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you are confusing what stock is. it has stream of dividend to recoup investment. bitcoin, no.
I think it's hard to absolutely assess the value of a student loan —however predatory— without considering the prospects of having a higher education. Some degrees are worth a dodgy loan. Some really aren't.

You could also say that many students wouldn't be in higher education without the loan. That is especially true here in the UK. That might not be a bad thing except that we've gone through an arms race so that every junior post needs five bachelor degrees and a decade of experience. Experience alone used to be enough.

It'd be nice to get back there. Our focus on getting everybody into higher education —and underwriting indefinite liens on lifetime income— has also meant that universities care more about the number of students than the quality of teaching. That alone probably isn't news, what has been recently in the UK is the remuneration of higher management staff.

They can apparently justify the 10-20× bump over senior lecturers (plus benefits like housing, cars, lunches) to their boards by saying they're the only people who can attract all the money from the students. It's disgusting and vicious cycle.
Apparently the Pineapple Fund has also donated $50.000 to the OpenBSD Foundation: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7jj0oa/im_donating...
Radia Perlman, inventor of STP, "mother of the internet"[0], had something to say about blockchains, so why not?

[0] https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=mother+of+the+i...
The F35s have been flying for 3 years now. Just not many of them, for very long, or very cheap.
"I don't really see the need for a central authority and you'd have to make a really good case to convince me."

A central bank can ultimately control the value of a currency by either grabbing assets on the free market and emitting currency - or the inverse - grabbing currency and selling off the underlying asset.

This is a very powerful way to control volatility.

Gold has fairly strict supply and it moves around a lot.

If the US Fed really, really wanted to control the USD vis-a-vis some other currency, they could do that.

"I believe most currencies originated in a decentralised way"

Ah? No, definitely not. Except for gold ... currencies have issuers, rules, a central bank of sorts. Like the King. Or whatever.
Yes I planned to support the spec core tests (that's why I implemented WAST in the first place).
What Is the Performance Difference Between Alibaba Cloud PostgreSQL and ECS DBs?
What is the performance difference between Alibaba Cloud RDS PostgreSQL and self-built ECS databases?
I have bought an ECS and RDS instance to test for 2 days, and will post the results later! I also want to see what Alibaba Cloud RDS PostgreSQL is useful for.
For small concurrency scenarios, the comparison between the two is a little unfair. This is because the Alibaba Cloud PostgreSQL is being tested through PROXY and RDS networks, which take 2 hops for one-way and 4 hops for back and forth transmission. On the other hand, the self-built ECS is tested locally.
A lot of people know a lot about block-chains - but they know absolutely nothing about currency, finance or economics. I would say these people are scarier than IT managers who don't quite grasp crypto yet - because companies are not actually using crypto for much these days.
Curious question: Is there also something like Mobx [1] for Python?

I'd love to have a reactive state libraries like Mobx on server-side.

Mobx is also reactive, but has a different focus: It is not so much avout the low-level event dispatching, but reacting on data changes, recalculating derived values (but only those affected, and being lazy on non-observed dependent values). And Mobx determines dependencies of calculated values automatically.

Also, Vue [2] has Mobx functionality built-in, with an even better syntax, but closely tied to the framework.

Alas, both are JavaScript and targeted at client-side / user interface. Is there something similar for Python? (See also my question on SO [3].)

[1] https://mobx.js.org/

[2] https://vuejs.org/

[3] https://stackoverflow.com/q/47808562/19163
magit ftw: https://i.imgur.com/a8Mvbkf.png

Though I'm sure Emacs has loads of other vulnerabilities :)
If you're running on AWS it's really nice to have everything preconfigured for things like logging to Cloudwatch, and not having to mess around with kernel optimisations.
“Don’t say ‘Can we apply blockchain for this application?’ or ‘We have blockchain, what sort of things can we use it for’. Instead, start from the other end with the problem you’re trying to solve and consider the best ways to solve it,” said Radia.

Sound advice for all problem solving.
Actually polyfilling is only one of my goals. I think that it could work as a good playground for the spec since you can easily try out new things.
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I believe the comment you are responding is making a distinction between the public key cryptography used to authorize spending from a private wallet, and the act of including a cryptographic hash of the previous block in the current block creating a blockchain (which only requires a strong hash function, not asymmetric cryptography).

Blockchains as defined this way have existed long before there was a proof-of-work based consensus protocol to make Bitcoin a reality. In their more general form they are called "Merkel trees". Filesystems aren't generally structured this way but, for example, git repositories are Merkel trees.
It was just an example, using intentionally simple math.

You could adjust it to take cost of living into account. You could adjust it to be slightly over 20% but let the first $200k be tax-free.
You should ensure that they are somewhere under your organization's direct control and you can do a build without going out to the Internet. It's incredibly dangerous to have your build process depend upon random code pulled from the Internet, as left-pad showed.

Whether that means checking it into your VCS depends on which VCS you use. In general, Git does not handle large binaries well. Check out git-annex though, or use a package manager that lets you setup a local mirror.
I think the real danger you're talking about is that people are conflating the value (or usefulness) of bitcoin _as a technology_ vs the value of _bitcoins_.

It's an awesome technology for what it does, and it will probably be more _useful_ than most people realize right now (if we ignore other cryptocurrencies on the market). But that doesn't mean that bitcoins themselves are going to be worth more.
One can feel sympathy for someone without absolving them. If they're so desperate, then why deny them their moral agency as well?
I have done a few benchmark but it's still too early to be relevant.

I want to take advantage of the optimization done by the JavaScript VM and asm.js in the future.
Huh, what's the issue with those articles at all?

Sweden has laws how you have to handle personal information, a database like that would potentially breach that law.

It's basically like a smaller version of GDPR from the EU.

How is this governmental censoring?

You'd breach the same law if you made a database with people that like Nintendo games.

Jeez.
What would that be? Either way, purchase implies a guarantee to receive something in return but the creator has no obligation to do this, so it's a donation.
Can you comment on how creating a personal website affected your freelancing? Does it help significantly with receiving the leads?
Crummy jobs don't pay a lot. So that has some effect but not a tremendous effect.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15920646
The Free Software Foundation needs some donations right now. I hope they get a little help.
Browsers won't support it, that's a good point. Note that WAST (text) is much more bigger than WASM (binary).
I use Brave as my browser. It blocks ads much better than extensions. In addition my primary search engine is DuckDuckGo. Still most Google captures do not ask questions.
? many companies with stock ticker do not pay dividends.
We've added Show HN to the title above.
The WebAssembly interpreter (written in JavaScript)
are you seriously saying their assets and power to generate income amount to nothing? you need to think. bitcoin does not generate income.
Except for the unnecessary 5 second wait when accessing chase.com for the login prompt to appear.
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Can I run Shors algorithm on this? If not, how many qubits would I need for that? If so, how do I short bitcoin?
If only the browser history were a blockchain, then it couldn’t be rewritten
If the dependency is small, not a binary blob (e.g. pure Python) and the distribution license is compatible, I think directly embedding for one less dependency is wise. Just label it clearly and separate it, e.g. isolated in an “abc-1.2” subdirectory that isn’t mixed with other things.

I’d draw the line at large libraries or binary blobs that are highly likely to not work out of the box for somebody.
Of course you can, but that doesn't make it not environmentally unfriendly.
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Why would you start a new project if your current one is making $3K a week?
The brilliance of this is not just that he's donating to charity which is great of course but that he managed to hold for so long.
This will now make a lot of gamedevs stop and pause when considering Crytek goods, so Crytek must be really desperate to resort to this sort of PR-hostile measures.
Did you compare it to a roughly equivalent Objective-C program? The top four entries in your profile data show retain, release and objc_msgSend. You will have those in Objective-C too. Maybe to a different degree? That's also why I am asking whether you have similar Objective-C code to test. Or maybe it's just that unoptimized Swift code is slower and optimized code is faster?

Compile times are a related but different matter. There are -warn-long-function-bodies and recently -warn-long-expression-type-checking which are really helpful and can give you an idea where most of the compile time is spent. In my experience, the type checker can spend a lot of time in mildly complex expressions involving overload resolution, which can be really annoying but there are often ways around it. With those culprits being eliminated, I have never encountered 5 minute build times for projects of this size or bigger, and I like to imagine that I write fairly generic code.
Why are we discussing regulations that only apply to telecommunication providers? Why shouldn't Internet companies be subject to identical neutrality provisions?

Why should a platform like YouTube be permitted to make judgment calls on how to handle content on it's services, but ISPs can't make judgment calls on how to handle content on theirs?

You haven't given a single reason for why telecommunications companies are different.
Brave is my primary browser running under Firejail. I do not use private tabs. Rather I just delete all browser files time-to-time. After that Google capture do ask questions but after a couple of times it stops.
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>We're seeing rapid advancements in machine learning, especially in computer vision and abstract strategy games.

This roughly translates to "we've programmed a computer to beat a human at go and trawl your facebook pictures and identify pictures of flowers but have yet to build a robot that will clean your bathroom".

>Autonomous cars are on the roads today. They're a ways off from serving as reliable truckers or taxis, but that's in our future.

I'll become a real and true believer that autonomous cars are the future the minute an executive at an autonomous driving company agrees to shoulder criminal liability for crashes caused by defects in the cars they sell. If I can go to prison for reckless driving, an exec should go to prison because their cars engaged in reckless driving. That's fair, right?

What I have seen currently is a lot of backroom lobbying to try and shift liability in order to open the floodgates to this "brave new world". To me that's sending a clear signal that the executives themselves aren't totally convinced of the safety of their new technology.

Ultimately where the legal liability falls is going to determine how, when and if self driving vehicles become more than just toys, and, ultimately, how many people they will kill.

>What happens if all those jobs disappear overnight?

1) Jobs never disappear overnight.

2) Trucking involves a lot more than just driving.

3) Even if it did happen a 5% increase in employment to counteract "the end of trucking" could be enacted relatively easily by the government simply by removing the fiscal spending brakes. The deflationary impact of trucking being automated (and presumably much cheaper) will presumably counteract the inflationary impact of any increase in govt spending.

4) They can get other jobs? Typists used to be a very common job too. The world didn't end for them when computers came along, did it?

Meanwhile, still patiently waiting for that robot that will clean my bathroom. I mean, if a robot can beat me at go, how hard could it be?
Show your mom https://prestonbyrne.com/2017/12/08/introducing-the-nakamoto...
I don't follow bitcoin much, but shouldn't every popular community project be essentially swimming with cash (or at least bitcoin) these days? On the other hand I guess the same could be said about the tech boom.
> Those things are easy scapegoats but they aren't the biggest cause of tuition increases. States simply aren't spending the money on colleges like they did in the past. [1] This is likely because of all the guaranteed loan money available so the states don't feel the same pressure to fund universities.

I have seen the model stated that there are two Official Views on why college prices are up:

1, the Democratic View: prices are up because states have cut spending on colleges.

2, the Republican View: prices are up because given the easy availability of student loans, colleges can charge higher prices.

It's surprising to me that these are considered acceptable rival opinions, because, if you assume that one is right and the other is wrong, it's very easy to determine which is which.

#1 says that prices have risen due to a fall in supply. #2 says prices have risen due to a rise in demand. Both of those things do in fact increase prices, but a fall in supply causes a rise in prices and a fall in quantity traded, while a rise in demand causes a rise in prices and a rise in quantity traded. If you think that one of these things is responsible for high prices, you can determine which simply by asking "compared to the good times when prices were low, have college enrollments increased or decreased?"
I see only the fundamental design flaw in the decentralization. Copying a infinitely growing dataset to increasing amount of processing nodes is just worst kind of design error I can imagine in any decentralized system.
Holding for a charitable organization would not be an investment, but speculation, and would be irresponsible, in my humble opinion (because you’re gambling with donations). The people who choose to donate should get full value from their donation. So, until one can buy goods with bitcoin and pay omes employees with it, holding it when you have an obligation to buy something with it amounts to speculation.
>So, umm, what is blockchain really useful for?

At it's core, a blockchain is just a really efficient way of guaranteeing the integrity of any given ledger.

I am working on a giftcard purchasing and issuing system at the moment, for example.

I could use a chain of SHA256 hashes of each row hashed upon each previous row of data's SHA256 hash in our MySQL db to make sure that none of my employees were giving themselves an early Christmas bonus if you know what I mean.

Nobody could change any of the giftcard values without being noticed.

Blockchain technology is not only useful for cryptocurrencies.
System I/System II [1] has been all the rage lately, making it to a wide audience with Kahneman's bestseller [2], but it is not without criticism. For instance, the usual two-column list of System I/System II traits makes things much more clear-cut than they really are. Furthermore, both Systems can be inter-related and influence each others.

The System I/System II narrative is an old idea that can be quite convincing, and it's not without merits, but one might wonder if all its appeal doesn't call for a suggestion of the original post: watch if you are happy with a belief/theory.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_process_theory

[2]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow
Thanks for your answer.

However, they do have images with other distros also well preconfigured though don't they?
It's not surprising that a Google engineer would use Google docs. It's at least easily shareable and there are complementary embedded videos that aren't suitable for text/PDF anyway.

Though, the options to export as a PDF didn't work for me (either via download or as an export to Google Drive). I'm assuming the presentation is too big.
Which are a form of example. You don't store those counter examples in your head - you write them down. If they don't turn out to be counter examples, what are they?
I didn't downvote, but it looks like hand wavy bullshit to me. If you're gonna dismiss fundamental blockchain tradeoffs as being minor temporary obstacles, I think the onus is on you to back it up - not the other way around.
yes, bitcoin is single linked list that's not even sharded. design is very flawed. can't believe these bitcoin followers think it's holy grail of technology. bitcoin can't even handle the current volume well. it requires massive computing power, bandwith, storage at every node.
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Buying a home is like achieving a long-awaited dream. It is the biggest wish of almost everyone to own a house where they can live the rest of their lives with happiness and prosperity.
That is the case for a handful of countries, the US among them. In the vast majority of countries you don't have to pay income taxes when you live and work abroad. Of course you still pay such taxes in the country where you live and work.
Speaking of Microsoft's signin, I can no longer access my decade-old-held Skype since their SSO integration. I've tried over and over and over and tried every route possible. It is some edge case where the email was previously a microsoft account and the password cannot be reset. I'm not the only one with the issue. Shocking something like this doesnt get resolved for years on.
You can do all of these things already.
In Europe at least. I have a TenX debit card that I can use everywhere VISA is accepted!
Bought iphone and car with it
Even worse is the conflation of blockchain technology with its most widely known application (cryptocurrency).
This seems to explain at least some of the UBI-love tech founders have. They live as billionaires in a community, that despite all their money and highfalutin ideas doesn't actually take care of its own, unless you have millions if not billions of dollars.

Of course to them the only solution is more money, that's the only solution they seem to know. They'd be more believable if they fixed their own literal and metaphorical neighborhoods first before continuing their personal campaigns of empire.

Sorry if it's whiny, it's just that the contrast between words and actions is stark.
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Yes, only one block is the winner. It is whatever the maintainer of the git repository chooses as HEAD. This property is maintained by any number of out-of-band mechanisms such as Github pull requests and company-wide mandates never to "git push --force".

Seriously though, it just seems like a question of semantics. Is a blockchain just a specific sort of Merkle tree -- thus making Bitcoin a blockchain plus a distributed consensus protocol? Or does calling something a blockchain necessarily imply some consensus protocol already.
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BTC is designed to evolve. If the problems you’ve described do turn out to be major issues then node software will be updated to address those concerns. While difficult, I’ll admit, it is not impossible to add sharding (for example) to the BTC Core network.
It's not about the codec or bitrate, it's about error recovery. The scenic Norwegian mountains are not kind to radio transmission.

FM fidelity was achieved by building one transmission tower per 2000 inhabitants. At a guess, FM is really being switched off because noone wants to pay for all those transmitters any more.
I think, for solo developers at least, it's very easy to get so familiar with your project that you find it difficult to step outside and see it from the point of view of someone who is not familiar with it.

Also (this is definitely true in my case) devs spend all their time honing the product and then are just too exhausted to do any meaningful marketing. I've often released things to store with minimal information and intended to come back and revisit, to improve the marketing copy. But before long I'm back honing and bug fixing and I've forgotten about the sparse description I left unfinished.
What the gp is saying is that before, the buyer would pay $100 and the seller would get $97. So in effect, the seller has borne the extra fees
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Why pay $2000 a month when you have the whole country you could live in for much less? Why should I have to pay increased taxes for your ignorance/provincialism? Is living in San Francisco a fundamental right?

I grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska. I'd suggest that these people move there, for the low cost of living combined with the vibrant-enough economy. Unemployment was at 5% through the great recession. However, I find whenever I suggest that, people act like if they move there they will be lynched - as if the place is a primitive wasteland inhabited by backwards rednecks carrying pitchforks. In reality, it is a modestly wealthy area filled with dentists, insurance providers, accountants, and other mid-level white collar workers. You're more likely to die of boredom, but isn't that better than food stamps, and isn't boredom good if you want to raise a family? The people that read and write these articles don't seem to consider things like this.
But you gotta understand, they have no time, they have to make the world a better place with Snapchat&co...
Yes, though buy it now accounts for something like 85% of transactions
The maintainer must decide which blocks are valid. That's just as much of a consensus algorithm as Bitcoin just not as distributed and decentralized.
Specialists are usually the worst teachers, because they assume that you know trivial things. What appears trivial to them is not trivial to the audience though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge
I may be misinformed, but I see proof of work schemes as something that will inevitably lead to a tremendous waste of energy -- the last thing we should do if we still want to inhabit this planet in a few decades. If a centralized authority is needed to reduce this waste, then so be it.
Well that's a nail in the coffin of Cryengine. Who would want to deal with lawsuits just for using a (kind of) free engine, when we have Unity, Unreal, Lumberyard, StingRay, Source, Godot, Phyre, Blender?
literally every time someone asks this really straightforward question the answer is vague tech waffle.

seriously, please: tell me one genuine use case for block chains that conventional database stack can't do?