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> If you buy 3-year AppleCare, you're effectively pre-paying for at least one battery top-up.)

Unless I'm missing something, AppleCare on new iPhones is limited to two years ... which, in my experience, is just shortly before iPhone batteries degrade noticeably.
Without data provenance (ie a data chain of custody) corporations will just "subcontract" it out to the lowest bidder. There needs to be consequences all the way up the chain to everybody that provided the data. This way, the people will bad security won't even get the data in the first place because no one will risk their data with them.
Robert Bosch Venture Capital Makes First Investment in IOTA
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Is probably same for Android unless they operate at a lower voltage than the peak so no performance is degraded over a bigger, but at the expense overall lower performance.
1080 isn't as good as the 1060/1070 due to the type of memory used. Excellent for gaming, not quite the best for mining. I can probably get it up a little more if I overclocked but I'd rather not.

Im using nanopool right now.
yea but you are comparing something thats considered crime by federal law to something that isn't.

Commiting a crime is illegal, sure. I don't understand what you were implying then.
Ripple transactions are cheaper.
Set a value on the info, statutory value, and suddenly a breach can bankrupt you, you seek insurance, and the insurerers want due diligence of your infosec.
I know that the Star-Spangled Banner was set to the tune of the Anacreonic Hymn, which is a drinking song, so if anybody ever got as far as the fourth verse without forgetting any of the lyrics, they're definitely singing it wrong.
I'm very careful inferring information I didn't actually test for. If the output of my process ranks two people the same, I can't do anything but flip a coin for one and recommend hiring both. I can't go back to their resumes and see "ahh yes, this person knows calculus, might as well go with them." Because the other person might know calculus too but didn't think it relevant to put on the resume.

If the process is giving equal outputs to multiple candidates, then you might need to fix it to be more granular. There's plenty of room for subjective criteria, e.g. it shouldn't be hard to have a few ranks on "seems nice to work with" metric and so it shouldn't be hard to have a process where equal outputs are unlikely.

On the other hand there's the concept of a journeyman in the craft world, anyone with that level of skill is basically interchangeable for the usual jobs. So you might by design have a test that just outputs "at least journeyman level" or not, and you can just hire the first one you find.
The kernel has a clear definition of what will be backwards compatible, and what never will be. In-kernel interfaces are never stable, and kernel-to-userspace interfaces are very stable, with an ABI docs directory breaking out what is and isn't.

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/e7aa8c2eb11ba69b1b690...

If the kernel's user interface just started blocking on open for 4000 milliseconds for no apparent reason, people would not be happy. Firefox expects users to demand that app writers edit, recompile, test, and ship them a new app to prevent the block. This is <insert lots of not very nice adjectives>.
IIRC wheelbase of the 330e is 2.85m the Model S is 2.95m the 530e is 2.975m.

I really don’t see that many problems with comparing the Model S to either tbh.
Former Pentagon UFO official: 'We may not be alone'
All personal information sharing should now be purely digital and encryption-keyed. We have all of the protocols, interconnected networking and ubiquitous computing necessary to make it practical.

The only “data” any organization should receive is an encrypted blob that is constructed using the key of the person who owns the data and the key of the entity that was directly given the data. Furthermore, the encoded blob should have a date of encoding and a duration of validity. In other words: “I, John Q. Public, authorize You, DataLosingMegaCorp, Inc., to receive This Blob, which is valid for 6 months or until either party revokes the key”.

Other public systems in society should be upgraded to require additional layers of security. Want to send commercial snail mail to my home address? Great: please provide the postal service with a one-time authorization code that you received from me (after all, you are using an address given to you by me and not bought from somebody else, right?).

Another nice feature would be for data to include bank deposit info for the data owner and bank withdrawl info for the data-receiving entity, where EVERY SINGLE TIME your data is decrypted you receive a cash deposit from the data-receiving entity. And make it sting, a lot: I want it to cost real dollars to use data (and of course, I can still revoke my key at any time if you still manage to do something stupid with my data).
> Personal data right now is considered an asset. It needs to be seen as a liability.

In Europe, especially with the upcoming GDPR laws, data is seen as a liability by many companies.

Data being a liability just means that companies need to think twice before storing it - if the data is sufficiently valuable, companies will still store it, but they have to manage it properly and mitigate risks since penalties are harsh.

Storing data "just because you can" will no longer be worth it, and rightly so, given the risk.
Yeah man.

You’re not the first person I’ve seen equate the plight and horror of slaves and slavery to the contemporary condition of the LGTB community in a modern, first world, secular society, but I can’t help but wonder at exactly how it is that you arrived at that conviction.
None of the coins mentioned above can scale to become a mainstream currency. They're just the most hyped ones.

Blockchain-based coins are hard to scale. The most scalable ones at the moment use a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) instead of a blockchain.

I think that IOTA and Byteball (both DAGs) are the most advanced at the moment in terms of scalability.

In the long term, Ethereum may have potential if they manage to implement sharding.

Another good long term bet is Lisk which aims to scale using sidechains.
Actually, under Open List PR, you could still have de facto local representatives. Someone could focus their attention on the needs of the Mojave Desert dwellers and get elected or not based on their popularity in the desert. PR doesn't prevent people from focusing their attention on geographic regions; it merely creates other alternatives.
i see your point that this is all hypothetical stuff from intellectual books.

BUT, the people in power get to decide the course of the earth. It's humans all the way up. The hypothetical becomes real over time and when it gets here, it is too late to plan.

TLDR books are important
When was the last time a new Android phone was the subject of interest to half a billion people? Apple's regular but infrequent release cycle for new phones (and corresponding new version of iOS) lends itself to a cyclical search pattern as well.
It’s been so crazy to see things like that just papered over in thread after thread. People talk about trading volume as though they have the faintest idea what the true, non manipulative volume is. The term “market cap” being thrown around as though anything remotely close to the figure could be realized.

I’m starting to lose sympathy for the people who are ultimately going to get hurt when this crashes. The signs are not hard to see at all.
> And to expand: by your logic, it would be ok then for Chrome to block all links to Firefox?

No, that wouldn't be OK. But not everything that is not OK is a network neutrality violation.
I don't think the comment you're replying to is trying to argue that gold is a particularly good investment -- just that Bitcoin is worse.
If anything his seems like a reaction to the yearly ‘planned obselescense’ stuff where people claim Apple killed their battery life to make them upgrade.

People don’t want to lose battery life? Ok, we can adjust so it doesn’t change much over the life of the phone.

Of course that just lead to ‘Apple slows your phone down’.

You’re right, it’s a tough spot.
The AppleCare itself lasts two years, but that’s in addition to the year you get by default. The two don’t run concurrently.

Edit: no, they do run concurrently. See child post.

GP’s edited the reference to 3 years anyway.
Check my original comment again. I only claimed the taxes were high. I specifically said the cost of living in Illinois isn't too bad, especially compared to Silicon Valley. I'm well aware the cost of living in California is extremely high.

That being said, the compensation in California is a lot, lot higher to help offset that, at least for our field. But I'm still not too interested in moving out there because I would have to basically give up on owning a home for quite some time, whereas I can afford to buy a nice house in the suburbs right now in Chicago. Also other reasons, like all my friends and family are here.

But, the property taxes are so high here that a lot of people pay more in taxes than they do on their mortgage, which is just odd. I could get a place equally far away from Chicago but over the border in Indiana and be paying almost a third as much in property taxes.
I mean, segwit was activated. That doubles the capacity of blocks. People just need to upgrade.

Lightning Network is moving quickly. It is live on mainnet, tho still considered unstable.

Schnorr signatures are in development. This will further compress transactions.

Seems like progress is happening to me...
I wouldn't say "degrades," will confuse non-tech readers.
Makes it sound like the old battery also causes the CPU to age.

Something like "is intentionally reduced" may be more accurate.
The fact that even millions of people who earn a BTC transaction fee per week have access to dumbphones is rather irrelevant to the observation that cultures who are resistant to banking are likely to continue to value gold jewellery over exotic computer-based financial instruments that don't look good around their neck. And that's even assuming a hypothetical world where many developing world citizens actually have practical access to BTC and local markets for exchanging BTC for goods.
CPAs have been going down forever in a price war and there has never been so much choice for consumers.

There is no evidence of a monopoly anywhere.
Can you cite the BTC/USD $3 billion? Specifically USD, not tethers, not other crypto valued in USD.
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> We have invented electric cars twice. Both times the market did not choose progress.

Please educate yourself about the history of automobiles and why gasoline powered cars were much more practical and won.

Progress is not whatever fits in your utopia or seems best in hindsight, it's whatever improves the current situation. Pollution was not an issue in the 20's and what seemed best then won on the market. It's not a difficult concept.
Electric cars have fundamentally the same problem and Tesla decided to attack it by hiding some of the battery's capacity when the car is new. While the car might report to the user it is 100% full, it might only be actually 90% full. The battery can therefore lose a decent percent of its capacity before the user will ever notice the difference. This decision was made because cars obviously have a longer ownership cycle than phones and a drastic drop in range as a car ages is a huge flaw. But I do wonder if any phone companies might start to rethink this decision now that we are seeing some people use the same smartphone for 3-5 years.
Depends really, a lot of them nowdays use better flash controllers and technology (e.g. UFS) but only time can tell how they cope with aging. Pixels seem to be doing quite well.
This is already one year old. I am wonder how much the zoo grew in 2017. What were the main network innovations? Capsules and the Transformer?
What I gather from the (incomplete) data, indeed the backup plant would have fired up in about 6 seconds. Isn't it wasteful/inefficient/expensive though, to fire up a whole plant if just providing a few seconds of electricity from a battery is enough to bring a grid back to nominal frequency?
The DGraph team have done some very interesting work. The recent addition of transactions is an extremely impressive technical accomplishment, and a very good long term move. Excellent to see a production-ready 1.0 release.
I don’t know what the hell you’re talking about.
Last I heard, IOTA had collapsed under the load of all the transactions from speculators, with people complaining it took days to get transactions to confirm. A blog post about this even made it to HN a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15944112 (As far as I can tell it took a much lower transaction volume than the Bitcoin one to cause this too, though there doesn't seem to be that much in the way of useful stats out there.)

This isn't terribly surprising because from the discussions I saw, the entire justification for why it could scale infinitely seemed to boil down to the creator accusing anyone who questioned this of spreading FUD. Byteball may be doing better, but on the other hand it hasn't had the same kind of speculative bubble that's done Bitcoin and IOTA in yet.
Apparently I take better care of user information on a hobby project running on localhost that will never see a remote server than these giant companies do with real life data.
You can DIY. It's really not that bad. I replaced the battery twice on my iPhone 6. The first time took me maybe 40 minutes, the second time went faster since I knew how to do it.

https://www.ifixit.com/Store/iPhone/iPhone-6-Replacement-Bat...
Exactly the point. Satoshi created the issuance curve of Bitcoin to mirror the amount of gold that was dug up.
How about a bigger battery? My primary criterion with each iPhone purchase is which has longest battery life.
> No, that wouldn't be OK. But not everything that is not OK is a network neutrality violation.

If you consider browsers an integral part of the internet infrastructure, it is. If not, it isn't. Happy to discuss naming, but it will mostly be useless.

But glad that you agree that Firefox preemptively delaying those sites is not OK.
You'd need to do it on the national level, not state. Our parties transcend state boundaries anyway, and House was always supposed to be representing people as a whole; the states have the Senate for their representation as entities.
I've had a couple of thousand dollars "stuck" across several bitcoin transactions for over four days now (106 hours+), due to low fees suggested by my wallet/exchange.
Something needs to change, because it's currently unusable.
Curious if you have a source on that? I see otherwise here: https://www.apple.com/support/products/iphone.html

I bought a new iPhone about 48 hours ago and was told the same thing as shown above.
Do you know what the reason for this distinction is? On Windows, it seems kernel-mode APIs seem to stay quite stable as well... there are exceptions mostly on the device driver side because hardware tends to evolve (e.g. display/graphics drivers), but generic drivers (= kernel modules) generally seem to be able to rely on backwards-compatibility too.
Yea, no.
FYI, 120 million American households is only a few percent off from the being all American households. That part at least is fair.
> something as serious as sexual assault

This article is about "sexual harassment" which isn't illegal according to federal law. You are conflating it with "sexual assault" which is a crime.
> ”Rolling coal is a form of conspicuous air pollution, for entertainment or for protest. Some drivers intentionally trigger coal rolling in the presence of hybrid vehicles (when it is nicknamed "Prius repellent") to taunt their drivers, who are perceived as being environmentally motivated in their vehicle choice. Coal rolling may also be directed at foreign cars, bicyclists, protesters, and pedestrians.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_coal
Doctors have to memorize a lot of information to just do their job. They have to have the answers to a lot of things or look incompetent as Googling would make people lose their trust. I think we have it cushy.

My experience is that side projects mean nothing to employers (as an experienced dev) and memorizing algorithm trivia is rarely needed. Usually doing a coding test with internet access is the norm.
Where does this $22 go? What hard ware do I need to set up my own machine to process these transactions and get the fees to keep?
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i don't think 0wing got this one 100% right. he is maybe referring to a claim about lightning, that it is going to be private. but this is not true, there will be a full map of the lightning network. david gerard and emin gün sirer(one of the greatest blockchain researchers) have pointed this out:

https://twitter.com/davidgerard/status/940311875820179456
Bitcoin has >200k [1] unconfirmed transactions in the mempool, summing up 4.3m us$ of fees alone. fee to get your transaction into the next block is around 22$ [2] right now.

Starting to look less and lesser like a currency, becoming more and more a security.

edit add links:

[1] https://blockchain.info/unconfirmed-transactions
[2]: https://bitcoinfees.earn.com/
Apple has decided that people want to buy razorthin phones and there is just not way to fit a large battery in there.

I wish there were phones built like the old IBM thinkpads. Bulky, square, ugly but also indestructible and fully user servicable with replaceable batteries.
Litecoin is essentially the same as bitcoin with slightly different chosen constants. Bitcoin is optimizing for decentralization, Litecoin is not.

If people actually used litecoin it’d have the same exact problems.
I don't see it as a store of value. It's just a very reliable network for sending very big transactions.

If you send 1 million dollars in Bitcoin, a $20 fee is negligible - The reliability of the Bitcoin network makes it worth it.

For smaller transactions you should just use a different coin.
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I heard about a case where someone built a phone app backend without rate limiting. Someone found this hole and successfully attacked 70,000 accounts by running password dictionary cracks against the authentication API.

Modern distributed systems are simply too fast and users are too dumb with picking passwords to allow unlimited password attempts.
those low-population states should use STV systems (as should states for senators)
Google Maps' Moat
Li-ion batteries also last longer when kept between 30% and 90%. Several car manufacturers don't let you completely charge or expend your battery for this reason.
I didn't say that they are permanent. But they change very slowly. More importantly, they mostly change by accrual; you rarely see old polices dropped hastily. Indeed, even for all the Trump rhetoric, the current administration (and legislature) is not doing anything that wouldn't be expected from a Republican government.

The reason why we have so many bills falling through is because of the razor thin margins in the Senate, so that a few dissenters can affect things. But if you look at how votes in legislature went down historically, we're pretty much at peak partisanship - it used to be a lot more common for congressmen to vote across party lines.
I disagree. Business is by far the most powerful driving factor in shaping a super power. Thus it shapes everything and all else is secondary. Things like pride or "the good of the country" are more often then not cover stories.

>Why is North Korea on our radar, but not China?

This one is kind of obvious. America and N. Korea aren't business partners also N. Korea acts like a unpredictable child with nuclear weapons, China does not.
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This post is written as if it wasn't Apple that introduced the hard-glued battery. They made a consumable hard to replace and backed themselves fully willing into this "no win" situation. And now they are not being forthright about the tradeoffs they made and certainly aren't making an effort to fix any of it. That is planned obsolescence.

These batteries can be replaced but Apples absolute refusal to enable customer or 3rd party repair make all of this infinitely more difficult.

(It's not just screen-on time, a naturally expected decline in operating time. As the batteries age resistance goes up and peak currents decline, so in some circumstances the device would actually hard turn off)
Here is how I would suggest "feeling it out", if you are more technically inclined. Once you think you might want to buy some of a coin buy doing the above, first read a coin's whitepaper to give you a good idea of how it works and if it is just a scam. Then google around for other technical blog posts explaining how that other person, who hopefully has been using it, thinks how it works. Finally set up a node on your home machine (for bitcoin you need to download a ~165 GB blockchain, which is huge, but others are in the few GB to 100 MB range) so you can work with it directly. Then make some small transactions so you know how to do it before you make any large ones. If transacting goes easy with small fees and there are lots of sites using the coin, maybe it has a future.
Microsoft's hand was probably forced.

"Mr. Smith of Microsoft said he first became aware of the Senate bill after meeting with Mr. Graham in Washington to discuss cybersecurity and immigration. Mr. Graham urged Microsoft to support the bill, Mr. Smith said."

Urged is likely a euphemism. There was probably a quid pro quo.
Sounds like a blackberry and we know how that turned out for them in the current market.
I get the distaste for what can easily be seen as political opportunism. I think it's entirely possible that you are right that WSJ would not care about viewpoint diversity unless that position was benefiting them at the moment.

But after years of following endless cultural trench warfare carried out on social media, I strongly believe that focusing the debate on the perceived evil of certain people/organizations (like WSJ) doesn't help. I think it's actively toxic and prevents us from finding common ground.

I have no particular love for WSJ, but viewpoint diversity is something I feel very passionate about. This cause is being spearheaded by Heterodox Academy, who focus specifically on academia: https://heterodoxacademy.org/problems/

So even though I might disagree with WSJ on all sorts of other things, I'm still happy to see them popularize an argument that I care about. I can feel "in coalition" with them on this issue, even if I might disagree strongly with them on other things. Pointing out contradictions in their argument (as you have done above) is totally fair game and could force them to reconcile these inconsistencies if enough people call them on it.

> I'm not here to argue the for or against the government intervention trying to prevent a narrowing of the diversity of opinion. I'm saying the WSJ does not give a crap about diversity. They have no real ideals. They only care when their side has a disadvantage.

I feel exactly the opposite: I'm not here to argue whether WSJ is a sinner or a saint. To me it's a fruitless question because even if you could prove they have bad motives, that doesn't tell us what we should think about this argument. People can make good arguments for the wrong reasons. That doesn't mean we should throw the argument out based on who is making it.

By the way, I say this as someone who has broken this rule countless times over the years. I don't say all this because I think I am better at productive argumentation than other people. I say this because I've spent too much time over the years on toxic discourse that goes nowhere.
I don't know this for a fact. But I'd expect "told you so" public posts by now if that were the case.
I don’t think your average drug dealer would accept 0.001 BTC for a dime bag
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