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to me, soft bricked means that you have to do something out of the ordinary to fix it, something that most people would not know how to do, even if it's just a software problem (maybe it's a new problem that had no known solutions yet)... http://unbrick.itcse.com/soft-brick-vs-hard-bricked-vs-broke...
Wouldn't it be enough to submit a hash of the photo? Then sure, that hash is around forever in the blockchain, but without the original photo that hash is useless. It can only be used to prove that the photo existed at the time the hash was added, and with a digital signature, who added it.
My parents also placed perceived (by them) safety above everything else when I was a teenager. I missed out on a lot of things in life and am still missing out on things due to never having learned essential life skills and never having had essential experiences. I still resent them for that and so does my sister. Sometimes, I think parents only think of themselves, as strange as that might sound in this context. It's extremely selfish, IMO, to hold back a child from their full potential because the parents have their own irrational issues that they're not dealing with.
You have articulated the problem well and that is my observation too. Is there a solution? Do we accept that the world will always have one super power at a time and the said super power will always influence what goes on in the poorer states. Is it our fate as Africans to make do as best as we can with the hand we have been dealt? If you are brave or have money is the answer to try migrate to the West? Is there enough space for all of us in the West?

I don't think the CIA is innocent but too many of my brothers and sisters are obsessed with how the west/US treat us. My opinion is that this energy would be better spent doing some introspection and being obsessed with how our government officials behave. I just feel I have more chance of influencing a few fellow Africans here than I have of influencing the CIA to act in my interests.
Yep, thought of that article when I made the comment. If the appeal is limited to a particular generation, that's bad news. The person who showed me how to use it doesn't really use it anymore. Anecdotally, that tells me people grow out of it.
That’s not a risk, that’s a remaining unsolved problem for blockchains in general (the balance between decentralization and throughput).

Solving the blockchain scalability issue by creating more blockchains makes no sense since limited supply is the very feature that makes blockchain unique.

Solving the double spend problem is synonymous with limiting supply (double spending is fine if you’re not trying to limit the supply of something).
I don't want to digress here, but $345 million dollars has been spent in the last 5-7 years to promote growth in our region. However, entities like 43 North (our regions YC of sorts) has failed to retain / keep new businesses that they recruit for their yearly $1million VC contest. I think all but one company has stayed here since its inception. Secondly, the dollars here have all been spent on revitalization of Main St - which if you walk the 1 block to 800 block (basically Canal Side to Theater district) - one can make the argument of gentrification (controversial on its best day).

The money / jobs / growing enthusiasm isn't reflected in a minority middle class. Bottom line, that's what I personally call success of any city trying to regain momentum. By all accounts, I am an educated, white, privileged, and successful conservative living in the suburbs.

However, I take the post-Civil War northern Republican view of reconstruction by giving the vision of today should be the vision of 1865 .. and that's equality of all minorities with their white counterparts. The death of Abe Lincoln put us back 50 - 70 years in that movement, and as Andrew Johnson favored the status quote of Southern Democrats / Aristocratic colonialism ... it bleeds into the inequities that minorities today.

I know that's long winded, but the historical throw-back .. plays out today, in cities like Buffalo .. where all I want is my black / latino / muslim communities of Buffalo to have the same equity that I have and live as well as I do. Unfortunately ... it's just not happening, despite the welfare dollar being so dominant here in New York (which I do not detest - I just want it used more strategically in regions of poverty).

Anyway .. off my soap-box.
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There were PCI-Express cards with Cells on them, for numbercrunching or something. These even used the "good" Cells with full 64-bit floating point numbers needed for scientific workloads.

I vaguely remember that the price tag I saw was so outrageous I can understand why that didn't go anywhere.

Would have been interesting, though, I agree.
Also if the interviewer is a naive, cultureless soon-to-be corporate tech drone, fresh from the saccharine bleatings of their politically correct and sex-less, drug-less university days, with no concept of sarcasm, or human complexity, or of what a hideously self-important and embarrassing answer it is.
There's also the fact that historically, wealth was based on gold, land or other tangible things. Bezo's fortune exists on paper and in computers. Those ancient wealthy people were far more wealthy in actual things.
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Wrong.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/marketvalue.asp

Market value definition:

> obtained by multiplying the number of its outstanding shares by the current share price

The reality of selling has nothing to do with it. It's just a math equation.
AMP, that thing you have never seen in the wild if you run firefox on your phone.
This is too blatantly obvious to be a Modest Proposal piece of devil's advocacy.
One could also consider Microsoft leaking Meltdown here:

https://twitter.com/aionescu/status/930412525111296000
I'm not convinced that Singapore's cameras are the magic ingredient preventing all crime.
Thanks, that makes perfect sense. I guess that's what I expected but wanted to see if there was another use case. Keel looking interesting. I will take a look. Thanks.
I love how the page about the "ancient web" is built in 2017 using tables. This made me smile.

Some followup watching:

* Empire of the Air | PBS || http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/empire/
Have ICOs 'jumped the shark'?

Definitely starting to feel that way with solution(s) looking for problems that don't need this complexity, reinvention of the wheel, not invented here, or hype train (FOMO).
Not unusual for aggregation sites like that, unfortunately. The FT article it in turn does cite has a dateline of November 17, 2014.

https://www.ft.com/content/cdd0bdb6-6c27-11e4-990f-00144feab...

The year is also reflected in the naming of the object, by the way: Object 2014-28E.
Can also be online blogs,articles, or video tutorials. Thank You!
Because "customer acquisition" means that a business offers something of value, reaches out to entities that might be interested in obtaining that value, and enters into an agreement to supply that value for another value.

That process is totally different from asking for donations (which is literally begging -- no value is being offered, but value is expected to be received.) Kickstarter can certainly produce valuable media, but it eliminates the possibility of a small group of people taking a risk on content. That will undoubtedly have major effects on the kind of content that is produced, the question is what will that impact be?
>It's facetious (and bad 'journalism') to claim $100B vanished.

It's certainly not bad journalism, this is how all sorts of assets are reported on. Market Cap isn't a perfect metric but it's pretty good and keeps us from saying things like "AMZN is down 50%" when they do a stock split.

In the sense that yesterday if you summed up what all the individual holders saw when they checked their accounts you'd get $200b and today if you did the same you'd get $100b then $100b did vanish.
at initial patch release, not even all the well known had the registry key setting in place.... so its not just about questionable AV software when big corps considered "safe" (debatable) didnt have "their act together" either.

there was a list posted yesterday on compatibility that is continued to be updated:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/184wcDt9I9TUNFFbsAVLp...
Horses and wagons are loud. As were the earliest cars.
You can’t just stop using AV software I’m told. The key is checked for everyone, including people with no AV. Contrary to the sensational headlines, it is implied to be a temporary measure. It’s not really clear whether you’d have to only do this manually once, or on every subsequent update.
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Ah! The old obtuseness defense. Fun.
> Risk increases monotonically with absolute speed, but if you are going around the average speed of other vehicles on the road, that is safer than going slower.

This advice is good on highways to avoid colliding with other vehicles at high speeds. On local streets, it's better to be the neighborhood pace car and slow down :-)
It's all the same thing every year on HN. People trying to find all sorts of excuses for Bitcoin existence - blockchains, smart contracts, ICOs - as long as they don't have to accept that Bitcoin's main purpose is and always was to have an alternative to the financial system, crippling regulations, government control and taxes. In other words, everything people hate about libertarians, they try to ignore in Bitcoin. Because they can't just ignore Bitcoin - it's not going away for some reason.

And it's not going away because there's a demand for Bitcoin. Why? Not because blockchain is some sort of an innovation. It's because people want a currency not controlled by any state institution. It's because people want freedom. Deny that all you want, it's not going away.
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A dozen people are arrested, one of whom is shot. Meanwhile, the suspect changes into a yellow t-shirt in a phone booth and makes his getaway. He is caught several days later, of course, as he would have been without the cameras. Total licensing fees to the city are $12,000.
They've only done that in very specific areas
There are a bunch of websites that offer to value this or that website. I once plugged an old website of mine in there and it was well over $1M. I was like - please tell me who the buyer is, I'd sell right away.

"Market value" doesn't mean squat if you've no buyer in front.
> Picture this: you snap a photo, its hash is on a decentralized public record. If someone uses this photo, you're aware of it and can be rewarded/credited appropriately.

Except if that someone changes a single bit in the photo data (which will result in a completely different hash).
That was not especially directed at you, in this whole thread you can find a worryingly high amount of ridiculous proposals or behaviours... Zero risk is not a thing in life, we just have to deal with it.
Yes, section heading or something like that, like the ones you added.
Any plans to integrate with advertising APIs so you can run/edit campaigns based on this data? Seems to be potentially a really useful mechanism especially around concurrently running ads with when commercials are running etc?
> Picture this: you snap a photo, its hash is on a decentralized public record. If someone uses this photo, you're aware of it and can be rewarded/credited appropriately

How will you be aware of it? And what prevents someone from tweaking one pixel by one bit, changing the hash of the new image?
>Before you downvote/call me a Nazi, I'm a mixed race woman in tech.

That maybe one of the saddest statements in the history of modern discourse. It’s not your fault for saying it, it’s that you needed to say it.

We have reached the point where identity matters more than content. This is the exact opposite of the MLK dream as I understood it.
> You can design roads to reduce speed but just posting a different sign has minimal positive effect so better limiting/controlling interaction between different types/speeds of traffic on roads you already have (e.g. adding sidewalks or bike lanes) works better there.

As a cyclist, my observation is that "share the road" signs are strongly negatively correlated with how well drivers treat cyclists. The signs are a response to bad driving but do little to improve bad driving. In effect they should be considered warnings to cyclists put up by the government to cover their asses, because it's obvious to me that almost no drivers notice them. The presence of the sign means that drivers mistreat cyclists here, and not much else. I try my best to avoid any roads with one of those signs.
Oh I am sure he knew. But just because he knew does not mean it will insider trading.
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> Movies, games, and most other modern forms of mass art are incredibly expensive to produce.

Meh. Work expands to consume the available resources. There's nothing special about "modern forms of mass art": it just sits at a local optimum of available capital, risk, labour and technology costs, projected returns, etc. (optimised by the market). Change those factors (e.g. with a labour strike, or an improvement in CGI tools) and the balance comes out differently, and so do the movies.

> If the content creators can't recoup their expenses, they produce less of the content.

Or they reduce the expense. In general, I would rather have 10 movies made for $1,000,000 each than a single movie with a $10,000,000 budget.

It's really easy to throw money at graphics, special effects, technology, etc. which are mostly superficial. Good storytelling, interesting game mechanics, etc. are much cheaper, and have been around for thousands of years.

Consider Pixar, for example: they've managed to funnel hollywood money into fundamental computer graphics research (a very neat trick!). They do this under the premise that it's needed for their movies, which could have actually been executed very well as traditional cartoons.
I have this set to false and it's pretty annoying. It seems that the same triggers that make auto-play work are used to play regular video. So I always have to fiddle with Youtube to get a video to start, and Vimeo videos don't play at all. I've had to keep from using this flag in Chrome so I have a backup browser for such sites.
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The letter is undated so it could be old and I'm sure they'd prefer if URLs get fixed immediately rather than in a few years.

Update: So after Google announces that they're fixing AMP, some people decided to write a letter demanding that Google fix AMP? I guess the next step will be to retroactively take credit for Google's changes.
Yeah, if you're not using Linux/Windows/macOS, this sucks. I wonder what happens next. Either alternative OSs for Desktops/Servers will become less popular or people are moving away from Intel chips. Obviously Intel CEO's betted on the latter - stocks are a representation of the future value of a company.

Last year I was already hoping that ARM Chromebooks would become more popular but in reality you cannot find them in any retail store.
Okay, the tiles are made of glass. Does the carbon footprint of the fabrication different much from terracotta tiles?
As the others have said it's the ease with which you can send a photo -- it's right there when you open the app. With Messenger you've got a bunch more clicks and a slower camera, and with Insta even more clicks (chat not being a core feature of the app).

Thinking about it, there are two major differentiators between Snap and those two. First is the order in which you choose who to send a message to and what the message is. Second is how you can send the same message to multiple people simultaneously.

With Messenger & Insta you choose your recipients first, while with Snap you take the picture/video first. This is naturally easier for a spur of the moment message; you don't have to think about who you might want to send it to while the thought is still fresh, or indeed while whatever it is you're snapping is still happening.

Snap also has a great model for sending things to multiple people. Say I'm taking a picture my cat doing something silly. It's not interesting enough to go on my story (by whatever metrics I have for that), but I also want to send it to multiple people. There's no way I'm going to create a group just for this; it'll never be used again and there's no reason for the people I choose to be connected with each other. Snap solves this in a way that Messenger and Insta don't (or at least if they do I've not seen it advertised). That's not to say groups aren't really useful -- I'm surprised it took them so long (years?) to implement them.
I'm running the same version of Chrome(with site isolation enabled), its reporting "Your browser is NOT VULNERABLE to Spectre" for me. Also in incognito mode with extensions disabled.
Being conservative has nothing to do with it. The area of NY I live in right now is extremely conservative and there are dozens of solar panel installations from Apex Solar on homes and businesses.
Excellent point. I'll keep the phrase "neighborhood pace car" in mind for the future.
I don't think it has to be such a headache as long as you keep records. What I plan on doing is calculating my gains and losses using https://bitcoin.tax/ and bringing the report to a CPA to check over.

Not sure about the "paid immediately" part. That's news to me actually. Can anybody else weigh in on this?

Edit: https://www.irs.gov/faqs/estimated-tax suggests you do if you expect to owe more than $1,000 in taxes.
I'm very looking forward to seeing the crypto-currency bubble burst. I wonder what will be the tipping point.
AMP is the solution the internet deserves for not coming up with the solution the internet needed.
I completely agree about "market movement predictions", but market cap is not a prediction, it's a metric, a statistic, a made up value that can help you compare one asset to another.

It is used like a unitless measuring stick, not a prediction on what you can get if you sold.

And I'll argue that it does it's job fairly well. It's difficult to "game", and can help give you some information about an asset. It doesn't say everything, it can't tell you if it's stable, or if it's being used or not, or if it's a scam. It's just a tool, a metric, something that you use with a bunch of other tools to get an idea of the ecosystem.

I would be happy to "rename" it to a unitless value that doesn't imply a "total worth", but that ship has sailed, and it's not going to be possible, so we have what we have.
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How so? I am aware that if our opsec fails, a creative prosecutor will have no shortage of options to go after me with.

It won't shut down the operation because a successor will restore from backups and move on. But it will make me unhappy.
How can a thing which never existed to begin with vanish? There wasn't $100B sitting around in a bank account waiting to be claimed, which then suddenly evaporated.

Also investopedia isn't exactly a high quality source.
I am unable to find anything about using multiple oracles in Ethereum. Do you have any information about this?
Probably less of a risk than doing it in-house under management whose knowledge of blockchain comes exclusively from consultants whose interests are not aligned with Kodak's.
MacOS is yet to have a patch for 10.12.6 (Sierra) to resolve this.
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That means they’ll help to create a new industry, increase competition, drive down prices, but won’t save as much money.

Aren’t we still better off?
I don't see the point of AMP. Why not just give certain sites a little icon/preference if they're faster than XXXms? Glad to see this letter says as much.
So, why haven't they yet as 25 years have passed?

It is nor like they are hard or expensive to implement, more like nobody cares and the claim is overblown. Most mistakes in software are in boundary conditions nowadays and not invalid type handling.

Enforcing immutability is great until you get to deal with big number of additional values of immutable types because you cannot modify them. Easy to reason about, bad for performance.
True, but is it any more ironic than continuing to bring more people into existence with such typical cheery optimism despite the fact that the very act of doing so also condemns them at some point to die a certain death?
I don't dispute that point - however, investment in a company that can't turn a profit by a magnitude of $750 million of our tax dollars and area doesn't seem to be a wise use of dollars. That's really my overarching concern. There's no real benefit to the local economy, so why do it? That's my business mind, not my political mind on what's good or not for the environment. In the end it's tax dollars (rather high at that) that I'm putting directly into these incentives .. asking for some better investment is all.
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I doubt you can even hit a target directly under you from a satellite in geosynchronous orbit, at least without a fairly significant amount of effort. You can't just fire a rocket "straight down" -- if you just point at the Earth and thrust, you end up in an elongated orbit that misses the earth entirely.

...and since you have to be moving faster to hit geosynchronous orbit, you have to have a lot more ΔV to get back to the earth than if you were in a lower orbit, which means more fuel, which means more weight, which means harder to get into that orbit to start with...

Oh, and since you're still moving when you're doing that ΔV maneuver, you'll end up in a lower (and not-geosynchronous) orbit before you get all the way to the planet, so the payload would probably end up doing a few orbits on its way down anyhow (at which point, why care if you're "over the target")
You mean 10.12.6
> NEVER leave your children unattended even for a moment.

Yeah, I have 4 kids, and this right here, in my opinion is the core of the current trend to overparent. Let your kids play where you played. Let them have their own life outside of your control and influence. There is something very unhealthy about the way we have started viewing children and childhood in the USA.
Note that one of the antivirus software vendors that does this correctly is, in fact, Microsoft Defender.

If you haven't installed dodgy third-party AV, you're fine.
I jokingly told my father-in-law he can get his full retirement now (he retired from Kodak as over 3 decades). I don't think I'll ever look at the Kodak tower again...

The only benefit Kodak has done for it's hometown is foster a entrepreneur hub in Rochester as all the people who once worked for them left to form their own companies.
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Well, if one were to buy into the hypothesis that AMP is a way for Google to monopolize content, that would be the reason. At least in search results provided by Google's search.
I'm looking forward to the larger tracking area. My play area is actually a bit larger than the supported tracking area. It still works, but tracking isn't quite as precise.
> So .. my real question, is why is this not brought to the national level for discussion to what Elon is doing to communities like Buffalo, where I live? That's my question ...

Because Buffalo isn't a place that attracts much attention about anything outside of lake-effect snow and how terrible the Buffalo Bills are.

These silver-bullet projects that promise to bring large number of high-paying jobs rarely pan out. Remember when Yahoo put in that data center in Lockport (just outside of Buffalo for everyone not familiar with the area)? It was touted as a big win...as of two years ago they have a whopping 98 employees (most making less than 6 figures according to Glassdoor.)

https://www.bizjournals.com/buffalo/blog/science-and-technol...

(I was born in Buffalo and lived there for 35 years before moving south.)
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