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A solidity developer I spoke to a couple of times told me much the same as this article. He believed in the blockchain as a concept; but its current overall benefit to human society is meagre (and some might argue destructive). This represents a first awkward phase for everyone.

We'll definitely see blockchain become dominant in a some or multiple fields of business. When? Perhaps not for 20 years. Internet as we know it took decades for it to fully develop and take off. We could get a crash before this succes happens, the word "blockchain" and "cryptocurrency" might become toxic for a while. Thinking of the 2000 IT bubble, so much money poured into any crazy business proposal with "web" in it; and suddenly the music stopped. Billions evaporated.

All the while I'll just be grabbing popcorn and hoping to sell my coins on time ;-)
Because the existing recipes are one-size-fits-all. If you need an sort of customization, you end up rolling your own anyway. Many of us started coding for that kind.of reason to begin with.
I hit a ceiling working remotely at a previous company. They flat out said they wouldn't advance me any further as the sole remote employee. I had 5 managers in 3 years in that same company—I think eventually everyone who knew my track record left the company, so there was no one in the office to vouch for me.
Easily replaceable. Like it was before smartphones. Your device has either a shit design or or are deliberately trying to rip people off if you need to go to a specialist to replace a damn battery.

Also my laptop from 6 years ago can show the battery health in percent, such technology is not magic.
Since I'm a '92 edition, I grew up with Cartoon Networks. Back in the days of Ed, Edd and Eddy, Courage The Cowardly Dog, Scooby Doo, Road Runner and so on and I don't remember it having even half as much advertising as they do now. I wonder what changed.
This reminds me of the naysayers from the early internet, and I think we can look at each stage of the internet's growth with these same glasses.

1) email: it will never replace the post-office. You can only send text. Oh, ok, they've added images now, well, its' too slow for most people to download them, and now I've got all this spam. We use it in our company, but it isn't really for consumers. Oh, then hotmail...

2) You're not going to buy things online. The shipping costs will be too high. The logistics are all wrong. Will you trust an online shop with your credit card?? No way! This e-commerce thing is dead in the water. Sure, you point to the 'growth', but it's equal to "the proportion of US GDP comprised by toothpick sales"

3) Blogs?? Seriously. We're a news agency. We pay professional journalists to research and write compelling stories. Can you trust some random person in their basement writing a blog? Sorry, no contest. Blogs can't compete with major media companies.

4) Music downloads? Why would you spend 20 minutes downloading a song ILLEGALLY?? Where are you going to get it from. We'll stop all of this. CDs are the way forward. Oh, this internet thing has just destroyed our business model, iTunes to the rescue. But now people want to stream music. No they don't internet speed isn't fast enough to stream, and people want to own music, this music streaming thing isn't going anywhere!

5) Video? You've got to be kidding. Oh, that youtube thing is fine for weirdo's who want to make video's for their friends, but people will keep going to movies and paying for cable. The quality isn't good enough, and they don't have the great content. This internet thing isn't going anyway.

6) Rent someone's apartment online? Are you nuts! I'm not going to let some crazy person stay in my place, and I'm not going to stay in somebody else's. These internet people are crazy. Our hotel business is just fine. In fact, I think we should increase prices and start charging people hidden fees like "resort charges"...

7) Get in a stranger's car? A stranger that I found online!!??? Look, when I was a kid, my parents had two rules. Don't talk to strangers, and never get in a strangers car. Now you're telling me to go online, find a stranger and get in their car! This is madness. Just get in a cab! They'll take you where you want to go and you can trust them!

Please add your own "this is going nowhere" stories, I'm keen to see what else is out there, there are TONS.

The blockchain may use the internet as an underlying protocol, but it is as disruptive to the finance industry as Napster was to music, AirBnB to hotels, Uber/Lyft (please come to Australia Lyft) was to cabs, Amazon to retail, etc. etc.

The difference being, that blockchain is an open technology that is enabling this disruption, rather than a single company.
As much as everyone hates ICO's. They make equity funding rediculously easy.
> For one, when there is no space left for wals, your instance juste crashes. In sybase/mssql your processes would just be suspended untill you add some disk space.

Are these not equivalent from the point of view of external clients?
well, this went over much better on reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/7lbpo9/i_got_fed_...
Interesting argument. Isn't the product being "flipped" the loans, and not the autos themselves?
I think, in general, that it is totally fine to have company outings, but propositions of any sort should be avoided. You're certainly asking each individual to have self discipline, but in my mind this is a very reasonable expectation.

As a rule, everyone should probably avoid relationships at work. If you do decide to have a relationship, do it right and start extremely slowly (i.e. coffee shop date, etc). Feel things out, not up :) and make sure that both people have the same ideas before moving to the next level. Relationships between superiors and subordinates should generally be forbidden.
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Murs was a key figure in the article - his vulgar proposition was the inciting event.
It's a tradeoff. Building a chip with more margin costs perf and/or power too. So it's a game you can't win.
The three comments here show why behavior like Murs goes not only unaddressed, but unpunished. Rap culture shouldn't be off limits to criticism because of race.
To be honest, I'm starting to think that Apple is doing this on purpose to earn more money.

They are forcing many developers to create native apps instead by locking down iOS and not allowing any decent web engines. Why? Then all payments would have to go through Apple so they can take a cut. Developers must also purchase hardware from Apple to create and test it.

Apple is a real asshole! "We have users, and if you want to make an app for our users then you have to purchase a MacBook, an iPhone, license to publish and allow us to take x% of all income."

And those who does this helps apple sell more hardware and make the problem bigger.

Sure, this might not be the reason even though it adds a lot of income to Apple.

The only other possible reason is that the people working on the web engine for iOS are useless people compared to all other teams working on browsers.

Long ago we had messages to those who used IE6. What we need now are messages that tell people to throw their iPhone in the thrash, cause it's not like they can use a proper browser...
Does the average American eat 7,000 animals during their lives?
jewelry is a good option, as long as you can tell real jewelry from fake: valuable, somewhat liquid, holds value reasonably well, easy to hide, portable
Or, you tell contractors what to do, but consultants tell you what to do.
Yes. It’s also hard not to, given the revolving door and the incestous nature of the industry.
It's been a while, but https://youtu.be/WnEYakUxsHU
has some interesting thoughts on it. Essentially trust based companies are the logical product of blockchain, but they will require an essential shift in how we approach business.
You're completely missing the point. Being an asshole is a choice. My point is that anyone can be a consultant that puts their all into it. Being an asshole isn't in your DNA.

A Drill Instructor being a dickhead is also a choice. It doesn't make him any less able to be a leader. My point was, joining the Marine Corps turns weak individuals into respectable men that can command dignity and respect into people. What they choose to do with that transformation is up to them.
> nice people

depends on what time period you lived there, and what ethnicity/religion you belong to.

The multiple racially motivated riots around the turn of century are still fresh in many people's memory.
Not at all. Having remote work experience has helped immensely with finding new and better companies specifically looking for remote workers.

Even if it had, I'd still take this extra time with my young kids over a raise. Every. Single. Time.
Right now I'm in that limbo zone between coder who manages and manager who codes
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This is exactly what happened in Zimbabwe.
This guy's greatest achievement is Bingo Card Creator... huh?
It's a bit more than that. Django has a lot workarounds[1] for Oracle and it's strange ways.

1. https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/db/backe...
Thanks, Haruki Murakami.
There are very few projects spanning 5 years or even close to that. Even if you want to stay in a company, you might not have the option.
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It also used to be quite a bit faster 20 odd years ago.
Some big banks are gearing up to use a blockchain to track interbank settlements.[1] But this isn't a coin, nor is there mining. It's simply a shared ledger that can't be altered without cooperation between a majority of the parties. All alterations are clearly visible to all parties, which is good for auditing. Only big banks who have signed up for this have active nodes, and they are not anonymous.

This is an alternative to setting up a neutral party for the purpose, such as the Bank for International Settlements or Depository Trust Corporation. Those organizations are expensive to run. It's a real shared ledger, but it's no more than that.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-blockchain-banks/six-big-...
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It's hard to find good dairy products in a country whose population mostly can't tolerate lactose? Who would have guessed that.
That's interesting I have a lot of experience sorting out large scale web businesses screw-ups maybe I have been approaching marketing myself wrong as a technical expert rather than a consultant - time to by some hugo boss suits and up my day rate to £1200.

I wont mention the UK jobsites name but I found a bug (a trivial cockup with canonical tags) that had cost them > £500,000 is lost traffic and that was in less than a week.

BTW I am looking so if anyones interested hit me up
I'm really into partial application when you wish to mock some data for testing, and the caller chain of that test is shallow. That is:

* function under test takes in a data as its last parameter

* partially applied version of this function is used in a test

* testing function constructs fake data

* testing function calls the partially applied version

It's also nice for code reuse in libraries, but I'm generally less inclined to use it unless I know that the thing I'm working on has dead-simple requirements and won't change much.
And therein lies the problem. The entire premise is based on a politicized stereotype that has been forced down the public's throats specifically because it's emotionally resonant regardless of accuracy. It's literally just a list of "things I use to differentiate myself from another group of people that makes me feel insecure".
You don't have to remove the buggy web engine. The problem is that Apple doesn't allow anyone to create another web engine for iOS. Apple locks users to a really bad browser with no possibility for users to change it.
Yeah, doesn't mean they're correct in taking that position.

I hear a lot of people talking in raw dollars about what they make, or what someone else makes, or what differences are in what people make etc. and the arguments miss a lot of important context and the important motivators.

Most important is not what you make, but are you producing enough to be happy? And more important to that question is what purchasing power do you have on any given salary/location. If you make 6 figures, which I'm pretty sure still today is, on a U.S. national level, still making decent money... but can't afford even to rent your own apartment... then so what? If your low six figure income gives you a lesser standard of living in a #1 city than a mediocre five figure income in a lower tier city... to me the lower income city is more appealing.

What a #1 city can do for you is give you a much higher chance of a very, very good income: those #1 cities are where the movers and shakers and related money are.... but the number of people that will ultimately reap those benefits are small and the competition is very stiff because of the point you've made. I'd also wager that if you aren't already very clearly/obviously on the path to a mover and shaker role by the time you're getting out of college (because of who is in your sphere of solid relationships or what you've already accomplished, or both) you're very unlikely to ever get there even if you go to a #1 city. Or as they taught me in music school... if you ain't made it by thirty, you ain't gonna.

Me, I'd take the lesser city and work towards being the big fish in a little pond. I've done this with choice of companies to work for over my career and probably have done well because of it; more varied and interesting work for me individually, as well as more influence over what actually gets done... and not bad pay by any means. Just not prestigious. You still have to have something to offer even then, though, but the competition is much less stiff and so the odds for achieving happiness, the real goal vs. money, can be much better.
Exactly.

The other piece I've seen is being able to handle "I want Foo by X". It's easy to take on the engineer mindset and say "Sorry, that's not possible. The whizbangs alone would take more than that time!", but what do you do when they simply repeat "I want Foo by X"?. Picture the various Star Trek series where the engineer would say it'd take 5 hours to fix something and the captain retorts "you have 2". It's real.

The skill which really makes me jealous are the folks who are able to read between the lines and get at why they want Foo and why they need it by X. Instead of saying "Sorry, no can do!" they're able to offer Bar instead, and because they understand the deeper motivations of why Foo is being requested they understand why the manager is likely to accept Bar instead of Baz.

This is pretty similar to your C-suite descriptions, now that I reread it. But it's a different spin on it.
I've worked as a software engineering consultant. Sometimes I would do engagements that were just analysis and advice, but for most of them I would actually design or develop some software.
You used a lot of words to hide the lack of any support for your argument.
Belarus is may be dictatorship, but it's for sure not totalitarian. And if you think that nacist Latvia is open liberal democracy you bought into propaganda.
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This whole crypto thing is a bubble. You will see it fall and never recover. No, not like the other 7000 times it crashed by more than 40%, no this time it will be impossible to recover, because people can't inherently value something that doesn't exist. Here use this paper I got from a place I pay to keep my money for me instead.
I think something that is impure when it needs to be is easier for me to maintain than something that really goes out of its way to be pure. Especially when the set of cases something should handle is large.

On the other hand, I think that immutable data is rarely difficult to deal with, and saves my stupid self from all kinds of bugs that I'd probably write.
So Google ads are now HN material?

This is literally just Google putting out a press release touting one of their products. It isn't unbiased or doesn't attempt to be complete, but people here seem to think Google's opinion on their own technology is beyond reproach.

Think of something like this being on Microsoft or Oracle website. No way it would be voted up.
Oh man, Chuck was awesome! I'm adding it to the list of shows to re-watch.
These are Okie Dokie moments. If they can be appreciated in other ways, focus on that.

If not, move on.

Assuming there is a real basis for ongoing conversation, try hard to understand why they deny.

The why is the key to progress.

One example is oil. People cannot internalize the idea of our world being finite. We just won't run out of oil. Technically, that is true, but the cost of extracting it will soon exceed it's value to us.

Many will get that, and then say, "yeah, but not my problem, I am here now, and... [value statement]." Or, "something will be done." (Yes, other energy!)

Samples may include:

I need there to be oil, because...
Other energy sucks...
I can't be bothered...
Cost too much to change...

Often, this stuff is linked to ideology too. The idea of resources always being found, for example. Their politics may rest upon something like that, and if they have defined themselves in terms of those politics, science is a direct, personal threat. Literally, "who am I, and why do I bother, if that is true?"

It's hard for some people to visualize the end state after change. They may have fragmented their thoughts too. Likely have.

Those fragments, created by just accepting givens without self consistency, inclusivity, mean they can't really think outside their frames. They have no tools.

Your solutions may include:

Showing them success. Human stories they can relate to. Light on science, heavy on human existence and survival.

Emotional appeals. I'll hear you, if you will hear me. We are in this together.

Do they have icons, role models? Examples of those people coming to Jesus on something can be very powerful. A lot of social issue progress happened this way.
Besides, just rejecting all of their advice makes you as easy to manipulate as following all of their advice.
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Given enough time and training, anyone who puts their all into learning it, is capable of understanding that.

It may take them 20 years to learn math from the ground up, but they can do it. Saying someone can't do something is bullshit. That's sheep mentality.
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This is the sort of naivety that Robert Tressell exposed in The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists. You need to be a bit more woke mate
Not to mention rivers and seas have moved throughout the centuries. Ur use to be on the ocean; now it's several km inland. Red Fort was right up against the Ganges. It receded long before this century.

Cities have to adapt to changing sea/river locations. They have throughout history. The only reason New Orleans is still a river port city is because the Army Corps of Engineers has kept the river from naturally diverting to another channel.
If they sold a version that had replacable battery and the current one I'm not even sure I'd get the replacable one if it was worse sealed. I replace for $39 after warranty is expired which is pretty much nothing.
I like to mention how the NSA is funded by government debt in the current debt-based economy. Which basically means that the more it spends, the more dollars gets printed.
>I think the non-tech skills are like that in some measure as well.

The difference is that to do very well in tech/programming, you have to be well above the average.

For a lot of non-tech skills, merely being a bit above the average will get you far. In the context of this discussion, the primary skill the consultant has is still his technical skills. He merely upped his non-tech skills enough to prevent it from being a barrier.
Eat it out of the package that the stuff came in instead if cleaning is an issue

Poor student tricks work past being a student.
But who built the $80 million home? Such spending, as extravagant and wasteful as it may seem, is an exchange of capital for a product and creates jobs. Foreign investment is good for recipients of such investment, by spurring demand.
The problem is that you're still thinking about this in terms of "kids". I wouldn't have been able to get any of my two past jobs without the networking I've done through social media. Not to mention the fact that I've strongly relied on social media for the promotion of products, etc.
It's entirely the NIMBYism because without that the supposed foreign real estate speculation would be almost completely pointless.

It is xenophobia and that's bad because it trains the reflex to waste time on stupid, lazy, self-satisfying thought blaming greedy, scheming outsiders instead of trying to think of any sane practicable solution.
There is no controversy. stfu and relax.
New Zealand also gave out passports for people who "invested" in the country. California does something alike, giving US citizenship to anyone born in the country.
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> This article reminds me of Clifford Stolls 1995 article

You should remember this then, from 1994:

"It's not only going to revolutionize the Net, it will change the global economy."

https://www.wired.com/1994/12/emoney/

And this, from 1999:

"The next internet revolution will put central bankers out of business."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/1999/nov/04/onlinesup...
Just try to get your money out of crypto!
You will see, one day one of the big guys is going to sell all his coins and cause a market crash from which it won't recover. Then you are going to be glad to have this gold-backed paper (Oh wait, don't try and test that last part).
People always overestimate the short term and underestimate the long term.

Go to any country perhaps with the exception of Estonia and you will see that digitalization was supposed to change governments for the better. Instead they mostly have created very sporadic successes but a lot of failed implementation sometimes even making it worse. Yet there is no doubt that in the long run things are changing for the better.

The problem isn't the technology but the problems around legality and implementation and who it disrupts.

There is however plenty of usages for blockchain just off the top of my head.

Digital Pokemon cards, 2nd hand ebooks market, 2nd hand digital assets market, digital art certification, tracking of how money for NGO's are being spent and of course as a gold standard for important deals done between large organization and of course as a truly international wiretransfer system.

All these things will happen with new generations growing up and finding natural uses for them.
All right settle down
At thnakee kindly Master Frodo - I know I just saved the world but once we get to bag end ill get right back on digging the potato beds it would not do for me to get above my betters *tugs forlock" :-)
Nothing glenstein said was incorrect. Why are you reacting in such a hostile manner? You seem to have an axe to grind.
Any tips or online guides for newbies wishing to pick up electronic music via analog synthesizers? Asking for a friend with no experience and no knowledge of music theory etc ;)
I'm an engineering student that does programming and am wondering, can I ask what are some good resources to gain the appropriate background that would allow me to understand more of this notebook? I have used tools like Numpy but probably not very efficiently without understanding their strengths and weaknesses. What books or online courses should I look into to know about memory, flops, and things like that?

I should probably ask this somewhere else but I'm not sure what the appropriate forum is, if you could point me to where I should that would be great. Thank you!
I was just wondering why blockchain doesn't get used to manage government data on citizens. One immutable record of a person with all the metadata stored in sidechains.