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Forget about speculations, market caps and all those investment strategies such as hodl.

After you forget about that, take a look at the posibilities this new tech has to offer.

3rd gen crypto is here, with instant transactions and 0 fees. It's working today. Try RaiBlocks if you don't believe me.

Imagine that you own a fully automated Tesla. When you're not driving it, it's making money, driving Lyft and Uber passengers. When it needs to recharge, it goes to the most advantaged station and recharges.

The cool thing about this device is that it's a real actor in the economy, making money, and paying for things it needs.

If you give this device some pocket money such as IOTA, it can receive payments from anyone, and pay for electricity in any station. Each coin that goes over budget is passed to your account, or maybe to multiple if it's co-owned. Remember 0 fees and instant transactions.

In such a wold, why would you work with wire transfers from a bank account, if you can let machines work with "cash" internet money?

If such internet money is worth $0.000001, it has value, because you can make instant, feeless transactions with it. A corrupt state is also not able to mess with your money.

So yeah, I see a bright future for cryptocurrency. Even when the market crashes, it will still have value and plenty of usecases where it dominates all other options.
>more resources than the collective internet

My understanding is that, taking cryptocurrency as an example, crowds of uninformed investors will stampede on something that's popular rather than something that's necessarily an objectively good investment. Regardless of your thoughts on cryptocurrency as a concept, I would say an intelligent investor would balk at the kind of ICOs and prices we're seeing.

A lot of this, I think, can be explained by simple psychological concepts like repetitive attraction (seeing something in the news again and again makes you more comfortable with it), good first-impression traits (GOOGL performing better because it's more pronounceable than TWTQR), and other things that have been fuxing with the stock market for decades.

The market has never been rational, and as I've learned from crowd-funding campaigns, the internet didn't make that situation any more rational.
Only the nasal spray flu vaccines contain live virus.

The CDC is recommending against the nasal spray this season, so chances are you'll get a shot, which contains only dead virus, which can't cause anything you'd describe as "mini flu" as a result.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/season/flu-season-2017-2018.ht...
That is true. And then we ended up with Facebook, Amazon and Google et al to handle the rest. I'll take micropayment schemes over centralized megacorps. At least for now.

And personally, I remember a simultaneous mix of excitement and disappointment from the internet of the 90s.
That's how it should be done yeah. Developers on Windows seem to be really loose in their use of TCP or UDP for IPC. Even my mouse driver opens up a port on 0.0.0.0.
As the original footage was done on film, the time difference between the top and bottom of a single frame is zero, unlike a "rolling shutter" progressively scanned sensor. The framerate is also much lower than the 60fps phone camera used in the last example from the MIT video, which was only barely enough to get meaningful data out.

So unfortunately, we probably won't be using this to get much out of old traditionally archived footage - not because of resolution of the frame, but time resolution.
If we don't start seeing real world DAP adoption and growth in legit crypto-payments soon - this all comes crashing down. My gut tells me the market will wait 4-8 months at best.
Sometimes even the privileged won't have this option. I get 6 sick days a year, accumulating 4 hours a month. I have a young child in school, so I'm not sure I've ever managed to hit 3 days...

Pretty sure I had the flu last week. Still showed up because I don't want to blow any of my precious 2 weeks vacation time. Got it from my coworkers anyway, who are probably thinking the same thing.

Would take a pretty big shift in US work culture to change any of this.
I guess the risk of missing an item is about the same as the risk of theft in regular stores, if not lower. So they just calculate it in. At least one can now only steal everything (as in not being registered) or nothing; deliberately stealing one or two things seems to be a thing of the past with their concept.
That's not really a whitelist though.
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Is that not a black list? ... you are not affirming equality ... you are affirming inequality
So if they choose not to abide by net neutrality, the state will just do without internet service?

Seems like the state would be in the same place most consumers are, we don't like it, but there are no alternatives.
Actually bootloaders are not always as perfectly secure as they may seem [0].
For example, McBitter from postmarketOS is a low level reverse engineering contributor, who made remarkable progress on opening up the bootloader of Mediatek devices [1]. People who want to contribute on that level, check out the #postmarketos-lowlevel ("the kernel is high level for us") chat [2].

[0]: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Firmware#Bootloaders

[1]: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Mediatek

[2]: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Matrix_and_IRC#Matrix
Who doesn't? The US has those too and they don't just operate internationally.

But more to the point, there is a moral panic going on where the bar is drastically lowered for what information is considered credible of it involves "Russian collision," and it seems to mostly serve domestic political purposes. How else can you explain a raving crank like Louise Mensch appearing in mainstream news sources?
We may be we can train an MBA to do Linus's job? ;)
Rumor is they do exactly that...
Yeah, but the hard-earned wisdom the parent post is trying to impart is that if you think you want to avoid a subset of items, you're probably wrong.

In an explicitly enumerated category, blacklists and whitelists are logically equivalent and can be used interchangeably. In almost every other case blacklists are insufficient because new items can generally be created, either maliciously or just accidentally as the size of the category grows, which are not on the blacklist but which share whatever bad trait you were hoping to protect against.

I'm sure there are a few exceptions, but generally speaking any problem that can be solved with either a blacklist or a whitelist should use the whitelist, just to be safe. A problem that can't use a whitelist is probably not actually solvable by a blacklist either, and trying to use one is likely to fail in the long run.
Why don't doctors simply stop prescribing these drugs?
No, the telecom industry is gonna go home and rethink their lives ;)

Oh and Montana will vote Republican again next election as you well know.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_ele...

Business won in America, money is free speech and nobody cares.
Under the ACA, the flu shot is free (no copay/deductible), and everyone's supposed to have insurance. Cost should be a substantially lower issue than in the past.
My thoughts are that we should send out robust seed organisms on probes with on-board AI that can do adequate scans for evidence of existing life before attempting to release the seed organisms.

A more advanced probe would have AI that could study the target planet as it approached and get more accurate readings on the environment. If no evidence of life is present then the AI could begin to rapidly evolve the seed organisms toward fitness for the detected target environment.

On arrival it could orbit the planet for a as long while continuing to evolve and release new generations of seed candidates and observing changes in the environment. Once evidence that life has taken hold is detected it could stop seeding and just continue monitoring. I'm assuming it would send progress reports home every once in awhile, even if nobody was still here to receive them.
O(2^(N/2)) is a quadratic speedup over O(2^N).
Halving the search space, on the other hand, would only give you a linear speedup.

Edit: just to be clear: one half of 2^N is just 2^(N-1).
Yeah I think this is the way you access the xml-rpc api.
Yes, although not with very low-resolution images (8x8 or 16x16), because then you run out of frequency gap between interesting frequencies and ones that are contributed to by the windowing function. EDIT: Another facet of the same issue viewed from pixel space is that you lose a lot of contribution of pixels close to the edge, and in such small images majority of pixels are close to the edge.

There's also an interesting alternative for images, if you don't care about inverting the transform to get the original image: you can express an image as a sum of a periodic component and a very slowly changing one. The periodic component looks like the original to the human eye, so taking DFT of it is usually sufficient for analysis. The paper that discovered that technique: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00388020v1/document
The cynical answer is that customers are willing to pay more than the hardware will ever mine over its lifetime.

The non-cynical answer is that setting up gigawatts of data centers is not trivial and not Bitmain's core competency. Also, selling the hardware upfront locks in the profit even if the price of Bitcoin later crashes.
seems reasonable as a Kickstarter++ model to implement this platform
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" By creating a new network that picked up from just before the "fradulent" activity."

I thought they just created a new transaction that moved all the stolen funds to a new smart contract?
I'm more and more disappointed in their content. I'm sure some people love their original content, but I am not one of them. Nevertheless, I stick with Netflix because their UI for navigating it all, while not perfect, is far better than the other streaming services. And they have easy to use profiles including a 'Kids' option.

But if any other provider catches up to their UX, I'll drop Netflix in a second.
>Thankfully, their original content alone is pretty much worth the price.

Have to give Netflix credit. They have executed two of the biggest strategy pivots in my recent memory. Transitioning to streaming from the physical mail order system and more recently adjusting to increasing fees by building their own "studio" and producing content.

I went from being pissed that movies continuously disappeared from my queue to favoring NetFlix Originals over major releases.
> Three of the four arming mechanisms on one of the bombs activated, causing it to execute many of the steps needed to arm itself, such as charging the firing capacitors and, critically, deployment of a 100-foot-diameter (30 m) retard parachute. The parachute allowed that bomb to hit the ground with little damage.

Damn.
If PowerShell is bad because its too much like a programming language thats fine with me. I like being able to hop onto any windows computer and make things happen. I can scrape websites, consume web apis, host webservers, and more all in beautiful one liners. Also text to speech and wscriptshell are fun for messing with your friends computers.
I get that it’s fun to go down all the possible ways Intel’s statement could be misinterpreted given how legal and marketing appear to have reduced it to a mostly meaningless pile of words, but the “recommendations” section of the page that is linked right after your quote contains a longer version: “We recommend that OEMs, Cloud service providers, system manufacturers, software vendors and end users stop deployment of current versions on the below platforms, as they may introduce higher than expected reboots and other unpredictable system behavior.” The “on the below platforms” bit seems to contradict your reading...
I bought an RX 570 three weeks ago; local prices have increased 30% since. In three weeks.
That was my thinking too.

There are a lot of replies in this thread talking about Bitmain like they're the miner, when in reality they're the mining supply store selling miners the shovels, hard hats, and so on.

Mining itself may be profitable, or it may not. But no matter what, the supplier should come out with a fairly healthy profit if they play their cards right.
As a cryptocurrency-confused individual, I read articles like this and wonder how I'm supposed to assign any meaning to the "value" being created here, and by blockchain PoW in general.

So this company is buying a bunch of wafers... He's converting the value of the wafers into value on blockchain, I guess?

Because I can't help but interpret these things as "some people are wasting a lot of electricity, and you should pay them for it!" But, I'm open to a better explanation.
You're exactly right - additional languages are only force multipliers within a certain range of circumstances which one would need to actively manage to their advantage. This lends itself to parents heavily considering which languages their children should learn (e.g. Spanish, Mandarin, English) based on number of L1 or L2 speakers.
The more efficient your hardware is the more profit you make per block (because you buy less electricity per block reward).

If all hardware was equivalent and an unlimited amount were available efficiency wouldn't matter, but neither of those things are true.
Sounds like incentive to regulate then. That they presently have the data and it's private is worse than it being totally public. If it's acted on now it'll just be by a better connected actor against somebody unaware they can even be acted upon in those ways.
Their NICs probably use off the shelf ICs from Broadcom or similar. In other words, Google would only handle PCB layout and up.

Besides, modern analog ICs are usually fabbed using custom processes and in-house lower node fabs.

Designing high-speed RF ICs is a huge effort, and as far as I know, Google does not have such capability​.
Why would it? What does the parity wallet have to do with ico's?
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Hmm... But you'll still use TLS for transport so adding mutual auth doesn't really increase the attack surface that much. (it still requires ugly ASN.1 and X.509). Or maybe you suggest using signed requests without TLS (plain HTTP)?
"go home as soon as you think you might be coming down with something"

I wish. I just can't do that. To quote The Faculty "I'm saving my sick days for when I feel better" When your only vacation for the year hinges on working while sick, you'll choose to struggle through it.
Treasure Planet was a labored planning process starting soon after (and some sources claim before) The Little Mermaid, so it's not entirely fair to call it a response to Titan AE. Convergent evolution at work.

Also, if you are going to point fingers at possible reasons that Bluth's studio failed, its hard not to point more directly to the interesting but failed experiments that were its LaserDisc games division (Dragon's Lair, Space Ace, ...).
I wish it was culturally acceptable to wear a hospital mask in public in the USA. I do it anyway and look like a weaboo or something, but still.
Many of us knew about the Home Loan Fraud the Prescription Drug Fraud for years before it "exploded" and yet there didn't seem to be anything to do about it.

The media and government proved their incompetence and corruption with the ruined lives of millions.

I'm hopeful that the internet is changing this and the time between new massive scams and their exposure shrinks so that fewer people are hurt. That's the best we can hope for right now.
Take a look at /r/coinbase for some horror stories too.
Do you actually want it to be a free public utility? In terms of reliability, Google search currently has a lot more 9s than any utility I know of (roads, power, water, internet service). Utility companies are not really known for innovation as much as stagnation, unless you count innovative new ways to extract rent.

To me the reason Google dominates search is not that it's loads better than the competition but because it's a little bit better, and there's minimal cost of switching (from Bing to Google, say).
Definitely a tiny fraction of the industry but also a tiny fraction of just TSMC. For reference, they claim they did 10 million wafers in 2016.

http://www.tsmc.com/english/dedicatedFoundry/manufacturing/f...
Except the network actually forked, and both half's still exist (ETH and ETC) and both are still used. Really, it should not viewed 'a way'. The fun part will be when half the world forks bitcoin, but forcefully takes over the network. The incentives at play do not cover this well, but it is also unlikely... but only because there is too much money is false signaling and playing both (many) sides of the battle.

To clarify, the network would basically be agreeing to honor the possibly already spent coins... and that isn't really going to happen at this point.
To be honest, I don’t understand its popularity.

For example, I was trying to understand a batch normalization function defined as

def batchnorm_forward(x, gamma, beta, eps):

I can’t tell if gamma/beta are scalar or vector?
Why limit the number of cards? If I were to really piss off these nice folks, I'd issue a million copies and pile them in front of a busy Metro station.

(Of course, if I were a politician that will be a sure way to lose my next election, I guess.)
If you matched the technical requirements, then it seems exceptionally open way of saying "you are not good culture fit".

Maybe next step is to figure out WHY you are perceived as bad culture fit?

Do you have any obvious issues like being very nervous in interviews, or underlying general issues such as anxiety, or just being a very quiet person?
If you need a coder-friendly & graphical refresher on Fourier transforms, I highly recommend this: https://jackschaedler.github.io/circles-sines-signals/
I think it's important to note that this is not by choice, but rather the only path left to Netflix now that studios have realized the value of their catalogs to streaming. Netflix originally made a bunch of content deals that made them the sole streamer of entire backlogs of syndicated material. It worked out great for them and pretty decently for the studios too, but after Netflix's success the studios now realize what they gave away. As more of those deals expire the various studios are all looking for ways to get their own streaming platform up where they own more of the profits. A Netflix where the majority of shows are originals, is just an online only version of HBO, which is a shame because the experience is still vastly superior to all the other streaming options.

In their greed the studios have basically turned one of the great internet ideas into the second coming of cable. It's understandable why they would all want their own platform but it's much worse for the consumer
Have there been studies that show the masks are effective? I'm just curious is all not trying to knock you down.
To repeat a comment from elsewhere, supposedly Bitmain's approach is to "burn in" their chips by mining and then sell them.

This approach gives them the latest, most energy efficient chips at a low cost since they then get sold.

Obviously, they could optimize the mine-to-sale ratio dynamically as mining-profits and chip-prices change.
I've stopped using torrents since I subscribed to Netflix and Spotify years ago, but I can see myself very well returning to it if that scattering trend continues.
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The % of the network they would control would be too high maybe? Fundamentally the value of their product is based on the price of bitcoin. A single miner that gets close to 50% might be seen a a huge risk and drive down the price.
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>Not so sure about Cryptocurrency

In the case of PoW cryptocurrencies, like Bitcoin, the token is the reward for the useful application: verifying a series of transactions.
This is terrible, of course. Goes without saying. But what really interests me that police officers are complaining about not having enough of these cards to give out as Christmas presents. Complaining in public, in the clear light of day!

That actually worries me more than the cards themselves in some respects, because it means that the average officer's perception of what is fair is utterly, entirely out of whack with reality. It's one, corrupt, thing for these cards to exist under the radar as a means for officers to benefit, but it's another to not even see why people would be offended by it.
>On nslookup, my point is that it shouldn't crash a powershell script.

It does not "crash" a powershell script for any meaningful definition of "crash".
Coming from France, this seems completely unreal to me. Here, we've got three types of "police":

"police municipale", which is paid by the city and has got very small rights

"police nationale" and "gendarmerie", which belong to the country, and have got "full rights".

Here, you can't give donations to the force, and I can't event believe the implication of such cards; it seems so "third world". It makes me afraid when municipal police are given more rights (carrying a firearm, …) as they are much more entangled with the mayor, the city, and the local people. The gendarmerie for example all live in barracks and serve a bigger area. I would think that they are less prone to corruption.
Maybe you've just used "items" in a non-standard way? The number of bits (N) is indeed being halved, but the standard way of talking about Grover's search is that you're searching for an item in the "database" of bit configurations (i.e., keyspace), which is 2^N. No one would refer to the bits as "items".
'unhampered' seems like a loaded word for a headline. 'unregulated' seems like it could be inserted and would change the tone considerably. ahhh wsj, how i've never lamented not clicking on one of your links.
I've had my subscription for over 10 years. Unfortunately the streaming side does not have what originally attracted me. Fortunately they still have a DVD side to Netflix that has what originally attracted me.

Don't get me wrong. I've found Marco Polo, Stranger Things, House of Cards (S1 & S2) & several other shows to be really interesting. I just don't have the time to watch that many episodes. I prefer a nice short movie to unwind to when I have time.

That said, I wish more books & comics would be turned into a series instead of movies at the theater. Netflix proved this with 13 Reasons Why. Star Wars, Marvel, etc would also benefit from this.
And that country is also riddled with corruption. I wouldn't find it that strange that even for China, a lot of that money is made illegally, even by Western standards.
It would be game changing if blockchain mining efforts could be applied like this to other uses as well, like someone needing huge datasets analyzed and formatted into a presentable state on an ad-hoc basis, sort of like AWS Athena.
> For the virus to propagate through a chain of 3 vaccinated people that comes out to 66%, an effect more than twice as effective as that of just the person getting the vaccine themselves.

Is this true if the vaccine is ineffective against the strain which is circulating or is the effectiveness of the vaccine partly chance? Genuinely curious.