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That is an argument from society's point of view. When people don't work or contribute to the general welfare of society in any way (and they are able to, not talking about people unable to do things,) and they take from the general pool provided by the rest of the social group, they are taking away resources that could be used for other things, things that may further benefit the individuals providing resources for society.

There are arguments to be made about decreasing crime, but most of the most convincing moral imperative arguments are related to religion. The more convincing Keynesian argument is about money going into the economy and driving growth because none of the people dependent on UBI will save anything at all. So from a purely utilitarian point of view, individual financial interest does come into play.
I only made the statement with regard to code. I don't dispute a different situation generally or the specific example of molecular optics.
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In my top comment I already stated 'it will be a mixed bag'.

In the comment you are replying to, I am specifically talking about people who are pissing their life away already.

Not sure what your point is.
Sorry, it actually covers Hokkaido.
It's a distant reality from my culture, didn't knew that was already a thing at product release!
The USD is regularly debased to reward people who have taken on debt. Bitcoin, on the other hand, has a fixed supply that cannot be manipulated.
It's hard to raise money for such a business, because venture capitalists typically aren't willing to loan a new business money- they want ownership equity for their money. And at that point it's no longer employee owned. In fact small business loans specifically exclude any new business from consideration- established businesses with documented profits only, thank you very much. So usually employee owned businesses start out privately owned and then the employees buy out the original owners at market prices. I think there is hope though- there are financing options for cooperatives starting to appear here and there, still on a very small scale though.
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I feel obligated to post this comment:

Bitcoin is stupid.

It’s a bubble. If you make money it will only be on the backs of massive losses on the other side, and potentially globally destabilizing / destructive effects.
Or maybe something like this: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/831858/Iraq-ISIS-US-Mos...
Coinhive seems pretty upfront with this though (to answer "Will this work on my site?":

"Technically yes, economically probably not. If you run a blog that gets 10 visits/day, the payout will be miniscule. For the captcha and shortlinks with a sensible hash goal (1024–16384) you'll need to have a whole lot of users to make this worthwhile."

I do like it as an accessibility friendly captcha system, though.
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Red meat is down. Chicken however is dramatically higher.
Are they paying for that electricity?
I've only just started reading a bit more about Monero after having watched Bitcoin from a far distance and Monero feels like it could actually become a useful currency. I have no trouble imagining myself paying and getting paid in Monero, something that I could never see happening with Bitcoin considering transaction time and cost.

Monero is fungible, meaning that it is anonymous compared to Bitcoin that has a public ledger.

Transaction fees are manageable, about $3 I think. Monero's block size adjusts dynamically to the amount of transactions. Work is in progress that will lower transaction fees even more.

The community seems friendly and helpful, if judged by "internet standards".

Will it increase in value? Who knows? But it feels like Monero could be actually useful someday.
I am by no means an expert, but my understanding is that a personal computer isn't energy/heat efficient enough to make a profit from mining. It costs more in energy than you would make from the bitcoin. My friends who do some mining have told me the same.

You're competing with computers that are made exclusively for bitcoin and people who are heavily investing their time into it so it makes sense.

It would probably be fine just for trying the system out and seeing how it works before you invest though.
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>The worst proposal, increasing blocksize, is not currently being considered because of its impact on centralization.

Hard drive space is cheap! Increasing blocksize isn't going to cause centralization, it's the easiest and most effective way to scale for now.
Your point about moving parts is good, it is absolutely the place to look for possible failure. That said, it is also possible to build such things in a durable way. For example, at the science museum in London there was a display with a Stirling engine that over 75 years old and still works fine. I expect the challenge will be to keep the materials within the range of temperatures and pressures that do not cause structural change in the material.
what you are mentioning is deflation, the opposite of inflation. there is a limited amount of bitcoins, so indeed it is indeed deflationary, unlike most fiat, that central authority keep printing anytime they need.
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That's possible. I've suspected the death of cities such as Miami will come not from a storm, but rather from loss of insurance on buildings as people realize what the next big storm will do (in 20 years or so)

I'm not sure that's the scenario the OP had in mind though. A realization of crisis could also have the opposite effect. I think our main problem now is that we're not panicking enough. Humans tend to do decently well in crises, often the only time we solve certain problems.
You see this faulty reasoning a lot when discussing religion:

We can't know or understand God any more than a cockroach can understand an iPhone - but we will now tell you all about God, what he wants from us, and how to obtain the everlasting rewards that he has promised to believers.
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The bitcoins are lost. The current Bulgarian political class has its roots in the gangsters/dirtbags installed by the Red Army during occupation so it is hopeless to expect anything human-like of them. By the way they had already embezzled similar sums on several occasions during the last decade - the KTB bankrupcy and the NPP Belene being two examples.

What is much more interesting though is the customs worm - seems like a combination of high-tech and low-level corruption could yield similar or better results to pure high-level corruption. This is real good news.
I thought it was "universal" because it was meant to replace all social welfare programs with a basic income..

But what about it requires to be at the federal level? Is there a base number of participants that are required? Does that mean smaller governments can't have UBI? Or, is the idea just so big we can't be bothered to get into the technicalities of it all?
It really depends on your goals but for coding interviews I've found leetcode.com to be the best by far.
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>what do you want ? People to not have children?

If you believe that areas have already overshot their carrying capacity. Then yes.
>how does the size of the earth matter?

Because we are but a mote of dust in a tiny span of time. The earth has such a tremendous amount of volume that it's impossible for us to change it any significant amount. Look at global warming, We've been dumping gigatons of CO2 into the atmosphere every year for the last century. Even with all of the immensity of human activity we've changed the temperature of the atmosphere by less than a degree. Even that tiny temperature change from global warming is pretty much entirely from the release of CO2 and other greenhouse gasses and not the release of energy. The atmosphere is also just a tiny thin wisp of a shell around the planet. The amount of thermal energy we could ever hope to extract from the planet is too small to be considered a rounding error.
So close, but just misses the mark.

This statement contradicts itself:

> We can assume that an objective reality exists, as "das Ding an sich" (the-thing-in-itself) in the pholisophy of Kant, but our perception of that reality will always be subjective.

in that the latter clause is an objective statement about perception necessarily, by its assumption, derived through said limited subjective means.

"Do not rely on your thinking in order to know the world"
I don't think anyone mines for bitcoins by themselves anymore - they join a pool so you get a small guaranteed payout.
I'm picturing going into a cafe, using the wifi, and my phone turning into a hot coal or my laptop fan blowing me back out of my seat.
Yes but with a caveat.

Many of the artists I discovered via Spotify / Google Music make pennies from these sites. The truth is that unless you're buying an album (1) or other merchandise, you're not contributing significantly for the artist's survival.

I was chatting with Brock Van Wey last week (aka bvdub, my favorite choice of background music when programming) and he was describing how challenge it is to stay in business nowadays. I naïvely thought these apps were helping those folks...

I for one will try to buy more albums, even if digital, of the bands I listen to all the time.

(1) directly from the artist (e.g. via bandcamp). Google Music, at least, doesn't really give you the mp3 but only a protected file that can solely be played in their software.
We already lost control over HW and SW. There are often malicious functionalities in binary software and our 'hardware' can't be trusted either (Intel ME, AMD PSP, firmwares, bioses). Some time ago, firmware in a notebook used to install drivers into windows during boot without user knowing that. We are dependent on technology and we don't seem to care about security much, other than buying some magical binary blobs called Antivirus and Cleaners.
I agree, but the argument sounds like greenwashing. Sure, it's possible that PoW could be run from green energy, but what's the likelihood of that happening? how do we get there?

I offered some suggestions (ban unregulated large-scale mining, connect farms to specific green grids), but I doubt Bitcoin fans will like them. :)
FWIW, I consider being shoved away from Google products a bonus of the Windows Mobile platform at this juncture. ;) It encouraged me to finish transitioning away from their services.

YouTube is "good enough" in the browser, but I prefer to not watch videos on a phone anyways, and usually save them for later.
In this case, absolutely. Because another term with this administration will be much more damaging to the environment than not have a meat tax.
Well there is that. One other thing I've learned is that no matter how stresses I get, there's always someone going through worse and here we are.

Sorry to hear that man, cannot imagine what you're going through - I've come close with my Mrs and it's not nice.
Think this is why Firefox took a dip in market share when they change search without asking.
That’s an extreme comparison - there’s no such thing as a healthy level of cigarette consumption while there is for social media (at least a non-harmful level).
Then you played against bad Goliaths. You get slowly to them, and you don't one shot them. If they don't go in a steady line either (which they shouldn't and wouldn't if they knew enemy was around), then you won't kill them. When I played Goliath, Prowlers weren't my concern. My concern was resource starve or multiple vs 1 (the former usually due to the latter). A Prowler is great to one shot others; damaged airplanes and Mohawk. You don't easily one shot a Goliath. Not in the least w/o external help.
> As an employee, I don't want to work for a place that is paying me more than they feel I'm worth. Because then they start to resent you. "What do you mean you can't read my mind? That's what I'm paying you [large sum] for."

They are not going to pay you more than you are worth. That's the maximum they would pay you. The argument made in the article is how to pay below maximum and get away with it.
Waste from Hanford would either stay at Hanford or go through Portland. Seattle is way out of the way. Portland much closer.
This is the kind of experiment it is fun to use small FPGA evaluation boards to run. (or a larger CPLD).
Sort of, I'm assuming a lot of people bring their chargers with them if they're using the WiFi at Starbucks
> Much better than a "this will be fast, if you're lucky" distribution.

This is a really wrongheaded way to look at this. BTrees are themselves an adaptive function that can be used at the top of bottom of an index. We've just got other ones here being proposed that are much faster and smaller, when they work. And there is a methodology here to identify and train them, when they do.

This exists in sharp contrast to our existing family of algorithms, which tend to lack any sort of introspective features in their operation. Tree building, for example, is (like many divide-and-conquer algorithms that are actually trees) incredibly sensitive to the ordering of the arguments, and algorithms that balance them use only structural information and balance them at the last possible (and often most expensive) moment.

What's most amazing about this approach is that you've got a recursive model where the model is trained in layers that propose a submodel, or "an expert which has a better knowledge about certain keys."

That model could be a tree, or a b-tree, or a linear regression, or a neural network. They actually test using other tree types and search algorithms (which are implicitly tree types) in the paper.

This process adaptively trains models which can, in a very real sense, increase and decrease their level of detail as the structure of the data demands.

And in the later case (which seems to excite people less but excites me more) they propose a bloom filter alternative that can automatically identify useful structural elements and latch onto those as part of its categorization, which is is perhaps one of the most revolutionary ideas I've seen bringing ML into the distributed systems world.
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You're correct, there's a huge risk of this outcome from the structure they've proposed. Their validator concept, however, could work to break down the barriers between communities.

A validator that isn't totally arbitrary (TigersFans), but rather based on existing communities would potentially cut across a lot of the barriers. I could trust MicrosoftValidator and consequently everyone from their CEO down to their janitors could do business with me. Validator communities springing up from universities, for instance, would cut across a lot of the geographic barriers.

Related to my other post, these validators have a vested interest in being reputable: A university might only add accounts that it has verified at the registrar or bursar because those are the accounts used to accept tuition and fees from, and to pay out reimbursements and stipends to.

If it's only based on individual peer-to-peer connections, it's bound to see various chokepoints where a handful of people are responsible for connecting large communities that are largely disconnected from each other.
not quite an infographic, but this site lets you slice the projects by different attributes:

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I personally think this is a transition period. We’re transitioning into a world where it is not okay to bring sex into the workplace, and to a world where you ask for consent instead of “just going for it”.

There’s nothing harmful about this. No reason to be afraid. The easiest way to think about this is: What if you were a man, and were alone with another man in a room? What is it okay for you to do/say? Would you show any physical affection in any way that could be construed as sexual? Would you make lewd jokes, or lewd comments about that man (or other men)? Of course not.

You’d work together, get the job done, and move on. Treat women the same way you would men, and life will be just fine.
What if you categorize and tag your collection? I like lots of overlapping tags, and I like using tags to filter. I personally hate search.
The thing is, a part of the point of universal basic income for me is that it would allow some people, who have no interest in working for wages, to survive and thrive doing all the things that we need in society that nobody will actually pay for. Community organising, caring for others, and basically acting as social "glue" is something we've lost as we have moved further towards a model of "100% of the population must be in full-time employment for wages" - this is actually a relatively new model, as prior to a certain time, women were not expected to work unless they absolutely had to. An accidental outcome of the feminism of the past century and the creation of equality under capitalism.

I'd argue that inserting companies into the positions where these people once were - asking companies to act as social glue - is where we've gone wrong in the past couple of decades.
Did you see the graph? Total meat is well down from 1800s levels.
I love the site, but I have yet to have any of my submissions get reviewed by anyone else. Great concept, but maybe there is more they could do to encourage experienced developers to review the submissions.
I think the genomics folks have been onboard with this for a couple years now.
We share video with grandparents, for example, you could do it by links sent over email but social-media is easier. I used to use YouTube, but Facebook upload is easier and privacy controls are easier for me.

We get to see them about twice a year because of cost and distance of travel.
This is smart...or maybe not. Has anybody done the calculation here? I am very curious to know into how much $s the 10s translate to
The issue is not what I want.

The issue is that there is not enough water per person.

Efficiency gains and technology will help with the numerator somewhat, though probably swamped by increased material consumption.

We can talk about the denominator or not, but we probably can't do anything about it if we don't.
If Google fails doubt it will be found on other choices. I will post something on a smaller site and Google will pick it up while the other search engines will not. So for me just easy choice is to use Google.
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That is precisely the problem. If the notification were rendered as part of the page by the web server, no one would have issue with it (though it would likely be blocked by adblockers anyway).

It's the fact that the ISP is modifying traffic in-route, to inject something that was never intended to be part of the page, that is the problem.

I expect my ISP to be a neutral carrier of messages, not meddling and altering my mail to add whatever they happen to feel like adding today.
As for me, the name is too similar to Loggly from the same domain.
I was sceptical about this - where does the value come from? - until I read the part about mapping the social trust.

There is value in mapping these relationships. Trust enables lowering the cost of transacting. Low cost of transacting enables creation of powerful ecosystems.

It's the first proposal that I am aware of that introduces an economic incentive on an individual level for mapping trust. The system seems potentially very robust:
1) I add people I trust in order to increase the value of my coins
2) If I make a mistake and add an actor who turned out to be untrustworthy I am penalized by losing some value from my coins

Thanks to this dynamic, there is both an incentive to expand the network and eliminate bad actors on an individual level.
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Two mobile platforms Android and iOS and you think Google does not compete against Apple?

Tell that to Tim Cooks high school

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I am actually neurotic and have a database with not only tagging, but Dewey Decimal and Library of Congress classification fields. ;) I also usually still use search... I just search for the tags I am looking for.

LibreRead probably could use some tagging and categorization fields in the metadata, but that is the sort of features that should be relatively easy to add later.
If you can afford to go back to college you have enough money to do Recurse Center or something more practical than college.
The unwashed masses can't understand the difference between different coins, so you might as well call everything Bitcoin.
PWA is an acryonym that you don't need to worry about, unless you buy in to the argument that web apps are lacking certain desirable characteristics of native mobile apps.

Most of the PWA required characteristics are pretty obvious:

"Progressive" and "Responsive" - not new ideas.

"Discoverable", "Linkable", "App-like" - the classic problems of single-page web apps

"Fresh" and "Safe" - as if some people desire apps that are stale and dangerous.

Then there are the characteristics that set PWAs apart:

"Connectivity-independent" (should work offline) - My app lets you check yesterday's weather.

"Re-engageable" (receives push notifications when the browser is closed) - Because users really love push notifications.

"Installable" (can be installed on the devices home screen) - Isn't there something called a link that does this?

The PWA requriements seem to be as set of priorities for websites heavily influenced by the experience (pros and cons) of native mobile app development. As such, they seem out of touch with what should be the priorities for a web app.
True, but the spread at GDAX BTC/USD frequently hovers around $0.01, and within $0.05 of the price there'll be 10's of bitcoin available.

A quick check right now had 5.2 BTC (~$86k) on either side of the $0.01 spread. Slippage has plummeted as exchange volume has gone up.
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Not to mention that some (perhaps many) people will be running their devices off of the store's own power outlets. So the store will actually be paying the electrical bill for at least some of that mining.
I agree with you, that money will offset those issues. But throwing more money at it is a short term "fix". I'll work that crappy job making piles of money with a short time horizon in mind. I'll do it for 6 months to a year saving as much of that over and above normal pay so that I have options in 6 months to a year to take a low or normal paying position someplace I enjoy. (Or fiddle with my own ideas for a year.) The company that just throws money at the problem is also just thinking short term, they are likely going to have high turnover. But, if they have the money to keep throwing at that problem too then their model of burning money and burning people could last a while. Make sense it sounds like it wall street/finance firms focused on money and short term results...
Oh, I see what you mean. Yes, I agree.
This isn’t mining Bitcoin, it’s using Coinhive (https://coinhive.com) to mine Monero
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One of the big problems I have with this (and with mining, in general) is that it's attempting to create value by simply wasting electricity. Come on, we should not be spending CPU cycles just for the sake of spending CPU cycles...
Yea I usually don't even know exactly what I'm looking for. I'd love an ebook reader which can nail something roughly like the experience of browsing library stacks.
So that you can write in something saner than JavaScript, for starters.