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I was hoping to read his thoughts on Bitcoins market cap of about 200 Billion Dollar.

I have the theory, that the value of a cryptocurrency is equal to the sum of transaction fees people will spend in the future, discounted for inflation.

Currently Bitcoin users pay about $5m per day on transaction fees. That is $1.82B per year. At this rate, it would take 109 years to reach those $200B.

So by that logic, the market predicts a strong future for BTC. Either it will be around for very long or its usage will grow.

Personally, I am skeptical. I think there will be too much competition. It might be hard to replicate the BTC ecosystem but I don't think it is $200B hard. Especially since there will be rapid changes to the whole crypto space in the coming years (offchain transactions, alternative mining forms etc).

I expect we will end up with a currency that does not need mining at all. I think we will end up with a currency that uses signed transactions that are simply broadcasted. The receiver asks a bunch of trusted nodes "Is this a double spend?" and if they reply "no" then the payment is accepted.

That is simple, instantaneous and free. And has almost no real life downsides compared to Bitcoin.
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That's pretty counter-intuitive, compared to reddit/hn/similar...
Neurons themselves are working on physics at not quite quantum scales, so probably a good model would be timewise continuous stochastic.
I see many people complaining about the banking system (often for a good reason) and mention cryptocurrencies as an alternative but I'm not sure I see it.

Take your anecdote for instance, what would be the equivalent in the crypto world? If you actually need to deposit fiat you'll have to use an exchange and it's basically the same problem (good luck getting an exchange to accept $250 in cash).

Of course the whole thing is that if everything switches to some cryptocurrency then everybody will be able to manage their own money directly without needing an institution. Well, in theory at least, in practice it seems as likely as expecting everybody to host their own email servers instead of relying on gmail & friends. In practice people won't want to risk losing their funds because they made a mistake, lost their hardware token or got a virus on their computer. In practice people will still want loans and insurance. So I think crypto or no crypto banks won't go away.
No, there’s nothing inherently wrong with it. I’ve run across two distinct sets of Perl mongers, though:

- “We have lots of deployed code and don’t want to rewrite the whole thing.” That’s valid (although I still urge them to consider the hiring challenges down the road).

- “I’ve used Perl exclusively since I downloaded it over dialup and I’m not interested in those shiny new languages the kids like.” Run screaming.
OK, so you be sure, as a lone individual, to tell Uber you'd like to negotiate a higher contract rate with them in order to cover your expenses.

And then when they laugh in your face, try it with another company. And another. And another. And let me know how it goes.
Hi, thanks for all you guys do at DDG.

I was wondering if the app will get the "Open Link in Browser" option?

I tend to search with DDG and when I find what I want, open it in FF and keep it there. (I noticed the Bookmark bit).

Cheers!
How about a simply browser extension that let's you donate to page / site X? This would also be great on GitHub and GitLab.

You could buy credits in bulk so the credit card transaction fee only happens once. And then, if the page has an account, dole out those credits as you surf.

Probably not massive amounts of money but better than the ads based model. At least there would be a option.
I wait with bated breath for the day we can have serious conversations about these topics without these ridiculous posts intentionally misrepresenting the other person's argument.
>> two vCPUs (not one)

Two Intel Avoton cores, quite inferior to the Xeons that power Hetzner's vCPU. (assuming they are in stock)

I wrote this in detail on another reply, but Scaleway's "customer support" forums will give you a good grasp of what you're in for if you buy their service.
Companies were adding ".com" to their names all over the place. A lot changed back.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1040163285667930633
I have seen these kind of prohibitions at for example Nasdaq OMX. I assume it is legal if it is agreed in a contract. There is a balance here what might be a "human right" and what could be in conflict with the best of the company -- and it would seem reasonable for a company to try this. If they will find people willing to sign that contract is another matter altogether.

Edit: typo
Thing is, most of that isn't dystopian. I can sort of buy people feeling orwellian about Alexa or Google Assistant - but as it is now, most IoT is just random startups hoping that if they abuse some users through a SaaS, they'll get to be the next Google. It never works out, and we're left with tons of electronic junk, that shouldn't even exist in the first place.
That is what WebComponents are for.
You didn't really explain how the American approach was absurd. Also, 7.5 hours seems extremely arbitrary. Why pick that number of hours? Why not 4 hours? Why not 9?
Really though? Unless you're a millionaire you can store gold yourself - in a cheap bank deposit box or (if you're daring) even at home.
CEO of Bolt here. We'll be writing more about this in the future. In short, our fraud detection is really really good (although not perfect). However, the fraud that ends up making it through the pipeline is so minimal that we cover it fully. So, for a small fee as an online business you never have to pay for / deal with fraudulent chargebacks again.

There are other companies that do this, but none of them also do payments. They're kinda like rebate programs where you submit your fraud to them and they pay it off like insurance. It's a lot of manual work, back-and-forth, and they end up not doing a great job. So, this is a first for the industry.

Why is our fraud detection so much more accurate? We have access to the full stack of data across checkout, payments, and the user's shopping experience, collecting 200+ variables on every transaction. Most silo'd fraud providers may end up getting 10-20 variables and have to make uniformed decisions, resulting in $10's billions in false positives (good customers getting rejected by fraud tools) in the US every year.
I am eagerly awaiting the Bobby Tables (https://xkcd.com/327/) version for eval()
Tons of large companies think long term. It might seem unique in the context of the tech world, but it's far from it. Thinking long term doesn't always translate into great advancements. Particularly with large companies it can just turn them into a force that just eats up all competitors and stagnates (e.g. Walmart). Remember, investing in ensuring competitors can't enter the market is also long term, but it's not good for society.

I think what's important is investing money in moonshot projects, which is only one of the many ways that companies can think long term.
To prevent suffering from tyranny of small decisions[1], I want to support duckduckgo, financially and technically. Do they take donation? Or do they have an open sets of challenge to work on? Would love to help.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_small_decisions
I'm sure I'll get some flak for saying this on HN, but I would encourage everyone not to take a contracting gig unless you're absolutely desperate for work. I don't believe most people are cut out to properly negotiate the pay for a contracting position (in that they do not know how to properly account for all of the benefits they are not getting). And by taking a contracting position you are basically encouraging the contracting and gig economy to grow, and allowing employers to take even more advantage of their employees by baiting them with a carrot on a stick. You can argue the gig economy allows flexibility for the worker, which is true to some extent, but I can't imagine this flexibility wouldn't cause a huge amount of stress in the day to day lives of people who need gainful employment to support someone else (children, elderly parents, etc.)

Look, I can't claim to have been a contractor for any significant length of time, so maybe I'm talking out my ass and every freelancer here can tell me so. But the fact is the american people have let employers have too much power for far too long, and encouraging people to take contract work seems to me like just another step in the wrong direction of giving these companies even more power, and then everyone is worse off for it.
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Can't it actually do this? Can't a club of people establish a nonprofit and buy insurance collectively somewhat the way corporations do?
I've only flown through the paper, but one question : why is it so hard for humans to learn how to ride a bicycle? I mean I do remember it to be pretty challenging.
If I were to look at the type of activities we use Alexa for in our household, most of our commands revolve around smart home, weather and lists/reminders. Once in a while we'll ask it to do a unit conversion or some search engine task, but that's few and far between.
We're already back friend. Just pickup React and you're good to go. The high level overview is super simple (use state to deterministically generate markup), it's easy to use once you spend an hour with JSX, its got huge mindshare so it's not going anywhere anytime soon, and most importantly it's a huge improvement over all the jQuery acrobatics you'd need to do similar interactive components.
Does a Raspberry Pi have enough computing power to run these two neurons in the real world? Could I attach motors and sensors to a real bike and have it drive itself? That would be amazing.
Yes definitely. If you replace "Bitcoin" in this essay with "blockchain based assets", Taleb would have a fairly good point. But "Bitcoin" has been manipulated so much that I think most people recognize that a crash is inevitable. There is nothing special about Bitcoin-anyone can start their own blockchain. Bitcoin is just an overpriced version of the infinite possible blockchains.
Certainly agree with you in principle, but is Amazon really any different? I wouldn't want to give a family member or friend a Kindle Fire, because I Know that'd be locking them into a closed ecosystem with so so build quality. It's maybe pretentious and idealistic, but why is long-term thinking to lock people in?

This is the very first Q/A on Amazon's own Fire review page:

The first Gen Kindle fire had a faulty connection and will come loose overtime causing the device to no longer able to charge. It's a common problem but a hard fix, you have to take it apart and reattach the connection

Wouldn't long-term thinking not overlook details like that? That seems like the result of getting a product to market fast and then making consumers pay for the improvement in the next model. Which is fine if you are the entity that plans to be around for a hundred years selling those iterations, but not so much fun for the customer with a device that won't charge.
This is true for real decentralized currencies, but ICO scams are far from that. They need heavy marketing from real people, couldn't be done by an anonymous person.
I agree, however our government is not up to the task. Ever since Congress passed Obamacare it has been in a fight to survive, instead of trying to improve the system (which has clear benefits) Republicans have spent the past few years trying to dismantle it along with other "entitlements".

The American worker is getting squeezed on both sides, private employers are offering less and less and government is not picking up the slack. The void will be filled, either by a private corporation or government, but if it's not you can say bye to the middle class.
Mind that there are even more gems hidden inside .NET e.g. modopt/modreq or Constrained Execution Regions.
Beyond just pricing there’s also a question of availability: prior to the ACA you could easily find former contractors who needed to take a corporate job because they or a family member had some sort of long-term condition or risk factor which meant that insurance plans wouldn’t cover them at less than extortionate rates.

Having insurance negotiated by individuals is a huge impediment for entrepreneurship.
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yup, I just want a thermostat that I can remotely access -directly- and not through someone else's server. Just keep track of my IP addr myself, and yes if the ISP swaps it out for another I'll have to update it when I get there again... blah, blah, blah, yes' it'd be fine with me.

Yet I cannot fine one. Every single 'smart' thermostat has some corporate service I have to negotiate through for access, and of course if that is down, well, I'm outta luck. and, they're surely accumulating all of my data.

Anybody know of one?
Governments could ban crypto sites, crypto trading, and conversion to currency. While this won’t completely kill it, it marginalizes it to such an extent that it won’t be an attractive medium for most folks because most people are lazy and don’t want the hassle.
There's also the "I really like Perl and I wish more people took it seriously" set (which I consider myself to be a part of)
Fantastic! I dream this grows and then having next 500 Startups and YC batches both in one same ICO. Have you ever heard of something better?
So, you're providing fraud protection to merchants the same way Amex/Discover/Master Card/Visa does to consumers?
The theories that best model every known experiment are continuous. General relativity models large scale phenomena to incredible precision, and is continuous. Predictions made by it around 100 years ago are still being tested and found true, such as gravitational waves.

The Standard Model, which models everything else, is continuous. A specific part of it, QED, is the most accurate theory known, agreeing with experiment to better than 10 parts in a billion.

There is no known violation of these two theories, which explain all of the observable universe. There is an issue on how to glue them together, and one of the leading methods, string theory, is also continuous. I am unaware of any theory that can replace these that has no continuous parts, such as symmetries.

> it is not known that anything is continuous either

Every physics theory that we use to explain the universe is continuous, and not a single one is not, so I'm betting that there are continuous things in reality.
We do have cheap energy (from nuclear and mostly renewable CHP), cheap cooling, availability of educated workforce and stable state. And good network connections to Russia in addition to Nordic and Baltic states and continental Europe.
Could you elaborate on that? I'm very interested in that thought and I've heard similar statements before.
Not first, everyone's forgotten the dot-com-mania?
"No more games. Save real money with Bolt's simple pricing."

Followed up with "Get a Quote" rather than displaying simple pricing...
Perl 6 appeals to me enough to make it my first new language to study, after a 20-year hiatus from any meaningful programming. This could be taken as an anti-endorsement. But for someone with no legacy skills, and no legacy codebase to draw on, I can afford to be arbitrary. What sold me is the cheat of storing floating point numbers as rationals composed of integers. Also when I tried python I missed the curly braces.
The minus option did once filter out results with that word, and could be amazingly helpful to find less used meanings of primary search terms. But it did go away about the same time as the + operator.
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The only problem is what we're currently seeing. That yes, the government will do everything within its power to insert itself into the crypto currency market in order to control it.

Look at how the SEC is not only keeping tabs on crypto currencies, but are monitoring ICO's and bringing charges against people they feel are committing fraud. It's been pointed out before that although the SEC can't stop CC's, then can effectively sideline them as a niche offering to investors.

I guess this is the beauty and beast of CC's right now. Yeah, it's totally unregulated, but it's also rife with fraud. It's like people want it both to be safe and regulated while still outside the control of any government.
Too lazy to think deeply about it, but it sounds right. You start with the cumulative distribution function and get the pdf from it, which looks like what you're doing.

Really simple solution. Problem is simple enough that this could be a standard HW problem in a probability course. Yet so many people (including myself) did not see it. We kept doing multiple integrals (n integrals for n points) and tried using induction on it.

This was actually a subproblem of the real problem. The real problem was: Given n points chosen randomly on a circle, construct the n-sided polygon. What is the probability that the center of the circle is inside the polygon? Since I worked on it, the problem has shown up on the Internet in various places (usually for the special case of n=3 - triangles, but I think I've seen the general one posted here and there). I don't recall if anyone came up with the same solution I did for the general case - I think one site had it.
During the dot-com bubble you had a lot of companies that adopted 'digital super highway' company names.

Some examples:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.Digital_Corporation
Norris Communications > E.Digital_Corporation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast.com
Cameron Audio Networks > Broadcast.com

On top of that everyone and their mother founded companies that did 'something with the internet' and all those companies had a '.com', 'e' or something similar in their names.

Personally, I feel like the 'i' was mainly popularised with the iPod.
Peering gets so incredibly stupid with consumer ISP's that it's infuriating. It reminds me of the whole Comcast-Cogent fiasco, it's incredibly unfair to try and charge other providers when the customers that are PAYING YOU are requesting the traffic.

I think any real effort at enshrining net neutrality as law instead of a gentleman's agreement needs to include provisions that prevent residential / small business ISP's from throwing their weight around with peering agreements at the detriment of their customers.
HA! That gun-to-the-head bit is so true. Sometimes I feel like the only person who dislikes Python for its design principles.
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No the miners are the ones that can fork if they are unhappy. Users are held hostage by the miners for any PoW cryptocurrency. If they want their holdings to be worth anything, they have to endlessly shill for their currency or else they'll go broke.
Is there not some kind of organization that one can join to increase buying power?
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Why should HN disagree with you? I completely agree, I sometimes have problems asking for the right amount of money. And I do it more than the average. It's hard to demand what you want
I've only read the posted article, but it seems theoretically possible to move objects, perhaps needing more speakers. For that, shift to a different modulation that sets the trap slightly to the side, at each small step.
Analogous to a stepper motor.
What is all the metamask code for?
> one can macroBS longer than microBS, which is why we need to be careful on who to endow with centralized macro decisions.

Taleb goes overboard sometimes, but he has been so great for calling BS on finance pseudo-science.
I use React for most projects I work on. I also use HTML, CSS and VanillaJS for quite a lot of projects too. I find knowing both gives you great flexibility and fits the code to appropriate applications well.

The alternatives are shoehorning React into simple content-centric pages (bloat), or stitching together a bespoke set of logic for a large complex app noone will be able to maintain (spaghetti).
Would you mind sharing the country name? I am sure (because I've tried it myself) the quality standards differ by orders of magnitude in different countries where it works this way.
That was because of that absolutely awesome social network called google plus
> when Larry anounced Perl 6 ...

... he very clearly emphasized that it was NOT just the next version of Perl, in contrast with his approach with earlier Perls.

> This idea that it's a completely different language and has no relation with 5 is something people started saying when it was clear that Perl 6 wasn't just around the corner.

I think it's just a chinese whispers effect.

To folk who paid attention to what Larry said on day one, it was obvious that P5 and P6 were (are) not the same and are not totally different either and are related.

Around a decade ago some folk began repeating the mantra that P5 and P6 were different languages in the same family. The hope was that this would help.

But some folk don't like nuance so they arrived at clearly made up and extreme views like "completely different language ... no relation with 5".
Just remember there is a lot of perl creeping around the linux ecosystem; it may not be fashionable today but availability of the perl command is still more common than python, second only to bash/sh.
Cloudgine is responsible for the core engine tech (based on UE4). The actual game content is Reagent Games and Sumo Digital.
Why do companies choose not to be 100% transparent? Any time I have to contact a company to see more or a demo or, even worse, see pricing, I close the page and make a mental note to never work with them in any capacity. I feel this type of boycotting is the only way to change the practice.

I mean, you even hide your docs behind a password? How terrible. What are you keeping so secret? Does this translate to your other business practices? Mental note made.
Not if you need specialized vms like a p2.
> Having that workforce profile can be liberating if you have the right skill set to keep you on track and organized.

Well yeah, some people are just awesome/lucky/blessed. Given nothing, they know how to build great things. But this is a strong minority of people.

The majority of people are just normal, they may have one or two skill that they are good at, but don't have the skills required to run their own company. A person can be a great employee developer whose capable of building awesome products, but an awful freelance one because they are not good at negotiation, management, finances, etc.

It's a step away from the efficient specialization of a corporate structure, where each employee only needs to be skilled at their particular job, to a guild-like structure where everyone is a worker, manager, accountant, book keeper and politician.
Seems like a pretty dumb idea. Amazon is limiting its self to those 20 cities. It can always back out and choose another if it wants.
But as far as I know Costco is on the top ( or close ) of the list when it comes to employee happiness.
HomePod costs $349. I know Apple products are pricy but 3.5x is insane. I have a (Google) Home mini and its fun - it isn't really that useful but ok for $30-50.
While history has proof that Apple is able to extract higher prices, I feel this product will fail at this price point.
>> But this thing is expensive.

I don't necessarily agree. I was shopping around for multi-room audio solutions, namely Sonos. I don't think the Homepod price is that out of whack compared to Sonos or Google Home Max. And this is coming from someone who generally finds Apple products way overpriced.
That sounds oddly similar to the notion that a national currency gets its value from having to pay taxes with it.