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You're assuming BTC will appreciate in value. There is no guarantee it will eventually become worth millions of US or equivalent dollars.

Even with a fixed qty; uncovered exploits, technological breakthroughs, change in crypto trends (aka a move to another platform), or change in society could halt an increase of value.

Technically the same is true of gold. Even with out a massive change in qty, something as simple as a better gold like alloy for jewelry, an alternative for electronics, or a sudden cultural aversion to gold ownership could reduce the value.
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Looking at how the free market works, in many cases I would seriously reconsider what we mean by "voluntary" here. Just because a transaction wasn't made at gunpoint, doesn't mean it wasn't coerced, or that one party wasn't duped into it through scam/advertising.
Were the ones they've identified repeat offenders or something? I was under the impression that a relatively small % of the population had their DNA in a database.
Socialist governments killed tens of millions of people in the 20th century. They acquired power far more completely than any company has.

Big companies come and go. They may have power, but it's temporary, and there's nothing violent when they start losing their footing.

I'd rather have Amazon delivery my groceries than live in Venezuela.
To clarify for those just reading the title: the Bitcoin.com founder a proponent of Bitcoin Cash. He sold his BTC in favor of BCH. So he's not really saying Bitcoin is useless, he's just saying Bitcoin is useless without a block size increase. (Which is what Bitcoin Cash is.)
How does this differ from their previous policies?
See discussion in this thread about the "204 No Content" response code. Not all successful HTTP requests trigger a page load. And that's without having to change anything about current HTTP/HTML—except maybe giving hyperlinks and/or forms access to more HTTP methods, though for god's sake we ought to already have that in HTML and if you'd told me in 2007 that in 2017 we still wouldn't be able to PUT or DELETE on a web page without Javascript I'd have laughed at how implausible that was, so that's a long-overdue change anyway.
I would be interested to see Mr. Chiang (I have enjoyed his other stories) separate the effects of government capture from capitalism. Part of what he warns against is the distortion of capitalism by power/captured government.
"Runaway capitalism" means one big winner in each sector. This is the result of the "frictionless economy" - distance doesn't affect cost much, and organizations can scale to planetary size. It started with shipping containers and faxes, and continued to cloud-based services and the attention economy.

So we have Google, Facebook, and Amazon. (China has Baidu, Tencent, and Alibaba, but they need the Great Firewall to compete.) The US is down to four big trillion-dollar banks. (Bank #5, the Bank of New York, is about a third the size of #4.) Telecom is consolidating to AT&T and Comcast.

These companies act like monopolies. They stop competing on price and influence government and culture instead. While organizations, rather than AIs, they optimize for size and shareholder value. That's runaway capitalism.
Meaningless until they enforce this with their star contributors. Otherwise it's just further enforcing a set of rules for stars and another for everyone else.
What interesting things happen at 50 qubits?
Socialism is not necessarily authoritarian. The other side of socialism is anarchism, or libertarian socialism, which has a long tradition on the internet. In fact IETF is an anarchist organization originally, with a motto along the lines of "no kings, no presidents, no voting, consensus and running code". The whole Free Software movement, to which ESR more or less belongs (though he created more liberal "open-souce" branch), is also socialist. Neither free software nor open source is individualist, it is impossible for a lone "hacker" create anything significant without using a vast amount of Free Software. W3C has mostly followed IETF style governance (consensus), and switching to more formal voting procedure has only led to adoption of DRM as a web standard.

Fun fact, there is an RFC stating that the Internet is a cooperative anarchy:
https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1726.txt

For an introduction into IETF-style anarchy see:
https://www.wired.com/1995/10/ietf/

On W3C:
https://cyber.harvard.edu/archived_content/people/reagle/reg...

Murray Rothbard even said in his books that the word "libertarian" was used by "libertarian socialist" first. It is only recently that capitalist and extremely individualist views became popular among hackers. Hackers were always anarchist, but only recently anarchy started to mean extreme liberalism, essential point of which is absolute private property, including copyright.

For more on anarchist view on "libertarian" views, read Anarchist FAQ. Ironically, you can install it with "apt-get install anarchism" on any Debian-based distro.
"Content that glorifies violence or the perpetrators of a violent act. This includes celebrating any violent act in a manner that may inspire others to replicate it"

Does this apply to videos of NFL tackles? Videos of NFL tackles glorify violence and glorify the tackler (the perpetrator of a violent act).
Who can fathom the mystery. That sort of wondering is an async call that will never be called back.
This is textbook "whataboutism" which has been used to deflect criticism since Soviet times. It is wrong when China does it, and it is also wrong when the US does it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
If you aim to have a pythonic data layer, I've heard good things about pony orm[1]. I mean,you can't get much more pythonic then the example they have on their website. But I haven't used it my self.

[1](https://ponyorm.com/)
Population: 1,749,366. Kits: 11,341. Judging by how many women I know who have been willing to say they have been raped — and no, I don’t mean just pressured into something they regretted — this is probably less than one tenth of the victims.
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Don't short tethers. The margin rates might just eat your gains from it going to 0.
We do have dedicated categories for Machine Learning. I would like to think that Spark ML subsumes those workloads, and using Spark ML, one builds machine learning applications.

Inasmuch as its broadness, we wanted to expand the summit to include AI use cases. As you know AI -> ML -> DL in the broad sense. And the categories allow submissions along those topics.

Cheers
Jules
I think you already answered your own question. It is very hard to get comfortable with things if they are unintuitive :)
Those are weak reasons, if Git is the wrong choice for the team.
i don't need those services. thank you
The proof will be if these rules ever apply to Trump or not.
The idea that taxes create a demand for currency (and hence the value) is explored at depth in Modern Monetary Theory: http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2011/07/mmp-blog-8-taxes-...
> Justifying downvote: "you told people to look up a topic but did not provide any link as a recommended starting point" (which is fine) https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jlg23

> But then: "I am actually very familiar with the topic and I am thus aware that one can find many, seemingly contradictory, sources"
(Oh, look at that! Someone who rejects clear evidence which doesn't agree with their views) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15947869

Woha. I agree with your conclusion wrt Rwanda (or at least what I think your conclusions are - you never elaborated).

My point is: If you want to communicate, make it easy to be understood. Please provide a link "the wikipedia article[0] is a good introduction".

Telling people to ~"just do the research" only warrants one answer "I did, you are wrong. Your turn."

Nobody has to invest more time into a response to a comment than the original commenter if the original does not contain a single reference/verifiable fact.
Hint: It has frequently been suggested the United States of America has never practiced real capitalism....
I'm at a loss as to what it is about Volvo's progress (or lack thereof) that is non-obvious enough to warrant investigation into published experiments that don't exist.
You make a very good point about capitalism vs. free market. I would only amend my comment to say that I think there is evidence that too much of either capitalism or free market can be damaging. For instance (and to use your definitions -- which I like -- if I understand them correctly), Comcast is the result of runaway capitalism, and the US healthcare system is too much free market.

I also like your point about acquiring a monopoly by exploiting bugs in the cognitive system. I think in that sense it's a monopoly on attention and time, which results in both an economic and information monopoly. The information monopoly is especially scary to me. At least Standard Oil didn't also control what news the country read.
> My experience traveling is that places like France with legally mandated tip amounts have very inconsistent service quality. It can be good, but it can also be very bad.

My experience in France, is, in fact, quite different from yours. I found the same bell curve of service that I see in the US.

If anything, the waiters in France were LESS irritating than in the US in that they tended to not interrupt you unnecessarily.
Definitely. I can see not prioritizing it over anything that could immediately kill someone, but it (and any other criminal evidence) ought to be the very next thing on the list. And they've got the resources to handle those things. Perhaps part of the problem is how they're compensated based on how many beds they have and how many procedures they're performing etc
The fact that the nominal government isn't the de facto government of every part of the country doesn't mean that unregulated capitalism rules.

(Of course, unregulated capitalism is an oxymoron; capitalism involves active government intervention to enforce a very specific model of property rights; it is a particular application of regulation, not it's absence.)
until you do, though
Specifically, there's a this policy does not apply to military or government entities loophole to these new rules, which many believe to be a workaround for these rules not applying to Trump.
Keep up the good work. You guys/gals make my job easy. Infinity thanks, I owe you a drink (or three).
I'm quite circular-shaped and sedentary, but I love powerlifting motivation videos. They get me so pumped to do whatever I'm getting ready to do.

(E.g: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWfmFLYxcQw )
Politically I would think anarchism fits better with the hacker mindser as you describe it. And anarchism has a long leftist tradition. Also, to bridge the gap between ideologies a little; in my mind leftism dosnt dislike creative freedom or progress, they just think that large corporations are more at risk of stiffling it than regulations.
Exchanges make it cheaper/easier because they're all light on USD and banking/tax rules make all sorts of sketchy characters want to avoid USD. There are also probably a lot of people who don't know any better and think that it's as safe as USD.
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> Therefore, under memory pressure (especially if you set swappiness to zero), you will be preferentially swapping out your program code (because it is always clean) in preference to your program data.

Regarding systems with near 100% utilization, wouldn't it be a better advice to pin all executable code to memory via tmpfs (at system level) or mlockall() (application level)?

Encountered this case on some heavily-loaded batch data processing workers: at some point, client programs would slow down and generate random disk I/O (which in turn is detected by monitoring and throttled). Turned out, processes would go through major page faults at random moments in time, when their executable code pages are discarded from memory and subsequently re-read from disk.
>We consider hateful imagery to be logos, symbols, or images whose purpose is to promote hostility and malice against others based on their race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or ethnicity/national origin.

Let the endless game of whack-a-mole over what is or isn't a dogwhistle commence, I guess.
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Well C# is a more familiar language for quants and quant devs than cuda.

Very few quants know CUDA. My brother happens to be one of them but he does most of his development now in python/pandas. He gets someone else to do the heavy lifting to target the HPC platform of choice.

Now the motivation behind the layer or framework is to provide greater productivity, remove the step of pairing quants with cuda Devs when productionsing the code.

These are all valid reasons to adopt such frameworks. But in practice the cost of upgrades, strange pointer bugs and delays to production releases don't make it worth it. Also you need the CUDA Dev for situations that the framework fails. If such a framework does become available that removes these pain points, I'd adopt it in a heartbeat

This may vary in other industries other than finance.
It's not so easy to be one of the first companies to go against standard practice. And sometimes you even get sued https://www.eater.com/2017/10/11/16458026/no-tipping-conspir...
A better tool would be a remote repo clone where you have to resolve messed up situations and only pass if you push a fixed solution :)
Yet another clickbait headline. From a Harvard professor, no less, assuming the title is the author's.

The article explores the consequences of our reluctance to break from habit, rather than explaining why we find this hard to do.

More accurately, it explores why we so rarely do it. If we were discussing it being truly 'hard to do', we'd need to first establish that we consciously want to break from habit, but then fail to follow through with action. The article doesn't take this route.

The closest it gets to delivering on the title is Yet the fact that many people needed a strike to force them to experiment reveals the deep roots of a common reluctance to experiment. This is not then expanded upon.
For some reason this makes me think about that time I read that Russia installed wider train tracks to prevent trains from other countries from slipping in and entering the country.
> Since standard JDK could not even compile a project without ant/gradle/maven etc.

I'm sorry, but I think you have to defend that statement.

Certainly, gradle and maven do a LOT to make it easier to BUILD java projects, but compile?

These tools do more to apply some common-sense patterns to project source and dependency management, so that you're only specifying the things you really need to, but, like most compilers, javac just needs to know where the compile-time dependencies are and where the source files are. The SDK is quite able to compile without a build tool.
Not sure if you're saying you want emacs or don't, but...

* You want emacs - https://notmuchmail.org/notmuch-emacs/

* You don't want emacs - https://github.com/pazz/alot (I use this one, it's very nice)

Also Mutt - https://notmuchmail.org/notmuch-mutt/
It says they were found in 2009. I wonder what period they were from then?
I realize that, but I think after a 10-qubit chip is made, it will be easier to scale up.

This tech is aiming to be "mainstream". Google, IBM and others' quantum computers will likely prove useful earlier, but we won't see them be paired with our personal computers. This on the other hand, offers that opportunity, but it will lag behind other types of quantum computers in terms of performance.
No, I'm saying the market cap is the number of tethers that tether.to has printed so far.
In fact, my first job was a typical summer job in the service industry: I scooped ice cream at an ice cream store. There was a tip jar and our tips were pooled and divided by the hours we worked -- it was not much but it was something.

I would not have complained if there were no tips and our salaries were increased a bit to compensate.

No, I do not have a lot of empathy for people who are unwilling to accept change or who think that a company that introduced some new technology should be held responsible for how that technology personally affected them. I have no interest in freezing society in time and only allowing new ideas that have no negative impact on anyone to be put into practice.
An organization that forgets about 11,000 pieces of evidence that could become easy statistics boosters probably has equally sloppy procedures for handling and processing that evidence.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/epic-drug-lab-scandal-r...
> This policy does not apply to military or government entities
Check this out: http://www.allitebooks.com/?s=web+dev
Unfortunately I have not written any docs or tutorials yet... With the demo, what you are seeing is an editor designed for creating board games of all types. It does involve some programming, although I tried to make that aspect easier with the "code-blocks" visual programming tool (if you click the </> symbol next to any code, that opens the code-blocks editor).

When I launch the full working initial version, I will have a bunch of guides, tutorials, and documentation.
The good news is we have tools (browser plugins) to help us take control of our own machines while web browsing. The bad news is that sites are actively hostile to these tools. I think it's as much an incentives problem as a technological problem.
What about the reverse? Do those that deliver better service make more money than their under-performing peers?
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IIRC there was the issue with fake shares of Overstock being traded:

http://investors.overstock.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=131091&p=irol...
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you can buy drugs and other stuff online with bitcoin.
Actually I find Sourcetree one of the worst git GUIs out there. There are just so many bugs and kinks and glitches in it that I avoid it if possible.

I do like the Gitx-dev fork by Rowanj [1]. Clean and simple. Unfortunately just for Mac OS though.

[1] https://rowanj.github.io/gitx/
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It’s mostly a cultural preference...

Rice works as well as hard red wheat as far as calorie density goes and in the short term that’s all that really matters for adults. Rice also has some advantages as it’s more versatile in terms of cooking and taking flavors. A few cases of Minute Rice, a small camp stove and a variety of seasoning packets would be a win over a large bag of wheat.

Longer term wheat has a higher protein content and has an advantage that it can be sprouted to increase vitamin content but you would need to be in pretty dire straights for that to make a difference. Neither wheat nor rice have enough fat content needed for long term survival.

Neither wheat nor rice will sustain toddlers without a supplemental high quality protein source like milk or eggs.
The obvious question - why would I use this over Scrapy?
Given the size of these tunnels, and London's extreme land values, we have to assume they are being used by someone. The government wouldn't let all that space go to waste. So that means there is a largeish population (100s?) of people commuting into london each morning only to disappear into these tunnels. Identifying and tracking these people would be a great open source intel project.
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Hah. The last power outage in San Diego they lost vast amounts of food because none of the businesses could transact AT ALL. They no longer have backup systems that are unpowered.

So, even if you had cash, they couldn't take it.
I don't think he means constructing new highways for autonomous cars; just making sure the tech works flawlessly with a few existing, high-traffic, morning/evening rush routes. Would save a lot of stress from the daily commute and allow for a gradual ramp up in supported routes.
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Continuous QE spilled in everything else, assets, stocks, latest is crypto.

At some point, math kicks in and it will have to reset.

Coincidentally, why else do you think Trump is trying to bring everything back home?

Note: I am not from the USA and am not trying to start a political argument here. It's merely a macroeconomy observation.
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We can prove that quantum computers are faster than classical computers at solving certain problems (like simulating atom interactions). Although IBM recently moved that goal post, and proved that we can simulate 56-qubit (and probably a little more than that) with classical supercomputers.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/hardware/ibms-...
uber paid hackers in 50mil in bitcoin to delete data.
I believe his point is that many people who follow politics follow parties emotionally rather than rationally. This is quite common in the US; it's very tribal, and by design.

When it is framed as a "Republican," issue (which it certainly is), you've just lost a good chunk of the audience you are trying to convince. That is the counterproductive part.
Setting up a dev environment isn’t onboarding. Its setting up a dev for success
Monetary policy is just not that effective, overall. The Fed is not putting money into anyone's hands. It's just making bank balance sheets replace higher-interest paying asserts (Treasury bonds) with lower-interest paying assets (bank reserves) in the hopes that more lending will happen. But it won't. Fiscal policy is necessary. http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2012/01/mmp-blog-31-funct...
Honest question: Why would the average person want/need to do that with their smartphone or computer?
Ok my analogy was not great, but yours is also a bit exaggerated I think, for two reasons:
Obviously an iot device is not obviously a weapon, and secondly not only compromised devices were targeted ; arguably a non easy task since once it's compromised it is likely to be "locked".

Still, I want to reiterate that the society I want to live in is not one where we are protected by perfect bulletproof fences but one where vandalism is not a cause of fame.
The article explores the consequences of our reluctance to break from habit, rather than explaining why we find this hard to do.

My thoughts exactly. I hate this practice with a passion. Looks like the author's answer is basically "because we are human and humans are creatures of habit". Well yeah, but that's not exactly news worthy of a NYT article.
The first film based government satellite imagery was 0.3 m/pixel, in the 1960s. It has only gotten better since then. (For comparison you can buy GeoEye 1 data today commercially at 0.41 m/pixel) We also regularly fly stealth collection aircraft over Chinese airspace.

At this point all the strategic things an invading army worries about (bridge heights, strength of roads, width between buildings for turning tanks, etc) can be obtained easily from overhead reconnaissance.

Hedge funds have been flying satellites to collect economic indicators (traffic flow in retail spaces, fill levels in oil storage tanks, number of ships in port, etc) since the '90s.
If bitcoin price is derived from the bid ask, most of the worlds money would have to be parked in bitcoin, does that even make sense?
There is also no central authority printing or seizing money. There will only ever be 21 million BTC and they are released on a schedule. The code is open source.
git reset --hard for what!? If you are a newcomer making mistakes it is fine for the mistake to be in the commits. Just fix the problem and commit again.
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