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> but I also disagree with the idea of removing all kind of monetary power from the hands of governments

I don't have enough expertise or moral authority to say for sure whether that would be good or not. Governments fought very hard to get substantially increased monetary power during the 20th century, and the world that followed is a pretty good place. For all the bad news we hear, violence, starvation, disease and other metrics of badness are near historic lows. Some attribute those gains largely to government action, but I think a lot of the improvements were social and technological. As an example, better access to information makes people aware that those who employ violence usually don't get good results, so others are less likely to do so.

What I do feel fairly confident in saying is that for better or worse, it's fairly likely to happen. Here's the approximate scenario I see playing out:

First, a cryptocurrency becomes somewhat popular for actual use as a currency. It won't be Bitcoin. It might not even be one that exists yet, but it will happen sooner or later. It need not be universally accepted, but if you can buy groceries, fuel and a cup of coffee in most major cities on one or more continents, that will be sufficient.

Next, there needs to be a financial crisis affecting that continent. These happen every couple decades. It's a near certainty. Bonus points for runs on banks, slowness or failure of protection mechanisms like FDIC, rapid inflation or political instability.

The next step is that people start using the cryptocurrency in preference to the government currency, banks and payment cards. Of course, the government might want to prevent this, but any actual attempt at enforcing a ban would meet great resistance from the significant fraction of the population already using it.

I'm not sure what follows. I have little doubt that parts of the transition will be quite ugly. I hope the improvements the world has made survive it.
To be honest, the very last thing I want to do when I'm on vacation is to code...

I'm a professional software engineer, I do it enough day to day.
Actually, we should totally have scaling figured out in the design stage. You can’t buy it as an add-on
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This is from NHS Improvement - a bit of the English NHS that's set up to regulate some health trusts, and to support trusts to provide "consistently safe, high quality, compassionate care within local health systems that are financially sustainable".

I'm submitting it because there are frequent discussions on HN about opioids, and this document is written from the perspective of a patient and her preventable, avoidable, death.
So what we are discussing is externalities.

For example you might have a land owner and a factory, and both parties involved are perfectly happy for the factory to pump toxic waste straight into the ground. Neither party wants the police involved.

The economic exchange is between two mutually cooperative parties, but... they are often not the only ones affected by the trade. Which is why we regulate pollutants.
Don't play ignorant.

The lightning network is no where near the availability to be used by everyone. Blockstream is trying to get it out as fast as they can, and they are trying, but it's not adopted yet, despite years of development and promotion.

https://medium.com/@luxushub/the-truth-about-blockstream-and...

The lightning network is backed by Blockstream, which employs the most core devs. Blockstream plans to make their profits by making fees off of providing lightning network channels to exchanges.
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I had a hypothesis that altcoins would go up when Bitcoin weakens. Due to people moving their money there instead of holding BTC. But seems everyone sells off to fiat? Or something else keeps the prices strongly linked? At least for these quick drops
That's incorrect. Gold became valuable in historic times because of its awesome properties as a metal: Doesn't rust, easy malleable, beautiful without much processing(i.e. compared to rough steel), high conductivity of electricity and heat... etc..

At some point, on some societies, things like rare sea shells, or big stones, were used as currency, but they didn't survive times for a good reason: No real use in real life.

Same with bitcoin, unless it starts having real use in real life, it wont survive. People buy it because they expect it will go up. It is like the Kim Kardashian of currencies, popular just because it is popular. But once that expectation is broken (i.e. of bitcoin always rising in value), than the downspiral starts.
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Crime-fighting robot retired after launching alleged ‘war on the homeless’
I’m playing with some weird ideas I’ve had for Q-Learning, not sure they will work, but it’s time to play. I’m finihing up some satellite imagery stuff to go into my product https://hydrachain.io/ and I bought Id spend a bit more time reading Quantum Computing since Democratis because I’m finding it quite a challenging book and I love it
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If lightning network includes tech that can support billions of transactions, can it be used without bitcoin? Why not use lighting with an uncongested coin?
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The usage of "Plex" also confused me as to what this was.
The sores are due to meth/coke use, not radiation, apparently:

https://www.reddit.com/r/creepy/comments/29jtyo/david_hahn_a...
What's the alternative though? It's not like Microsoft and Yahoo's email/calendar services are much better. Use a paper calendar and run your own private email server and hope you never have to run for president?
If you already adopt it as a store of value it can be convenient to use it also for payment if:

- it is convenient

- has low transaction fees

- fast

But I agree, store of value is the most realistic mainstream usecase of cryptos.
Totally. My perceptics rundown indicates that the real thetans are moving things forward to clear the planet with heavy upstat bitcoin momentum. Mining coin helps me to audit my preclears and be a more on-source being.

Either that or I've been reading too much sci fi.
Not sure which. Xenu knows!! :D :D
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I may not be using the proper terminology here, but would I be correct in restating this as:

The underlying value of the asset is just one component, but the vehicle the asset is traded through can change that value equation by adding or removing its own value.
In Germany we have public, non-commercial television channels for kids like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KiKa
Is there any real benefit to this change? It seems like a wash for men and a serious increase to cyber-stalking for women.
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Would love to try this! xrb_3tbyqsweoq4zjgkboy4fy4f744iskp8ijniixtgt6hjoannj9r3o4r3x5ann

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You must have been moving over $5000. 1% of 5000 is still $50.

The minimum fee for me yesterday was 0.004btc (about $55), the suggested fee was 0.008btc (about $112), and the priority fee was prohibitively high. My hd wallet had 3 inputs though which increases the fee. When I sent with the minimum fee, it stayed unconfirmed for a little over a day before it flat fell off the network. When I resent it with the suggested fee ($112), it stayed unconfirmed for several hours until the early morning when it started getting confirmations finally.
What competitive advantage would Blockstream have? Why would exchanges not peer directly? It is all open source protocols and software. There are three major implementations to choose from.
I would love to try this out! xrb_3tbyqsweoq4zjgkboy4fy4f744iskp8ijniixtgt6hjoannj9r3o4r3x5ann

Thank you! :)
Well, I realize you may be playing devil's advocate, otherwise I'm sure you know the answer yourself: why do you (as you said before) limit your kids screen time? Do you also limit their book reading time?
a similar but much more pronounced thing happened in 2013 when MtGox was hacked and the Bitcoin price crashed. people will rush back in to try and make a quick buck
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> that does not consult the Bible before deciding whether to allow your payment or not.

or the HRC either, for that matter.
Ah, I see the article has been updated. The details on the stock side of the transaction were not in there when I read the article yesterday.
I wouldn't say excellent encapsulation. It's just normal to use sub directories to split things. The project was over ten millions lines of python.
Scrubs.
All agreed. So, if you're holding common stock sit tight and don't sign anything, a better offer is likely just around the corner.
What advantage? The fact that they designed and developed it, and are first movers, and it's their entire business model?

How does github.com even make money? git is open source. Redhat? Linux is open source.
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JFYI, in Belarus we are not "White Russians", but we historical Lithuania. Please not blame us with moscowitians. We are not so wild.
http://history-belarus.by/images/img-events/blood_potop/hmel...
That's what it was roughly worth before the hyperdeflation started.

I put my money on waiting until after Tether [1] fraud gets exposed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tether_(cryptocurrency)
It doesn't matter how many cosponsors you have if the bill is never brought to a vote
As soon as they saw that they could make one spoonful of popcorn expand into almost 50 spoonfulls with little added cost...
USD beats BTC in all of those features.
Which AI architecture has perfect recall, in a way that actually makes use of this information?
Pretty sure AlphaGo etc does not make use of memory at all.
>but it’s so obvious as to be unhelpful

You'd be surprised at the number of people who would proclaim "I'm rich!" and then the stock market tanks before they sell.

It is obvious, yes, but only if you actually give it a moment of thought. Many people don't.
> It seems like a wash for men

You seriously think this is consequence free for men? Thats... pretty amazingly unimaginative.
Not a native English speaker. In my dictionary "plex" has the meaning of "many things". Also I heard of googleplex. And the software manages many git repositories, so I use the name "GitPlex".
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Apple faces lawsuits over slowed iPhones
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Slow relative to learning the interesting bits. It took three years to get to FA? Seriously? That's a glacial pace relative to solving real world problems.

I agree you came out of it far better prepared, but drowning you in math for math's sake was merely hazing. Mostly.

Regarding your financial point: it's remarkable how hard it is for the upper echelon to empathize. It's not about the money. The money doesn't matter. It's the whole way of life leading up to college that kills you. The mindset. The motivations. The infighting. Being sent to some small religious school in the middle of nowhere because your dad thought religion was going to take over the world and it was super important for you to know a thing or two about god, then being tormented there because you're the only one in a school of 300 with an intellectual curiosity.

You think you would've stood a chance in an unfair fight? :)

Your mom and dad are owed a debt of gratitude. Family structure is the basis of power in life.
tl;dr: younger coins have fewer miners, so they are more susceptible to 51% attack. In particular BCash has same hash function as BTC, so those BTC miners could easily switch into mining BCash, and so is even more at risk.
In the era of cloud services, if it's not on your hard drive you could ultimately lose access to it at any time. People tend to think about reasons like companies shutting down services, getting acquired, etc. but this brings up an entirely new class of ways you could lose access to your cloud info: Locking yourself out. Maybe you forgot the password, your password manager had a bug, or the account was with an old school or work email you no longer have access to. This may seem silly but as a dev I forget my passwords for things all the time. Imagine how this kind of technological shift impacts a non-technical person.
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Yep. Then do that over temperature. Then model the statistical variations.
I'd rather see merchants use Ripple until this whole BCash/Bitcoin war is settled and scalability is solved since it's faster. But yeah BCash transactions were less than 8 cents when I tried it.
Losing 9% instead of 37% is quite some outperformance. Let’s say you started with $100: ending with $91 is 44% more than ending with $63.
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Go and haskell are targeted at a different level of abstraction than an OS lives at.I don't know much about crystall but I has a GC.
Yet Torvalds runs neither of those businesses. What is your point here?
This is a big thing people don't always get at first with Grid. It only replaces Flexbox where Flexbox was being used in a convoluted way to imitate what Grid does. It doesn't replace the more "natural" use of Flexbox to control the direction, spacing, and sizing of what for want of a better term I'll call "things in lines that may wrap".
The was a long winded explanation of a 51% attack lol.

Was the author just talking about hashrate switching? Any solutions for exchanges or merchants such as just increasing the confirmations required?

Any interest in bitcoin cash changing it's algorithm?
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Adding rule-based sticky routing to the Traefik reverse proxy. The idea is to write rules to route all requests matching a certain URL, query string, or HTTP header to the same backend server.

This would allow for caching or synchronization in a distributed application to happen in memory on an app server instead of always going back to the database or Redis.

https://github.com/containous/traefik/pull/2613
Outrage culture at its finest; then again, it's The Verge, so I'm hardly surprised.

The author has absolutely no argument apart from a dubious anecdote by a reddit user. It also cleverly ignores every counter-example out there, e.g.: Tinder uses real names, Bumble uses real names, Hinge uses real names. I mean, by its own admission, the article is much ado about nothing: "Via email, a company spokesperson told The Verge that OKCupid won’t require legal names, but the shift is already unpopular with users."

What's the difference between a non-legal name and a web handle? That you can use underscores and numbers in the latter? Why are people getting mad, again?
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The Simpsons has some intros that push up to and sometimes over two minutes in length. Sure, they're often clever and do take time and money to create, but it's still time taken from the actual show.

Supernatural or Lost are good examples of how an intro should be. Literally just the name of the show on the screen for a few seconds, no theme music that gets annoying halfway through the season, no montage of the characters tromping around a fountain, just skip to the show.
No... large numbers of people committed fraud. Countrywide, and one of its execs, were convicted of fraud in one of the egregious examples of "the hustle". The problem was an appeals court overturned the conviction in an inexplicable decision:

https://www.propublica.org/article/us-attorney-asks-court-to...
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Building a Social Network #1: Login
Thanks for the remind. Get it corrected now.
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Primitive Technology: Pottery and Stove
This is a cool (if not particularly new) paper. Interestingly enough, the [vector library][0] mentioned in the paper isn't just a research project - it is one of the most widely used Haskell libraries for vector.

That said, I am saddened by the state of vectorization in GHC. AFAICT it seems all but abandoned [1]. I think there is some hope on this front in the recent progress that has been made on the LLVM backend (producing good input code for LLVM, and choosing the most fruitful LLVM optimization passes) [2].

[0]: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/vector
[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/51gvxl/whatever_happened_to_automatic_vectorization_in/
[2]: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/ImprovedLLVMBackend
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Yes, any coin that has segwit or a comparable fix for malleability can use lightning. Litecoin is already supported. You can even have atomic swaps between both over lightning channels.
There is no mining. The currency is minerless and feeless. There's a limited supply of coins that exists already, and there won't be any more.
This should be on the homepage in big bold letters
I use google apps for email and a couple other services but do monthly google takeout downloads of all my data for this reason.
SciFi channel once aired the original uncut TOS episodes. Each episode took an hour and fifteen minute time slot. Shows how much commercials have increased since than...
Disclosure: I loved how math was normally presented: Layer upon layer of abstraction, connected by proofs. Hog heaven.

But most people hate it that way. So I wonder if a better way to present statistics is to start with a random number generator and graphs. In fact, despite my love of equations, these days I haul out the random number generator anyway, to check whether my equations make sense.
Be honest, the only thing you might know is who you think comments. You know literally nothing about who just reads the site, none of us do.
This might be true but I much prefer product placement which doesn't interfere with the show than having the show be interrupted to see an ad.
I think you're arguing the wrong way around.

Useful PoW is totally fine for a cryptocurrency the same way useless PoW is - you have to solve a particular instance of some kind of problem, not just "computation that you were going to do already". I think Primecoin is a good example: the general problem that's being solved for mining happens to have a useful byproduct, but you still have to provide PoW on the particular instance that is on the chain.

Even Bitcoin has provided useful work for a very weak definition: it has created incentives for MASSIVE research and development in cracking or otherwise breaking SHA-256. I don't know where I could find data, but I would bet that there's an inflection point in "crack speed" around 2009, and that further progress probably correlates pretty well with the USD-BTC exchange rate.
Those other websites don't have extensive question lists encouraging users to reveal sensitive information about their political, religious and sexual interests.

People who are interested in kink, for example, are highly represented on OkCupid because they can advertise it without worrying about being identified by co-workers, family members, fellow church-goers and whatnot; similarly they typically don't want to be stalked by strangers either.

There's also the problem of uncommon names. This handle is my actual legal name, a decision I made years ago that I frequently think of as both profoundly liberating and incredibly stupid.

The name "Jacques" is quite uncommon in the USA and the Anglosphere generally. I'm aware of this because my name has been mispronounced and misspelled for my entire life. Even though it is a common western European name, I fully expect that I will be reported from time to time and occasionally removed.

At which point, what am I meant to do? Scan my passport?
> Memory performance decreases with increasing age. Cannabis can reverse these ageing processes in the brain. This was shown in mice by scientists at the University of Bonn with their colleagues at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel).

Directly contradicts previous reports of memory loss from extended Cannabis use.[1]

Who do you believe? It's starting to sound like those 'studies' and 'research' on coffee, eggs, wine, etc. 1 day it's good for you, another day, it kills you.

[1] Source: See the first few results from reputed sources in this search => https://www.google.com/search?q=cannabis+memory+loss
No one trust the reviews written on the site. They could be easily faked, along with reputation, in most (all, in different ways) DarkNetMarkets. You have to research on communities (on the "white" web, reddit for example) where each sellers has feedback, and famous ones got their products verified by indipendent company.
I dunno, I read the article and the "guy a thousand miles away" gave pretty damn good reasoning why it'd be short work to identify and categorize "alien alloys".

Or do you have an actual argument as to why these materials couldn't be readily identified and studied by competent physicists using well known technology?
What is Blockstream's business model?
IPVM Analysis on the deal https://ipvm.com/reports/amazon-blink based on our testing of multiple Blink and Amazon camera models
FQXi essay contest: what is “fundamental”?
Probably not as it's the equivalent of `$pkg install texlive-full' (or whatever) on basically all distributions you'd use for a workstation.
Solving SVMs using proximal gradient methods
Analysis of Amazon Acquires Blink
Actually, yes. My mother and I were driving late one night on a deserted road. We saw a light in the sky, like a spotlight but very small. I remember how strange it looked, completely unlike anything in the night sky.

The most remarkable part was next. The Spotlight was hovering in the sky completely still. Then it started moving to the right. And finally it accelerated and then went out. We both just looked at each other.

I've thought about it a lot over the years. There is a completely benign, logical explanation. I just can't quite find it. It definitely didn't look anything like a meteorite burning up.
At least ads are honest and you can tune out.

Product Placement is like a landmine, I'm watching the show when they spring an ad out of the blue and kill any semblance of suspension of disbelief.
seriously, thank you for mentioning this. Great app!
Not an OKC user but this seems silly and petty; I presume they've hit some sort of ceiling in user engagement and think that this will let them break through it.

Thing is, those silly usernames tell me something about who I'd be dating if I were a user; there's nothing wrong with someone having a cheesy name if it helps them find love with someone who has a similarly cheesy take.

Also, it's bizarre that a site like OK Cupid thinks words like sexy and lover are somehow 'dirty' (according to their own blog announcement).
Some games have thousands of items/buffs/abilities. If the data for these is not included in the client (it sometimes is, usually for item descriptions) then it's basically impossible. The same applies to the damage algorithm. You cannot replicate the original game without the server code. You're basically building your own custom game that merely happens to share the same UI if you proceed to reverse engineer the server.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say minstrel shows were disgusting and mean-spirited enough that the historical context that contained them was overpowered by its own characterizing foulness. Would be a pretty stomach churning thing to see today even without knowledge of the history. Definitely a coherent metaphor, in the same way 'grammar nazi' is -- conflating style but not magnitude.