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> But what about the new problems it would introduce? I run a full node and even now it eats a significant portion of my bandwidth.

Not everyone need to run a full node.

> Moreover, wouldn't increasing the block size simply kick the can down the road?

If you see it only as a temporary measure then sure. But it would for the time being solve Bitcoin's very urgent current problems.

Also any 2nd layer solutions require a blocksize increase, so the argument is kinda backwards.

> One advantage of the current fee pressure is that it strongly encourages the development of 2nd layer solutions.

Which is basically Core/Blocktream's plan. 2nd layer solutions is their whole business model...

But why opt out of something that we know works for a solution which isn't ready and may not even work?

Scaling should be done both on-chain and off-chain. Favoring one to the exclusion of the other is just wrong.
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I suppose because (like the Paperclip Maximizer analogy mentioned in this thread) maximizing your immediate profits is not the same thing as maximizing shareholder value. It is unlikely that trying to get a professor sacked does anything but reduce your shareholder value. This kind of behavior does not make you the ultimate CEO and other humans know it, it makes you an asshole. So it's not difficult, it's just worse.
Rather often quite incomplete, often only has partials of dumps he claims to have added and when this was pointed out he didn't want to add the rest - didn't even want to change the description of the dumps to say they were incomplete
Well that's good if they have. I still see .m4a files sometimes. Like I said I really don't know and am only going by questionable second hand sources. The fact still remains that i'd prefer to not give apple a cut of the money if given the choice.
Your thoughts are fine, don't undermine yourself by saying "I dunno... just a thought" like that.
Its a free-for-all when everyone picks arbitrary speeds and are in any lane they feel like. It would be much safer for everyone to go the same speed. But with heavy trucks, economy cars, and people who won't let you in, and people who simply refuse to go faster, its currently not possible.

Both reasonably slow and fast drivers can coexist if they follow some basic rules. Always be aware of vehicles around you. Don't cut people off. Let people in. Don't abruptly unless there's an emergency. Keep the passing lane open unless traffic is very heavy.
> How far do you take this?

I think the venue for questioning matters.

A request to 'come down to the station to answer a few questions' is a bit different than being asked questions on your doorstep. "Down at the station" is an automatic "not w/o an attorney".

And for that matter the police coming into your home or office is not the same as 'coming down to the station'. Sure there is risk in answering any questions at all but there is also risk in not answering questions (the suspicion factor) you could say. Like computer security there are always tradeoffs.

Now many times if you are stopped by the police for speeding they will often ask you 'where you are going to or coming from'. How do you answer that? If you say "I won't tell you" you are more likely to get a ticket common sense says. If you answer the question you might still get the ticket but if there is a chance you would get a warning that could be helpful.

I think one natural thing to say if you are in a position where you could be considered a suspect is to simply say "Since it is reasonable for me to be considered a suspect I would need to have an attorney present before answering any questions". So for example if your business partner or even a neighbor is killed it's probably not a good idea to 'go down to the station to answer questions' etc. w/o an attorney. Answering at your front door? I would tend to think that is ok to do. Allowing detectives into your house to question you? Probably not.
Are you denying that there have been extrajudicial killings, or are you denying that the person who gives the order is responsible? Just curious.
Here is something funny: as irrational as it might sound, I genuinly feel like this may be the kind of comment that we need to ban people for; this kind of lack of self-awareness is one of the biggest indictments of your personality and intellect possible.
I’m not sure why so many people ignore that Bitcoin and all other serious cryptocurrencies are focused on their next generation scalability improvements. Several of the most viable blockchains like EOS are built to be scalable and the legacy coins like Bitcoin are working to adopt similar ideas. When the entire 2018 roadmap is about scalability, it gets boring reading these same posts about how it’s too slow and doesn’t scale without any reference to their work in progress.
It is full folly to blaim the police men and women here. It would hide the real issue: police get absolutely horrible training, the rules of engadgement are too loose and do not account for these situations, america is full of guns and so of course the police have to behave like an army. Improving on any two of these issues would help prevent many of these deaths.
There is another possible causation: people with mental disorders tend to have high IQ (whatever it is that IQ actually measures).

The blind typically have incredible touch for reading Braille. Some also have incredible hearing. These are not physiological benefits that they get at birth; their coping mechanisms train them.
I don't see it on Chrome Canary, MacOS 10.13.1
If they are, then what's with all of these trial by publicity, spreading of fake news, and making of baseless accusations? And by the way, the opposition isn't solely composed of the Liberal Party. I guess it's a result of the propaganda machine that labels anyone that's against Duterte as an LP supporter.
That is his point, I think. He doesn't want to be exposed to errors related to whitespace in the code. I feel the same way, and it's the number one reason I avoid Python.
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It's the official term from the ARMv8 architecture and also the name adopted by toolchains, but "arm64" was chosen for Linux: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/15/127
> Sometimes refusing to answer a simple question is going to get you arrested

This is not true. To arrest someone (in theory sure a rogue cop can do anything) police need probable cause. Probable cause is not 'refusing to answer questions'. If they have enough to arrest you answering questions is not going to make them decide to not arrest you. Why? Because why would they believe just what you say verbally if there is no easy way to prove what you are saying?
It’s a sad thing when the product being dead would be the upgrade you hope for. I’m referring to the Mac version though.
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Yes, but like Debian, OpenBSD is ignoring that.

Fedora, openSUSE, Mageia, etc. use the official term. Debian and the BSDs use the informal "arm64" term.
> If we look at major commercial databases today, two out of the three big names in commericial databases forbid publishing benchmarks.

I see many people bashing Oracle/Ellison, but they are not alone in this. MS does the same thing as well. The really worrying thing is that such practices are deemed to be legal. 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.

The fact that there are no government regulations against such behavior, is precisely what leads people to think that we are living in a Corporatocracy, and not a Free Market.
> Which is partly why OCaml gets some bias from me over Haskell.

Sounds like you made a mistake, then, because indentation is optional in Haskell: https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/Indentation#Explicit...
Which is why a dynamic block size should be implemented. (This is on the roadmap for Bitcoin Cash).

For reference here's a paper by Peter R, a prominent Bitcoin Unlimited developer, arguing that a blocksize limit is unnecessary: https://www.bitcoinunlimited.info/resources/feemarket.pdf

Who's right I do not know. But even if Greg is right he's worrying about a potential problem decades from now. We have very real problems right now we should solve first.

I would also be wary of any claims Greg makes as he has clear conflict of interests against raising the blocksize. He's one of the founders of Blockstream whose goal is to earn money developing 2nd layer solutions. With working on-chain transactions what use would their 2nd layer solutions have?
* The "22 Million" joke: https://youtu.be/vxV2t1RX1SE

* The "Collusion" joke and Verizon skit: https://youtu.be/Yf7XfY_uVtY

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I took a databases course under Professor DeWitt - it was one of the most rewarding and memorable classes that I took at UW Madison. Many years later I heard Larry warmly refer to David DeWitt. I forget whether that was at an all-hands meeting or a conference keynote.

On an unrelated topic, I was taking the course while US v. Microsoft was proceeding. DeWitt kept getting called as an expert witness. At one point he noticed someone wearing a suit in the classroom. He interrupted the class and asked the guy to hand over the subpoena so that he could continue on without being distracted. It turns out that the overdressed student was just prepared for an interview that was happening after the class.
Not sure that's true, given easy-to-find examples of Azure benchmarks (and it doesn't even do well in this one):

http://www.acmebenchmarking.com/2015/11/benchmarking-cloud-p...
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A quick side-project I developed to test CDN issues. Looking for ideas on how it can be made more useful.
>That means you can only write accounting software if you are an accountant, in addition to a developer. You can replace "accounting" with anything else you want.

That's overstated. You don't have to be a full-blown accountant; you just have to have enough accounting knowledge to do your job. I worked at a funds company for a few years and I didn't know anything about the business when they hired me. But the amount of domain knowledge I had to learn to be effective in my little area wasn't that difficult to pick up.

>The real bad news for software devs is this : you'll do a lot better as a bad developer with expert domain knowledge than vice versa.

Nobody is going to thank you for producing software that would have been great if only it worked the way you intended.
> most cultures tell a kid that has mental issues or is unattractive that he's "smart" even if that isn't the case

It's that really true? It doesn't ring true to my experience (which, in general terms, is born in the late 70s in Australia)
For a time I really idolised Larry Ellison. Then I saw a documentary on Oracle early years and someone said - "There was no Oralce v1, as Ellison, "knew no one would want to buy version 1". This sounded both stupid and an urban legend. Till I checked the Wikipedia entry:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Database#Releases_and...

It not only changed my perspective of the man but also the company. One can know a lot about a company's practices from the way it was founded. Now there is nothing about Oracle which surprises me any more.
In this case, the word "exceptionally" may have some connotations associated with it that you've applied, but it really should be treated as your "quite".
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I stumbled upon Vaadin Framework and honestly really impressed by what they do. I even setup a demo application and writing code is just super easy. Understanding the framework is really easy and has good documentation. Also, similar to swing it some ways.

Our team is trying to move to a better "web framework". The issue is no one in my team including me is good in latest trends in AngularJS/ReactJS or NodeJS. We know the tech just enough to get things working, but we can't troubleshoot JS or don't know the right way to setup things, because our team has mostly C and Java engineers. None of my team member has experience in Webpack, nodejs, or any new fancy tech. We have an application based on swing, yeah, swing. And it has worked just fine for us. But, the limitations and changes in trend has finally made us to kill and re-write the whole application.

The reason, I personally like vaadin is, we can reuse some of the swing code.

My question, is anyone here have tried Vaadin Framework? How is your experience, is it worth paying for their designer and pro tools? Or we should spend time learning React/Angular instead, because most of the tools are freely available and the learning curve is high?

Thanks.

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Thank you Juan for the talks (I watched both the CppNow, and CppCon, though the latter one is even better). Also for the wonderful libs, and the real-life example (your text editor).

At work, we are pondering on a new way to split our game levels editing code, and persistent data structures came to me as one idea, in order to handle UNDO in generic way, and they by diff, or other means visualize the changes. I've read Okasaki's book long time ago, but seeing this implemented in a imperative language is really helpful.

Also pretty much enjoyed the post-modern talk too :) - hehehe

Thank you!
Also practically free hydro-electric power which would otherwise be wasted.
Ehh...Larry has a point. If you care about noise levels, don't use weight as a proxy - just use noise levels. Why can a big, quiet plane not land at night, but a tiny noisy plane can?
Or, how about, you just pulled into your garage and got carjacked. Do you call the police? That will involve talking to them, and they might think it's all just an insurance scam.
> It's better than emailing passwords in plaintext

How exactly? The link is completely equivalent to the password from a security perspective. The whole system adds zero security over sending the password in clear text.

At $dayjob we have the help desk staff give initial passwords on a small card in person, and the system forces a change on first use.

For remote users the help desk uses a voice call, calling the user on a number provided by HR, and asking a few questions before giving the initial password.

This system is not uncommon and has been used by organizations for decades without being a commonly exploited vulnerability. It is more secure than pass.sh as it adds physical or at least weak verbal authentication. It is also much simpler, requiring no trusted third parties, and does not expose the secrets on the Internet at all.
I can write anything i want into the bitcoin chain for $1 and all the computing power in the world wouldnt be able to undo it after a few days.

Even quantum computing can't touch it (though can trivially work out my private keys).

Many people throughout history can and have been censored, don't see that changing soon.

The bitcoin blockchain is a modern technological wonder without anyone really appreciating the power at their disposal.

Using it only for transactions now is like hiring a tank so you can go get money out from an atm. Predict eventually use cases will come into their own.
I'm saddened by the arrogance you display. Does your definition of "world" really not go beyond the "coastal cities" and "North America"? Are you seriously assuming there are no ML researchers outside of the cozy little world you're referring to? People in the Middle-East, Balkans, South-Asia, etc. should not worry about "high-end kit", they should stick to "hobby" stuff?

(In case if this all leaves you baffled, e.g. assistant professors will often earn 2-4 TITAN V's worth of money per year in places like Eastern Europe -- and that's still on the map of the "Western world" by most definitions.)

> It’s an expensive bit of equipment for an independent researcher or student, or someone in a poorer part of the world.

Allow me to correct you: that is _much_ (if not most) of the world.

> But why would anyone expect the best kit for hobby prices?

Strawmen. Please read my point again (and see the concrete examples of affordable "kit" that can be used to target the high-end HPC iron).
The IRS classifies and taxes it as an asset because functionally it is an asset. Satoshi was doing a bit of marketing with the title of his paper.
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/43155/do-unconfi...
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The simplicity with which a new operator is defined.
It's rare to see a company destroy itself so quickly and thoroughly.

"Hey, our company does exactly one thing: saves people from paying a bunch of processing fees to send someone $1 a month. Let's get rid of that!"

That this is apparently an intentional move to get rid of small fry creators is icing on the cake.

"Hi, New York Yankees manager here! We only want superstars on our team, therefore, as of next week, I am disbanding our entire farm system. That's right! No more non-superstars on the Yankees payroll! I can't see any possible problem with this."
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It's in the EULA–simply using the software is enough to be bound to that term.

Sure, the benchmarks can be leaked, published anonymously, etc…but the term is enough to prevent an academic from publishing it as a peer-reviewed, credible piece of research.
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What Bitcoin does absolutely is impressive, just not in terms of transaction volume. Comparing it to a rails app is pointless.

If we can improve the transaction rate without risk, then let’s do it. It just gets tiring seeing post after post suggesting it’s a valueless failure if it can’t be used for coffee. Let’s just keep it in perspective. It doesn’t need to supplant Visa to be successful.
Do you want him to write the code for you too?

It looks like an app from the 90's. There is zero design. If you want people to use it, you have to sell them on the idea of WHY and HOW they'll benefit. If you aren't willing to do that, then you've already lost.
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/43155/do-unconfi...

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Is the hidden motive here to sell lawyer services? This is a lawyer on a long and powerful rant about how you shouldn't do X without a lawyer.

I'm not saying that this makes the point less valid, but beware that people are always better equipped to make powerful arguments when that argument aligns with their source of income.
It could be the jury saw, as I did, that the blame isn't on the one police officer standing trial. The officer giving instructions should also be on trial, as should the entire system that trains their police officers so horribly, a system that hasn't figured out how to handle drunk people[1]. So I'd agree with the jurries conclusion

1. "stand up, take cloths off, turn around" or how about just sending in bomb diffusing robots, or how about using rubber bullets...
in the UK there are specific circumstances where adverse inferences may be made from silence, the police caution is:

> 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.

the wikipedia article goes into details:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_silence_in_England_an...
I believe the lawyer in the video, James Duane, now recommends the phrase, "I want a lawyer," as the correct response to any police question. As some have mentioned, mere silence is not enough to invoke one's constitutional rights and could in fact be used as a legal argument as to your guilt.
I tried out Mensa briefly some years ago. I was just looking for new social circles. I have some pretty sharp older buddies that I play Go with weekly, they're a blast to talk to, and I thought I'd find some more of that.

It was bad. Really, really bad. The local chapter had a tiny handful of post-retirement members. I knew a ton of folks in my community at the time, a bunch of them were smart, active people, and none of them were members. It really looked like the only thing the Mensa folks had going for them was having done well on a test.

The newsletter was hilarious. One of them had a feature article on which was the better superhero, Batman or Superman? The article and the responses to it mostly centered around which of the fictional comic book characters had a bigger IQ. The writing was juvenile (and not because it was written by kids), and there was a regular feature that would pick some kind of trouble in the world and ask readers how they'd solve it. None of the responses ever argued from any kind of expertise or domain knowledge or offered any new insight; the theme tended to be, "well, I'm pretty smart, so this seems like an easy problem to solve..."

The discussion on HN on any given topic -- and the topics themselves for that matter -- tends to be a heck of a lot more interesting. I keep coming back here because of the people that just randomly show up in discussions who are actual experts on the topic. That doesn't really happen in Mensa.

My takeaway from that whole thing pretty much agrees with what you're saying. People who are Mensa members are members because their IQ is really important to them to an unhealthy extent. That would seem to correlate well with other psychological and physiological problems.

Probably anybody who reaches the level of 1 dan or higher in Go has at least a Mensa-level IQ. Researchers wanting to do further work in this area could try polling those folks too.
> He made one of the engineers drive out to his house with a new one on a Saturday night.

Did it occur to anyone that that engineer might be happy to be picked as the one to drive out and do that? To some people that is the way to get noticed and stand out with the boss (or king, whatever).

> tyrannical manchild?

Like any anecdote we don't know the full story here and exact circumstances. Just the fact that juxtaposed against what people have be told about Ellison it appears that he must certainly be 'a tyrannical manchild'.
> my number of friends and acquaintances isn't currently capped or was ever capped by my cognitive capability of being well acquainted with them, but rather by... having very little time and energy to get to know the people I meet better.

What's the difference between "cognitive capacity" and "time and energy"?

I have a near photographic memoy for faces and an exceptional ability to remember details about people's lives; I have to limit the number of friends o have for precisely that reason, my cognitive capacity to care would overshadow just about everything else in life.
And would that be a good decision in a typical situation that combines said data points?
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> As long as you're willing to risk arrest and expensive lawyers, don't say anything.

Lawyers are not automatically expensive. In fact, a decent lawyer can often save you money. It does require that you have the resources to pay for the lawyer in advance, and if you cannot then you have my sympathy, but my default position is yes. I get a lawyer for everything, even simple driving violations.

In the kidnapping scenario described above, I would definitely have tried to help the responding officer by describing what I saw and where the person fled, but anything beyond a very cursory exchange and it's 'I would like to help you but I have no further comment without speaking to a lawyer first'.