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What is wrong with the SEC's statement on Bitcoin? (https://www.sec.gov/news/public-statement/statement-clayton-...)

My opinion is, if you read that and believe this is the SEC attempting to merely "scare" you, that you really shouldn't be investing in Bitcoin. None of their statements seem incorrect.

Bitcoin is new, but it is most similar to forex IMHO, and all the disclaimers to forex apply. Forex has higher than average risk, particularly in developing countries where volatility can be very high -- the possibility of losing almost everything is above average. It is also quite a bit more prone to scams compared to other investment platforms. It can work out well, but I wouldn't plunge into forex without doing a heck of a lot of research, and I wouldn't bet the farm on a single forex investment.

That applies to Bitcoin too. But there are some additional specific risks not linked to forex though. With forex, you can use various economic indicators of the nation of the currency to attempt to make a more solid investment. I'm not sure what economic indicators are out there to help with Bitcoin. Bitcoin's not backed by any government, furthermore, so there is higher risk for government intervention as we've seen to some degree in China and South Korea, which will at the very least cause greater volatility. Furthermore, bitcoin has a huge disadvantage compared to forex right now: it is relatively illiquid. All that adds up to a very risky investment from my perspective at this point. Some might be willing to take the plunge anyways. But the office talk I hear on Bitcoin is way too casual compared to the actual risk.
you'd have the chain but not the keys
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Very cool! It seems I was more correct than I thought.
"Most people" - I wouldn't be so sure about that...
Do not believe anything printed in Wapo.
This is what happens when mania dies down. Everyone who "invested" at >10K are not seeing the enormous returns. Those people are more likely to have never heard of bitcoin before this year. They didn't put in money because of a financial revolution. They put money in to make an easy buck. Those people also represent a significantly larger chunk of the market capitalization. When they lose money they won't come back.
ISO 8601 and Date Arithmetic on the Command-Line
Ah yeah. That is strange. I know what that phenomenon is though.

It's called you were on mushrooms bro.
I run a not too small hosting ISP today, and ten years ago I used routers based on commodity hardware running OpenBSD. Back when we were at Gbps scale and most customers were on 100Mb links, this worked fine. However, it did not scale to 10Gbps+, let alone the 100Gbps+ of capacity we're at today.

Beside the obvious case of performance not keeping up in aggregate, performance for just customers being on 1Gbps links was not as good. We found individual TCP session throughput routed through commodity hardware was noticeably lower than using a layer 3 ASICS based switch despite various attempts at tweaking various kernel sysctl variables.

Also, because nobody operates commodity based hardware routers at carrier scale, you cannot trust any open source BGP daemon's implementation of BGP confederations if they even have it at all. At that, I wouldn't really trust any vendor other than Cisco or Juniper for carrier scale routing.

So even if someone were to create a popular, open source routing project making use of DPDK to increase performance scalability on commodity hardware, I'd still stick to Cisco or Juniper solutions like CSR 1000V or vMX for the foreseeable future if I really wanted to use commodity hardware, as the full feature set is going to be proven and mature. I'd want to see any new product stand up well for 5+ years at carrier scale production use before I'd give it any serious consideration.

Even then, I'm not sure how well DPDK will stand up to UDP reflection volumetric type attacks which now dominate DDOS. The top packets/s levels achieved are barely sufficient for simple routing, and would likely drop precipitously with a modest ACL in place, in comparison to ASICS based routers being able to still do full line rate with ACL's that have a large number (hundreds) of terms.
Just don't worry about typing every single piece of code in your application. Some patterns are just plain difficult/impossible to type properly. Don't try to re-architect pieces of code to type-check fully (I did that for a while, definitely a waste of time).

The low-hanging fruit of automatically inferred typed alone is great. Even adding `//@ts-check` to JavaScript code has proved helpful.
Looking at NUKEMAP [1] and playing with Honolulu as a target using the various weapons that are common to nuclear arsenals your claims just sound totally false.

It seems like there would be a great chance of survivability in many areas if one were properly sheltered. This doesn't even take into account that Oahu is a mountain which would shield many inhabitants from the air blast.

I frankly am glad you are not in charge of the early warning system in Hawaii.

[1] http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
No you currently cannot. That's what I put in the suggestions box in the survey.
Even though I'm someone who doesn't reach for TS by choice (have had to use it for a couple of projects) I would add that even in a small or simple app, if you ever work with abstractions or wrapped values, you'll quickly feel the benefits of having types.
> They still do "postpartum confinement" http://edition.cnn.com/2015/08/11/china/chinese-postpartum-c.... -- based on pretty much nothing but old wives tales and dangerous superstition.

And a short time ago Americans were electro-shocking homosexuals to try and make them straight.

> Remember, this "modern, advanced" civilization still has Traditional Chinese Medicine as a "thing." It's a complete fraud with zero scientific basis: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/retconning-traditional-chin....

America has chiropractors covered under insurance, people who believe in homeopathy, and a growing culture of vaccine denial.

No culture is perfect. Not too long ago we had horribly polluted waters, and in a lot of places we still do. Have you seen the impact of pollution from pig farms[0][1]?

I'm not trying to play what-about-ism here, I am just saying that "modern, advanced civilizations" do all the things you listed.

The Chinese government is capable of undertaking massive infrastructure projects, and they do an incredible job of picking industries for government protectionism, allowing for growth of local talent. Multiple areas of technology and advanced automation are both areas where China has invested heavily in education and building a huge local talent pool. Pulling off multi-decade economic growth plans is impressive, they plotted a path from basic industry all the way to an advanced technology sector, and then executed on that plan.

That more than qualifies them as an advanced modern society.

[0]http://observer.com/2017/05/pig-waste-factory-farming-north-...
[1]http://www.businessinsider.com/mishka-henners-photos-of-amer...
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Again! Your goal is not to create an inclusive community. Your goal is to create an exclusive community.

Look, if want to create a female only website then go for it. But you have to own your actions. You can't exclude half the population then claim you care about inclusion. That is rank hypocrisy bordering on the delusional - you are doing the exact opposite of what you claim.
Yah. One thing I learned works are men who aren't recipient to the behaviour standing up.

There was an employee like that at my last job who would speak up. Not forcefully. I was really appreciative of what he was doing. He was treated pretty awfully, and ended up quitting.
You are probably right, but a better solution would be to create breeze ways that would allow wind to blow out the pollution more easily. These could be coupled with forests, of course. These cities have plenty of trees, but they aren’t newrly enough and anyways winter is the worst season.
I used to love pine but managing it well with Gmail was terrible as I would have to clean up the inbox and this couldn't be done automatically.
Against watch scripts for any reason?

It's pretty simple to get TS building via webpack for react, and tsc itself has a watch mode. The only PITA there is if you save any breaking changes, the build will obviously fail until you've completed and saved any the working changes, but at least you can't forget.
I'm not defending the interview question, but it's a valuable trait if someone can take the evidence of a logic-defying test run and ask themselves "This seems impossible, how could it have come about?" rather than "This is impossible, it must represent a hardware defect." -- or "This is mysterious and impossible but I just perturbed it enough to make the mysterious effect go away."

IMO this interview question is not horrible, especially if the answer(s) given are taken as a larger context of evaluating someone. If the candidate the interviewer responded "no, can't evaluate to true", then a good follow up might be "in fact it can! can you think of why/how?"
You're the one suggesting New Jobs. By hypothesis, larger planes mean that arrivals are more concentrated, leading to longer lines, but not that there are more arrivals.
well, perhaps, most people who look up information like this. ;)

Granted, you could is it to maximize protein in take at a given caloric intake
As I understand BGP, any updates published by any AS may arbitrarily re-route/disrupt traffic, ie it is not sufficient for me to update my systems, everyone must update all systems for the overall routing infrastructure to be protected. That sounds a lot like a protocol change to me.
This seems like a disingenuous decontextualization of what was said. Your link to dictionary.com says this:

>to initiate or precipitate (a chain of events, scientific reaction, psychological process, etc.)

"Psychological process," in this case, is what I was talking about, and what I think the original commenter was referring to. "Trigger warnings" aren't warning you that you might feel "anything that will cause a reaction," they're to help people suffering with PTSD avoid having a panic attack.

I agree that the colloquial definition is trending the way you describe, and I think it's irresponsible to just sit and watch it happen without speaking up in favor of the more specific psychological definition.
http://www.icr.org/article/plants-math-ration-food-use/

This is a really cool example of plants using math too.
> In fact, it is illegal for him not to accept the national currency.

What country are you referencing? It can't be the US.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/currency_12772.htm

Is it legal for a business in the United States to refuse cash as a form of payment?

Section 31 U.S.C. 5103, entitled "Legal tender," states:
"United States coins and currency [including Federal reserve notes and circulating notes of Federal reserve banks and national banks] are legal tender for all debts, public charges, taxes, and dues."

This statute means that all United States money as identified above is a valid and legal offer of payment for debts when tendered to a creditor. There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person, or an organization must accept currency or coins as payment for goods or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether to accept cash unless there is a state law which says otherwise.
> So are you saying that it's more rational to simply think 'anything is possible' even though the available evidence and information seems to point to the fact that that isn't the case?

At what point do you believe the internet had made its case as a technology? 1975? 1985? 1995? 2005? In each of those years, you had naysayers saying the internet would never become something people use in their daily lives, but here we are. The evidence of today should not stifle the innovation of tomorrow.

> Also with respect to things like 'nobody will ever need a computer in their house' or what Watson of IBM said (regarding the need for only a small amount of computers in total) you are also not looking at the times that that type of statement ('will never work and here is why' or 'not needed because xyz') was true.

It's not just Watson who made that statement. Many business owners in the 90s looked at computer and internet technology and dismissed it as a fad that would cease to exist in 5 years (and after the bubble popped, they were 100% sure they were correct). I believed in computers and the internet then because they solved unsolved problems, and offered better solutions than existing ones. In the field of trustless services, I believe the blockchain will be an essential part of that. And maybe it won't exactly be the blockchain we have today, but it will either be an improvement upon it, or an alternative idea created to address the problems of the original. Regardless of how the blockchain is and will eventually be used in practice, it's a simple theoretical model that offers a proof of what's possible in this space that we didn't have before.

If you don't think the blockchain is "it", then what other technology do we have today that solves the same third party trust problems as the blockchain? Or do you believe that reliance on third parties in business and finance is something we don't need to overcome?
the part that really resonated with me was:

I don’t want to make money on short-term financial trades, but rather by helping create new things over the long-term.

Anyone else have comments on this? I’ve been thinking this lately as well
Condo towers in Miami that were being put up and finished as the crash arrived, were often entirely empty and couldn't find any buyers. You could buy cheaper units for $30k to $50k. It was common to see 50%-70% haircuts, drops from $180k to $90k etc. Over six years (2003-2009), Miami added 23,000 condo units for a city of 400k. In Dec 2008, nearly half of those remained unsold.

Las Vegas saw some similar action. It suffered the worst overall top to bottom crash of any major city in the US.
I think the bigger leap is between having a transpiler and not having one.

If you are already using babel for example, you can have it compile Typescript (basically strip away all the type annotations). At that point typescript is like an optional set of javascript features.

Also the typescript compiler is very flexible, in terms of what it enforces. You can vary it from being really lax to pretty strict.

You can use babel to do the transpilation, then have the typescript compiler run off to the side doing typechecks / providing your editor with code completion.
Sure it can happen. The difficulty is adjusted every 2016 blocks, which normally means every two weeks.

Let's say the most recent difficulty adjustment has just passed, and the total network hash power suddenly drops by a factor of two. That means each block takes twice as long to find, so now you have to wait four weeks for it to correct itself. And during those four weeks, if the hash rate continues to drop, the adjustment gets further and further away.

Basically, if hash power drops by 5% per day for a sustained period, the network can't recover fast enough.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Difficulty
I noticed it's an extension rather than just a theme.

Has someone audited this for malware?
I would claim that there is still a difference between P-strings and, say, ASN.1 DER (which, at heart, is still TLV).
Hope uber gets banned and lyft takes their spot. My recent trip to canada was pretty shite using uber.
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That's a serious design flaw. "It can do it, but it's just too expensive for anyone to afford to do it," is a design failure condition.
You don't even need that length prefix if you use something like SDNV. Ironically this would have introduced a case where you have something like a null terminator that can overflow.

It would have also been a fair bit of overhead on those old single-Mhz machines. Still, almost everything you do with strings is slow so it probably would have been manageable. As an added bonus, it is zero space overhead for short strings (up to 127 characters) which are the majority of strings.
A friend was asked out on dates, unsolicited, multiple times by coworkers.

I’m a geek and don’t know the first thing about dating, but doesn’t at least one of the parties involved need to receive an unsolicited request? Isn’t that how it works?
yes in a concurrent program
UBJ requires a huge bureaucracy that UBI does not. The real basic jobs will be the people administering the program, rather than the poor who were initially targeted.
> Wow so it can you drop to zero in a very real sense before it even drops to say $40?!?

Markets crash discontinuously. It was trading at one hundred, it was trading at one hundred, it was trading at 99, it was trading at 2. Go on GDAX and look at the order book. Lots of demand priced close together at the top of the book. As you go down, the bids are further apart.

As a first-order approximation, that's a decent view into what would happen if a massive bought of selling hit the exchange.
This is what I thought, too. I'm glad I'm not the only one. Maybe the nanny is including some damaging information in the lawsuit, but not the most damaging information. She puts in plenty of details to send the message that she has a lot of specific details regarding the real dirt.
I'm happy to see that most comments in this thread have remained civil even when they disagree. This one, however, crosses into incivility and even personal attack. That breaks the HN guidelines and we ban accounts that do it.

It also looks like you've been using HN primarily for ideological battle. That's an abuse of the site too. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow the rules if you want to keep commenting here.
I do. However, I'm not sure how that means that a subset of the majority cannot also have their own exclusive spaces while also allowing a minority to have the same. Don't get me wrong, I'm not against a woman only support group and find the idea of Leap great. What is the problem you're stating, in this case, that a woman only group can solve that one comprised of men and women could not? Genuine question.

If the answer is "Men cannot understand" that's fair, but a terrible simplification. You'll find most men are at least willing to try to understand, and by vilifying the majority and hiding in a smaller exclusionary group you may just end up worse off than before.
If everybody woke up at once, came to their senses, and realized bitcoin was all just a waste of time and literal energy, and turned off their machines, bitcoin would be "shut down".
How about Noise?

http://noiseprotocol.org/
In that case a majority of users would likely agree to a hard fork that adjusts the difficulty.

Some people would probably argue it's no longer "Bitcoin" at that point, but at least you'd still hold coins that have some value.
Lawyers willing to opine:

> 14.5. NO CLASS ACTIONS. Developer may only resolve disputes with Dropbox on an individual basis and will not bring a claim in a class, consolidated or representative action. Class arbitrations, class actions, private attorney general actions, and consolidation with other arbitrations are not allowed.

Is this exact thing what's being considered in some of the more recent Supreme Court cases? https://www.npr.org/2017/10/06/555862822/no-class-action-sup...
The problem is somewhat underspecified without us knowing the programming language, and (perhaps) the data type of 'a'.
At this point crypto mutual funds don't really make sense. They all fall and rise together for the most part.
And various undefined behaviours (signed overflow etc.) colluding against the programmer to the effect that compilers sometimes delete range-checking code.

Integer promotion rules are not simple, either. Integer width rules, far from simple.
It's true miners have to have some incentive, and Bitcoin chooses to make that incentive a financial reward, but it's not the only possible incentive structure.

For example, imagine banks wanted to replace their clunky old ACH system with a blockchain. They could design their protocol such that it refuses to process transactions from or to an address that hasn't contributed a block to the chain in, say, the last 24 hours.. That requires each bank to contribute some minimum amount of computing power to maintaining the chain, even though it doesn't directly reward them for it.

(I've spent literally 2 minutes thinking through this example. I'm sure it has some glaring holes in it. Still, I hope it illustrates the point.)
It would only, at best, give you outdated browser versions. Unless you are going to create a huge set of rules checking certain properties against other properties. Plus it doesn't tell you which browser, only maybe which webkit engine version. Which tells you next to nothing.
The website is completely free and was Created by a guy who is doing it all right now – his ISP already works great
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Why would you pick jsx instead of TSX?
That feeling in your gut that technology is not going in the right direction
proof of stake.
I think you're a bit off with the time frame. The system sends push notifications to citizens in a specific area, or am I mistaken? Are these texts?
Part of it is that there's a public risk with this sense of 'preparedness'.

If large amounts of people feel comfortable with nuclear war breaking out because they have their bomb shelter stocked in the backyard that poses an existential risk for everyone.

While people may overestimate the vaporization radius of a specific bomb we definitely don't want a larger underestimation of the affect of large scale nuclear conflict.

This was kind of the point of the pugwash conference, to remove nuclear weapons from political escalation more generally. If we're not successful at this and it escalates or becomes political that might be the end of it.

“In view of the fact that in any future world war nuclear weapons will certainly be employed, and that such weapons threaten the continued existence of mankind, we urge the governments of the world to realize, and to acknowledge publicly, that their purpose cannot be furthered by a world war, and we urge them, consequently, to find peaceful means for the settlement of all matters of dispute between them.”

https://pugwash.org/1955/07/09/statement-manifesto/
FWIW, I do use Lightning all the time and only know of a couple of minor UI bugs, and at least one other person in my house uses it to sync with external calendars routinely without serious problems as well, so if there are serious bugs there then they don't seem to be universal. In any case, I'd much rather fixing this sort of thing was the priority for the project than yet another UI theme overhaul because reasons.
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file://, http://localhost, and http://127.0.0.1 (as well as some other defined-to-be-localhost IPs) are all considered "secure contexts".

There's still a problem here, of course: things can work locally but fail when deployed to an http:// site.
The plan is that transaction fees will incentivize mining after all the bitcoins have been minted.
A blank round looks totally different from a 'live' round with a projectile.
In this case, I don't. I previously chose KMail over Thunderbird, solely because Thunderbird's UI felt too massive and cluttered to me.
You understand wrong. And are naive to think that such a simplistic flaw would not be considered by the substantial number of intelligent programmers involved in the Bitcoin project.

The transaction fees on the network are incentives for miners to pass transactions in addition to block rewards.
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You're right, I replied before clicking the link. Couldn't find a delete button, so I'll let it stand.