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> What is known is that like more recent EA DRM, the base blasting trick caused all kinds of problems, in particular blowing up the armies of plenty of legitimate players.

I remember spending hours on EA's helpline trying to get them to fix this, because now and then, my base would explode, despite the game's legitimacy.

From memory, it became a "won't fix" when we worked out it was only when I would connect to a match with someone with an illegitimate version of the game.
And to think it was rooted in the fact that he got mad that he was banned from World of Warcraft, leading him to distrust centralized authority, and the Bitcoin team blew off his smart contracts ideas, so he made Ethereum.

In a parallel universe, Buterin is doing something way worse for humanity with his genius and his resolve, so I'll take the Buterin we have today.
I think what he's alluding to is just that the amount he owns it's very clear, although there are estimates out there which are close enough.
Yeah, we pay for Slack for chat and 1:1 voice/video, but all our group meetings at work are using Zoom. Far better experience, and the video quality has been great. Have had a few instances recently where people couldn't join the call and had to re-create the meeting, though.
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Yes, but is there any evidence to suggest we are moving the right way by lowering taxes?
>> crypto has been crashing

On a very short timeline, aka a few days. In the past say, oh, I dunno, 3 months (which apparently is long-term), it hasn't been at all.

And do you think Buterin just donated $2.4mm fiat value overnight after it crashed this past week? It's probably been talked about for weeks if not months, or years.
Making people's lives better is by far the most important goal of science.

Look at it this way: if we were currently in the state where nobody died, ever, who would choose to start murdering a hundred and fifty thousand people every day in the name of "progress", or in the name of anything?

And in any case, who's to say we wouldn't gain massively in progress by not losing the most experienced minds, and instead benefiting from their experience? Or by letting people study longer because they have all the time in the world?
Uhm...spoilers?
Is Buterin supposed to invent a cryptocurrency and own none of it and not be invested in its own success? How much is acceptable? Who deems the amount acceptable?
A common reason to limit the length of a password — and doubly so to a power of 2 — is that they’re being stored or passed around as plaintext
This isn't usually a problem for me. However, one way in which macOS combats this is by encouraging applications to preserve their state between sessions. That means even if you were to accidentally exit, you can just re-open it without problems. This also helps protect you in the case of a system crash (incredibly rare, in my experience) or accidental power loss.
I have no idea if pragmatic is a negative word in your eyes, but it is for many people, who view it as incompatible with traits like idealism and compassion. To me, it is not. I am often interpreted by other people as compassionate and idealistic, yet I view myself as a pragmatist.

So, to my eyes, it is a compliment to say they are pragmatic. It means they are very grounded and very focused on results, unwilling to take a neurotic position of don't confuse me with the facts, my mind is made up.

I have a torturous medical condition. I am very much pro the right to die. I primarily need some means to earn an adequate income online to help me to stay healthy and minimize the torture my body subjects me to. I have mostly not gotten much support for that goal. It seems like a really small thing to ask of the world, to please help me earn a little money online as a way to prevent huge medical expenses and dramatically improve my quality of life. Those requests have often been met with really ugly replies. On Metafilter, someone accused me of panhandling the internet for trying to get feedback on how to monetize my web projects.

Given the incredibly poor track record the world has for helping people like me achieve some kind of reasonable quality of life, I very much resent the general idea that I am not allowed to want to die. For me, death would be an end to enormous suffering, suffering the world mostly can't be arsed to do a damn thing about, even when the request for help is quite small.

If the world in general wants to insist on life, it needs to vastly up its game in so many ways. I don't expect this to happen. So I very much feel that I should have the right to say "I have had enough. I want to be done with my suffering." And so should anyone else with a terrible condition that makes life not worth living.

Insisting we stay alive while the US can't even be bothered to straighten out its healthcare system just strikes me as asshole behavior.

The point is that I don't think euthanasia is a negative.
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Yes, mine too. Neat trick they pulled on Intel, allowing non multi processing Celeron's to do MP.
> Do these buildings do this for security?

Yes. One building we were in had a problem where people would walk in off the street, then hide in the bathroom to attack or mug people. The hope with the key protocol is that potential attackers would enter, try the bathroom door, see it was locked, then leave.

Cheaper than having a security guard 24/7.
At first I thought this said "SNES Foundation" and I was very confused.
Epigenetic effects through DNA methylation is rather well established, I believe. And then there's actual genetic change during neural development. Also during humoral and cellular immune response. So maybe it's Mendelian dogma that's more problematic.
what are the social attitudes exactly? That the world can't sustain an undying, continually growing population?

The end of aging will lead to extermination/genocide in one form of another. There is no way around it.
What sort of cognitive tasks would aid this? Something like Lumosity?
But the universe is turing complete, so the only way to predict what will happen is to run a perfect simulation of everything in the universe. This is clearly impossible within the universe, and so your actions remain unpredictable.
Even if the price of such a drug was $0, realistically only wealthy people could afford to live significantly longer.
If memory serves, that maximizing rate was somewhere around 50% under Laffer's initial model, which is why the first Reagan tax cut reduced the top income bracket from 70% to 50%.

Now we're at 37%, and I guarantee you that's still considered too high by the Ryan types.
95bits of entropy for a computer, but for an actual user?

Humans are bad at remembering most things. The more entropy there is, the more difficult it tends to be for us to remember.

The way for increasing password entropy, whilst lowering the human bound, tends to be by utilising things humans find easy to remember, but computers find difficult to randomly/brute-force solve.

That usually requires a longer password.

You can sort-of bypass the human memory problem by using password managers, but they have their own set of problems (mostly usability), and assuming people actually use them is an assumption too far in most cases.
This farmer gave 600 homes cheap electricity that the power company couldn't
There are better ways to do that than the framing you have used in this discussion. So, if you plan to keep bringing such things up, I hope you find a better way to do it.

I don't disagree that understanding such contexts or pointing them out has value.
The definition you're showing there is a adjective. The verb form of bare means to uncover, which doesn't make much sense in context: Dutch Genes Still Uncover Scars. Compare with Dutch Genes Still Feature Scars.

There's a note on usage on the page you provided:

> There is considerable confusion between the verbs bear and bare. It may help to remember that the verb bare has only one meaning: "to uncover," as in "bare your shoulders" and "a dog baring its teeth." All other uses of the verb are for bear: "bearing children," "the right to bear arms," "bearing up under the stress/weight," "can't bear the thought," "bear south," "it bears repeating."
I use Regus currently. I think it’s fine: coming from an open office plan at my last company, the fact I can visually and audibly tune out people via a door and walls is awesome. I hated being forced to live in headphones land. My only complaint about the regus space is the length of the lease: I’ve considered wework to move to once my year is up in a couple months so I can go to a month to month plan. Unsure if I want to go back to a noisier/visually cluttered environment though...
The most disturbing thing about iCloud Keychain is that you can get access to all of your stored passwords just by unlocking a device linked to your Apple ID. Not just the ability to log in with them, the actual plaintext.
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Ethereum is still like a tech demo though.

Right now, Ethereum's promised "global supercomputer" is more like a 1960s IBM mainframe that you can access through wildly expensive dial-up links. What kind of world-changing networked software would you have built on that?

It doesn't seem to actually work for any applications other than escrow (ICOs) – and even that has a strong pyramidic sniff to it, because it's used to collect investments into Ethereum-based protocols that can't really result in functional applications on Ethereum unless it's radically redesigned.

Maybe they'll pull it off and Ethereum will be useful a few years from now. I'm not making any bets.
Quick, out of the box solutions with PaaS or BaaS help. I have used Angular with Firebase effectively. It cuts down time for development.

But remember to refactor once your app gains ground.
Read their publication list. The SRF collaborates with most of the important research groups in the field:

http://www.sens.org/research/publications

Also, see their research advisory board, which includes numerous respected researchers, leaders in their areas of work.

http://www.sens.org/about/leadership/research-advisory-board

You might be familiar with senolytics, the clearance of senescent cells as a way to treat aging that is presently taking off in a big way in the research and development communities. Aubrey de Grey, cofounder of the SRF, called for that back in 2002, and the SENS programs have advocated for it since then:

http://www.sens.org/files/pdf/manu12.pdf

The SRF and original parent organization Methuselah Foundation seed funded Oisin Biotechnologies to work on gene therapy for senolytics a few years ago. Other lines of development have also spun off into companies in the SRF network.
Ask HN: Is it time to leave Google?
I've been at Google for 2+ years and am pretty happy with the salary/benefits, but I'm really strating to question the overall direction of the company. It's not clear to me that Google is still innovative like it used to be. I'm a bit torn because I don't want to be cavalier and forego the opportunity that was given to me, but it seems like a lot of smaller companies are doing much more interesting work. How do I know when it's time to leave? What sort of criteria should I be looking for in other companies? I've always been interested in aerospace but most of those companies (SpaceX, etc) seem like a stretch.

(Note, I'm new here, let me know if there's anything I can do better when writing textposts)

Edit: It seems like maybe my particular role isn't that interesting. Which orgs within google are good to work for?
Because sex, drugs, and rock and roll is what sells.

Moderation does not.

You can engage people about polarising issues incredibly easily and more importantly, it takes seconds.

Engaging a population in thoughtful discussion about the merits of each side and arriving at a moderate stance is incredibly difficult and takes time.

Time our pocket super computers have taught us we don't have.
I don't think there is anything to the theory. The Laffer Curve works great in theory, in practice it never does. http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2012/06/lau...

"Not aware of any evidence in recent history where tax cuts actually raise revenue. Sorry, Laffer."
Yes. Many people dislike it for reasons of tech coolness. But it's a perfectly nice framework for quick app development. And the community support is amazing as well. The testing tools are good too.
+1. It's a good idea to have some way of contacting your users regardless of what authentication scheme(s) you use.
Sorry for some reason I misread Feynman as something else...
Who is renting this space? Do people not have wifi and desks in their homes?
It's explicitly a parable about natural death's cost to society. There's not much to spoil?
Wouldn't it make more sense to have this information in the website's manifest? This way we don't have to wait for a manual update and it doesn't have to be limited to Safari
The next Tesla giga factory might even be in China or India instead of the US they already plan to build a car factory in China. Depends on the capacity utilization if all the batteries produced in the US can be used in NA and Europe it would make better sense to build another giga factory in China or India for the Asian market. Toyota so far has been pro hydrogen instead of pure electric but that has changed in the last few months to me once Toyota goes all in on electric the world will move to electric cars a lot quicker than most are expecting.
There's a significantly higher barrier to having your personal information show up in a book or magazine (eg editors). People make stupid mistakes on social websites on the time.
I would be quite curious to know the answer to this as well. What's your legal strategy for when one of the richest orgs on earth decides to make you go away?
>and even if it were factually true it doesnt give him the entitlement to prevent other people from doing it.

Yes it does. In the same way I'm entitled to prevent people from drunk driving, because we know it's factually a bad idea and likely to end in a pretty nasty mess.

>I've built my case about it

In the same way you can build a ship designed to sink maybe.
could have looked at the more recent thermal paste gpu issues with mbp 2011 (which i was hit by) or the similar imac problems in 2012(?)
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2017.10.003
I thought he was shitting me, but alas.

Anyway, brings an old SNL skit to mind – the love toilet. Look it up.
Meanwhile, in india: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-42899402

India's GDP: "The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in India was worth 2263.79 billion US dollars in 2016."[0]

America's GDP: "The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the United States was worth 18624.48 billion US dollars in 2016."[1]

[0]: https://tradingeconomics.com/india/gdp

[1]: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/gdp

Your system is massively inefficient.
"but there is definitely something to the theory that lowering taxes can generate more revenue"

There isn't. There is something to the theory that changing(!!) tax rates can generate more revenue. I haven't seen any evidence that we are on the side of the maximizing rate where lowering taxes is necessary.
I guess I'm type B for boring because I pay for everything at the self checkout.
> Mendelian dogma

There is no evidence for transgenerational epigenetics in humans. http://quillette.com/2017/04/07/epigenetics-become-dangerous...
I originally considered making my contract predict the outcome of the 'random' function first, but I got lazy when I realized I could just check whether I won and revert the transaction afterward for the specific contracts I wanted to attack. It also meant that my win-forcer contract was more generic and could work against more naive roulette contracts. However, my strategy would not work against naive roulette contracts that immediately on deposit calculate whether you won, but don't tell you or let you get the money until later. (I didn't encounter any like that, but it's a possible flawed way someone might attempt to make their contract defend against attacks.) To attack those, you would need to do the article's strategy of predicting the 'random' outcome first before making the deposit (or have your win-forcer contract automatically check the random outcome for you, and only make the deposit if it knows you'll win).
A $20,000,000,000 valuation?
I never really thought about this until just now but your 100% right. I use both B2 and their consumer service and never had any issues.
While not game related, 3d studio max had a genius one in the early 2000's. They could detect when the software was cracked and would slowly degrade the model polygons. Eventually there were a bunch of questions on the support forums.
The FMC adapter item on the specs is an standardised interface adapter. Looking at the instructions for some of the previous dev kits points to an FMC PCIe module that seems like the right kind of thing:

http://www.hitechglobal.com/FMCModules/FMC_PCIExpress.htm

Obviously you'd want to check a bit more carefully. I'mjust pointing out that PCIe seems like it's a go-er with the hardware right now even. :)
In 2012, leagues of people DID support that stance, and Ron Paul was completely blackballed from media coverage and debates.

Hilariously, he was given the treatment that everyone bitched about Donald Trump receiving (even though he didn't, Trump's coverage was amazing, and constant, and will remain so).
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Cryptocurrency represents billions of dollars of value exchanged every single day with the bits being the physical representation of money.

Ten years ago that kind of adoption would have been considered impossible.

Anything beyond that is moving the goalposts. I'm happy to be along for the ride rather than commenting about the "this is not the likely implementation of this technology" / "it's used for scams" / "it doesn't scale."

I am aware of all that and I agree with most of it. But the financial adoption of this technology is itself incredibly amazing, and something I think people overlook so they can make a technically-correct point about the tech in its infancy. Which is not to say you are doing it, but it's pretty close, especially since I didn't advocate for Ethereum as genius (it's pretty interesting, if you ask me; and smart contracts do a great job of exposing how stupid people are and how terrible of developers we are).
Got a cite for the origin story? That's cool.
>Life extension remains a currently a critically underfunded part of medical research, primarily due to the social attitudes towards it.

Not really. Life extension remains a currently a critically underfunded part of medical research primarily because it's a hard problem, with no breakthrough in sight.
if your computer is your livelihood, presumably you already have work lined up for those 50 hours using your current hardware. you'd need to be able to bill an extra 50 hours due to the increased productivity from a faster machine to have this not be an impact to your finances. otherwise, it's still an extra expense you need to consider, and for a lot of people, $5k is still a non-trivial amount of money. if computer work is your livelihood, you're likely bringing in income and have regular expenses. adding an extra $5k in to that mix is not something most people will do without moderate consideration.

"I could make that on the side with 50 hours of work." if you're already working full time, fitting in another 50 hours of billable work is non-trivial, and may take months to actually do.
Hosting ads on your site isn't actually enough. uBlock Origin can and does block by CSS selector (and that's the default behavior if you use right-click -> Block Element).

It _does_ get pretty hard to block if your ads are bespoke native advertisements, though.
Political commentary on HN is bankrupt.

Nothing on the memo, the largest political scandal of our times, apparently all these enlightened HN commentators have nothing to say on incumbent political party using the intelligence apparatus to spy on the opposition during an election year. That's literally the behavior of a third world country but here complete silence, just virtue signaling jokes of being anti Republican

Sadly my comment will be down voted, flagged, disappeared, assuming I am even allowed to post. Disgraceful.
With current economic growth and expected growth from the tax cut as well as low rates, it only makes sense to borrow.

Also, 'borrowing' in this sense means selling lots of bonds with a very low face rate. People still gladly buy them...
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> My (probably unpopular) opinion is that passwords should be randomly generated by the service, and not possible to change to a user-selected value.

I would rather have a client side TLS certificate that's generated by the website I'm trying to log into when I create an account with them. You could still keep the username and password application level log in in addition to the certificate to get a second authentication factor.
If you know what you’re doing, you shouldn’t put a maximum on the length or character set of passwords, and you should accept any password that has some reasonable amount of entropy rather than putting in arbitrary restrictions like “must have 1 number and 1 symbol”. This is for the sake of users who want to supply their own passwords, but as a side effect, it means Safari’s default password generation algorithm should work fine.

If you don’t know what you’re doing, you probably wouldn’t know how to put information in a manifest anyway…
From the man himself. (I seem to have gotten the banning thing wrong, but same point overall)

https://about.me/vitalik_buterin

"I was born in 1994 in Russia and moved to Canada in 2000, where I went to school. I happily played World of Warcraft during 2007-2010, but one day Blizzard removed the damage component from my beloved warlock's Siphon Life spell. I cried myself to sleep, and on that day I realized what horrors centralized services can bring. I soon decided to quit."

And a brief mention on Wikipedia on the other point:

"Ethereum was first described in Buterin's white paper, in late 2013. Buterin argued that bitcoin needed a scripting language for application development. But when he failed to gain agreement, he proposed development of a new platform with a more general scripting language."
The board specs mention an FMC interface. Isn't that used (with appropriate module) for PCIe connectivity?
BTW, Battle.net Authenticators look nonstandard at first glance, but they are actually 8-digit TOTP. I wrote a Python library and command line utility which can create new Battle.net authenticators as well as generate codes and QR URIs:

https://github.com/jleclanche/python-bna

See the README for usage :)

This should help you to have a backup next time you get locked out!
As long as it still works. :)