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This seems to be all about tabs or windows.

Am I the only one who uses tabs and windows?

I have one browser window always open with all my everyday communications: Gmail, Google Voice, Calendar, a corporate Outlook webmail account, a Discord team, etc.

Then if I do something different I open a new window for it. If it's an HN break, I open a new window for the HN home page and start middle-clicking (or Ctrl/Cmd clicking) each of the discussion and site links that look interesting. Now I have a window loaded up with those tabs that I can either look at or come back to later.

Time to do a Google search on a particular topic? New window for the search, then middle-click the most promising results. Now I have a window grouping the research on that topic.

So I end up with a number of windows for different activities or topics. Each of those windows has several tabs that relate to that specific interest.

I have one friend who opens everything in a single window with dozens of tabs and no organization to them. I tried to demonstrate this system of a window per topic with fewer tabs in each window, but it just didn't register.

It seems so easy though: New topic? Ctrl+N for a new window about that topic. Then open tabs within that window just for that topic.

And when I'm done with a topic, I can close all the tabs related to that topic in one fell swoop.

I admit this is a very naive question, but it seems like such a practical and obvious approach - so why doesn't everyone do this?
I'll probably be downvoted into oblivion for hating on the latest hot internet rumor, but here is why I believe the tether rumors should be ignored:

The tether situation has been twisted into a PR campaign against bitcoin by the bcash supporters (formally the segwit2x) supports.

When the segwit2x fork was cancelled, /r/btc (a segwit2x and bcash community) and a number of popular twitter accounts suddenly started picking up the bitfinex'd anti-tether campaign. This includes a large group of what are most likely twitter bot accounts (have not tweeted in a long time, all joined around the same time, etc).

Tether/Bitfinex is working on an audit but this takes considerable time. The auditing group will not put their stamp of public approval on an audit until it has gone through the most stringent reviews.

Tether has been receiving significant "institutional" money over the past few months specifically trying to exploit the bitfinex USD lending market.

Given how Wells Fargo and other large banks have been treating any company related to the bitcoin space, it is not in Tether's best interests to publicize which banks they are using. Hopefully someday this situation will improve, but for now if you run a company in the cryptocurrency space your fiat banking is tenuous at best, therefore you do not advertise your industry to your banking partners.

Bitfinex is making $5m or more per day on a slow day, and has been for quite a while. This revenue stream can be used to support Tether if needed.

Tether's USD pair on Kraken has remained close to $1. This would be the first market to go crazy if there were an actual issue with Tethers as the tether holders would rush to redeem them at Kraken instead of via Tether themselves.

The "printing" of Tethers is now largely being sent to Bittrex and Poloniex in order to support their customers' tether balances. Tethers are a public blockchain, do the research and follow them to their actual destination.

Even if every single tether were being used to borrow margin funding on bitfinex and buy bitcoin, it would hardly make a dent in the daily BTC volume at Bitfinex. Tether "followers" make a big deal about a 15m or 30m tether generation event, but even with this being used for 3x margin on bitfinex it would hardly make a dent on the > 2.5B usd trading volume.

There are many more arguments supporting or attacking tether. I will not be responding to any comments because I have a feeling this will turn into a mess but I just wanted to throw some more information / opinions into the mix. The whole cryptocurrency world has been completely fueled, almost lives off of, FUD and rumors that would push a price up or down. This feeds right into that.

BUT:

At the end of the day you should trust no exchange, the entire point of cryptocurrency is that you control your own holdings.
It's heading there in other countries, it's just not done by the government yet except in extreme cases. I already can't do anything on social media which could piss off my employer. It makes sense that I can't talk shit about them or leak info, but I also can only share certain political opinions - for example, while I'm sure my employer would be fine if I told them I voted for Hillary and supported gay marriage, I'm not so sure they would be fine if I told them I voted for Trump or was involved in union/labor politics. Of course there would be no direct consequences to either, but HR and managers would know (because they check) and it would affect their opinions of me negatively.

And now it's happening with advertisement too. Tell your friend you just took a pregnancy test via FB messenger and now every advertiser on the internet knows just what to sell you. Most people don't really care about this yet, but most people don't realize that this kind of thing could be used in the future for all sorts of dystopian shit. All this data is being stored. I think Google is treating my data pretty responsibly at the moment, but I could see it being used for anything from background checks (e.g. checking search history or message logs for indicators of illegal activity) to blackmail.

On a tangential sidenote, I read an article about Snap recently about how they're trying to position themselves as a different kind of social media company. They don't (yet) perform highly sophisticated targeted advertising and don't save a lot of actual content data. You typically are only connected to your actual friends, not some random guy from your high school class, your aunt, your ex-girlfriend, and your coworker. There's also no public profile for employers to search for and snoop around. Of course these are typically the case for any tool focused on direct messaging but I hope as Snap expands they can be both successful and keep these fantastic qualities.
Is Patreon "agile"? Why would they change something like this?
No, that’s the point, no one is sure about this. For a token that’s supposed to be redeemable in USD, the tether is extremely opaque.
Do you have any idea why they are giving you only 1 year renewals? Previously on an instructor visa I had no trouble getting a 3 year renewal -- even though I only had 1 year contracts at my employer. I wonder if it's because they see your employer as being risky (given that it's a startup). You might consider trying to get a job somewhere bigger (or trying to get a full time position) if you want to stay in Japan forever.
What his total wealth is seems a bit irrelevant. Do you think that he is not genuine about paying for this himself? If so, what do you base that on?

The rest of the story seems to support his story that he did this on his own, especially because from the way the journalist describe the court proceedings it seems like Uber didn't capitalize on his work at the right time when they could have if they were aware of it.

Also, this article was published yesterday which is multiple court proceedings after his work was submitted to the USPTO and what was supposed to be court date. If this is a PR effort I would have expected it to be done a bit earlier.
No, I was just referring to how someone can be granted a durable power of attorney, in which case they have license to remove the grantor from life support. Anyway, I support everything you said, and just to be clear, I'm no fan of arbitration; I was mostly playing devil's advocate.
> My gut tells me your assessment is wrong - that the Clintonian Third Wayism you describe is waning - chiefly evidenced by Obama being so much further to the left and comparatively weak/confused on foreign policy as compared with the Clintons.

It is waning, as evidenced by how competitive Sanders was in the primary and how popular Sanders remains, though the neoliberal faction is still dominant; but Obama wasn't significantly further to the left than Clinton (not was his administration nearly as weak and fumbling on substantive foreign policy as the Clinton administration, not that that, in either direction, says anything about the dominance of Third Wayism.)

> That the Democratic Party embraces identity politics was my impression as well.

So, incidentally, has the Republican Party for a long time. Christian identity politics, obviously for quite a long time, but also since the Southern Strategy White identity politics (with a sharp uptick recently in n how overt and direct their appeals on both are.)
I feel exactly the same, and I've rarely met people who do the same!

Specific task has its own window, with all related tabs in there. Another window, another task/context.
this belongs in a museum no?
>You can see if an infrared LED is emitting light by looking at it through your phone camera

Do you or anyone else happen to know the sensitivities of phone cameras to infrared bleeding into the visible spectrum, esp under interference from the rest of the visible spectrum?
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Which BTC/tether market(s) is this happening on? I know plenty of BTC/USD markets, but I’m not familiar with which BTC/tether markets exist.
Yeah but even that is just same lines and so bits like walking from Chancery Lane to Farringdon taking eight minutes on foot and "nope" on the tube ;) is missing.

Or St Paul's to Mansion House, that's just six minutes, even Blackfriars is only nine.
Interesting. What happens if, say, Bitfinex runs out?
What would you value a technology that aims to separate money and state? Does it have no value?
> I think the explanation is really simple. A couple of months back numerous non-technical acquaintances began expressing interest in Bitcoin with a number of them going on to purchase it -- completely independent of one another. I doubt my anecdote is particularly unique. There seems to have been a huge influx of "dumb money" on the heels of an exponential increase in media coverage.

That's the "pump" part of a pump-and-dump scheme.
No, it was just a test of the HN hivemind. They go nuts with the upvotes when people with all-lowercase usernames say authoritative things, like "please stop," etc.

On the other hand, you could have worded your comment a bit better so it didn't seem like you were accusing every reader of having schizotypal personality disorder.
Sorry, Patrick, have to disagree with you on this one: 12 years of residency, started a Godo Gaisha, had to jump hoops even with my bank I'd had a personal account with all those years just to get a standard savings account.

Credit card was the same for me, although friends have had easier time. I owned a house, a car, registered a business - could not get a personal cc with company my family had been using for over 10 years without doing major banter and restrictions.

I can't imagine a foreigner coming over here with no spousal connections and setting up a company for a year.
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Yuucho, as well, though they are very slow with int'l wire transfers. Almost walked in/walked out to set up, though.
I'm specifically talking about his statement that "It’s definitely not a drop in the bucket for me" seems disingenuous when he appears to have a large amount of wealth. I'm not disputing that he paid for the fee himself.

It's almost like he's trying to make himself seem more relatable by saying the fee was a bigger deal for him than it actually was. To me, it comes off like he's trying to hide something
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I think there's major inherent value in Bitcoin. Or at least was. I enjoy traveling and it's quite the pain with traditional banking. It ranges from the small things like facing account locks (even after informing the bank you'll be traveling) which take days to clear up, to getting absolutely gouged on access to your money. If you want quick access to your own money then you'll be facing artificially weakened exchange rates, fees on said exchange rate, and then fees on top of fees because fees. To get reasonable access you need to wire money which comes with annoying hassles, paperwork, delays, and then you better hope you're not trying to get access to your money during the weekend or a bank holiday.

And then the banks themselves also face countless rules and regulations which result in more hassles to consumers. Happen to keep depositing just below $x for whatever reason? Welcome to a suspicious activity report (for fear you may be trying to dodge financial accounting reporting regulations) and having all deposited funds confiscated until you spend tens of thousands of dollars proving yourself innocent, because in finance innocent until proven guilty apparently doesn't fly. And that's of course just one example among countless.

The current monetary system is pretty much awful. I thought (and think) Bitcoin is the start of a change to this. In other words that it has inherent value. The limits of that value are now being shown as transactional fees get crazy, but the point of this is that I don't view Bitcoin as an arbitrary commodity. It is a decentralized financial service.
I've also been looking into this as well. But I think the bets are going to be even more appealing than the futures, since I don't need to put any money down to make them!
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As much as I think there might be a crash, so many things are wrong here:

> They don’t do technical analysis or are savvy enough to place limit orders.

I agree on limit orders but what is the fascination with TA. Not a day goes about where someone in cryptocurrency uses some kind of chart mumbo jumbo to prove a point.

> Ever wonder why Coinbase takes about a week to “process” the sell?

Simple answer - Settlements. Banks are not very fast. If someone was to refund you now, you don't get the money in a day. They will always say, "money will be credited back to you in 2-4 days".

There are so many additional reasons for this:

1. Security. The amount of non-technical people going on the exchange is huge. So they don't know if the sell was the right one or not.

2. KYC - They need to ensure the buyers are following AML laws to ensure they don't get sued later for helping drug dealers.

3. Volume - The sheer volume of transactions which need to processed, specially with KYC confirmations.

4. Settlement - They can only pay someone if the buying party has sent the money to them.

5. Banks - Banks always know who is crediting the money. They might have put extra checks for money coming from Coinbase, not to slow Coinbase down but again to save their asses.

etc.

> Closing shop for a bit

The logic on this is so convoluted. If they keep the public price API is fast because it doesn't need to handle additional requests. It is a simple fetch.

Additionally, if they keep the price API open it is just providing ammunition to detractors.

Have you ever been in a stock market crash? Try that, your broker will freeze up and stop responding. You will have a public price API to know what just hit you.
I don’t exactly disagree. But, until recently, the people I knew who were investing were techies with political bents. They appreciated the technology, wanted to support it, and invested small amounts that they could afford to lose. Would call this ‘dumb money?’

...this changed over the summer/fall, of course.
Pretty soon companies will only want to hire developers augmented with brain interfaces. And why wouldn’t they? Such developers could build entire systems at the speed of thought.
Is it looked down upon with what Newman's Own does with the charity? They make good products and it is neat that they donate profits (after tax) to charity. Just curious how well it was utilized etc. Quick research shows that it helped some pretty good causes at least on the surface. Does anyone know any more about it?
The NSA collects the data - they're not the ones who take action about it. They supply the info to the CIA, FBI, DEA, and so forth.

Their data sharing was expanded just before Obama left office: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/12/us/politics/nsa-gets-more...

"Previously, the N.S.A. filtered information before sharing intercepted communications with another agency, like the C.I.A. or the intelligence branches of the F.B.I. and the Drug Enforcement Administration. The N.S.A.’s analysts passed on only information they deemed pertinent, screening out the identities of innocent people and irrelevant personal information.

Now, other intelligence agencies will be able to search directly through raw repositories of communications intercepted by the N.S.A. and then apply such rules for “minimizing” privacy intrusions."
Without the consensus read you can get inconsistent values.

Suppose you write value a to leader A and then value b to leader A. Node B got both updates, node C got only the a value because of network timeouts.

Now you do a read from B of both values, you get the current a and b. Then you do a read from C, you receive the current a and the old b. Inconsistent.

Basically a violation of serializability and linearizability across the cluster in respect to the client.
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One massive advantage of our company doing the build local, sell global strategy from Australia is that in our game (satellite/microwave comms, mostly for the defence industry) is that if we were in the US, our products would be under ITAR. Not having to do all that paperwork is a huge selling point for our European and Asian customers. I do spend a lot more time on planes than I might otherwise, but at least we are close to Asia.
IIRC, this was the main reason it took so long. Google require GTFS formatted timetables for Maps, the Vic Government released the timetables eventually but there were issues, much finger printing was done, and eventually it was rectified.

So yes, there will be GTFS formatted timetables for Melbourne, no real-time though.
I mean, the exchanges aren't selling, sure, but it is a market... so when you sell your bitcoin someone is putting up cash to buy it. I mean unless I don't understand how these exchanges are functioning.

I have no idea why it takes a few days to process, however. I don't think the fact that it can take a little while to "process" sells is because it's a ponzi scheme though, that seems like a bit of a jump. I mean plain old ACH transfers take a few days, does that mean that ACH is a ponzi scheme?
If you think this way about an animal, then you have the foundation to think this way about some groups of humans.
The practices of the Ministry of Truth — “memory hole” and constant revisioning of history — also become trivial to implement when all data is on centralized servers owned by companies whose continued existence relies on the benevolence of the government.

The censors didn’t like Jane’s posts? With the aid of some text generation AI that captures her writing style, rewriting her post history is much less conspicuous than deleting it outright.
I do the same on Chrome, but on Firefox there were Tab Groups. For the time being it needs to be ported to Web Extension. Firefox also does not reload all tabs on start, unlike Chrome. That's a thing that I don't like the most about Chrome.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-groups/
Haha, was thinking that wouldn't be too trusted alright! Scheduled syncing makes sense. Cheers for the replies, have never heard of the concept of code escrow before, seems like a neat solution
I was just thinking that it had a nice, kind classic feel. I guess I can see why it might be annoying on mobile, though.
Runs out of what? If you mean Tether. They can keep doing "grant token" as long as they want.

I will be publishing a blog on the market schemes of different token soon as there seem to be a lot of hype.
Failing to understand how you could peg Tether to the USD and have people believe you. I was under the impression that pegging to a currency is something only a very big player, with close to unlimited resources can achieve, see People's Bank of China, Swiss Bank etc. Among others, you have to defend the currency against speculators and that requires a lot of capital.

Even the Bank of England failed to maintain the peg to the German Deutschmark some years ago. Can someone with more knowledge in the FX market area explain this better?
There is not one single price, but many offers at different prices and volumes. The exchange doesn't sell or buy bitcoins, they just connect sellers and buyers (and handle the transactions). The price you see is the best current offer for the amount you are selling, I think. Usually, it changes a little, but yeah you are not guarenteed that price. If, at the time your order comes in, nobody wants to sell for $10K, but only $1, that is what you get.

This is why most (all?) exchanges have the option of buying/selling at market price ("best" price, I could imagine there is some protection included though so the order doesn't go through if there is more than X% price difference), or with a limit (where you say "sell X BTC, but I want at least $Y per BTC).
> It was people gambling back then and that's what's continuing to happen.

Not exactly true. Bitcoin was extensively used as a money laundering tool to facilitate illegal trade online. The money being used on those bkack-market deals dumped some liquidity into the mix and each money laundering transaction helped back bitcoins with real cash. As bitcoin's adoption as a key part of black market payment systems kept increasing, the increase in demand started driving the price.

The phenomenon was very similar to the one where drug pushers started using Tide detergent as currency, except Tide has real world value and there are no shills pumping its value saying it's the future.
It helps keep traffic flowing.
A lot of consumers are indeed in breach of contract.

Even if socially not fair, they agreed to a contract that seemed like a very good deal at the time. That's because of the costs/risks they haven't foresee at the time.
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There are other categories of visas where you can receive the National Pension as well. I'm on a spousal visa and I'm pretty sure I can receive a pension even if I don't get permanent residence (or at least that's what they told me at the city hall). As glandium says I can also receive what I put in through the pension system in Canada and the UK (the only 2 places I checked). Also, if you don't want to receive a pension, you can also receive most of what you paid into the system when you leave the country. Unless you have only staid for a year or so, though, it's probably better to leave it there, financially. Finally, the city hall also told me that if you have been paying into a compatible pension system in another country, the number of years paying into that system counts for the number of years in the Japanese system (but you have to roll the 2 pensions together).

It's worth checking diligently to make sure that you don't fall through some bureaucratic cracks in the system, but it seems surprisingly robust.
I would imagine spending $6k is a consideration even for a millionaire. Spending the time to research and write a 101-page challenge to the patent seems like quite a considerable investment for anyone, dwarfing the $6k even for a middle class person.

Why do you think $6k is not a consideration given his liquid capital? What do you expect his liquid wealth to be and what do you base that on?
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Did you change the layout since the original publication? The quotation marks at the beginning of every other paragraph are vaguely confusing.
How is it issued exactly? Practically and technically speaking. What is the process?
Goldman is about to start selling CME Group’s bitcoin futures.