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> That's about $16k/year, which means it would take that household an entire lifetime to save up a million dollars.

~23 years if you add $16k a year and compound at 8% (below average S&P return for our lifetimes). If you increase contribution along with pay increases the time to a million will be less, small changes in return % also make a huge difference.

Not exactly overnight, but also completely doable.
Wait, are you suggesting using public key fingerprints instead of easily memorized names? Just like onion addresses?
I've often wondered if Ethernet can be ran over brine or wet string, if even only just a few inches. I played with the idea once unsuccessfully but never put more than five minutes into it.
I don't see how you can say that "none of his allegations against [..] other figures went anywhere" given that his allegations to a state senator going to jail.

Is it so hard to believe that a politician is corrupt?
They're different narratives but I think they are both in play.

If you ask a Bitcoin investor about why they invested, then they might explain it as a store of value, "digital gold", or etc. With that narrative, Bitcoin makes sense in the world, and isn't just a fad. And the erratic price is just a growing pain, it'll stabilize eventually.

But of course, the real reason many people are buying BTC right now is because of the speculative nature, they want to get rich quick. If someone's investment in BTC is significantly larger than their investment in bonds, commodities, real estate, etc, then "it's a store of value" is probably not the real reason they're buying BTC.
If you've got evidence to back up that claim, feel free. Remember, however, that the people the SEC employs for doing this are expensive.
It’s odd because, for me, Red envelopes are associated with personal, discretionary, Holiday gift, not charity, evergetic or common good.
Visa has charge fees of 1.5%-2.5%...
The SEC isn't going to let them be used to bypass regulation.
This seems like a small thing, but it's definitely not. As an admin one of the first things I always have to do is download Putty and pscp to whatever machine I'm on. It will be really nice to have these built in.

Also being able to tie this in with applications will be a huge bonus later as well.
And Rose of Versailles did it in the 1970s. Don't forget the shoujo demographic, everyone.

This whole myth of invention being a singular moment rather than a gradual stream of improvements infects creative works more than other fields. But we all stand on the shoulders of giants.
Yep, still a major issue. This was run at 0.15 kelvin (-273c/-459.4f) and they'd like to get it colder:

In these experiments, the electron temperature accounts for 10% of the reduction
in our visibility, and spin relaxation accounts for the remaining 5-10%. In our experiment
we readout the qubits sequentially, reading the left qubit first. Relaxation of the right
qubit during the readout of the left qubit is what leads to the asymmetry of the expected
visibilities. Relaxation contributions to the readout fidelity can be mitigated by using a
faster readout technique such as RF reflectometry or by incorporating a cold amplifier
into the readout circuit (9, 10). Further improvements can be made by reducing the
electron temperature or using cavity-based measurement approaches (11).
If these hashes are broken, most cryptocurrencies have a plan to switch to post-quantum cryptography. It can happen very quickly, within weeks.

Also consider that if they are actually broken, we will have much bigger problems - no secure banking, military data compromised, all kinds of hacking of all kinds of infrastructures, etc.
>you can't lose money.

This is a little fallacious because it assumes that the value of your money (Dollars or something?) won't continue to lose value against until it becomes worthless paper. This has happened in recent history e.g. Weimar Germany and is happening right now e.g. Venezuela.

At the end of the day, the rationality comes from a comparison of one currency against another. Just converting back from the currency you started with doesn't mean you "can't lose".
Has science gone too far
Unfortunately, the bottleneck is largely traversing a massive, poorly-defined data structure. If you leave the structure in Python, then FFI doesn't help you much (probably doesn't justify the maintainability cost of FFI). Porting the data structure is a comparable amount of work to rewriting from scratch, so FFI doesn't gain us anything except maybe an iterative avenue toward rewriting.

In any case, the application is still CPU bound, thereby making it an example of a web application which is not IO bound, per the OP's request.
"if you are going to use life expectancy at birth ..."

Who said you should use this as a gauge? That included lots of coal miners who were dying of black lung, etc.

One value isn't a very good indicator. By state and race varies greatly, for example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_life_ex...

The current life expectancy of an Asian American in California is 86 years old.
This brings to mind Einstein's paper on meanders in rivers, in which he builds a solution from the behavior of tea leaves swirling in a teacup.

I don't think we should discard the value of the work based solely on the quotidian nature of the examples. (That said, I don't know enough about fluid dynamics to judge whether there's something novel going on in the paper, or if it's just people being clever.)

https://books.google.com/books?id=9fJkBqwDD3sC&pg=PA249&lpg=...
So they finally got mouse selection working? Font size scales according to screen resolution? They must have woken up to the 21st century.

Thank you for the link, I had no idea. I haven't kept tabs on the recent developments. Not sure if I'll ever upgrade to Windows 10, but I keep it in a cage somewhere, so I'll take a look.
> Banks in the USA do not allow deposits into accounts without account holder permission. They won't let you stop by a branch and deposit into a friend's account (to pay them back) without a formal arrangement

This is not (universally) true. I've had many friends/family deposit checks for me at my local branch when I'm out of town/on vacation/whatever. I've done it myself for other people. I believe the banks in question were Wells Fargo and US Bank.

YMMV based on bank, but there is no regulation preventing this.
Go doesn't have a VM, but it has a garbage collector and scheduler (its runtime) which makes FFI more difficult than languages like Rust or C, to the OP's point.
This may be totally flippant but I feel like to be constructive in this case, the 'reference' totally depends on the target audience's travel experiences.

In the simplest case, the 'reference' could just be to live in other cities (not like L.A.). Specifically other cities that weren't all that much in the past decades and had progress in recent years, more or less as an antithesis of SF which I'd categorize as a city that was ahead of its time in 50 years ago and let the hype get too deeply engrained in its psyche and culture and stagnated since, out of a sense of isolation and self superiority.

If you lived in other places and disagree, the meat of our discussion would take entirely different paths.
Seriously, are you afraid that your macbook can break falling from 10 cm ?

I'm worried when my thinkpad falls from 1 m high.
3. is huge and underestimated. also the fact the you are strongly encouraged to make it up as you go along, rather than trying to edit and make it fit.

the "all at once" thing twitter is adding thus seems a likely misfeauture.
>First, they can be used to bypass a lot of (but not all) regulation.

It's entertaining that many seem to believe this for no apparent reason, but the SEC (and other regulators around the world) doesn't seem to agree.
Vulkan takes time to bootstrap. Even if I have a Vulkan bootstrap that works well for one project it may be unusable for another. If I have infinite time I'll use Vulkan but for a lot of people OpenGL is just going to be faster to iterate on.

Sometimes this development speed is important while at the same time using an engine like Unity or Unreal isn't going to provide the desired look and or feel. It's a rare intersection but it does exist.
For a second I thought you meant Q# - got pretty excited there :)
> If someone's investment in BTC is significantly larger than their investment in bonds, commodities, real estate, etc, then "it's a store of value" is probably not the real reason they're buying BTC.

Are there any good articles or blog posts analysing this trend?
While I agree that BTC and ETH are likely lowest risk long term, I'm not exactly throwing money at crypto for the low risk portion of my portfolio and don't mind doubling down on a more dangerous gamble since I've researched my holds pretty well, imo.

Further, I'd argue that BTC and ETH are both extremely overbought at the moment, and reflect more of what a bubble is than many of the lowly alt coins that have real use cases (not that BTC and ETH don't). I feel you're underestimating the potential of some of these smaller projects, the problems they aim to solve and the progress they've made towards solving them.
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Who says the other provider needs to use advertising?
I Was Wrong About Bitcoin. Here’s Why
I've read that Aluminum is used in medicine as a catalyst, in toothpast as an abrasive, its in your dental cement, used as food additives, in your cooking utensils, used in vaccines as an adjuvant, etc. Some say Aluminum is linked to Alzheimer's, types of cancer, and now even autism. Could modern life in the west cause toxic levels of aluminum in our bodies? Sodium-rich water can supposedly detox your body from aluminum, personally I drink water with a very high Sodium content, unfortunaltly some of the brands contain a lot of fluoride - you just can't win :) ...
You mean an ICO that operates in an extremely competitive market, has no product to speak of, and doesn't leverage decentralized networks in any way, shape, or form isn't a good investment? Who would have thought?!

> that 40% of all coins in existence are owned by less that 1,000 people

That was a terrible piece of reporting. The reality is that 1000 addresses hold about 40% of coins. Addresses are not identities; one person can have as many addresses as they want, and businesses (like exchanges) may have a single address that holds the vast majority of their cold storage. The upshot is that we don't know how well Bitcoin is distributed.

Some of those large addresses are exchanges, and are indicated as such on many sites, or held by institutions. They hold large amounts of coin, yet represent the holdings of thousands of individuals. There are also several large addresses that are very similar (i.e. each containing a given number of coinbase rewards) and are very likely to be held by a single early miner. There are also some number of "Satoshi" coins held by the creator of Bitcoin. Some estimate that Satoshi mined ~1million coins, though there is nothing definitive about this figure. There are probably at least 100,000.

Bitcoin market 'manipulation' falls into two categories: 'legitimate' manipulation that requires buying and selling coins in a bid to move market sentiment in their favor, and 'illegitimate' manipulation that requires inside knowledge of an exchange, such as full view of orderbooks for stop hunting, etc. The first kind exposes the manipulator to significant risk (especially from other 'whales', and is far less lucrative than many would believe. For a net gain, they must move the price in the opposite direction from their net buys/sells. The 'illegitimate' manipulator can only affect particular exchanges (insider trading, or else hacking), and thus you can choose an exchange you trust the most.
Thanks for this comment. I just added my little bit of support, as did a a couple dozen others.
And you cannot see all of the reactions in one place, and instead have to click on every single post in the thread.
My interpretation is that there are multiple factors at play on the demand side:

1. Initially drug, and other illicit item dealing. It's hard to process payments for an illegal or risky business. Bitcoin (mostly) has no one to reject you as a customer. I would not be surprised if major smuggling networks were starting to use Bitcoin, as it's seemingly much easier and less risky than carrying huge wads of cash across borders.

2. Circumvention of capital controls and economic sanctions. People in Argentina, Zimbabwe, Russia, Iran, Venezuela, and China have, to varying degrees, a limited ability to process financial transactions with the outside world through the usual SWIFT/correspondent banking networks. Bitcoin solves this problem. The relatively high transaction costs are not too much of a barrier for these types of transactions, since they tend to be larger.

3. Speculation. Crypto has been shooting through the roof, and people are piling on the bandwagon.

4. Tax avoidance. Significant holders of crypto assets may want to diversify out of crypto, but can't because it will create a paper trail and trigger a form being sent to the taxman. In some cases, these people may have owed taxes in prior years which they haven't paid, and they don't know what to do. Some of them have tried to diversify their holdings by trading into altcoins or ICOs to put off the day of reckoning. IMO this factor explains a lot of the explosive demand for ICOs.

5. "Asset Protection." Crypto provides what many believe to be an off the books/untraceable store of value. This might appeal to people being sued, people going through a divorce, or people under criminal investigation.

6. Possible foreign government interests. Some countries, Russia in particular, resent the centrality of the U.S. in the world banking system, its ability to cripple economies by cutting off banking relationships, and the dollar's role in the world oil trade. These countries might be contributing to the hype, and perhaps even buying crypto to create legitimacy for alternatives to the U.S. dollar.
ah, the mythical $500 MacBook stand (4 or 5 college textbooks)
Realise I'm an outlier but here's some honest feedback anyway. I didn't get the page to work because too many external HTTP requests... not worth the time to resolve. Facebook + Google + Cloudfront + GA + Hotjar? My culture query is resolved.
Salt, sea shells and gold were used as currencies in the past, any limited limited ressources would do. Companies even trade CO2 emissions...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emissions_trading
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"Relying on push notifications alone"

Yeah no. Apps using push notification for marketing/dark purposes is super irritating and for that reason I block notifications by default from all apps.
Wrong/weak metrics.

A better metric than the max, one that is less susceptible to noise, and more indicative of the trend, is the sum of an upper quantile. A common one is the "top 1%".

I would have loved to see a graph of the total remuneration to the top 1% of college leaders (pres and others) by year.
This reads less like “Internet protocols are changing” and more like “Google is changing the Internet to their own benefit”.
I think this page completely embodies your core values and primary onboarding flows. It should be your homepage.
We have information disclosure treaties with all of the offshore havens, re FATCA. They were actually the first targets and they acquiesced almost immediately.

If you're trying to hide assets, the U.S. is the place to be, as none of our treaties actually require us to share information back with the rest of the world.
How are you supposed to know if they have one?
Specific timelines are both hard to predict and kookbait.

Dig at the limits and collapse lit and you'll find qite the range of plausible estimates, ranging from 20 years ago to millions of years from now.

Far more useful is understanding methodologies and rationales. Those, if sound, offer more useful guidance.
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I guess this applies to non-crypto trading as well, but, how do you manage taxes on these transactions?
The Chairman just reiterates what's long been the case in securities law: whether an ICO, like any other instrument, is a security depends on the facts of the case.
I giving everything else for free, so I decided it'd be okay to ask for an email address. While I hope you won't, you can always unsubscribe. (Ps. I replied to a similar comment elsewhere.)
Discussing OOP with Alan Kay right now on my blog
>> One of those former employees paid about $100,000 to exercise more than 20,000 incentive stock options (ISOs), plus a tax bill of over $200,000. The other paid about $70,000 to exercise about 5,000 ISOs, and then about $160,000 in taxes.

Maybe it's a common knowledge amongst the Silicon Valley engineers, but for those of us who are not in startup, could someone please explain how this is possible? Specifically, in what logic would you owe more tax to exercise the option(which amounts to purchasing at this point) for half the amount of tax you'll pay? How does purchasing something of $X force you to pay $2X in taxes? I've combed through this thread for answers and it seems like a commonly understood problem.
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> a very complex and innovative product.

The main point here is that there's absolutely nothing innovative about BTC anymore, if anything it's way behind. Which is why the valuation is so suspect; it's totally disconnected from the utility BTC provides compared to alts. Anything BTC does, alts do better, except for marketing.
Bitcoin is worth $17k because thats how much someone will pay for it.

Right now the blockchain space is in a clear bubble. A lot of people (many uninformed) see the price rise and don't want to miss out. This drives the price higher.

At some point there will be a correction. Nobody knows the timing or size. My guess would be that this will not happen until we see the failure of a major blockchain.

With that said blockchains are a remarkably powerful new tool and if they can be sensibly scaled they will be extremely impactful. Blockchains allow for the creation of self sustaining, trustless, autonomous marketplaces. A lot of intermediaries are about to be automated away by these protocols (think about platforms like Airbnb or Uber).

Some useful parallels can be drawn with the dot com bubble. A lot of valuations were totally unjustified, but you would have done very well if you bought and held Amazon stock in 1997 (66,600%).

A more interesting question is whether Bitcoin is the Amazon or MySpace of the blockchain revolution.

I have found the following resources to be very instructive:

- The original Bitcoin whitepaper: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

- Mastering Bitcoin: https://github.com/bitcoinbook/bitcoinbook

- The Ethereum wiki: https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki

- The Bitcoin Core mailing list: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-d...
Agreed there is real value, but creating a shadow banking system that is governed by unregulated actors isn't the solution. What's to stop a sophisticated bad actor like say, North Korea from manipulating cryptocoin markets in order to scam a bunch of Americans out of US Dollars? I know there is some belief that they're behind the recent Bitcoin rally...
It's so terse, it's gotta be fast!
I know what I put in, and I know what my profit is, so I am going to report the net gain and pay the tax on that (ugh)
It likely wouldn't exist without the scam component. The original developer never intended to follow through with his vision, but it was a good enough vision that many people decided it was worth investing in and working towards.

My point was that there are regularization factors in the market that exist without a centralized organization rubber stamping actions. Of course, that doesn't fit the narrative that people, especially the poor and intelligent, must be protected from themselves.
A competitor doesn't have to use advertisers
Genuinely curious. I think these things are all kinda relative anyway. What's the frame of reference / point of comparison?
Try using a straight beamsplitter to send the photon back somewhere it's already been.
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Spot on.

Use as currency for Bitcoin (and other coin networks) is still in it's infancy and cannot scale the way it needs to should it want to replace fiat.

The important distinction I would draw though that stores of value have historically been cumbersome to transport and liquidate, Bitcoin solves that problem in a very good way.

I feel it's important to also address this 20$ bitcoin fee meme that seems to be going around. While based in truth it is not 100% accurate.

You have the capacity to set your own txn fee on the Bitcoin network. If you don't mind waiting a couple of blocks (1-3 hours) to get your transaction confirmed , then the fees fall down to single dollars and even lower.
If you're selling a bulk commodity to a distributor in another market , you don't need ecommerce style confirmation times. Same goes for transferring large sums of wealth.

With that said, things like the lightning network will resolve alot of issues with Bitcoin scaling and in my (humble) opinion this is why LTC is pumping. (Atomic swap + Transfer over LTC )
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I only made it a few chapters into the sequel, the writing is completely different and completely uninspiring.
Welp, you were not kidding: https://github.com/KxSystems/kdb/blob/master/c/c/curl.c

This code is basically obfuscated by hand. Absolutely unapproachable. Only the original author(s) can understand it.

Judging by other comments, it seems to work well. So they seem to be good programmers producing working code. It's just not intelligible by other human beings, which is a pretty bad thing, but not the only factor in software quality/health.

The Vim code base is at some parts straight batshit insane, but it's one of the most polished programs I've ever used.

All that being said, I would find infuriating to work with such code. Nope!
Why do I need to enter my email?
So, with efforts past and efforts abandoned having failed to produce meaningful competition among ISPs... our response is to enlarge the market space in which monopoly power can be abused?

First: meaningful competition for the telecoms. Only then, does it make sense to even consider rolling back Net Neutrality.

And if deregulation is powerless to introduce telecom competition, who can blame people for turning to more aggressive last mile unbundling instead?
Are those wires really 80 years old though? [1] (just the abstract) suggests overhead wires need replacement after 50 years. In any case, towns in Europe were electrified at a similar time to America. (Rural areas probably aren't comparable, with the bigger distances in the US being the reason Europe was first for this.)

[1] http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/595590/?reload=true
The advice to not only rely on push and native mobile hits home hard - despite it being cool - email, text, and the web still work really well to bring the customers in!
Yeah, Shinji is not a lot of fun. Though, he's not really "supposed" to be likeable. Over the years I've warmed up to him, though. He'll never be likeable but he's definitely sympathetic and actually rather realistic, considering the hell he's put through.