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The problem is that miners cost in USD but Monero fee is set in XMR, fixed. If fee goes down 80% but XMR/USD goes up again 5 times then the problem persists. Not an easy thing to fix!

If Bulletproofs and the new CT format come in and the mandatory ringsize is increased to a level providing some privacy, the fees would be very worthwhile. But with ringsize 5 they are certainly excessive! We should hope they increase to at least 10. After ringsize, the difference between 1/2 and 2/2 txn continues to be an issue.

Or at a minimum a wallet update could fix some of these things issues. Better ring member selection that does not include odd ring sizes or in/out numbers.

If you are a seller and receive 2 payments from a user then you send that money to a known place (maybe exchange) you have are now near 100% traceability! This is because even with high-ring-size, the chance of both known-bad inputs happening in one tx is very low.

Currently Monero is doing a great harm to users by not having a prominent warning. Monero should adopt Tor Project attitude and tell users: Making a Monero transaction does not give you full privacy. Then link to a bit more nuanced discussion about churn and traceability. Especially for people that receive multiple payments! Monero may encourage people to rely solely on Monero (without churn) for privacy, to their downfall.

And even churn has a big disclaimer from MRL. They say in some <vague> conditions churn is statistically detectable. Maybe a big issue for dark net vendors that often receive payments then churn then send to their exchange...

Disclaimer: I am running an extrajursidictional company and dealing with payments will become a major focus as we start to pay out dividends and need to do so in an untraceable fashion. Plus...in a few months I will need to draw salary so this is very near-and-dear to my heart!
Musk is a genius at PR:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/945712432416137217

Saw this yesterday when someone threw together a quick article on all of the gushing responses from customers to this tweet.

How can you say someone nicknamed "the real world Iron Man" is bad at PR?
There are thing like AOSP/LineageOS/CopperheadOS that aren't "Google", no?
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You've severely mischaracterized Jason Fung's work.

>but that doesn't fully explain how there are people who do lots of heavy physical activity yet remain obese and insulin resistant.

The only reason "that doesn't fully explain [x]" is because you've mischaracterized Fung's work in the first place. He discusses a great deal more than what you deem "the overflow hypothesis." And his model does fully explain why there are people who do a ton of physical excercise and are still obese — it's because they eat in such a way that it raises their insulin. I seriously don't even think you've read Fungs work and you're just seizing the opportunity to present your little pet theory, because in reality Fung has a far more developed and rational model of human biology than you've just articulated.
"objective status" is usually "net worth" (aka "life score") which has many readily evident indicators like clothes, car, house, jet, private island, etc.
Here you have a 'counterdote' : I am 43.

After the first year of high school ( I was 13 ), we were allowed to travel to the other side of the country by train, sleep in a youth hostel and return at the end of the next day.

This is NL, the other side of the country is only 350km.

When we tell younger friends, they refuse to believe.
With a 120 million Alexa devices in market of course big brands are trying to figure out how to reach those audiences. If you're P&G and you're selling products through Amazon of course you'd ask how your brand can better leverage the Alexa platform. That doesn't mean Amazon is going to do anything about it.

IMO Amazon can't afford to squander their voice lead by tarnishing the Alexa brand with poorly implemented ads.
I added a quick repo to github if you want to clone or send pull requests for architectures apart from 64bit LE.

https://github.com/mattkeenan/dump-vdso
Yes, in order to paint a picture, one must draw the odd brush stroke. I'm a privacy-conscious, non-car owning urbanite programmer, but I accept and am comfortable with that most people (particularly in the US for car ownership) regard having a Facebook account and owning a car as indicators of some minimum amount of social status.

I love not having a car, and think Facebook is for people with lots of spare time, but this doesn't invalidate at all the results of the survey.
I wonder why the "young adult nightlife experience" feels so stagnant. I like going to the occasional upscale cocktail bar, but in general spending Friday or Saturday night in a crowded bar or club is not my idea of a fun thing to do. What is the alternative for more introverted people? Stay home?

I went to Copenhagen recently and on a Friday night came across a big coffee/beer+wine place with lots of tables/sofas that was packed with people drinking beer and playing board games. It seems like such an obvious concept/nightlife alternative for people who don't want to stay home but don't want to go to a loud bar. Doesn't seem to exist in the U.S. as far as I know.
Staying invested in the company and locking your financial future to it are very different things - diversification is ~almost always a good/sane thing to do. Personally, I tend to sell all of my employers stock when I get it and diversify, though I keep 1 share to 'stay invested'.
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Social issues like marriage that can be easily legislated about are much easier to deal with than systemic problems like poverty, therefore people will give more attention to the social issues. It's just an example of bike-shedding. Talk about the small scale things you can control rather than the large complex issues that are more intimidating.

But attitudes about marriage and sexuality are really very small and insignificant aspects of religion as a whole. Politics and culture war have inflamed certain issues in America, but those issues will resolve themselves in time.

Once they do people will have less of a reason to be mad at religion. What I'm cautioning against is conflating frustration towards religious attitudes about particular things that are slowly changing in the present with thr idea that there is something fundamentally wrong about religion itself.

If you made a mistake about something, I wouldn't automatically assume you yourself are broken. I would just help correct you then wish you the best.
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"But all I feel is constant negativity. I really feel sorry for Musk."

The negativity is so bad, his car company is worth more than Ford, with a minuscule fraction of the sales.

Elon will be just fine.
Extraversion/Introversion is one of the big five personality traits and is ~50% heritable:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits#He...

That's not to say introversion/extraversion wouldn't manifest differently in different contexts, but the trait does exist (as much as any personality trait does) and appears to have a large genetic component to it.
IMHO those traits may well be a handicap to becoming high status. Especially in an organisation like an investment bank that selects for promotion by perceived characteristics like driven, goal oriented, focused...
The parties aren't a bad thing, but the article also mentions teens hang out with friends less. Good relationships are important to our health and life satisfaction, and it's a shame kids are missing out on learning the social skills that encourage good relationships.
> Yes but my personal choice is limited because the government refuses to step in.

Wow. Do you really believe that it's government job to guarantee ad-free Echo?
I think the difference here is you can 100% ignore ads on Google. At this point my brain doesn't even see sponsored ads as I immediately look at the first organic result.

If you consume your content through audio then you're forced into listening to the ad / sponsored answer.
No, it's actually not enough politics. (Or you can say too much of course, because it's a totally nonsensical analogy.)

The problem is a very inefficient compromise. The US system is a worst of both worlds, because it has both private and public elements and those both work to jack up the prices.

If the public part (medicaid/medicare) negotiated the prices and healthcare providers weren't allowed to go above that, then things were peachy, but that's not the case.
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I see a retina specialist twice a year. I recently changed to a high deductible plan with an HSA. I called to see what the cost of my appointment would be. They could not or would not tell me. Incall three separate times, talking to different people and different departments. I went in and continued asking the front desk. "It depends on the services you end up getting." Ok, sure, but for a standard appointment, what then? "I can't say." Listen lady, I'm looking for a ball park. $50? $100? $1000? $5000? "Oh, I can't imagine it will be that much." Which one? "We will have to just bill you after." So absolutely frustrating. It ended up being like $150. Without price transparency like a public menu, we won't get better.
> Spaces (best implementation of virtual desktops)

Oh man, how? Virtual desktops where alt+tab doesn't cycle through windows only on the current desktop are completely broken (they're just a large virtual screen), and last I used Spaces there was no option to change this.
> it's much, much harder for teens to get ahold of booze these days

Which I think is foolish. Of course total prohibition followed by total access a day later leads to abuse and binging. It’s simply stupid. I’d had decent, safe access to alcohol for a while before my twenty first rolled around, and as a consequence had no desire to drink until I die of alcohol poisoning when it was legal.

I don’t know exactly how to implement it but I think we should have a graduated system, like let 17 year olds buy 3.2 beer, and work it’s way up from there. Let kids get their sea legs before throwing them into the deep end.
You definitely don't have to go into debt like that. I know plenty of people that worked and went to community college for two years, transferred to the state school for the final two years, and graduated with little to no debt. People miss out on the 'college experience' aka drinking and partying, but they graduate with no debt. Also, there is no such thing as free services provided by the government. They are paid for by taxes.
Yours seems to follow the pattern of invading "private" spaces?

i.e. you are very protective of information about the inside of your house: floor plan, temperatures. Makes sense considering it's your home).

Seems like the same thing with the car, though. It seems like you think of the inside of the car or the workings of the car as a more private space than where the car has gone?

Emails and Hangouts conversations are harder to pin down. Could be that they are more abstract and harder to maintain a concept of private vs public spaces on the internet? Could also be that there aren't really any alternatives that provide an obvious privacy benefit for their cost/effort.
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It's a left wing source (which are regarded as more reputable on HN [see edit]) reporting a study from the University of Wales, specifically:

> A 2010 study from the University of Wales Institute found that men pictured with a Silver Bentley Continental GT were perceived as way more attractive than those pictures with a Red Ford Fiesta ST.

What is your issue with The Independent and/or The University of Wales?

[edit]: noting the moderation on this fairly objective comment, I'll add that I'm not stating this is good or bad, but just that this is what I've observed after being here 10 years.
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gender disparity can be because a female colleague might not ask for a pay rise as readily as a male.
No, there isn't. The gap is between different professions, not intra-professional. Where it is intra-professional, men tend to work more hours, and women tend to preference conditions over monetary remuneration (i.e. flexibility over pay, extraneous benefits over direct compensation etc etc). Just to be clear, extra time off is remuneration, as are things like on-site day care centres, but they aren't ever counted in pay gap studies (that I have seen anyway).

Add to that that Lesbians make more than straight women[1] - and gay men less than straight men [2][3] - and there is a bit more at play.

The problem is that any time there is something men do better than women - like negotiate pay - rather than bring women up to the male standard (teach women to negotiate better), people want to hamstring men (no pay negotiation). Anti-worker policies and pro-gender policies are often indistinguishable, if only to me personally, and in my more cynical moments think this is a business conspiracy to deflate wages to female levels, not increase wages to male levels.

[1] http://bigthink.com/dollars-and-sex/what-explains-the-lesbia...

[2] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-232X.2009....

[3] https://joeclark.org/gaymoney/findings/
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I really liked:

https://goo.gl/Wb8YoH
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18-21 seems alive and well in the UK but we do have a very odd night life drinking culture.

I found once people get to their 3rd and 4th years of university they can see "Real life" on the horizon and the awful 3am kebab shop behavior largely stops.

Like you've described pub culture is quite popular for the 25-40 bracket. Somewhere you can meet and socialise which is like being at home without pounding music and £8 drinks
That's why you don't store assets on coinbase...the whole point of crypto is that it allows you to be in exclusive control of your assets. Why is that so hard to understand?
Their game theory courses are pretty useful too.
in this particular case, will the generalization help their readership?

I actually think it will - it would be easy to give more accurate details that cause many readers to glaze over.
He talked about that in the article. His point being that metal bones would be effectively indestructible for typical loads placed on them by organisms and if they ever received damage, they would bend instead of break.
How so?

People disagree to the degree killing cows is OK. But, both sides can be consistent based around what lives matter. Classify Group X say Murders, Outlaws, Nazi's, white people, or even humans outside the tribe in the killing allowed category and everything can stay consistent.
Nobody discusses that this body and whole event could have been staged/fake/setup. Youtubers have done this before.
I wonder if he has an especially onerous password? It doesn't seem like it should be that big of a burden to pop in the password for an email. I guess he has it set for ultra-paranoid mode where you have to enter the password every time you even think about touching the mail.

I do agree that GPG has been largely a failure. A tool too general and too vaguely defined for the average user. A powerful tool but only really usable by crypto nerds. What's worse, the key distribution problem was never really solved and that's the most critical component of the entire system. Even today there are scant few email clients that will query the keyservers for you.
It's more of the people making the milk realizing they're making pennies on the dollar compared to those machines that distribute the milk.
> I really feel like they’re missing out on a developmental milestone.

Are they though? Those milestones can take many different forms, as evidenced by the fact that "giant parties" are a relatively recent phenomenon, historically speaking.
Not the OP, but the article is full of citations to academic reearch and .gov sites. What else would you like?

Clicking a few random links:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19302732

http://akademiai.com/doi/abs/10.1556/JEP.12.2014.1.1

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22947829

It's fairly obvious to see why notyourday may be frustrated with you saying its a 'a shitty source' and asking them to provide you with research when they just have.
Interestingly enough, Intel and AMD market values are affected by this but the cloud provider aren't, which I find surprising.
Ill stick to blue chips and paper trading. The NHS can only hand out so much heart medication...
> America is a net importer of capital.

How is that calculated? Do you happen to have sources/articles on this topic?

I'd think that the larger economy eats the smaller (that is US money goes and makes profit in the smaller ones), but maybe it's a lot more complex than that.
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Ask HN: How to monetize small web apps
I recently made a web app that is gaining quite some traction in it's community. Imagine it as a single-page web-game. It's currently sitting at 1k unique daily users and I would like to try and monetize somehow.

I would add some small un-intrusive ad(even tho i'd prefer another solution) but it's not a content website and both media.net and adsense said it's no go.

There is also not much to convert it into a SaaS. It's whole appeal is that it's something easy.

I have also other similar apps of varying degrees of success and I could possibly apply the same.

Any other ideas of what I could try that is not exploitative of the users?
That is absolutely not legal though, which is why I asked for a citation, as it would be pretty big news.
Could you explain the leap from hypergamy to a female dominated society? If women seek out socially "superior" men, one would think that men would hold much of the power in society.

Divorce and child custody laws aren't preferential by intent. They're simply archaic and/or very sticky. While I'm very much in favor of men's domestic rights, there are a lot of minefields when it comes to these issues which is I believe why a lot of the inequalities haven't been remedied.

Slut shaming is a bad thing for men. Men, especially men of lower social status (or "attractiveness"), benefit from a glut of promiscuous women. Also, prostitution is a market like any other. It's not women's fault that there is a high demand.

It's easy to get angry about things like this, and while you should strive for positive change (e.g. healthier self-image for women, regardless of sexual appetite), you should also act based on the reality of today where necessary.
>/r/wallstreetbets

Guilty as charged.

>I'd be panic buying / selling every day to adjust which seems stressful...

Just treat it as numbers on a screen rather than money. Keeps the emotions at bay.
It's definitely an API. I'm not sure I'd say it was -nice- going off my experiences with it (caveat: they might have changed it since 2013 when it was the bane of my life.)

(Horrifyingly crufty playlist backup: https://github.com/rjp/spotify-playlists )
Don't feel bad, I had to read it twice to spot the EV in the title.
They might be 30% slower in virtualization and should be about 5-7% slower in real world usage. As a heavy user of the cloud I'm worried about my infra more than about my laptop: if my cloud setup gets even 7% slower overnight it won't be good to say the least, especially with lower-clock 2Ghz Skylake GCP CPUs.

Those 5--7% will make me feel like I'm powered by Atom and it will be even worse for single-core bounded workloads in the cloud.
>he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.

-Dalai Lama
Tesla's marketing is always misleading. That irks people and from there comes the "negativity". When the Model S came out, they tried to claim that they had "solved EVs". When they introduced their self driving tech, they pretty much implied that keeping your hands on the wheel was only a legal technicality. They are always trying to claim they are two more steps ahead than they really are. I understand that it is their job to do just that, but we don't have to believe them, and if we don't, that is not really "negativity". For example with the Model 3, they achieved just about what what Chevy did with the Bolt, in terms of price and range, which is good, but if you believed their marketing, you'd expect them to be far ahead of their competition.
Isn't "~50% heritable" a different way of stating that the results are indistinguishable from a coin flip? That doesn't sound too hereditary.
Am I the only one who thinks "institute of equality" sounds a little too Orwellian? The Minitrue newspeak scholar might proclaim: let there be no differences in income or outcome let the two words be one, I give you: uncome.

In seriousness though, I think this might make more problems than it solves, but we'll see, hopefully it does what it is intended to do. The main problem as I see it, is that the vast majority of the pay gap is not due to evil corporations hating women and discriminating against them, but to a myriad of other factors, see this study by the European Commission: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/gender-equality/gender-pay-gap/c....

A lot of these regulations end up hurting women more than they help because they don't take these other factors into account. For instance, I live in Germany and a factor working against women in the workforce is all the regulations that make it so you can't fire a woman if she becomes pregnant and have to keep her position open for years while she takes mother's leave. There are some compensating laws that allow men to take some of the same leave options but still don't fully compensate for this disadvantage.

EDIT:
Put this here to see what others think or are trying (in your companies, startups, etc). Another factor is the way in which individuality and ownership is rewarded through promotions etc. in company culture. Women (in the distribution) tend to be much more cooperative and work better in team/collaborative environments where its hard to determine who is responsible for the outcome (I can't remember the study but I think there was a You are not So Smart podcast on collective intelligence about this). Anyway, I think changing the structure and culture inside companies to be more accommodating / financially rewarding to collaboration and group success could be another more effective way to help close the pay gap. At least on paper, women outperform men by a good margin on collective intelligence tasks.
For people who don't follow this, records for the cannonball run are usually always a few years old (people wait to announce hoping the statue of limitations expires, or at least makes it less likely). That said, its unlikely to change too much, most recent records were done in wildly expensive cars (retrofitted with additional gas tanks, radar, police scanners, etc), and usually include aerial support for the entire trip to scan for speedtraps and the like.
Looking at the stats the Netherlands had a small budget SURPLUS last year and national debt is only 60% of GDP.

There are economic advantages to a high tax welfare state as well.
“How are you going to prove that these funds are not coming from illegal sources?”

Funny, here I was thinking the burden of proof was on the state.*

* at least in most countries