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One can also argue that the comments in response to the different phrasings of the same news de-escalated from "this is very serious" to your comment's "this is actually not news."

There are always contrarians, and in this case the comment-section contrarians ended up amusingly contradicting themselves.
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Don't forget that a bonus (or a gift above a certain monetary value) is a taxable benefit to workers while an office party is not.
"we also live under an economic system predicated on endless growth."

Yes, but it does not have to be this way.

It's just the way it's designed for now.
I really wasn't trolling. I've not used macOS for almost twenty years now, so I genuinely didn't know if it supported multiple graphics consoles. I'm not surprised that it does, but I wouldn't have been terribly surprised if it didn't, either.

My (un-trolling) point still stands, though: I use the Function keys on a daily basis, to switch between consoles.
The coin itself would give you money to your bank account. It's like the US mint delivering coins to you hourly just for being a U.S. citizen. Bitcoin would require someone to buy all the coins.

The coin itself would via technology divvy out newly minted coins on a set schedule to everyone equally. All current coins have transaction fees and other things involved in giving money, and no way to currently make anything like this without up-front seed money.
It's already known. The rents will increase to consume about half of the additional income.
I don't think that's necessarily a truth, at least not as you've posited.

A truth would be universal in my mind, and there are plenty of people in this world that succeed without every having to grow or adapt to the times. They just pay someone else to do it for them.
The article is about a case like your dad's, 92yo still working.
How is this not dogecoin part two? What has this contract done to alter the laws of supply and demand?

There's no doubt digital contracts are the future of social contracts. This contract however is not it.
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I'm skepitcal that the current FCC would give a shit about this complaint since it reflects poorly on their supporter (an ISP.)
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Bitcoin fees are skyrocketing
According to Glassdoor (which is notoriously 5-15% below actual numbers pretty much across the board) a senior dev at SpaceX in Los Angeles will make $160k cash and nearly $200k/yr in total comp with 20-25% of that in stock. That's not too shabby even for a California city.
Yes. In my opinion the diversified international market is being propped up by coordinated actions by the worlds central banks. These markets lost more than 50% of their value in 2008. Central banks are keeping them afloat at the expense of people trying to simply save their money and not take on debt.

Janet Yellen recently expressed concern regarding the amount of debt in the economy. Apparently giving out loans at rates less than inflation causes a lot of malinvestment.

Those I know investing in Bitcoin do so because it's the only asset that exists outside the system we have today. It's the escape hatch. The volatility of course concerns us, but we believe in the fundamental ideology and in the long term believe it'll change the world. The monetary policy we have today is, quite frankly, insane.
I'm an artist and there's definitely a new type of listener that is listening for vibe. My most successful songs on Spotify are often described as "vibey" by listeners. People will comment on the "sound of the sounds" and the overall feel of it. Curiously I find other musicians less likely to comment about vibe. Instead they will comment on the songwriting or on the production— often picking out esoteric elements of the songs.

It makes total sense that people are listening for vibe. Music is way more accessible than ever before. We pipe in music constantly to set mood or create ambience (or to cancel surrounding noise). I recently saw my father-in-law (who's in his mid-60s) sit down with his laptop and simply listen to some of his favourite folk music. He wasn't browsing the web. He was just listening. It was funny how unusual it seemed.

I wonder if outrage from the music industry over the decline of active-listening has more to do with the feeling that artists are just less important. People mostly listen to music now— rather than individual artists.
Indeed. If you read the nutritional arguments for the paleo and ketogenic diets, it becomes clear that there is much to debate about the heath impacts of meat, farmed grains, sugars, and the general current diet advice.

It is clear that growing meat is more resource intensive than simply eating the grain directly. Saying that it is healthier to eat the grain instead of meat is a highly debatable point.
> A new price would be discovered.

That's wonderfully understated :-)
> The content is hidden inside a noscript tag inside a div.loading with visibility: hidden.

Why would someone do that? I'm reminded of this exchange from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:

> “But the plans were on display…”

> “On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”

> “That’s the display department.”

> “With a flashlight.”

> “Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”

> “So had the stairs.”

> “But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”

> “Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”
Actually, oftentimes they are correlated. Your pay is often low when you work on a shitty overstressed team on a dead-end project, and vice versa.
How about searching the web? I'd rather most queries take 1 second, and 10% taking 10 seconds, than every query taking 5 seconds.

I don't understand how you can be so confident about attaching a utility function to latency.
>money does not buy happiness,

True. Once a certain threshold is met.

> and it certainly does not buy you more time

False. Money buys a lot of time. An extra $XX,000 a year invested will have you living off your capital instead of work after Y years. The moment you go from working for someone else to being supported by your wealth you just bought 50% of your waking life back.
Madoff had pretty good returns too.
Are you actually advocating for socialism on a site centered around VC-funded tech companies that absolutely couldn’t exist in a socialist country? Awesome.
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Actually, money is really printed out of thing air. Well, out of paper to be accurate.
I think this is unduly harsh, and, frankly, ideologically rigid. The reality is much different; users do find that they need to share passwords, and they'll continue to do it whatever you say; in fact, applications like LastPass recognize that password sharing (https://blog.lastpass.com/2016/01/tips-for-securely-sharing-...) is a real necessity, and they provide a means of doing so if everyone is in the LastPass ecosystem.

It may be that password sharing is only necessary because of shortcomings in the applications they use, but that ignores the fact that most end-users don't have a way of changing those shortcomings (and sometimes, those shortcomings are by design). Instead, users have to deal with the systems they do. End of story.

You say that the tool provides no additional security value because all they need is the link to obtain the password; but this ignores the fact that the application is designed to delete the password after it has been obtained n times, or after x days; the security hazard for most people is not interception of the email en-route, but hacked accounts; unless that happens in a very short window, this is quite a bit safer than sending it in plain text which is what they already do.
Nope. This is yet another story, which broke last week:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/12/06/tidalgate...

"The whistle was blown by two Australian scientists Dr. Albert Parker and Dr. Clifford Ollier in a paper for Earth Systems and Environment."

It's another example in a long line of data "adjustments" that turn science on its head, showing the opposite of what is actually observed. I call it fakery. You have other words. We disagree.

As I said, it muddies the waters. There may be real evidence, but this fraud doesn't help the cause.
Liberalism values freedom and equality above everything else, it’s even in the definition. It was founded in direct opposition to the Church during the Enlightenment. Communism is an economic system, none of these are very relevant to the discussion at hand.
There is also some evidence that the big puffy white clouds that are produced reflect solar radiation, reducing net heat even if they are a little hotter than background.
Seriously everyone, please stop using bitcoin. The environmental impact of energy generation for mining and proof-of-work is totally untenable. I understand this is key to why Bitcoin works, but we absolutely should not be scaling a technology which so inefficiently uses energy. This is not an argument about the profitability of mining or other technical merits of Bitcoin. Even if all cryptocurrency mining were to use zero-carbon energy generation, we still should not use it: that energy ought to be used for more practical pursuits.

A few links about the insane amount of energy used for each transaction: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ywbbpm/bitcoin-mi...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/27/bitcoin-m...

Anyone know of cryptocurrencies which will not blow up our planet's carbon or energy budgets? I've heard of proof-of-stake algorithms, but don't understand that approach very well.
If only it was written in Rust or Go
Why would you assume he had any association with a healthcare system like that? He's said he had no insurance.

That said, I agree that it would be good to check with any nearby large hospital to ask about their charity programs. Better yet, just show up at the ER of a large hospital and tell them the symptoms he's got. Given the urgency of the situation, I think they'd be obligated to treat, regardless of ability to pay. Then, once you're in the system, check on their charity programs.
you're not a design person you wouldn't understand (LOL)
Thanks, this used to be an issue at least Windows 8. I'm happily surprised if it's now as easy as downloading the ISO from Microsoft and reinstalling it on an OEM machine.
After 24 hours and putting lots of thoughts into it, I could not even argue for Apple.

Out of the bulk load of Energy Usage, CPU is not even the primary area where energy are used.

40%+ is the Display
20%+ are the Network Connection, WiFi or LTE.
10%+ are RAM, NAND, etc.

I am guessing around 20% is the CPU and GPU. So they lower this and try to save 10% more battery in response to lower battery cycle?

And they have an Financial interest to slow your phone. This makes me sick.

And I consider myself an Apple Fan.
Let your empty replies be a testament to the quality of this forum.
I had somebody tell me they like to see if anybody had any gaps in their employment. But this is probably a false indicator either way and not worth the problem of encouraging Ageism bias.
> Some people will want to buy food with these coins, but they have no goods or services to ever offer in return (that's the whole point of UBI).

Is that true? The whole point is that these coins themselves will have value. There will be no such thing as PoorCoin. It doesn't matter whose coins they are so long as they are real and trusted (as in not fake). I don't think there's any correlation to trust and economic output as you are describing.

The unique thing here is no one is funding the system - it's being mined out of the system itself. Just like no one truly "funded" Bitcoin. The difference is that mined coins are equally distributed, always, instead of to the miner, who will no longer be needed.

As mentioned I believe in the paper and at least in the comments here, a trusted identity system is required in tandem with this.
> Because the IDF would have annihilated them. It's far easier to pick on haphazard regimes, who are generally incapable of organizing strategic defensive efforts.

Then why do I read an article like this in Jerusalem Post, quoting WSJ:

http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Report-Israel-treating-al-Q...

They even quote Assad:

“Some in Syria joke: 'How can you say that al-Qaida doesn’t have an air force? They have the Israeli air force',” Assad told Foreign Affairs magazine earlier this year. “They are supporting the rebels in Syria. It is very clear.”

> ISIS was more about power and wealth than it was about ideology. The ideology was just a vehicle.

ISIS/AQ/Whatever-name-their-master-gives-them is a project to destabilize Syrian government that didn't want to play along with plans of the US empire for the Middle East. Quick summary of a FOIA document obtained by Judicial Watch:

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/05/newly-declassified-u-...

BTW, this document was produced in August 2012 by DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency; basically, Pentagon's Intel Agency). At that moment, guess who was its chief: Gen. Michael Flynn. Yes, that Flynn you now see in the media.

EDIT: A video of Flynn:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6Y274U7QIs&feature=youtu.be...
Oh. That's a dumb reason. Until this it was sounding like you had an argument against UBI from society's point of view, not just based on your own financial interest.
Has it ever occured to you, that nature ingrained not only a prison dilemma optimal solution into our behaviours, but also a really nice set of instincts to go full circle in a overpopulated, exausted environment?

We are really savage murdermonkeys once all bananas have been eaten. After that has happened for a few millenia, nothing occurs to nobody..
> Kenya's Maasai people have long been aware of the awesome power of the earth in the area around Hell's Gate [..] in fact it is considered to be one of the most exciting geothermal areas on the planet.

So Kenya is harnessing geothermal power from Hell's Gate? This is literally the plot of DOOM, except it's not on Mars.
Devs? Not a lot. Senior devs that are basically tech leads + PMs for projects with a visible termination point? All the time.
Exactly. I've worked for a couple of charities at a discount, because I was working with people who wanted to help others, and it showed. Nobody was raking in the big bucks.

If I was offered a position somewhere that actively took "hits" for their customers and/or employees, I might stick around. As it is, everyone above me is looking for a payday, and paying me less makes theirs better.
Yes, the identity issue is still there. Solving that doesn't make Bitcoin a viable option for this idea though. This whole comment thread is discussing why this coin is needed over any other, not the identity issue. I think that need is well established for the stated goal.
Since "recycled" clearly means "shipped to a landfill in China" rather than "re-used", those recycling quotas only mean that we waste extra oil shipping the waste around, and none of it is actually recycled ...
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1. Renewable energy

2. https://twitter.com/ponli137/status/939523905039097856
Here's a thought experiment: make a crypto currency that binds to personal human lifetime, i.e. that (in order to disincentivize rent-seeking and exploitation) makes it prohibitively expensive to spend this currency if the blockchain indicates that it has been "tainted" by not originating from an individual's lifetime bound contingent (i.e. tainting your contingent with other people's money has an exponentially increasing penalty).

Exploitation is disincentivized (since the more money you aggregate from other people, the less it is worth to you (relatively speaking)). Monopolies are disincentivized by the same mechanism, i.e. the Coca Cola company selling to 100 million people makes less money than 10000 companies selling to 10000 customers each.

"But this stunts growth!" Yes, it does; but the curve can be shaped, and could probably be adjusted by forking in a democratic fashion (if mining is actually democratized).
Desktop memory prices have risen 2x in last 18 months
I do wonder if a catastrophic hit to bitcoin might shake consumer confidence in other parts of the tech or finance industry.
Oh yeah this sounds very familiar. Does it get to the point where you start resenting people in upper management because you think they literally do nothing and make more? I started having those thoughts when working at a Fortune 500 - I'd see VP's at the office for insane hours and not sure really what they did but they sure got their 5 figure bonuses, even when things didn't go well it seemed.

I was an engineering manager and had to deal with upper management, bogus policies like only 10% of people can get a good raise, meetings about meetings, etc. Now I've gone back to software development without managing people and it is a relief. Think of all the things people in those other roles have to worry about: budgets, raises (or lack of), employee reviews, project planning, sales, hiring, firing, etc. You said that going through that grind of entrepreneurship isn't something that appeals to you.

Take pride in the work you do, software engineering can be fun if you enjoy it. Sure it helps some rich person at the top, its the same everywhere though: pilots, carpenters, plumbers, accountants, etc. Be relieved you don't have to worry about all that other business stuff. If you find a place with good work/life balance then you can pursue things you are interested on your own time.
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I've turned down jobs that would have paid a LOT more than I made at the time, because I thought the hiring people were assholes (in the finance sector, no less). Based on your other comments here, I think they were probably much like you.

There's more to it than money. Maybe some day you'll figure it out.
The last time i checked the whatever you type in browser, does not end up in text file or notepad. This does show the quality thinking about security. Oh we can enable when we want check things out rather than finding way to add and remove this after informing user
Its not an insult. I will give it another 10 years. You will change your opinion.
Haha the length of time to complete projects would go through the roof, so that would never work here.
That argument cannot be generalized to every use-case. In fact it's very specific to quick sort.

Yes, this approach may not work for a lot of situations, but there are some (as pointed out elsewhere in the comments), where it's perfectly reasonable, even desirable to improve the average runtime at the cost of the worst case.
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I'm not disagreeing with you at all, but I'm not disagreeing with notyourday either (except for the idea that if you're interested in anything other than money that you've been dropped on your head, but I read that as hyperbole to make a point). I guess I should have said you're talking past each other.

From the perspective of the recruiter, you can't change the problems you are working on and hiring for, you have little to no control over company culture, location, or any other factor. You can really only pay more money. Sure, you could change working conditions or benefits, but that is just a redirection of money...it's still more money.

From the perspective of the developer, lots of things matter. Money absolutely matters, but so do working conditions, benefits, quality of life, technology, tooling, location, commute options, and on and on. Your position is obvious...but how much control does the recruiter have over all of this? Almost none. If they are having trouble hiring, they need to pay more, full stop.

That means that Space X has a lot of leeway to negotiate on price, whereas SalesForce may be a lot more constrained. SalesForce can't make their business more exciting and enticing, their hand has been forced.
Indeed. If 5x were conservative, at series C or any other point, one would be fending off investors with a stick, failing to justify 409a valuations, etc., etc.
You're being downvoted because you ignored this:

>Money is important, but past a certain point (when you are able to live comfortably and are no longer feeling stressed about your personal/family finances), other factors come into play.

It's difficult to counter his comment when you don't address it and give an obviously low salary.
In this case, opt-in is playing double meaning. But you're right, in order to work, a significant number of people and business must opt-in and treat it like a currency to be spent. I don't think that's a prohibitive problem inherently, though obviously still a tough one.
Producers of most goods will not be able to raise prices, but providers of scarce goods with inelastic supply will be able to raise prices. Like land. Land has a perfectly inelastic supply, and thus expectations of more income will lead to increases in rent.

Whereas, by contrast, increases in the price of food quickly lead to increases in the supply of food.

As Matt Rognlie of MIT showed, rents have been responsible for almost all of the returns to the already-wealthy over the past few centuries that Piketty documented.
Four years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7179098

But that's not criticism. This is a really good and valuable article for creative professionals to read, and absorb.
Of all the reasons you might seek a post-capitalist economic order "maintaining ethnic homogeneity" is among the least compelling to me.
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> when you have kids you are trading off professional development outside of work for raising a family.

I believe that having children gave me more motivation and reason to be better at the things I do. It also forced me to structure my life a lot more which can have beneficial effects on productivity too.
> What's wrong with being identified with your beliefs?

Depending on what your beliefs are, maybe nothing.. for now. However, if government or corporate interests decide that your beliefs are an issue for them at any point in the future, having them permanently stored could become an issue for you in the future.
So it a-ok for me to work more so we can get UBI for them to work less ( pardon me, slave away! ) and will get magically creative?

Dude.
Chances are, if you are 35 now you are going to live in to your 90s, So no need to care about others speed.
I don't believe that you stop learning at 35, or its a young persons game. Knowing something deeply is easier when you get older I imagine since you gain better patience as you age. ( so I hear)..

The deeper issue for me with this article, that before 2015 people used to actually have these things called blogs. From around 2015 on everyone just writes posts on facebook or google plus. Even though it was written in 2013, its still a great story today and thats thanks to a blog. This is not going to happen with facebook posts.