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I have two folders "Personal" and "Work". Each of these has a "Misc" folder where I dump items I want to look at or read sometime in the future. I try to keep it as simple as possible. About once a month I groom my bookmarks and either delete or rearrange as needed.
...uhh, or people could rent storage and get paid a token fee, thus generating revenue
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Hey Hunterx,

Could you share you Skype so we can setup a time ?
I'm in GMT +5:30 IST.
>nearly 150,000 Turks detained

>An estimated 30,000 are believed to be among the innocent swept up in this particular campaign

I'd say an estimated 150,000 or so are innocent of anything that would be a crime in any normal country. I note Turkey is not getting anywhere with getting Gullen himself extradited because it would require showing evidence to a US court that he'd done something beyond being a political opponent of Erdogan.
Stop pumping on HN.
> We rely on many central authorities because that was the only way to get safety, security, dependability. Governments enforce ownership, banks maintained records. When the systems were created it was the only way, short of physical ownership of all of your money (who wants $100,000 under their bed?).

It most likely still is, and forever will be, in any practical sense.

Bitcoin, et al. provide an alternative through literally flushing humongous amounts of energy down the toilet (ironically, at the very moment in history, when we can't afford to do that). Energy requirements for maintaining the integrity of blockchains is unbounded and scales up with network use. If we were to accept Bitcoin as the primary world currency and use the network for the next hundred+ years, I'm confident we'd had to eventually (within couple of centuries) start sucking stars dry to keep up with the energy requirements.

Compare with the "traditional" economic system, which prefers to minimize waste and exploits benefits of centralization to improve efficiency, while still delivering mostly the same thing Bitcoin promises.

(In fact, all this gives me an idea for a sci-fi story: humanity is visited by aliens and encouraged to join an interstellar trade empire; only too late they realize that the friendly aliens are going to suck the Sun dry within couple hundred years, in the process of maintaining a blockchain-based interstellar currency.)
>>Even now the wealthy individuals seem to be making such investment for others benefits in terms of charity

You know charity is tax deductible right?

>Why would they limit from cap

This happened when France taxed people in higher income bracket

>This is one of the possibility but not definite

France's richest guy left the country. And France found it hard to attract managerial talent.

>they cant simply use it for their personal benefit and all the money they make beyond cap should be used for other's benefits

Sure. My cousin who doesn't bear my surname counts as "others" right. This would be a nightmare to track if self administered.
If the wealth is collected by some TRUSTED party, same issue as I mentioned earlier - corruption.
Well when you put it that way...

In that scenario I suppose bitcoin's only hope would be that the countries of the world wouldn't coordinate to enforce a global ban. Seems unlikely that they would. But, back to your point, a total US ban might be enough to eventually kill the ecosystem.
well IMO its silly to assume in 100 years the internet will be the same speed as today
Great name, rolls of the tongue.
*The majority party has 51 Senators but only mustered 47 votes from their own party, with another 5 coming from the minority.
They are though. Structures are not rigid, but more elastic. They only appear rigid and monolithic from a macroscopic perspective. One atom moves relative to another , and then exerts electromagnetic force on another which then moves a bit itself, and when all are seen together they appear to be a single unit that is spinning, but that is an illusion.
Search and ads are the big ones. And you can't really split any part of the company off from ads because that's revenue.

So if you're going to split Google, the only way I can see it working is a bilateral (or multilateral) split, like the AT&T breakup into the Baby Bells. Each part would get search and ads and maybe the existing YouTube corpus, ???

Discussion question: How did the AT&T breakup work out in the long run? (Genuinely curious, not trying to be snarky.)
As one example of how this can be useful, Jo and Bengio recently used Fourier filtering to measure the susceptibility of neural networks to adversarial examples. By changing the statistics of the images in a principled manner, they confirmed that even networks that generalize well are learning mostly surface-level statistics. E.g. an image of a car is more likely to also have asphalt and building colors than greenery. The networks overweight these kinds of features, and that turns out to be good enough to get high scores on many data sets. Using Fourier filtering, they were able to alter the images to generate arbitrarily different surface statistics while preserving how humans would perceive the images.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.11561 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16165126)
Yes, sellers (or renters) of storage can make money. Sure.

I'm saying that the creator of the protocol won't.
Its not closed, since the data and code is out for anyone to use typically, you could even fork and create your own. What is different is the incentive to provide storage and compute for others. Over simplified, you lend your storage and compute (that's called mining) and get paid in crypto tokens in return.
Just remember that divisive interests —where "fake news" lives— cut two ways. Inferring too much from consumption might confuse "can't stop watching this trash-fire of a government" and "MAGA". Or "aren't these right-wingers a bunch of nutbags" and "lock her up". There's significant overlap in consumption.

Worthy of experimentation, but not to decide what's shown on my wall.

You probably can get there in the end, but it's probably easier to pay somebody to objectively rank to the political position, and journalistic integrity of major publications.
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The comments there make me sad.
I'm the author of the pull request that made this change; feel free to AMA related to it.
So if a pump and dump gets big enough and goes on long enough, it can't be described as such? Even though the price was artificially inflated and investors were fed false information?
> if he knew the person who produced the product and understood the difficulties they faced during its production, he would not do it

So true for many.

One thing I always try to do is go out of my way to make that personal connection. Anonymous hit-and-run reviews are, in my opinion, cowardly. If you're going to scrutinise something publically you should be open to talk to the creator of what you're scrutinizing.

Speaking to these kind of users can be invaluable or it can be an awkward hour of disagreeing.

Either way, putting a human face on it and letting them know where I'm coming from and the impact of their review has yielded good results.
Every single piece I read or heard on Bitcoin talked (only) about how Visa et al skim off excessive fees and Bitcoin would be so much cheaper. I don't remember hearing anything about speed, probably because at the time nobody realized Bitcoin wouldn't be transaction latency-competitive with traditional payment solutions.
Bitcoin is not trying to replace banking - the set of services that it's trying to replace is a (not so big) part of payments processing, and a tiny part of whole banking (for example, lending is a much larger function than payments).

If I look at the headcount structure of a typical bank or at the tasks where the wider financial industry employs people, the settlement of payments takes 1%, perhaps 2% depending on how widely you interpret the area. So total worldwide adoption of Bitcoin (or some newcoin) might replace at most 1%-2% of the current banking employment and energy cost. As far as I understand, this energy cost is already smaller than Bitcoin's despite processing multiple orders of magnitude more transactions.
Even if there is a finite number of coins, at that point it's just speculation and economics of supply and demand. That still doesn't explain any "value" added attribute to it. Oil has a finite number of supply, that affects its pricing and supply and demand, but it also serves a purpose( which would explain its value. Someone coming up with an ICO to fund a project that has no benefit or value whatsoever other than to say here's a finite number of coins well that's clearly speculation and if anything pump and dump 101.
> I have been saying how I can't stand how kids are served at Disney and Nick.

The new Rapunzel/Tangled TV show is (I kid you not) very good. The art design is outstanding.
The spec isn't really relevant to the point I'm making. I'm talking about what the purpose of the design is. Memory protection as a feature exists in order to (among other things) prevent code in ring 3 from reading data in ring 0 that ring 0 has not explicitly granted permission to read. If the implementation fails to do that, then it's failed to achieve its goal, and the whole exercise is pointless—why include the silicon at all? Documented bugs are still bugs.

Again to use the crypto analogy: An implementation of, say, RSA that uses timing-sensitive memcmp to compare signatures would follow the RSA specification. But everyone would agree that such software has a severe bug.
A good education is far more than just textbooks. Critical thinking is what is missing here - and is what needs to be taught in schools.

Mindless regurgitation of facts doesn't really help anyone - and that's the majority of what I've seen in highschools in America.
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> Microsoft isn't Apple.

And that's just the problem, innit. The App Store is making Windows irrelevant. Apple also has a FAR better security story, and part of it is because they whitelist everything that runs on their flagship devices.

Microsoft tried to do the same thing with Windows RT and Windows Phone. Didn't work. They were forced to backpedal, but they're not about to give up on making Windows Store the centerpiece of the Windows experience, and sideline, marginalize, and limit the capabilities of Win32 on the Microsoft platform -- "for security purposes" of course. Eventually, Win32 stuff will still run, but heavily sandboxed and unable to take advantage of cutting edge features of the Windows OS (HoloLens? Cortana? The database file system they've put off implementing for so long?). It could be that Windows 11 uses HyperV to run a Windows 7 instance for legacy apps while new stuff -- including support for newer graphics cards/GPUs -- must be compiled against UWP in order to run on the main kernel instance.
The pull request was brigaded by folks from /r/btc who were not interested in positively contributing to the discussion; they just wanted to waste our time rehashing the past 3 years of scaling debate.
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Well, 'to sway (something) for the worst' is an idiom I've never heard, I get what they mean but I don't think it's grammatical, 'for the worse' would sound slightly better but still not good.
No, but there is such a thing as morally repugnant dish you should abstain from, no matter the price. For instance, one that promises to waste unbounded amounts of energy just to make some anti-authoritarians and some scammers rich.
Yup, that's been my experience as well. When I first started noticing their existence I thought they were always marketing propaganda. But you can occasionally find good technical white papers, so it's worth at least being aware of their existence.
I was interested in the list of compatible devices and I saw, of course, Android based phones and Nokia Nxxx series, etc.

Why not Apple iphones ? Why don't I ever see proof of concept boot loaders or linux init on an iphone ?

I understand they only run signed boot loaders / kernels / etc., but that was also true of the PS3 and that was broken wide open some years back ...

Has, truly, nobody gotten an alternative OS to boot on any of the 8+ generations of iphone ?
FTA:

> The tricky task for policymakers is to restrain them without unduly stifling innovation.

This suggests a profound lack of understanding of the power imbalance between the Tech Giants(TM) and the rest of the world. The fact that these big companies operate what amounts to mini-surveillance states and face little to no scrutiny about it, and this is not even mentioned in the article, is proof this person has not thought deeply about this problem. The additional fact that these huge Titans dominate vast monocultures puts us all at risk of catastrophic failure or the vulnerability of cyber attack and should scare the bejesus out of policymakers, militaries, and agencies tasked with securing national infrastructure.

People need to think harder about how bad it would be if, e.g. Apple or Google actually _were_ evil, or were co-opted into evil overnight. Or what if they were just evil _to you_.

Some of these companies essentially possess "kill switches" over vast parts of the computing landscape. Laptops are a bad software update from being bricks; the cloud is divided up into huge chunks that could go dark; one provider holds more than a third of the world's email; 90% of the world's search traffic.

These entities don't need to be somehow (gently) "restrained", but as a civilization we need to rethink the power we've ceded to them at a very fundamental level, or we risk growing ever weaker and more dependent on them.
No mention of Space Ace or Dragon's Lair!

These were very formative to me.
So that, unlike what OP mentioned, independent sources aren't being "punished", heavily biased sources are.

Which is fine, IMHO.

Notice that Mother Jones (independent, leftist) and Fox News (non-independent, large) have not been "punished".
This has been happening with stocks for quite some time e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Sykes which included bots, astroturfing and fake soc net profiles.
Investopedia defines pump and dump as:

>a scheme that attempts to boost the price of a stock through recommendations based on false, misleading or greatly exaggerated statements.

Is that not exactly what the ratings agencies and co were doing by giving trash securities AAA ratings?
Ok, so napkin math time:

Assume you need 3 people to drive out to apprehend illegal crossings for officer safety. You also then need 3 others to watch while others are out apprehending and then be able to respond for other illegal crossings.

Assume 3 minutes to cross over the barriers per person.

Assume it takes you no time to see the crossing happen, you can tell the second a ladder is put up.

Assume the roads are dirt, but in good and dry conditions. So you can travel about 40 mph on them on average, including the time to accelerate from 0mph at the remote watch tower station and then back down to 0 to apprehend people. 40mph is 2/3 miles per minute, btw.

So, the minimum distance at 3 minutes to cross would then be 2 miles. Meaning you'd need about 6 guys every 2 miles. So about 12,000 people for the 2,000 mile border.

Now you can play with the numbers, and talk about capturing people that scatter into the interior, but you're still at about 1 officer per 1 mile (ish), not 1 officer per 10 miles or 100 miles of border, with significant downtime per officer per day.
"Searching for a buffer with a few keystrokes", like using the [Ctrl/Cmd-T + fuzzy filename search] shortcut all those editors implement natively?
I agree with that. But, even though it's all true what you are saying, within the context of the argument about Meltdown they definitely need to be able to suck up the blame for it. Being called a moron doesn't make this mess less bad.

Arguments on the internet are held public most of the time + it's all public record. Personal insults are generally not acceptable. But when is it personal and who decides what's personal and what not? Where is the point when insults are the least important part of the issue? Should the insulted person always take insults personal regardless what issue at hand?

I understand that sometimes an argument about an issue in reality is a battle of egos. But, seriously, Intel trying to wiggle themselves out of the noose with it's not a bug it's a feature PR stunts, I think insults are as appropriate as "thank you" and "have a nice day". So, if anyone says or does something stupid for no apparent reason, questioning the sanity of their decision making by calling them a moron is the way to go, imo.
This is not news; we adjusted the bitcoin.org site to match reality.
Periodic reminder that attacks on physical voting don't scale.

But attacks on computers and networks do.
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Did anyone make a bitcoin miner that doubles as a popcorn machine? That would be fitting, and would at least put electricity to some more reasonable use.
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Clanan, to my knowledge this is ALL Trump and the republican's fault. Until 3 weeks ago they could have passed anything they wanted. It is just because they wasted time and Trump sabotaged everything the republicans came up with that so much time passed that they reached a stage where a 60 senate vote was needed.

You can't blame this on democrats when republicans could have handled this exclusively themselves and had ample time to do so.

This is simply a reflection of the chaos that is the Trump administration.

It is ironic to think of how I told Trump voters before the election, that if you vote on that man you will get noting but grid lock politics, because he is not a uniter. He is not a man who seeks cooperation and common ground.

I got laughed at for this, with Trump supporters telling me they didn't need democrats for anything because they controlled both houses.

I guess it is my turn to laugh then. I great irony that they manage to get themselves into this mess. The democrats didn't even have to lift a finger.
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And that MacBook is primarily a web browser and/or really expensive dumb terminal.
You mean they'd send you a link on their web page to a .tiff for you to print out.
Same, regret it to this day.
> education won't fix echo chambers.

No fewer than 6 of the coveted "swing states" switched from blue to red[0], and many counties across the country flipped as well. What persuaded hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of 2012 Obama voters to be 2016 Trump voters? Trump himself educated them, in his speeches. I'm one such person, spent the entire election season commenting and chatting with others on Reddit and YouTube with others, and there were countless Trump supporters who had been Obama supporters. Trump educated us more about the political system than any politician or journalist ever has. He taught people the phrase "lobbyists, donors, and special interests." That itself had a very powerful effect.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/president
I thought bitcoin was 'legit' until I actually bought some in the summer of 2017. Before ever purchasing any Bitcoin, I assumed that transactions were either free, or the fees were extremely low. However, after actually purchasing some Bitcoin and trying to move it between wallets, I found that the fees to make a transaction with Bitcoin are extremely high! In August of 2017 it cost me around $5 to make a single transaction using Bitcoin. At this point I knew for certain that Bitcoin would go to $0. Convenience store owners hate the $0.30 transaction fees currently associated with VISA debit cards, how do you suppose consumers and merchants are going to feel about $5 transaction fees? And the technology behind Bitcoin, blockchain, is equally ridiculous. In order to make a single transaction, one has to process a record of every other transaction that has ever occurred? That is a horrible idea.
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(I submitted this with a modified title, because the original gives zero context for what the post is actually about.)
Why is it better?

What Ethereum for instance did is genius. It distributes storage and compute across the world to those willing to share their resources and you get paid by doing so. It's a way to drive decentralization, because there is an incentive for mining. Is it perfect? Not quite yet for various reasons (performance, privacy), but its an interesting new paradigm.
I've been running e-commerce stores for 12+ years.

The main business I work for started to accept bitcoins for our physical goods in 2014ish. I did the integration.

I adopted Bitcoin because I'm not a huge fan of payment processors, I'm a cryptonerd and because I wanted to provide a use case for a technology I believe in, which wasn't illegal. I've also helped chime in with devs on open Bazaar and assist them with issues people who run stores have.

Over the years we've processed ~10,000 dollars worth of Bitcoin transactions.

We've ran into issues where confirmations take longer than our fulfilment center are used to, so we needed to wait to ship out orders.

We've run into issues where refunds get weird due to price fluctuations.

I've always noticed customers buying our products when the price of Bitcoin was too high and due for a crash, but since it's run up over $2000 I've noticed barely any transactions.

This is a fundamental change in how people are using it, and due to the high fees and slow confirmation times, it's no longer useful for us and it seems people would rather HODL than use.

Personally I enjoy the tech, but never cared for it as a speculative asset, which now I believe it has become (but kinda always was).

Have fun with your digital gold.
I like Ancient Roman food (the oldest complete recipes available), used to cook it quite often, and have served it to family and guests. It isn't to everyone's taste, possibly due to unfamiliar herbs (e.g. rue, lovage), spices (e.g. asafoetida), and their putting fish sauce in everything, including sometimes puddings.
See and everything I saw was about decentralization and other blockchain/cryptography-related things. I of course saw some people talk about Bitcoin as "cheaper than bankwire", but I definitely wouldn't say that was the main driving point of all Bitcoin adopters; not even a significant minority.
I suspect there's a rather large use case that doesn't involve making calls. I've got a few cell phones hanging around the house in case a project like this makes them useful for something again, and I have no intention of making calls with them. After all, a mid-grade android from 3 years ago is still a computer that on most if not all specs thrashes what I called my desktop in 2000. There are uses for such things.
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This is true, but if there hadn't been Linux there would have been something else to fill this niche (runs on commodity PC hardware, zero license cost). Sparc/Solaris wouldn't have continued to rule. Intel would have found some other workable solution.
Some people proselytized it, sure. And they're generally the folks who are upset with the current situation and have switched to various altcoins that will suffer from the same scalability issues if they ever become particularly popular.