand it isn't even possible to receive more money than you already have with Lightning, and any part you open a channel with can block your funds for as long as the channel timeout has been set (and you don't want short/underfunded channels or you may end up paying more in transactions than you would have with a pure blockchain).

Also the opening and closing of channels means that if Lightning is actually successful the current block sizes won't be sufficient. It's at least one transaction to open the channel and another to close it, and because you want to keep a warm channel so you can buy coffee, you will want to do that whether you end up using the channel or not, but you also don't want it very long otherwise your money will be stuck if the channel goes down. So essentially you need to pay subscription fees to the blockchain for using the channels as well as well as commission to the channels for providing liquidity to you.

Maybe some super-centralized thing will come out of it and we'll all connect to the Coinbase Channel or something to do trustless centralized off-chain transactions (as opposed to trusted centralized off-chain transactions that they provide now) but even that has a host of problems when you think about it.

It's... a complicated system. It's cool and very interesting but it won't happen overnight and it's not guaranteed to actually work.
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> How is this expected to work with 7 billion people using it for every tiny financial transaction? I don't think it can.

Give it ~30 years, for the cost of CPU time/storage space/internet speed to cost 0.1% of what it does today, and — in combination with off-chain clearing — this becomes feasible.

For Bitcoin to even work as money in the first place, people need to store their savings in bitcoins. This transition will take at least ~30 years anyway, which leaves ample time for computing costs to fall to a level where 1GB blocks are realistic. Combined with an off-chain clearing protocol (like Stroem[1]) for consumer-to-merchant payments, this should allow Bitcoin to scale to ~10bn people.

[1] https://www.strawpay.com/docs/stroem-payment-system.pdf
Isn’t listening to someone exclusively because of the gender, and not the quality of their idea, exactly what we’re trying to get away from?

“Don’t discount someone just because they’re a woman” is very different from “believe them because they are a woman”.
Even on an unsecured network would the transmissions not be encrypted via tls from your computer to the server?
With the size of Chrome's market share it isn't just money; it's power too. Google has enormous control in this area, that is to say, the internet.

I would expect a company like Facebook to worry about this near-monopoly and help out the competition, or possibly add to the competition by making its own browser. That's a browser I'd never trust.

Facebook does have their apps though, which are independent from Chrome. But most people use Android, and Google controls that too.
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Well, the comparison by Peter Norvig makes Python and Lisp look pretty similar (https://norvig.com/python-lisp.html, also linked below in this thread).

In some cases, you can get around no-first-class-identifiers in Python by using strings and getattr(object, symbol) or locals()[symbol]. (What are other use cases of first-class identifiers, other than making some function arguments or macros look prettier?)
My suggestion - do not opt for personality tests. I have been tempted in the past to take these tests. But you have to understand that those who take these tests, are highly likely to believe the results - and the placebo effect takes place because they believe in the results - they start behaving around the results - and end up propagating the benefits of such systems.

This is a defeating cause. You are the best person to understand yourself - placing that responsibility to system outside of you is foolish. Add to that, if you carefully observe - we are always evolving as a person. Are you sure the results you obtain from these tests will hold true 5 years hence ? And if you choose to believe the results - aren't you limiting yourself of the possibilities ?

Your life keeps exposing your vulnerabilities and flaws - if you observe and learn from your life that itself is the biggest discovery of your self - who you are when presented with a situation is the best indicator of your personality.

Spend time reflecting on who you are that's far better than relying on external systems that try to frame and model and limit people's personality.

No system is exhaustive enough to capture the combinations of traits to come up with a list of personality types. And generalizations are just that - a generalization.

Its better to be a little skeptical of these tests - Just sharing my opinion.
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Is this an example of what you have in mind: The user is typing at Microsoft Word, and it's not a keyboard shortcut to open the "document properties" window, and Microsoft Word chooses to open another window during the typing and divert keyboard focus there?
Well, Go really is oop, it just favors composition over inheritance, but it's still oop.

(Not stating this as a bad thing, just as a fact)
Do we have data on this or is it still just a theory?
Why would clojure not be considered a lisp? (I'm curious)
It's exactly my original point that these goals are not well-defined in early 21st century maths.
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A highly congested city is already suffering from a serious problem with detrimental consequences to pedestrians and cyclists. Making cycle lanes available just helps reduce those problems. You will still have congestion whatever you do. But having less capacity for cars could help deter people from making journeys that cause such a nuisance.
I'm not feeling sorry for myself. I do take women seriously, and one of my closest friends is also a badass dev who happens to be female.

She confided in me one day that feminism originally started out with the central idea that equality is for both women and men, and everyone else. But it has morphed, and it's feeling like people are simply gleeful whenever they hear stories of men whose lives have been ruined or who are living in fear because of their private consensual activities.

This talk about "can't I flirt anymore?" and similar is just sad. Boohoo, of course you can flirt, but being socially awkward/stupid while doing it is what you can't. That means growing a social competence and empathy in general, then men wouldn't end up in these situations.

We can't flirt in a professional setting anymore. Not without risking our jobs. But that's fine. It's better to separate the two.
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> It was the first. It was the genesis idea. But good lord, do we think it's the actual solution? What would be the odds?

If superior technology comes along, what will prevent Bitcoin from adopting this, and using its network effect to outmaneuver a competing blockchain?

A couple of months ago, the Bitcoin network adopted the SegWit protocol change, which could be considered a minor fix (no major improvements to scalability). If the Bitcoin network can agree to adopt a minor fix, why wouldn’t it be able to agree to adopt a major scalability improvement as well?
Facebook is a threat to the State department. The people who run Facebook are not intelligent. Facebook is an internal enemy, but not traitorous enough to warrant a military response. Facebook's power should be limited by acts of congress. Just as Twitter's power and Google's power should be limited.

Either congress will act (and it has been almost twenty years for Google, nearly fifteen for Facebook) or some strong man who makes Trump look like a wimp will gain power and Congress will rubber stamp the edicts of the dictator.

As an American, I want congress to act. I want to be protected from Facebook, Google, and Twitter. And frankly if I don't get what I want from congress, I'm going to start writing stories about ex-military operations that result in large atomic craters at the headquarters of those companies.

And I'm going to start normalizing calls for fission devices to be used against them.

Call it "atomic therapy". It's a little bit like shock therapy for corporations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_mASr1djMM

This is what I want for Google, Facebbok, and Twitter employees: a lifetime of ECT "therapy". Those employees should be tortured with ECT every day for the rest of their lives. They deserve to be tortured this way.

Those things are life unworthy of life. When I say "those things", I mean Facebook employees, I mean Twitter employees, I mean Google employees. I want those things locked up in cages and tortured with ECT every single day as long as they live.

And I want that written down in an act of Congress.

Those things are going to hell.
Could you elaborate on how you achieve this?
If that were so, then I would've expected them to say "helped me lose X pounds in ~2 months".
No, I have to send a simple forged "alert" packet to cause you to download 1-4MB of block data plus additional dependent spend data of similar size from your peers, and lock up your CPU for an intensive amount of time doing signature verification and hash tree calculations only to find out the alert was incorrect. Meanwhile another spoofed peer sends another alert packet....
Who decided the quality of the idea? You are acting as if quality is an objective / unbiased concept. That's especially not to so in the tech industry.

Listening means actively and with interest and curiosity taking in someone's idea being presented. Your sentence doesn't make sense, you stop listening as soon as the quality of someone's idea goes down?
It's the basis of mainstream economics, and the reason for the 1-2% inflation target that most central banks use.
I've had a few crashes with it. But nothing serious or really different from Chrome. There's also FF developer edition, which is more stable.
>I did, but during the years I certainly delayed the purchase of many technological goods because I assumed that waiting for their price to decrease or their performances to improve was a wise thing to do. Didn't you?

But you still purchased it eventually. In that sense a deflationary currency might change the balance of consumer spending vs saving in favour of more saving, but that doesn't mean a continuous downwards spiral in spending, it could just be a new equilibrium.

>Imagine how companies loved that, and imagine extending it to just everything, from food to housing.

Personally I'd absolutely love if house prices halved every year, as at the rate they're currently increasing it'll be a long time before I could afford even a tiny apartment anywhere near where I work.

>However, with technological items there was always another side: the new ones were so much better than our current ones, ours were actually getting old faster, and we were driven to buy. The same won't happen with the other goods on the market.

Would it be bad thing if it did happen to other goods on the market? If e.g. a 2005 car was better than a 2000 car to the same degree that a 2005 computer was better than a 2000 computer.

>The interest of gov bonds or of any other financial instrument afaik represents (and is proportional to) a risk of not getting repaid.

I was referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk-free_interest_rate : "In practice, to infer the risk-free interest rate in a particular situation, a risk-free bond is usually chosen—that is, one issued by a government or agency whose risks of default are so low as to be negligible."
Ask HN: What app would you make, if you have access to all mobile operator data?
We have gone way past 'innocent until proven guilty'. If it is in any way profitable to take you down (promotion/fame/facebook likes) avoid contact with anyone except in the most professional setting with a lot of witnesses.

And it does not even have to be malice: a simple misunderstanding will do. After 20 years of the Daily Show/Colbert/the Internet people are more primed than ever to notice a "problematic" look, comment or action. As you said, it gives people a rush.
The general rule is: Nothing is called AI anymore once it works.

Like with magic tricks, once we know how it works it seems a lot less impressive. So we stop calling it AI. When you think about it, everything computers do could be considered AI.
bitcoin is already used in pseudo reserve de-facto currency to trade other currencies. perhaps it will stay that way - a way into crypto world.
That seems weird. There was no search engine that was willing to pay money to be default outside of US, China, and Russia?
This is an extremely biased piece of journalism that almost anyone on the ground in the Philippines would disagree with. Very dishonest and should not be trusted at face value.
I moved from the Bay Area to Brisbane. The market is pretty sparse. Seems like Flight Centre, Suncorp, Virgin, TAB, and Auto and General are the big companies.

Console seem interesting, they were recently acquired by Macquarie. Console Connect and Rex are hiring.

I’ve met people trying to take advantage of lack of competition to set up dev offices. I talked with a well funded US startup who seems interesting.
From February, Singapore will have a limit on the number of cars.

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-41730778
Re 3.: I think that's a terrible promtp. The prompt says, my settings might be outdated and I should switch back to Google as a search engine. What's the reasoning here? Why is implied that the settings are outdated if I use a custom search engine? No other settings are checked/affected by this prompt, so why frame it as a settings issue at all?

Re 4.: Why silently, why not a prompt here?
Now I'm wondering if you or I could use a small and corrupt country to act as a front for hacking.
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At a guess, Sophos isn't/wasn't trusting Let's Encrypt's own root certificate (only their cross-signed ones).
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For those of us on the other side of the world, Would you be willing to give a quick summary of the biases you see in the piece, a taster of your experience of the reality on the ground?
> How long until it becomes a crime to speak out against bitcoin?

> Should I be scared now, posting this here?

You seem to be the only one who wants to take freedoms away from other people. The bitcoiners don't want to take away YOUR rights. That would go against the entire concept of bitcoin, which is resistance to censorship.

Bitcoin removes control, it does not add to it.
FYI: Big fan of building your own blockchains (learn by doing), thus, I've started to collect starter blockchains (in 20 lines of JavaScript, Python, Ruby, ...) and articles (like BrewChain) over at the Awesome Blockchains page [1]. Anything missing? Contributions welcome. Happy blockchaining.
[1]: https://github.com/openblockchains/awesome-blockchains
The parent is commenting on coinbase’s ability to keep bitcoins safe.

It is basically not possible for coinbase to “lack requisite fiat” as the requisite fiat to run an exchange is zero. Coinbase simply matches buyers and sellers. Not sure how a price crash would change anything.
Ajit Pai isn't white, and that bothers me. He appears to be disloyal to white Americans and loyal to telecom companies. If he is favoring nonwhite Americans who work for telecom companies over white Americans who use the internet to get information, then he is a racist who should be kicked out immediately.

The idea that whites should let racist nonwhites run critical infrastructure is bizarre in the extreme.
i think they're talking about production run time versus development runtime. think of it as turning asserts off on production builds. but spec can conform data and explain the reason for non-conformance so some might leave some spec in production for logging, messages, etc.
I liked the original title, personally.
Didn't get the reference of Daily show and Colbert there. Care to elaborate?
>Advice I received but ignored but is probably true: Doing a PhD actually decreases your chance of getting a job (especially in Computer Science)

Can you explain the Computer Science part?

Only reasons I can think of are "overqualified" and "X years in college with 0 real world experience".
Bitcoin has no particular requirement for energy, it’s an arbitrage involving the prices of three components: 1) a bitcoin 2) a KWh of power 3) mining hardware.

As long as the value of newly minted bitcoins makes it profitable to buy mining hardware and burn off power to earn them, the amount of power used by bitcoin miners will increase.

So, way before Bitcoin miners consume all of the world’s energy, either energy prices or mining hardware prices will increase, or the bitcoin price will fall, to make mining unprofitable.
This one was pretty great:

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