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Double spend isn’t like printing money on a printer.

It’s more like being able to write two checks for your whole bank balance
and having them both clear.

So very relevant are:

- whatever goods you bought with the checks need to be impossible to recall. So, like you need to find (two) someone’s who will effectively cash your check. You can’t buy a house because the police will come take the house back.

- you need to do it fast. The second you make are the first transaction you need fork and start mining hard. 51% gives you a speed advantage, but it’s very small. It still takes time to get the network to follow you.

Double spend is a very specific heist. Even if someone did it, it wouldn’t mean Bitcoin is valueless, it would just mean a certain class of heist is somewhat more probably and people need to adjust their security practices accordingly.

Tricks like waiting for extra confirmations, requiring identification before accepting payment, etc, are easy remediations.
You don't; it simply takes 200,000 years to confirm your transaction is in the highest-work chain in the galaxy.
We use a static website. That way you can do a git blame to see what line was last updated when. And it allows for separating the change from the approver.
Has anyone else tried deadbeef? It's one of the lightest players I've ever used. It's very bare bones.

http://deadbeef.sourceforge.net/
But what is getting personal? Other than the use of the word "person", there is no actual reference to anyone's person.

The personal aspect would be bad, except it doesn't exist.

The tropiness of the phrase I'll take your word for, as I don't frequent any other online discussion sites. It certainly doesn't add to the discussion.

Is a phrase that is extraneous, currently popular/cliche, and merely possibly offensive because it's typically used ad-hominem elsewhere, really cause for threatening to ban a user?

I think you're over-reacting.
> Megan McArdle is a hardened libertarian sophist

That's an ad-hominem attack that has nothing to do with the substance of this discussion. How about sticking to the actual numbers?

> 1) With respect to healthcare, investopedia has different numbers than the ones she cites

Let's assume the investopedia numbers are right (though it's not clear why their uncited administrative costs number is more authoritative than an OECD report on administrative costs). They claim 5% of GDP in administrative costs (25% of 20%). The drug numbers they mention as being "saveable" are $11.6 billion per year; that's .0006% of GDP. No other numbers are cited for drugs there. For defensive medicine, .03% of GDP. For the other items, no numbers are given.

So we could potentially spend about 5% of GDP less on healthcare; the other bits all look like rounding error on that. I used $19.39 trillion for the current annual US GDP, fwiw.

And just to be clear, the actual US federal government spending on healthcare is about $1 trillion a year, or maybe 5-6% of GDP, as far as I can tell. The remaining 14-15% of GDP is spent outside the federal budget already. If we're trying to put it in the federal budget that means raising taxes by 9% of GDP or so.

> Eliminate Imperialism - Save > $1T dollars by not fighting wars based on lies.

This would definitely be nice, but that doesn't seem to be what most people propose. Again, the context is people proposing "just tax the 1%".

> Tax the (Natural Person) Rich

Right, this is the thing under discussion: taxing "the 1%". The total income of the top 1% is something around 20% of total personal income according to https://www.epi.org/blog/top-1-percent-receive-record-high-s... and total personal income is around $16.5 trillion according to https://www.statista.com/statistics/216756/us-personal-incom...

So if we taxed away every single penny "the 1%" earn, that gives us 16% of GDP. That's assuming that there are no disincentive effects, emigration, etc, etc. Probably a bad assumption.

> Eliminate the Rentier Class

I'm not sure what your actual proposal is here, but at this point I suspect we're way outside the realm of the politically feasible or desirable. That said, can you quantify this, please?

> Tax the Tax Evaders

I would be very much behind this idea. Again, this is not the same as "just tax the 1%".

Anyway, last I checked US government spending (including all levels of government) was about 37% of GDP. If we add the very optimistic 16% we can get by taxing "the 1%" we get to 53%. That's still less than France or Finland or Denmark spend. Yes, we could nationalize healthcare if we did that, fairly easily. We couldn't do all the other things people want to do by "taxing the 1%".

I agree that if we radically restructured everything about how the government is funded and what we spend money on then there are a lot more options. But, again, what people tend to propose is "just tax the 1% and use that money for X, Y, and Z". And there's not enough money in that bucket to do all those things.
You're being harsh, or we did not read the same piece.

While, towards the end, the OP briefly refers to his efforts as "a startup" I think he was pretty clear that he was mostly trying to get to a point where he could __start__ a startup.
Launch today and charge money?
> True, but it also doesn't route them anywhere unless you've explicitly configured it to OR there was outbound traffic on that 5-tuple recently, so it's also wrong.

No, what you are describing is a stateful firewall. Also, neither a NAT nor a firewall route anything, that's what a router is for.

> The NAT functionality drops the errant packet on the floor just as much as a traditional firewall.

NAT does not drop anything. NAT translates. Hence, "network address translation". And it's not an errant packet. It's simply a packet addressed to an address reachable on one of the interfaces attached to the router, and not matching any NAT rules that would initiate translation of a connection nor any existing tracking state of a previously seen connection where return packets need to be translated. Packets that don't fit in either of those categories are simply left untouched by a NAT. And the router the NAT is running on will then just forward them as any IP router would do. That is, unless there is a stateful firewall present as well. In which case you still don't need the NAT to use it.
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That quantum entanglement is limited to strong gravitational fields. Like we see the probability field because we are in Earth's gravitational field. But it doesn't span the entire universe infinitely.
I'm at probably 2,000 miles in AP on my Model 3, and at this point, I feel like I'm very knowledgeable about where I can trust AP and where I can't. I do fear that people will give it too much trust in the beginning, and not try to learn how it behaves, because then, it's dangerous.

Dying in a Tesla is relatively hard to do, but getting hurt or even just totaling your car because you didn't understand how AP works is bad (and dangerous for others, too!)

I feel like maybe they shouldn't turn on AP until TACC has been active for some period of time, so that you can get used to the car and how it behaves. Even now, I am sometimes surprised (like the odd behavior when stopped traffic is ahead of you a ways, and the car right in front of you changes out of your line - your car doesn't notice the stopped traffic, so you have to stop yourself or you would slam into the stopped cars). I have to assume that, at some point, the front facing camera will supplement the radar and say, "hey, that looks like stopped traffic - I should stop", but I can understand, from a software development perspective, why that's a hard problem.
It depends on your financial scale. A fancy tape library, sure, but if your company is in-sourcing hundreds of TBs of backups surely you are not destitute. Glacier is always cheaper.

On the other hand I paid $185 for a LTO-5 drive a year or two ago (no library, manually operated). 1.5 TB on a $20 tape is still pretty good in my book.
> In August, a group split the chain to create a new form of Bitcoin that they called Bitcoin Cash. The two blockchains shared a transaction history up until the time of the split, giving anyone who held any number of Bitcoins until the so-called hard fork the equivalent number of Bitcoin Cash on the new fork. (A hard fork is a software change that runs the risk of splitting the blockchain into two, particularly if the community disagrees about it. If you follow Ethereum or cryptocurrency, you may have heard that Ethereum split into Ethereum and Ethereum Classic after a contentious hard fork.) However, many people who didn’t support Bitcoin Cash dumped their coins quickly, and, after initially spiking up to $900, the price has now deflated to about $300.

https://firenewsfeed.com/news/635991

Good God you're not kidding.

It's like a car accident, but there's this siren song urging you to join in because some of the people are thrown free holding chunks of gold.

It reminds me of a Jim Gaffigan joke. He's talking about trying to lose weight, and how hard it is when the fast food restaurant has a $2 for 2 burgers deal... "Well... I don't want to lose money on this... I'll take eighty."

On the one hand this whole cryptocurrency thing seems to be gone off the rails. On the other hand, I do feel kinda dumb for not owning any.
The entire Arma series has a huge modding community, along with good documentation on the internals, it's one of the main selling points of the game. Their last competition spawned hundreds of entries and awarded €500,000 in prizes to content creators.

https://arma3.com/features/content-creation
Why do they make such a fuss about MooTools .flatten? Nobody cared about prototype.js breaking dozens of ECMAScript array methods (e.g. map, reduce, contains,...) some years ago. Site owners were simply supposed to update or remove it.
It's 2018. We are all believing many many things. Doesn't make you wrong though.
I live in Cambodia and I see this all the time from tourists and expats. It's actually stunning how nearly all of them parrot the same stereotypes about the country, even though they've barely spent any time here and have only read secondhand information from racists who came here before them. A mild but classic stereotype is something about Asians and "saving face", as if avoiding embarrassment whenever possible isn't a shared tendency of everyone all over the world. Another favorite is complaining about a "foreigner tax" (raising the price for foreigners), when in fact that is actually quite rare and is only perceived to happen because touristy spots and expat bubbles have higher rents and thus higher prices. This is not even getting into the more malicious variety of shitheads and degenerates that come solely to exploit the country, all while endlessly complaining about and stereotyping the people here.
Here's a picture of the AWK book next to the Camel book https://twitter.com/heinrichhartman/status/77170643345276928...

"#awk doc shows you how to implement a rel-DB and a compiler. #perl doc talks 20p+ about nested data structures."
SCD carries a lot of psuedoscience baggage so I don't blame doctors for not heeding its advice. It does seem to have a positive effect though. Hopefully one day we'll figure out exactly why it works (and doesn't work).
hey is anyone interested in building a modern frontend for Foobar2000?

edit:

I think from the Foobar2000 sdk alone, you'd see how advanced that thing is.. I mean, extension points everywhere, dsp plugin support, built-in query & library management, codecs, gapless processing, all of that written in a scalable & native architecture.

It truly lacks a proper UI toolkit though. The current options are quite outdated that I'd rather fall back to the default Win32 UI.

So, Electron frontend + C/S communication with Foobar2000? I'd totally buy into it.
I'm surprised few people are actually discussing this, digital signatures seem like the right way to go for footage like security recordings or recordings that can serve as evidence that must be trusted.

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[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17136292
I'm sorry but you're either being intentionally obtuse or trying to twist and mislead people by spreading stories out of context and lacking crucial information.

1. In over two years the Home existing, that happened a SINGLE time, no money changed hands and once they realize it people didn't enjoy the experience, it never happened again.

Reading your original comment

> Google injecting ads into the "My Day" information

you make it sounds like this is something they do regularly all the time. It literally happened once a year ago and they apologized for it.

2. This was a hardware defect on a very very small number of units on a single type of smart speaker. The defect triggered the button at the top, which makes the speaker lights up, listen and tries to respond, so the user would clearly see it misbehaving. All recordings also show up on your activity page.

Again here, your original comment:

> Google Home was found to be listening all the time

You make it sound like his happened on all devices, was doing it intentionally and was doing it in an undisclosed secret way, when in fact it was a bug which realistically affected less than 0.00001% of the people and was fixed within a few hours once reported.

You can bend the truth and assume whatever crazy tinfoil theory you want, but that doesn't make it reality.
That's why Proof-of-stake is the way to go, you will never see a major coinholder undermining the coin
Look up "Mitsubishi Group" on Wikipedia for some interesting insights into how "a decentralized control structure" works. I suspect that this sort of decentralisation is common not just in Japan, but throughout most large players in the global economy. The differences will mostly arise from how much the "home market" of any of these groups (cabals) will care for, or acknowledge antitrust practices.

Other good examples are Unilever, Google, Apple, Freeport McMoran, Tata Group etc. Once you bring China into the equation it becomes more difficult to trace the global connections due to massive state ownership, but I'd be surprised if they didn’t have interests in many global conglomerates.

This isn't really conspiracy theory, this is just how a global economy is evolving amidst multiple conflicting interests and regulatory bodies.
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Let's forget about how polarizing he is for one minute: I would make the argument that he is the one who made his Twitter feed a public forum when he encouraged people to follow him to get information. It follows that public discourse is now taking place where the tools allow people to respond.
In my experience, there’s no problem with data about roads, routing etc in Apple Maps. That stuff works well, and in some cases even better than Google (Google Maps makes hilarious mispronunciations for German names that sometimes make it hard to follow voice instructions).

Where Apple fails miserably is search, and local place names. Apple Maps data will often show results in a different country instead of whatever I meant to search for in my city. Trying to find businesses if you don’t know the full official names is practically impossible.

Apple Maps works great if you know the official address, but it’s pretty much useless for anything else.
No. Someone is traveling to Europe, going to a restaurant and paying for the Euro nominated beer with his US based VISA and starting to claim that hey, cool, I paid for the beer with USD. You see, I lost a portion of my USD balance and gained a beer.

If you insist that the guy paid his beer with USD, it is going to be very difficult to discuss about anything as the meanings of the concepts are so twisted.

It is quite obvious that using a credit card that then accepts BTCfrom you does not mean that you use BTC to pay for anything but your credit card bill.
With such attitude you should have never had kids in the first place. But, it's too late for you. At least I'm smart enough to realize I shouldn't make that mistake.
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Not at all, those things are mutually exclusive. You can have a device that is useful and makes many facets of your life much better, but is also hurting other parts. You can still keep the former, and try to reduce the impacts of the latter.

If smartphones were completely useless, then we wouldn't actually need well-being features, we would just throw away our phones...
I'm not sure why this was voted down, it's this the obvious goal of these devices? Get people to accept voice-control in the home? For now they are woken up by a wake word, but as people become more comfortable with them, this restriction is relaxed in the name of "convenience".

Which is exactly what's happening:

https://www.macrumors.com/2018/03/09/amazon-alexa-follow-up-...
am i right to assume that the regional persistent disk can only be mounted in write mode on one node at the time,
same as with zonal persistent disk ?
I'm sad to see that as I am an avid Instapaper user living in EU. The whole GDPR issue caused a lot of changes and friction, but hopefully that's a good thing on the long term
If you had a mechanism to price externalities, and it wasn't government, then sure ok. But while we have no effective externality accounting and enforcement, this notion of wastage still exists fairly. If we could price in externalities with a government, then perhaps they would be more worthy of trust for currency too?

In terms of my original statement, I was effectively stating that the problem of decentralising currency doesn't really give back power to the people, because of the nature of wealth accumulation and propagation. Sure, it reduces the capacity for regulatory capture, but people with capital in whatever form still exercise a capacity to better maintain their capital base.

With regards to waste again, it becomes a moral issue. If we know that our externalities will cause problems, then by letting people continue to capitalise on them, we knowingly undermine the wider system we operate in. We have ethics committees for science and medical experiments, but when it comes to finance, experimentation occurs unimpeded. This leads to socio-economic outcomes which, while not fully understood, are also not complete unknowns.
Thank you - fixed! You can no longer access that link from the site, it should now just go to the about page
Your current thing will get you to the next thing you love, only my you will have a little more freedom in time to carry forward.

Stick with it, and ship. Shipping is a drug. You will level up to really be in the driver's seat.
It was an experience that happened a single time a year ago. No money exchanged hands, it was just a fun thing they made for fan of the movie, and after the criticism, they apologized and never did it again.

Yes the parent comment makes it sound like this is something that happened all the time... I'm not sure why a comment literally spreading lies is the top comment, I guess HN loves crazy tinfoil hat alternative truth now.

Similarly with #3, it was a hardware bug that impacted a very very small number of devices, and which was fixed within hours of being reported. It was also very obvious the device was misbehaving so implying that Google was "spying" is stupid. Why would Google make the device light up and make noises if they were spying on you?
The problem with all those tech companies about their "mistakes" is that they lost the benefit of the doubt long ago.

Remember when Google scooped up unsecured WiFi data via their creepy street view vehicles?

Yeah, that was a mistake by some mid-level manager and not intentional.

Don't even get me started on Facebook's "mistakes".
What’s the use case for this compared to gcc or clang?
"Tinder Places is built on Foursquare’s proprietary Pilgrim technology, and delivers new potential matches through the lens of location."

This is perfect for those people for whom neither Foursquare nor Tinder is independently enough of a privacy suck.
Can you elaborate this? What revelations did you experience?
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Haha, no problem. It's easy to miss =)
Well met. And you're right, the practice is older than I said (and not even confined to computer stuff for that matter.) I just feel like I've seen a rash of generically-named projects recently and that's why I went off when I saw this one. (I've also been on imgur this last week and I think it's affecting my communication style.)
Current Xbox One mainstream games are pretty much all available on plastic discs, and all work without an internet connection (obviously without patches or online multiplayer). You don't need to sign up for any services. There's a trend for multiplayer-only FPS games but that's a relatively small part of gaming as a whole.
If I could get a dumb phone with reasonable fast WiFi hotspot functionality I'd jump on it in a heartbeat.

It just doesn't seem to exist.
There is no "spoofing" or "manipulation" or "bypassing", it's simply sending a packet to the address and a router doing what a router does, in a use case that simply doesn't involve the NAT.

The idea that NAT prevents inbound connections is simply a myth believed by tons of people who have no clue how IP works. It simply doesn't. So you don't need to do any "spoofing" or "manipulation" to "bypass" something that NAT simply doesn't do.

You might as well say that you can bypass a P.O. box by spoofing the destination address and thus effectively manipulating the snail mail routing. No, it's simply the case that you can address letters to street addresses and the postal service will deliver them to the address written on the envelope. Your mistake is in the completely baseless assumption that a P.O. box is supposed to prevent letters from being delivered to your street address.
It should be noted that the problem identified by the judge was the fact that blocking prevents users from replying to the tweets, therefore restricting their speech.

That said, excluding certain people from official communications based on their opinions might be illegal too: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/28/us/politics/white-house-b...
> But it makes me wonder if these musicians -- every one of whom of course are as talented as can be -- if they are getting more international recognition because they have recognition in their own homeland? Or does Sweden produce musicians more appealing to Western popular culture?

As far as I know, the working hypothesis is that Sweden's extensive social safety net (unemployment benefits,low-cost health care, fair insurance deals, so on and so forth) allows people to feel more secure in trying out things that may not become very profitable.
Why the name waterdeep? Curious
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