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They bought hardware that doesn't even compare. There's a reason the iMac Pro went with the actual professional grade hardware, because that's their target. Using consumer grade and saying "look they're similar" is misleading and not a valid comparison.

Yes, the iMac Pro costs a lot of money. But if you buy the same components you're going to end up with a desktop that costs a similar amount of money, and doesn't officially run MacOS.

Of course not everyone needs the power of the iMac Pro, and most people lusting over it would probably be fine with the standard iMac. A better comparison would be with the standard iMac.

Configuring the 27" iMac with as similar specs as I can ends up being $3700. It's more expensive, the graphics card is nowhere near as good, and the CPU is a little faster, but only has 4 cores. CPU with similar speeds is -$200. It's still more expensive, but it comes much closer to the specs you chose to build the "iHac Pro" on, and uses a similar same grade of hardware.

You can also handwave away some of that price difference on the included keyboard and mouse, which your build doesn't include.
I am the sole director of a company based in the UK. Through this company I am doing some work for a company in San Francisco. All the work is done remotely but once in a while I need to go to the office. I am currently just entering in the US with a visitor/tourist visa. Theoretically, which visa should I be applying or is there a visa for that sort of temporary (less than month) work in American soil?
Tough, you mention Python specifically, related question was posted a few days ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15946136
It works - but people have been trying to submit a transaction with too little gas or too low of a gas price.
Ah OK, I had to scan the page a few times to realize it wasn't a visually interpreted form of Scratch.
The RCC has also stated that Christ might not be necessary for other species, as the redemption of mankind (Christ's purpose) was only made necessary by the Fall.
You can do all that with JS too. Wasm adds nothing extra. It's perfectly sensible to imagine wasm applications targeting the DOM (which it can do via JS, and will do natively in later releases) just like JS applications do now.
Yeah, but is that actually required? I don't know much about this, but I'd guess 90% of websites will strip this just like debug info in most proprietary software, 9% don't know about this or forget to remove it, if it's included by default and 1% consciously decides to ship it for transparency.
Gold is insanely useful as a conductive metal.
Anti-gay sex laws were judged unconstitutional in '03 (yes shockingly late). You can have sex with whomever you want, above the age of consent.
> Does the “ease of transaction” of Bitcoin provide an implicit value over gold...

I know this doesn't answer your question but it's still relevant. Currently Bitcoin is the most expensive, least convenient currency available. According to estimatefee.com it would take about a $25 fee in order to get your transaction through in an hour.

My point is that nothing about Bitcoin will ever really be "implicit" like it is with gold. Gold exists as it exists, cryptocurrencies only have the properties that are created by the developers, and/or are run on machines by participants in the network. In Bitcoin's case, the developers and the network have not been able to handle the load of all the transactions.

I used to be in the "Bitcoin is the new gold" camp. But after seeing what's happened with Bitcoin, I'm certain it's not that simple.
Is this just a design, or is there an implementation as well?

I can't find any downloads on the pages; did I miss something?
If you understand the computer science behind Bitcoin, you'll realize how ridiculous the false equivalency to gold is.

1. The claim of "rare" doesn't exactly hold true.

Consider the 10,000 BTC pizza - how did this happen? This was the direct result of Satoshi's economic policy, granting vast sums of BTC to mint out very quickly very early for a short duration to the very small pool of people who ran the software. Satoshi's algorithm produced BTC in plentiful quantities enabling the 10,000BTC pizza - thus it wasn't rare if you were Satoshi and the dozen other early whales hording as much as possible, until the algorithm begins cutting off the production and limiting later users from producing coins, starving the economy. Now there's a psychological game being played, where public relations and marketing must convince new users to buy in. Because the exchanges are unregulated, they can manipulate the spot price though wash trading and painting the tape [2] (where trades are falsified and you just sell the same item back and forth to your friend for a higher and higher price).

The supply was created by running a piece of software. It's not magic. Most of the supply was produced very early on and as much as 30% of all Bitcoins are owned by less than 100 people.

Best estimates are that there are about one million
holders of Bitcoin; 47 individuals hold about 30 percent,
another 900 hold a further 20 percent, the next 10,000
about 25% and another million about 20%, with 5% being
lost. So 1/10th of one percent represent about half the
holdings of Bitcoin and 1 percent close to 80 percent
(http://www.businessinsider.com/927-people-own-half-
of-the-bitcoins-2013-12). The concentration of Litecoin
ownership is similar
(http://litecoin-rich-list.blogspot.com).
Most of the big wallets have been in place from early on,
so sitting back and watching your capital grow has been a
very successful strategy.

The distribution of Bitcoin holdings looks much like the
distribution of wealth in North Korea and makes the
China’s and even the US’ wealth distribution look like
that of a workers’ paradise

2. Easy migration to more advanced e-cash services, LTC, XMR, ETH, so on
See: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/views/all/

3. Bitcoin network requires ASIC miners, largely centralized in China [3]. Assuming the inveitable surpassing of a more advanced cryptosytem making Bitcoin obsolete, as the market is informed there will be a decline in BTC's spot price and once this falls below the cost of OPEX for miners, the hardware goes offline and the network will cease to function. Maximalists will attempt to offer an emergency fork, in any attempt to save their "investment", just as they have developed the lightening network to create centeralized payment hubs, so "investors" can act as liquidity providors and take fees, instead of miners.

4. Electricty usage is unsustainable, GOTO 3

[1] https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/86/is-it-possibl...

http://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-inequality-2014-1

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r04gfWfRkE

[3] https://qz.com/1055126/photos-china-has-one-of-worlds-larges...
This is not the first time I've heard Australians complaining about the green lobby.

From what I understand one of the major problems Australia is the sheer distance the electricity has to travel and the infrastructure required for such a small population.

Solar power seems such an obvious choice, yet many Australians seem to be against it.
Unfortunately, your H-1B is tied to your current employer so you would need an H-1B through your own company to work for it.
You have that choice with the iMac too, you just get the regular iMac instead of the iMac Pro.
The "Some already do" part seems awfully unnecessary.
Not OP, but I've gone through the E3 process a couple times. First as a change of status, second as a new applicant. You have to prove two things: 1) the job is a specialty occupation, and 2) that you possess the necessary skills and qualifications for the position. The rest of the application is a walk in the park.

Regarding the general perception of E3, I've found that very few people in the U.S. know about the E3 visa class. You may need to educate your employer a little.
Thank you Mozilla for continuing to support Thunderbird!!!
The "editor token" is also a program that Realtalk recognizes. It's just a small program that says "I am an editor named X" - you then point the token at the code you want to edit and then use a text editor to make those changes. I've seen people use laptops, iPads, and other Realtalk programs to make the edits.

The important thing to keep in mind is that everything in Dynamicland is, well, dynamic. Right now, editor tokens are just normal Realktalk programs printed on paper, but in the future the might be a different physical object. Right now you edit the coded using a text editor, but in the future you might use a pen to write code directly on paper, or perhaps you'd re-arrange physical objects that represented blocks of code, etc ...
> Everyone and their uncle knows a crash is coming

A crash is always coming. Be it stock market or bitcoin. Everyone knows that but nobody knows when. It is just like saying we all are gonna die. Nobody knows when.
the main issue is the refresh rate. A while ago there was a kickstarter for the Hemingwrite [1] which looked to be heading down the right path.

It's surprising to me that the Yota phone [2] design didn't catch on. Having both a normal screen and an eink screen would be a killer feature, since most of what I do with my phone is text based and doesn't require any color.

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/astrohaus/hemingwrite-a...

[2] https://yotaphone.com/gb-en/
When revising you also need to make sure that the motherboard and CPU support ECC.
There are now more than 200k pending Bitcoin transactions
There's an exception of sorts: if a B-1 visitor is coming to the U.S.to set up a business in anticipation of applying for an E-1 or E-2 visa, then this is permissible.
Owning property is the exercise of a fundamental American right. It has nothing to do with cost. Try telling a rural Alabama homeowner how "luxurious" a life he leads over a market-rate renter in Union Square NYC, where the rent would easily be 3X the total mortgage + tax + insurance of the former.
Banks Find Success Suing Over Data Breaches
here's my side project I just finished: http://www.eggie5.com/126-semantic-image-search-video

Semantic Image Search: takes high dimensional images vectors from a Deep Convolutional Neural Network and searches for similar images using Locality Sensitivity Hashing.

Search is O(1) + O(n/B) where the last term is a small fraction, B, of the complete search space n.

The goal was an E2E machine learning project: modeling, training, validation, deployment and serving. Using VGG-mased CNN w/ tensorflow, redis for database, Flask for web frontend , tensorflow serving and docker+kubernetes for orchestration.

It all works on my local machine but when I went to deploy it to my prod website the tensorflow serving part broke down and I haven't had time to fix it yet :(

It was just supposed to be a one weekend project after I got the inspiration from the AlexNet paper, but it took over a month. Most of the time was fighting k8s.

So another data science project doesn't make it to production...
Yes, sorry. It will project a red line on the paper.
You can't find another precious metal that will have the rarity of gold and it's "non deterioration" property, both that made gold what it is (it's also a really useful commodity).

But i agree that's not enough to defend against competitors like Bitcoin, but the same cannot be said of Bitcoin. Other than sociological factors (that are arguably much stronger on gold), there's nothing that would help it defend against others e-coins.
In spite of the fact that the DVD service has declined in availability, it still IMO makes a lot of sense to keep a steady stream of content coming into the house that I've deliberately chosen to watch. It's a good way, for example, to watch Oscar winners and other movies I know I want to see when they're available. I have a minimal grandfathered plan and it works for me to have two DVDs a month arrive in my mailbox.
Another critical difference is that there are commodity uses of gold. The price of gold will never go to zero; it might go to $100 or $10 per oz if all speculation and hoarding were removed from the market but it wouldn't go to $0.
Why do I have to build side projects and memorize algorithm trivia to prove to employers that I know enough to do a job? What's the value of my degree if it doesn't tell employers that I know what I'm talking about? Why are software engineers the only ones with this problem (can you imagine if doctors had to memorize random trivia to get a job)?
I've almost always referred to prickly pears by their colloquial Spanish name, tuna, but that gets pretty confusing to non-Spanish speakers.
Gold is definitely useful for building the spacecraft going to Mars though. They cover the entire spacecraft in the stuff.

It might be too useful for Mars to use as reserve!

https://www.itmtrading.com/blog/aerospace-gold-the-next-fron...
https://www.geek.com/news/geek-answers-why-does-nasa-use-so-...
Here's another interesting idea, then: what if aliens arrive tomorrow, and the first thing out of their mouths is: "Greetings! We have received your radio transmissions and have come to worship the one true God, Jesus Christ, with you."
Firstly, I didn't downvote you. Secondly, I don't know what point you're trying to prove. The people that create frameworks for Haxe have their own priorities, if those priorities don't align with your own that doesn't mean they lack merit for those that use them. Haxe has been used to create a number of successful apps and games. Instead of just looking for weaknesses, try also looking for strengths, try understanding why developers are choosing to use it.
Internal company stuff doesn't really help other than possibly to bolster that you're playing an "essential role" for your company. If you want me to drill down deeper and get into the specifics, send me your CV.
Because discrimination doesn't affect you you don't care about it. That isn't "live and let live", that's "I've got mine so who cares about anyone else". It's one thing to not be able to put effort into every issue, but it's another to try and claim those issues don't exist and discount the experiences of people who have actually been affected by it.
An awesome way to get involved building OSS for radiologists (and win prizes)
There aren't that many metals that behave similarly to Gold.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_metal
GDP per capital is a terrible measure of average wealth. Qatar's GDP Per Capital is $59,330 per person, and alternates between oil billionares and people who live on $10 a day.
How realistic is it for a not quite 1yr old, 5ppl startup in the US (with funding) to sponsor a J-1 internship visa? Candidate is from Europe, will finish his MSc soon, and wants to do a 6mt internship.
I guess the question should be rephrased then as "how much have the current owners of bitcoin collectively exchanged for their coins?" This question also becomes more interesting when you factor in every coin that has been mined but not yet exchanged for money. I believe the GP is correct in guessing that the number will be much smaller than the current market cap of BTC
My Nexus 6P (France, Dec. 2015) came with

1) USB-C fast charger

2) USB-C cable

3) USB-C to USB-A cable

No adapter whatsoever. I assume it's the exact same as anywhere in the world. Therefore it seems USB-C is considered an acceptable next standard for phone charging in the EU.

On a side-related note, I wonder why Apple was never subjected to charging standards in the EU.
This 'on-paper' build should also mention the massive PITA from software updates when an OS update hoses your installation to a point where it won't even boot. Updating macOS on Hackintoshes is like playing with fire.
Then it's no different than minimized javascript...
Judge the content not the man.
> Everywhere people had the choice between what they were doing before and agriculture they either chose agriculture or they died out.

Once the agricultural revolution began, the extra food allowed the population to grow rapidly, forcing people to keep up with agriculture lifestyle to stay fed and survive - they couldn't just back out.

If anyone finds it interesting, I strongly recommend reading "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari - a very insightful book that also talks pretty extensively about the flaws of the agricultural revolution.
Of course. But to correct, one can apply for a green card while in E-2 status.
I chuckled, because some cities have gone that way, but then their cost advantage also did too. There's room for a healthy balance if people want to acknowledge and discuss some differences with respect to the other side's opinion. It's when we stop listening and looking for common ground when there are problems.
I understand the complaint. Let me put it this way: how would you feel if your ISP was delaying your connections to a subset of websites for a few seconds? It wouldn't violate any specs, as far as I know. But a lot of people have expressed the sentiment that they don't want middlemen messing with websites. It's not clear to me that Firefox qualifies as an exception to the rule, especially if this becomes something other browsers adopt.
Accusers getting more money isn't good for the public. Incentive to settle without a fair trial in something as serious as sexual assault is not only not good for the public, it's bad for the public. Due process exists for a damn good reason.

Preventing sexual assaults is good for the public, publicizing cases of sexual assaults may well have a tendency to do that.

Based on your arguments above, I would come to the conclusion that NDAs on this should be banned. But I haven't thought enough about the topic to conclude that there aren't successful counter arguments.
Thanks for bringing us up, Jared! One thing I'd emphasize is that our approach is to use technology to empower lawyers to offer better advice and service, not to replace them. There's a lot in immigration that can be automated, but the difference between a good and a great lawyer is meaningful in many scenarios.
Regarding cryptocurrencies - if we were to create an ICO for purchase, what would we need to consider from the legal perspective (beyond the consideration of registering it as a security)?
I live there now. I get called homophobic slurs while riding my bike to work. I get coal rolled. People swerve at me in their trucks attempting to assault me. And I live in a university city.

For what it's worth I am not gay, I just have the audacity to not always drive my car. And then there are the culture warriors in the state legislature, doing things like prohibiting municipalities from passing their own non-discrimination ordinances that include gender and sexuality.

And then there are the confederate battle flags plastering trucks and houses all over the rural areas that surround my city in this very northern state. And the wildly increased incidences of bias crimes.

No, I think there are plenty of issues that currently affect the Midwest, and while it may have certain redeeming aspects, we're not doing the region any favors by glossing over the ugliness.
OT.

I think we need to standardize the sarcasm tag on the Internet.

Not one of those RFC that no one implements, but something concrete, perhaps baked into the HTML standard. (If the W3C include DRM, they can include sarcasm).

Or maybe something like ISO, but people ignore them too.

/S
There’s a reason why Max Planck said:

> “A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”
I doubt this will take off, because developers seem to prefer Javascript as a language.

On the server where there is a choice of several languages both interpreted and compiled, Nodejs is still very popular. If there were a war against Javascript people would be moving away from Node.

My guess is that this is going to be another niche, underutilised technology (like WebRTC or even SVG) that is efficient leads to highly optimised products, and but lacks mainstream usage.
Great news, made my day! It is the one usable mail client for Linux.
It shouldn't be up to the browser to implement web standards? What should browsers be doing then?
What ?

SNCF is often pretty cheap.

Also Uber X seems pretty similar in France and in the US to me. It is not all big black cars.
It's possible but the requirements are a bit stricter.
>You can't find another precious metal that will have the rarity of gold and it's "non deterioration" property, both that made gold what it is (it's also a really useful commodity).

platinum. i will agree that gold is easier to tell apart (it's yellow) than platinum. although realistically that's a moot point because you're going to want to do chemical tests when dealing in non-trivial amounts of precious metals.
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Great news!!! Thanks for keeping TB alive for us loyal users. Just yesterday I tried the 58beta and some problems I had with Lightning not loading properly after some restarts, disappeared. The visual refresh with the flat UI was also a nice change. Wish I could contribute...
Maybe it’s cheaper, but more importantly it’s simpler and there’s no need to wonder whether something you want to watch has disappeared because of some contractual gyrations.
"So I'd agree that the sum of all e-coins will surpass gold, but I see no reason for Bitcoin to do it alone."

We could pick any number of gold-like commmodities, but like Bitcoin, gold has had a history of large expenditures to acquire it. Both are buoyed by that past.

So many tokens and blockchains are coming out with incremental improvements or niche capabilities, but in the end I think consolidation of market cap is inevitable. I think it ends up Bitcoin as store of value, Ethereum as contracts/api and a large amount of application specific token/chains. Most applications would be backed by ethereum (like most tokens are now), but ones like Ripple could definitely be top 5.
I've been suspicious for some time that the US federal government believes that there is likely to be sort of major societal upset in the near future. I can't imagine that it would be "Disclosure", though. I don't know what it could be.
Thanks, great discussion and great points. I agree on all of them, but the part about space sticks in my brain. While I think it's correct, imo it's only looking at one side of the long-term-human-survival coin.

>In the long view, only one lifestyle choice leads to a population that can survive the next dinosaur killing asteroid impact.

A nice future to imagine, but it's hardly a foregone conclusion. The future might lead there, or it might lead elsewhere.

In the real world it's looking like business-as-usual kills the civilization (but not the human species) before we get a chance to re-enact Deep Impact. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMmChiLZZHg

Expanding into space doesn't help us if we proceed to destroy our habitats on a finite time-scale (which is all "unsustainable" means: that it cannot continue for some reason). And we haven't figured out how to avoid that in an industrial society, which is necessary for living in space. New planets don't help if every civilization you establish on them inevitably collapses. Expanding through space can't be used to maintain a non-zero exponential growth rate either, if for no other reason than that the available volume of space only grows as t^3.

Ultimately we must BOTH establish a completely sustainable, steady-state (capable of 0% growth indefinitely) global civilization AND expand into space, or perish as a species. Neither is sufficient on its own.

Agriculture does seem to help the latter, but it hurts the former. Seeing as how we haven't actually retired the asteroid risk yet, and yet we have introduced at least two new existential risks (nuclear war and environmental degradation/climate change), I'd say we're not looking that great in the long view.

Our current score seems to be two steps backwards, one [hypothetical] step forwards.