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Credit card companies aren't really paying you to use their cards. You're still paying the fees; it's just that they're being collected by the merchant.
PageRank was initially invented for scientific publications and later applied to web sites.
You don't need to. For me, REST can be as simple as: encode the type of request into the URL, request parameters into URL parameters and/or query parameters, request data into a JSON payload. Use GET for read-only operations, and if you're really not particular about it, use POST for everything else. Return 200 for success, 400 for client error and 500 for server error. Transport a more detailed application error code and description in the response body. That's it.
the argument that everyone is holding falls apart against the evidence that transaction fees are nearly 30 dollars. transaction fees are high because bitcoins are exchanging hands faster than the miners can process them.
And then we wonder why women feel there's a glass ceiling blocking them from advancing
Because Bob and Carol will make money by routing the transactions. They will effectively be banks.
Can somebody assist in breaking this down?
I think in our industry a cover letter might send a negative signal. In other fields a cover letter is a sign that you’re a “go-getter”. A good software engineer is two things: in high demand, and a professional problem solver. A cover letter sends the signal that you are the type of person who works harder not smarter. I’d be much more impressed if you LinkedIn stalked me and sent me a quick two sentence message about why you would be jazzed to work at my company (I.e problem space and why or culture fit and why).

On the whole it doesn’t really matter though.
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In the end, governments can not tolerate widespread use of cryptocurrencies. They benefit too much from the ability to print money in sovereign currencies to lose control. They will use whatever excuse sticks - child porn, money laundering, aiding terrorism... whatever gets the public on board with new restrictions.

I believe that's why we've seen article after article lately about all the horrible people using bitcoins, plus scare stories about bubbles and how You'll Lose All Your Money. Concrete legal steps are on the way.
It currently costs less to run a node per month than it does to do three transactions on the blockchain in the same period. Why would anyone care to run a node if the transactions aren't affordable.
It can be trivially done by the existing miners not committing transactions to the blockchain that they control. Because a single company, bitmain, controls more than 50% of the hashing power of bcash, they would only build on blocks that don't contain transactions from their blacklist.

That is what bcash is right now. A captured blockchain. You transact on it at the sufferance of the chinese government. If you think they won't exert that power, if they think it suits their interests, I'm not sure understanding this will convince you.
That land is trapped on the Bay side of 101 with only two ways out (Shoreline and Amphitheatre Pkwy)... both of which are already gridlocked during commute hours.

Residences there will be fine for Google workers (and the few other businesses on the bay side of 101), but it will be a nightmare for everyone else.

I think that's why the purchase price was so cheap.

I could see Google putting in a short-throw underground railroad spur or hyperloop to their campus eventually.
Is it a closed definition? The equivalent in Mathematica would allow one to add things whenever one wants, for example to add definitions for fac for negative integers, or to hard-code the value of fac 100.

If clean has a REPL (which I couldn’t easily find out from its web page) I expect it to have that, too.
Anybody have a year for this?
I find it quite strange that literary fiction in particular is sinking when other kinds of fiction seems to be increasingly in a boom. Romance ebooks are taking off, for example. I wonder if it isn’t possible that these literary authors couldn’t move their work to electronic mediums like, well, Medium.
I really hope Tesla is successful at beefing up its supercharger network. If the proper phrase is "I have no dog in this hunt," I extend the analogy to "because I have a cat."

As an occasional driver of a Nissan Leaf in Puget Sound, the (in my observation) massive uptick in Tesla cars up here has really put a strain on the relatively tiny DC quick-charge network. Where that car can be in and out of a CHAdeMO station in 25-35 minutes, Tesla cars seem to occupy it for two hours. Presumably, and I'm just guessing, this is because a CHAdeMO station is to a Tesla what a 240V level 2 charger is to a Leaf. If I drive to a particular Eastside shopping center, I'd better hope I plan to be there for at least two hours because there's no chance of ever seeing an unoccupied one of the quick chargers there.

Either way, that's why I hope that either Tesla gets its superchargers more widely deployed or that some company takes the hint and builds more DC quick chargers. (Preferably more reliable ones, too, while I'm wishing for ponies. The one at the Lake City Fred Meyer seems to only have two states, occupied or broken.)
Actually the white paper does not specify the details of the algorithm anyway.
> I'd say you're being overdramatic here. Mining is still decentralised

Controlled by a handful of people is absolutely not decentralized.

They have abused their power. Ghash double spends. Segwit blocked for a year. Bitcoin cash proxy support.
Nodes don't mine. There are still many nodes using old client node software. Look.

http://luke.dashjr.org/programs/bitcoin/files/charts/softwar...

I don't think you really understand the relationship between nodes and consensus.
You misunderstand. I'm not depriving them because I want them to buy their own phones. I'm depriving them because my wife and I believe extremely strongly that children should not have mobile devices, period.
Article reads like being from a crumpy snarky old age dev who lives in his XML-land filter bubble of the 1990s. Go back to XMLRPC and SOAP please. This site is getting more of these corporate old farts lately that don't want to adjust at all. I wish the time back when this site was about startup news, VCs, and new exiting things and not about whining and boring stuff.
Bitcoin is not a currency for tax purposes in the USA.
The governments have not yet fully cracked down, but they have tested the waters with a variety of methods. The fact that they have lost over and over again further increases the bitcoin value.

If a government were to really try to shut it down, there would be an immediate drop in crypto-currency value, but if the government was ultimately unsuccessful, the value would rocket up to even higher levels.

Every bitcoin "investor"/gambler makes these tradoffs.
If you are in the USA you have numerous options including; Coinbase, GDAX, Gemini, itbit, and Kraken among others.
You're assuming they are used for "payments". If something doubles in value, the transaction fees melt away.
Better solution: http://www.odata.org
Not a ridiculous point. I wonder if certain bitcoins could eventually be worth more than others simply because the chain of custody has gone through an official source.
I try to talk about the technical implementation of bitcoin and the game theory that supports it. There are lots of kids whose understanding of bitcoin extends to reading reddit. That is what we see here. Unfortunately. I would prefer if reddit discussions, vote brigading, and sockpuppets, remained on reddit.
Certain states now require you to report bitcoin gains... so actually it is.
Why are you discussing reddit?
> all your heuristic says is that the opinions that are "valid" are whatever the current status quo for your local societal norms happens to be.

I'm not advocating for a heuristic, I'm saying how functionally it works. Liberal / educated society has a different opinion than conservative society, for example. In your examples, societies of different time periods had different measuring sticks. Clearly we don't agree with the opinions of those societies but that's not surprising.

If modern liberal/educated society agrees that flat earthing and anti-vaxxing beliefs are unfounded and dumb, then people who believe those things will find themselves better accepted in niche groups who share their views. Similarly political correctness arises out of a subset of society saying "wow we find some things to be hurtful" and contrary to how it's being painted in Sam's writing it's not some minefield of things that hinder free thought; it's just that there are ways we interact that can hurt and silence others. Being mindful of these things is, in some opinions including mine, a low bar and not much harder to achieve than observing what's going on and concluding "gee the world is round and we should be kind to one another."

> In short, all your heuristic says is that the opinions that are "valid" are whatever the current status quo for your local societal norms happens to be.

Again no espousing of any heuristic here, only a description of functionally how society works. The great thing is the the subject here is specifically _modern liberal silicon valley educated society_ and what it finds acceptable. The thread is mostly to discuss whether this specific society's net opinions today are chilling on innovation or beneficial for innovation. Sam thinks it's chilling; Anil and many others think it's beneficial / necessary.
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About every 5 seconds Ubuntu is making DNS lookup for: daisy.ubuntu.com.
My hope: Tesla succeeds at making real things and has a stock valuation that accurately reflects their intrinsic value while providing sufficient support to fund new ventures.

Is that too much to ask?
See the Google blog post from last summer, https://research.googleblog.com/2017/08/transformer-novel-ne... A novel simplified architecture for sequences and translation.
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POST /access-tokens

{“username”: “sam33”, “password”: “hunter42”}

Would be fine, but could include more if you were following a spec like JSON API 1.1. I really don’t have any of the problems you seem to have. But I work in a high level programming language, so maybe it’s that? Either way I find RCPs to get messy when they get bigger. Sometimes it’s the right move, but for web apps I generally prefer REST.
> the market will by itself weed out companies doing excessive environmental damage

Do you have any data to support this fairytale?
I think “hipsteresque opinions looking to sound smarter and more insightful than they actually are” is a very good definition for much of Medium’s content.

It may have to do with the platform being used by individuals trying to create a brand of themselves, resulting in a high percentage of sensationalist and controversial posts. Along with the necessity to write on a regular basis.
I agree. There are plenty of freedoms built into the REST way that enable you to create more or less detailed responses.

"I don’t care. Trees are recognized by their own fruits.
What took me a few hours of coding and worked very robustly, with simple RPC, now takes weeks..."

Weeks? For a REST API? No, I don't think so. REST gives you the tools to be pragmatic and quick, so use them.
You are free to make that case if you believe it has merit. I can reinforce mine with plenty of examples and lots of other evidence. I am for freedom of speech in principle. Nobody should be censored for discussing a political opinion.
The lead Litecoin dev, Charlie Lee, made an unholy alliance with Bitcoin Core. He is part of their Dragon's Den troll coordination chat room and in return for his support on issues like blocksize and segwit they throw him a bone by recommending litecoin as Bitcoin becomes unusable for smaller transactions.
I understand the social / cultural problems with moving form Facebook, but the value of privacy is a social / cultural one, not a technical one. If you can't engage people on a cultural level, then you've already lost.

My original point was just that technical solutions exist, not that there is a social will to use them.
Users have to transmit the private keys to their nodes, but not the PIN. This tradeoff was taken to prevent people from losing their money by losing their phone. If the secure enclave were broken, nodes could, theoretically, be able to brute-force the private keys.

I think that in reality, there will really be just a few nodes: Signal, WhatsApp and some bots/banks/businesses. The trust system in place is ideal for this.
I know many of you won't like that it uses Facebook comments but i chose it (for now) for a couple of reasons: 1) mainstream appeal 2) ease of integration 3) FB already has comments on some links. If people use the extension I'm thinking of Disqus as an alternative or - more longterm - a P2P solution.
While REST is much better than the alternatives, the criticism is on point

Some people take religious discussions about REST to the extreme (usually about not being RESTful enough)

The same extremists probably never met real world problems or did some questionable quirk to solve them that they sell as true gospel.
I know the marketing jargon that "LiteCoin is silver to Bitcoin's gold", but can anyone explain how they differ materially, or is just another line of speculation?
Several of the top carriers are running a promo right now that includes unlimited calling and 10GB of data for $60/month. It's literally the best publicly available plan I or anyone I've spoken to have heard of. Several people I know, including myself, have switched.

So, the wireless situation does finally seem to be getting better due to competition from new entrants like Wind/Freedom mobile. I've never heard of anything close to $40 for unlimited LTE + calling though. (Although I believe Freedom does throttle your connection rather than cutting you off when you hit their data cap; is that what you're referring to as "unlimited LTE"?)
I have a Dell laptop that I bought for ~$500 in 2014, upgraded to 16GB RAM and SSD, it holds ETH, LTC and BTC blockchain. It's constant network transfer is 4MB/s, avg. CPU usage 70%. Run Arch. What problem are you having?
I agree. My main goal building an API is to make it easy to consume.

Clients are lazy and impatient, and this is a good thing because it makes the developers work hard to make it easy to connect to their API.
The standard is more closely "anybody that works for you cannot consent, especially when you make the first advances" which makes more sense, because it's not always possible to tell if "I want you to have sex with me" includes the subtext "Have sex with me or I'll fire you"
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Note that only Koodo and Freedom are offering this indefinitely. The other carriers' plans expire after 2 years. If trends continue it will be possible to find something at least as good by then, but no guarantees.

I just switched to Koodo from Fido, since Freedom isn't available on Vancouver Island.
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> With inequality rising, expect more anti-social behaviour.

You mean with poverty rising, right ?
Also, deaths alone do not give the whole picture.

Sure, maybe fewer die. But what about the number of people displaced by war? And what about those that survive but are missing limbs etc?
Lots of comments here arguing REST is popular because it's easy, but there's another higher level reason too: it forces you to think about the network.

In far too many RPC protocols, calling functions that operate over a network are treated like normal functions. A function call, almost by definition, fails to take into account network errors, and race conditions where multiple events overlap. Network calls are not function calls, and the fact that REST calls are relatively distinct from normal function calls is a good thing.
Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences. Damore made some factual statements (this is OK), but then attempted to draw some non-factual conclusions from those statements that made his continued employment impossible (what if he was part of a promotion or hiring committee for a female employee? his prior statements would be pretty damning)

Read Damore's treatise and replace every mention of gender with one of race, and see how it reads.
But the issue with that is that, especially for drugs (legal and otherwise) the government has been a profoundly NEGATIVE influence over the market, and bitcoin allows and end-run around that because it doesn't control the organisation that is bitcoin (because it is an algorithm), and the government doesn't actually control shipping (because that would destroy globalism due to the increase in costs that would bring)

For illegal drugs, the government is a negative influence because of their propensity to cause massive actual harm to supposedly "correct" small problems (e.g. an addict's third strike resulting in forcing them into a life of crime).

For legal drugs, the government is enforcing the pricing power, and even the price differentiating power (same exact product, different pricing in US vs CA or EU or India, or ...), of the pharma industry, even in cases where it's ludicrous (which is mostly the US being 10x as expensive as somewhere else).

Funny how the government is always in favor of globalism, except where it would actually benefit the lower and middle classes. Having the ability to ship medicine across borders ... there is no more clear-cut case of globalism helping people. Yet the government is fighting hard to make it impossible in that case.

In the case where it's destroying the middle and lower classes, steel imports for example, or subsidized solar panels, the government is fighting to make it continue, and protecting foreign companies and people from the consequences of their cheating (e.g. government intervention preventing Chinese firms from getting sued for fraud after falsifying steel products, essentially selling low grade steel as high grade steel, even in cases where it compromises personal safety. Apparently now the same thing is happening with Japanese firms).
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I avoid medium posts as much as possible. Everyone is an expert on there with very strong opinions telling me how every technology older than 2 years and not written in javascript is obsolete/dead/not the right way/new <insert a dead technology>.

And what's with the UI on their publications. They take up top 25% of the screen with the branding and navbar and bottom 10% asking me to sign in and both sticks on the screen. Who approved that?
An additional hurdle may be it's use of uniqueness typing (http://clean.cs.ru.nl/download/html_report/CleanRep.2.2_11.h...), which it uses for IO instead of monads.

In my experience with Clean, uniqueness typing has been some kind of magic.
No Delphi :-(
Saying, "X is true; if you disagree, you're misinformed and should go inform yourself," isn't particularly productive. Obviously the parent is basing their opinion on different information than you, so to refute that opinion it would be helpful to prevent some evidence or reasoning.
One that was resistant to sybil attacks? Bitcoin was the first system to do that as far as I know.

Before bitcoin you would be unable to create a virtual currency without a central authority. Satoshi's algorithm was a new invention in 2009, although it's parts - like proof of Work - were invented in 1990s.
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I think that in practice, every operator of a messaging app will have their own node.

There will be Signal, WhatsApp, Messenger, etc. nodes and some small nodes for businesses, bots and similar.

Yes, theoretically, if you DDoSed Signal, then Bob wouldn't be able to get the coins.
Programming Paradigm Becomes Popular B/C it gets stuff done -->

left: it gets stuff done because it's smarter

right: it's bad for you, it's actually getting less done

middle: didn't read all that stuff, busy getting stuff done.
> I still think it's an interesting approach. If you want to be more efficient and less wasteful than Bitcoin, at some point trust has to come into play

Did you read about Ethereum's Casper and proof of stake? Or dpos - implemented in Eos et all?
Plus it's not like for this individual there is any shortage of women testifying publicly and privately to his behavior.
This author is a complete idiot themself.
Agreed: 401 is for authentication and 403 for authorization.

Yet the official name for 401 is 401 UNAUTHORIZED.

So even the very basics of REST and HTTP are confusingly or ambiguously defined.
Perhaps along the same lines, elimination of us vs. them thinking shouldn't be predicated on elimination of all differences. Mainly because it's totally unrealistic to think that will ever happen.

Instead, we should be able to move beyond the us vs. them approach to the world without first making sure that the "them" are exactly like"us".
If you're defining an RPC protocol in just a few minutes, you're leaving a ton of stuff out. Anyone that assumes an RPC call will successfully complete or assumes the network is always there, is writing buggy code. An "RPC protocol" makes writing such buggy code easier. A REST protocol makes it slightly harder. In theory, they are almost identical. But in practice, developers equate RPC calls with function calls, which they are definitely not.
We have exactly this problem. We have found no solution other than to expect no word-of-mouth sales. We actually have a problem where our customers will tell their competitors that our product is terrible and not to use it so they can keep it for themselves.
Not a nitpick at all; thanks! I was wondering why the grammar was WAY better than I was expecting, and how they got it to keep track of the 'state' of a subject that had just been mentioned.

If things had improved that much in NLP-land since I last played around with it, I would jump careers right now :-D.
There would be