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> The researchers disclosed to IOTA that the hash function they were using, which was an in-house concotion called Curl, was broken.

Classy. Not only do they keep their cryptocoin proprietary, they did use a proprietary hash function too.

I wanted to predict the inevitable fall of the currency but realized that the enterprise might just turn into a bank. If they are the gatekeepers to every transaction, they are already sort of a bank. An unregulated bank. With their own bank notes.
You're basically telling an alcoholic to just have a little alcohol.
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Many of the things listed above (legal requirements, etc) don't actually require consent, so they have different criteria - in essence, Paypal just needs to clearly inform the user what they're doing. Consent is just one of six criteria that may allow you to use private data; the actually necessary (as opposed to merely desirable/profitable) use cases of the data fall under one of the other criteria and don't require obtaining consent.

Consent is mostly relevant to all the marketing and customer analysis activities, which aren't essential to the service, so can be refused, and would be severely curtailed as users stop consenting to these uses of their data.
What's so good about diversity?

Arbitrary country lines don't count for diversity, as somebody else pointed out. China and India have huge populations, and China at least has a huge land mass.

Why wouldn't we not "leave room" for others, especially if they weren't as skilled?
If Facebook doesn't care about enforcing copyright, why should such a small website?

That really seems like an argument that is made only to hurt startups.
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You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about, killing and trapping, will not and do not work.
It is all but impossible for the virus to mutate to infect a desired species.
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I think it existed but just wasn't very good. The tipping culture and cabbie nagging here also kind of defeats most of the value from those estimates.
Well, Patchwork is just one possible app on top of it. There's also a chess game and a soundcloud-ish app. So perhaps it would be possible to make what you have in mind on top of the protocol.

The main problem I have right now that keeps me from playing around with it is that I'm not currently much in the mood for Node.js development, and so far that's the only really solid/easy implementation of the whole thing.
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Name say, four of these smart cities they've built with IOTA, those would be real things. In contrast, even though the city council is a real thing, and candidates for city councillor are real people, and the leaflets through my door are real pieces of paper, the pictures of a would-be councillor "Yogic flying" do not mean that it's actually possible to levitate using the power of your mind. Yogic Flying is not a real thing in the sense we mean.
Similar situation with Amazon Tickets, they threw money at it, then abruptly stopped. I imagine they do this a lot in a lot of industries to see what sticks.
Local to the market - actually they are regional.

The complication is that I have a client-based fallover where when one server becomes overloaded the client is switched automatically over to a different server (client based load balancing). This make it hard to sort out where the load is coming from without looking at the IP address.
So you don't store data from that IP? How is this a problem? And that's perfectly compliant with the GDPR.

It seems you can't be bothered to not store data.
The invention of the transistor.
Maybe just convert it all if the USD/EUR exchange rate on a given day is under n-day average, or dolar-cost average on a weekly basis. But I think holding on indefinitely to $ may cause devaluation of your capital because of inflation, and you might be better off putting some % of it in ETF's.
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Can someone ELI5 why Yubikeys are better for 2FA than using, say, 1Password, which simplifies the process with cmd + \ and automatically pasting the 2F code? (Even better than Google Authenticator; no need to reach for anything.)
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Especially once uberpool came around: almost every ride I take is either a dollar more expensive than the bus (and 3x as fast), or is far enough that the unreliability of Muni makes it not worth it.

My first couple years in the city (before UberX but after Uber), I took 100% transit, but it's really just not worth it outside of the tiny portion that's a subway.
"Embedded energy" is the total energy of manufacturing and processing, not the energy storage of a device or vehicle itself. On that basis, the automobile has many, many, many times the storage of a cellphone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embodied_energy
A less fragmented federation would go a long way too. The fact that there's no real way to get an all zones month pass or 2-3 city bus pass and how a lot of busses routes stop just short of what would be useful due to some arbitrary city boundary is just absolutely ridiculous.
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I believe that you're okay in that case. Some countries in the EU require that you have financial records stored for five years, and they will always contain personal identifiable information. The GDPR states, if I recall correctly, that because some other law requires you to store the information for X number of years, the customer can't force you to delete it.

Similarly credit agencies aren't required to comply with deletion requests either. You can't simply GDPR your way out of a bad credit score.

But it's a total mess, when you read the GDPR it's clear that it's written by people with limited understanding of IT. Of cause it has to be extremely strict, otherwise you'll end up with a Cookie-law 2.0. The cookie law from the EU was read by the industry in a way that clearly wasn't intended. It made zero different to user tracking, we just got a bunch of pop-ups stating that the site uses Cookie. If you read that law as I believe it was intended, the idea would be that you could say yes to cookies or no. If you choose no, the site would disable the use of tracking cookies. But was to much work, so people just slapped a cookie pop-up on their sites.
Just looking at myself, I have a OnePlus3, launched mid 2016. It still feels like "my new phone", can't believe it is already 1.5 years old. Everything is just good enough and the thing is still blazing fast in everything it does. I got regular updates, it's on the latest android (for stock Rom users) and it was among the first batch of phones to be supported by LineageOS 15.1. I see no reason for a new phone in the near future. Before I always got the itch at about 2 years (ok, I did use mostly budget phones before like the Moto G), now I see myself easily on this phone for another 2-3 years.
>I really really doubt that! The car manufacturers will fight tooth and nail to be seen as the company providing the safest cars

We seen competition not working in many sectors, like ISPs is US, operating systems for desktops or mobile phones...

IF the self driving component in the car could be swapped so you can buy say Tesla but get the self driving package from BMW or from Google then that could help competition, but without this if all companies have a similar failure rate then they can concentrate on competing on marketing,horse power, price, efficiency and not adding some extra safety, at least until some important person or a big number or children get killed by a very stupid issue like a car hit a wall because it did not see it because it got confused by some drawings on the wall.
I wonder if this is for their in home delivery. Have ring devices recognize valid amazon delivery employees and let them in to drop off packages/food. VIP service - stock your fridge.
We have a product in analytics space and our target customer audience was companies that want to develop an analytics solution on top of AWS. We're not actually a direct competitor to AWS but it turns out to be that way.

At first, we thought that it's a win-win-win situation for AWS, AWS customers to use our product and us because I know a lot of AWS customers who try to build in-house solution on AWS and then switched to either third-party solution or another cloud provider since they couldn't design the right system for high data volume on AWS. It's mainly because data engineers are one of the most expensive engineers and there're not enough sophisticated data engineers in the market. We provided (this was the promise) the right (scalable, cheap enough and flexible) solution from day 1 so that they don't have to build a data engineering team.

It didn't work because AWS advertises its products as dead-easy to maintain and easy to start working with. Let's take Redshift as an example; it's easy to create a Redshift cluster with 3 clicks but that doesn't make you experienced in distributed systems. Often the companies start using Redshift and as their data grows the price gets expensive exponentially. They hire data engineers at that point and try to switch to another solution or try to make it scalable but switching to a completely different architecture (our solution) is also not easy at this point because of switching costs. Essentially our product became a competitor of AWS from customer's perspective even though we're complementary.

Even though we have customers and a profitable company I don't think that we could find the product market fit with that product so now we're pivoting to something else and the new target is more niche.
Yup, DTube, like most projects related to STEEM still have a high degree of centralization. This reddit comment gives a good evaluation of DTube: https://www.reddit.com/r/dtube/comments/7ysdn1/how_distribut...

So most parts of it could at their core be used in a distributed fashion, but are actually accessed via CDNs. E.g. you could use ipfs-companion[0] to alter all instances of ipfs.io URLs to point to a local IPFS daemon that is connected to the IPFS network in a distributed fashion.

I did just that and streamed a video on DTube via a local IPFS daemon and the result was pretty underwhelming, since it took quite some time for the video to load, but I don't dare to evaluate why that is so. After that it does have the nice benefit though that the same video streams instantly on any other machine in my home network!

In a transitional phase to a distributed web I'd expect a lot of websites to employ a similar approach of using CDNs at first (since not everybode has local nodes running), but its sad to see that some of the flagship projects like DTube aren't even open source (and I have no idea if they ever plan to be) and/or have a distributed version available.

[0]: https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-companion
How come Chinese, I thought he said NSA
No they don't. The first is limited to subjects in the EU while the second is limited to activity in EU. If the first clause was limited to activities that take place within the EU the clause would say this - actually there would be no need for two clauses as you would just have one clause that says sale, service and monitoring.
> The second you want a network that is private to you or any sort of hosted solutions for stuff like SQL databases, DigitalOcean folds.

Can you explain what you mean by this?
Are you telling us this particular virus cannot mutate? Because spreading it to a large population of target host species confined on an island would present plenty of opportunity for mutation.
Black holes are an excellent example for so called "cognitive metaphors".

Because we found no better analogy, we named them "holes" despite the fact that they are basically the opposite: an object with enormous mass.

This influences our thinking and our language when we discuss problems concerning black holes. We talk about "inside the black hole", "light cannot escape the black hole" or "spitting things out of the black hole".

I think it is really interesting how these cognitive metaphors can sometime limit our ability to think about a problem, because they often restrict the properties of the described thing to the properties of the analogy.
Would you care to predict for us what consequences this will have?
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See my posts down thread for the more detailed clauses.
> Also, I can't help but notice that currently there is a hell of a lot of money being bet on immutable public ledgers.

I've been pondering the same thing. You have to be extremely careful about building a new product on blockchain technology, because, depending on what you're building, you may be required to delete stuff from it in the future.
Something undesirable like what exactly?
That’s not quite what the person above said. They said that the data would be pulled off the phone - in its encrypted form - then restored to make the phone forget the number of attempts.

I think the Secure Enclave has independent built-in mechanisms for keeping track of the number of times things have happened though.
I agree, I also think this self driving component should be standardized, maybe more then one standard but you should be able when you buy the car to decide if you want the AI or not, and if you want it to chose the AI package from company X,Y or Z.

Maybe making the component open source would be the best for the citizens.
That would be pretending I can do what I just say they can't, wouldn't it ?

If you let a child play baseball in a museum, you can predict something will go wrong. That doen't mean you can say which statue or painting is going to be destroyed, or in what way.
Check it a little bit better, grep for "market". Google? Facebook (i dont have FB account, never had!)? I can hardly wait to NOT tick those and demand view of shared data.

They are already profiting from the service they provide but they still give (Sell! I bet they can use a different terminology but essentially this is it) the users data to other companies.

Those are the companies that brought GDPR on all of us, and those are the parties that should be punished with 4% global revenue, multiple times.

I bet everyone will be shocked what the companies are doing with our data, from our banks, credit card companies, insurance companies,... i think that everyone (or most) will stop complaining about GDPR and want it for their country too.

Just an example, what gets delivered just for Facebook:
"Advertising ID and device ID to segment user groups based on app behaviour, encrypted e-mail address associated with PayPal users (without indicating account relationship), IP Address, Anonymous ID generated by cookies, pixel tags or similar technologies embedded in webpages, ads and emails delivered to users. Mobile advertiser ID, IP Address and other metadata via Facebook SDK in mobile apps."

Encrypted e-mail address? Why encrypted, not hashed? IP? Why the FB needs my IP on connecting to paypal? And the list goes on and on. If GDPR will stop this the whole world will benefit.
And to what animals would it mutate to?
Almost all of these old automobile advertisements are worth a watch. My favorite are some of the old Chevy information/ads especially this one:

https://youtu.be/uoA-2TlZY5I

Useful because a lot of the basics explained give a good idea of the technology in modern cars, and it is also entertaining to see how far we have come over the many years.
So, I managed to goof the account above a few ways.

First, cars weigh 10,000 times, not 1,000 times, more than a cellphone.

Embodied (not embedded) energy is 100x greater for the automobile.

The units produced annually is a major factor: 2 billion for mobile phones, 72 million for automobiles. That plus product life skews the number toward phones a lot.

I did manage to get the bottom-line value right: autos use 0.72 exajoules of energy per year of use, 30% less than mobile phones.

A longer version of the example was published in IEEE Spectrum in 2016:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/environment/your-phone-cost...
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I'm surprised that there is not a big enough market for rabbit meat to take care of this problem elegantly.

I haven't had rabbit since I was very young but I do remember it being absolutely delicious.
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No, that's exactly what I understand.

But we don't care about the infalling object. We care about the observer, because any infalling object initially is an observer, and because we (us humans) are observing the black holes.

Since from an observers POV nothing can actually fall into the black hole, no black hole can form.

The fact that an infalling object reaches the black hole makes no difference to us. Because of time dilation, we can observe no black holes. So our telescopes will never see a black hole.
>The next time a New Yorker feels like complaining that they had to wait 20 whole minutes for a 7 train in far out Queens, they might do well to remember that most cities in the world wouldn’t have a station there at all.

Living in Germany, almost all the far out places have train stations. And 30min to 1h wait times between trains.
:) Please specify when you talk about small diesels. Non of that 0-40 acceleration is true for the 535 I mentioned in my previous comment.
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IMO tuning and indexing / constraints are two different things.
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I think that for me there is never a rationalisation, I can't think of a time that I've showered again because I'm down. However I do know that (before my shower drains got screwy, sigh) when I was having a rough weekend I might spend 30+ minutes in the shower instead of 10. Because it feels nice.

Do I need anything more than that?
I am all for Tesla and electric cars, however (nobody's perfect) I wonder how much power such a car (not necessarily Tesla's) sends in electromagnetic spectrum to its passengers. The equivalent of SAR for mobile phones [0].

Thanks for your insights.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_absorption_rate
>It’s amazing to me that the argument of “don’t go after those guys for what they are doing when those other guys are doing bad things too” never dies.

Actually the argument is more like: bad guys shouldn't go after bad guys. It's hypocritical, self-serving in the name of some "cause", and creates worse outcomes.

You know, like a bad guy going in to bring "democracy" (assert control for strategic interests and/or ensure cheap oil and favorable currency use) and ends up in chaos, civil war, fundamentalism, and refugee waves. Time and again.

But I guess hypocrisy never dies. Even with all of its blatant fallacy. It will persist until the end of time. And solve nothing.

As for good guys, they can go after the bad guys all they want, and we'll even cheer for them.
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Releasing Android One phones is at least a good move if you want to target the purist segment of the Android market. I have previously bought the Nexus phones and around christmas bought a Nokia 8 because HMD put a more or less stock version of Android on it. I much prefer stock Android to the touchwiz business Samsung is doing, at least as it was on my Samsung Galaxy S2 and S3.

It will be interesting to follow Nokia and HMD and I hope they succeed. There are too many phones with subpar custom UIs and menus + crapware that lags one or two major Android versions behind the latest release.
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A little too simple for my taste but an interesting suggestion nonetheless. Will come in handy someday. Thank you!
It amazes me how skilled we are in pointing out what is wrong with something.
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Reminds me of one of my favorite moments[1] in Red Dwarf:

> Well, the thing about a black hole - its main distinguishing feature - is it's black. And the thing about space, the colour of space, your basic space colour, is black. So how are you supposed to see them?

1. https://www.quotes.net/show-quote/66989
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This is entirely ignoring the externalities: congestion, localized pollution[1], more inefficient use of subsidized resources like roads (and the expansion of said subsidies). It's certainly not "simply" wasted congestion, but it's very much on-net wasted, by the same cost argument you make (which doesn't include externalities).

[1]Regardles of your views on macro environmentalism, the detrimental effects of localized air pollution is pretty well documented IIUC
How does driving a car in a big German city (which is what I am talking about at least) make lives possible where they weren't before, or save them? I think nobody here is advocating to ban ambulances or fire trucks.

Me too, I can't wait for self-driving electric cars to be used inside the city. That will take care of the local pollution burden put on residents today, and hopefully put cars in a more submissive role in traffic, where they belong.
Yes, that's what I'm saying - I agree. It's just that when people read those blogs, they should not equate that to "proven to have happened", which is what the person above appeared to be doing.
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Yes that is certainly another approach to take. Same service at 4x the cost so it must be better.

Probably a more useful approach to take is for the original service to do this - set up your own competitors and see where the customers go. This approach is pretty common in the non-SAAS world.
The only time I ever had to explain to a taxi driver where to go was in an Uber, where the road was closed and google maps had no idea about it, and the driver clearly didn't know the local roads well enough to just pick a different one.
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Interesting. I've always wanted to give CI a shot. This could be a good start to explore it.

What role does cloudflare play here? Just curious as I don't know what it's capable of doing.

I might end up adopting the same system as well since everyone here has been raving about Hugo. Thank you for the suggestions!
L1: #!/usr/bin/env bash

Bash is GPL Licensed and does not ship with most UNIX-like systems. *BSDs don't ship it, macOS is stuck in the past, etc. As a BSD user myself, I install curl(1), but not bash(1) on my machines (or jails).

OpenSSL (an alias of LibreSSL when applicable - e.g. OpenBSD) is standard and available on virtually all systems.
I think that's natural and OK. I would compare writing my thesis to writing my first full application after learning how to read and write code—even after several iterations under a skilled supervisor, the codebase is still going to have a more or less fledgling and awkward quality to it, even if the functionality proves useful. The second attempt takes less effort and results in higher quality output.

Similar to how few people would put their first application out in public, I prefer to keep my thesis private unless someone finds the information really useful :)
Wow, memories. A TRS-80 was my first computer at age 16 and I still remember upgrading from 4K (K!) to 16k and wondering what I would ever do with all that memory!
Can't read it due to their pay-wall, anyone post the copy?
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Alternatively, you can regularly post content you are passionate about and over time build a community of people who are genuinely interested in what you have to say and will gladly support you.
For something you ship that wouldn't fly.