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It's about increasing productivity, which saves time (hassle, etc). Time is among our scarcest of resources.

Imagine not having to chop wood for your fireplace. Wouldn't that be amazing, to save such time? The natural gas and or electricity company is going to learn something about your lifestyle.

Imagine if you could tap your smartphone and easily get a taxi. That seems like it could be extremely useful. But then the company is going to learn something about you.

Imagine ordering a pizza or other takeout and giving them a form of payment other than cash. That'd be super convenient, not having to only carry cash all the time and being able to order online. But then the company knows something about you, such as what food you like to order and when.

Imagine buying a car from Tesla or a dealer and getting it routinely serviced. Of course now they're going to know how many miles you put on it and they'll learn something about you from how you treat your vehicle, the condition of its interior, etc. The gas station and charging station too, is going to know how often you fill up. But geez it'd be amazing if we had automobiles.

Imagine if we had trains, airplanes and buses that could haul large numbers of people very efficiently. That'd be pretty cool, what a hassle it would save not having to walk or ride a horse for 1,000 km. Of course, then lots of companies and government agencies are probably going to learn something about you every time you purchase a bus ticket, every time you get on a plane.

Imagine going to the blacksmith, the store, or Amazon.com, and ordering cookware and not having to craft your own. What a staggering savings of time that would be. But then the blacksmith might learn something about your lifestyle.

I don't see much creepy about what the parent said. It's a concentrated form of the types of technological productivity gains you're using on a constant basis in modern life and throughout your day, and humans have been using since the beginning.

Nearly every single thing you touch on a daily basis that is made by people is conceptually similar to what the parent is doing in terms of boosting automation / productivity. From using a pencil you bought at Target to the drink you buy at the convenience store, you're doing the same thing, and they all involve some trade-off (most of which are entirely meaningless).
Super glad to see this book getting some love. It's horribly good... Ignore the YAF branding and read it as a novella if you're interested.
You shouldn't overlook it; you should absolutely call out news sources when they're being intellectually dishonest.

But that doesn't change the fact that if we don't transition to renewable energy, we will wreck the planet, at least wrt humans surviving on it. The cost doesn't really matter when you consider that aspect.
The clearest similarity, I'd say, is that so many people don't understand what they're buying, so they go by a vague story and a price trend and guessing the mass psychology of other investors. That can't end well.

I think in both cases there was tremendous real potential, but it's hard to pick out in the moment, even with a technical background -- there's more to winning than technology.
"it's not a bubble because the people at the top are doing very well and some people missed out"

Fantastic argument!
> You should not avoid sending emails from fear of unsubscribes, an inactive mailing list is worth as much as a mailing list with zero subscribers.

This behavior is what caused me to ask. I feel like I don't send emails frequently enough, in part because I am averse to getting unsubscribes. But of course the optimal unsubscribe rate is not zero, and having an unsubscribe rate that is too low can be just as bad as having an unsubscribe rate that is too high.
My argument was specific to Bitcoin, not against cryptocurrency as a technology.
Bitcoin can be cloned the same way Facebook can be cloned. You could spend a billion dollars copying Facebook's features and spend a billion marketing it, and you'd still fail.

The mining network behind it, the developer ecosystem working on wallets/libraries/services, etc. is the hard part to copy. It's worth the most, therefore it attracts the most time and attention, which helps to maintain its value. It may not be the best from a technical standpoint, but the size of it ensures a healthy financial incentive to improve upon it, which we're seeing now with layered scaling efforts (lightning network).
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This article is a puff piece where the author tried to make a connection where there is none.

I took fitness classes for awhile and taught them for 10 years. Most organized fitness classes except for cycling were so choreographed that you could never get in the zone because you had to spend so much time thinking about what to do next and keeping up with the instructor.

I found the people taking the classes to be so judgemental at the higher end clubs and corporate clubs. They would not take classes if the person teaching didn't "look" like an instructor. I didn't look like the typical instructor - I was short muscular and aggressive. But that was a benefit.
Just got a brand new battery today after 2 years of usage thanks to your comment.

Thank you. You just saved me 80$ from paying to replace it myself.

Now I can justify to myself that it pays to read hacker news ;)
Everything I said applies to Bitcoin, which is arguably the most legitimate instance of cryptocurrency.
> Trump coined the term "fake news"

Trump did not, in fact, coin the term “fake news”.
I can find plenty of sources saying that it isn’t profitable (there are too many to list here). I did look after reading his comment and found exactly 0 credible sources showing that it is currently profitable without subsidies today, and I looked again after reading your comment and still found nothing even when using the exact search you suggested. In fact the entire SERP for the one you suggested, with the exception of one article that suggests that offshore wind power might soon be profitable, has links to articles essentially saying that wind power is economically doomed.

Am I (along with the rest of the world, who would be dancing in the streets, dedicating trillions of dollars to deploying wind towers in every corner of the earth at this very moment, and writing thousands of credible articles about how the world’s energy problems have been solved if this were true) missing something?

Edit: the green folks are coming in and downvoting these comments like crazy. Could one of you please justify your downvote by replying with a link to a credible article that shows wind energy to be profitable without subsidies in non-exceptional places? I think everyone would love to see it, including myself! Google doesn’t seem to know about this very special, world-changing article. Perhaps it is protected with an overly aggressive robots.txt.
It reminded me how we failed to raise funding and one of the investors said that doing business together with my wife was a red flag for him because "wives ruin startups."

Probably it was the same for others but they didn't say it explicitly. Oh, well.
Can I purchase that Neal Stephenson novel with bitcoin?
This is an exceptionally facile analysis.

YC-type people don't benefit from the VC system; YC is a subversion of the VC system, an effort to organize promise founders against the interests of VCs. Ceteris paribus, every YC founder would rather raise 5MM in an ICO than to raise them in capped notes or (even worse) directly from a VC.

If ICOs actually mainstream, YC itself gets more valuable, not less, as they control essentially the only noteworthy credentialing system for startups. Not to mention, they'll be the locus of all the selling-picks-to-prospectors activity that will follow.

Meanwhile: "congratulations" if you made money by buying and "hodling" back when 1 BTC was $1. People made money on Pets.com, too. So did the banksters who made money reselling bogus AAA MBS's. Nobody doubts that you can win large sums of money gambling on the actions of the greater fool.

But: it looks to me like most of the concerns raised by Bitcoin critics have played out as expected. Decentralized? No. Bitcoin is controlled by a small, self-interested group of big-time players. Currency? No. Bitcoin is a speculative asset. Seamless way to transfer funds? What are transaction fees for Bitcoin now? Here's approximately the trajectory of Bitcoin: in 2012, you could buy a pizza with it in 1-2 cities. In 2017, you can't.

And, as predicted, tens of other organizations have come up with their own competing cryptocurrencies. Many of them are objectively more sound than Bitcoin. But we're all meant to pretend that somehow, 1 BTC is worth $15,000 because it really is worth that, and not because Bitcoin is a distributed pump-and-dump scam.
Having to say "OK, Google" instead of just "Google" (or "Alexa") is a deal-breaker.

Google's products don't feel like they are designed by humans.
The problem with Bitcoin is that the transaction rate/cost has been a problem for years now and the core dev team isn't budging.
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No, these are by Nestle, M&Ms are by Mars.

The chocolate tastes different as well. (I like them better personally, but rarely get to Canada to restock.)
I agree. I'm using Firefox mobile and can't find a way to make this actually monospaced.
I'm interested to hear your definition of "especially obnoxious" ads that fits adsense. And no, "all ads" doesn't count.

Unless adsense has gotten worse since I last looked? I don't pay a whole lot of attention to the advertising space.
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Nearly instant transfer at low cost?
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That is cool, but the reason the existing monetary system doesn't have those properties is because government purposely didn't include them. Things like "Uncensorable" and "Non-governmentally bound" and "Untraceable" might yet be tested and turn out to be illegal - falling afoul of, eg, laws against financing terrorists.

If bitcoin attracts regulations, the technical aspects will lose to the social aspects. Overwhelming majorities of people obey financial law - see also, the tax system; people aren't in that voluntarily. These are not proven positive values. Yet.
I was here when everybody on HN was really shitting on Bitcoin back in 2011 and 2012. Albeit under another username.

I know full well what HN thinks of crypto currencies and technology in general, which is exactly why I asked the question here.
It's a complicated issue certainly, however as far as I'm aware cuckoldry (where children are product of adultery) is relatively rare, under 2%, don't have a source offhand but that's the hearsay as it were.
setting timers (multiple at once!), adding things to the grocery list (see X is running low? just shout to alexa to add to shopping list), and playing music are the 3 killer features for me.

being able to turn the lights on and off is fun, too.
Wasn't the whole "no middle man" thing mostly about avoiding the 3% Credit Card Processing fees found elsewhere? Bitcoin is now more expensive to verify than most credit card processors[0].

"Nearly instant transfer at low cost" it is no longer instant or low cost. Confirmation times[1] have now skyrocketed and as I showed above as have costs. This is why Valve's Steam no longer accepts it.

"No central point of failure" like Mt. Gox[2]? And the recent currency split[3]?

[0] https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-transactionfees...

[1] https://blockchain.info/charts/avg-confirmation-time

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Gox

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_Cash
He's confused by the American candy of the same name that is a tart fruit flavored powder pressed into a large wafer.
I believe it. Game industry is a small place. I miss shipping.
What I see is a phenomenal technology that is excessively ignored and shat on for no obvious reason. For example, the Red programming language decided to focus on blockchain tech, and the most popular comment was “time to ignore Red because they are doing blockchain now”. It’s an opinion that is quite popular here.

I feel the need to write so strongly to counteract the vibe. I guarantee there will be 20 popular comments above mine (which will likely go negative) that all say variations of the same thing, so it’s good to get a different opinion out there.
If you look at the primary abuses of the plutocracy in the States (ie War Complex, Wall Street & Central Bankkng, psrticulsr kinds of constitutional abuses) there is little difference. For example, Goldman Sachs wins with unelected powerful positions after every election(1). Obama was anti war and said he would protect whistle blowers, but prosecuted more whistle blowers than any president in history, and dropped over 25,000 bombs, primarily targeting Muslims. He also didn't stand up to the healthcare lobbies, or use any seriois political capital to end unconstitutional Guantanamo. So you can't tell me any rhetoric coming from our last presidents has much of anything to do with what really matters in the world. All the huffing and puffing is just targeted at people's emotions to keep them occupied with political battles other than going after the plutocracy.
That’s interesting! My ESP8266’s don’t have many GPIO’s, only 8 pins total.

Are you using some small SMD package or a breakout board?
I think ultimately the system is fcked across the board, private interests and greed combined with legal corruption (lobbying) to get their way and government guided by the people that line their own pockets. Weather it is pre-Obama, Obama or whatever Donald is planning all the pricing is insane compared against <take-your-pick> of any other developed country. None of the justification holds much weight, even "cross-subsidization" I don't see affecting it to this extent unless only 1 in 20+ actually ever pay anything.
>I’ll give you similarities of the Bitcoin with a Ponzi scheme:

A ponzi scheme implies the underlying "business" doesn't have value, or at least not worth the value which it claims to generate. Just to pick the low hanging fruit to keep things simple, Bitcoin proved it has value on the dark web. That alone doesn't show it has mainstream value, but it contradicts your definition of it being a ponzi scheme. Just to throw some mainstream value in the mix, what do you think of blockchain smart contracts and their position relative to mainstream financial institutions for escrow services?
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It is nearly instant when compared to most money transfer services or gold, and low cost is relative, and depends on the coin and time of transfer. Bitcoin cash, which you link to, is both fast and cheap to transfer.

Mt. Gox is not Bitcoin. It was an exchange. It has nothing to do with whether Bitcoin has a central point of failure or not.
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Either will require a breakthrough in propulsion systems.
This feature is still good to know about for use on legacy projects. Thanks for sharing!
I would heavily recommend against lead free solder as the other commenters have done. Unless you have a ton of experience with soldering, avoid it like the plague.
Depends on what you compare it to, such as Western Union or gold. But if you can really only find one nit out of the ten or so things I listed, I don't consider my argument debunked.
> Disclosure: I have been working on a business, Robojar, intended to remove advertising and bypass paywalls in exchange for microsubscriptions. Google have a very similar model in Contributor.

Good luck! I love the idea of micropayments from a fixed budget to support sites, but Contributor's bidding-based system was not a good path at all.

> they will only be guaranteed to show up in Chrome if they use adsense

That's the worst-case scenario, as far as power abuse here. But they might be fair! We'll have to see.
My point is that HN will say it’s a ponzi / bubble / scam no matter what the value. First it was “it will go to zero”. Now the argument is “all the smart people already made money so don’t bother” but HN was saying that at $1k, $5k, $10k, etc.

Maybe crypto is simply a better way to transact for many use cases. If we all agree it has value, then it does, and it’s really as simple as that.
Banknotes themselves fair well. Not mentioned here but looks like the 1000 franc banknote is the densest bill currently circulating.
Well, it's the same authentication problem of validating US citizenship without documentation. And the passport I was issued was in no way a backup, it was valid for the normal 10-year period and, apart from the note that said it was issued at the US embassy in Madrid, identical to one I would have been issued through the normal process inside the US.
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Seized my 23" LG travel monitor for 3 weeks, claiming it was a potential bomb.

Fortunately I was in Israel for 4 months, so a minor inconvenience in the scheme of things, but still, seemed a bit over the top...until I stepped out of the airport and saw teenagers wielding machine guns (serving in military), the Israelis aren't messing around ;-)

If you're Israeli I'd imagine the security measures aren't nearly as stringent.
These issues have already been fixed by other crypto currencies like Bitcoin Cash.

The core development team behind Bitcoin doesn't seem to be interested in fixing these problems for the time being.
Huge, massive, credibility-undercutting typo in the slot pulling analogy: "you loose."

I'm not sure when people started making this mistake, but it's one of my more cringe-worthy ones to see.
Oh I quite agree that in general having a deep inheritance hierarchy is not ideal and that many problems can better be solved with compartmentalization or other approaches. I was asking more in the context of you have a million+ line code base and want to make things less error prone/cleaner without refactoring large chunks of it.
Oh, that looks interesting, thanks for the link!
I know a few people who signed up for coinbase and bought Litecoin because it was the cheapest per arbitrary unit, without doing any reading on what differentiates it from Bitcoin or Ethereum. I've also seen similar attitudes towards more fringe coins.

I'm not old enough to remember the dotcom bubble but I wonder if things like pets.com benefitted from people conflating its potential to that of ebay or amazon.
I got my first real programming job at 38. It's never too late if it's what you want to do.

In my case, I learned how to program when I was much younger but it was never actually my job - or at least, not the primary component of my job. I kind of backed into it, writing more complicated scripts which helped automate what I was getting paid to do, until I eventually just got a "real" programming job.

The big thing I think I have in common with the OP: I always try to automate every task possible. This can allow you to add value for your organization above and beyond whatever primary task they hired you to complete, and any company worth its salt will recognize that contribution and try to find ways to help you contribute more elsewhere too.
Sure, but you're arguing Bitcoin is a "Ponzi scheme", which has a specific meaning, not just a bad investment.
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I had that exact reaction: that this paper was the earliest (that I've seen) formation of the FOMO concept. It's interesting to think back to 2000 and, as you note, consider how much additional choice we're bombarded with today. Certainly a prescient paper.
Yea I feel like a lot of these break downs of film overanalyze and make too cerebral the art of movies.. For example when Sam Mendes was filming American Beauty he said he did not realize the film he was making until they got into the editing room. From all of the youtube movie break downs you would believe that everything was intentional and deliberate and you should already know the movie you are going to make out of the gate instead of discovering and pivoting along the way
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That's a particular government's problem, not a problem with bitcoin. Considering that Bitcoin is non-local, there will always be a jurisdiction somewhere that allows transactions that are restricted somewhere else. That was the whole point behind Satoshi's design - to work around corrupt and overly restrictive governmental financial systems. If you find a problem with that, then fine, but it's not what we are discussing here, which is the claim that Bitcoin is a ponzi scheme.
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Before Les Mills commoditized everything, teachers did their own choreography. And it was a lot more interesting. Some teachers had amazing musical interests. Ok, some didn't too. But now everything is mediocre.

That aside, I agree with the ritual and community observation. But the music is so awful I drifted away to the weight room. Yeah, I do a 5x5 program (on an iPhone app) which is very simple to follow but the lifting itself is quite meditative. I was surprised.
I don't think it's a ponzi scheme, but some projects built on it, such as BitConnect, most likely are. I think Bitcoin is the 1st generation of cryptocurrency which should've either died a long time ago and replaced with the 2nd generation like Ethereum or evolved to Bitcoin v2. Instead, perhaps due to lack of competition for a period of time, it became a massive speculative bubble and amassed enough money that it's now too big to fail. So it just keeps on growing, mostly on hype and irrational investments from the influx of new people, and it's doing it so fast that its effectiveness and usability have become largely irrelevant for most general use cases.
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I'm uncertain if it's safe to use AESENC and friends in kernel mode in Freebsd. A number of kernels can't safely use e.g. FPU registers in-kernel and aesni operates exclusively on SSE state.
Isn't sending things back to earth relatively inexpensive? Wouldn't gravity do most of the work?
I'm arguing that Bitcoin is not a "Ponzi scheme", which has a specific meaning, not that it's not a bad investment.
Reminds me of the also unbroken Indus script.
With all this computational power, I'm surprised that we haven't been able to crack ancient proto-writing.
No, she didn't specify what it was about.
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Since you recently climbed the learning curve and might have this fresh in your mind, how do you understand the history function? Sometimes do something and then want to undo it. This isn't easy for me in darktable -- it seems control-z does nothing, there are no standard menus, and every time I've touched the history section on the left side of the application, I end up destroying much more work than I intended.

In case that is an X-Y question, how do I undo in darktable?
The whole problem of the main thread is that people seek entertainment (dopamine.)
This is mindless and not constructive.
If the alternative was watching TV, yeah, Reddit isn't that bad. But if the alternative is exercise, or serving homeless, or inventing a new way of cleaning air, or having deep conversations with your family, or creating art, then that Reddit habit deprived your life of meaning and impact.