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I think anyone panicked right now over the loss of their BTC because of a lost key, broken HDD, forgotten pwd, or the BTC just it isn't there anymore for reasons unknown-- those people will never feel secure holding BTC again in any form. The psychology of loss is powerful, and grown-ups just don't put their life savings in insecure stores of value.

The value of BTC is part scarcity and part network effect. In a rational world (what we usually get in the long term) disappearing BTC would have an impact on the network effect. Interestingly, Gresham's Law suggests it would be a positive effect. A likelihood that wealth will be destroyed at death-- I would think that would deter adoption.
I think in general poor people have better social skills and deeper connections with their peers--being poor necessitates having a strong social network, because having people who can help you out when you're down on your luck is important when you don't have money to buy yourself out of that situation.

That said, I'm not sure if that's a good indicator of 'wisdom' as this article seems to suggest. I'm certainly not going down to the local trailer park to ask for advice next time I have a problem.
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It's barely starting, but the protocol has been in development for a couple of years and it aims at being fast (~5 second transactions), feeless, minerless and scalable. The jury is still out in terms of whether it'll actually scale or if no fatal flaws will be found later, however, as far as I'm concerned it's showing a lot of promise.
I'm sorry, but what's so good about raiblocks...? Aren't they just PoS based?
Central banks flooding banks with cheap credit. It is bound to end up somewhere where there is profit from higher interests and then go bust. Why do we keep saving the banks bad loans?

Is there also subprime credit card debt?
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Perhaps you could read the barcode on the box?
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Thanks for exposing me to this!
Yup. It's interesting how many modern drinks came from medicinal origins. Original formula Coca-Cola, of course, famously had a healthy dose of cocaine. Tonic water still has a bit of quinine in it, but originally it had much more, and was consumed as prophylaxis against malaria. Then there were various "bitters" and "digestifs" that had purported health benefits. Jägermeister has a whole witches brew of herbs and roots in it. And so on.
I think a lot depends on how solid your requirements are. If there's no need for further design as you develop, types are great. If you're writing one to throw away, they're a waste. If you're chopping and changing as you write, it can go either way.
Using a specific example of someone young quickly dying is interesting because it's different than our preconceived notions. Further, large numbers don't actually mean much to most people so again using details from a specific case is useful. Many years more people die from the flu than car accidents, but because the flu tends to take the young, old, or immunocompromised people tend to think of it as a non issue.

When the reality is you feel severely sick because your life is actually threatened.
According to the EEOC, yes it is:

>"It is also illegal for an employer to recruit new employees in a way that discriminates against them because of their race, color, religion, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation, and pregnancy), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information.

For example, an employer's reliance on word-of-mouth recruitment by its mostly Hispanic work force may violate the law if the result is that almost all new hires are Hispanic."
“Sinclair proudly supports the Cancer Foundation and its educational mission. Any absence of sponsorship identification in these public service segments was unintended and a result of simple human error."

I hope a 13 million dollar fine will inspire them to prevent this type of human error again. But given the size of Sinclair it's more a slap on the wrist.
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install it on Linux and see for yourself

https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell
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Brutal result after years of work - "a less than $500,000 cash consideration from FullContact, which will be used to facilitate shutdown."
Sometimes the math is just gross
I'm down. This looks cool.
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Realistically, this change is most likely aimed at "forcing" the hand of very large companies to co-operate with using Tesla instead of GeForce-based stuff.

Think Amazon, Large Supercomputers, etc. They probably won't care or chase the smaller folks (be careful if you get too big though :-)

I wonder if these terms are also on the Linux downloads?
If this is just a software licensing change maybe the OSS stuff will gain momentum!
I'm confused - does the EULA prevent use within one's own data center? Or is it just that a cloud computing service such as AWS or Azure cannot offer them? Because if it's the latter then the article doesn't hold nearly as much weight imo.
Realistically, I think the even bigger problem will be whatever private company provides this facial recognition service probably aggregating their data from thousands of sites and selling it to advertisers/stalkers/etc.

Maybe securing it poorly on top of that.

Or if the places using it are in control of their own data, they'll be reselling it to data brokers because hey, free money. Doesn't cost them anything, just their customers' privacy.
It wasn’t an all-cash deal:

> The deal additionally included a stock transaction
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."

What is the statutory reason that they are not allowed to do this? Sincere question.
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If you know you are a likely to get between $100k and $1m in ten years, then there is a lot less financial risk of not putting any money in a 401k for a few years when creating a startup that eventually fails. I think this is a really cool idea. It would also will bind the group together even more (if you think that is a good thing).
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What makes Lisbon so attractive to startups
Ask HN: What encrypted Dropbox alternative do you use?
Are you happy with it?
Facebook: Designing Against Misinformation
The thing with EULAs is that you do not own the product. You are licensed to use the product under the company’s draconian terms. Agree that there needs to be new consumer laws protecting consumers.

A contract used in the old times 1800s to be one to two pages of simple English that both parties negotiated the agreed terms on. Now EULas almost requires a degree in law to understand yet you abide to the terms under civil liability. Further more Eula’s are so long most people blind sign without reading and understanding the terms.

There is also questions whether terms in Eula’s are legal such as limiting free speech about the product. In many countries free speech is a right regulated as basic first amendment laws.

Can you limit free speech?
Digging into random open source projects is a good way to become a better developer in general, although I'm not sure I'd want to make a career somewhere random.

I'm a lot better with git, with various testing libraries, benchmarking, CI, etc - because I've dug into a lot of random projects. About a year ago, I started just digging in when I ran into something weird, rather than moving on or working around it. Sometimes it's more work than I want to devote, but when it isn't, I often learn an awful lot.
> incapable of robustly facilitating a global amount of transactions without centralization in banks/hubs/wallets/exchanges

Banks/(3rd party) Wallets/(3rd party) exchanges is centralisation.

Lightning network hubs for example are not -and could scale much better, with less friction, than any transaction systems that we currently have. But plenty of things are going on, if it's not that it will be something else, it's only a matter of time.
Neither of those laptops have easily swappable batteries.

[the XPSs is easier than MBP & Alienware, but you’re still disassembling things]

7 years later, Dell seems to have captured the same gains.

At present, Apple’s main battery life win is macOS.
This guy is not really a good thing for YC, I honestly stopped caring that much about this incubator after that guy who was in before him left. Sam Altman should be removed.
I’ve been looking at “document management” software both open source and commercial for a very long time. Every one of them sucks. Are they powerful? Maybe. But their interfaces suck. Dependencies are out of control. Managing the app and it’s dependecnies are insanely time consuming. You want a product that scales, has a decent UI and the only way to get that is to make it simple. Also I require the “library” file to be stored on a network server not locally. The only app I have found to do these things is CDfinder. Everything else takes to much work to install, upgrade and maintain. Not to mention being too complex to reasonably manage, tag and search your photos, documents and digital data.
With it's comforting, reassuring warmth, Perl shines on as a luminous sun, lighting the way for youngling languages to learn from. Hushed whispers foretell the sunset, but none truly believe them...
Just a random thought: what does citizenship have to do with it?

Why is it not okay to discriminate based on race, religion, gender, but okay to discriminate based on citizenship, which for most cases is what you're stuck with at birth and hard to change?
There's nothing here that tunes down the dynamism. Hints aren't statically checked or enforced. It's still possible to pass in an empty list to an int-hinted var and, e.g. have `if not var` evaluate to True (rather than raise an Exception).

Type hints allow external tools to check some things, but at this point you're basically imposing static types so why not use a language with the tooling and optimizations to take advantage of that?

Python is a good choice to prototype, write small (less than a few thousand lines of code) projects with non-trivial complexity, and somewhat larger projects with more boilerplate (e.g. Django webapps). Beyond that its utility diminishes until it starts to become a hindrance.
Benchmarking the Titan V (Volta) GPU with TensorFlow
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I use the Neo2 for a seedbox/VPN. $14.99 with gbe
Coder news #5
Technical feasibility of regulating public Blockchain explored
It's interesting that nobody was screaming bubble and denigrating the price of gold after it kept rising after the GFC.
https://goldprice.org/gold-price-chart.html
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I love the ambition of this dude to call out the valley to reach for more than what it is. The field needs 10000 more Sam Altmans.
It would allow me to function normally on a windows box. I can apt-get install everything I need except anything that depends on X.

I'd still rather run GNU/Linux from the metal up, but my work depends on Windows for legacy data-acquisition systems. Right now, I have an experiment that's running a linux box and windows box side by side in order to get the best of both. Working out hardware access in a VM sounds unpleasant, so I'd love to see the native-windows-GNU implementation extended to X.
You get that pretty much everywhere that used to be British common law iirc, and it’s why contracts frequently define seemingly minor and silly terms, ones which are obvious such as “the undersigned“ and all manner of the seemingly banal. In essence the contract is first and foremost agreeing on the same language, to express a commitment which ideally all parties are fully cognizant of.

Edit: spelling
I have a 3rd gen iPad right here, I can't upgrade to iOS 11. So, it's a forced _hardware_ upgrade to get a browser update. That's just insane.
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"The Supreme Court has noted that the FCC has an expansive mandate to ensure broadcasters operate in the public interest."
(National Broadcasting Co. v. U.S., 319 U.S. 190, 219 (1943).)

It's like shouting fire in a theater when there is none - that would not be in the public interest. Neither is broadcasting lies to deceive the public.
It seems that's an invalid address, and the protocol doesn't let you send to invalid addresses. Moreover, it should be prefixed by a xrb_.
Funny that you mention that because people in many countries panic daily over the loss of their life savings in banks or government-backed hard currency. They have seen them vanish to a scale that can't even compare due to corruption, politics, incompetence, or reasons unknown.

The psychology of loss is powerful indeed
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Would be nice if IDEs had a key combo to fill in the actual type for "auto"s!
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I work a similar way. I also tend to submit things that aren't quite right, or have fallen behind. Perhaps a Travis build matrix that's no longer testing current deps, or a project still doing things "the old way" that you can modernize quickly.

It's also been fun to fix things my "programmer heroes" write off as unfixable. I've picked up a couple bugs written off as "this test is just always going to be flakey because <whatever>," learned their test framework, proved it was wrong, and fixed it. Good for your self confidence.
Oh yeah one more downside.....

There is no one to catch a falling knife. Like right now as we speak
The talk of cryptocurrencies are on a so wrong place. What value have been created? Some people hoarded money and waited and became rich, is this news? Value system of society is so distorted. I understand the value when it is used as a means to exchange value but how this is now different than Ponzi scheme?
Is it still not available on many exchanges? I've been looking to get into this for a bit (ok only a few days).

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They would have to do this, to avoid limits on the number of shareholders in an privately held company.
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Yeah lobbyists haven't entirely cracked EU parliament yet. Its made up of people from 27 countries from god knows how many different parties. Difficult to bribe efficiently.

The US is a lot easier, a two party system is heaven for corruption.
Using PowerShell to download and execute a scriptblock is a common malware technique right now, but it's not something any sane software vendor would recommend for installing an application.
I prefer a VC that doesn’t inject a political agenda.
But not as useful for the resumes of the devs involved.
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I think people know, but Sinclair is the emerging threat to American public debate that is controlled by conservative owners. Sinclair requires their local affilate TV stations to run conservative-biased segments. In one case last year Sinclair lied about Hillary and the Democrats -- they required their local affiliates to run this segment -- saying viewers "should not vote for Hillary because Ds were historically pro-slavery". But all educated Americans know that the parties flipped their positions in the 1960s when Dems under LBJ courageously pushed out the racists to pass the Civil Rights Act and the racists moved to the Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/12/business/media/sinclair-b...

Sinclair also used their size and connections to the conservative movement to get FCC commissioners who would repeal rules on concentrated ownership of local TV stations.

Ownership of media outlets used to be a big topic of concern in the US. Who owns media outlets is going to be one of the defining issues of our future.
I would say UP[1]. The base board (up or up core) are Quad-core atom and the up squared has a Quad-core Pentium version available.

1: http://www.up-board.org
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Gold 2008 - 2017: ~100% increase

Gold 2016 - 2017: almost no change

BTC 2010 - 2017: ~22499899% increase

BTC 2016 - 2017: ~1700% increase

One seems a bit more bubbly than the other don't you think?
Ramblings of a schizophrenic?

http://come-from-beyond.com/about-me/

Or, it is all a part of an elaborate MIT prank!
Great news everyone!

Ps. Not you.
Sure, it's a sliding scale, but the question is where you THINK you draw the line. OK, kids pestering their friends to like their stuff is one end of the scale. Are you saying that large numbers of companies AREN'T creating fake accounts to sway Facebook opinion of their public persona, or Amazon reviews of their products? That's just business, right? Well what's the difference between that, and what governments may be doing, to sway public opinion on issues, or candidates? Facebook, THEMSELVES, playing with traffic for the benefit of their own agendas, are in the mix too.

To me, it's all just differences of degree, not kind. To suggest there's a magical barrier that gets crossed when this sort of thing suddenly becomes unethical is, in my view, the insane position. Either it's all fair game, or... well, it IS all fair game, and the only people who would say that it ISN'T are the suckers. If you disagree with the state of affairs, take it up with Facebook and Twitter, who have DESIGNED their systems to be gamed, not with the people who are using them as designed.

Hate the game, not the player.
Maybe provide an option in settings is a better idea...

Or even better, provide a level of battery saving.
Thanks, so from my reading of this, this certificate had no functions of an actual root certificate and thus having MITM or other attack vectors aren't possible.
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With new research, we are finding caveats and inaccuracies in many of our previously understood "laws" of physics and nature. Chemistry is a good example of this. Several 20th century chemists came up with widely accepted theories/models that were only shortly thereafter disproven by further research.

It's healthy to recognize the limitations of science. Awareness of the limitations of a tool make sure we don't wast time using it where it really doesn't help. Not to mention that a sense of academic humility is often part of the open-mindedness that precedes counterintuitive, surprising findings.
That’s an argument for software licenses. My NVIDIA GPU on the other hand is hardware I own.
Just wanted to say how happy I am with the state of The Division right now. 1.8 is great! Sorry to be off topic but TCTD is a case study in how to refine a game post launch and I think you all should get credit for that. It's my most played non MMO title and has helped scratch the looter shooter itch after a certain competing product didn't work out as expected.

Please make another one ;)
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Poll: Are you invested in cryptocurrencies?
Specifically what percent of your personal worth/assets are invested in cryptocurrencies?
Essentially 0% invested
Less than 0.5% invested
Between 0.5% and 1% invested
Between 1% and 2% invested
Between 2% and 5% invested
Between 5% and 10% invested
Greater than 10% invested
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Plenty of people. You can find tons of articles on GeForce 1080 Ti based learning box builds.
See also another article published today:

Building A Case: Sinclair Broadcasting’s Project Baltimore offers right-wing news coverage of city schools
by Jaisal Noor

http://baltimorebeat.com/2017/12/21/building-case-sinclair-b...

// “[Project Baltimore] are building a case to privatize schools,” Diamonte Brown, a Baltimore school teacher and an advocate for reforming the school system told The Real News. //

Wonder who's paying for that...
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Generally, free speech is NOT absolute,. Reasonable restrictions on "time, place, and manner" are generally upheld by the Supreme Court. They are not fined because they aired an ad for the Cancer Center, they are fined because they aired an ad for the Cancer Center that pretended to be a news segment. This is a manner restriction, and generally fine.

The specific statutes allowing the FCC to govern broadcasters and fine them in this manner is the Communications Act of 1934 and the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
The People Who Read Airline Tweets
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9 years is a very short time for a foundational technology to go mainstream. The internet took ~25 years.
This should be a rallying cry to the developer community to stop using software with restrictive licenses.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9sJUDx7iEJw

“Join us now and share the software!”

In all seriousness anybody using CUDA should immediately start checking out and contributing to ROCm, AMD’s Open Source Compute Platform:

https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm
I agree that Google's Chrome tactics can be perceived as evil, I won't discount that, because it causes issues when you are forced to use a particular browser.

But if your client only runs iOS for their entire business, you can't even complain about Chrome to them. And if their browser doesn't support something as simple as offline html5 features properly, and you need this, across multiple platforms (cause they have a few laptops too). Then you can't use a browser based platform. Or if you do, you have to live with many compromises.

This is how I see Apple working. If the market didn't force them to upgrade Safari, I think they never would. They'd just say "browsers are for html, and the Apple App Store is for everything else".

But my client just wanted their stupid form to work offline. At least Chrome can do this, their adding of extra stuff doesn't _limit_ what is possible.

And I don't think many of these features are "new and shiny", I think they are fundamental to the web now. If they were new and shiny only, then Firefox would have had it's ass handed to it by the big-boys. But instead, we see MS and Apple falling behind a simple non-profit in the web standards support area.

Remember, Apple has more money in the bank than any company ever in the history of the world. It's a choice they are making not keeping up with web standards.

So the question has to be asked, what benefit does Apple get from keeping web standards very low on it's locked down platform? (any answer besides forcing devs into their store?)
> But all educated Americans know

Thank you for the comment. It's good to see someone correcting the record for once.
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