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> […] and the Segwit part worked. But since that took some pressure off […]

Pressure on what? Transaction backlog? Hardly, the fees are higher than they've ever been and we have 100k transactions in the mempool.

The minority of transactions use segwit, blocksize still remains a big issue, even if we now have means to cram more transactions into a block, but hardly anybody uses it.

It took pressure off of the Bitcoin Core team (and blockstream), because segwit is what's needed to get lightning to work. Then they lost interest in the second part (increasing the blocksize) and that's (partly) why it fell through.
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But you're not correct. You're doggedly and dogmatically wrong, in the only context that matters, which is the one in which this conversation was spawned.

Again, if for the purposes of the spec, you want to apply the label "FQDN DNS name" to "8.8.8.8", that's fine and great. You can also call it a "finalized mapping token" (which has the advantage of being literally correct), or a "turtle" (which would be surprising but not misleading).

But applying a label to the data does not change the nature of the data. In the larger context, the data was created as a text representation of an IP address, was never used in a DNS context, and the concept of "fully-qualified" doesn't have a lot of meaning where there is no process by which to further qualify any partial tokens.

It remains a textual representation of an IP address, even if it is used in a different context. Just as "Alice" remains a first name even if it is mislabeled or misused.

Of course, data can fit the validation criteria for multiple types, and it can be misused. "Alice" is a first name, but it is also a valid hostname. It is not a hostname just by virtue of being validly parseable as such. And if I wanted to know the first names of people here at HN, but asked for their hostnames, I would generally not get the answer I wanted.

If some awful code somewhere misused first names as hostnames, the network guy with very limited context might say "I see a query for hostname 'Alice'", but the people with larger context would ask "Why is this firstname being misused as a hostname?".

This HN thread was never a SNI spec internal debate, and no one here benefits from assuming that highly restrictive context.

I have had discussions with some of the langsec folks in the past. I greatly respect their work, and they are wise enough to know that their context is not useful in general discussion.

Your initial statement was condescending and misleading. As the conversation continues, it becomes clear that this was intentional, and you are willing to die on the hill of tiny irrelevant context. Noted.
The typical person in a developed country (especially) or even a developing country can marshall more resources now than a typical Egyptian thousands of years ago. Travel farther and faster. That's what I'm referring to.
Startups existed just fine before 2015 (when the repealed regulation was passed.) So why this now?

I loathe Comcast & AT&T as much as any other person, but it seems like this issue has been sensationalized/editorialized so that any sensible commentary is drowned out.

Edit: Well, this is an unpopular opinion (-2 points currently).
> But quality of life has nothing to do with richness

You're arbitrarily defining "richness" as relative monetary worth so you can make this circular argument.

"Richness" refers to money, i.e. resources. As you point out, the average person today can Marshall more resources than the average person could before. That makes the average person today richer.
"electricity" and "free" are ambiguous terms. Overall, electricity has positive cost. Due to accounting practices and the cost of waste diposal, some electronics are negative priced for the user.

A better way to phrase it is that during short time periods "the cost of disposing electrons is greater than the cost of creating electrons" (and for technical reasons it's impossible to stop creating electrons in the short term) , so consumers can make money by offering electron disposal services to cover their electron consumption expenses.
Fun fact: in Italy there's no Alexa products at all. There's simply no market / will to spread it there
It isn't as broad apparently. If you go through the wikipedia link it also states :-

"Nothing in this Part shall be read or given effect in a way which prohibits or restricts discussion, criticism or expressions of antipathy, dislike, ridicule, insult or abuse of particular religions or the beliefs or practices of their adherents, or of any other belief system or the beliefs or practices of its adherents, or proselytising or urging adherents of a different religion or belief system to cease practising their religion or belief system. Subjective descriptions of a person's actions or behaviour, however abhorrent, crass or objectionable, may not be considered an attempt to spread hate unless the motive is clearly defined as such."

Certainly there are still going to be "grey incidents".
Any website that does it for you but just needs your funds?
Warren Buffet has previously vowed not to invest in tech b/c he said he doesn't understand it. I think it changed in the last ~5 years. But I still don't think that he "understands" tech.

The Beanie Babies comparison is straight up stupid. I can go to Africa right now and I can imagine that even some of the remoter parts will be aware of bitcoin.
The largest eigenvalue of (A - k)^{-1} is 1 / (x - k) where x is the smallest eigenvalue of A that is larger than k. So by using this technique on (A - k)^{-1} for various values of k you can find all of the eigenvalues of A.
Yeah, it's sad that Cointelegraph would give him/them publicity. Also, you forgot to mention that they're rewarding themselves with 2M coins: https://github.com/SegwitB2X/bitcoin2x/commit/08220e2a3c8ba8....
I was reading the justifications of women who are attending and they generally have 3 things to say:

1) All countries are at different places in the march towards human rights. But participating in a women's sporting event in countries like Iran and Saudi Arabia is a chance to help further women's rights in those countries as more women might want to play, become very very good, and have a high profile from which to challenge the regime. Refusing because you have to wear hijab or abaya is not worth giving up that chance to help women in such countries.

2) Saudi seems to be sponsoring much more prize money and accommodations. One ranked player complained that many participants had to fund their own travel in the past, that European countries aren't willing to sponsor the tournament, and only the top 4 players received any kind of compensation at all in the past. In Saudi it is supposed to be a better prize and travel is comped. One player said that such pitiful prize compensation as in the past is no less oppressive than having to wear a hijab.

3) Only one player mentioned this but I think it was worth mentioning. She said that human and women's rights are bad in Saudi but human and women's are ignored in other countries (for example, China multiple times in the past 20 years, Russia right after its annexation of Ukraine) the championship is in, and the 'principled' chess players never speak up then.

I think the last point is most revealing. Many of the players who boycott are concerned with regulations that affect them personally (I have to wear this. I won't be allowed to do this), and very few of them will ever care about the human rights violations or even women's rights violations that don't affect them. And of course we are not immune to this way of thinking either. It is easy for us to empathize when we have to go through what others go through. In China though (for example), when we are not having our family size culled and we are not being ethnically replaced with Han Chinese in our homelands, and we are not being suspiciously disappeared by the government like Ughyur Muslims, then we don't empathize enough to boycott a chess championship. We are not as up in arms about human rights and all this when it affects people who are not us. How many of us actually take our respective governments to task for their own rights violations (if you're American, a few years back, they bombed out an active, operating Red Cross Hospital, just as an example)?
It's not just about the talks (they are livestreamed afterall, you don't have to go there to see them).
This is a great moment to show solidarity in the face to stupid and backward policies. I sincerely hope the great minds choose to boycott this tournament and support a meaningful cause.
What do you think a laundromat is?
Call me crazy, but why does every terminal output text from the bottom and have the cursor slowly go up the screen? Why do my eyes constantly have to track the cursor on a vertical plane? What I would like is the option for the cursor to be at the top (the most “level” for eyes) and for all text to waterfall down, never changing the cursor position.
yeah but all your internet traffic would then be throttled. Not just certain services. Using a VPN essentially takes away everything from them and reduces their only tool to a hammer and forcing everything to look like a nail. There is no granularity. All your traffic goes to one location. They can't see what it is or what the final endpoint is because of encryption. So they can't use it to build a profile/data on you to sell. They can't inject ads into HTML or block services that compete with their own, or even grant privileged speeds to approved or preferred services. They basically are forced into a Shakespearean "to throttle or not to throttle" binary choice.
Sometimes beautiful hardware design, questionable performance (in Mediatek models), great audio, poor battery life and camera, their OS is full of neat gimmicks. Meizu isn't on top of their game lately, their best phones were perhaps MX3-4, now they seem a bit pricey for the offered specs compared to Xiaomi.

Incidentally I have their headphones (HD50), very satisfied (except faux leather is tearing too easily).
Note to others: BCash is a contentious name, mostly used by people who antagonize Bitcoin Cash, the preferred and official name.
With the grocery, it's different, because consumers may be more than happy to take a profit from a supermarket's bad investment. (See also: Venture Capital backed startups). so it's "good for the banana consumer", but not "free" from the perspective of the overall system. Someone has to "pay the piper", some day, as you've noted in other comments.
t looks neat, but it doesn't tell you how far away you should place it or how big to make it. Am I misssing something?
My household has both an iPhone 6 and 6s. Both have become noticeably slower, more battery consuming.

I just did the full backup and restore trick. We think it worked.

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/12/22/glenn-iphone-sl...

http://mglenn.com/blog/2017/12/22/apples-bungled-battery-fea...

My boss (she who must be obeyed) and I both "feel" that our phones are now more responsive and some features have resumed working like normal.

Such as retrieving voicemails, which had become unresponsive. For both of us. I had been blaming our cell provider (carrier). My bad.
Of course, dispose is hyperbole. Still, comparing Vietnam to US or other western countries is utterly disingenuous.

Try to go there and live for a few months, see for yourself.
A local ISP in a semi-rural area has been putting their business on the line for over a decade now to build out broadband in the area. They're targeting under-served, denser housing swaths of the region where there is little to no broadband competition.

The price tag for the initial stage of the build out is in the several millions of dollars. The first-stage service area would be under 1,000 homes. They hope to charge around $100/mo for the service.

So, you do the math. Is that a business model you'd want to try to live off of?
They wouldn't use the service, I'm not sure what you are asking.
I think that's an excellent comment about instagram, i wonder if pinterest would also be useful -- since the images of the candies are so enticing.
The problem is that the ISP business meets the textbook definition of a natural monopoly,

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly
Netflix potentially has something to gain, because they'll likely strike a deal with the ISPs to put content physically/technically closer to consumers (which means better quality at quicker rates).
> I can go to Africa right now and I can imagine that even some of the remoter parts will be aware of bitcoin.

The Bay Area, ladies and gentlemen.

In all seriousness, I doubt people in most of the world have heard of either.
Japan, China, and Korea are all heavily investing in Vietnam as well. In HCMC, Japan is building the first of nine rapid transit metro lines in the city, and in Hanoi China is doing the same.
Unfortunately laundry services also use machines of variable quality/cleanliness, so not help there for me at least.
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> BA flies London San Jose, those I think the BA version runs the new 777s now

Still 787-9s; I'm unaware of any plan to move it to 777s.
With board games a lot of the margin goes to the publisher. It's hard to be independent as just a designer. Massively successful games companies like Cards Against Humanity vertically integrate and are even handling their shipping logistics at this point: https://www.blackbox.cool/
I truly don't understand how so many people could buy something that literally does nothing their phone couldn't already do. Maybe it was marketing.
My point is that those can be two different things, and it's possible to be upset at both. I have to have a smartphone for work, but that doesn't mean I am not outraged by the fact that I can't find one that is not a surveillance device. The day that a quality open-source smartphone becomes available, I'll buy one.

But in the meantime, since I have to have a smartphone, you are arguing that I should just get any device that listens without regard for privacy. That doesn't make any sense.
Goldman Sachs hasn't yet setup their own Bitcoin trading desk, but they are building it. No doubt Buffet is trying to temper enthusiasm until their trading platform is built. Once it is, suddenly he will "Understand it".
Which means you can predict that they will only be pushed far enough that it's cheaper to pay than to lobby for net neutrality.
If the point is competetion between all coumtries, excluding some is directly contrary to the goal of an international contest. I find it quite clear.
I don't think that's a strawman. Roads and internet have to reach everyone in the country, not just major urban areas. The money for these projects comes from people in major urban areas too.

You make a good point about policing. Density wouldn't explain why policing in Tokyo is better and cheaper than in New York.
"partnerships / kickbacks" means that the "miners" are a larger team than just the people at the mining factory --- the team includes the power company and their funders, who are paying.
What is so good about Google's Project Fi? #projectfi #travel
Chrome incognito mode worked for me.
Sorry, forgot it's a loaded term. I updated the comment.
> I always wondered how Christians were able to square the existence of Santa with the 2nd commandment.

More concerning is their failure to square the existence of Santa with the 2nd amendment.
Saudi criminal laws aren’t codified. In theory, the Quran is the source of law, with various royal decrees layered on top. In the Quran, it’s actual homosexual acts that are the crime. So simply being homosexual should not, in theory, get you in trouble. But in practice, the CPVPV has wide latitude. People have been arrested for flying a rainbow flag: https://www.google.com/amp/www.independent.co.uk/news/world/.... People have also been arrested for their social media activity: https://www.google.com/amp/www.washingtonblade.com/2016/03/2...
Exactly what worked for me back then, except in Chemistry in addition to copying from the board I also wrote down everything the professor said along with what I thought about what was presented and was writing so fast it made No.6 completely impossible.

Ever since, when working with someone who has difficult-to-decipher handwriting I advise them that their handwriting is just fine for themselves, so when you need others to read it correctly, in those situations approach it like calligraphy instead.

Naturally I typed my homework and did "calligraphy" on exams.

Also the homework contributed so little credit toward your final grade that a single wrong answer on a midterm or final counted against you mathematically more so than turning in no homework at all, so some good students treated it like they could make up for many hours shortage on homework in just five minutes of the time spent acing the exams. But it turned out to be impossible to get an A for the course if all of the homework was not completed and all correct as well. This was by design and for students to figure out for themselves. They didn't give very many A's in Chemistry.
I've kept all my old iOS devices. I keep thinking I'm going to finally use that iPod to control my Lego Mindstorms. Or use old iPhones as wifi security cams. I am using one old iPhone to video record meetings.
I disagree. Companies that start with a monolith then face an exceptionally difficult task of 'moving to micro services' because they need that architecture to support team growth. This task amounts to replacing the engine of a running car.

I agree in general the tools are lacking but if you use AWS,GCP, or w/e you get a huge boost on the tooling.
I don't think creating arbitrary pricing tiers to milk your customers and pad the bottom line counts as 'innovation'.
This is a common argument with a major flaw. The reason NN was put in place is because Verizon tried to do what the companies want to do today. It's like saying the stock market was fine before the SEC banned insider trading. Yes, it was fine until some people started doing things that affect a large number of people in a negative or un fair way.
Why do you think millions of people bought an Echo Dot or a Google Home?

In general, I think people have a lot of tendencies to follow the crowd, or follow what they perceive as cool. I also don't think people think about the ramifications of what it might mean for the future (and surveillance).

This leads into a much bigger conversation about people's view of the future. I feel very few (percentage wise) are thinking about the next generation. There was a great interview with Jane Goodall on Startalk. She latched onto this, as well.

The whole climate change debate is so strange to me. People seem to get angry that scientists say it is caused by humans. To me, that doesn't matter at all. We are clearly warming and we should take measures to reverse it, no matter what the cause.

As Goodall said, we don't look at decisions in our time and ask: is this good for future generations? That is rarely part of the conversation (it might be introduced, but it's quickly swamped by other things).
I know they are trying to do vibrating dryers which don't become as gross, but washing machines are the main problem in terms of cleanliness, but I'm not sure if there are any new advances on that front.
Love the false equivocation.
A friend put together this concept of a simple e-ink display with an adhesive back and long battery life:

https://sean-farrell-1uu4.squarespace.com/

They got it to working prototype stage, I think, but didn't end up taking it commercial. It's too bad – a cool idea. I'd love to have one.
I'm always amazed that this needs to be said, but yes, there are other creatures with consciousness who see from "first-person perspective". Do we imagine that only humans can do that, and every other creature, with their range of similar and not-so-similar brain structures are just automatons that don't have experiences, but instead just produce outputs for a given set of inputs? That's almost as arrogant as thinking that since other people differ in their anatomy and brain structure from you, you're probably the only person who is consciously experiencing life from first-person (everyone else is just a flesh robot).
Very late reply, just for posterity: I was mistaken about the GBC not having a Joypad interrupt. Turns out I just had a bug, and apparently misread or misunderstood something somewhere along the line that made me think that was the cause.
What? No mention of the single board relay computer?

http://relaysbc.sourceforge.net/

I sold 8 fully assembled computers and 20 bare boards in 2017.
I've been using NixOS for a while now. There is a lot to be said for using nix as a development tool &c, but in terms of a daily driver OS:

Upside: It really is the best of both worlds for binary/source distros. 99% of the time it just downloads an archive and unpacks it, so it's just as fast to install or upgrade as e.g. arch. On the other hand, patching software from upstream takes seconds to do (not counting the unavoidable build time).

Downside: In order to accomplish the upside, it completely changes the filesystem layout. "./configure; make; sudo make install" is basically guaranteed to not work. To install software not in nix, you will be writing a nix expression. There is a command to create an FHS compatible namespace that works for e.g. Steam, but applications installed in there are second-class citizens, so it's preferred to not do this for anything that can simply be installed via a Nix expression.
Does Warren Buffett understand digital signatures?
So if playing chess has nothing to do with agreeing with someone's politics why is it okay to ban people for disagreeing with your state's politics?

It isn't. Israel is doing it. Saudi Arabia is retaliating. There isn't a BDS on Saudi Arabia though, so they ban players from Israel. Being born in a country is one thing, but all Israelis (all Jewish, 18+ year old Israelis) also participate in the IDF and along with that they are a bit more complicit in any human rights violations they may commit and in furthering the political agenda of Israeli annexation of Palestinian territory as a result.
Disparity in wealth is not the definition of rich/poor in this context, clearly.

(And IMHO, viewing the economy and wealth in strict zero sum terms is depressing, counterproductive, and incorrect.)
> Luckily this nonsense hasn't spread to Europe and North America for the most part.

Isn't that what Trump's "Muslim ban" is?
I remember a classic MIT problem set in computer science where we reduced the problem of finding a "profitable arbitrage loop" in a directed graph to a shortest path problem: imagine a graph where nodes are currencies and edges are exchange rates: we're seeking to find some loop of nodes U,V,W,...U such that the cumulative product of the edge weights is greater than unity.

The trick is to transform the graph by taking the negative log of the edge weights, which turns problem of finding a cumulative product > 1 into one of finding a negative sum loop. Then, you can just run the Bellman Ford algorithm and if it detects a negative cost cycle in the transformed graph, this corresponds to a positive arbitrage cycle in the original graph.

I always thought that was a neat application.
Freed from the iPhone, the Apple Watch Finds a Medical Purpose
Another shady thing they are doing:

> The founder also promised that in addition to the common practice of crediting BTC holders with equivalent balances of the new coin (B2X), they would also receive “a proportional number of Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoins as a reward for their commitment to progress.”

This seems pretty bad. Satoshi Nakamoto may not even have access to his coins, but what if his heirs or family wanted to take ownership of them? They should be able to do so. Do we just decide that anyone who owns a sufficiently large number of coins should have to forfeit them at the whim of whoever is creating the altcoin of the moment?
I know cryptoppl active in Africa and ppl in remote parts of Africa who have heard of Bitcoin.