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So can you actually withdraw money from coinbase, if you say had 100 coins (I don't). Everyone said back then that Mt. Gox was safe because it was the biggest. It being based in Japan was a huge red flag, but nobody cared until all of its money disappeared.

Coinbase being based in the US probably won't happen because there could be consequences for them if they disappear with the coins, but having been burned by Mt. Gox fiasco is making me sit out of crypto, but with some sour grapes because each day bitcoin just go up and up. Was $13000 yesterday and it's almost $16000 today. It took a week to go from $10000 to $15000. Insane.
There are ~20 huge companies each year that pay literally zero taxes [1] (that's for this year, you can go back and find a similar article every year). The lucky ones who manage to hit zero shuffle around every year. The rest of them pay various fractions of their tax rate. Corporate tax on large corporations as a proportion of the taxes collected is the smallest it has ever been in US history.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-10/ten-thing...
Yah, and guess what machine instructions bk and dmr were targeting with that compiler!
"He was a vocal proponent of four out of the five failed fork attempts of bitcoin over the past couple of years."

Maybe he boasted what was best for the currency, but propaganda won in the end. So he switched knowing a manipulated currency is not an investment he is interested in?

It's important to realize that bitcoin's message is being manipulated by blockstream. It's not a conspiracy theory, it's conspiracy reality. Subreddits like /r/bitcoin had moderation schemes that buried support for the change, and boosted opposition.
If you read the source code of bitcoin, considering all the technical issues, you will not put your full trust in bitcoin.

Your bitcoins can be confiscated, government can seize all your property for <reason they will come up with when they want to>. If you no longer have your private key, good bye wallet.
Why is JVM dependence a no-go?

Hipchat has a self-hosted option, but I cannot in good conscience recommend it to anyone.
I haven’t added the sum total of all misery (how can this be meaningfully quantified?) caused by capitalists and compared with the sum total of all misery caused by autocracies. Both are horrible and good people ought to strive for a world in which neither occur. Capitalism is better overall in that it does a much better job of dispersing benefits. But the misery caused by capitalists in the pursuit of profit ought not be overlooked. I believe the Bible is correct when it says that the root of all evil is the love of money (which includes power).
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Too Good to Be True? Bitcoin Surpasses $15,000 as Market Cap Hits $250B
> I don't see how e.g. making Spotify or Slack into native apps would dramatically improve their UX.

Well then that is something you might want to do something about if you're an app developer. There's no reason arguing if you are unable to discern the big difference between the UX of a (both properly built) native app and an Electron app.
I think this might be one of the reasons Electron is actually successful; a lot of developers do not have a good sense for UX so they think what they've built is a proper alternative to a native app. Same goes for those who think PWA's are going to be great and up to par with native apps (hint: nope, not even close).
If you're interested in the concept of bubbles in general:

The economist John Kenneth Galbraith wrote about bubbles in his book A Short History of Financial Euphoria. If you're intrigued by such economics events, this is a good, quick read (on the "tulip craze", junk bonds, etc):

A Short History of Financial Euphoria

> https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/321392/a-short-hist...

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JKG's Bio:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kenneth_Galbraith

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_-_ UPDATE _-_

Shiller also published Irrational Exuberance, each new edition filled with more analysis of recent "bubbles":

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrational_Exuberance_(book)
I don't know any of the history, but I would wager high protein content as that's also the huge benefit meat-eating brought humans.
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Anyone else think that suffering is the means to the end. Eventually through enough suffering, such as climbing a mountain (or building a country) then suffering diminishes. Won't the end game be like Elysium in thousands of years of suffering?
Bat and robbing - impact one person. Cheating on emissions [1] - impact 1200 people?

Not to mention willfully flouting the law. They need to set a precedent.

[1]http://news.mit.edu/2017/volkswagen-emissions-premature-deat...
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Ok, how about this: It's the most difficult asset to confiscate in existence. In the worst case scenario, as long as I can memorize 12 words I can take my wealth with me anywhere.
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Internet Chum finally makes its way onto HN. I must admit, I clicked on it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15737944
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yeah it was fixed in 2014 and there wasn't an advisory until 2015. https://reviews.freebsd.org/rS275833

hn discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10093862
When I was younger, I was frugal about everything. I scrutinized every purchase with "do I REALLY need it?" Sometime later I figured out that if the thing is going to help me get closer to my goals (books, productivity enhancers, computers...etc) and was affordable, then just buy it. Or if it will save me time such that I can work on something else (i.e. Pay someone to mow the lawn), also worth it. This thinking has substantially changed my life for the better.
Does anyone here want to wake up and realize that money is a store of value. Universal income would be a quantum leap in which the laws of market forces will attempt to absorbe and destroy.

Some really smart people need to figure this out.
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Whenever I see "problematic" it's always someone who is pointing out something that is not actually a real problem, ie. supported by data or facts, but they desperately want it to be because it doesnt make them "feel" right or it seems like the "right thing to do". More often than not it runs counter to their initial goals (increasing exclusion in the name of inclusion, hurting everyone in the name of punishing the top few, etc).

...No one is being excluded when a service is being underutilized and a small group of people pay extra to reach optimal capacity. There is no way for them to fill this small extra space without flooding it (ie, hybrid only, or Dulles airport cars as they already tried was obviously too much traffic), so why not use it to capacity and earn the city more money from these wealthy people?

Would you rather the government make less money from the wealthy?

Do you really think the small group of people willing to pay $40 is going to slow down the existing traffic?

Would you rather no one uses it, even though the highway can support a small amount of other cars, just for some abstract satisfaction at 'hurting' wealthy people?
Yea, at times, I've thought it might be good if the internet was more like a utility. Perhaps there could be a public option, without `seizing means of production` of existing companies, ala communism.

Prescription stuff is probably one of the most screwed up parts of our country. The fact that weed is illegal because big pharma wants it to be. I don't think the situation would be much improved if the government siezed control of pharma companies, but it would be improved if pharma companies no longer had control of the government.
Is it possible to change the key that summons it? I'm using F1 for other things and don't see an option in the preferences.
Death is not just a simple transition from life to non existence. Death has a whole bag of unpleasantness associated with it. Fear, angst, pain (in theory it can be painless, in practice it's not that easy) and perhaps most importantly sadness and a feeling of loss among the people you leave behind.
> If UBI = $1 / person, then the difference in pressure is small.

The pressure might be small, but it's still there. The €1 still has to come from somewhere.

> Also, you presume that people only work for money. I think with UBI, you'd see a revitalization of community oriented, but low profit pursuits.

How are low-profit pursuits going to pay for everybody's UBI? You can't heavily tax low-profit pursuits.
Every C++ toolkit out there does something similar. Look at Herb Sutter's talk on metaclasses and see he says the same thing.
Well.. you can. But not in C++. Most modern languages don't have undefined behaviour.
I like to think of bitcoin as the censorship resistant settlement layer on which payment networks/systems can and are being built (like lightning network, which just passed all tests). There are some pretty sweet video demos of lightning network/payment channels in action.

Don't forget that it's now possible to broadcast bitcoin transactions via satellite - without internet...
you may have to manually create this btw. I had to create the dir and file by hand and then restart FF.
There are TONS of advantages to ksh93 over bash.

-Floating point math, not just integer

-Coprocess syntax that is correct and compliant

-Genuine Korn retains variables in control structures

-Lots more, detailed in the Korn & Bolsky ksh93 book

The language specification for ksh93 is large and powerful, and bash doesn't approach it.
Yayayayayayay! Been hoping for this for ages. Awesome!
It is if you sell.
It's kind of buggy. It does restore tab hierarchy after restarting Firefox, but the tab tree is malforformed and expand/collapse doesn't work.
Why? Most people just put money they don't need into it, like spare cash. Depending on when you bought, chances of ever going down to that level now is incredibly small.
I bought $1000 worth of Ford stock at its all time low after the market crashed. Incidentally, I also bought $1000 of TSLA when it was in the double digits per share. Too bad I sold it for like a $100 gain (edit: total $100 gain, not per share - I figured 10% was a nice gain and to not get greedy).

I've made enough bad stock calls that I don't regret putting only $1000 in those, though. Those just happen to be my winners. We might need an Ask HN on our worst $1000 developments :)
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Lots of people in the company call it 'Q' 'T' and lots call it 'Cute' and there is no "official" way it is called.
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why not? every bitcoin miner was originally built on GPU's prior to them going to custom machines that ran on GPU type architecture.
Cocoa is not cross platform, so it's not a competitor.
When you look at hand optimised assembly in languages / library ARM is not even close to x64
IU are used whenever a particular vitamin has multiple forms with varying levels of efficacy [0]. Or it may be used when the typical quantities are measured in inconveniently small units.

1 IU of cholecalciferol is 0.025 micrograms. If you supplement vitamin D at hogh doses, make sure you use cholecalciferol rather than ergocalciferol. The former is naturally synthesized in your own skin, whereas the latter is produced mainly in mushrooms, and can result in unpleasant side effects. Maximum-dose recommendations from nutritionists may include the assumption that the consumer does not know the difference, therefore reflect the highest safe dose of the least-safe vitamer.

It is similar to the issues with vitamin A, when someone may safely supplement with carotenes and unsafely supplement with retinol. You can eat sweet potato and carrots until you turn orange, but you cannot eat a single bite of polar bear liver. But because we are mostly idiots, nutritionists cannot recommend a high-dose supplement for vitamin A, with carotene in mind, because someone will inevitably overdose themselves with retinol. So if you can certify yourself as not-a-moron, you will be able to figure out when those recommendations may be safely ignored.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamer
For people who want to understand more about the context of this, this is a great read:
https://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMarkets/comments/6rxw7k/info...
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>The presence of a totalitarian ruler willing to constantly backstop markets prevents panics and actually makes the system work better.

Not really. Remember this? https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonchang/2014/01/19/mega-def...

If the government backs everything, people will engage in riskier behavior because they don't accurately assess risk. That creates a massive bubble of risky investments until it's too large for the government to effectively control.

There's an interesting book on the subject you might want to check out:

https://www.amazon.com/Chinas-Guaranteed-Bubble-government-p....
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- "Radiolab" (journalistic stories)

- "Cosmic Vertigo" (astronomy)

- "The Dice Tower" (boardgames)

- "Common Sense" (political commentary)

- "Welcome to Night Vale" (fiction, surreal sci-fi)

- "Leviathan Chronicles" (fiction, epic fantasy)
While the US dollar value is indeed going down a bit lately, there is one thing about global economy. At this very era, no matter what the deficit is, the US federal government will continue to borrow money from creditors. Sure at some point there will not be enough cash so the government is forced to print more money (essentially QE again).

The point is certain large institutions will always have someone to backup. This is why I kept arguing the other week about stock vs estate property (but kept getting downvotes brcause apparently people did not like when I suggested to invest in real estates). When bonds and everything else fail, people will find every penny to find a place to live. But that’s my conservative belief.

Citibank will not fail - someone else come will in and swallow it (or government will bail) - the number of global customers just cannot let Citibank fail completely.

Bitcoin on the hand is completely different - there is no one to back it up. It’s either a up or down game. There is no prediction based on revenue or “exciting new breakthrough”. But its weakness is also an advantage the way I see. Bitcoin and likes allow investors to focus on buy and sell without studying hard about the market. It’s a pure gambling - yes I realized there are maths and logics in defeating gambling games casinos....

Honestly - selfishly, I really want to see bitcoin fail to thr bottom so late riders like I get to buy some :(

But I urge folks to be ready for a sell. There is absolutely no way bitcoin will keep rising this way. It will either crash in 2-3 months back to $500-1000 or there will be a ceiling (e.g resetting the base price).
Answering a genuine question with a whole bunch of other stuff is cool too I suppose, thanks.
I may be romanticizing this a bit but when I was coming up, you earned the term hacker. It was bestowed upon you, not something you claimed about yourself.
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> complex mock

That's a smell for sure. I've got a codebase with lots of 'mocks' and a good amount of dependency injection, but I don't feel like it's hard to modify. In fact, the mocks and dependency injection make testing possible. But then all of the mocks are really dumb, e.g. implementing an interface in the 'dumbest' way possible.

The most complex mock behavior I have is return a value supplied as a parameter to this object's constructor. The mock then is really just a way to explicitly encode assumptions about (possible) behavior of whatever it is being mocked or injected.
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It may not even be tensing of your jaw.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_reflex

Maybe this GIF is causing this reflex to fire. In the absence of the loud anticipated sound, your brain may be interpreting the flexing itself as a sound.
Inflation being a monetary phenomenon is the technical definition of inflation. When you mention the 14% number, that is based on market price for basket of goods which is not technically inflation (under the definition used by economists, not the definition used by journalists).
Could a similar strategy apply then?

> state is much bigger.

Can AlphaGo not care about it and just play better and faster?
What do you mean by single-line publication? I've tried searching but don't find a definition.
"Even for a survivor of the dot-com bust, bitcoin is breathtaking"
Thank you, I'll look into Goldmark! I didn't even know there existed "gig books", I thought they were just playing pieces by well-known composers. Thanks again!
I'm not so sure in the middle of a buying rush that people are just putting spare cash into it.

But the larger point is that even if people are investing small amounts, they're doing so to ride the rush, not because they see value in Bitcoin as anything other than an investment.
A dollar a minute seems substantially overpriced.
The issue here is that you are prioritizing using "the fast lane in a floating price system" as the most important thing when for a lot of people that will not be the case.

They might rather spend that money on housing, or education or chewing gum or who the hell knows what.

The utility maximizing choice it to let them make their own decision as they know more about their preferences than you do. You making that decision for them destroys utility.
Climate change already costs us all money, and it’s going to get worse
Putting the node naming issues aside, Intel used to lead the rest of industry between 2 - 3 years time. And not only it is technologically superior, Intel also has the scale enjoyed by no one else in the industry. From that point of view, Intel has a monopoly.

Now not only has TSMC or Samsung shrank the gap to less then a year or so, they now both enjoy the same economy of scale provided by the mobile phone market. 1.7 Billion Smartphones Vs 250M PC. While many of the smartphones aren't using cutting edge tech, the same goes to PC market as well.

Unless there is any change of pace from Intel, TSMC will likely have the same level of tech as Intel in 2019, and a scale that Intel wont match assuming Apple dont change course and continue to Fab with TSMC.

They will need to sell more chips, more transistor, keep the Fab fully utilize, with the ~200M Modem from Apple next year that is going to help tremendously, but given Apple switch supplier from time to time their move into GPU in 2 - 3 years time seems like a backup plan incase anything goes south.
Writing many native UIs can be a waste of time, especially if you need to maintain and update them.
I kinda like QML. I liked qt3 for desktop apps, and pyqt was pretty sweet, but qml frontend and C++ backend is even better.
>This would be akin to a robot being given access to thousands of metal bits and parts, but no knowledge of a combustion engine, then it experiments numerous times with every combination possible until it builds a Ferrari. That's all in less time that it takes to watch the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. The program had four hours to play itself many, many times, thereby becoming its own teacher.

This absurd comparison would raise my eyebrows coming from an English tabloid.

Having said that I've looked the author's profile and was appalled to learn he's a chess prodigy. Then I also seen he's a Chess Journalist. Apparently he became much more a journalist than a chess master...
This myth is probably fed by employers who don't want to give raises as well.

"Well if I give you a raise, you won't get more money! Get back to work!"
>I don't think the situation would be much improved if the government siezed control of pharma companies, but it would be improved if pharma companies no longer had control of the government.

Seeking control of the government is a side effect of profit motive, it's a symptom of capitalism. Seizing the means of big pharma seems totally fine to me, it's a public good and our world where the amount spent researching a cure is proportional to how much money we can milk out of those afflicted seems a lot worse to me than a world where the amount spent researching a cure is proportional to the misery of those afflicted.
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Upgraded to Firefox 57, many extensions that work before didn't anymore, especially the Session Manager and a little extension that cleared cookies of the current website, which is badly needed for web development. After waiting for a while and nothing seem to come up, I've finally broken down and started writing extensions. The new WebExtensions api is not so bad. I was able to whip up a prototype after a day. The API has restriction due to the security model but there are ways to get around to get the job done.
Good point. Two years of tactical validation is still too many, but I suspect we agree on this much.
If Bitcoin truly becomes this disruptive all anyone needs to do is go into your home and rob you of your private key. Are you investing in weapons? How is this safer? It actually seems like it would be easier to take someone’s private key than other pieces of property.
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I bought 1000$ worth of ETF in Stash app and am planning to hold it for 10 years.
The premise of UBI is that not everybody needs to work. It's not that everybody will move towards low-profit pursuits it's that otherwise unemployed people will. The taxes will come from the same places they are expected to: automation increasingly taking over the creation of most of the wealth in society.

We'll see if it works in practice, but that's the theory.
This is also an interesting project, if you want to use Qt with Rust:

https://phabricator.kde.org/source/rust-qt-binding-generator...
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Why would it ever be late to get rich if it's not a bubble?
I will posit that the proof-of-work is the only way to have: (1) a trustless decentralized network with (2) equitable distribution/minting of the coin.

I will concede that other coins exist that don't use a proof-of-work (instead proof-of-stake or other). Those forfeit trustlessness and/or equitable distribution. I will also concede that it may be possible for those coins to fulfill a need and be useful without all of those things. Though I doubt they ever could have been created if not for bitcoin having been created first.
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Or have someone with a gun beat it out of your head. I really don’t understand how Bitcoin is a safer asset.
What kind of logic is that?? In my mind, those with the oldest equipment must necessarily be taking care of it, because if you don't take care of it then it won't survive long enough to be old.

But on the other hand, I see people driving antique beaters and doubt they have the capability or interest to manage any maintenance.