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No it doesn't. The reason BTC is choked off is because the core devs are promoting the lightning solution instead of on-chain scaling because they have a stake in making money off the lightning network. And now that we've reach a critical mass of transactions this lightning network is nowhere to be found even though its been promised for years.

The core devs are like the DNC. They'd rather kill the blockchain than capitulate and update the block size.

edit: downvoting me out of visibility won't change the truth. The lightning network, which is driven by Blockstream, which makes up the most core devs, is planning to make money off of lightning network fees, and they aren't willing to give that up even if it means killing BTC. It's not even a secret - there is plenty of public info on Blockstream's business model.
I was going to post the same thing. Flexbox has a few conceptual hurdles, but is great once you get over them.
First, the ICO enabled them to raise money to hire a real team to develop the Brave browser and build out the ecosystem. They're on macOS, Linux, Windows, iOS and Android already.

They're seeding the ecosystem by giving BAT away to users so they can start paying content creators: "Brave grants 300,000 crypto tokens to browser users"--https://basicattentiontoken.org/brave-grants-300000-crypto-t....

BAT is an investment that the current situation with how advertising works on the web isn't sustainable--over 600 million users with ad blockers installed and climbing.

We know we need a way to pay for content that doesn't suck, so lets build it into the browser and make it a mostly automatic and anonymous, based on the amount of time spent on web sites.

In addition, the goal is for BAT to be used by advertisers to create a decentralized ad exchange where users who opt-in to watching privacy-respecting, quality-made ads get compensated in BAT (that's coming in the next 3-6 months.)

Users who chose to watch and receive BAT can then pay other content creators with it, including on Youtube.

Lastly, BAT is actively traded--the market cap is close to $349 million @ $0.39/BAT and over 16 million tokens in the past 24 hours: https://www.coingecko.com/en/price_charts/basic-attention-to...

The thread was about how only the big guys can afford to make a browser but here's a startup that is going after Google's core business using Chromium's code.

Lots going on here; I can't do it all justice; this video should help--https://vimeo.com/209336437.

Plus the latest community update--https://www.reddit.com/r/BATProject/comments/7ljinb/bat_comm...
That comparison to gold is only apt when the price of BTC is relativy stable. There is no relevant comparison to gold as an asset class when bitcoin is so volatile. In order to be a valid gold alternative it needs to have a stable, predictable value. Nobody that wants gold in their portfolio is going to want to replace it with an unpredictable and volatile asset.

There's no need for rhetoric comparing BTC to gold. It's not gold, it isn't like gold, and we dont need another form of gold. Let Bitcoin be its own thing.
I regret that I can't immediately find the video which discussed it, but this gets in the ballpark of what I saw: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/271462470_OCR_from_...

IIRC, it wasn't ~vaporware~ researchware, but nor was it "clone this repo, away you go"
> I speculate that at first people want to use it as a store of value, but after a critical amount of holders, and having a lighting network, users and merchants could also adopt it as a currency.

Why would they? Why should I buy things with BTC instead of USD? The fact that I've yet to hear a convincing answer to this most fundamental question is the strongest indicator that BTC is a bubble.

I do agree that BTC could become gold, though.
Those who have truly drunk the koolaid call this a feature not a bug.

By that logic, I could say: "Those who have truly drunk the koolaid call the high price of gold a feature not a bug."

Turns out much of the world revolves around drinking some kinda koolaid.
Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked. -Warren Buffett
My dad and I were on a sailboat trip about 20 years ago. We anchored in the no motor zone of the Banana River one night and watched a rocket launch nearby.

About 5 minutes later a helicopter hovered over us and lit us up with a spotlight before flying away.

I always wondered what they shot off that prompted such interest in a couple of guys in a catamaran.
Updating the block size is not a permanent solution though? You can't just keep updating the block size?
Every transaction I've conducted in recent weeks took about 20 minutes and cost less than 1%. (Using Trezor at highest fee level)

For those who don't follow Bitcoin subreddits, this was discussed here: https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/7lfyrf/psa_its_faster_...
He looks older than me and I'm over 30.
It's an AMAZING restaurant in Napa -- Thomas Keller's the chef and it's the culinary equivalent of an orgasm.
Right, so if they have no idea what the material is then what's the point of their comments claiming that they are impossible?
If you externalize the costs of verifying that to third parties, you lose properties that make Bitcoin

Isn't that what "off-chain transactions" and the "Lightning Network" are?
Google (and other companies) are purposely opaque about how they determine whether you have provided enough information to verify you are the owner of the account...

Getting it wrong has significant impact on how much the brand is trusted (and for some companies, that's all they have)... Lose it and it's time to shutter!

To be fair to Google, they do regularly prompt users to review the security of their account (e.g. with checklists like this: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/46526?hl=en). Note that Step 3 is "Update your account recovery options"!!
Examples, citation, please.
I do not see 'merchants' accepting BCH when I try to buy food.
The US has about 4 times the population of germany in 27 times the area (22 times if you count contiguous). There is a lot of space for houses.

and in the bigger cities people do rent or have absurd commutes.
> Analyzes commit history for intuitive commit query

I'd work on the copy on the home page if I were you. This isn't a valid English sentence.
My point was more that it's not the issue of difficulty or whether or not it could be done, but rather that each property holder has different wishes, and many times their wishes don't conform to the model which you are suggesting. They don't really seem to want a consume-all-you-want because that hasn't proven to be able to replace the income from the classic distribution chain. Look at Spotify as an example.
Yes. Most of NYC real estate only exists to support the real luxury units, the top 1-5% with massive profit margins. A great many units are actually built at a loss to support the construction of the penthouses. Such not-luxury units only exist as a result of zoning. Google "poor door" to see the extreme physical manifestation.
>Turns out much of the world revolves around drinking some kinda koolaid.

Not sure if this is a feature or a bug?
Thanks for the Git brand remind. I will check that. Good to see more and more tools are doing this. Instead of browsing code as plain text in repository, it definitely helps to browse code with language aware.

One thing GitPlex differing from other similar tools is that you can switch to any revision in repository, and you can still be able to do symbol aware code browsing. While many other tools only parses the head revision (and for other revisions, you need to wait, wait...)
Anecdotally, I've had a phone delivered to me but my neighbour took it in fearing getting stolen and then later gave it to me after I've reported Amazon as not delivered by due date and carrier has confirmed having delivered by the door. This was in apartment setting so everyone was acting reasonably. Amazon ended up shipping me another phone and I ended up with two phones. I think I just prefer the idea of things getting delivered with determinism and security--just so that it saves everyone time and effort. I may be a bit paranoid about this.
Nobody has figured out how to do this yet... nor should they have. You shouldn’t over optimize before you need to and you’ve seen where the real bottlenecks are. But now we need it, and we’ve seen where the bottlenecks are. New technologies and techniques will be needed to match Visa and Mastercard in speed and reliability.
Looks like another Bitcoin v. Bitcoin Cash argument thread getting started again. I'm getting really tired of this.
It doesn't have to be a permanent solution. Just a reasonable update.

And there is no such thing as a permanent solution. It's like a startup that runs out of money and dies because they spent years making the "permanent solution" rather than release early and often, iterating on the solution.

And enough with the obvious sound bites by the way.
That whole 3%?
There's simply no need for them. The world and life in general are full of so much experiences and activities that wasting life away on a couch playing video games is simply not the best use of ones time. That's just my opinion. The only downside we see as parents is that it's very difficult to get our kids on playdates with other kids because all their friends want to do is sit in front of a screen. My kids don't even see that as having a good time, for them it's a chore. Seriously, I just don't get kids these days. My kids can't even play tag with most others in their classes because they're so out of shape. Sad times.
> they have a stake in making money off the lightning network

How? Anyone can run a lighting node

> And now that we've reach a critical mass of transactions this lightning network is nowhere to be found

That conflicts with the other statement.

Please tell me where you are stuck:
https://medium.com/@JimmyMow/announcing-zap-a-lightning-netw...
Did you buy the Zync ZedBoard yourself? How much did it cost? What are the specs?
In most states in the US you are definitely allowed to defend yourself and your property by brandishing and using a gun. "life, liberty, and property" -Locke
Based on the black silhouettes I’d say it is Ultima VI, but it is hard to tell for sure.
And if an employer doesn't want to provide a salary range, they are free not to hire any candidates. The same sauce is equally tasty for both the goose and the gander.
Well, that's probably why he wasn't hired.
Lighting Network is a trustless protocol
> That same day I opened a second GMail account so I could have access to services like an email account if need be, even if it didn’t have any of my previous data in there.

When service is this terrible, why stick with the bad provider? I generally find the whole article sort of depressing... “Google ignored my problems for a month. But now I have access again oh well yay!!”
Apple already clarified these rules and cleared up a lot of what this article is concerned about.
Faye’s story: good practice when prescribing opioids for chronic pain
Also take a look at susy grid sustem (v.2 for maximum compatibility). Fully semantic.
"Bitcoin Cash Plus" will airdrop on January 2nd, I haven't a clue how one would claim it or if it will be eventually worth much.
Alloy Test:

Is it in the alloy database? yes : no

Is its isotopic ratio terrestrial? yes : no

Does it appear manufactured or natural in elemental distribution? yes : no

If the answer is yes to the first two, then yes, the alloy is indeed "mysterious". Simple as that. This article didn't debunk anything. It just corrected a wording technicality.
> Who were the most successful NHL brothers

Sutters, arguably.
Why not? How hard is it to get a cert for a domain that looks like paypal-businesscenter.com?
Except in wartime during a huge recession, gold is still worth something because there's demand for it and it can be traded for fiat currency. Gold has that world-wide, century long track record, and history proves it does. Bitcoin has yet to survive recessions and wars. Thus far, it isn't even stable during boom.

As long as cryptocoins aren't accepted as much as fiat currency (and they're not even _remotely_ near 1:1), they'll be in lower demand during less glorious times. Practically nobody (less than now) will accept cryptocoins then because you can't use them to buy anything worthwhile. A man's gotta eat, and keep the chin above the tide.
very nice. It would be nice to have similar features on github, right now I have to clone the repository and use gitk.
Aren't there Carbon configurations that we wouldn't have been able to identify 20 years ago? We would have been able to identify them as Carbon, but not accounted for their unique properties. Maybe it's not completely far-fetched.
I don't get why this type of comment gets down-voted. It's just hypothetical and maybe it's an interesting point of discussion.

The situation is probably much more complex than anyone can imagine. We don't actually know any of the details of what happened.
When one can't help by being on the inside, it is sometimes better to go outside so that one can better use this one life that one gets.

Also, continuing to work there and complying with their new-speak policy while waiting for the axe to fall (3200 cuts planned at the EPA according to the NYT) might be seen as endorsing this adminstration's policy.
Cryptocurrency price and account balance monitor
I wager mankind can do more than 26 gold transactions/sec.
I read it as saying it was impossible that there were materials being stored that we couldn't identify[0], not that the existence of the materials themselves was impossible. The point being that if these materials exist it should be quite straight forward to identify them, and if they're 'unknown' then that's simply because no one's taken the time in a lab to figure it out.

[0] To be charitable, I have no doubt that there exist substances in the universe we can't currently characterize. But if you restrict it to objects that you can physically store in a warehouse (that is, they're stable under ambient conditions), I have little doubt we can figure out what they are without much trouble.
> It can be built with gcc and clang

Again... I understand many will argue but I also believe many will agree: we are to start phasing out C and write modern OSes in safe languages like Rust, Haskell, Go, Crystal etc. Because code written in C is almost guaranteed to be vulnerable. C has done its job when the hardware was slow and low on memory, electronic data was rarely life-important and when there were no languages and compilers that could be used as alternatives but that time has ended and now we are to consider different priorities.
I plan to try the 4.15 rc. But then I don't know for what all I need on top of that. Phoronix has some articles on the topic, but they don't provide much specifics.

I did try their proprietary drivers, too, but did not have any luck. Maybe I'll have time to tinker with it tomorrow. It would have been nice to have out of the box support :) I suppose they will get there eventually.
Quite simply, x-ray diffraction tells you the distribution of electrons in the unit cell of the alloy. So you just put an sample into your spectrometer and it will print out the chemical elements and how they are assembled. And even if there is another island of stability of super heavy elements or something like that, it will still just tell you the charge of the nucleus. So this side of quite literally magic, as in all of chemistry of the last 150 or so years fails catastrophically, there is no possibility of having an alloy sitting in a warehouse and not knowing exactly what it is.
Maybe for white people. But I count 142K unique first names in a database of 3300K people for the very multicultural province of BC Canada.
I'm amazed at how many boring and uninteresting posts get upvoted here. You didn't even say anything.
Blasphemy!!! <jk>
> But note that the desired objective is to discriminate on race, and it is only an attempt to hide the appearance.

No it isn't, that's the whole point. Most people have no real interest in discriminating based on race. They just want their tax dollars to go to their own interests instead of to somebody else. They don't care if the somebody else is black, white or polka dot. They want to pay $5000 in taxes and get back >=$5000 in government services, not pay $6000 and get back $3000.

Listen to more of the interview. It isn't that most people want to discriminate based on race and economic policies are a way to do it, it's that people want particular economic policies and direct racial discrimination was historically a way to do that. The point isn't to use economics as a proxy for race, it's to stop using race as a proxy for economics.

The two things have some similar effects, because "affects poor people" and "affects black people" are similar when poor and black correlate, but they're not actually the same and the exact difference is what makes it racism or not.
Tried it. Hated it. The same way I hated South Park. Cheap laughs. Punching down vs punching up. Mean spirited.
On Debian systems, installation is apt-get install texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-extra texlive-latex-recommended (basically, all the texlive-latex-* packages, base is enough for simple stuff).

Fonts come in the packages. if you want some extra one, just apt-get install it too.
Hacker News is meant to be a sort of non-political oasis, which I apppreciate and which helps to greatly improve the quality of discussion and the content. Their moderation does a wonderful job killing stories where the discussion devolves into sewer.

Unfortunately, increasingly, politics are bleeding into tech in a way that is unavoidable and very, very questionable and upsetting.

What deeply concerns me about this particular story is it really looks a case of a consensual relationship ending under the standard circumstances that consensual relationships end.

People don’t want to have sex with each other, they start being less civil to one another. People get angry and break up after personal disputes. Someone doesn’t do the laundry and dishes as much as they should. Then people fight.

Are those people now “victims” and “abusers?” I am very not ok with this terminology being used this way.

This is not a good precedent. In the last three months, a friend of mine who I deeply love was falsely accused of sexist behavior because he nearly had a nervous breakdown from working with a member of the opposite sex and asked that she be removed from his project. She then turned around and filed a harassment complaint with HR when SHE was harassing HIM!

You are not a victim if your relationship ends under standard circumstances. I am sorry, you are not. That is an expected part of being in a relationship: People do not get along sometimes.

People should not get thrown out of their projects for this. Wrong, wrong, wrong.

I read Max’s statement, the tweets sent by his accuser and the community statement and didn’t see anything to the contrary.

Did he hit her? No.
Did he rape her? No.
Did he call her names? Didn’t see a mention of it.
Where the police called? No.
Restraining order? No.
Racism? no.
Sexism? no.
Death threats? no.

So where is the beef here?

Just a vague accusation of “sexual controlling.” What the hell does that mean? He wanted to have sex with his girlfriend more than she felt comfortable with? That isn’t abuse, sorry. It’s grounds for ending a relationship, sure.

What this is doing is setting a precedent for hyper sensitivity and the weaponization of #MeToo in tech.

From the available evidence it looks like a standard relationship that didn’t work out.

Happy to change my opinion if more evidence comes out, right now this looks like a drive by reputation shooting.
This made me laugh. French Laundry is like a cultural institution in California cuisine and is actually located in Yountville. I have never been there though. Have a tough time dumping $1000 on single dinner
Copied from an argument in another thread on the same thing:

Any currency that a:

1. strong entity circulates and

2. wants back

is fundamentally valuable.

> American dollars have value because the US Government taxes things, like land, and if you do not pay those taxes they will send you mean letters (trust me) before resorting to other means (trust Al Capone). You pay these taxes in US dollars. You just having dollars does not make them valuable. And dollars are not valuable because they are backed by gold or silver or sea shells. What makes dollars valuable is that the government wants them back.

https://hackernoon.com/the-guns-of-bitcoin-1f779309a718

Ways to destroy the US dollar value: Destroy the US tax collecting power, or have the US ask for taxes in a different currency. If the US started collecting taxes in Euros, the value of the US dollar would disappear instantly.

The US is a strong entity and has no incentive to ruin the value of the dollar. It will not start collecting taxes in Euros. Or Bitcoin. Why would it give all that power away? More likely is that Bitcoin gets made illegal or very difficult to use. At the end of the day, if you have US-protected assets, you will have to pay US dollars to the US gov and this will continue to give USD value.

Bitcoin has no such strong-entity backing, so it has no fundamental value. Bitcoin people are obsessed with the idea that mere possession is important. It's not. Ask people with loads of marks or Zimbabwe dollars.
we have an answer for that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system
> Drug sale and use is not victimless. The costs vary with the type of drug and the enforcement regime but the social costs never go to zero.

The sale and consumption of sugary drinks is not victimless either, but there's a multi-billion dollar industry behind it.

You're making a great argument for regulating Coca-Cola. (And it's one I happen to agree with.)
A UFO Chicken Spaceship Coop That Is Out of This World
Because what's the alternative? You can spend weeks moving all your data to Microsoft or Apple... and suffer lost messages when people don't update their e-mail for you... and then discover they're just as bad or worse?

What's an alternative to Gmail+Drive+Apps that has as much functionality, ease of use and convenience, and at a comparable price, but guarantees you won't get locked out?
"Alloy" isn't the correct term when it comes to potential alien metallurgy. We can easily identify which elements are present in a sample. With a bit more effort we can identify the structure. That doesn't mean we can replicate the exact mix and structure.

Some metals don't mix. They mix as liquids but as they cool they crystallize differently, sometimes separating from each other. So an "alien alloy" could be a mix that was formed by some advanced tech (zero-g fabrication, strong magnetic fields etc) that we cannot replicate. Try getting a perfect crystalline mix of steel and neon. Maybe it is a miracle substance. But we don't know because we cannot fabricate such structures. If that showed up in a lab it would be "alien".

A few years ago any jet engine would contain "alien alloys" in the sense that nobody could have replicated the single-crystal structures now common in blades.
Granted, but it was still a very good TV show. Actually liked it better than Cheers.
I wanted this to be somehow related to meth making them awesome at math so I could be justified in my jealousy of the asian kids from a grade below me when I was in the advanced math which was one grade above me.
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Apple’s iPhone Slowdowns Have Customers Hurrying to Court
I saw some marketing material from a hard disk maker in the '80s that said something like 5 1/4 hard is better than 8 inches floppy.

I wonder how many complaints HR would receive nowadays if some marketing person put that in a draft they circulated for review?
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