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> I wonder how the press is so sure that "fears of regulatory crackdown" are the reason for the drop

They don't. I imagine it's mostly 'bitter coiners' who didn't buy in when the price was low and who are happy to see any drop because it lessens the amount they feel they lost out by (and I say this as a bitter coiner myself who could have mined bitcoin back when it was possible on a typical desktop but decided it wasn't worth the hassle).

I imagine this drop is caused by people who bought in early last year, saw the price drop from $19,000 to $15,000 and then think "I'm happy to lock in 1,500% gains" and sold, causing others to think "hmmm, the price is dropping, I'm happy to lock in 1,400% gains" and selling, and so on all the way down to the current $10,000, and it will likely keep dropping until you run out of people looking to lock in at least some of the gains from last year. That's when you'll get a whole bunch of people thinking "wow the price of bitcoin is low right now, time to buy, buy, buy".
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Here's the connection:

A: "Im not sure I'd have the strength to do it myself if I had to" [because I'm depressed / have anxiety issues / am utterly burned out mentally].

B: "You'd have the strength to do that, too, if your (children's) livelihood depended on it. It's really not that hard if the other option is being evicted from your house."

C: You missed the [...] part.

The depression link is in square brackets. Can't say if it applies to 'HiroshiSan, but it applies to some people (to some extent, including myself - I had moments when I was barely hanging by a thread). Some people doubt they'd be able to handle it because they know they lack the psychological strength. And in depression, being threatened ("you have to do it, or else your family starves") may only makes things worse - it might just push someone past their breaking point.
And the abstraction of the state having money is helpful? How so? It's fake. Words matter. Language matters. Ask Orwell.

The point being when the abstraction is removed and the truth repeated, perceptions, opinions, and eventually the decisions and actions of citizens will change. As it is, the abstraction enables complacency.

The government is not your employer. YOU are the government's employer. See? The conventional lexicon has confused you. Which, thank you, supports my original statement.
You're both right. Yes, it's WPF, and there are lots of parts written in C#. But the parent is right -- Visual Studio is C++ using COM and Win32 at its core, going back all the way to the Visual Basic IDE that shipped as part of Visual Studio 6. It would be a very difficult port to Mac, Linux, etc. As of this writing there is even no 64-bit version for Windows (although that's just a matter of spending the time and money to do it.)

The brand name has been re-used for other software. Visual Studio for Mac is Xamarin. Visual Studio Code is on the Electron platform.
Another one for Scala. Between Play which is a full blown framework and bare bones akka-http you have every possible scenario covered. Also Slick for database access is a great library to make a full combo. Put on top of all that access to every imaginable library that exists in JVM ecosystem and you have a clear winner.
Millions of people bought bitcoins, that's true. But not because of the 'reliable store of value' philosophy, just because they were speculating on a quick finanical win.
No honest forex trader would call his trading an investment, though. They/we know exactly that it's just gambling based on very limited data. Also, traders are extremely careful to limit their risk. No sane trader would hold bitcoin for extend lengths of time. Yet hodling is exactly what bitcoin "investors" advocate.
> the effort required to mine Bitcoin increases over time.

Not necessarily. The effort required is based on trying to create blocks every 10 minutes. If the price increases, mining becomes more profitable, thus more effort will be put into mining, which means the blocks will start to be created quicker, leading to an increase in difficulty. The reverse is also true: if blocks take too long, the difficulty decreases.

If you take a look at a difficulty graph [0] you can see that it decreases at times. Compare with a price graph [1]. You can see that significant price decreases also cause minor difficulty decreases, but it's not a 1:1 correlation due to mining efficiency improvements.

[0] https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-difficulty.html...
[1] https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-price.html#log
more likely it's so they don't have to have a more convoluted process where they call out to requesting service to verify RQ & all which that entails (on both sides).
Bitcoin isn't crashing. It's just on sale. Buy now before it's too late!
I've been to India, and I'm quite sure nobody I met except maybe the hotels serving tourists, was paying taxes. Shops, restaurants, businesses all only accepted cash. And they also never give a receipt. So yeah, 3% sounds about right.
Wait, there's a modern-day Phineas Gage, and your dad knew him personally?
> * State tax credits, $2.85 billion * Local government incentives, $764 million[1] * State sales tax exemption, $139 million

> When you add back the revenue that would be generated from 13,000 jobs the state will come out well ahead.

The incentives cost the state & local $288692 per job-year (which is what "13000 jobs" is actually defined as according to cptskippy and toast0). And that's assuming Foxconn actually reaches 13000 job-years, which they have no reason to do if the incentives are front-loaded.

cowkingdeluxe's alternate take is that the factory will start out at 3000 jobs[0] and may eventually grow to 13000, assuming it stays at 3000 jobs that's $1250000 for each job, are these jobs really going to generate $1.5 million in revenue each so that the state will come out "well-ahead"?

[0] could actually be jobs-year as well making the entire thing even worse.
> (As it happens, "performant" is at the stage where it is starting to pass those thresholds, and is now in the OED [2])

Strictly speaking, I don't believe your [2] is the OED. It's "Oxford Living Dictionaries", which I assume tries to be more current/dynamic, but might be regarded as less authoritative.

Interestingly, the word "performant" is in the OED itself, with the earliest citation being from 1809 -- but it is listed only as a noun, meaning "A person who performs a duty, ceremony, etc., a performer", not the adjectival usage under discussion here.

http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/262085?redirectedFrom=performa... (requires login)
I've definitely seen this shift, mainly because a lot of people seem to be coming to the realisation that the iPad is a fantastic tablet, but a shitty work device.

I like the iPad, and I like the idea of using it as a basic client for cloud-based work, but I think a lot of people take for granted how complex the tooling they use in day-to-day work is.
My experience with micro-services is code-bases that have prematurely adopted the pattern. Based on this, my advice is as follows...

You can deploy the whole platform and/or refactor to a monolith, and maintain one change log which is simple.

That however has its own downsides, so you should find a balance. If you're having trouble keeping track, perhaps re-organize. I read on one HN article that Amazon had 7k employees before they adopted microservices. The benefits have to outweigh the costs. Sometimes the solution to the problem is taking a step back. without more details its hard to say.

So basically one option is refactor [to a monolith] and re-evaluate the split such that you no longer have this problem. Just throw each repo in a sub-folder & make that your new mono-repo & go from there, it is worth an exploratory refactoring, but not a silver bullet.
That new 2018 X1 Carbon is looking uber sexy. Light as a feather, proper quad core CPU, great screen, track point & proper keyboard etc.

My 2011 one is still working fine but the minute it breaks, well, prepare to be replaced. The Macbook Pro is a heavy behemoth in comparison. And no function keys. Do not want.
Some would say that Rust is a functional language.

http://science.raphael.poss.name/rust-for-functional-program...

Rust has an ecosystem for building web backends.

http://www.arewewebyet.org/

Does Rust have the best ecosystem for a web backend, though? I think that will depend on who you ask and what you are looking for specifically.
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The OP specifically asked for a functional language, though. Java and Kotlin have adopted some ideas from functional languages, but they aren't themselves functional languages, and their HTTP frameworks certainly aren't designed along functional lines.

Scala is, amongst other things, a functional language. How much to its HTTP frameworks embrace that?
I'm not particularly interested in the money, but I am worried that features I want to use will be restricted to partners.
Actually, it kind of does. If people think the price is low, they'll buy more.
> Five years ago, most developers at the .NET user groups I attended were either using a MBP, or whatever shitty cheap laptop their company gave them. Now, it's either a Surface Book, a Surface, the odd older MBP, or the cheap work laptop.

Anecdata: While most in our team are using Macbooks, I'm seeing an increasing amount of people using a Lenovo X1 Yoga. I made the switch as well last month. However, that might just be a consequence of what our employer offers: The X1 Yoga is simply the best dev machine one can buy in the internal store (not counting Macbooks, I'm not aware of their current lineup).
Where do you pay 100€ a year for train tickets? In my city (Germany) it's about 1000€ a year.
Does Docker work on WSL?
I ponder that frequently, too. But then I realize that to pull it off, I'd have to somehow move family into the "unskilled job" part of the schedule - so the whole scheme is unworkable.
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But as international founder i wont be able to use those money, since i will have no work permit, so i cant be employed by company as CEO, and by Delawere law i believe using company money for personal spending is a good way to jail
I doubt Intel will be lowering their prices, or refunding anyone a portion of the price of their previously purchased CPUs, that's for sure.

Look what happened after the VW diesel scandal ('dieselgate'): VW had to pay for repairs, and pay buyers (my friend bought one of the cars and got about $6k IIRC). Some people even went to jail.

Intel (or any other CPU maker) will probably not suffer similar fates. This situation is a bit different, because they may not have known about the problem. Still, everyone who bought a CPU is going to get a 10-30% performance haircut because they made a mistake. And Intel isn't going to have to pay for it.
Interesting read. It seems to me some of the long tail risks mitigated by expensive redundancies might be an acceptable risk for the customers. For example, the article indicates that they have redundant power suppliers, along with 2 days worth of diesel for on-premise generation. Apparently keeping the second power company available is a recurring cost. What are the chances power is cut to the office for more than 2 days that (1) doesn't also affect the other power company (e.g., earthquake, hurricane, etc.) and (2) couldn't be mitigated by purchasing more diesel? Even if (1) and (2) are true, couldn't this just be a reasonable outage?
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This is why I am excited for competitors like Linus Tech Tips' floatplane to start getting traction. YouTube seems to be turning into more of a behemoth that doesn't care for the little guys every day.
Nice! I'm currently reading 'A guide to the good life' and am always looking for ways to incorporate stoicism into my daily life.

I'd love a 'distraction free' mode concentrating on only the timer (maybe even removing the 'hours', 'minutes', 'seconds' texts) :)
Oh? Um? Whatever happened to taxation without representation? Whatever happened to of the people, by the people, for the people?

The gov is nothing without you and your revenue. They work for you. They are (supposed to be) your agent/agency.

Long to short, the money belongs to you. The language should reflect that. The fact that it doesn't enabled people to forget the true nature of the relationship. Suggested reading: 1984.
I think he intends “privilege” to refer only to filesystem and other OS-level privileges, not more generally to the capabilities of code, and I think he uses “untrusted” to mean minimally-trusted—more restricted than the OS can enforce.

Taking the DNS Helper example, one could imagine a function-like DNS Helper which has the capability only to return a value. This would make libresolv just a bug, not a security hole, because the attacker would only pervert their own request.
> Let's bing it

No wonder they need a whole hour to solve the case. :)
Enterprise isn’t Windows-only anymore. If you’re not targeting Mac and Linux, too, you’re doing it wrong.
Interesting article, the only thing I fail to see how this is related to Meltdown and Spectre. Those are not simple 'bugs', it's multiple good features of modern processors combined to yield an attack vector. My opinion is that with any level of process problems like this will arise sooner or later just because the complexity is so high.
agree. Once I discovered Clojure, it's all kinds of fun to write in! The community is great. The ecosystem now has plenty of robust libraries to handle most any heavy-lifting task(s).

If you want to play around with getting up and running with a functional clojure backend, I put up this:

https://github.com/tuddman/moarweba

feedback welcome
It obviously upsets some people's distortion fields to see non-Apple products positioned as such.
they're generic applications, and their development
doesn't justify Microsoft investing in an entire stack.

Seems to me there's one or two applications for every profession, and they probably mount up.

I mean, I'm sure if you look at the statistics only 0.1% of users use Photoshop, or Premiere Pro, or AutoCAD, or SolidWorks, or Altium, or Matlab, or whatever - but if you drop support for all of them, what are users going to do?
Email scammers lose time if they don't quickly eliminate bad targets. Ponzi schemes have no such issues.
It's also interesting whether there are people with apperceptive visual agnosia who are susceptible to adversarial examples.
What? Bitcoin is linked to reality in that people paid money for them.
You're all talking in the past tense like it's done. It's already recovering right now, the US market will wake up, and it'll be back on track. Every January is the same story for 4 years now. This thing will hit far far far up before really crashing down. Bonus if some coin can be adopted as a reliable Digital currency for buying and selling stuff.
I'm just following the narrative of anybody releasing a patch early gets the death penalty.
UWP is unfortunately not a modern version of WPF. It is an adapted form of the Windows 8 'WinRT' platform. It originates from Silverlight of all things.
This is part of the problem, its almost impossible to create WPF-like 'power user' experiences with UWP - as its design philosophy is 'mobile first' and 'touch first'.

Enterprises who would think of building apps with functionality that can be delivered with a UWP app are more likely to just build a web app - its cheaper and requires less maintenance.
Exactly. Seattle is lovely, if you get out on the weekend.
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Chrome is corporate. The ambiguous edge of lackey capitalizm. Thee weil do no evil, bullshit ee ching. Microsoft, a problem since Windows 95. So, what are we left with? Weir left with a system that does not have an adequate browser for all of the information pools that we have come to gather. All this data!
arbitrage is difficult because the market is stupidly inefficient, but yes, the prices do more or less correlate.

e.g., last night when they arrested the fall with 100m more Tethers, the price shot up $1000 on Bitfinex and about $400 on GDAX a bit later.
Comparison my ass, the article name-drops 3 historical events and goes no further to do an actual comparison.
Not to pump bitcoin but to sell tethers. They sell tethers to people who want to trade the tether/bitcoin currency pair on their exchange. But there is no way to turn tethers back into fiat currency. So they are just keeping all of the money that people "invest" in tether.
Ridiculous example: Qmail refused CRLF e-mails because the headers couldn't be read. It only accepted LF e-mails. In practice, this meant an e-mail client like Outlook did not work. It was solved by a very small fix with a few lines of C, but the patch I found did not apply cleanly either because it was for an older version or because of other patches, so I had to port it. This makes something like autoconf where you gotta specify all kind of options to ./configure a breeze.
If they are below the new threshold, they surely will.
The left right hypothesis is wrong. The brain specialization is much more fine grained and much more adaptible to circumstances than described.

Yes there are some specialized loci that happen to (most often) be in the left or right hemisphere, but the original hypothesis that logic is in the left hemisphere for example is utterly wrong.

An example would be language, researchers started finding language loci in the brain (by showing that if a specific area was damaged, language was damaged) and so on. Based on such evidence the left right hypothesis was formed. What was not taken into account (in my somewhat accurate example) was that there are several other areas one could injure to get language-affecting brain damage.

The thing is, such broad things as language, or logic, or art, are not located anywhere in particular in the brain, it is the interaction or many different areas and not necessarily the same areas in every person. There are however several areas that are specialized but on a much lower level than "language" search for Wernicke's area for example.

Also note that Wernicke's area is statistically in different hemisphere more probably depending on which is your predominant hand.

So no, just no.
>Making life easier for people who choose to not own cars, has positive impact for those who can't own cars (and not to even begin on reducing the negative externalities).

And people who drive cars. Because less congestion if there are half as many cars on the road.
Yeah, but a low, slow, cheap drone has all those advantages anyway. There's no need for a hypersonic space plane.
I think that's a fair guess. I'd also guess there are plenty of people who bought in at around 1k and are thinking to lock in at least some of the gains that were made over the last year.

Maybe they don't get 1,900% gains, but 1,000% gains or even 'only' 100% gains in a single year is still an impressive return on investment and so selling anywhere above 2k is going to be a viable choice for many speculators.
Interesting. Would you then see refusing top secret security clearance to a spouse or sibling of a spy to be "persecution"?
Then it's even more poorly designed than anybody previously thought!
The Great Depression stock market crash was much less brutal than many think, but the consequences were severe. Initial drop about 10%, going to 20% with peak to peak at ~50%, but YoY it only was ~20% down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_Crash_of_1929
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You forgot Bittrex.
The incident in Hawaii was user error and is a UI design problem.
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Many of the people who I've seen make the claim that Bitcoin is a "reliable store of value" or digital gold then go on to talk about how its undervalued, an investment, one of the few things that can give you these kinds of returns, etc. There doesn't seem to be much reflection on a how using currency, storing something in a reliable store of value, investing in assets, and speculating on asset prices are all very different behaviors. It's also telling that when the economic issues of bitcoin are pointed out, the response is often that people don't understand the technical side or that they need to read the white paper. It would be like if someone said they don't think many consumers would like the iPhone X and the response was "you really shouldn't comment unless you know the details about how the iPhone X is manufactured."
We use Jenkins for releases, kubernetes for deployments if I understand the question correctly. We’d like to use something like linkerd to simplify finding dependencies.
You are absolutely right, and I work with users who would fire someone in the dev team if their WPF app ever went down during the week (the app is kept running for 5 days of the week). This is necessary for many trading platforms
"Luna" also means "moon" in most Slavic languages so it looks like it's intentional.
You can't without difficulty, you have to convert them to BTC or ETH and send them to Coinbase or other reputable exchange then cash out in fiat, in a window where all three securities wallets at respective exchanges aren't in maintenance, network isn't blocked by cryptokittes, and you've passed all AML/KYC including possibly justifying where incoming has came from. There are a lot of people that will find cashing out to fiat very difficult hence why some are parking in Tethers even though they aware of the dubious nature, and thus tether is trading at greater than a dollar. Personally, I wouldn't want to touch tether even for a few minutes, as sod's law it would be my luck that Securities & Futures Commission of Hong Kong or Hong Kong police decide to act just at that moment I buy tethers (well technically the problem will be once it's on TV and value drops to 0).
It still depends where you live. A city with good public transit and cycling infra structure and stuff you can walk to, still means you can have a kid and not need a car.
For backend you'd have Scala on the JVM side and F# on the .NET side.
You can add to that that "experts" are pretty clueless as well, 2000 and 2008 are reminders of that.
Close to none saw it coming and the ones that did where laughing stock amongst them, you have to be a pretty remarkable person to swim against National bank presidents, government officials and other high ranking people like Alan Greenspan, that was a super respected economist but also has made some of the worst mistakes in history of the world economy and still has power to swing things around
I really distrust any finance specialist, but I am also aware that if any high yield information ever reaches me it's either a crime or a scheme to take my money away from me.
So it's tricky.
Oh I'm sure it was bug ridden. But even if my feature introduced a security hole, you would have to find and exploit it, and it would then have to find a way to attack the rest of the app (which qmail makes difficult).

It's kind of like using OBSD as your app platform. You can definitely make it insecure! But it's more secure by default than others, perhaps because of a lack of features, as well as very good security design.
But if it did go to $1, mining would become unprofitable until the next adjustment. So the only way forward is the network to fork. Then you wouldn't own "the Bitcoins", just "a Bitcoins".
There's a difference between mechanical ability (command of the vehicle and awareness of surroundings) and quality of behavior (speeding, moving unpredictably, etc). It's possible to be very skilled as a driver and also be a very bad driver by essentially being a dick.