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Gold has been used as a store of value for countries which do not trust their fiat.

It's also used to speculate.

It's also used in industry.

It's actually pretty easy to turn gold into fiat and vice versa outside of north America. It's also fairly easy to do it in North America as well. The spread between buy/sell is also quite low.
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Actually, if you pay close attention, nothing is said about X, where X is Linus' language. It's a more general "these sitautions exist, but let's ignore them right now because there's something else to address which is more concrete."

You are correct though, in that the majority of the comment is spent at least dancing around that issue since little of substance was provided on the alternative that they suggest is more worthwhile.
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> I don't understand the high horse.

> Accept the offer, rake in the cash, move on.

The closing part of this video sums it up perhaps: https://youtu.be/u6XAPnuFjJc?t=524

It’s for a fairly old talk called “Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us”. In short, for work requiring cognitive skills, best performers don’t really get motivated by financial incentives (unless they have money troubles). Watch from the beginning for all that background and references.

FWIW I share OP’s feelings. I get really easily demotivated, I can’t bring myself to work on something uninteresting, let alone something I have a bad feeling about.
The article doesn't really address some of the other things that affect where people choose to live, i.e. availability of fast internet; utility reliability; schools; etc. I agree that commute times are a big factor, but they're not the only factor.
Indeed! Google seems to have been doing a good job so far of trying to preempt being called a monopoly by not really abusing their power. (On the consumer services level at least, no opinion here on others.)
Physical demand on the body is relative to the person. Kids paddling into small waves is much more demanding for them than for an adult. Same for grandmas.
A lot of people would strongly disagree with Jones’ videos, while some would share and like them. So they are clearly controversial and “bubbly” (as those liking them and those disliking them will belong to connected groups, socially and locally) - so Facebook should simply try to limit their spread as they are likely not objective and certainly divisive. That was exactly my point.

But I still believe that Facebook could whitelist news sources too - but obviously if they do there will be a massive cry from those that thought breitbart or drudge was going to pass that cut.
This is really the best they can come up with... So much wow - no way someone can manipulate that... Glad the world is save again tadatam
Except they are hurting tons of people in the US in exchange for strategy. That's simply not right.

And of all issues DACA? It's important to some people, but as a national topic it's pretty minor.

> What would be the reasonable thing for the democrats to do right now?

Realize they are weak and accept it. Then take the offer they were given and do the best they can. But don't hurt unrelated people in the US to try to increase their own strength.

That's a pretty selfish thing to do after all.
I think it depends on the person. If I don't take notes I naturally end up daydreaming and have missed an important concept by the time I snap back to reality. Taking notes forces my mind to pay attention to what is being said.
If I remember from when I worked on this, Grover allows searching N=2^n items with complexity O(sqrt(N)). Even if init was O(log N), this would be much smaller than O(sqrt(N)) for large N, so can be (almost) ignored.
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Linus also says that this shows Intel means never to fix Spectre2. Of course, that would only be their current position -- they could change their minds later. That strongly implies that the decision to disable by default is a marketing decision, but take this with salt -- it could also be a bad engineering decision.
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Ohh man, the memories around this book. Lets just say it was required reading for intel analysts at my base, and we found every way possible to reference it in our reports/briefings.

For example, the SA-6 was known as a "three sling jigger"
Not only is mining centralized, but the big holders are fairly centralized.

How robust is this thing really if the authoritarian government the pools run in decides to shut it down? Value would go way down and the network would be in a very weird unsecured state. It's entirely possible the network is at the whims of some bureaucrat deciding that should happen, which is one of the weird things about cryptos.
Go back and finish high school or get your GED.

After that, go to community college for a couple years and then transfer to a university.

It's not even remotely too late for you. You have so much more time than you can even comprehend at your age.
I'd say it's mostly a bad advice, seeing how people abuse it, but if you can restrain yourself to just a few words here and there it's actually good.
I believe Facebook has a responsibility to not show Alex Jones videos even to those that would agree with them.
Conceptually, Powershell is really cool.

But in practice, I find it both cumbersome and very, very slow.

For example:

marcel@vger[Downloads]time pwsh -c 'ls' >/dev/null

real	0m0.824s
user	0m0.636s
sys	0m0.213s
marcel@vger[Downloads]time sh -c 'ls' >/dev/null

real	0m0.011s
user	0m0.003s
sys	0m0.005s
marcel@vger[Downloads]

That's around a factor 80. Hmm. OK, startup costs, JITs hard time, yadda yadda.

But it's not just that. For example I found a simple

dir -r

to be more around 50x slower than the equivalent

ls -lR

And so on.
What I'm curious about is how someone without any blockchain experience gets offered a blockchain job out of the blue.
Neat, thanks. Wow, I didn’t think to look in “Notifications”—-was looking for things labeled “Location Settings” or things like that. “Your Contributions” is a very dystopian name :)
Who is this guy, and why do we care about his life choices?
What's funny about this comment is that literally every extent currency in the world is a fork of gold.
When will it make sense for a practical, skinflint commuter to make the switch?
Mozilla is the only holdout on this issue AFAIK. Safari and Edge will show the punycode and Chrome 58+ has fixed it as well.

The URL is not even visually identical due to the dot underneath the letter `d`. Seems to be this unicode character [0]. After the apple.com [1] example of this problem Chrome patched it. The apple.com "spoof" is now xn--80ak6aa92e.com in Chrome.

[0] http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1e0d/index.htm

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/19/phishing-...
I personally, was totally against the tax cut after reading about it in the media.

Then it actually passed and the media (yup, that same media) put out some calculators. I played with those, and realized I was seriously mislead.

Wait another month, when people will get higher paychecks, and see if it's still unpopular.

I really wish the media would stop telling me how to think. Just tell me what happened. Leave out the reactions, and quotes from "other people" telling me what I should think about a topic.

Best I can do right now is read opposing media outlets and contrast them, but it's hard to do.
Am I missing something? Wouldn't there be no sound to extract because the moon has no atmosphere?

Or maybe that's your point — if it were faked, there would be sound, otherwise not.
Market cap is very different from the actual money invested in the ecosystem. I don't know the exact number, but I bet it's a lot lower than $100bn.

Stupid example: I create 100bn coins. Then I sell one to myself for $1. Am I now running a $100bn experiment?
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Your argument was

> From what I gather, some of this is cultural. His country of origin is just generally blunt and direct about things.

and my response was

> Regardless of the style in his country and language or origin he is writing in English, in public, for an international audience.

Which parts of what I said seem inconsistent to you?
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It is interesting how grievance posts have such an easy time on HN, and how willing the audience is to put aside basic cynicism (AMP is another easy target for these sorts of posts).

I am going to be a little more suspicious and say that the OP never had a job offer for a "blockchain implementation", but instead posted the standard, rather empty cynical fare with the job offer justification. Lumping in all blockchain implementations and then trying to hang every possible downside is as absurd as decrying a hypothetical video handling job because pornography exploitation exists. It doesn't follow, and makes the argument asinine.
all LN needs is segwit address, which is single tx if your BTC is still in legacy address.

> 99% of people won't be able to run their own nodes

99% don't need to run full nodes, they can (and mostly do) use SPV wallets. full nodes are important to network connectivity, but running a full node right now is not expensive - i run one on rpi3.
Obvious doublespeak is obvious. Easy to proclaim critical voices as fake news and get a different reaction from the public than with "desinformation"
When you let users contribute to any kind of measurement, it turns into a measure of popularity. It's now a game of "get enough users to do X". By relying on end-users to rate and rank things, we're letting popularity stand in for all kinds of quality measurements. Lots of 5 stars on Amazon = must be a good product. Lots of Yelp reviews = must be a good restaurant. Lots of upvotes = must be a good comment. Talk about doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results!
Screw non English speakers right? English is not anywhere near the most common language, and plenty of “Latin” languages require accents that are provided by Unicode.

Compare él to el in Spanish one means he (iirc) the other means “the” - he-man.com and the-man.com are probably going to be different.
LWN has an enterprise subscription model (I think). I work for Hewlett Packard and login using corporate account. The enterprise model is not well advertised/known.

Just saying so if someone here wants to get their company to subscribe, then it's win-win for LWN and your employees.
I agree that it is a solution in search of a problem, but it was able to find a problem, namely, facilitating darkmarket transactions; that's a real use-case that wasn't practical before blockchain tokens. Unfortunately, that use-case does not satisfy the enthusiasts and they have been determined to find some other use-case that has yet to materialize. The closest they've come up with are smart-contracts but those are generally useless as well because a smart-contract is only capable of enforcing rules on a blockchain and nowhere else.
Bitcoin mining will spur competition for the cheapest energy in the world once there is parity with mining chips (12-18 months away). We're hitting the upper limit on what is possible in the ASIC chips.

Every 10 minutes, a $200,000 bounty is given to the Bitcoin miner with the cheapest electricity + computing power. So once everyone has the same chips, what's the advantage miners can use? Cheap electricity.

Bitcoin miners will do more for renewable energy than many governments around the world.
Comparing tax paid to market cap is disingenuous at best - I was surprised Bloomberg would print that, but they then go on to explain it in the article.
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Is your commute under 40 miles round trip? You can get a Nissan Leaf today for ~$10k used, or $20k-30k new. Or a Chevy Volt, Chevy Bolt, or a reservation for a Tesla Model 3.

Makes great financial sense, as it's half the cost per mile to drive an EV vs an internal combustion vehicle [1].

EDIT: I own a Nissan Leaf I paid $10k for. I charge at home (6 cents/kwh, $3 for a full charge), and my employer offers free charging at my parking garage (which I use whenever I'm not working from home).

[1] http://www.umich.edu/~umtriswt/PDF/SWT-2018-1_Abstract_Engli... WARNING: PDF
Launches still have a bunch of government regulations. Which I assume include government workers monitoring or reviewing things.
You make it up as a sensational blog post
Yeah I've noticed a big difference in genre too.

I find that I have three main modes:

- I have control over my environment and don't need/want to listen to music or noise

- Creatively I need stimulation, so I listen to sonically interesting music with no lyrics (that I can understand).

- I want to get work done as efficiently as possible but there are too many aural distractions, so I listen to rain.

I do think that I perform the best when not listening to anything, but over time I need to use other parts of my brain so it's nice to do like, idk 80% coding efficiency while getting a "this is an interesting song" fix.

Big fan of video game soundtracks. Thunder Force IV ;)
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Oil demand has been "peaking" since the 90s...
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I agree that it isn't Java-specific, but Java is affected despite being memory safe and "it's pretty hard to provide malicious input to non-malicious Java source code that takes control over the interpreter" may not be as true a statement as it appears.
Used Renault Zoes are exceptionally cheap in the UK. £69/month battery lease, and then about £2k for the car.
Unfortunately I also agree with you completely on this. Automatic processing (blocking) of information will be much easier if you are a government.

But what I mean is that we got more transparency into the world as we have started using the Internet. Before I had to rely on the travel agencies promising words about an hotel. Now I can read hundreds of reviews from past visitors.

This isn't to say that this data is not open to manipulation. But at least in a lot of ways the floodgates are open and we are not going to go back to a world where zero transparency exists in a lot of areas. Hopefully this can expand to how you were treated by the police, the sources of income of scientists releasing papers about how sugar is great for kids and so on. You get the point.

Getting reliable news is obviously one of the big hard problems, as we have seen in last years and as in the example you mentioned. I guess it's another discussion (but relevant to oppressive regimes).
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After the user (or malware) gets code execution in ring 0, the whitelists and detection mechanisms are no longer effective.
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I can't say that I've ever seen that the private sector has a clear advantage, otherwise they would already have taken over running everything.

An entity that can rig the courts, the laws, and the regulations to its favor has an advantage.

Sure these are just anecdotes. But it puts a hole in the claim that the private sector is ALWAYS better.

Yeah, that's just magical thinking nonsense. You have to take the situation apart and look at what the incentives are. Economic libertarian woo is just as bad as alternative medicine woo. Markets aren't magic. They are a particular kind of distributed machine. It sounds like that mental hospital/home didn't have a competitive environment, or they couldn't have demanded more funding.

In fact almost every case I've seen where a private company does the job cheaper, it is because they give their employees worse conditions and salaries, not because of smarter organization and management.

In Washington state in the US, there were private DMV counters at Fred Meyer. AAA auto insurance can also do some of these functions. The customer experience is almost universally better at the private counters, because the private employees have incentives to make the customer experience pleasant, and the state employees have none. If a company can cheap out on its employees as compared to the state, and the level of service stays the same, then the market worked. If a company does that, and the level of service gets crappier, but the company doesn't face consequences, then the market has not worked. I bet, if you tried hard to prove the null hypothesis and looked for circumstances that would interfere with the market, you'd find them.
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I'm amazed that given the depth of Dr Seuss's work its stuff like Cat in the Hat that is the most exposed.
Ever since I went through his work to read to a small child I know i've been amazed at how useful and framed in reality the less known stories are (e.g. Sneeches at Beaches, Yrtle the Turtle).
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Please do share the specifics of these 'cute just-so stories' so we're assured you're not just making a suggestive generalization.
I've never heard people saying that. There have been plenty of "peak oil" predictions, but that refers to supply not demand.

Maybe I missed something?
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So lets stop making museums buy overpriced art then.

So while it is nice for the public to be able to see a certain original, I can think of millions of better ways to spend that money and then just see a replica.
The decentralized nature of cryptocurrencies means that implementing countermeasures to market manipulation is severely hampered. It's a fatal flaw of to the idea of cryptocurrencies as something socially useful.
As far as I understand, currencies have value because we all agree they do (or because there is a guaranteed fixed exchange rate for some other asset that we have all agreed has value). The extent to which a currency is a good store of value will be determined, again, by how many people believe it is legitimate and continue to accept it for transactions (though fiat currencies have a wrinkle where a central bank can produce an unlimited amount. In this case, the fiat currency is a good store of value to the extent that people believe the central bank won't do this). I don't see why there is any reason to believe that a digital currency could not succeed if enough people believe it has value.
I'm always curious how blockchain developers make money except for holding coins or doing the one-time ICO...

I started a new thread for this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16206218
I also pine for the good ol' days of mom and pop stores being the primary retailers in the world, but the genie is out of the bottle and consumers have shown that they prefer the convenience and affordability of online shopping. Amazon has been happy to provide that thus far.

The argument I was responding to said Amazon is a monopoly that hurts consumers. I still contend that A) it's not a monopoly and isn't necessarily destined to be one, and B) it has not hurt consumers. Your argument is more about the social and economic implications of big stores in general putting mom and pops out of business, which is a whole different issue and involves more than just Amazon.
You know what also offers cross-platform automation and has packages available on all named operating systems?

Bash.
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Libertarian idiot here: no, it hasn't.
Do you have a source that calls this encryption? Is modular multiplication what you're calling encryption? I'm really confused.

Bytheway definition of encryption: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encryption
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> companies making the devices standards (apple, google, samsung) all make lots of money from ads, and subscription services

I think that’s only true for one of the companies in your list.
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Just because I can't steal from you starting from nothing but your wallet address doesn't mean that your system is secure. It just means that if there is an effective attack vector, it doesn't work by working out the private key from the public address.

I agree with you that downvoting without offering counter-arguments is a sign of emotional rather than intellectual responses... but so is using straw man arguments like the one you put up.
I know some (rudimentary) harmonic analysis and am familiar with the Shannon-Nyquist theorem but I'm not sure I follow. Care to explain?

Edit: nevermind, I got it [1]. I see, however, the result only holds 'modulo' paraxial waves well-behaved in the linear regime... So it's not that every lens automagically computes a FFT at the speed of light as it seemed at first!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier_optics#Fourier_transfo...
My question is the demand collapse, and transition to a demand spike. The current models of increased load, like demand reduction and management companies that do nothing more than broker kW for incentives for shut-down during high peak times - et al. https://energy.gov/eere/wipo/demand-reduction-0 // --> so, as we shift away from fossil fuels/oil .. who are the great tycoons of electrical grid creeping?
What if js could handle sending email via Mailgun, Sendgrid etc.? Then it could be self-hosted (though you may not want it to be, of course).
Not sure what you mean, but just in case : there is this blockchain based mobile cryptocurrency called Electroneum.
They plan to release a mobile mining simulator on mobile. Check their website.
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Zero-confirmation transactions on Bitcoin Cash can't even be relied on if the sender, the receiver and all of the miners are trustworthy because transaction malleability can cause them to just vanish. The developers intentionally removed the proposed fix for malleability to break the Lightning Network, because they failed to realise it was actually a broader problem. This broke withdrawals for at least one exchange; their withdrawal transactions disappeared and had to be very carefully manually redone. (The reason supporters had to push zero-confirmation transactions so hard is because the original design had a flawed difficulty adjustment algorithm that led to block times over an hour a lot of the time, so the supposed benefit of being faster than Bitcoin fell apart the moment you needed even a single confirmation.)
see Chesterton's fence
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It was all so easy until it wasn't!
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But how is this specific to a BeyondCorp design?
This phenomenon was previously called 'yellow journalism' and should be a core component of any halfway-decent, modern American History course.

Have we forgotten about the Spanish American war?