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The calculation you did on that website shows an annual profit of $413.25 which is still a lot less than the initial investment of $2.5k. At today's price ($ 6,976.14), you'd have to be mining for over 5 years before getting that investment back again. I'm not sure how you come to the conclusion "how can any miner lose money".
> 1) Mining isn't required to use the network

I define participate as "be able to mine and use the network". You can't do both for free anymore with Bitcoin.

> 2) You don't have to pay any specific "club" to start mining. You need to be able to generate hashes efficiently, how you do that is up to you

Sorry, but it sounds like "In order to learn how to fly you just have to flap your hands more efficiently, how you do that is up to you"

> 3) It's still unrelated to what "permissionless" means in this case

From your definition "Permissionless Blockchains allow anyone to participate". Okay, you can sort of participate in tsunami by jumping in the sea, but do you really do?
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This wasn't the first time someone tried to make something better than time zones and our silly days-weeks-months-years system, and I doubt it will be the last. It probably goes back much further, but I know that the French tried to decimalize time in the revolution when they were rationalizing all the other measurements. (see The Measure of All Things by Ken Alder, without question the finest nonfiction book Ive ever read.)

The reason I think it doesn't catch on is that what we have really isn't too bad. If I'm thinking locally, everything works perfectly. If I'm trying to schedule a meeting with my colleagues in Singapore, I just remember a single number, 14 and apply it to my time. I know that right this minute, it's 21:40 in Singapore, and I know that the sun is down, everyone is home and preparing to go to bed. With UTC, I have to remember that the sun rises at 23:00UTC, do a little math, figure people show up in the office around three hours after the sunrise, etc. Toss in offices in London, Shanghai, Cape Town, Melbourne, etc. and it gets confusing.

Modulo 24 math is simple enough that anyone can do it, and looking up the offset for a city is much easier than finding out a "normal" person's schedule in that city.

Yes of course it gets a little silly with edge cases around DST and strange places (good trivia question: with what city does the South Pole share its time zone? A: Auckland, NZ, where the logistics are handled or anywhere in NZ really), but it works 99% of the time.

Could we make it work if we just decided to? Of course! Implementing the metric system was much harder, and we did that (well, most of us did, of course) because there were huge benefits to being on the same measure. Are there equally huge benefits to being on the same time zone? I doubt it.
Only if they can enforce and collect them. I’m extremely skeptical that they can do so for companies with no ties to the EU. I suspect other countries will take a dim view of the EU attacking their sovereignty like that, and will probably just ignore it.
Realistically, there are no clubs you can't join if have enough money
This.

I always thought that any blockchain could only work if there was a reward system (otherwise you're dealing with trusted parties and thus no blockchain in the strict sense is needed), and thus it never made any sense to me to see people implementing blockchains everywhere.

News: "Company X is using blockchains internally."

Me: "Does that mean Company X have created a token that can be mined by its own computers, in a crazy internal competition that will waste thousands in energy consumption and hardware?"
>Authorities have yet to spell out precisely what damage Love is accused of doing to American computer systems aside from saying that he stole the “personal information of users.”

Dollars to doughnuts this is another Gary McKinnon type situation - e.g. a trivial perl script that found embarassingly weak username/password combos. They haven't told us what he did because it reveal horrifyingly weak security and shift the conversation into "how was this even allowed to happen" instead of "bad man hacked us".

As always, no quarter is given by embarassed people in high places.
The backend for Sentry is a great example of a well-architected Django project: https://github.com/getsentry/sentry
TL;DR: update your Grammarly plugins so that you get the fix to this issue.
The combination locks on individual rack cabinets at a data center I used to visit frequently were powered by the rotation of the front dial. Basically, you twisted the dial back and forth several times to charge it up, then pressed the buttons on the keypad, and a green LED lit and the bar retracted (or else a red LED lit and nothing happened).

This allowed them to (a) not run a power wire to every door; (b) use a long (12 digits) passcode; (c) reprogram passcodes in a few seconds; (d) immediately give feedback on whether you had typed in the right code or not.

IIRC they cost upwards of $500 each. Given that there was already a 24/7 human guard to check you in and out, I'm not sure that they made a smart decision over physical metal keys.

Meanwhile, I have a non-networked, non-wireless electronic combo lock on the front door of my house. It's not hackable without physical contact; if you want to break in, smashing a window is a better route. It's powered by a 9-volt battery and lasts about 4 years per battery.

The big win is never forgetting to carry a key, with a smaller bonus of being able to give friends individually revocable passcodes.
One question I would like to see discussion on is about the process of capturing value by the builder of a blockchain.

Web 1.0 was about selling stuff. Web 2.0 was about hoarding data and using it to sell stuff. If blockchains are Web 3.0, what's the model?

Bitcoin was released free and the designer got nothing beyond the initial stake, which only works for coins. Ethereum is run by a foundation.

Say I want to launch a blockchain startup and really hit the sweet spot according to this paper, how do I build a business on it?
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Click bait and flagged.

really??? A stupid video about how to manually export and import bookmarks???
Can you elaborate on why the difficulty would not adjust downwards as transaction rates slow? That seems like quite a flaw in the design.
Essentially the tool seems to remove e.g. individual tokens from the input to a text-based classifier in order to determine their significance for the predicted class.

From the documentation:

> In order to figure out what parts of the interpretable input are contributing to the prediction, we perturb the input around its neighborhood and see how the model's predictions behave. We then weight these perturbed data points by their proximity to the original example, and learn an interpretable model on those and the associated predictions. For example, if we are trying to explain the prediction for the sentence "I hate this movie", we will perturb the sentence and get predictions on sentences such as "I hate movie", "I this movie", "I movie", "I hate", etc.
Capitalism doesn’t require not incurring costs for benefits. I’m not sure what your point is.

Capitalism infers markets with competitors trying to maximize efficiencies.

The US, UPS is the largest and most profitable delivery service. And they have high benefit payouts and a strong employee union. They have higher costs and are more profitable than their closest competitor that uses contract labor. I think it’s overly simple to say capitalism says this is the way it should be. But it’s certainly not pushing UPS to cut employee benefits, mainly because employee benefits from-improved by those benefits- are a competitive advantage.
No more than a public blockchain would
I don't have to worry about where the other person is; I can send WhatsApp messages to my family back in the US, or to friends here in the Netherlands, but it doesn't cost me anything. SMS to local numbers is free, but it's not free to send an SMS to the US
Agreed ... this is a horrible article (I didn't bother finishing it). And what's with the lack of capital letters? Perhaps the author has a broken shift key they should deal with first?
It matters because ugly code is probably also slow code (consider loading of unnecessary resources, and consider an excessively complex DOM). And probably also a page lacking accessibility.
Content type schema as code
Unrelated, but does anyone know what font/colorscheme are used in the screenshots? I find it very slick for code presentation.
The amount of BS floating around about Bitcoin knows no limits. A 'solid support zone'? Ffs.
I've thought about that in the past, but it is hard to lose the association we have of noon being during daylight, and midnight being during, well, night. While these were somewhat arbitrary when they were invented, we have now simply internalized that "this is how it is". So I think it does make sense to move away from the Hour-Minute nomenclature if we want a single global time for daily use, even if only for the sake of not confusing our dumb brains.
That's basically an admission that you're not writing enough realistic tests or your dev environment is set up wrong.

For me, it's way way easier the other way around.
Python Tuples Are Immutable, Except When They're Mutable
The prof is also associated with oculus/fb, so the license has to be friendly to them as well.
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That’s not what was claimed: the Daily Stormer wasn’t annoying a major tech company even if most of their employees find Nazis detestable.

That case is also complicated by the claim that they dropped that site in response to Daily Stormer people claiming CloudFlare supported their ideology. Given the number of objectionable sites which they continue to provide service to, that seems plausible.
i was just thinking if a possible downturn would have any effects on his plans of settling the solar system. (for me as a lowly grunt a downturn always means switching to work with a different industry, but who cares except for me.)

If this launch of Falcon Heavy becomes its last one then it would be so similar to the Buran shuttle.
If you compare something like Netflix or Tesla, whose valuations are based on the proposition of 10x-ing profits sometime in the future, to something like Apple or GM, whose profits are here and now and may not even increase, would that mean Apple/GM (as an example) might fare better while the market adjusts to rising rates? So far, everything is dropping kind of evenly, it seems, but wouldn't companies with near term cash flows be worth more in a rising rates environment?
Sidenote: AFAIK, UK also uses an AM/PM format for time, instead of the unambiguous 24-hour format.
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Blockchains can be designed to allow confirmation of something already known without revealing it to parties that only have access to the blockchain.
Thanks for sharing that.

Considering the noise in that chart (savings rate drops from 11% to 5% in one month?!?), I would question whether it's really a trend and how accurate the data is.

One of my pet peeves with economic data - some leading indicator plummets after being high for years. Mass panic in news headlines, only for it to return to normal the next month.
In my opinion one of the most useful features is first-class support for algebraic data types. Using records and variants ('sum' and 'product' types) in Reason one can be much more expressive in terms of how program state and other constraints are defined.

One can get some of the same benefits of sum types in TypeScript using discriminated unions - but the syntax is cumbersome and requires boilerplate as compared to Reason.
Wow, I had one of these in 2005: https://www.flickr.com/photos/pedro/59521558/in/photolist-6g...
Never found an use for it since no one had the watch and neither knew about 'Internet Time'
It's a chaotic system, if there were logical explanations (in general) then it would be predictable and everyone/no-one would always win the stock market gamble.

Someone found out they had cancer, sold their shares, their broker thought they were acting on a tip-off because the women with cancer mentioned they play tennis with some CEO. The broker, goes short for all they're worth thinking it's their big opportunity, and recommends to others to sell (to guarantee the fall!), stock starts to fall, trips an algorithm that's looking for a particular gradient on index Y, ... meanwhile a rookie at a trading firm sells 1000 something instead of buying ... people who lost on Bitcoin recently are on edge and feeling cautious, a little blip and they want to end their position ... and on and on the snowball rolls.

Someone sneezed in Mogadishu seems just as likely to be the "reason".
The example mockup image shown is really unimpressive. As usual, the difficulty is in implementing the last 20% of edge cases and design subtleties, not well-defined black-and-white block layouts like the given example. It would've been simpler to build a classical program to handle that example, and the result would be much better and more predictably structured.

It's like programming a self-driving car for a 2D game. Trivial. Now try taking that to tar roads. I don't know why this toy example is even news, it's nowhere close to the difficulty of real-world design mockups.

The AirBnB sketch2code example is a lot more impressive, but that's basically just handwriting recognition with a 1 to 1 mapping of symbols to code pieces.
Good post. Americans have to build their own safety nets, because the societal safety nets are so poor. If you're standing on the edge of a tall building, you're probably not going to practice gymnastics - unless you mean to post it on Instagram (x_x).
For trivia, one oddity about UTC is that an epoch is not finalised until about 12 days after it occurs, due to the 'C' aspect of the acronym.

Not normally an issue for average users, but yet another disadvantage of a non-absolute time scale. And a reason why people keep trying to reinvent measures of time.
They were probably just having a bad day and you happened to be the nearest person to take it out on, I wouldn't read to much into it.

After a while in this business you start to develop a thick skin.
> You can't do both for free anymore with Bitcoin

You never could. Mining has always had a cost and by design the cost increases to match the block rewards

I'm bored of this argument. You're arguing against a different definition to me and I'm not sure what your point is - that mining is expensive?
Maybe I'll sound stupid, but is it possible to force an update of a chrome extension without removing it and then adding it again from the store? Is that application-specific?

thx!
How can I do that since Chrome doesn't have an update button to extensions? Is 14.826.1446 the last one?
This is a small nitpick but the line: "OCaml's compiler is pretty unique, it's a set of pluggable parts that can be replaced and used together." is inaccurate. Most modern compilers are broken up into backends and frontends now, e.g. LLVM, JVM, .NET, etc.
I remember this being a minor fad around this when I had my first, handcoded website hosted on the 5MB of webspace my dial-up ISP gave me. I'm pretty sure I heard about it from one of the other regulars on irc.scifi.com, the Sci-Fi Channel's IRC server that I used to frequent.

With a little cut-and-paste of some code from Swatch's website you could have a GIF 'clock' on your site that showed the 'internet time' to your visitors. Utterly pointless, but harmless fun.
Important lesson: when dealing with a problem sysadmin, revoke their credentials before telling them they're fired.
I nearly missed this bit at the bottom:

> Grammarly had fixed the issue and released an update to the Chrome Web Store within a few hours, a really impressive response time.

Nice to see a company take this kind of thing appropriately seriously (although of course it should never have happened in the first place).
How does it do on modern dance?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOZ6KnVPvIU
I don't think verifiability is the same. Yes, assuming the public database has some unique ID per vote, one could go in and verify their own vote was in the tally, and we could also verify that the final tally is the sum of everything in the public database. But what about someone who claims their vote was eliminated after voting occurred? There's no way to verify that either way. That kind of tampering, though, would not be possible using a blockchain, where the chain is constructed as the vote happens.
I remember listening to a radio broadcast in 2002 explaining the Internet stock bubble. One thing it pointed out is that, in the late 1990s, startups went public much faster than they normally did.

It seems the broadcast implied that an average startup, prior to the 1990s bubble, took about 10-15 years to go public. According to the broadcast, a company would go public once the business model was proven. Going public wasn't an "exit" as we consider it now.

Maybe we're just seeing a return to normal?
Check out the Dutch Broadcast Service (http://www.nos.nl).
Quite a few of their stories have text and video.

NOS Radio 1 also has a daily podcast 'De Dag' (https://www.nporadio1.nl/homepage/8030-podcast-dedag-quote).

These are not really for beginners though.

Another general news site is http://www.nu.nl. Lots of short news articles, often from press bureaux. Easy to dip into for a few minutes.

When I started learning Dutch, I initially found it very hard to relate the sounds vs written words. My approach for listening comprehension was find a short news story with accompanying written text, and simply listen to it over and over again, alternating with the text and without, gradually getting used to the sound and flow of the language. My approach for speaking was careful repetition of sentences from language courses.

Good luck!
Yes! 100 Decisive Battles: https://www.amazon.com/100-Decisive-Battles-Ancient-Present/...

If you liked this sort of thing, you'll love that book. It usually stuffs you full of numbers, like this article. But mostly it just tells the stories really well. It has several detailed accounts of Napoleon's battles, including the reversal at Moscow and the final stand at Waterloo. It goes up through the Iraq war.

With the Old Breed: https://www.amazon.com/Old-Breed-At-Peleliu-Okinawa/dp/08914...

I can't help but mention this one, even though it's not at all what you were asking for. It's just worth reading. It's unrelated to logistics, but it walks you through the terrifying perspective of a single foot soldier.
This, just like Mozilla’s screenshot addon, and all the other examples, shows why it’s an insane idea to mix addon content with the websites, and why it’s important to make sure that addon content can run on the UI layer of the browser, and not within of the content of the sites.

Relying on "best practices" is always a security disaster waiting to happen, if you don’t enforce security and separation in the design of the APIs and languages already, you won’t get security.
Ripple (XRP) is centralized with weak fundamentals states BitMEX Research team
Fractals have been discovered in chaos theory in the first place, so you've very close.
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Youtuber Thunderf00t demonstrated something similar a while ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSJF5FJivIc
Technically, no one will need jobs.

However, our society rations resources, including resources that are needed for living, and including resources that are not actually scarce, on the basis of money, which can be returned based on capital or labor. Most people have no capital, so are forced to sell their labor. As work is automated, the return on capital increases, but the return on labor decreases (because more people are competing for a decreasing amount of paying labor).

Capital-holders wanting to preserve the existing system (if they are reasonably foresighted) are promoting the idea of a universal basic income. But the equitable long-term solution to this imbalance is Fully Automated Luxury (Gay Space) Communism.
1. ICO.
2. Run away.
3. PROFIT.
>What helped these species to be so resilient to a devastating infection when other animals

Well for starters asexual reproduction is an option for them, not the sole means of reproduction.

Secondly, diseases and catastrophes strike all sorts of critters and sometimes no amount of genetic variation will save them. For example you mention snakes and their resilience: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-42428528

Thirdly, snakes, lizards, sharks, make up a huge number of species and genetic variability with global distribution. That provides some protection. And for most of history global pandemics were probably less common or were slow enough that it didn't happen at once everywhere. And if enough individuals survive for the species to recover, then that's that.

Fourth, sexual reproduction isn't a guarantee of immunity to disease, it's a survival strategy to help increase the odds of surviving as a species or having individuals with immunity because of all the possible combinations of genes being tried. For example, AIDS (without treatment) is lethal for most of the human population. But there are a few Scandinavian groups that have partial or full immunity, something like less than 1% of the total human population. That's what sexual reproduction gets us as a species.
Certainly not, but it could be a requirement that all subcontractors set aside certain amounts for their employees to cover healthcare or sick leave or other benefits. This is fairly common with many organizations to have benefit requirements on their contractors.

I’m not sure what the income is for the subject of this story, so unsure if they are low income.
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Yep, podcast app in iOS 11 is terrible. One of the worse examples of post-update brokenness I've seen in iOS.
Programming
difference b/w static progranning and dynamic programming.
Like this guy?[1]. I'm sure he's a changed man.

While they may have "served their debt" would a taxi firm or someone like Uber really want to hire a serial rapist?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Worboys
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All she has to do to collect a $560M jackpot is make her name public
If I'm right about rising interest rates, the present value of companies with near-term cash flows would decline too, but less than the present value of companies with far-out cash flows.
>In Europe, most "official" times use a 24-hour clock (train schedules, etc.).

Uh, yeah, I'm well aware of that, as are most Americans I know. That's why I asked about "the American assumption that everyone uses the 12-hour clock". That must be a myth that non-Americans believe in.