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I didn't say we should abandon capitalism, I just think characterizing it as altruistic is extremely naïve. Capitalism might naturally tend towards the greater good better than other social systems, but it has no built-in guideposts that prevent destructive behaviour (see above).

Moreover, with the amount of ecological damage (mass, irreversible extinctions, global warming), indigenous genocide, slavery, etc. I'm not sure if being anti-capitalist is as "insane" as you put it. Global capitalism has given us advances in medicine, culture, reduced warfare, material wealth—but these advances haven't come without significant costs. Depending on what you value, capitalism could end up being a net-negative system.
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OMG I can't believe you're downvoted for saying that, more than the person you were responding to! Americans you are nuts. Last political-related comment I ever make on here, if I can help it. Sick of seeing and getting downvotes for stating the bleeding obvious.
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Don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you, enslave you; who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel! Who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines, you are not cattle, you are men!

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For the record, Hitchens died in 2011.
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I think the ranting and swearing help -- they make him more memorable, and therefore more generally well-known. This can then feed on itself a bit to make him more of a public "celebrity" and have more pull than he would otherwise.

I agree that his other skills are likely more important overall, and there are certainly other ways to be memorable, but I don't think you can discount the contribution of the ranting.
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> she was told CS "wouldn't be her thing"

Curious who told her that. Career counsellors?
so first of all, you don't need to store all historical data to operate bitcoin node. it needs to be bootstrapped, but after that there is a thing called UTXO set which tracks unspent outputs (basically account balances), so you don't need to go all the way back to verify you can spend something from a tx in year 2010.

so basically as you bootstrap and verify you can prune older blocks without sacrificing security.

also there were some proposals related to utxo set commitments, where utxo set signature is recorded in the blockchain, so bootstrapping node can just download it from anyone and verify starting from the commitment block. this would solve the problem entirely.

second - storage and bandwidth are still a concern out of which a whole bitcoin cash altcoin was born - some people thought it would be good idea to go with even larger blocks justifying it by even more handwaving.

third - there is a strong push towards developing upper layers of the network, so called payment channels. one solution that already exists on mainnet in alpha stage is Lightning Network, is basically a protocol for routing payments between multiple channels kademlia-like. these channel transactions are not recorded in the blockchain, you only need to pay fees for opening and closing a channel, so two on-chain transactions, and then you use your channel funds like a debit card, paying for low cost things.

and your last point - yes, halving is a significant event during which miners lost almost half the revenue. on original bitcoin network this is offset by a working fee market: right now about 20%+ of block rewards come from tx fees. obviously miners know the schedule of halvenings and those that will become unprofitable will try to get rid of their infrastructure investments beforehand - this will lower network hashrate which will send tx fees higher, which will somewhat offset losses as well. we've already been through couple halvenings, they didn't really affect much, i think next one will be crucial test for bitcoin's survivability.

of course people pushing for zero fee transactions are trying to have their cake and eat it too, storage is a scarce resource and nobody can sustainably to offer it for free.

bottom line is - blockchain cannot scale to micro transactions, most of economic activity will be done in payment channels, on chain transactions will be mostly for high-value settlements between larger players (banks, exchanges, etc).

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And have more smaller ideas. Things you can implement a proof-of-concept in a weekend. It shouldn't be such a big deal if it doesn't turn out to be promising.

And break down your bigger ideas into small chunks that would be fun to try.

Establish a track record of being able to try small ideas, then implement big ideas by piecing together small projects.
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To be fair, when you gain most of your vocabulary by reading, you have to guess at pronunciation most of the time. I read voluminously as a kid but still mispronounce words which I feel very comfortable with!
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It comes down to trust and funding. Distributed ledgers, blockchains, smart contracts seem like the only way to operate certain schemes that would typically take a government or other authority to implement in a way that provided parties guarantees about its fairness. The other aspect is that funding for some projects are not going to be achievable through traditional means because the profits from the network are too diffuse and are not concentrated in a single company's share holders. One such scheme is SONM, a soon-to-be network of computers that act like AWS, but in the fog. The network pays suppliers and hubs, while the value of their SNM coin finances the operation of the developers. The value of the coin is that it is the only way to get access to the compute, storage and network your company needs. The prices will be better than AWS.
Here are the "peers" that I have reviewing what I hear from politicians: the salary on my paycheck, the tax figures on that paycheck, and the prices at the gas station and supermarket. I don't need to pore over news editorials and blogs posts or watch commentators on any TV channel to know which political figure is making more sense and describing reality more accurately.
Curiosity: how much Mencken have you read? It's odd to say someone who thinks he was racist (he really, really was) has only read his Wikipedia page, and then post a wall of text from a different single source.
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(This does not sound like your experience but) I'm very surprised when a bad reviewer has a resolvable problem, makes no attempt to contact support and simply writes a bad review.

Or, sends a support email and 30 seconds later writes a bad review.

Bad reviews sometimes indicate not a willingness to resolve a problem but wanting to shout and be heard.

I hear this often with restaurant reviews too. Something is wrong with the food but they quietly seethe rather than grabbing their waiter, waiting until the taxis home to write a scathing review. How odd.
What do you expect these people to tell a newspaper when asked about what they “did?” Of course they’re going to declare their enduring love and support for their wonderful leader. Saying anything else would result in a prison sentence.
> a case today that forces Google to share all the data that it collects on searches would help break its monopoly.

Not just no, but absolutely hell no. Currently, I can choose or not choose to agree to Google's policies or use or not use their services, but essentially open-sourcing their dataset where it can be used by literally anyone? I don't trust Google a lot, but I trust them far more than <insert random company I've never heard of.>
As someone who hasn’t used WhatsApp, I am surprised and curious about this. Any other experiences or information would be much appreciated.
If a distributed cloud storage protocol became as ubiquitous as e-mail, the difference would be that buyers could buy tokens from anyone and not concern themselves with who actually stores their data. Also, anyone with spare storage capacity could join the network to squeeze a small amount of value from it until they have something more productive to do with it.

That's also how proof-of-work systems should have worked with surplus compute cycles, except ... ASICs. I basically consider Bitcoin broken because of this.

As to how the protocol creator makes money, they can sell storage like everyone else, but creating a protocol doesn't require the same initial capital as starting a whole cloud storage company.
One of the reasons centralized wallets/exchange exist is because the technology is difficult to use. This is also in part most of the talk around cryptocurrency is full of jargon, even for simple things which normal people would be able to understand.

On that note, shameless self promotion in case someone wants to understand how transaction and fees work in bitcoin and most cryptocurrencies, I have written this post:

https://medium.com/@smith.garg/fees-calculation-in-bitcoin-a...
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Several years ago, I developed an app for restaurant loyalty points. It was ill conceived, I was naive at how hard it would be to sell to restaurants etc, despite that we did get a dozen places to utilize it, and several hundred users.

Fast forward to present day, I received an email from a family member that owns a couple restaurants, that asked me to build a solution to a loyalty-like app that he currently pays several hundred dollars per location he owns, he is looking to get the cost down to 1-150/store.

I can build this solution, and he is willing to work with me to perfect it, will pay for it when it replaces the current setup. He will also help me sell other owners. I work a 9-5 and am still gun-shy from my previous experience, and frankly am not sure if I want to use all my free time developing this.

Is having my family member, who is willing to pay, etc, and is asking for a solution enough of a catalyst to pursue this idea? I'm not looking to exit for millions...but I'd love to get a lifestyle business up and going to replace a six figure 9-5.
I plan to add a very small graph, just to indicate each coins direction. At some point, I'd like to be able to click on a coin and see detailed graphs and other information, news & tweets about the coin maybe.
Kind of off topic - is uBlock origin enough to stop mining scripts, if not is there a good extension anyone can recommend?
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The problem aren't the developers of alternative systems. The culprit is Apple.
I'm not a miner, but I want my transactions on chain.

Also, I'm happy to pay a (reasonable) fee to miners to compensate them for the resources they spend in keeping the network secure for me.
The problem is not only hooking into the rendering, DLL injection can be used to take over the entire process and basically do whatever you want in a game client.
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I appreciate your point, but the same thing happens in DDG? Enter a movie (e.g. I used Jurassic Park) and I have links in more-or-less-the-same-place to iTunes or Amazon. You could have just as easily given your $3 to those services had you used DDG.

I dont see how that DDG's approach is "ridiculous" compared to how Google does it? Seems like the same sort of background interface to doing "stuff" on the internet, just a different URL. Sure Google have got a joined-up ecosystem (just like Amazon & Apple do), but I dont think in this scenario it presents any real benefits to the end user? You pays your money, you sees your dinosaurs.

Sure people need to switch search engines, and sure people probably wont switch, but I dont think people's laziness/unawareness to switch is justification enough to classify Google a monopoly when viable alternatives exist.

It might be better for browsers to provide a randomised-order "search engine choice screen" on installation about what engine to use, rather than just default to something (a bit like what MS had to do with Browsers IIRC). At least that might stop people getting auto opted-in to using to whichever company have the best relationship with the browser developer.
Here's one that drives me nuts (an American listening to American speech): Febyouary. Literally everybody says it and it never made sense to me.
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Amazon is exterminating local businesses en masse and making trade deficits worse. People should reason past the end of their nose. Low prices aren't the only good in the universe; your money is now going out of your community to god knows where. You and your neighbors are getting poorer and poorer the more you consume and the less you produce.
This is a really good point, I hadn't thought of this before. Because of how many other options there are, the "scarcity" of Bitcoin is only real if there is something that is going to prevent other cryptocurrencies from being used, or promote Bitcoin above all others. Given that Bitcoin has been demonstrated to be inferior at scale vs. some of the other options, I don't see a reason to expect that it will continue to be the most prolific in the long term. By extension, there doesn't seem to be an obvious indication that any of them will see a lot of use in the long term.
This reminds me of some Bittorrent trackers which added random IP addresses to their peer list, so companies which accused people of downloading movies based only on the list returned from the tracker would make false accusations: https://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-tricks-anti-pirates-...
Without the swear words this wouldn't get as much publicity as it does, and that may help in getting Intel to change.
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This blog post made everything a lot clearer to me: https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2018/01/04/why-you-cant...

> [...] “market cap” is a misleading and useless number. If someone bought a fraction of a bitcoin at $19,000 per BTC, that doesn’t make anyone else a “Bitcoin billionaire” whose bitcoins could be sold at $19,000 each — the total actual money recoverable from the system hasn’t gone up.

> Try realising any substantial fraction of those paper billions and watch the price crash — the actual money doesn’t exist for everyone to cash out. At some point, there will be a rush for the exits, and most can’t possibly make it out with their “gains.”

If bitcoins were tulips, and some cosmic event made them deathly radioactive tomorrow, you wouldn't find any buyer, however steep your discount. But I suppose there'll still be open "buy" orders that will buy at $5000, or $1000, etc...
Because we have to deal with them on a daily basis and they have political power? I’m not sure how you’re defining “not serious”.
They already stopped the first "fake news" label experiment because it simply caused people to click on it more. I think that's the core problem: people don't really want to know if something is legitimate or not, they want controversial stuff and if it's labeled as fake, they simply want to see it and decide for themselves anyway. And, I'm sure, when something goes against your beliefs, you will take that fake label as proof that people don't want to believe/the system is trying to brainwash you.
> Not only spot, but also invests the energy in calling it out and explaining it.

It also requires the social capital necessary for the calls to be taken seriously.

I don't worry about Linus being silenced by prevailing culture; I worry that there won't be another Linus after him.
You can actually use a laser, run it through a beam expander, pass it through a projector slide, run it through a lens, apply the filtering operations at the focal plane just like you would with a fourier transformed image, and get the expected result out. I thought this was just something cool you could do with lasers, but it seems that there is maybe some use for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_computing#Optical_Four...
There is the iphonelinux project and we have the beginnings of a port to the ipod touch 1G, but the main issue with that port is that we can't get openiboot to build with GCC6
The missing symmetry in your own analogy is that Cryptocurrencies themselves are protocols with their own inherent (if not requisite) platform problems.

In theory, protocols like the blockchain are open, decentralized, interoperable. Yet in current practice a cryptocurrency only works with platform lock in: if you don't lock people into your platform it isn't monetizable. Market forces push toward closed (artificial scarcity, rising costs for new players to enter the market versus entrenched players/miners/etc) and centralized (central wallets/brokers/exchanges on the one side, complex miner unions as complex political boundaries form on the other side).

I'm not sure cryptocurrencies can save the internet from platform problems when they themselves are platforms.
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What they should do isn’t show me news that I’m likely to agree with, but news that nearly noone disagrees with. It should be very easy to notice what has both large numbers of people disagreeing and agreeing with, and people within the same social networks agree with eachother. That type of news could just be supressed. If all that’s left is news with kittens then that’s a glorious success. I can get actual news elsewhere, and Facebook can select a few publications of good quality and replace anyone that shares a breitbart article with a corresponding one from the guardian.
Yes, but the advantage other books have is more people have read them and given their reviews on how it has helped them.

So few people have read TAOCP that there's not really much information out there about how it benefits them, if at all. The problem with books that go very deep into niche topics is you might never find something that relates to that topic in your actual life in some meaningful way.
Flushing the cache after every branch misprediction would probably make branch prediction a net loss in performance.
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Here's my theory, and I think it's quite obvious: Zuckerberg, as someone with a reported $74B in net worth[0], is actually a Republican, and strongly supports Trump and is pushing for his reelection. All the apologizes and damage control is just virtue-signalling to appease the entertainment industry (by which I include the news industry), which relies on and trusts Facebook for their very existence.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/profile/mark-zuckerberg/
It was possible at one point to run Android on the iPhone 2G and 3G: https://youtu.be/2N2Md2qQ4pc

Since then it doesn't really look like any progress has been made on running alternative operating systems on the iPhone.
>Perhaps I've read to much malice into the word "systemic bias"

Bingo. There's no active malice there, which is why it's such a difficult problem to solve. There's no one force to fight against and no "enemy", just a lot of well meaning people who average out to a crummy result.
So... why the downvotes? Is it not the case that set -e is broken? Or is it that I provided too little detail? Or is it that it's broken in the same way in all shells?

FWIW, the bug (yes, it's a bug that the Open Group has decided is not a bug, but it really cannot be anything other than a bug!) is this: non-zero exits by commands/functions are ignored when invoked by functions invoked in a conditional expression context.
You've piqued my interest about your VR space. What sort of dedicated VR space do you have? What kind of VR content do you watch mostly - is it traditional 2D movies or 3D/VR movies?
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She _might_ have. She was into it at the time. She may well not have anyway, hence the might, but it's still additional discouragement the boys didn't get.
Considering most artists are pretty poor, the link between wealth and taste is a bit strenuous.

I personally know quite a few people who have little income, but enjoy life by engaging with the kind of art you seem to dislike. Some have consciously made the decision to forgo a career, earning just enough for their minimalistic lifestyle, and spending lots of time on experiences. Others are poor against their will, yet still interested in art.

So, no: it's not a "brute fact". Art isn't even measured on a scale of beauty vs. ugliness–that's "design" maybe. Good art almost always upsets some people.

The art you may think of as universally appreciated was almost certainly deeply divisive when it was created. Those dutch still-lives, for example, are full of sexual innuendo, including prostitution, incest, or homosexuality. Picasso was the target of Nazi sabotage because they considered abstract art elitist. Andy Warhol was shot and almost died because his art had become some woman's paranoid obsession etc.
Re: ...the real problem are developers, not the paradigm. Your company's code will be as good as your developers are regardless of the paradigm.

Indeed! Good developers/architects spot repetition or weaknesses in current techniques and can often devise solutions that can be added to the stack or shop practices with minimal impact. You don't necessarily need paradigm or language overhauls to improve problem-areas spotted. Poor developers/architects will screw up the latest and greatest also.
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It was actually flavor-aid :)

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I am using the same phone. I just wish I could get Spectre fixes on an iOS 10 release.
Some old devices do cease to work or they start working more slowly. Apple slows down phones with old batteries, for example, even when they are plugged in. Many of todays devices also require online accounts and some completely stop working when those online services aren't available.

I'm kinda dealing with that with a modern company right now. My Ring doorbell doesn't work without Internet access and I can't get it for 7 days or so. I've got a home network setup, but no Internet. The Ring device won't even ring the bell on my house when you push the button, even though it is wired strait in... Now I'm off topic a bit.
I highly recommend all of ribbonfarm and especially:

- ancient rivers of money

- The Return of the Barbarian

- Can Hydras eat unknown unknowns for lunch

There is also a more recent one where he writes about young people and their attitudes about money and property ownership and "life scripts" that was here on HN and metafilter and other places but I don't know the name of it ... was quite good.