skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. For right now, the demand for transactions is greatly outstripping the fixed supply of transactions that the network can provide. Nobody has convincingly solved the problem (IOTA, I'm looking at you...). Altcoins don't have this problem yet either because they are not as widely used and those that can do more transactions per second have blockchains that would be growing very quickly in size if the blocks were close to full.

None of the current globally distributed trustless ledgers cannot support a huge number of transactions per second. We will need new technologies, possibly on top of bitcoin, or through new technology.
Bitcoin is certainly in a speculative bubble. I think Ray Dalio (the hedgefund manager who runs Bridgewater) explained this very well in this clip:

https://www.facebook.com/raydalio/videos/401164293638585/

The gist of it is, is that if you look at the nature of the investor today, it is clear that this has become a giant speculative bubble. Investors do not understand what they are investing in. They are not sophisticated. They are not analyzing their investments. They are investing on the 'greater fool' theory.

All of the above does not preclude the possibility that Bitcoin survives, is useful, and perhaps is even still long-term undervalued despite the current bubble-aspects. But the nature of the investor today means that the dynamics of the price today are currently being driven by bubble-like factors, and are almost certain to have a large (50-90+%) drop at some point.

If you read crypto twitter, you will see that even the devs like Vitalik [0] and Vlad [1] are extremely wary of how much the price has risen given the level of development of the technology thus far.

[0] https://mobile.twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/94085013791...

[1] https://twitter.com/VladZamfir/status/941220330294644736
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Many economists also say that the current economic state may be a bubble, an even worse than that one that popped in 2008.

I think, Bitcoin is undervalued because it can provide a way out for unstable currencies (Venezuela, some African and Asian countries, maybe soon western countries) or to avoid regulations (China, Russia) and of course, for unlawful business (money laundry, blackhats, drugs). That's probably the real value drivers at the moment.

The biggest risk is regulation. Exchanges have to operate somewhere. But I guess, its hard to regulate something that is global (looking at you tax heavens).
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weev went to jail for accessing publicly available information from AT&T. There's not a great precedent here for the EFF, unfortunately.
> If there's 1 thing I've learned in the past 2 years, it's that experts can be deadly wrong

But most of the time, they are in fact right. I don't know why a couple instances of wrong-ness proves that experts are unreliable. Other than selection/confirmation bias.
I think the more accurate comparison is that the owner sent you a C&D saying you're banned from the restaurant, and then you try to say "oh, I though the C&D didn't apply any more because the waitress let me in." Would anyone seriously believe that?

The law applies to people, not computers. The only question is: did Linked In convey its revocation of hiQ's implied license in a way a reasonable person would understand? The computer code is only relevant if a reasonable person would take the HTTP status code to take precedence over the C&D letter.
Generally what does huge mergers in industry mean for disruption (in the more traditional Clay Christensen model). For example, if the #1 and #4 player in a specific industry does that mean there is more space for an upstart to grow since #4 has left the party? Or does the new #1 suck up all the air and put such a choke hold on industry that new players cannot flourish?
1. If a business offers me one product for free and I take two, that's theft, plain and simple. I'm not sure what your analogy was meant to prove but I think it actually makes a stronger case for the counterpoint to your argument.

2. LinkedIn has every right to define what the use policy is for information it makes available publicly through its own product. In this case, the policy was violated, and the violator was notified through appropriate channels that they were in violation. They continued to access LinkedIn and violate the policy, which is illegal. The critical distinction is that what they were doing only became illegal when LinkedIn notified them that they were in violation of the policy, no longer welcome on the site, and they continued to do what they were doing anyway.
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Well yeah because it's a weighted coin.
> the microbiome is what will typically unlock those diseases or not given the gene set

If true, that would be a Nobel-worthy finding. I don't think this is true, but do you have a citation supporting this for the "typical" genetic disease?
It was bad enough to scare me, as stated
Every crash is preceded by people saying everything, because there are billions of people in the world and it's easy to find any opinion. Thus, the mere presence (or lack thereof) of any particular opinion is not a useful barometer of what's actually happening.
I doubt a bot could legally agree to a license put into robots.txt, even if it were able to make sense of it, and a human is never expected to read it.

The purpose of robots.txt is to guide bots away from circular links and such that would result in bogging down the site and causing undue amounts of nonsense traffic.

The purpose of robots.txt not access control.

EDIT: typo fix
I'm definitely not a paid reviewer and I've done one or two of those multi paragraph reviews with pictures because either the product was comically bad or amazingly good. I'm a software engineer, definitely not a paid reviewer.
> In this case, it's more like someone was looking in the store window from the public sidewalk and asked to stop.

I think it's more like calling the store and asking them what their prices are 20 times a minute.
In what way(s) is Disney not currently fully empowered to compete with Netflix?
I have Haemophilia A, I was actually offered a place on an earlier trial although I didn't do it. It was explained to me that you would not need further gene treatments even though it targeted adult cells.

I think most cells are made by mitosis and don't come from stem cells.

Here's a screenshot of the explanation I received when I was invited on the trial -https://i.imgur.com/H329Vgv.jpg

> "By using BMN 270 to provide
the functional genes, it is expected that you may not require treatment for
Haemophilia A, as often or at all."

I don't really want to upload the whole Participant Information Sheet because it contains some of the doctor's personal details.
To be fair to humans, we are born at a pretty early stage also. Human babies are all but helpless at 12 months after birth and pretty helpless for another 12 months after that (and then they are still rather helpless).

A kangaroo leaves the pouch in around 8 months.
> a lot (but not all) of my asian dude friends had a bad time with dating for instance

i was mainly talking about raising existing families, but yeah, this is true also. basically if you're not in the top 5-10% financially and physically as an asian guy, just forget about having a romantic life.
I know what you mean. It took me some effort to accept that, in natural language, an "exponential growth" was not really meant to be exponential. One has to live with it. :)
Kangaroos are marsupials, which are non-eutherian. Humans (and, indeed, most mammals we're familiar with) are eutherians. The birthing process is quite different, and so makes for a poor comparison (for one, humans don't have a pouch). A better question would be to compare human pain to other, eutherian animals who do not experience much pain in delivery (see: any nature documentary).
I disagree. This is all workstation hardware. Even when people spend $6,000 on a gaming PC, they don't put ECC RAM, Xeons, and workstation GPUs in it. And if you read the page, it's clearly being marketed as a workstation rather than as a high-end computer.

Maybe clueless people will buy this as a consumer machine, but it's designed and marketed as a workstation.
Thanks, I'll look into them, but are there any compulsory standards anywhere? AFAIK this is entirely optional, i.e. left to the good will of the company.
> Sorry, you need to enable JavaScript to visit this website.

C-w
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> They'd be more believable if they fixed their own literal and metaphorical neighborhoods first before continuing their personal campaigns of empire.

How?

I'm serious about that - I think most of the tech billionaires who care enough to seriously support UBI are trying to fix their communities. Lots of people think their ideas like deregulation or more technology-focused schooling are counterproductive, but they seem largely well-meant. (The deregulation stuff in particular looks like a matter of principle; we have long-standing examples of what it looks like to push that selfishly.)

But all they have is money, really. The push for expanded housing has been choked by zoning boards and courts since Day 1. The tech industry has surprisingly little political influence because California is so large, and so entrenched with old-school Democrats. And "it came from tech" is basically enough to sink any kind of community initiative among anti-gentrification forces: low-cost annual bike shares were designed as a community good accessible to the poor, and the response was still to destroy all of the bikes as gentrification. "Throw money to people" is pretty much what's left to them, and UBI is a more stable approach to that than charity; even tech billionaires can't cover SF's housing costs alone.

I'm not even trying to defend tech billionaires here, particularly. I just don't want us to make all other change contingent on fixing San Francisco neighborhoods - because it seems like no one actually has an answer to that.
You pretty much have to see it? I think Hollywood sucks and all, but geez, if you think you have to pirate a TV show at a certain level of sociality, you're probably not really socializing in a healthy way. You may not be giving them a lot of money, but you're definitely giving them a lot of power over your self.
It depends on the line. Numbered ones have more accurate data, for example, as they rely on rail sensors to track trains. MTA recently pushed new Bluetooth-based technology to get location estimates on all the other lines. They're just estimates, still.

It's really an MTA problem, though. You can tell because they now have screens with arrival times everywhere. Even if the screen says that a E train is coming in 11 minutes, one moment later the same train (another E train?) is just two minutes away, if not approaching the platform. Perhaps they only need to recalibrate the code that comes up with the estimates, since the beacon system is fairly recent.
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I think that exactly the root of the problem here. They wanted to benefit from the enhancements on both sides of the fork, already signed an exclusive agreement with Cry, but want the fee structure from Amazon.

I only mentioned CryEngine being more mature because they have more dedicated resources working on it, and from what I understand dev studios contribute fixes back to the engine as well.
True, there are others, some with more privacy built in , bitcoin enjoys a network effect for now. That might change.
The screenshots in this review show a single taskbar across the bottom as you'd expect with a single screen. If Windows were treating it as two screens you would expect the clock and systray to be in the middle of the screen, at the bottom right corner of the left half.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/monitor-reviews/dell-up2715k-r...

I don't know at what level that problem is being solved, but it's getting merged to a single display device somewhere.

FWIW my UP2414Q at 60Hz with left/right driven by multi-stream transport hasn't had any color consistency or sync problems.
> I think it's ridiculous to compare outright pirating and "borrowing from genre", everyone sees the difference. If we put that arbitrary line at absurd 90% (less than that "borrowed" is ok), than everything on the torrent sites is still crossing that line, because everything there is full copy...

No it's not. Mp3s are compressed, x264 rips are compressed, digital texts are not the same as books.

Do you mean that they are "almost a perfect representation of the original work"? Because that is closer to reality, and also telling.

Someone over a 100 years ago thought that a black and white movie sped up with just a few frames per second was a convincing representation of a train running towards you in a crowded cinema.

Some people think that bad covers of songs are good enough of a substitute over the real thing.

Stories told before writing was invented was basically transcoded and compressed and corrupted, and humanity would be immensely more stupid if we had not "allowed" that.

Please pay creative people and content creators, but locking down content to people who would otherwise not pay for it regardless is just regressive, on top of never actually working.
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You’re making a false comparison between the period of mania in tulips and the entire lifespan of Bitcoin.
the first world doesn't generally engage in wealth redistribution of that kind. Taxation for public services, yes, but straight up taking the money of the rich and successful and giving it to Joe Bluecollar? Not really.
It's not currently possible to have a crypto with 0 fees that's both distributed/non-centralized as well as very secure against attacks.

If there is, Bitcoin can easily incorporate the technology.
The Intel ME vulnerabilities are a big deal for some people, harmless for most
OTOH, if HiQ employed a team of people to surf to Linkedin and physically type the information into their databases, that would be ok?
I could just as easy say "I don't think anyone who understands how computers work would compare the active process of a server responding to an HTTP request to a coffee shop".

But to respond directly, the paper and tape had to be bought, printed, &c. Capital was expended to place the paper there. Sure there is not the ongoing cost of maintaining this paper in the window, and if that's where your argument lies, then you should be less condescending about it.

Moreover, we're not talking about the costs associated with access, we're talking about the permission granted to access. As such, ignoring the cost of serving an HTTP request is a valid comparison, because it is not at issue here. LinkedIn's argument is just as strong even if their only argument is they denied permission with no reason given.

Thanks for the ad hominem, by the way. Your childishness and inability to conduct a civil discussion has caused this discussion to end.
Under UK law, trespassing is a civil not criminal matter and so by some definition it is not illegal.
Depends on the person (stranger vs close uncle vs not close uncle, etc.), but in general, yes it is. It's also illegal in some states to leave your keys in your running car. It's still illegal for someone to get in and drive off.
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You could always walk the GW, or take the ferry.

Tangent: I used to walk on the weekends from my apartment on 123 & Lex, to the 125 street A, take it up to 175th, walk a block over, get on the GW, walk across, then hike down to Hoboken, PATH back to Manhattan, and walk back up town until my legs gave out. Depending on where I stopped , I would either subway or lyft back to my apartment.

It allowed me to experience NJ which I would never have done. And I found places to get my hair cut for < $30, which was more than half off from my local barber, and clothes were tax free, which was TONS better than tax free under $100, etc. I learned so much traveling into NJ regularly, and eventually moved there.
Laws against discrimination don't turn private property into quasi public property. They are narrow exceptions to the way in which property owners exercise their right to exclude.

Neither the corner cafe nor Linked In can refuse to serve a request by someone because the person is black. But both the corner cafe and Linked In can refuse to service someone for any non-discriminatory reason, such as say because they're a Michigan fan.
Is it even comparable to an unlocked door, though? To me it seems a lot more like leaving something on the front of your house and trying to prosecute when someone takes a picture of it.

Nothing is removed or destroyed, and nothing was hidden or publicly unavailable.
Oh god no. I hide their results from google searches, that horrible wall they put up to make you sign up to read something or look at an image.
There's more than just cost. Round trip latency to Mars can be reasonably measured in tens of minutes. Tasks that a human can do in seconds take days with a robot at that distance. Curiosity can move at up to 0.09mph. A human infant can move faster than that.

We've invested many billions of dollars on robots already and this is the best we have. If we could spend $200bn to do he science in a few years that trillions dollars in R&D and probably the better part of century of iteration would take, why wouldn't we send humans up?

It seems crazy to me to throw money at robotics that work well on Mars when we are already investing billions and billions of dollars on robots here on earth that aren't even able to do the things that humans do.
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This doesn't cover everything, but it's a pretty good starting point:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/549/the-definitive-guide...
> So your proposal is that the single parent work a second job in order to move to Nebraska.

My proposal is that they do everything they can possibly do to better their position in life. If it means taking a second job, then they should take a second job. Are you asking me for specifics?

Here is how my parents did it when they couldn't afford daycare: My father worked 3rd shift (through the night) and my mother worked 2nd shift (afternoon-evening). This meant that I was alone with my sister in the morning/afternoon - i.e. the hours during which we were at school.

As I understand it, this woman is single, so even less income, which means an even greater reason to GTFO one of the most expensive places in the world.

>"everybody who's poor should just move to an area where minimum wage jobs are sufficient to live"

As opposed to your solution? You realize that California is one of the most liberal states in the US, right? You've been throwing policy at the wall for years now, yet you still have not managed to fix this problem, and it fact it continues to get worse each year.
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I wouldn’t blame apple pie for that.
Surprising to me:

> As for the liver, the human body's detoxifier, its cells' lives are quite short - an adult human liver cell has a turnover time of 300 to 500 days.

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/life-span-of-human...

So I think it must be targeting the stem cells or this wouldn't last more than a year or two? EDIT: See Chriky's comment.
But WhatsApp and Instagram are not that big a percentage of overall revenues. And if they do monetise them further, they risk becoming annoying to use like Facebook. Just realised something - as Facebook extracts more money from users it actually delivers LESS value to users. This is somewhat different to normal business where you earn more when you deliver MORE value for your users/customers.
If you are notified in writing that you're banned from a coffee shop, but you walk up to the front door and the "server" (pun intended) greets you warmly and allows you to enter, is that "implied consent" that overrides the prior explicit anti-consent, and therefore undermines the legal authority of that ban?
I dug up some numbers which support what you're saying:

https://www.indexmundi.com/g/r.aspx?v=2223
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1633559/figure/...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1633559/

It looks like about 1% of pregnancies ended in death historically, and that matches what's happening in the places with the worst healthcare today.

With good healthcare, the risk nearly vanishes.
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> I'm fine with robots.txt violations being considered hacking

Really?? That would mean private corporations, or private citizens, can write laws.
Bitcoin is likely going to remain the most conservative of all the cryptocurrencies. Even the most liberial of them is having trouble scaling to the current demand. The current demand is really quite low.
> Or does calling something a blockchain necessarily imply some consensus protocol already.

It doesn't. But for all practical purposes at this point in time it might as well.
He doesn't even like to present at keynotes. The most he does is voice-over for videos. I think he hates the excessive exposure.
He wrote crypto, not bitcoin.
> When you make an HTTP request, you're accessing a piece of private property. The owner of that property has every right to decide not to let you do so.

It can do exactly that. It can respond with an error code or start dropping packets entirely. As far as I'm aware, LinkedIn didn't do that.

Any access to LinkedIn's data requires that LinkedIn send it in a response. If LinkedIn is sending it in a response, LinkedIn can't claim that it's not authorized.
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These will be really useful for group conversations. I'd still use the phone for one-on-one interaction, but ear buds make perfect sense if you are mostly following along and only speaking occasionally.
If you're on public property and yelling, I would assume the coffee shop owner would need a PFA or some other court order to prevent you from access. I don't think they could have you arrested because they simply asked you to not talk to them and they aren't breaking any other laws. (Though asking you not to talk to shop employees would be necessary before the PFA could be granted as I understand it.)
Communication theory is the medium constrains the possible messages. Further, McLuhan, Postman, others are saying various mediums have their own intrinsic dominate properties, character, which crowd out most other messages. TV gave us the sound bite. Usenet gave us trolls. Twitter gave us Trump. Facebook gave us "fake news" (aka gossip posing as truth).
We've talked with people on Facebook and they encourage us to move forward with this and a subscription-based bot is part of their current use-cases. Of course, this can change in the future.

We do meet the FB terms of service as we're using their native button to subscribe and also everyone has to opt-in first.

Good point on the dependency on FB, it's actually a good and a bad thing. The good point is that your subscribers don't have to install new apps and they already have FB Messenger on their phone and probably are logged in inside chrome so the subscription is one-click and friction here is minimal.

Another point is that we do not rely on Facebook only as we also support Slack, Telegram Chrome, FF, Safari and others as a subscription platform so the user can choose which one suits best.
Looks like professor bitcorn is back

> trust me I’m an economist
I think I see what you're saying, but I disagree that the robots.txt file should have any legal ramifications. Web site operators have many tools that they can use to limit traffic or protect data and they should make good use of those tools.

LinkedIn wants to make their data available publicly, except under certain conditions. In my opinion, if they can't find a technical solution, they should stop making the data available publicly.
Thanks for clarifying my misconceptions !