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That’s the point; because sentences like

> the version history is immutable with each branch being like a singly linked list where we “cons” new things onto the front

Just contributes to the general confusion around git where people decide it’s too complicated to learn.

(Apologies if my sarcasm detector is just broken today)
> The entire principle of Free Markets is underpinned by consumers having accurate information about the goods they are purchasing. Having licensing agreements that are expressly designed to prevent the dissemination of product-information, goes against everything that Capitalism and Free-Markets stand for.

I agree with where you are going but I entirely disagree with your description of Free Markets and Capitalism.

free market - an economic system in which prices are determined by unrestricted competition between privately owned businesses

There's nothing in there about consumers having accurate information. If anything, caveat emptor. Moreover, if you are a free market entrepreneur then the absolute last thing you want is fairness to your competition or fairness to your consumer. Those are costs of doing business, to be avoided if possible. Naturally, Larry is only trying to avoid them.

That's why we have regulation. That's why civilization has evolved to have government. That's why Libertaristan isn't on any maps. That's why The Fountainhead is such a misguided fantasy where entrepreneurs can do anything and it's always better and governments can do nothing and it's always worse.

Free Markets and Capitalism don't stand for anything. That's not even a criticism of them either. Civilization might stand for something although that something is a provisional something at best but then that provisional something is better than nothing.

The requirement for consumers having accurate information is a government regulation. In the United States, it's enforced by the Consumer Protection Agency. It isn't a free market requirement.
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What value does the ME actually offer the user? Why is it even there?
> Whatever technology replaces Bitcoin is likely something you can buy with Bitcoin.

Now THAT is the speculation to end all speculations.
Ask HN: What to do if you hate working for someone else and arent an entrepreneur?
Looking at the last five years of my career, I have come to realize I might hate working for someone else.

I resent spending 48 weeks a year in an office and stressing over issues that will only make the company's owners richer but won't change much for me. I say don't change much because a 2-3% raise once in a while is nice, but it's nothing in comparison to the thousands/millions extra it will make the company, while the only result for me is that I get to keep my job and do more of that.

I also have a very hard time feeling any personal pride or accomplishment for helping the company's bottom line. It's not my company, and I really don't feel anything whether they sell more or made a couple millions extra this year because employees worked (unpaid) overtime. My boss getting a new Tesla or yet another house from the extra profits doesn't make me happy.

This thinking is hurting me though because it makes every job I ever had barely tolerable, slowly creeping towards miserable after enough time. I am aware of it but I can't overcome it.
I've tried working at startups, and 150-300 people mid-sized companies.

On the other hand, I don't think I'm the entrepreneur type either. I don't have any idea that I'd like to pursue and start building a company around, going through that grind is not something that appeals to me.

Has anyone ever felt this way? What did you do about it and how do you cope with it?
Do wire transfers solve no real problems? I do essentially all of my large transactions usinng bitcoin.
It is only human to be over confident in our own stupidity. Rarely do we know it's even stupidity.
You know we can read and hear Duterte's speeches for ourselves, right? Also, he's not unique, in either the Phillipines or the world. It's easy to compare him to Marcos or various other dictators that have engaged in brutal public order campaigns.
“You do not have to say anything. But, it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned something which you later rely on in court. Anything you do say may be given in evidence.”

https://www.gov.uk/arrested-your-rights

I imagine there is a sizable amount of injustice in the UK due to not having a 4th amendment like rights.
Proof of stake is still bound to CAP theorem though. Even CASPER can not guarantee full consistency, availability, and partition tolerance.

There is also FLP impossibility, which reduces to the halting problem in an asynchronous distributed system setting.

By this logic, Bitcoin can never “scale”.
The lightning network is not a decentralized solution. It gives more power/trust to a few large exchanges.
Agreed -- I found Haskell most confusing at first because of the lack of syntax. My brain kept wondering where the rest of the syntax was. Not to be too dramatic, but I think Haskell is kind of like programming "poetry" in this regard.
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It’s deliberately florid writing meant to provide an enjoyable few moments for those who like it, and news about the collection for those skimming for new reading or gift ideas. Nothing more. I don’t think the author is pretentious unless they intended it to be more than that and failed.
More like, gastronomical
The “bignum” arithmetic libraries currently in common use were, near as I can tell, all and without exception written by NSA assets and their various “useful idiots”. The conclusion is difficult to avoid, given as every example known to me suffers from one or more of the following ills...

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That's precisely the kind of story we don't need helping discredit media.
Food delivery robots are teaching themselves how to cross roads
western films? How about the real west,
where self defense was a way of life.

I restricted my comment to western films as I can talk about them truthfully, having seen several. I can't comment on the real west truthfully as I wasn't there and neither have I engaged in the serious scholarly study that would let me tell reality from legend.

I'm not sure how the rest of your comment relates to my comment.
It always struck me as crazy to represent all that is intelligence in one number. Also AFAIK many things such as "social intelligence" are not tested at all.

I always smile at people putting that much weight into IQ numbers..
In my experience, the people interested in Mensa are people who need validation and aren't necessarily the sort to brag. Usually people whose identity is tied up in being intelligent. These are the sort of people who have trouble succeeding, because they're unable to take a risk (lest it somehow indicate they weren't smart).

You know the sort, love online debates about bikesheds, but can't seem to make anything happen in the real world.
I think maybe a more nuanced rephrasing of "never talk to the police" is "talking to the police will only make you more likely, not less likely, to be convicted of a crime".

If your values system is to minimize your chance of being convicted of a crime above all other things, then you'd say "I will not answer without a lawyer" in this situation. But if you're a compassionate human being and want to help others, even if it sometimes means a minor risk to yourself, then there are plenty of situations in which you should talk to the police, including this one.

Possibly an issue here is that the lawyer in the video is giving both a legal recommendation and a moral recommendation. I certainly have no objection to his legal assessment of the outcomes of talking to the police, but I don't think he has any authority to say that I should be a selfish person.
Do you say "it looked like he turned left a block up"? Or do you say "I will not answer without a lawyer"? I've run into a lot of people who go with the latter, citing that video.

Then the police need to work on policy and community relations if people are reticent to help them, when altruism can be a punishable act.
Per the article, increasing CO2 levels in the atmosphere are causing plants to produce more sugars in favor of the (micro)nutrients they'd otherwise have, causing a relative drop in those nutrients. Okay. That makes sense. However, plants being living organisms, they can be rather complex things, and the change in CO2 concentration is not the only changed input to our food supply. There's has been selective breeding and other bio-engineering to select for traits like hardiness to pests, crop yield, appearance, etcetera. There's been changes to how crops are fertilized and harvested. I don't think it's unreasonable to think that any one of these could have interacted with the CO2 concentrations or any other factor to play with nutrient levels, or could be completely overshadowing CO2's effects.

I think this research is a good first step. What I think would be good to study next is to try to find how the CO2 levels can interact with other factors like the ones I listed above, as well as other ones agriculture researchers likely know about that I don't. Perhaps nothing will come of it. Perhaps something cool would come of it. Wouldn't it be awesome if researchers discovered a way to bioengineer food plants, such that by pulling extra CO2 out of the atmosphere, they grow in an extra-nutritious manner?
How good you are at academics actually correlates with IQ only up to a certain extent. When your IQ is more than 3-4 standard deviations from the norm, academic high performance is less likely, most likely because thinking and learning patterns in that segment of the population are so dramatically different from how material is taught (and from how it is learned by everybody else). Source: I've worked with a lot of the nation's (and world's) leading specialists on profound giftedness and twice exceptionality, especially in kids. There is literature and research on this, but sample sizes are (obviously, for statistical reasons) small.
> what's the value of Bitcoin?

Selling it to someone else for more than you paid next week.
For NES, another cool approach takes advantage of the fact that the cartridge is natively split between CPU memory and PPU memory. This means that it's possible to make a cartridge with RAM instead of ROM for the tile pattern data ("CHR" in NES jargon), thus enabling things like pseudo-framebuffer operation, compressed/generated graphics, and animations that work by modifying the tile data or depend on its organization in memory [1]. Strictly speaking, there's no reason that RAM and ROM couldn't be combined in this address space with a mapper, but I haven't heard of any cartridges that do so.

[1] https://wiki.nesdev.com/w/index.php/CHR_ROM_vs._CHR_RAM
If commenting burned ten cents of electricity, no matter how efficient computers get, that would be a huge problem too.

Each post uses as little electricity as is feasible. Efficiency improvements lower the amount of electricity used. Reducing the use 90% would mean 90% fewer posts and ruin the posting experience.

Bitcoin doesn't try to minimize electrical use. Efficiency improvements increase the amount used. Reducing the use 90% would lower the transaction rate 0% and ruin nothing, but we can't do that because it's set up as a competition.
Beautifying C, for example, also can be tricky in the presence of nested comments

C comments do not nest.
I usually cringe.
Where Rappler falls in relation to its peers is not relevant. OP was making the point that Rappler is a real entity, headed by real people, who have real interests.

Those interests are often less than saintly, and also have strong explanatory and predictive power.

Edit: the same could be said (and needs to be said more often) about The New York Times.
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Yeah the irony is that most people are attracted to music because they are narcissists. The professionals I've met are very humble and grateful to have had a chance to get paid to have fun even if it's a lot of work the successful ones I know are grateful people. But the majority if would be musicians pine for the era when you didn't need to be the very best of the best to carve out a small niche. Technology has moved on, today you get fame and fortune not by emulating Jimi Hendrix but by emulating Don Buchla and Bob Moog and George Lewis. If you're not making interactive music software and or hardware then you're stuck in the 1980s.
First you say there are no death squads, not at all no way, no you're saying those people were already in the police. When someone's story keeps changing like that it's always a bad sign.
I was in the AF, and everyone uses Windows and MS office. So much so that DoD requirements influenced some of the features of MS products.
a majority of clients agree that the longest chain of blocks is the correct one

If you squint, that's kind of true for Git repositories, too.

The version with the most "proof of work" on it is likely the master branch.

Of course the incentives are very different... but still, the similarity is somewhat illuminating, I think.
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They should put a higher priority on "don't kill an innocent person" than on "immediately eliminate anything that could be a threat". Police officers should be trained based on the principle that the loss of an officer's life, while awful, is still less of a tragedy than the death of someone who could be an innocent bystander. They should be trained that when confronting a suspect, an outcome in which the officer and the suspect are both badly injured but alive is better than an outcome where the officer is unharmed and the suspect is dead. It should not be the role of police officers to kill anyone unless that person is unambiguously attempting violence or is planning imminent violence and cannot be deterred in any other way.

So applied to this case, the police officers should not have shot the suspect until they unambiguously saw a gun in his hand. Does that mean that they would be running the risk that the suspect had been faking his sobbing terror and his panicked, confused attempts at immediate compliance for the past three minutes, and that he had in fact decided to pull out a handgun to attack an entire team of police officers who had rifles aimed at his head? Yes, it does mean that they would be running that risk. By waiting until they could clearly see a gun in his hand, there would indeed be a chance that a suspect irrational and suicidal enough to try that could get off one or two hastily aimed shots in the general direction of the officers before being killed by their overwhelmingly superior firepower. But in the actual situation, and I suspect in a great many similar situations, an unnecessary death would have been avoided.
I’m sure it is a normal human reaction, by my first thought was: can I eat this thing? Embarrassing
BTC can be redeemed for tulip bulbs. ;)
> The whole point of a walled garden is to steer the growth towards something that users want in the end

That's incredibly naive. The whole point of a walled garden is to steer growth towards something that benefits the owner of the walled garden.
You could argue that behind the brain of a chess master is also a “series of rules and heuristics”, but as this series may be infinitely long and isn’t feasibly determinable it’s difficult to say in what sense that’s actually true. Further, it’s likdly that the series of mostly-linear transforms in AlphaZero (or, the series of neurochemical transforms in a chessmaster’s brain) is the only form in which these rules would be efficiently computable.

One way of looking at the difference between AlphaZero and traditional game AI is that the former uses irreducibly conplex heuristics (as far as we know,) just as we think brains are capable of.
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Thanks. I think that phlogs form a large part of active gopherspace, though it might be simply because I'm mostly reading through those myself (i.e., that's rather subjective). Then there are some mirrors (web comics, websites), which tend to be handy if you prefer cleaner and/or more accessible UIs, and just homepages with homepage-style materials, of course.
These cases are all pretty damn ridiculous, but do always seem to involve the victim doing something with the hands.

Goes without saying this shouldn't be happening, but makes me think as a member of the public, step one is just, keep your hands where they can see them. (Which isn't big news)
CNN corrects story on email to Trumps about Wikileaks (CNN perspective)
Just default emacs indent behavior for python mode.
But this ‘definition’ seems to needlessly tie the definition to the kind of data you are transmitting. And if that were the case, couldn’t a software diff be considered a kind of transaction?
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When the words of some lawyer in a YouTube video fly in the face of common sense, you should probably go with common sense, regardless of how emphatic the lawyer is. (tzs and I both believe it to be common sense that you should talk to the police here, although others may disagree.)

Edit: Currently there are some downvotes and no responses, so if anyone has a reasoned moral argument for why you should say "I will not answer without a lawyer" in tzs's example (for example, citing risks explained in the video and weighing them with the possible benefits of stopping a kidnapping), it would be great to hear that perspective. (Or any other criticisms of my comment are welcome.)
There are actually specific terms to label intelligence based on the number of standard deviations from the norm (100 IQ). Two to 3 SD's is highly gifted; 4-5 is exceptionally gifted; and 6+ SD's is profoundly gifted. The numbers change depending on what IQ instrument is used, but the terms for those SD brackets remain the same. I forget what Mensa's IQ threshold is and what IQ instruments they accept as measures (I was a Mensa member for a year about 10 years ago, but they took my only available score, a GRE score, as proof), but it's possible that "exceptionally smart" is technically correct, based on SD thresholds.
I have never seen a Haskell dev do this.
Your opinion is mindless drivel, and is a bad mentality for culture in the west. People are objectively better, spreading this clean slate illusion is only harming us in the long run. Sure some people do better do to familiarity with the problems, but iq tests are incredibly effective intrapopultion. IQ is the largest predictor is successful life outcomes, even more than parental socioeconomic status and wealth.
Can't use Linux distribution tools like apt/yum unless you package the update contents as rpm/dpkg files and distribute apt/yum with the base system. Neither of those is happening in OpenBSD, or likely any BSD. (I can go into more detail on why if you're curious.)

In some ways, the BSDs are just catching up to Linux in terms of update distribution mechanism. They all have a history of being self-hosting compile-from-source systems, and some greybeards are still pretty attached to that idea.

As someone who discovered Linux first and happily used it for many years before discovering the BSDs, I think there's a lot Linux gets right that BSDs will or should adopt to be relevant. (There are also many things the BSDs get right, of course.) This is a good example of that.
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I'm sure that there are situations where this is good to consider, but real life isn't a Criminal Minds episode where the lady's slowly getting lowered into the Pit of Misery while the police frantically try to get there in time. If you have important information, it can wait a day while you get your affairs in order.

If it really is that urgent, yes, I would say something. Any other time? It can wait.
In case anyone is confused, the reference here is actually on this page: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1913
That's ironic because Steve Jobs travelled to India and found his confidence.
Other RDBMSs Are Clearly Less Egregious
Python and emacs are both popular, and I'm talking about default indent behavior for python in emacs, not some fringe or esoteric plugin for beautifying.

If that's buggy, then there's a larger problem in my opinion.
I thought it was an undecided contest between Pando (aspen grove) and the humongous fungus. https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2014/05/08/310259300/a...

For visual appeal and as a potential tourist destination, Pando wins hands down (especially lovely in autumn). But I guess as a food supply, the fungus wins.
And by extension, people who need validation via pursuing PhDs in an artificial environment (academia) are often people who have trouble succeeding in the real world.
> If you walk up to a computer and ask it “what is the name of the famous bridge in the same state as Disneyland” you won't have much success, but most people will immediately answer, “The Golden Gate Bridge”.

30 years later:
https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+the+name+of+the+famo...

Look at the first result.
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You and matt_the_bass are right. They had 4 on hand and wanted to explore parallelism. I think they tried to buy some transputer boards first without success then figured they could afford the parts to build the interface. I’m told it was pretty fun to program.
How would they pay their taxes? Or how would two countries buy oil from each other (when USD was agreed upon)?
Well, there's lots of people who make excuses for police murdering people in the US too. Eventually the scale of the corruption and malfeasance becomes clear and then you'll say you were against these death squads from the beginning.
I don't see the 'balance' issue as an inherent part of batched payments. Your hypothesis makes far more sense.

It's like a customer with a shopping cart of items from different vendors. The additional complication of some of those vendors also turning around to support others is interesting... That part I could see needing to be cut or at least discussed with legal. However if /that/ were the issue they could do much better PR by being upfront and public about it.
> do not think that people who invested a lot in this didn't think this through at least as much as you have.

Yeah, it's not like I can go on to /r/bitcoin and read multiple dedicated screeds along the lines of "I'm recommending my friends to invest savings in BTC for retirement". Whereupon someone replies "They should keep something in a Roth IRA for diversity", and the OP comments, "What's a Roth IRA?"

Yes, there are sophisticated investors.

But in a lot of cases, the only thoughts going through peoples heads is "Get Rich Quick". There's more discussion of "what color Lamborghini am I buying?" than anything else on those forums right now than anything else. Well, beside 'HODL! HODL! Even if the market corrects $10,000 tomorrow, HODL!'.
That might partially be because it's already indexed the original page, and noticed that its caption includes "Cat".
> and possibly illegal

I'm not a lawyer, but I'm fairly sure that asking to see a lawyer in that situation would never be illegal. But I certainly agree that it would be a real shame and probably unethical.
Packaged base is a beta feature in FreeBSD https://wiki.freebsd.org/PkgBase

But IMO there's nothing wrong with freebsd-update.
Did you not watch the video?

Even if you tell the absolute truth, the cops _might_ be able to twist that against you somehow.

Don't give them any ammunition. Sure, if the cop wants to be a hard-ass, let him haul you in. He probably won't because of all the paperwork.

The point of the video is that it's the cop's job to try to haul you in. Don't do the cop's job for him - he's much better at it than you are defending your innocence.

For an example, watch "My Cousin Vinnie". The sheriff accuses the defendant of shooting a clerk. The defendant responds incredulously "I shot him?" How do you think that reads in court in a deadpan voice?
This would make a great movie!