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It's not about ads making you want stuff, it's about ads setting a frame of reference for your kids. For example, ad for Barbie would may teach kids that looking beautiful is very important. Or ads for bazooka may teach that having and operating guns is fun. Or that simply collecting something is cool. It is not a secret how Disney has ruined lives of countless little girls by continually brainwashing them about being princess whose sole purpose is to look good and attract a prince. They have had massive contribution in turning off little girls from pursuing intellectual endeavors. Ads are teaching your kids what should be desirable and what is good for them.
That's Don't Blink.
Wrong issue. The issue here is the validity of the WMDs. There would be no war debate is that lie was exposed for what it was (i.e., a lie).
The parent comment says nothing about the validity of "it being a currency"..this is an argument the child brings up just to Bitcoin hate. And it's a 'beat the drum' comment, same as the "it's like tulips/.com" that the parent is tired of hearing.

And, it's not the point of every cryptocoin to be a currency, whatever may be your definition of a currency.

This forum is so dumb now.
Tubi TV takes the opposite direction, free subscription + ads. Which model do you think most people will prefer?
I think it's fine to have an occasional binge of any kind. So you once every couple weeks spend a day or two just sitting intensley focussed on something. What matters is your habits for most of the time, not literally all of it (in other words as long as ~80%+ of your days you do take regular breaks it's fine).
Thank you Scott for the pointer - here I thought I knew them all. This clearly belongs in the above list.

I'm particularly interested in the 3 GB RAM but the description is ambiguous, still I'll check it out.
How could you possibly sue someone for double spending on a blockchain? I don't get it, isn't the point of this blockchain stuff to be the wild west? What is the grounds for a lawsuit? Why would a 51% attack be illegal? "Code is law", right?
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Okay so here i am, jumping on the "look at me, no tv in more than five years!" train.

I don't even own a tv. When i visit my parents and watch tv, quite frankly, it's 95% trash + 5% stuff i have already seen on the Internet (but badly translated in my native language).
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True. But those who didn't believe were marginalized as unpatriotic.
I suspect it’s like almost everything else in this world-in moderation, it’s fine.
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Anyone concerned about Amazon being both the watcher and the watchee? Isn't this a conflict of interest?
History is full of people fighting for freedom for their own when they are suppressed. But then they go suppressing others.
Say that I am building an app that leads to real world interaction, potentially with strangers. Clearly a real name policy is not a good way to make these interactions safer, but what would be a proper alternative? A reputation system? Any existing apps that do a good job with this?

Right now I’ve just surfaced links to user’s social profiles so that other users can verify if this is someone they may be able to trust
*didn't

It is time to give up on Windows Phone.
There's one reason above all that I find this article incredibly chilling: It was published November 26, 2014. Prior to the 2016 election.

"Last week, The Awl's John Herrman noted that growth as he raised an important consideration for Facebook advertisers: the growth of sites creating specifically political content, putting more emphasis on virality than accuracy. It's worth quoting at length.

In the context of a customized feed, where each story is algorithmically selected based on the likelihood that you will engage with it, content-marketed identity media speaks louder and more clearly than content-marketed journalism, which is handicapped by everything that ostensibly makes it journalistic—tone, notions of fairness, purported allegiance to facts and context over conclusions. These posts are not so much stories as sets of political premises stripped of context and asserted via Facebook share—they scan like analysis but contain only conclusions; after the headline, they never argue, only reveal.

Most of what is shared is messy and outside of the control of publishers, both media and advertisers. In Herrman's words, "The thing that grabs your attention and holds it the longest, that is most likely to be shared again, is the thing that wins the next slot in the endless algorithmic draw." Facebook is a particularly polarized place, meaning that political stories often bounce around quickly -- good and bad, true and false -- and less scrupulous publishers (both media and advertisers) can tap into that."
Yes. I don't believe 12% of relationships involve domestic violence either.
There are subtitles for that. When I watch movies from countries that speak languages I can`t understand I always watch undubbed with subtitles. Would you listen to dubbed favorite band or great vocals like Adele? I hope not.
Of course, nobody gives positive feedback on this. But hearing and experiencing are different things.
That’s an extremely simplistic way of seeing it though. The Rohingya were simple people, mostly poor, and lived in Myanmar for generations; religion would be a code of life for them, not a political tool. It’s likely the opposite for the monks and their followers though; Buddhism is about peace, fundamentally and (in nearly all cases) in practice.

My patience with Aung San Suu Kyi has run out completely. Too little said, too little done, too late for anything else.
The idea does indeed come from the 80's, but things didn't evolve past them. The architecture of our current OSes was settled at the 60's and early 70's, and we never moved from it.

It is not clear why such things were never adopted. There were many licensing problems on the way, and a Microsoft monopoly pushing things into even older architectures than the competition. There were also failed modern projects, but there is little evidence to decide if it is a hard problem, greed people forced everybody into a worse path, or if it is something people do not want.
He worded it harshly, but it's the horrid acting.

I always thought if the producers didn't snag a young Penny, there would be no show today. She carried that show for years. And yes--I just liked looking at her, in the beginning.

The actor who plays Sheldon might be the luckiest actor ever. (I like the guy, but just a awful actor. I don't think it's just the role either.)

And Leonard. I don't get it, because he was so good on that show with Barr?

I think it's the writing, and overhanded directors?

Never figured out why it's so popular in the USA. I understand it being popular overseas. They watch it with a different standard than we do. I don't think they can spot the intricacies of bad acting? Then again, most of you probally love the show?

To be fair, the actors that got better with time:

Penny was always a solid actor.

The other blond got better.

The actress who played Blossom got better.

The engineer got better. The guy who went to space.
How many people got threatened to be fired for this article?
Woah, I've never heard the story told like that. Could you link me to an article or something? If true that's pretty depressing, I've seen a lot of kids randomly blessed by corporate PR teams that want to look like they're supporting education but I thought at least that story was true. (It's not hard to make a clock and electronics in public places have caused a silly bomb scare before...)
Actually I am betting against bitcoin as I only hold alts, and I only hold small amounts of POW coins because I believe the concept is not sustainable and the fixed block solve time brings certain kinds of scalability issues.

I like the look of Universa currently to try and address a lot of the POW issues and also the hard fork and Kitties type problems from full decentralisation.
I'd love to!

https://acceptbitcoin.cash

All within a couple months. And this isn't even including all the merchants to come when bitpays adds support in 2 months. It will be more than bitcoin once that happens.
That's a non answer.
I'm pretty sure Bitcoin Cash is about ASICBOOST miners retaining their advantage - and nothing else.
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Why would he lose it?
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Fastmail is great for this, in my opinion. I vastly prefer every single aspect of the experience. The web mail client alone is worth the switch away from Gmail, IMHO.
Yes our financial system isn't based on speculation. Good one
Does whitewall tires mean something other than those tires which have white side-walls such as seen on classic cars?
So you support the genocide of the Rohingya people?
When the BTC-BCH split happend I didn't really understand what everybody was talking about transaction fees. So after BTC continued to rise the past months and we have transaction fees >20$ I understand what was discussed earlier this year.

I just wonder why the core devs were against increasing the blocksize. Yes, it would not have been a solution for the next 20 years, but at least it would have left the fees at a place where BTC was still suitable for the everyday use until other solutions could be established.
It looks as though they edited the blogpost and FAQ after the initial backlash.

There are people saying they saw the difference and screenshots of the initial website and app notifications clearly saying "real name" and "first name": https://imgur.com/aOIKjKR https://imgur.com/r/OkCupid/LaYdmba

It's a bad look.
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"isn't the point of this blockchain stuff to be the wild west?"

Not necessarily. Even in an "Code is law" society, there could be some code/law specifically addressing 51% double spending attacks.
It also fails to account for the possibility that Bitcoin Cash becomes more valuable, and then Bitcoin is the "vulnerable" chain.

It also doesn't mention the name of the author, and the HN user who posted this was created two hours ago.

HNers should understand there is a huge political divide in the Bitcoin community right now on this very subject. Anonymous write-ups of known attack vectors framed as genuine warnings are nothing more than unsubstantiated fear, uncertainty, and doubt.
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> And eventually when the attack dies down you'll get your wealth back.

Here's the attack the author is describing:

block 42: exchange sends 1 BCH to foo

block 42: in secret, BTC meanies solve a different block 42

block 62: foo is comfortable believing the transaction is confirmed, so is the exchange

block 62: in secret, BTC meanies are now solving secret branch block 63, or possibly secret branch block 64/65/etc. depending on how much hashing power they have

block 123: foo and many others have made transactions, exchange has made many other transactions. Maybe some users transfered out dollars during this time.

block 123: BTC meanies reveal their branch, which is at block 130 or whatever, propagate it, and all the BCH nodes accept it as having the greatest total difficulty because that is the rule for how the protocol works

block 150: the once secret branch now has twenty confirmations, some of those blocks holding transactions from bona fide BCH users. Maybe the exchange halted trading at block 124 because something looked screwy. Maybe the exchange eats the cost of sending more BCH to the users whose coins "disappeared."

Or perhaps the BTC meanies keep their branch secret for several days.

The point is the appearance of the secret branch undermines faith that 20 confirmations is enough to confirm a transaction, and the users don't know how to judge what constitutes the canonical state of the blockchain.

Avoiding that kind of confusion was a stated goal of the Bitcoin whitepaper.

Hm... it occurs to me that such an attack could be even more insidious. I'll call it the "Robinhood Attack." The BTC meanies could begin hashing their secret branch and include all the transactions they see happening on the main chain. Then for each new secret block, they could send the block reward to a random recipient chosen from the transactions on the previous block.

When the BTC meanies finally reveal their alternate chain, it gets picked up and includes all the transactions, except the block rewards have now been moved from the miners to the speculators. :)

Edit: typo
Increasing the blocksize increases centralization at a time where miners have unprecedented power.
> We can see individual atoms now, so there's not much further to go when it comes to the question of what things are made of.

That may be true but also seems like a strong assumption and doesn't fit with our current trajectory of understanding. A paradigm shift in physics which replaces fundamental notions, such as the nature of fields, could make the current understanding become seem a rough approximation just like relativity did to Newtonian mechanics.
That's only one case. There are more allegations.
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Well, fire is considered harmful.
As a former scientist well practiced in x-ray diffraction it has been really fun watching these blatant flasehoods spread. We have mastered identifying the atomic structure of materials.

Sadly spreading these claims is how these programs self propegate. Luckily they don't do much real damage other than misleading the public and wasting government funding.
FWIW, I applied for a $50k/day limit on GDax recently, and it took effect within a couple days.
Fair call, seems he just was a bit abridged in his simplification.
Ermm, what??
Considering billionaires who pay such money just for a year's worth of transportation or a single party or wedding reception, you'd be surprised...

Or you're probably thinking of Scrooge McDuck
Building a new programming language, Jaspr: https://github.com/ar-nelson/jaspr

It's not nearly done enough for its own HN post yet, but it's coming together slowly. Still working on the standard library and documentation.
At this point 5-10% of hash rate is a huge cost in mining hardware (maybe hundreds of millions). Also the hardware improvements already slowed down a lot. Antminer S9 is more than a year old. I wouldn't risk decreasing the BTC price by attacking BCH.
Great question! There was a fairly even distribution of slow-performing requests across the many user-agent strings coming from the Facebook ASN.

My hunch is that the Facebook crawlers send user-agent strings that Facebook has seen in requests to their own services. This allows them to crawl content in linked posts masquerading as a device that their users would actually use.
Anytime I notice an overtly blatant product placement (e.g. 3 second shot of a logo), I feel like I discovered a mole (as in double agent).

There's a certain feeling of "Gotcha! I still got it. Can't full me, Diet Coke".

Also good shows and movies do not do this. Never once noticed product placement in The Wire or Breaking Bad, Pontiac Aztec notwithstanding.
Where'd you get the SEM from?
Your observations are more due to how humans adopt new technology (speculation, early adoption, etc.) than because of similarities between Second Life and blockchain technology. Second Life has very limited utility; it's a video game. Blockchains are the result of protocols that could be used to do work.
Tech companies get busted for sending golden hardware samples to review sites, the truth eventually comes out.

Although no one dies if their video card is slower than advertised.
>What an absurd argument that a guy worth $200MM would not spend his time and money on a $22MM deal.

The argument is that a 200MM+ guy wouldn't spend his time on such an elaborate and risky 22M deal that's sure to get a lot of attention even if it was fully legit.

Your straw-man version is indeed absurd, though, I'll give you that.
It almost feels like buying a roller coaster ticket.
I used Thunderbird before I switched to Gmail, and for several years after I kept it running on my Gmail account without ever opening the window, just so I'd have a local backup of all my mail.

I should maybe start doing that again.
It's an ethnic conflict. In conservative societies, there is little difference between religion and ethnicity.
Memory is pretty complicated, to the point where recalling memories makes them labile, destroying connections is as important as making connections, there are different processes underlying different types of memory, etc. So it's possible all of these results are replicable in various contexts.

One thing that helps with biology papers is mentally substituting "performance in our mouse model of memory" for memory, they are using some very specific metric for memory in aged mice. It may be that this result doesn't hold true for a different memory metric, in different animals etc.

Also, without reading the full paper it's unclear whether THC harms this type of memory task memory in young mice, which could totally be true.
I have nothing constructive to add. But I really loved this comment. Thanks for making me laugh.
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There is upfront work (first you need some bitcoin, then you need to make an on-chain transaction to open a payment channel) but after that, lightning payments are trustless, instant, and with small fees (it's designed to support micro-payments).

But right now this is still VERY early in development.
It's after effect which is documented by here.

It is terrible but unfortunately shows only one side.

The pre-story of why Myanmar had to take so hard step for rohigyan. What led both the part in this situation and why no country is willing to risk taking them is completely missing.
Why have HN stories on Bitcoin become so noisy in the comments? It's almost as bad as Soylent stories.
We are racing towards a society where the poor cater to the rich.

Amazon has got to know their workers aren't that happy, and they need to be monitored.

Amazon, and the rest, figured out how to eliminate the the drudgery, and angst, of having to get things yourself.

Now--they need to keep an eye on the help.

The buy makes sense.
How does it increase centralization and why have miners more power than 5 years ago? (Just because the value increased? Do they have more influence to the community?)

Could you pleace elaborate on that?
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I got tired of building side projects that never get used by anyone, so I'm taking a market first approach.

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Different "pain medicines" do different things. NSAIDs like ibu are literally only effective for for fever/inflammation. Always check what a pain med does before trying to take it without doctor's advice.
She won the Prize in 1991.
Try not to laugh till the end !
Transformers, G.I. Joe, Strawberry Shortcake, He-Man, My Little Pony... all either toys first or simultaneously created as toys. Usuaslly a good giveaway is when Hasbro or Mattel is mysteriously the creator of the show.

Of course this isn't just a Western phenomenon, the video game/anime/movie/card game/merchandise extravaganza that is and always was Pokemon being probably the best single example.
Bitcoin is the most popular with the most resources behind it, so it makes sense to leverage off it. There's nothing stopping similar networks occurring on other coins.
Sure, but that is still a costly one-time attack. It only affects those who transfer coins, not those who hold them. So if you're holding wealth, it will be safe.

It will certainly tank te price for a little bit, but the market will readjust based on the probability that it will happen again.

And the theory is that miners would need to choose between spending $180k to execute this attack for a couple hours, causing relatively little damage, or just mining BCH faster than anyone else, which would increase their real-world bottom line.

The only one to do this consistently would be a government, probably. It's hard to imagine someone willingly burning $200k mostly for lulz. But I suppose BTC millionaires have more than enough, if they wanted to.

Also, why was this article flagged? That's frustrating. It was technical and informative. I don't see a vouch button either.
I always thought the Feynman method was "Write down the problem. Think very hard. Write down the solution."
I think they have valid arguments for keeping smaller blocks, but this FUD is getting ridiculous.

This very post has no new ideas, has no listed author, and is posted by a two hour old user account. It's not even about discussing what's best for Bitcoin any more.
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>I don't get it, isn't the point of this blockchain stuff to be the wild west?

I guarantee you no judge in the world is going to accept that interpretation.

>"Code is law", right?

From a legal perspective, obviously not, and given how well accepted the etherium hard fork was in the wake of the DOA smart contract being exploited, you can be pretty sure that a large percentage of the crypto-user population doesn't think so either.
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I find this sentiment interesting. I find BBT hilarious and identify with the characters. I often drag my wife to watch a specific BBT episode to get her to understand the way I think or understand the way I was in the past before I met her. I don't find it demeaning at all. I often find it hilarious and say, "yeah, that's me right there!" I see myself in Sheldon, Leonard, and Howard all of them. Raj, not so much. I haven't watched enough of The IT Crowd that people here on HN cite as being a better show to know what I think of it. The few clips I've seen on YouTube, I've only seen the IT Crowd characters being bullied more than I ever saw BBT characters get bullied. It's probably a biased sample, maybe those clips are at the top of the list because people like to watch nerds get bullied? I don't know. All I know is that I don't get all the hate towards BBT.
Huh? She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990, over 20 years before the Rohynga crisis, while she was still the recipient of assassination attempts for resisting the military dictatorship.