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> This stuff could change the world

We are in the dot com bubble of cryptocurrency. Real tech that has been overtaken by hype, momentum investing, and well scammers. I expect a similar type of situation to play out.

I feel like the non-existence USDT is going to be at the center of the coming crisis in cryptocurrency and I think that exchanges should face that head on, rather than letting it swallow them up. Exchanges should start to move away from USDT sooner rather than later.
I don't think you even have to read between the lines. The article is pretty clear about it.

Not just pain killers but also things like cold medicine.

But he did say his English was poor so i can see how that might get lost in translation.
There are already mobile devices designed for the government (see the Obama Blackberry, for example).

Also, like companies, the government uses (can use) MDM policies to enforce settings, restrict applications, etc., on iPhones, etc.
I assure you there are just as many of us with a complete aversion to taking anything at all.
The whole theory of cryptocurrency economics is based on the axiom that people are greedy. Do you really think people didn't realize this? The problem isn't that they didn't realize people are greedy, in fact they believe that more deeply than most. Rather their theories about what aggregate greediness would lead to were inaccurate at least in the short term.
He's refering to buying the game on g2a, a grey market key reseller that's notorious for using stolen credit cards to obtain the keys it's vendors sell to players. This often results in charge back to the devs who then feel compelled to allow the key to remain valid anyway for fear of public outcry.
Yep, thanks, I realized that eventually :)
You can provide user specified JS to run in web page contexts and eg do monkey patching.
From: https://stripe.com/docs/security/stripe

> If you believe you’ve discovered a bug in Stripe’s security, please get in touch at security@stripe.com (optionally using our general PGP key). We will respond as quickly as possible to your report. We request that you not publicly disclose the issue until it has been addressed by Stripe.
Yes, the gist of it is, you are not beholden to the monetary system if you have a lot of money. Tautological isn't quite the right word for this.
Parcissons you are shadow banned.
Data modes and CW are there for us unsociable individuals :)
No doubt. But I think you are in the minority.
I agree on the stress, you can however remove some of the stress. It's not because you are in pain you have to suffer. I know it's not entirely true, but it is to some extend.
If you consider the US an unstable country, I don't know what to tell you.
The whole point of the article was that she did not need the painkillers and actually prefers it in hindsight.

With the american "sick day" system drugging yourself to work is a necessity. The german take as many sick days as you need lets you choose the healthier route.
Judging from context I would guess he/she meant: "I took _the watch_ off when _the company_ was bought"
Dogecoin actually managed to pull a pump-dump-pump? Its valuation looks quite good as we speak, even though I remember the dump (2015) [1]

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/78xqxb/the-guy-wh...
My wife fusses at me when I mention I've had a headache for the past X hours and I haven't taken anything for it...
I think the inefficiences you mention were primarily caused by people refusing to answer questions. I mean, it's not like I was just made to feel like a fool because I asked- people actively discouraged me from asking stuff.

I complained about that to my line manager who assured me it was OK to ask, that it was part of more senior devs' job to answer questions etc, but of course nothing changed.
There's always coinbin.org and a couple of apps that you can set up to deliver you with alerts on price fluctuations and news. What's different with your product?
Thats what medicine sounds like if it has nothing to gain by selling you something.

There was a study on surgery - doctors would perform surgery only in 25 % of theire recommendations on family members.
I assume the same goes with medicine.
You're right. If we could define consciousness more exactly, we would necessarily know a lot more about it.

That doesn't mean it doesn't exist or can't be investigated though.
To me, the goal of running my own business is to build something that powers my life. The marg on a beach thing is nice for a short period, but I want to own something that I can put meaningful work into.

Balance is still important, but work is how I access flow, so it's frequently centering and soothing.
Depending on the simplicity of the program, the compiler may go ahead and inline it anyway!
Overall this is a pretty disappointing article, for a verity of reasons, one it does not really express anything it just tells a very boring story with seamingly no point

It advocating for less pain management in the US? or better pain management in Germany, I cant tell

It is critical of the idea that citizens of the US desire to eliminate pain? I am critical of cultures that endorse and support living with/in pain

"Excessive" consumption is subjective depending on your point of view. Further the increasing number of people addicted to opioids is a complex issue that has some correlation to prescriptions but can be debated on if that is the cause as other factors can be at play, further the increase in DEATHS as a result of said increase in addiction IMO can be more closely linked to the ever increasing desire to treat addiction as a crime not as a medical issue which causes a whole host of black market issue including quality and potency inconsistency in supply chain directly leading to more Overdoses
It's up to the host to heed such commands, right?
Ask HN: Effective use of Visual Studio Code without the mouse
There are many good examples of DIY approach at the IKEA Hackers blog.

https://www.ikeahackers.net/
There is no "you". If the idea is to make a thing for the web, the audience is everyone there, not that one guy who insist they will only ever use English.
Uhm... How is it easier than running /usr/bin/uuid or /usr/bin/uuidgen in console?
I think you mean https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16251029
I know this one. I've used it for inspiration a few times. I love that loading animation.
No Android version of your app?
Aren't they worried about the patient vomiting and choking? I had a dental implant done at the end of last year and I wasn't supposed to eat anything before surgery.
Resilient Engineering, then, would be a less buzz-wordy alternative that expresses what they mean.
Some gyms do have pools. I don't swim when I go to the gym, but some people must. I imagine pools at a gym would be better for trying to get in a workout than a public pool.
Other than install method, are there any significant differences in developer experience or capability between PWA's and old school webview apps?
Probably not a bad thing.
That's a funny way to spell "SAMLA" :)
Can you elaborate more on the structure of your app? Also, how non-technical are your non-technical users? I also would have said Docker, but if you have multiple tiers like a db + a web server, packing everything in a single image is kind of an anti-pattern, and using compose gets complex.

Another option is to create ready-to-launch instances on the major cloud providers. To follow your example, Bitnami has an image on aws that you can run with a couple of clicks. Assuming you non-technical users can follow the aws process to launch an instance.

Another advantage of cloud images is sales, you can leverage their sales team to find new customers.
My plan is to attend one of these language schools for one or two years, in order to:

1. Actually learn the language. Even if I could find a job in Japan that didn't require being fluent in Japanese, which I probably could, I wouldn't want to. It's going to be hard enough to live and work in a foreign country, especially one where you'll always be considered an outsider even if you live there your entire life (there's much about this on the Internet if you care to know more) that I really don't plan to get a job before achieving basic fluency. Not being able to communicate with the people around you is the most frustrating experience. Not being able to read and write is called illiteracy and is just as bad. School it is, for one year at the very minimum, maybe two.

2. Take an extended break from work, because I need it (and luckily I can afford it.) But I don't want to do nothing on a beach or backpack from place to place. I'm not good at vacationing in general and I hate travelling. I know I need to stay in a stable place and keep myself occupied with goals and a schedule.

3. Experience a longer stay in Japan (not as a tourist) to evaluate whether I really prefer it to my home country (Italy.) I think I will, for several reasons, but you never know, I may hate it there after a while. So whenever I decide to end the language school experience (tuition is paid 6 months at a time, so you have some flexibility) I will know whether to look for a job there or not.

The student visa is just the most practical way to achieve these 3 goals.

Right now I'm still debating which school and which town to go to, which is a HUGE choice, that could make or break the experience. Here is a page from ISI that summarizes the strengths of studying in Tokyo, Nagano, and Kyoto:

http://www.isi-education.com/location/

Here is a similar page from ARC Academy about Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto:

http://japanese.arc-academy.net/en/

Finally, Intercultural has its school and student apartments in Akihabara, which is the center of modern Japanese subculture (anime, tech, games) which I cannot say I dislike, as well as being right in the center of Tokyo:

http://www.incul.com/eng/japanese_school/

If you are considering this route too, what are your thoughts on the various cities and schools?

The ISI campus of Takadanobaba looks like a huge college campus, with mostly college-age kids from Asia, while the Akihabara school is much smaller and should have people of all ages from all over the world. The ISI school in Ikebukuro would be great for meeting actual Japanese people, because it's in the same building as their Business school, but they don't have any place left for this July.

Nagano is too much remote a location for me. But Kyoto is an awesome city, and Osaka and Kobe seem great places too. They are less expensive and crowded than Tokyo, while still being big, modern cities... but they are not Tokyo...

Damn it's hard! I need to make up my mind and fill an application form in a couple of days, if I am to get my visa for July. Wish me luck.
The change is in the trust model.

The centralised approach described requires that one trusts the database administrator. For a lot of things (probably the vast majority), this is good enough.

For the rest, there's decentralised distributed immutable ledgers.
> "After my surgery, I had to pay 25€ for the taxi ride home"

I'll take that over the multi-million US-american hospital bill, any time.
There are definitely some people who view it as a kind of ascetic and/or natural-living thing where it's actively "good" not to take painkillers. But I don't think that's how most of the medical profession in Europe thinks of it. For doctors it's more of a pure risk/benefit type of thing, where how likely a doctor is to recommend or prescribe painkillers relates to both the type/severity of pain and the risk of the painkillers (e.g. ibuprofen is safer than vicodin, so there's a much lower bar for using it).
It's one thing to suffer with pain needlessly, it's another if the treatment of pain could have long term harmful effects, e.g., addition to opioids.

I had impacted wisdom teeth and needed dental surgery. The dentist gave me a couple of codeines to take home but I never took them. The day after the local anesthesia wore off was miserable, but it became easily manageable after that. I found a lot of times the fear of the pain was worse than the pain itself.
This is a way to reduce the costs, but it can't be a way to make any profit (or just break even). You'll always burn a lot of money.

I can't believe there isn't a way to get movie attendance data for less than, say, 5$ per data point.
To offer the other perspective (though I guess you get that from your EU friends) - as one of those 'pain is a signal' people; I tend to avoid painkillers because when pain is tolerable, I'd rather use it as a guide for what is helping and what is delaying the recovery. Say you have a muscle spasm or something; isn't it better to feel exactly at which point it activates, so you can slowly stretch it out? A headache - well I behave differently when it is alleviated by reading a book, then when talking a walk outside makes it better, than when actually I'm just hungry and after eating a meal it goes away.

I don't know how I'd identify and distinguish those scenarios if I took painkillers every time.
Same for me. When I take something during a headache it doesn't change anything, and most of the time I'll even throw up in the next 30min if I take something. So I just try to sleep.
Ask HN: I own a large adult business and am moving to the Bay Area soon
Hi folks,

Long time HN member here. Using throwaway account for obvious reasons.

I am a serial entrepreneur with multiple exits in different industries. Right now I operate an adult business with millions of daily users.

I am moving to the bay area soon and trying to understand how I should present and market myself there. I have heard mixed things about adult industry reputation in the bay area. Some say that the environment is very liberal and people actually have a good reaction to this industry, others say that VCs don't do business with anyone who has touched adult.

Please keep in mind that I am going to sell this business in a few years and will start something non-adult related after. So it is important for me to not let reputation from being part of the adult industry hurt my chances for getting investments and talents for my next idea.

Thanks in advance for your insights!

Cheers!
This video involving insects and children made me reflect on my childhood passion and the day it ended.

Like most children, I loved insects. In 2nd grade I wrote a poem about insects that so impressed my teacher that I was promoted from the “slow” 2nd grade class to the “advanced” 2nd grade class. It’s my first memory of experiencing pride.

But I didn’t actually love insects, I loved studying them. To the young mind these are just animated toys which you could freely disassemble and experiment.

When I was around 9, I recall taking my collection of insects and using my saliva as to perform a pre-selection test to determine which insects in the collection could potentially be amphibious. The next step was to take the ones that performed well and increase the severity of the experiment in hopes of discovering an amphibious insect.

My father was in our yard at the time and, for some reason, I paused to ask, “is it OK if I kill these bugs”. To which he replied “you can kill them, but don’t let them suffer”. I don’t recall if I proceeded with my full water immersion experiment. But I do recall the use of the word “suffer” had implications that would soon end all my research. Kill is used metaphorically in mechanical systems, you “kill” an engine, but it comes back to life later. But there is no creative interpretation of the word suffer.

Years later I had the similar experience my first year in EE grad school. I wanted to research/improve cochlear implants as aiding the disabled is a noble pursuit of study. But then I went to meet a friend of mine, a PhD candidate, in the lab, he was literally eating a sandwich, talking to me, while operating on auditory system of a chinchilla. Maybe it was a cadaver, it was a really healthy-looking one if it was and I didn’t ask. I just wanted to leave so he could focus on his patient and so that I could reconsider what else I could study.

To be clear, my comment is not a criticism of biological research and I am grateful for the resulting knowledge and benefits. It is Sunday morning and I just felt compelled to write.
Yeah, I question the idea that it's beneficial to experience pain - why should I? Especially if it's going to cost me days of my life that I could do something with. Maybe not go out, but at least be able to catch up on some of the more passive content... seems like a needless waste of life.
April 1st is the first day of the second quarter for businesses whose fiscal year is the calendar year.

It generally makes sense for changes that affect accounting to start on the first day of a quarter.
This make me think: Could this behaviour be influenced by US-american pharma corporations being allowed to run (TV-)ads on prescription medications ?
assuming "old school webview app" means something built with cordova (or similar), you no longer have the ability to drop down into Obj-C / Java for extensions/functionality that the web doesn't have or safari doesn't support.

In many cases this doesn't really matter, but could very easily be a complete dealbreaker for someone trying to decide what to build.
Balloon Wars: Unexpected Consequences – UFO’s in the 1950’s
If medical records were spread out, they would be spread out in encrypted form. Nobody would be able to read them except for the right people, which would actually be a step up from today's poor situation.
Exactly my issue with all mind mapping apps I've tried - they are trees, not graphs, and I don't think that way.

I find them useful for to-do lists, but little else. Even if you can connect two separate nodes, the tool doesn't use that new information to change the organization of the nodes (something like a force-directed graph could be interesting).
Vogons are perfectly capable of corrupting Nature without the help of humans. And even restoring Nature by wiping out humans to make way for a hyperspace bypass.

At least he didn't say it was bad as Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings's poetry about decaying swans.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/hitchhikers/guide/poetry.shtml

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxPeIiU2kx4

Or the Electronic Bard's horrible poems:

http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/lem/HorriblePoems.html

Despair not, never give up, and just keep practicing: there's always room for improvement:

http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/lem/WonderfulPoems.html
In addition to my first comment... : The western-like environment is also the direct consequence of the "no regulation" aspect that crypto fans like so much. When there start being regulation everyone will leave the space precisely because there's not the hope anymore of making quick fast money...
Also, as a non-front end developer, I don't have HTML fresh in my mind and don't care to. Sometimes you just want to do something quick and not have to worry about it.
Really unsure about bitfinex, I feel like it's got no real value, just piggybacking of the tech of ether - its like creating value out of thin air, something like these - https://www.starregister.org (not real obviously)
If you’re wondering what exactly makes something a PWA, check out the Progressive Web App Checklist for the canonical definition.

https://developers.google.com/web/progressive-web-apps/check...

Check out the case studies for why businesses are (rightfully, IMO) interested in PWAs.

https://developers.google.com/web/showcase/2017/

Disclosure: I work on Google Web DevRel team
Hmmm the Windows API strategy? That’s not super convincing.
> younger doctors understand more and more that pain means stress and stress make sick and is a negative influence to the healing process

I hope you are wrong because I would hate so see anythign resembling the painkiller addiction wave in the US here in Germany. The doctor in the text is correct in saying that pain can be an important guide for your own healing process. Otherwise, you can easily overwork/overexert yourself which damages the healing process
I think it has more to do with how readily available medication is in the US (Supermarket).
> basic morale (movies / music / what have you).

Communication with family and friends would be my first thought.
Many historical accounts put a lot of emphasise on the mail delivery and what the news from home was. It must be/have been a significant problem dealing with the mail when you had a lot of troops in the field.
I think people frequently overestimate how secret their secrets are.

I also wonder why they would share the trails they want to keep secret on the social network for athletes........

Anyway, Strava advertises using the heatmap that way so go tell them you don't like it.
This is true. Ancient USENET was once fantastic before SPAM and trolls invaded. The stores of free non-fiction books and journal articles in PDF is also a giant treasure few could have imagined a few decades ago.
> postmodernist imbroglio involving Derrida and lacan.

Spoooky! How do they have anything to do with this?
IME, they are used for the kind of meeting that isn't really a meeting at all. Nothing is discussed, and some idea is "presented" to a Powerful Person by the Presenting Person, plus some other people who are there to spectate for no obvious reason. At the end of it, Powerful Person says they will think about it, and Presenting Person will send out a summary of the meeting in email.

Why not just send the email to begin with, with a full, coherent summary of the proposal, have Powerful Person email their approval or rejection, and skip the several person-days worth of meetings?

First, Presenting Person, like nearly all people, is borderline illiterate, hasn't written a report or essay since college, and probably simply couldn't do so coherently in any reasonable length of time. For them, PowerPoint is a crutch to avoid having to actually commit their proposal to writing. Instead, they put up some bullet points that are vaguely related and just talk about it.

Second, there is Powerful Person. They are again, like most people, borderline illiterate, and haven't read anything longer that a listicle since B-school, so they'd rather sit back and stroke their beard for 20 minutes than bother with possibly needing to look up a word they don't understand. More importantly, the presentation or "meeting" is an opportunity to display primate dominance. Essentially they are "holding court" to demonstrate to everyone that they are the ones in charge. The idea that Presenter Person may have stayed up late getting every slide pixel-perfect in preparation for this meeting only enhances this function.

Finally, there are the spectators. Powerful Person needs them there for the primate dominance function already discussed. The more people there are to witness Presenting Person prostrating themselves before Powerful Person, the greater utility the ceremony has in this regard. Luckily, all of these people are easily convinced to show up for the meeting, because it's a way to schedule a surreptitious break into a workday that has probably had all actual breaks like lunch breaks, coffee breaks, cigarette breaks, slowly eliminated over the course of years and decades.

In short, nobody can read, nobody can write, and showing up for meetings is easier than real work. Enter PowerPoint: the software package tool-using social primates reach for most when nominally attempting to make business decisions.
I'm very reluctant to take drugs, even over the counter pain meds or allergy pills, but this is an American trend that a lot of people I've interacted with have noticed and I wouldn't discount it outright.
It's a smartwatch -- the watch didn't have a full OS installed when you first turn it on. It's meant to be paired with a phone. If you just want a watch without smart features then just get a watch. This complaint is ridiculous and nobody who owned a Pebble would take it seriously.

Pebble failed because they needed better marketing, took VC money so they needed to grow fast, and focused on unnecessary hardware addons that nobody wanted (smart straps).

There are still plenty of people buying out the remaining Pebble hardware. It was a good device and pretty good ecosystem.