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The FCC has to have two opposition party commissioners. If it weren't Pai it would be someone else from the party sound the same things. Everything Pai is doing is 100% on the Republicans. If they were opposed they could easily stop him.
To be fair, he didn’t assume anything, he was asking a question to clarify.
I'd love to work in Norway or Sweden one day. Do you know what the tech scene in Oslo or Stockholm are like? My experience is mostly in building backend/distributed systems.
I just said GDPR legislates that personal information is not a form of currency, so no, you can't ask for payment in the form of personal information.
You don’t think the risk of fire and/or localized grid overload from drawing much more power than designed for a residential property is of no concern to the neighbors?
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I'm not arguing necessarily for its utility or intrinsic worth, just that it's entrenched and far from the inevitable house of cards that detractors wish for.

Call it gambling if you will. What is the intrinsic value of a game of blackjack? None, yet an entire industry is propped up by it.
The closest thing I've found for estimating how long something nonperishable (i.e. technology or an idea, not food or animals) will stick around is with a theory called The Lindy Effect. Generally speaking, the longer something has lasted, the longer you can expect it to last. So if something has lasted for X amount of time, you can expect it to last for X more amount of time. And 5 years from then, if it's still around, you can expect it to last another X+5 years.

In other words, most things don't last very long, but things that do last for a long time tend to stick around a lot longer than you might normally expect them to. Like people predicting the death of Facebook. Sure, something will probably eventually take it down or become the next Facebook. But it's been around for so long now, a betting man shouldn't bet on it happening anytime soon.

Now one might argue that on the day Myspace died this effect would predict that it would be around for yet another 6+ years (or whatever it ended up being). And to that I'd say that this is a guide for predicting future behavior, not a crystal ball that can accurately predict everything forever. And some would argue that the writing was on the wall for Myspace long before it actually went kaput anyway.

So Bitcoin has been around in some form or another for 9+ years, and withstood a huge laundry list of setbacks, tests of its security, and evolution of the ecosystem in the meantime. So it's probably going to stick around for awhile.

Meanwhile, XYZCoin and it's hot new ICO has been around for about five days, so there's nothing to suggest that it's going to stick around for very long and you should be a lot more careful about putting your money into it.

More info on the Lindy Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
Unfortunately, those in charge of writing history are very prone to sanitizing unappealing details. Take Helen Keller for example. We learn a lot of minor details of her history. But students never learn how she was a loud socialist. Information like that would be uncomfortable, inconvenient, or too challenging for those learning history.

> During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.
That’s just it. It’s B2B versus B2C.

Facebook can have a rule, code wins arguments because they can do A/B testing. Enterprise software can not.
> Any municipality who falls for this crock of shit would be crazy.

Bitcoin is the new monorail.
That’s easy, when you draw more power than rated for the residential power connections coming in.
> Why can't things be built upon POP and IMAP?

That's a different question. 3 random examples don't really mean anything. IPv4 is old, HTTP/1 is old, SSLv1 is old. Sure they work, but we also have newer better stuff.

The old email protocols do not properly support modern features like syncing across multiple devices and servers with lightweight and efficient payloads, along with fast and safe attachment handling, consistent message ids, message threading, labels, contacts, push-based notifications, and many other things that people take for granted today. All modern email systems have built their own and don't use pop/imap because they're too outdated to even use as a foundation.

Here's JMAP from Fastmail if you want more details on a open-source email protocol: https://jmap.io/
Under the Republic, Rome was supposed to elect two consuls every year, with term limits that prevented the same person from being elected consecutively. Naturally, that system fell apart in practice, but remained in effect de jure.

Publius Gnaeus Dipshitus may have been elected Consul during the era of Sulla or Marius or Pompey, but guess how much real power they executed.
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It's a very pointed question, in the vein of "when did you stop beating your wife"? The original comment wasn't taking any stance on violence, just commenting on how it's discussed. Trying to shift the focus from that to a question on personal politics is disingenuous.
"RAIDZ" seems to be most popular, but if you want better performance go with mirrors. Then let yours VM's have their own FS on top of zvol. For example NTFS on top of a zvol you can get GB rw/s even with spinning HDD's.
Undoubtedly to you posting to a message board, maybe , but maybe not so undoubtedly were you one of the victims or long line of people directly affected by it. That's a utilitarian argument and it assumes that independence could not or would not have been achieved some other way.

Violence is one of the ways that people interact with others, but so is greed, envy, racism and hatred. One of the great things about being humans is we can choose to discard or tempter behaviors that are destructive.

Are you for racism and bigotry because that's a part of nature? I know you aren't. Why is violence different? If we've made international laws which we've decided as a species that certain actions are unacceptable, why is violence so sacred?
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> Who cares? If people want to play in Bitcoin, what difference does it make.

The externalities. This very thread is about how Bitcoin is messing up power grids and will soon be responsible for a non-negligible percentage of Earth's entire power usage (and the attendant pollution). It's not consequence-free fun.
Even a king is one of many, in the long run. I sometimes imagine how they see themselves compared to their peers. For some it might have been pretty difficult to shine, despite having reached the top of society.
We’re you thinking of the author of zeromq?

http://hintjens.com/blog:115 “A protocol for dying”
A roommate once told me: «if you focus on results, you'll see no change. if you focus on change, you'll see results»
I like how it is done by the utility in San Francisco. Depending on the size of your place, and your main method of heating (electric or not), there are tiers setup (based on average weather in each month) where the first X kWh are the cheapest and correspond to what they think a dwelling of that size should need. Then the next Y kWh are about 30% more expensive, then after that there is a final tier which is 60% more expensive. In this way by saving energy you save doubly - you pay for less kWh, and what you do pay for is on a cheaper tier. I think this seems like an easy way to handle these miners, while allowing non
"electricity-based" to continue unimpeded.
To be fair, that does sound like something a mass murderer would say. Maybe a justification for their actions.
People are interested in HK because of the adversity she overcame, not because of her political viewpoints. I'm sure if she was a staunch libertarian, we would not hear much about those viewpoints either - because it isn't relevant to the interesting part of her life story.
Ask HN: What's one book that changed your life?
What's one book that changed your life?
A service that converts PDF research papers into a clean readable webpage.

Their example paper was a research paper with two columns and diagrams to show their service actually works well.

I searched a couple of times but couldn't find them again...
Adding to your coal example, let’s suppose that we somehow magically make all cars run on solar or renewable energy that has costs aproaching 0. What will most likely happen is that people will drive even more, we will have to build exponentially more roads (building a road is pretty polluting by itself, in terms of the materials being used) and the ecosystem will be even more threatened compared to now.
For anyone that would like to know more about the stories of those people, I can recommend the History of Rome podcast and its many great descendents.

Personally I find hisotry becomes a lot more interesting and memorable, when it's all woven together in the one big story that it is.
It was better at my employer in the mid-2000's. Systems process projects (6-sigma stuff) paid out to stakeholders in the project proportional to the measured cost savings in results. The payouts were similarly cancelled not because of large payouts, but more so for chasing cost-savings instead of product improbements.
It being "in the privacy of their own home" isn't sufficient to say that the government shouldn't regulate it -- there are good reasons for certain activities to be regulated (that's not to say the government should be able to regulate ALL activities). I can run a sewage treatment plant next door to you in the privacy of my own home, but I doubt you'd be happy with it, and the same is true here--there are externalities that affect other people, such as more electricity being consumed (potentially driving up prices, and less directly potentially causing pollution) and causing fires due to poor electrical safety.
You’re talking about a “dog whistle.”[1] That’s quite an accusation to make without providing any evidence.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics
Salt the hashes, perhaps use PBKDF2. The problem is solved for passwords, just treat IPs like low entropy passwords.
The anti-apartheid movements in South Africa is another one whose violence has been nearly elided from the history people know. It was not an entirely nonviolent struggle, even if the eventual regime change happened peacefully. History is awfully messy, and so is the present.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Street_bombing
The fact that you refer to him as a mass murdered shows he wasn't exactly canonized. I also don't see how you read the quote as a justification unless all you focused on was the name.
It's just perceived selection pool, mostly consisting of guys they despise and use for feeling better about themselves and desirable (they will tell you openly once they are comfortable with you they would prefer those guys not to exist at all), or momentarily top guys that are difficult to reach even for the prettiest/smartest of them, and where there is a literally brutal competition between them.

If you are one of those top guys, you have to invent elaborate schemes how to reject a female so that she thinks it was her decision and leaves you alone ("how much nice/beta do I have to go until I start repulsing her?"), or just state/enforce expectations you have with them, maybe being shocked by mind-blowing admission that they would be willing to share you with other women only if you kept them as well.

The problem of this is that it leaves females that are used to one-time attention from a top guy thinking that's their attractiveness level for the rest of their life and anyone marrying them walks straight into hell of "being never enough". So overall for society enforced monogamy might be way better than what we have now, i.e. most females flocking to top guys and using the rest for money, validation or easy life until their attractiveness fades away and they become broken shelves of persons.

But hey, they front-loaded their life, trading exciting time in their prime for desolation of middle-to-older age. Just please don't force men to support them with taxes once they fall through the bottom. Those men didn't study/work hard to trade their prime years for supporting women that didn't give them time of day when they still were interested in them. That's not fair either; no wonder many of those men go for pathetic sex dolls and VR porn, or just leave society completely.
Where I work, we have 3 or so truly great PMs (ProDUCT Managers). I am so glad I work where I do.
Far too many people write desktop software in JS. I wish they wouldn't, but they do.
It sure sounds like it, thanks!

That blog's been posted often, but with little success: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=sappingattention.blog...

This thread is quite amusing, I think I'll fav it.
it is a terrible time to be an engineer in america

engineers are abused and treated like shit
"In one instance last year, the transformer outside a bootleg miner’s home overheated and touched off a grass fire, Chelan County PUD officials say."
I know more developers who would laugh at the idea of going to the US than wanting to go to the US. (Mostly qol reasons.)

And rents are still far away from the likes of SF/NYC/Seattle.
Lol, could you be more unspecific? I'm trying to help!
I also wouldn’t want to live with my extended family in the same house. I’m guessing that past a point, home is more of an active communal space than a private retreat, so what’s a few more people?
Its not that whitewashed, Helen Keller as a party member of Socialist party of America is on the first page of her Wikipedia, anybody having to look her up would have figured out and took way less effort than the female researcher with Kitty Marion.

And whats so controversial about being a socialist. The Europeans would be laughing at how "controversial" it is, seeing as the Socialist Party is the largest party in France and used to produce several French presidents.
Was it perhaps this? https://github.com/nodemailer/wildduck#wild-duck-mail-server

It's had a few submissions, but no discussion.https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=wildduck.email
To Keller the politics had a lot to do with blindness:

> I was appointed on a commission to investigate the conditions of the blind. For the first time I, who had thought blindness a misfortune beyond human control, found that too much of it was traceable to wrong industrial conditions, often caused by the selfishness and greed of employers. And the social evil contributed its share. I found that poverty drove women to a life of shame that ended in blindness.

If we're only telling her story as an allegory and divorce her from her personal viewpoints, we might as well tell fables.
The US has a president, most EU countries don't have most of the power concentrated in one person! as a side effect, US presidency is winner take all, that forces 2 party system. parliamentary systems don't have that side effect.

Add money contribution system of US to the mix and voila you are going to get the same system no matter where on earth it is located!
What languages do you know? With Qt, Python is an option but you're better off using C++. Bindings to other languages exist, of varying quality.
Like everything, a balance is needed. Systems without goals are how we end up with enterprise bureaucracy and resistance to change.
Nice! what would you add or would like to see?
You bring up a very thought provoking question. Looking at the many social movements in the past century, we have often lionized those who pursued non-violent methods, while downplaying those who pursued armed resistance.

But would the former have succeeded without the latter's help? Would MLK have succeeded without Malcolm X? Would Gandhi have succeeded without Subhas Chandra Bose? Would Nelson Mandela have succeeded without his willingness to use violence?

When looking at movements such as the American revolutionary war, the American civil war, and the Allies' resistance against Nazi occupation, the use of violence to achieve political goals, is both accepted and seen as necessary for the greater good. I've yet to meet anyone who deplored armed resistance in the above conflicts.

https://www.independent.co.uk/world/the-forgotten-violence-t...

http://www.latimes.com/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-nelson-mandel...
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Facebook actually makes money. That's the difference.
> why should people care about representations

Because ints are exact, while floats introduce errors with nearly every operation.

Representations are important in programming - different ones have different consequences.
Poland was a major player in the pre-industrial era (the period that you referred to in your original comment, I am not saying anything about the industrialization period). It accomplished it without any ventures to Asia or Africa. Your original claim still looks invalid to me.
The stock market is relatively stable. Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies can fluctuate hundreds or even thousands per day.

Crypto is meaningless, stock is actually owning part of a company.
QGtkStyle and the Gnome platform theme mean this isn't really an issue.
Transmitting power over long distances is capital-intensive. A gigawatt transmission line costs on the order of $2M / mile. So if you put your gigawatt factory 500 miles away from the generator, the utility has to spend $1B on installing wires. They price lower near the plant to reflect their costs, and encourage energy-intensive industries to locate nearby.
Absolutely. They're down on anime and older TV shows as well. Most of their new "Netflix original" content have been Chinese and Korean movies with rather limited appeal.
He had very strong views about revolution. He believed it was necessary and desirable at all costs (hence his actions).

He's lauding the role of the violent revolutionary without further reflection (because he'd already made his choice long ago) whether actions that generated waves of murder and generations of tyrants as a result were actually desirable.

I'd argue that results of his violence are a great argument against much of what he sad because he obviously didn't know how to control it or didn't care. As an example, he didn't want Stalin to come to power, but he was powerless to stop the bloodshed he'd put into motion and people suffered horrendously because of it. Sounds like a short-sighted and evil person.
Completely disagree about the fried chicken part of the equation. The more fried chicken the better.
When I first saw this I was hoping for a commentary on some secret, ancient feature on european distance measuring devices
Is this by Microsoft?
Kevin Kelly's New Rules for the New Economy. I gave away probably twenty copies to my friends to explain why I left one career to do a startup.

Course that book and Kevin Kelly post bubble were roundly criticized. But looking back he got most of it right. Sadly he stopped writing for quite a few years. That book motivated me that I was doing the right thing. That startup failed, but the next one didn't.
> That's a utilitarian argument and it assumes that independence could not or would not have been achieved some other way.

You cannot have movements involving millions of people fighting for justice and not have some of those people turn to violence. Demanding that such movements be completely non-violent means de facto endorsing the status quo.

> Are you for racism and bigotry because that's a part of nature? I know you aren't. Why is violence different?

I don't think a larger movement that is otherwise just is discredited just because some subset is driven by racism or bigotry, or engages in violence. E.g. I strongly support British peoples' exercise of their right of self determination through Brexit, even if a lot of people were motivated by xenophobia. Likewise Irish self determination, even though it involved a lot of violence and religious sectarianism. There is a huge difference between discouraging racism/bigotry/violence at an individual level, and discrediting the efforts of groups of people merely because some portion of them cannot overcome those human tendencies.

To use an example: Do you think that the Irish should've lived under the thumb of the British until such a time that it could've achieved independence in a way that did not involve violence or Catholic/Protestant animosity?
You are not your thoughts. Took me 45 years to fully understand it.
Amazing that the memory card was still intact after the camera caught fire.
Facebook and Snap became part of most people’s lives within a few years. Bitcoin has been around for 10, and aside from trading bitcoin, has found very limited use. That’s what makes it different. Every prediction for what Bitcoin would be good for, and what would justify its price has failed to come to fruition.
In the intro paragraphs is this sentence, which you would probably agree with. It sets the tone for the whole article.

“Regardless of how you feel about writing (and reading) documentation - I think most of us agree that we should always try to make our code, and the APIs we design, as easy to understand as possible.”
Your solution to bitcoin mining is to raise power rates for everyone? Wow.
> Namely, he's calling on people not to blame others or society at large for their problems, but to improve their own life and become a desirable potential mate.

When Peterson calls on males to improve themselves, a substantial portion of his audience hears this as an exhortation to stop bitching and moaning, get off their asses... and then learn seduction techniques, push for political changes that would guarantee them a mate, or other steps that might be considered coercive or antisocial. Regardless of Peterson’s own position, never underestimate the ability of his statements to be interpreted in various fashions due to the seething anger of some of his listeners.
Shares give you a stake in a productive(hopefully) enterprise, cryptocurrency does not give you anything but a token.

This is the problem that Buffett has with cryptocurrencies.

When you buy shares in a company you are buying claims to its future earnings at least in theory.
Theory being that should the company not serve shareholder needs you can force the company to distribute the earnings/dissolve/merge etc etc.
(Not going into the whole modern abomination to strip lesser shareholders of their rights to vote as Google, Facebook, Snap have done with their tiered stocks).

When you are buying Bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency and yes that means ICOs too you are buying digital tokens with no claims to anything besides being a proof of having that token. It is solely 'castles in the air' which Keynes so long ago stated regarding stock market but in the stock market it is not the sole factor.

In some ways cryptocurrency is closer to regular currency but not backed by the government's mandate to receive taxes in said currency.

In other ways cryptocurrency is closer to tulips,gold,MagicTheGathering cards in that the value is based on something that some number of people agree on(ie the market).

Except cryptocurrency has no utility besides being a token, wherein tulips, gold and MagicTheGathering cards possess some utility outside being a token of exchange.
Glad I'm not the only one. I thought I was going to see a slow progression of measuring devices and how we went from a somewhat straight stick with notches to what we have today.