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You say the Manhattan and Apollo projects are the result of "competition", but I think, on an organisational level, they are the exact opposite. They are the result of the US abandoning market competition, and having the state give resources to a group of motivated people working towards a common goal.

>These examples are on a governmental scale, but the same thing happens in industries where startups are fighting to compete against entrenched competitors.

And if they win, they become the new entrenched competitors and abuse their market position just the same, because that's exactly what they were "competing" for in the first place.

>Innovation, technological advancement, and a higher standard of living for all spring forth from competition and necessity.

I think the best way to drive technological advancement and standards of living would be an economic system that actually values those things directly.
As the wealth gap widens, the Concorde becomes more economically viable.
I’ve had several strips of these just waiting for the perfect project. Anyone else have any interesting ideas for weekend projects using addressable LEDs?
If true, concord alone would be viable, but a combination of concord and regular planes on the same route would lead to all the business passengers taking concord, and the economy ones left in standard planes, which would no longer be viable.
I'm okay with subscriptions. Software and quality media (such as Bloomberg) are things that provide excellent value, and people have gotten used to thinking they should be free or dirt-cheap - even within our own community, which is saddening (I used to have this mentality years ago, too).

Yet, most people don't bat an eyelash when paying $100-200/month JUST for cell phone service, then $100/month for cable, etc. How about car payments and insurance?

If you use these services daily, then a subscription model makes sense. They're providing value to you every day.
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Don Yang provided a video of how he wrote the code and transformed it into the obfuscated version (see spoiler.html). It is as interesting as the final result itself.
Yea that's basically the point, it's a terrible argument to say that it worked.
Why prototyping is a vital step in the design process
What do you mean by pigeon holing here? I don't understand what are the variables and what is the value space. (No disrespect, just trying to understand.)
I agree in principle, but I think that there are fundamental problems with Bitcoin that make it intrinsically unsuitable for its stated purpose of being a decentralized world currency. Any success it makes along that axis essentially occurs in spite of itself, based on the commitment of people who are riding the hype wave to try to make something good of it.

If people were honest, they'd admit that Bitcoin is flawed, that it was never intended or conceived as the perfect realized implementation of a digital currency, etc. It's a thought experiment that grew rapidly out of control.

The Lightning Network is a good example of an earnest try to make something workable out of Bitcoin, but even that has real difficulty overcoming some of bitcoin's core design flaws, which are: a) difficulty mechanism blocking out commodity miners and essentially assuring there will always be centralization, which means network security will always be dubious at best, fees will always be high, and other undesirable consequences; b) inability to provide reliable, rapid transaction confirmations; c) inherent scalability difficulties based on the amount of work needed to verify transactions.

Lightning networks address some of this for some partners, but even for those who find lightning networks a reasonable workaround (that is, those with sufficient btc to open, maintain, and populate mutual funding channels), there are additional negative trade-offs that make the process undesirable (if the counterparty can prevent them from crying 'foul' within the settlement deadline, a lot of money can be successfully stolen).

Continued insistence on Bitcoin/blockchain deployment as such is non-productive. Lessons should be extracted from the bitcoin experience and we should move on to something that tries to resolve Bitcoin's fundamental issues. Let's accept Bitcoin's role as a thought leader and early implementation of digital currency, but stop pretending that it's ever going to be useful as a major economic backbone.
You can’t just put 100B into vanguard. That kind of money distorts markets.
The technology has existed for many years already, and it has already made 'broader implications', see git. The only thing new about it is that people now call it 'blockchain' instead of a merkle tree. The reason banks and governments don't use better technology to track land titles or whatever other applications is that they're always slow to adopt technology, not because 'blockchain' is a new concept
Further, when you buy a part of a company, you are buying a piece of a functioning economic unit. When you loan money, you are finding economic activity.

When you buy a Bitcoin, you are helping to convert electricity to heat.
Yeah, and they haven't been terribly great for the gaming market either, as they're consuming production of graphics card components.
Very different technical construction, but reminds me a bit of Joyent's Manta, that also lets you run map-reduce jobs over an object store without explicit server management: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5939340

Source code: https://github.com/joyent/manta

I believe the cloud version has since been renamed to "Converged Analytics", so this is probably the same thing: https://www.joyent.com/triton/analytics
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> If anything it was the 'tap-to-pay' feature of debit/credit cards that is finally putting some death-knell pressure on cash. It's so much faster than paying with a pin card or cash...

Is it just me or aren't debit/credit cards much faster than paying with cash, too? Making change and then dealing with all of the coins is way higher effort than swipe, maybe pin or sign, and move on. And the sign step is going away, at least in the US, soon.
I'm not responsible for the downvote, but it's worth pointing out that whilst Kiva donors do not receive interest, most Kiva loan recipients pay relatively enormous interest rates (administering loans is expensive, even for the microfinance institutes which aren't trying to make a profit). There are undoubtedly beneficiaries who make good use of the credit, but also some losers and question marks about how sustainable it actually is...

FWIW there's also YC's Zidisha in the microlending market which cuts out the middleman (but still charges interest)
> it's creating wealth, companies, & jobs

based 100% on people trying to make a quick buck, and not based on solving a problem virtually anyone actually has.

by this bar, Dutch tulips in the 1600s were also extremely productive
S&P tracking ETFs are the most liquid equity instruments, but $100b is large even for them. The largest ETF by assets is SPY, with $250b. 'Liquid' for you or me or even Stevie Cohen isn't even close to the same thing as 'liquid' for Warren Buffett.

http://etfdb.com/compare/market-cap/
Even calling them Hindu-Arabic would be preferable to the usual custom of labeling them simply Arabic (for e.g. in LaTeX).
Is NSA collecting WhatsApp calls? I thought the NSA collected regular POTS calls.
Yes, too true; old infosecers resemble Carrie Nation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Nation.
The term "serverless" means you don't need to manage the server resources. There is an "infinite" on-demand amount of resources that are available at request and they are available to run any process you want with a single command/hook/etc.

It's a misnomer, but it's no worse than "the cloud" or how "artificial intelligence" has come to mean anything to do with machine learning.
The figure from the above website is wrong. US$800 per month is in the upper middle-income territory but Kenya is still a lower middle-income nation.

https://qz.com/635952/kenyas-goal-of-being-an-upper-middle-i...

Kenya's GDP per capita was around $1143 or less than $100 per month in 2016. "The average monthly wage in Kenya is 6,498 shillings ($76).", according to Reuters in 2013.

https://tradingeconomics.com/kenya/gdp-per-capita

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kenya-reform-idUSBRE94R0M...

This means that the basic income ($22.5 per month or ~20-30% of national median salary) to be provided to Kenyans should account for a substantial part of their income and the experiment could become a basis for an analysis of basic income effects in certain communities.
Part of the point of keeping cash around though, is that you don't want your buying power to be correlated with market movements. It is entirely possible/likely that the next good deal that comes up does so in the middle of a market meltdown. Just see the deals he made buying during the 2008 financial crisis.
reminds me of vmlets term from the virtual virtual machines https://pages.lip6.fr/vvm/publications/0008SBAC.pdf
Belatedly... yes, you are right, I haven't described any shift in the demand curve. But so what? I was responding to a suggestion that the reason there is a housing "issue" is that demand is relatively inelastic, and exceeds supply, which is also relatively inelastic. My point is simply that demand could actually be fairly elastic, and so we should not describe the problem in this simplified way, because if that's the case, increasing supply will not reduce price very much, and so increased housing won't solve many of the problems the YIMBY cause is hoping to address which are caused by high housing prices.

In the road analogy, congestion on roads is akin to a price--people are paying for trips with their time. I was trying to make the point that adding more roads doesn't bring down the "price" of a trip substantially, just like adding some more housing in SF may not bring down the price of housing substantially.

OP responded by noting that, in their view, having more people in SF is a good thing in and of itself. If you agree, then we have no argument (this is almost surely a result of building more housing). But if you think that adding more housing would be good because it would allow low-paid workers to live closer to where they work, or many of the other reasons advanced in this thread, my point is simply that the analysis of this policy proposal requires more nuance than the kind of N > M analysis OP was conducting.
US airport security is not separated between international and domestic flights. I don't know what the parent poster meant but it can't be that, at least not for US airports.
Donating money is something that has a short term sting but feels good in the long term. That short term sting gives the immediate feedback and the long term benefit means that the user will keep the system on. If my failed builds donated to Trump 2020 I wouldn’t keep the system on.
If it's faster then more people will use it then it will get cheaper, people buy smartphone at $900 nowdays ...
Musk is not a good example. Tesla is in flames and there is worry it could affect SpaceX which is the more important company. The Boring Company also seems like a pivotal waste.
It would be nice to make one of these much like a resto mod car or how one might make a space invaders game cabinet with a Raspberry Pi on board. Imagine if you could 3D print the thing, slap in the dashboard from an A340 and the engines from some retired Eurofighter Typhoons.
Meticulous review of journal submissions is one thing. What the parent comment is doing is something entirely different. It is nitpicking on a statement in a popular science article that states that viruses replicate. Nitpicking on this is just showboating.

Does this explanation make you think better?

> And it's literally that kind of nitpicking that keeps science on track.

Yeah, no!!
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This is a half-formed thought, but if you are blind, how would you perceive space? You can feel against a wall, but you will only be correlating time with locomotion (how long it takes to move your hand against a wall at a certain force) to create space. Spatial reasoning becomes temporal reasoning. (Ignore for the moment you can directionally locate by hearing). It makes this result even more fascinating to me that they are biologically linked to the same part of the brain, rather than one part compensating for another.
TFA specifically says the accounts were soleley in her name, she made the investments, and that it's possible he didn't even know about them.
> "They are the fuel that powers a new form of technology infrastructure that is being built on top of the foundational internet protocols."

I can't get my head around this sentence.

> Bitcoin and Zcash are stores of value that allow users to participate in this decentralized application space without the need for fiat currencies.

That is exactly what collectibles are. Art has been used in this way for a long time.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2...

> Crypto-assets produce decentralized infrastructure.

There is pro and cons on decentralized currencies. (https://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21721354-contemporar...) But is nothing new, nor nothing that needs cryptocurrencies.

Cryptocurrencies are an interesting experiment. Its intrinsic value is zero. It can be used, like other collectibles to transfer wealth. How it works when people lose confidence in them is to be seen. It is usually ugly, even for currencies backed by countries (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation).

Tulips where at least beautiful.
There's been a recent influx of this sort of discussion in Britain. Most of it seems to be, at the core, the elites' (and those who would like to style themselves as elites) attempts to justify their disillusionment with democracy, which the referendum result caused. It's amazing how quickly people turn on the idea of giving the everyman a say in government, when it gives them the result they don't like. The referendum was a rare example in Britain of where the result wasn't able to be hand-waved away, like is typical with FPTP elections. The result was so significant because it saw the majority of the public reject all the major parties' platforms on the issue, and --I think-- undermined the pretenses of a lot of those in power, who like to frame themselves as being "of the people". Hence the disillusion.

A lot of the discussion reminds me of the arguments put forward by the hereditary peers in the late 90s, before most of them were chucked out of the House of Lords: that their experiences and positions in society made them uniquely able to make important decisions about the country. It's all rather ironic.
I think bitcoin would need to be valued based on it's replacement value. The transaction fees other networks charge to transfer assets.

intercontinentalexchange has a value. visa has a value. etc.
I would much rather we have a jobs program.

Anyone who needs work can get it at $15 per hour and up, depending on what the job is.

There is a whole lot we need doing. If we do that, we are worth more, and we get something meaningful in return for a direct economic stimulus.

Our infrastructure needs refurbished. Our homeland needs a cleanup, and could really benefit from some care and feeding. Our parks can be improved, making them attractive in the same way we did before.

I don't feel UBI makes sense. It's just a payoff, and it's real value will be diluted. Too easy to just adjust it up or down to throttle work needs, buying power.
> Imagine having a roommate that's perfectly quiet, keeps all their stuff tidy, and is generally almost unnoticeable every day for 80 years

What's the point of a pet like that? I really don't understand keeping fish, reptiles, or rodents. Pets are a major hassle, though for some the companionship is worth it. But fish and lizards don't really provide companionship.
It's usually the last (legal) option for "straight cash". Most public assistance programs have some sort of condition to the assistance they provide.
My view would to rephrase the hypothesis as "the quality of 'Britain's public intellectual debate' has declined".

This seems true in parts, a friend became intrigued by the quality of debate for Britain's membership of the EEC in 1975 vs. Brexit. Two examples for 1975 are ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2jUYryRYII and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zBFh6bpcMo) and these certainly seem of higher quality.

One hypothesis (similar to Curtis above) was that there were two energised generations, post WW2 and 1960s, who believed that public debate and ideas could change things, and a variety of new-ish institutions and technologies (BBC, TV) could enable that change. They were partially successful, but the energy and enthusiasm dissipated over time.

Another argument is that Britain is reasonably anti the public intellectual (e.g. unlike the French but much better than the US), apart from during certain times of fairly major change (Royal Society/Glorious Revolution; Scottish Enlightenment; post WW2 settlement etc.) and we are going back to our dormant state.

A third may be that the nature of 'public' has changed, and the debate is going on, but not in media forms which stifle and trivialise it (Less optimistic here, the Greens tried hard to change public debate, some say Momentum, certainly we are quite good at up-market PR, brand design and marketing, all of which suck the energy/deflect from certain debates)

In my experience, in private the quality of debate isn't too bad, though a touch cynical
Any airport which doesn't fly to the USA.

Generally, security rules are made and enforced by USA authorities. Any airport which doesn't fly to the USA only needs to follow local rules of the country they are in, which while typically are as strict as the USA rules, are typically not enforced.

Some airports for example only xray one in 10 bags at peak times, or none at all if the machines broken.

Source: Personal experience only, but I've been to a lot of airports.
Glad I was hearing it correctly (generally). So based on what you write here, it sounds like it can only be one way - which makes sense given the architecture. I'd be curious if it could be made as a continuous two way connection - my guess is yes, but it would take FTDT or FDM to coordinate right?
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Linux becoming obsolete in cloud?
You can't have a StatefulSet of VMs on KubeVirt, although you may want one if you're using unikernels or want to run a nested Kubernetes cluster for testing, like here: https://github.com/Mirantis/virtlet/blob/master/examples/k8s... On the other hand, you can't have VM migrations with Virtlet.
This contra-UBI argument is often made, but I find it a bit short-sighted. Instead of having "survival" or "career" as a overarching goal in life, (some) people will have to find their own purpose in life. It's a bigger challenge but I believe in human adaptability. The question is how painful it will be initially and how long it will take for people to settle in this new mindset.
I work as a remote employee for a us based startup out of India. I raise and invoice every month corresponding to the salary account.

For all legal purposes, I'm a consultant to the company.
The book mentioned in the comments is very interesting https://www.amazon.com/Money-Changes-Everything-Civilization...

"William H. Goetzmann in “Money changes everything”, a history of the influence of finance on civilisation from Babylonian times onwards, also credits Leonardo of Pisa with introducing the concept of what we now call Net Present Value in one of his Liber Abbaci problems."
Bitcoin has tons of intrinsic value unique to crypto currencies that traditional currencies lack. Most importantly it can't be created/destroyed at will by a central government. Huge sums can be transferred globally at the speed of light with very low fees. Can't do that with gold or cash. With normal currency a wire transfer costs money and moving a lot of money from a bank account usually takes days. Also you can store a lot of it yourself, relatively securely compared to storing hundreds of thousands of dollars yourself. Oh and it's also backed up by a global ledger that is country or government agnostic. The electricity it takes to maintain it is nothing compared to the rest of the banking system. These properties are the very nature of crypto, that's why it's intrinsic.
I think family raising has more risks and possible value loss than friendships, especially with the divorce rates in the USA. Goals 1-2 are always top priority after Health, which is the most important!
But at least there you're searching for specific files. I was talking only about running a find to launch an instance of grep for every file found. That's more keystrokes to get a slower result.

For what it's worth, my biggest usage of find is similar to your java example (except a different file extension). I also do do '-exec sed...') a lot too.
In general, joke comments are not tolerated on HN.
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>doesn't smell as bad

If you look up the MSDS for DEET, it's actually odorless. The classic smell of Off! isn't from the DEET, and you can get odorless versions of it. I found a very good one in Moscow a few years back that just smelled like hand cream.
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Are you sure? Just the other day there was a whole thread complaining about ad block plus permitting static ads with clickbait titles. No blinking. No autoplay. And people still we're pissed.
For the first time, two CubeSats have gone interplanetary
The inflation impact from UBI should be non existent as the money is taxed from other parts of the economy vs. being created from thin air.

Social Security for example is not a huge driver of US inflation it's simply moving money from pocket A to pocket B.
I'd be more excited about the productivity if my observations didn't suggest people experimenting in the space were ignoring history.

We've had a century or so of modern economic theory and thousands of years of history before that time to study how money, tangible goods, production, and consumption interact. Maybe I'm not being charitable, but a lot of the cryptocurrency experiments feel like tossing that history out the window and starting over from base principles---which would be fine if I didn't watch them recapitulate the same mistakes nation-states have made throughout history.

To take BTC as a specific example: it's considered a feature of the currency that there is no fiat institution that can just print more BTC. Which is great up until the point that a hacker compromises an exchange and re-assigns a giant pile of value to anonymous criminals (or just makes it evaporate), and there's no back-stop institution to make victims whole. In a world where FDIC insurance exists, why would I bother with that nonsense? We've already had history from the Great Depression to observe the ramifications of common people getting screwed when the money storage and transfer institutions they rely upon go haywire; I don't see a need to jump feet-first into the barrel of unregulated transaction institutions again (and for BTC specifically, without those institutions available to close out transactions quickly, the lag on BTC transaction resolution makes it undesirable for day-to-day spending).
That was also the case back when Concord was in service...
It seems weird to have a constantly running a server and database for what could be implemented as a cron job which just calls an API for last week's/month's data.

But it guess if it is just for fun who cares :)
It feels like the author missed the fundamental bit of Buffet's investment/speculation split: that the goods you obtain in an investment are valuable in themselves, which cryptocurrencies are not, even if we consider them the foundation of a new world. Comparing Ethereum to Aws seems odd too.