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> Bitcoin is beyond blockchain, companies have built products to trade BTC instantly, free, using the infrastructure already existing

If bitcoin is "beyond blockchain", than what is it? Just a table of transactions in a Real Database™? If yes, whats the point?

You've just layered a very bank-sounding, very-centralized construct on top of your space-age "trustless" decentralized blockchain. How is it at all revolutionary since you've basically gone and re-invented a much shitter version of the credit card and traditional (evil) fiat banking.

> And I dont trust USD like I trust BTC. Historically Fiat currencies are awful.

I feel like bitcoin people live in some kind of alternate reality that I simply don't understand. Is it the fact that they have so much invested in the concept that they lose the ability to think clearly? Is it a cult? A religion?

I'm not sure, but it sure is an interesting phenomenon.
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Also An American Saga: Juan Trippe and his PanAm empire. Talks a lot about building Pacific refueling stops like at Wake.
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Safety deposit boxes are cheap. Put your encrypted PK on paper, store copies in 2 or 3 separate boxes.

Your password can be stored in your memory. Or it can be something like the 100th sentence in your favorite book.
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Depending on where you are in Germany you can get 30 days off per year, and on the low side is 25 days. Anything lower isn’t worth considering. So it’s not 1 more week, it’s at least 5-6 weeks of vacation per year, double what you might get in the states, on top of which is fully respected (no one would care if you take 1 consecutive month, even if you are a CEO). In the states you have to sometimes fight for your vacation even if it’s in your contract because of the work culture.

I would say you could make, before taxes, $100k per year in San Francisco with solid 2-3 years of experience, whereas in Berlin it’s around €60k average. On top of that if you’re talking about the whole of the US it’s wildly different between Cleveland and San Francisco, so your comparison isn’t really fair. 100k in SF is not great, 100k in Cleveland is. So your math doesn’t really work here, unless you compare directly two cities and also compare taxes.
> Surprised no one has mention it yet, but Recruit Holdings is the parent company of Indeed.

As of right now (2018-05-09T14:33Z), the article reads ‘Recruit Holdings, a large Japanese human resources company that owns other job sites like Indeed’ …
I enjoyed the conlangs section. It has Klingon, Toki pona, Esperanto, and more!
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Not sure if representative for "bitcoin enthusiasts", but here is how I see it:

As the written word spread in Europe after BC, it layed an important cornerstone for democracy and changed the world for good. Noone would argue with that, right?

Ok, so let's look at Europe from 500BC-1300BC. Corrupt monks forging official documents, under some goverments up only about 60-80% of the were real. Monks were people of god, so noone really investigated. For a long time, the emperor would sign with a simple line, because he couldn't actually write. Wow, how is that more valuable than spoken word?! Where is your democracy? Women can't read, poor can't read. Knowledge is stored exclusively by the church. Turns out writing things down is actually a really backward philosophy! Or is it?

And that's where we're with Crypto right now, IMO. I'm not saying this is as revolutionary as writing, not even close. I'm not even saying it will turn into a good thing. BUT I really like the underlying idea, the concept, of it. Of course there are greedy shitheads, companys taking advantage, fraud and projects which are uterly useless. But yet I didn't came across an argument which convinced that the concept of non-centralizing via blockchain can't work.

So, to actually answer your question, I think we shouldn't mix up the discussion about the philosophy, potential and future of Blockchain with individual cases like "is this pump and dump worse than 2008 greed of banks" (which is also an important discussion, but a seperate one).

Does that make any sense?
Almost none of that is strictly true. SOA and "microservices" are so close to being synonyms that we might as well say that they are. At worst, they're different "flavors" of the same thing. Like Vanilla ice cream versus Strawberry ice cream.
> We've had gold, and it was a massive equalizer between major powers.

The gold standard was one of the worst fiscal policies ever. Its use was directly responsible for the destruction of millions of lives. Arguing to bring it back shows incredible nativity and a severe lack of history.

I suggest you read up on how horrible of an idea the gold standard was before you spout this kind of nonsense.
Inflation values future work over past work. It's not inherently bad.
I wouldn’t expect the poor to hoard $10B
Yes, you can use losetup.

~# dd if=/dev/zero of=image.img bs=1M count=100
~# LODEVICE=$(losetup --find --show image.img)
~# fdisk $LODEVICE
~# losetup -d $LODEVICE

^ The above creates a 100MB disk image, binds it to a loopback device, runs fdisk, and then detaches it. I'm not sure how formatting the partition would work but presumably those tools have an offset option too?

edit: this page explains using offsets for mke2fs and doesn't require losetup: https://superuser.com/questions/737072/userspace-manipulatio...

also, losetup can now scan the device for partition tables and make partition-specific loopbacks! https://stackoverflow.com/a/15200862
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Those codelabs and the website were originally designed for on-site experience where you can sit down and try something new without the need to bring your own laptop or another piece of hardware and set up the environment.

In fact, I'm sure anyone who's been to I/O event in person noticed quite a few friendly faces and field experts to talk to in the codelabs room. Often, they are the same people who wrote the actual codelabs.

Then we thought, why not make these codelabs public for people to also be able to try it at home. So, there it is, inhuman codelabs.
Don't use any portion of any written work as your private key! Brute-force attacks will use every bit of written literature to do this same search.

You must use securely-generated random key phrases, or you will lose your coins.
So it'll be like pair programming with Tay.
I can already hear the modem handshake playing in my head...
So a slightly more complex formula.
The answer to this splits across the Fedora/RHEL sides. For people using RHEL Atomic Host today (and RHEL) with OpenShift, we obviously want a good transition to Red Hat CoreOS. That gets into some details though of provisioning and what types of customization is being done today. Similar concerns apply to Tectonic+CL users.

My message on the community side (Fedora and existing CL) is - don't panic, you have some time. And a lot of us want to support a broad array of use cases.

Since you mention rpm-ostree, one thing I'd point you to is some work we did on changing the Container Linux update operator to talk to it: https://github.com/ashcrow/container-linux-update-operator/
> The only time I did an on-chain transaction in the last 3 years was moving money to another exchange to buy alt-coins.

So you used a "totally not a bank, but really a bank" bank, eh?
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In theory yes, but as the other answer states, you would raise an immense amount of money WITHOUT the public realising who would than just abandon whatever mining-based Crypto we're talking about
Surely a simple filter algorithm could figure out the toll-lane thing: if you have a bunch of cars reporting speeds on what seems to be the same road, but you know that there's toll lanes there, and the speeds reported fall into two extremely different ranges (one crawling, one highway speed), then it seems safe to assume that the slow vehicles are on the regular road and the fast ones are in the toll lane.

Plus, while they aren't perfectly accurate, toll lanes are usually far enough away from the regular lanes that modern GPS devices in those lanes should be able to generally show themselves biased in that direction (relative to the devices stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic).
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Aperture Science would surely approve.
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I totally agree with your points, especially with awesome projects like Cilium[0] solving real problems in the Kubernetes ecosystem and, you know, getting updates to the kernel primitives that actually isolate containers. RH CoreOS is not going have a kernel that is synchronized with the RHEL release cycle. We're working to find out what types of requirements for certifications that we want to support and, using that as a guideline, we'll be shipping the freshest possible kernel. The nice thing about supporting both RHEL and CoreOS as the OS for OpenShift is that customers that require government-tier certifications will be told to use RHEL and everyone else can enjoy CoreOS.

We also now have access to the vast kernel engineering resources at Red Hat, so CoreOS should be able to get emergency fixes like those for Spectre and Meltdown out to customers much more quickly.

[0]: https://github.com/cilium/cilium
>economics 101

I wouldnt use an entry level economics class to judge technology that eliminates risk of government hyperinflation and lowers/eliminates cost of transactions.

The economic benefits of free/low cost transactions and money that can be saved/spent rather than invested may have its own benefits.
that's a pretty big leap to call it a fork of a Google project
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It also beggars belief that they were regularly spending bitcoins that was shifting in value by hundreds of USD in a matter of hours. The would be irrational to the point of lunacy if true

How so? What matters is the price at the time of transaction, no?
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let a bank manage and insure their wallet than manage it themselves. Too stressful otherwise.

This just goes to show where the hype and misunderstanding around this has led.

It is not too far off to say bitcoin's only reason for being, is to "hold them yourself," i.e. conduct all your financial dealings with zero third parties.

A bank holding your bitcoins is just nonsensical if you understand the relative merits of each system.

The merits of the banking system are a centralized efficiency in conducting "transactions at a distance," and economies of scale in preventing fraud, theft, and other losses,

Trying to inject bitcoin into the banking system is like trying to re-insert a vestigial organ into a species long after the organ has been pruned from the evolutionary tree.

Nobody seems to have much interest in bitcoin's purported raison d'etre, but are more interested in a perceived potential for appreciation. That much of past appreciation has been shown to be the result of various systemic manipulations, rather than genuine organic demand, seems not to register with most people, or is unknown.

That perceived potential for appreciation would seem to eventually rest on people having an interest in using bitcoin for the uses around which it was designed. Should that day come, a shift from the game of "musical chairs-hot potato-hype machine," to a system of digital cash, the system would require a major re-working to support the number of users one would think would be proportional to the current valuation.

But like you said most people aren't comfortable or willing to shoulder this sort of risk in their financial lives.

Another curiosity, or countervailing force to bitcoin's design goals is the ever growing 'blockchain' record that needs to be stored locally to partake in the bitcoin system in the spirit it was conceived.

The blockchain is growing at a fairly constant rate, has anyone ever plotted blockchain growth relative to projected future storage costs and bandwidth capabilities necessary to onboard new users?

So what is the point of bitcoin other than the original goal of "be your own bank"?

But not just your own bank, your own datacenter as well!
Should we teach poker to our kids?
But why not then listen and figure out what frequencies are being used? That skill would be well within the "elite" category, no?
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Perhaps they meant the entire album was played 96 times. 66:39 x 96.

I myself am a serial song repeater. I use it a lot for focus. Noise to drown out other sounds, but familiarity so I don't start thinking about the music instead of work.
Biased nerd here: I work for Lullabot and have been adjacent to a number of projects that used Tugboat for client QA and approval over the past year or two. While I can't speak to the implementation details, I can definitely say that the emphasis on automatically spinning up per-pull-request/per-feature demo instances of fairly complex sites and linking them from the PR tickets has made review and approval by nontech stakeholders way smoother.

I'd be interested in knowing if there are any other CI or CI-adjacent tools taking that approach, especially with non-LAMP hosting stacks?
True, but still not really the FDIC's mission.
I switched from Ubuntu to Fedora on my development machines and it has been amazing.

Stability is superb and a lot of the niggles I had with Ubuntu just went away.

Fedora Cinnamon is damn close to perfect as a development desktop for my needs. I literally can't think of anything I'd improve outside of its multi-monitor support (it's fine with fixed monitors but plugging my 4K on displayport on the ThinkPad requires some finessing but so did windows).
This is very exciting! Quay is the best registry I’ve worked with by far. But, I’d love an open source version I could run on-prem
> Its use was directly responsible for the destruction of millions of lives.

Oh please, war happens for land, population, and resources. Gold is one of the resources.

Anyone want to send this kid the link to 'We invaded Iraq because Saddam wanted to use Euros/RMB to trade oil?'
I usually don't like phrases like "Europe's Silicon Valley" or "Venice of the North". As much as they can be informative in some respects, such comparisons obscure and brush over the specificities of the things in question. It makes more sense to talk about the emergence of a strong tech sector in general terms and as one component of a healthy economy.

Having said that, there is reason to think that the region in question will become Europe's most dynamic and technologically powerful, in particular Poland, because of a number of coinciding factors, such as entrepreneurial spirit lacking in Germany and west of it, geopolitical necessity and historical precedent.

The geopolitical angle is quite interesting. Poland and the other countries sandwiched between Germany and Russia are situated on a geopolitical fault line that demands that these countries cooperate out of mutual interest. Economic strength becomes one pillar in maintaining not just a materially comfortable existence but a matter of existential importance and of independence. That's a pretty strong motivator given the history of the region. On top of that, the United States has a geopolitical interest in the region's strength. We know from analogous cases that American interest of this kind has usually contributed positively to regional and thus economic strength. And from recent developments vis-a-vis the Three Seas Initiative, we are witnessing a formal recognition of the necessity of regional strength by the countries in that region. In fact, the recent brouhaha in the European Commission over Poland is, when interpreted synoptically, a telltale sign of the country's rising importance.
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Intel CET I believe.
So correct me if I'm wrong, but the way you're using Bitcoin gives you no magical crypto guarantees the currency is supposed to offer?

I increasingly feel that pro-crypto arguments are mostly motte and bailey. So Bitcoin is better than fiat because it's decentralized and censorship-resistant, with everything forever stored in the blockchain. It's also more convenient and efficient than fiat in daily use - when we discard all the decentralization and anti-censorship guarantees, skip the blockchain and use it as a private-issued, unregulated fiat.
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There is some behind the scenes info available here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/comparing-machine-learning-th...
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If contracts are written and priced in BTC, then it will behave like a commodity. Since supply is limited, it's value will fluctuate based on demand (e.g. the need to acquire bitcoin to satisfy the contract).

I'm not saying this is actually happening, but when/if it does, it will work no differently than other currencies.
Sure, and its revenue in 2012 was $128 million, and 2013 was $326 million.

Suddenly paying $2.5 Billion in late 2014 starts to make some sense.
As the sibling commenter said, you typically can access connected BSSID's which are essentially unique.

However, to answer your question, on iOS there is no API for accessing nearby not-connected wifi, and on Android it exists but I believe it requires location permission.
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Why python and not c++?
> After a 1995 collision of two trains on the Williamsburg Bridge killed a train operator and injured more than 50

Overreaction to safety incidents and inability to do cost-benefit analysis cripple American transit systems. DC's Metro, for example, was designed for trains to be driven automatically ("ATO"). In fact, they operated in automatic mode for decades, since the system was built in the 1970s. But in 2009, after nine people were killed in a collision, the system was disabled, and will remain disabled indefinitely.[1]

The result of disabling ATO is that what was previously a very smoothly running system has become a disaster, with human operators lurching into stations, then lurching some more to place the train correctly relative to the platform. Almost a million riders inconvenienced every day for a decade, just to avert recurrence of an incident that resulted in a handful of deaths in 30 years of operation.

[1] https://ggwash.org/view/62992/metro-kicks-the-automatic-trai....
So why not listen in the vicinity of the towers and deduce what frequency this is on?
The lack of legacy, good CS universities and capital may matter, I don't see how the other things you mention matter. The big plus is it's a great place to live - it is where things happen.

IMO computer science education is crap everywhere in Germany - it's either mathematics or latest hype topic with no "working technology" in the middle. Professors say informatics alumni will design algorithms, programming is for the plebs, or some such. Where do I even start?

There isn't a single respected programming language from Germany. We have nothing like OCaml, or Python, or INRIA or EPFL or ETH Zürich for that matter.
I am aware that Trump got the idea from the press, my point was that had Trump not stolen the term as a coverall for news stories he disagrees with then term would have been largely forgotten.

The Google trends map in the comment I replied to shows the original peak in Novermber of 2016 which I think started when Buzzfeed ran an article about fake news stories having more engagement on Facebook than true news stories leading up to the election. [1]

There's another peak in early December that is probably from Hillary mentioning it in a speech. [2]

There's a third peak in January which is probably from when Trump wouldn't let Jim Acosta ask a question and called him and CNN fake news. [3]

After that, it was officially added into Trumpian vernacular. Had he not started using the term incorrectly on a regular basis, we would not have seen the continued popularity of the word that the graph shows after December 2016. There would have been some peaks due to various academic studies about actual fake news coming out and being reported on but most of the popularity and staying power comes from Trump.

[1] https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/viral-fake-election-...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/01/03/ho...

[3] http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/01/11/donald-trump-press-con...
Under the GDPR, you'll have to explicitly ask users to agree for their visit data to be shared with euroshield _before_ you load this external JS.
True, I remind just popping by at my friends, and also just calling them out of the blue. I don't call friends anymore.
"I've never seen business models where [when] there's more demand, there are higher prices."

I agree anything short of a flat fee for business listings(whether its per product or something else) incentivises the marketplace towards higher prices.
If you're worried about analytics and tracking / ads on your iPhone, consider installing Disconnect's Privacy Pro:

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It costs a few $$, but sets up a VPN profile that is generally always on. It just blocks all of the ads / "web bugs" / analytics stuff and gives you a UI to show how much. Apple cracking down is a good thing, but so is defense in depth. It estimates that it has blocked 8Mb of crap being downloaded on my phone just today.
>I feel like bitcoin people live in some kind of alternate reality that I simply don't understand.

I can tell. You seem to think Bitcoin is another inflationary currency.

The excitement is that, Donald Trump doesnt have control over Bitcoin. China doesnt have control over bitcoin. No government does. People with computers have control over it. There are 21,000,000 Bitcoin ever ever ever. No amount of awful government can change that.

>How is it at all revolutionary since you've basically gone and re-invented a much shitter version of the credit card and traditional (evil) fiat banking.

Like I said, Bitcoin is rare and digital. I think you are complaining about payment processing companies. I have had an excellent experience using these companies with no fees on instant transactions.
And it doesn't take a scientist to realize that when things will be cheaper tomorrow people tend to avoid making purchases today. (Think back to when home prices were crashing, there wasn't exactly a rush of people to buy homes that were declining in value.)
I see you're also a proponent of the "Dark Forest theory".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Forest