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In nothern Finland, I've seen kids dropped off by the bus in the middle of the snow covered woods. Younger ones had someone picking them up, but kids around 10 just started walking with the sun already setting off to a house that was absolutely nowhere in sight. They do have sisu!
It is important to take into consideration that this is not a typical day in the city. Some of the pedestrian were aware that the movie was being filmed and traffic flow was actually staged (there weren't that many cars on the streets in the time, the cars in this movie circle around the frame several times). Some of these people probably went on a leisure walk just to see the filming.

That being said, yes, it is likely that average walking pace was slower at the beginning of the 20th century. We have evidence that just in the last couple of decades, average pace of walking has increased around 10% in large metropolitan areas.
Mimblewimble doesn't have addresses [1]

[1] https://github.com/ignopeverell/grin/blob/master/doc/grin4bi...
It's really funny how "serious" people can be dumb when the write about bitcoin... (and in general, the big lesson of the Internet, is that it allows everybody to realize how dumb and full of air are all the "experts" and "responsible" "leaders" are...).

Here, this Ozimek correctly evaluates that when everybody will be using BTC instead of USD, it will be worth "$871,056". But then he writes: "To get to these levels would completely undermine it's (sic) usefulness as s (sic) currency." Either we take the two typoes as meaningful indicator of his stress level when he wrote this sentence, and we will deduce that he's a filthy liar, who understands the bitcoin, but is spreading FUD, or we will ignore them, and conclude that he has only read the one paragraph executive summary and he doesn't know that the BTC has subdivisions, and that at that stage, the satoshi will be valued $0.00871056, ie. a little less than 1¢.

Then he continues with more bullshit on page 2, assuming that transitory USD vs. BTC rate change will go on eternally. But already now, the volatility of BTCUSD is similar to the volatility of the other currencies.
http://www.cboe.com/products/vix-index-volatility/volatility...
https://bitvol.info

It doesn't matter how fast people convert to BTC. The point is that eventually Satoshis and µBTC will be used by everybody.
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> I mean, I probably qualify as reasonably savvy, and I have used exactly 4 browsers in the last 10 years: Firefox, Chrome, IE/Edge, and Safari.

I probably don't count as savvy, but my browser experience over the last 10 years has been a somewhat broader list. Having started with Firefox at V2, I switched (around '06) to my primary browser being Opera, with SeaMonkey as a secondary - especially when I want IRC; Firefox, K-Meleon, and Links are all in the background ready to go. I also used QtWeb for a brief period.

When Opera switched to being a Chrome clone, I jumped ship. SeaMonkey didn't provide the ease-of-use I wanted for an everyday browser, so I went back to Firefox. I'm now more often on Pale Moon.
> I do not consider buying positive reviews with free items an ethical marketing strategy: it deceives people expecting unaffiliated opinions there...

> Why should anyone take part in this?

Where did I say buying positive reviews was an ethical marketing strategy or that people should take part in it? I don't think that and I didn't say anything even remotely like it in the post you're replying to.
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=nautil.us
Does anyone know of good research on how our ability to confront and discuss controversial matters has changed over the last 50 years?

I am wondering whether previous generations were better able to handle intra- and intergroup differences of ideology.
Duct tape and glue?

I got angry, took my drill, a piece of metal, couple of screws and connected the whole thing Mad Max style. Yes, they were quite uncomfortable.

And you couldn't really wear them in public too.

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And yes hd380s seem to have longer lasting headband than the hd280s.
Ask HN: Under GDPR will HN have to offer account deletion?
GDPR has something called Right to Erasure [1].

Will HN have to offer account deletion to users even though real names are not always used and emails not required? Will the user have to prove EU citizenship?

[1] https://gdpr-info.eu/art-17-gdpr/
The article doesn't make much sense. It starts with the author saying the IOTA whitepaper was indecipherable, that the language choice was a bad idea, the code is undocumented etc. and then (ignoring massive red flags like the IOTA devs creating their own hash function) the author bought into and sold out of IOTA multiple times while experience major issues.

Personally I think C++ is a bad choice. A safer language that is easier to verify is preferable when small bugs have the potential to wipe out a cryptocurrency. Imagine Bitcoin got hit with a bug that allowed wallets to be emptied or took down the network such that a hard fork was required to fix it; it would wipe out confidence if this happened enough times. Maybe I'm missing something beyond the developers being very disciplined but I'm impressed this hasn't happened yet.
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How about all those venomous small hard-to-see hide-everywhere animals?

From far away that does sound scary.
The problem is that Theseus jumped the boat too.
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Is the core of the problem is a party? If so, then you probably should retarget your problem solving efforts from decision making in general to your party issues.

If the problem really is a decision, then you can try to split up decision into smaller parts. The first part is to schedule when you decide to accept or decline invitation, and when you give an answer to inviter. For example, you can give yourself two days to choose between accept/decline, and two days more to prepare youself to write an answer. The trick is to schedule a particular time when you start doing painful things and when you finish them. For example: tomorrow from 15:00 to 15:10. It is just ten minutes of a pain.

A schedule can help you to think about the problem in advance without pain. Or do not think in advance and do not feel yourself guilty for it. It helps also to choose between accept/decline without pain from expectancy of a painful writing of an answer.

Such a way you can reach a minimum amount of negative feelings associated with thinking about problem and making decisions, you can break the negative reinforcement loop.
My condolences to the family. I hope this can learn to valuable learning from this loss of life.

Really interested in what data analysis is done in the states regarding (KSI - Killed and Serious Injured). In the UK we hold good data and can related designs and design improvement to the KSI.

I strongly agree with the article, we should aim for zero-killed. The balance can be vehicle congestion vs. space vs. cost vs. time. Because our modelling is very good we can tell the impact of a new school and the behaviour of the pedestrians. I could talk about the hierarchy of roads, but Traffic Engineers need to start influencing the politicians that make some of the decisions. How ? - By clear data and model that show with this design you will have this KSIs.
Ethereum has a Go implementation. The Java argument is BS obivously. The protocol needs to be valid, not a single implementation.
> I wrote Dating for Nerds: Gender differences (http://p.migdal.pl/2017/09/30/dating-for-nerds-gender-differ...) and got no backlash (much to my surprise, though).

Skimming through it, it does seem pretty even-handed. Although I'd like to point out that you're writing a "guide for nerds" and consistently addressing the reader as if they were a man. Women can be nerds, too. It's fair to have a guide for male nerds, since the experience is bound to be quite different for men vs. women, but it'd make sense to actually point that out.
So 3 hour commute in Bangalore is what...5km? :) It routinely took me 30-40 minutes to go about 1km...I'd have walked if there was decent sidewalk to be found. THAT city needs to have it's planners fired...but that's a different discussion.
Would a blockchain for government expenditures help avoid this type of error?

We already now have https://usaspending.gov ( https://beta.usaspending.gov ) and expenditure line item metadata.

Would having traceable money in a distributed ledger help us keep track of money collected from taxpayers?

Obviously, the volatility of most cryptocurrencies would be disadvantageous for purposes of transferring and accounting for government spending. Isn't there a way to peg a cryptocurrency to the USD; even with Quantitative Easing? How is Quantitative Easing different from just deciding to print trillions more 'coins' in order to counter debt or inflation or deflation; why is the government in debt at all?
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Well, see? mimblewimble developers hid this characteristic in a "no addresses" fashion, because they are smarter than IOTA devs. When they say "transactions have to be built interactively, with 2 (or more) wallets exchanging data with one another" this is what I meant when I mentioned QR codes for every amount reception/sending.
Perhaps you choose a city that supports your case. What about Malmö?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/sweden/1210...
the recent network issues are really annoying but if you run your own full node tx are confirmed in max 20min. something that should be kept in mind IOTA is in early beta and was always promoted as that. when people start to pump it and without reading an announcement right, why should that be iotas fault? and about the usability of iota, when have you started with cryptos? go back to 2011 and look for a good usable wallet (hint: you won't find anything). iri is a reference implementation a C and Rust Version is in developement.

IOTA is clearly about to proof that their protocol works, here some brain food: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.05385.pdf
I wonder if something like OCaml would be a good choice. It's a safe language with good performance plus it gives you an easier route to formally verify the important parts of it. Cross platform is going to be trickier though.
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I read your comment before reading the article. I expected the article to be a technical overview of IOTA.

Instead, it's a story of all the ways IOTA simply does not work.

Java vs C++ is irrelevant. Maybe the author is wrong, maybe not. Either way, it's probably a bad idea to take two sentences out of context and claim the author loses all credibility for an offhand opinion.
When I was living in Sydney, it was striking that I never saw kids playing outside by themselves.

Playgrounds always had more parents hovering than kids playing.
Or in other words, there is absolutely no technical justification for using this overly verbose and unmaintainable mess. It's just some vague philosophical thing that has no clear benefits. Like OOP.
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Nah. I mean in the context of finding solicitations and submitting bids for the US government generally, life's easier selling those services versus selling something like socks or transportation or something. I mean what I said: If you wanted to collude with elected officials and funnel government dollars into your business, you're not going to have as much scrutiny submitting bids for those kinds of solicitations than some of the people out there trying to submit bids to sell the Army a better rifle sling.
Because the UK is a bit over half the size of California. Many folks in Europe tend to under appreciate the sheer size of the United States. To your point though...certain metro areas are largely this way...(NY/Chicago)...but others (LA/Detroit) are not... Not sure why some cities invest and others don't.
> As far as I'm aware the biggest dangers to children are their cohabitating relatives followed closely by non-resident family and friends.

Or getting hit by a car. Driven by a stranger or otherwise.

Based on my anecdotal experience, prevalence of car culture seems to influence whether kids can roam quite a lot.
If you don't look for evidence you're unlikely to find it.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/met-police-spendi...
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This recent news of a 74 year old "ninja-thief" comes to mind http://time.com/4997946/ninja-of-heisei-thief-japan/
Brown rice is ~1600 calories per pound. So a few kilos won't last several people all that long.

Cheap though ($1/pound at mass market retail in the US). Dry pasta is about the same on both measures.
Singapore is about as clean as Japan from what I can tell.

You might like this article about what we do in Germany: https://www.wsj.com/articles/german-kindergarten-campouts-te...
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See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15945543 about the German situation.
I was going say, in the two weeks we were in Japan we were randomly stopped to have our passports checked sooo many times. Particularly in Kyoto. The plain clothes cops made me a little uncomfortable.

To be fair though in the middle of my trip the Akihabara massacre happened and visible police presence went way up after that.

My friend and I spoke the least of anyone in the group, and were actually in Akihabara at the time with no idea at all what was going on. We were there to return a camera, and we noted the place was CRAWLING with news crews. Didn’t figure it out until we got back to our friends who had been watching the news, terrified something had happened.

We were randomly passport checked before that happened however.
1575 km in 24 hours means over 65 km/h or 40 mph or 36 knots.

That's mind boggling.

The Virgin Challenger 2 power boat had the same speed crossing the Atlantic.
Yes, Germany is still mostly on the sane side. See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15945543
Thanks for this! For years I've been looking for a unixy command line browser that cuts through all the web related cruft. W3m fits the bill nicely.
re: Quantitative Easing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing

Say I have $100 in my Social Security Fund (in very non-aggressive investments which need to meet or exceed inflation) and the total supply of money (including paper notes and numbers in debit and credit columns of various public and private databases) the total supply of money is $1T with $1T in debt; if 1T is printed to pay for that debt, is my $100 in retirement savings then worth $50? Or is it more complex than that?
That's exactly what I was wondering. As far as I know, many streets in Japan are still ruled by the Yakuza.
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It's forever part of Bitcoins orgin story that it begin as hyperinflationary and has since slowed the minting of more BTC.

The irony is the mythos of bitcoin being "deflationary" is not historically accurate and the supply is inflating every 10 minutes.

What Bitcoiners conveniently omit from explanation in Satoshis protocol is the initial "dump" of the supply to the first few users who ran the software. This is a malicious design decision intended to control the supply early.

Any user who joins the network must than attempt to psychologically exploit new users by selling their asset previously generated for less effort/work/watts as the protocol increases in difficulty to any new user.
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We had the cycling safety classes in second grade, but nobody stopped you from cycling to school before that. (And I did.)
Yes.

Well, the exception perhaps being that its object-verb syntax supports function name completion in IDEs better. But I think it's a net negative, since it has more negative effects on architecture (wrong structure, because developers are encouraged to invent vague concepts to be home to methods that do less and less. It leads to endless bikeshedding).

Not to speak of other bad ideas that once defined what OOP was, and are now commonly seen as wrong - like inheritance or even multiple inheritance.
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+1. Fellow knot tier here. I mostly practice it (at my desk) to keep a working memory of knots that are useful for camping.
As far as I know there are no bugs in the wallet it's just not completly self explaining. tbh from my view there are just the wrong people in the whole space... 95% of the people are here to get rich quick and not for the developement and it's excatly these people who have problems with Key reuses and so on.. the people have to do their research in such a young space..
Tell me about it. I need to follow the tech and communities as part of my job, and sometimes it's seriously hard to have any discussions e.g. in IOTA's Slack channels.

On the contrary, Monero uses IRC for their communication and maybe because of that I've seen more adult discussions in their community. Of course lots of money being on the table, things can get pretty sour everywhere.
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And in EU we have government grants - free money for all kinds of tech-scams , created just for the purpose of consuming these funds. Of course destroying any legit businesses that suddenly have to compete against these state-funded parasites. Thanks, socialists
Not sure I understand how the 5 million dollar factor was n calculated. Author links to the CIA Factbook that shows world money supply in USD.

Either way I think they left out at least 1 decimal place if they're calculating against USD in circulation ($1+ trillion). So should be 0.000000005.
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Chances are this didn't have so much to do with open debate as making a faux pas.

1. Scandinavian society is largely based on that biology isn't a good enough justification for inequality. Unless you're being very specific you also end up making an argument against Scandinavia equality. Which is something that many Scandinavians would obviously disagree with. (the argument, not necessarily the arguing).

2. Scandinavians, compared to other people, have few things in modern history to be ashamed of. Unfortunately eugenics is one of those few things. [0]

3. Presenting a casual theory to someone in the field is generally not a good idea. Maybe especially so if it's in a social setting, if your theory states the importance of a competing field and/or if you are part of the historic majority addressing the historic minority. Since them not being taken seriously can be an issue.

4. The research of biological traits doesn't seem to support the large gender difference in technology. The overlap between men and women is large, the correlation between gender traits and e.g. intelligence is weak and differences to other fields seem hard to explain. Even if you accept the idea that women don't like x and technology has a lot of x it's hard to explain why technology must have a lot of x. Other than being dominated for a long time by people who like x. At least while establishing causation, or even correlation, between the factors.

[0] http://www.economist.com/node/155244
Everyone says it's due to the size difference. That doesn't make any sense to me!

Take just the Northern California region, then, around the same size as the UK. Now there's no argument about size difference. The population is around a third of the UK, so while that's less and so lower density, it isn't a crazy difference and the major areas of population themselves where you need the stations are high density.

I can go from any city in the UK, to any other city in the UK, via a couple of trains pretty effortlessly. Why couldn't that be replicated in an area of the same size and more of less the same population, in California?

Why can't it be replicated just in the Bay Area even! Why aren't there lots of trains there?!
Just came back from 3 weeks trip through Japan (mostly Tokyo and Kyoto). Haven't spoke to police even once.
> Note: You moved the goalpost from "safe from rape" to "is it okay"

I noticed that too. Maybe the correct point to make is this: how is wandering the streets (almost) naked, or with the most provocative choice of clothing one could make, not considered in itself sexual harassment?
They’re supposedly having a heck of a time recruiting the younger generation. There was a pretty good documentary about it on Netflix
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Oh certainly, but that does not necessarily mean you "can't say" such things. I would definitely treat a colleague differently if I discover they write a blog arguing in favor of Hungarian Notation. Of course people will judge your character. But if such a blog post would get you fired then it would be fair to say you "can't say" it.

As an example, Peter Thiel (if I remember correctly) criticized women having the vote. Certainly a controversial viewpoint, but not controversial enough to get him ostracized. But his support for Trump did get him ostracized to some extent. I think this shows the difference between what is just controversial and what is considered unacceptable in SV.
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If they're black though. This black rule can lead to funny situations - one time a silver brand new Merceses S-Klasse came to pick me up for the Pop price.
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You and your S.O. are conflating gender identity, physical gender, and expression. Basic transgenderism is very simple: the uncanny feeling that your physical gender is wrong. You have male parts but they don’t feel like they should be there (kind of like a phantom limb), or female parts, or vice versa. There is ample research showing that this can manifest extremely early (3-4 years of age anyway), long before cultural training about gender roles can play a part. You cannot simply tell these people to try harder and accept their assigned birth gender; that’s like telling gay people they should be straight because it would be easier to fit in. Well, yeah, it would. But it doesn’t work.

Now, there are certainly people who are not transgender in that specific way, but want to express aspects of the stereotypical “other” gender or both genders. That’s a different thing, and they have a right to that too, but it’s very wrong, and misleading, to put all these people into a single bucket.

Of course, it should be unsurprising that people who are “physically transgender”, besides feeling there is a physical problem, might want to express themselves differently too. The fact that these two characteristics are often correlated may be what is steering you wrong.
Most likely it's that the majority of experienced crypto devs (aka people who have been around since it was "fork bitcoin and change PoW algo + logo") will be familiar with C++, so a Java implementation is an odd choice that strongly hints that it was written by a lowest-cost contractor - or at least someone unfamiliar with cryptos. Since there is an awful lot of trust in devs to provide future support/improvement, both are bad.

(Lot of "write my dumbass cryptocurrency" requests on Upwork, so I assume this is very common.)

As for technical superiority, maintaining consensus is critically important. If one set of users (miners) requires a high-performance implementation, it makes a lot of sense to use that implementation everywhere.
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