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You're right, reading occasional blog posts doesn't do anything for anyone, on pretty much any topic. I'd argue that anyone professing to be a rationalist on those grounds is lying to themselves.

Also worth pointing out that the rationalist community has a lot of issues and biases that mostly spring from focus problems - like any group, they tend to hyper-analyze a few pet issues that draw their attention and then ignore the rest of the world. Even if they're correctly analyzing those issues, the social problem of biased community focus ends up thwarting the goal of overall rationality. I don't think this is a problem specific to rationalists, rather a general failure of human communication (for any -ism, you'll find that people have tunnel vision and tend to force everything they see and hear through the lens of that -ism), but it is rightly criticized more there because the movement claims to be better at seeking truth than others. I have no idea how to solve that problem, it's really an emergent result of what gets people hot and bothered and draws their attention and analysis, which is an innate human irrationality and extremely hard to think your way around.
You're misunderstanding the purpose i'm describing. Imagine 100 commits a day, maybe more. (I worked at a company that averaged 500 or more commits a day to the master branch. There were 1000 developers working in a monorepo). Some code is out in production, and suddenly we realize a specific commit is causing a problem. The idea here is to revert the commit as soon as you can, and then spend your time fixing it. When reverting code is easy, and the company has good logging to identify problems, you can deploy more often. It's a good thing.

But to enable this "revert-first" culture, you have to design your commits to basically be super easy to revert. That means no merges in the master branch, you want to keep your revision history as clean as possible. One commit, as little dependencies as possible. Rebase is the right tool to use for this. The goal is a tidy linear history.
You would have to be nuts to short when there's an exchange printing billions of dollars of unbacked tokens they can use to drive up the price at will.

If you want to short cryptocurrency, short tethers.
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Okay, let's give a few more links ... let me know which one is sufficiently left wing (none I guess). Also, please state what exactly you're claiming ... there are plenty of links in here by organisations that certainly have a reputation for integrity so slant, sure, factually inaccurate, certainly not.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/25/arts/design/an-earnest-bui...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2014-10-17/bill-clin...

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2001/mar/12/20010312-02...

http://www.greenroofs.com/projects/pview.php?id=190

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11...

https://www.npr.org/2017/03/01/517840118/arkansas-weighs-whe...
First I'm not sure of the yardstick you are using to measure. There is still a not insignificant minority with no internet access at all in the US and further lots of people are stuck with truly mediocre dsl at speeds we no longer consider broadband.

Lets start with Germany.

Internet (60 Mbps or More, Unlimited Data, Cable/ADSL) 25.92 € or 30.59 usd

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_result.jsp?cou...

United States

Internet (60 Mbps or More, Unlimited Data, Cable/ADSL)	56.60 $

Further in the US only 80% of households had a broadband connection at home or access to a smartphone with data.

In Germany its 98.

In summery the internet is almost twice as expensive in the US and lots of people don't even have access to it.

We could go through all the countries you listed and see if we could find even one where your assertion is correct but I feel like that would be a waste of my and your time because its not clear that being able to find even one nation in all of Europe worse than the US would prove that private competition has served the US well. It hasn't.
> Success of these has varied. The utilities make a big profit while people struggle to pay utility bills

That kind of thinking absolutely kills infrastructure investment. To use British Telecom as an example. After privatization, BT kept its monopoly on the last mile, but rates were set to ensure that it was quite profitable. (About as profitable as say Time Warner in the US.) That ensures that BT had the incentive to invest and keep pushing fiber deeper into its network. Today, broadband speeds in the UK are significantly faster than in say France. But it also results in huge political backlash. “BT makes 20% profits while people can’t pay their utility bills!”
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This seems to be the case with most of the articles about Bitcoin. I suspect there are a number of large holders and exchanges paying PR firms to get stories like this published/upvoted/etc and keep the train going.
It is not a tech problem and blaming the tech industry will not solve it. Employers should not be allowed to underpay their employees, regardless of what form of payment is commonly used. Blame lawmakers who refuse to raise the minimum wage and who continue allowing restaurants to pay below minimum wage because their waiters receive tips.

Why do people expect tech companies to fix this problem? Tech companies did not invent tipping and tech companies did not create a system where certain professions rely on tips.

Other industrialized countries are doing fine without tipping, and some of those countries still rely on cash. What do you think doormen and bartenders in those countries do?
Full title: "I am Max Schrems, a privacy activist and founder of noyb.eu - European Center for Digital Rights. I successfully campaigned to stop Facebook's violations of EU privacy laws and had the EU Court of Justice invalidate the Safe Harbor agreement between the EU and the US. AMA!"

The AMA is currently ongoing.
If you're an artist, git is not for you.

Exactly. That is the entire argument. From the essay:

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I agree, Git is amazing and very powerful. What I’m suggesting is that we should recognize that it has a very high cost. It might empower complex workflows for sophisticated teams of experienced computer programmers, but it exiles the rest of the staff, and this has significant productivity costs.

...Git is very powerful? I’m willing to go along with that line of thought so long as we all understand that using a tool that is more powerful than needed can lead to problems.

http://www.smashcompany.com/business/business-productivity-h...

[ EDIT ]

Also, this bit from the essay might make the argument more clear:

For many years, I had a refrain which I gave as advice to each client I worked with: “Your software developers are expensive, so try to shift work away from them.” Ideally, software developers should only do work that relies on skills that no one else has. If a task can be done by a graphic designer, then it should be done by a graphic designer, because generally graphic designers are paid less than software developers (obviously not in all cases, but most of the time). I co-founded a startup in 2002, and I stayed with it till 2008, and we ran a team of 8 people using this principle: push work to the less skilled people, if they can handle it. Save the tough stuff for the computer programmer. We had great success with this style of work.
I waited tables while in college and made $2.10/hr +tips, which usually gave me $80-90 after tipping-out the bar/'bussers.' I also currently frequent a few bars, and these folks normally net $200+/shift. The lack of guaranteed wages, also allows them to under-report their earning WRT taxes.

Tipping in the service industry in the US is part of the culture, which has been historically difficult to change by declaration.
How would one do that technically? The value doesn't fluctuate. How would you time when tether goes to 0? If it ever goes to 0, that is.
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Shorting requires two parties. Someone has to loose the bet. If either that person doesn't hang around or the escrow fund disappears mtgox-style, your savvy short position also goes up in smoke. Or maybe, during the crash, the exchange decides to settle up with you by giving you bitcoins. That transfer should only take a few days/weeks during the panic of a real crash. Enjoy the ride.

Wall Street is correct in saying that you cannot short bitcoin because the massive regulatory infrastructure that backs such transactions doesn't really exist.

One of my favorite websites is running an add: "Buy bitcoins by credit card, before it's too late!" That too late thing is coming sooner than later.
I actually agree with you to some extent. Its unfortunate this person has to become an outlaw though.
That seems like wishful thinking. You might end up in being correct, but I've yet to see firm evidence that suggests that will be the case.
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Could someone with some forex knowledge explain how cash-settled futures do and don't affect spot markets?
False. GF has a JV to build a 300mm 22nm FD-SOI line in China https://www.globalfoundries.com/news-events/press-releases/g...
Bitcoin owners, you need to do these two things right now
I can now see how internet didn't make sense to Bill gates and IPhone was a passing fad to Steve balmer. I think the existing players get a sort of tunnel vision when they get in contact with disruptive technologies. Either way, we will know in a few years :).
> Then why do most countries have welfare for the poor?

Because of democracy.

The rest of your points are good and I agree with them. Just pointing out that "improve the life quality of those born with less potential" is probably not a goal most people strive for. I do hope I am wrong, but I don't believe I am.
If BTC cracks 1 million won't that mean there's 2.1 trillion dollars worth of USD BTC in circulation in addition to all the other currencies?
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> As we can see from everything above, holding BTC will tend to be very expensive, as large fluctuations can cut your savings in half without warning.

There is no historic trend in which Bitcoin has become "very expensive" to hold long term, especially when compared to other long term asset classes. This fact is due to the price sitting at the top of its value, historically. Large fluctuations in other asset classes may also hold this property, which means it's a common issue with asset speculation, not Bitcoin itself.

This is not to say that Bitcoin's value will not decrease at a future date. It likely will.

This entire article's argument has been heard before. Bitcoin isn't money. It can be used as a currency, but its nature is much, much more than that.
Anecdotally, New Yorkers (of all varieties) carry some cash most of the time. There are just too many places that do not accept cards in NYC for people to go cashless. My friends in Denver and LA almost never seem to have cash, and are always surprised that it is a problem when they visit NYC.
> I think anyone who uses the CLI is either trying too hard or hasn't realized the beauty of a git GUI.

Or just couldn't be bothered with leaving terminal. I refuse to reach for
mouse for any repository operation when everything else I do from console.
> As I understand it now, the way tips are factored into wages, it benefits the employee more so than the employer. Society loses because the employee is supposed to report tips so they are taxed, the employer loses because they still have to pay minimum wage, and the employee wins because they are paid minimum wage and get their tips tax free.

Employers of workers in customarily tipped jobs can and do use tips as a performance metric, so if the employer has to top up your tips to minimum wage, it probably also means you are also losing your job. This also motivates overreporting tips.
Overall I like the article, but a few points of disagreement:

1. The US dollar has intrinsic value. That intrinsic value is that the US government accepts it as payment for taxes. Regardless of what currency you conduct your business in, the USG accepts its cut only in dollars. That creates intrinsic demand for dollars, and links that intrinsic demand directly to the US GDP.

2. Bitcoin also has intrinsic value. That intrinsic value stems from transaction fees. It costs bitcoin to move bitcoin. International value-transfer is a service that has been around for a long time, and there is a market in it, so we can derive its value (or at the very least, that its value is non-zero) from the existence of demand for that service. Global value transfer has value, the Bitcoin network offers that service, and accepts payment only in Bitcoin. That is intrinsic value.

3. "Yes, this check could fail, but that possibility is still better than Bitcoin’s complete absence of any check on inflation." Bitcoin's core problem is not inflation. It's deflation. A fixed-supply currency is likely to suffer from deflationary spirals and subsequent crashes. I suppose you could call those crashes 'inflation', but that's not generally how the word is used.

4. "So here lies the fundamental difference between the dollar and Bitcoin: The supply of bitcoin is fixed, but the demand is beholden to uncontrollable market forces and speculator whims. That means that unlike the dollar, the value of BTC can never be stable, because there is no means regulate the supply to keep the value consistent from moment to moment.". Yes, that is the standard econ. argument in favor of central banks. It's not a new idea. But the actual evidence for its truth is surprisingly weak. Economies existed long before central banks, and indeed, they did have boom and bust cycles. However, it's not all that clear the central banks have really helped matters much, despite what they would like to think. Now, i'm not a total skeptic of central banking. I think its possible that they're adding some value, but i'm skeptical that it's as much as they think, and that the economy wouldn't find a way to function smoothly without them.
> How did IPv4 and NAT play any role in the dominance of Facebook, Airbnb et cetera? This is an analogy masquerading as an argument.

Because it made peer-to-peer no longer an option. Keep in mind that NAT is a poor man's firewall and once NAT'd systems were common peer-to-peer firewall transition became a real problem.

https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/ (2003, still as relevant today as when it was written)
I don't view Bloomberg as a paid-to-write-articles-to-sell type of place [edit: other than advertising space]. Otherwise no one would be taking them seriously, least of all financial professionals sitting in front of their expensive terminals.

Call me skeptical about the alleged claims about Bloomberg's motives.

Also the article doesn't contain mind-blowing information, it's just pointing out that shorting isn't happening yet.
> Whether a person is poor or not makes no difference to that point.

It absolutely does, though. A poor person can't get a crack team of lawyers to defend them, they get an overworked public lawyer that doesn't have the time to make a decent defense, so it's very risky for that person to go to trial, even if they're completely innocent.

For an entity like Goldman it's the other way around, you only settle if you know you're guilty beyond reasonable doubt, because you can otherwise afford great, dedicated lawyers working full time for years on your case.

No, this doesn't mean that you're automatically guilty if you're wealthy and settle, but the two situations are far _far_ from being equivalent.
See Akamai’s Q1 2017 numbers, where the US breaks into the top 10 for average connection speeds: https://www.fastmetrics.com/internet-connection-speed-by-cou....

The whole report is here: https://www.akamai.com/fr/fr/multimedia/documents/state-of-t.... Other interesting statistics: 48% of American connections are above 15 mbps; in Germany its 33%. Maryland, which has almost exactly the same population density as Germany, is at 60%.
It eats up foreign military budgets.
Completely agree. Rebase is practically only safe on single developer feature branches which haven't been merged or completely isolated repos that produces patches only. Keeping track of all requirements in the former is hard, especially if the dev doesn't know git pitfalls. No one should default to rebase in a day to day workflow, but it is quite common.
My experience in Japan was that the service quality was even better than in America, and if I left a tip they assumed I did not know how to do arithmetic or that I forgot my change. Culture is probably the more important factor in the quality of service, not the ability of customers to leave or refuse a tip.
Hmm. Reads a lot like the video series on "The History of Paper Money by Extra Credits": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nZkP2b-4vo
Isn't MTA semi-private???
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You are mixing concepts. GDP measures all of the value created. Profit measures value captured by the banks above their costs.

If banks operate on a 10% gross profit margin, that profit number means banks are consuming 1%/10%=10% of the world GDP. If true, that would be an enormous cost, and I can easily see the opportunity for optimization that cryptocurrency advocates talk about.
Java today is used heavily in the enterprise, which thrives on utilizing marginal talent. Java didn’t look that way in the 90s, and anyways, I bet you’d see drastically different kinds of code comparing enterprise and Android.
I was working in a place that used to be a food store. Talked to the former owner, they had a big problem with all the freezers turning off during the nights and when they came to work all food was unfrozen and had to be thrown away. Turns out the timer to the sign outside was connected wrong and also turned off the freezers in the night. I do understand them, the electricity wiring in that building was not fun to work with... The place had been several different stores, all adding to the cables and connections over the years.
How often does one get "firm evidence" about how future human affairs unfold?
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> Ecommerce, Facebook, webmail, all that stuff would be fine without Javascript...

But something as simple as voting on reddit would be tedious.
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I don't even know how to turn off JS on mobile (but I use Disconnect as a systemwide adblocker so it's usually not a problem).
Probably because Russia outbid them.
What goes up must come down. What goes up fast and hard usually falls faster and harder. Market 101.
> Isn't that the job of a receptionist?

Not typically, though a receptionist in a place without a doorman or might do some or all of them.
> If bitcoin price crashes, how does it imply exchanges will become compromised???

The same way every market before central counterparties (CCPs) failed: exchange participants default and leave the exchange holding the bag [1]. If an exchange permits shorting, then it permits margin accounts. When prices drop, margin borrowers have a habit of defaulting.

This is in addition to the risk of lightly-regulated exchanges having fewer Bitcoins than they claim to have [2][3].

> Counterparty risk also exists for established exchanges

It's better managed. Goldman Sachs requires 100% margin on its Bitcoin trades [4]. This is only the first layer of protection. If you bust on a CME trade, your broker makes up the difference; if they bust, other CME members make up the difference; et cetera [5]. Central counterparties were created to solve this problem.

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/econresdata/feds/2016/files/2...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-05/mystery-s...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/11/gox-bitco...

[4] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-14/goldman-s...

[5] https://www.cmegroup.com/education/files/balancing-ccp-and-m...
You didn't read the article but people had to read your comment. I'm not sure why people do this, isn't Reddit available for that?

I don't see why Bloomberg journalists (or the corporation responsible for selling terminals, software, datafeeds and such) would care one way or another about the rise. Or drop.
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That's actually a rather good comparison. Both have learning cliffs of doom[1]but once you've spent a few months with them they're arguably more powerful than the other options. They're usually fast to use but very hard to learn. I wouldn't say either one is easy though.

[1] https://dementiagaming.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/learning_...
Yep, this is a good explanation of how it's done, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergence_trade
Seems to be broken. Keeps spinning.
I'm particularly excited about the advance of the Container Storage Interface (CSI).

Having developed two custom docker volume plugins I wonder whether Docker is going to adopt it for its cluster offering (swarm mode) or leave it aside as it did with CNI (real question). Anybody knows about it?
From Heathrow the options are

Heathrow Express
- Heathrow Connect
- Bus to Hayes+Harlington then train
- Picadilly line
- Coach
- Uber
- Taxi

Only one of those options is for mugs, and it's not the Heathrow Express.

However from Glasgow you can also fly to Gatwick, or City if you want to avoid thiefrow.

However comparing the cost of a non-flexible ticket from Glasgow to London with a flexible train ticket is ingenuous at best.
You are correct, this seems like a defect that should be addressed.
21 trillions, or about 3 times the value of all gold mined in the world.
Even without nuclear weapons, I'm pretty sure that the US has no stomach for a toe-to-toe all-out conventional war with China. We're not willing to accept the casualties just to "keep China in check".
Oops, you can disable it the same way you do on desktop on both Chrome and Firefox.
Yeah - exactly.
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No way Americans pay more in taxes than most of Europe. That's absolutely not true. If you want to compare to third world countries, I suggest you try and live there before telling us how great it is.

You also have to consider that the US develops most novel drugs and therapies, by a wide margin. Are you taking and Chinese or Russian or African drugs? Neither do I.
Is there any reason to think it's not a choice at some level? I doubt it's a conscious choice, and almost certainly guided by environment and habituation, but I also suspect it's malleable to at least some extent.

I'd also say that what you describe is just a more extreme version of how the world currently is - people with more popular personalities _tend_ to get further.
This has already happened in reality with ETH on GDAX:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2017/06/22/eth...
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