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> Nearly 70% of gold is actually used as jewelry and in industrial applications (based on a diagram linked from an HN comment). So after 10,000+ years of trust building, the portion of gold used as a store of value is perhaps still less than $3 trillion. (Also, $20,000 Bitcoin was a tiny blip. The value was not sustained.)

I'd argue that jewelry is also a store of value. It doesn't serve a practical purpose, and was traditionally given as a gift for hard times. Industrial applications, fair enough. This also plainly written in your quote from [1]

> Bitcoin is not really rare and many other recent variants are "better" in a number of ways. Would the network effect be sufficient for its valuation to come close to physical gold? Warren Buffett, Robert Shiller, a well-known Nobel prize winner in economics, and several other respected economists say unlikely.

Bitcoin is exceedingly rare. Only 21 million will be created, and a non trivial portion of them is lost in wallets that no one controls. In [1] he states that "doesn't know what to make of bitcoin ultimately.". In [2] one of the main arguments seems to be "Practically no one, outside of computer science departments, can explain how cryptocurrencies work." which is true for the modern banking system too. Besides, it really isn't hard to explain the idea and workings, without going into the technical details.

One of the things that could super charge bitcoin is LN. The potential is enormous if adopted by companies.

The article in [3] shows a fundamental misunderstanding of bitcoin when it claims

> Bitcoin will be “mined” in diminishing quantities until it is exhausted in 2040, having delivered 21 million digital coins. In other words, there is no elasticity in the currency. This means that long before the mine is exhausted, the currency will run into the same problem as the gold standard: not providing enough money to support a growing economy and population.

Gold is limited by the smallest amount of gold you can reliably trade. Bitcoin have no such restriction. As the value of a whole bitcoin increases, you can trade a smaller and smaller fraction. At the current value 130 "Satoshi", which the name for the current smallest fraction possible to trade, is worth $0.01, so bitcoin can reach a value of $1,000,000 and still have the same monetary "resolution" as the current USD.

The last paragraph might on the face of it seems to contradict my statement about the rarity earlier. But there is a key difference. Because bitcoin is in limited supply, but possible to trade very small fractions of it, and ability to allow smaller fractions if needed, means that the currency is more likely to be deflationary, i.e. the money I save will not automatically be worth less because I do not use them.
Until someone gets into your phone using your finger while you are sleeping. Or muggers steal your phone AND cut off your finger with a cigar cutter so they can unlock it.

Having a PIN is much more secure, as bandits can't use your appendages to get into your phone. I really don't get why people jumped on the bio-metrics bandwagon so quickly. If my Password or PIN gets compromised I can change it. if your fingerprint, or iris gets cloned there's nothing you can do.

Bio-metric security looks cool in movies, but in real life it's an utterly pointless less-secure gimmick.
One additional question?;

are you referring on to a case where you have not met the regulations (from the perspective of the information and options you give to your end-users) and authoritative entity comes to you with warning which you are not going to notice

-OR-

are you referring on to a case where personal user data is stored and used without end-user explicit consent and/or knowledge and/or that data "leakage" has caused/will probably cause in the future real damage to this user
No, that’s when they get another bailout ;)
Further than that, if you're driving west at sundown it's much safer to be wearing sunglasses than squinting.
i would buy a phone with a good hw based keyboard immediately. I was just thinking tonight, after correcting my 400th mistake, how weird it is we as consumers put up with this inefficient on screen keyboard.
But Rails is nice to work with and whispers 99% of websites will never need to reach Twitter-scale.
Your experience is anecdotal. So is mine, and I haven't seen a single hardware keyboard in use -- not a single one, from any manufacturer -- since Nokia N900 was a thing almost ten years ago.
I doubt they will get anything near the max penalty, if they get fined anything at all, since we're now in the 1-year grace period.
Audi/VW/Toyota/Holden/Ford/GM didn't name their feature "autopilot" though.
That is called high-level synthesis and there are some tools for this available (and I know at least one company who produces a proprietary toolchain - including hardware - for this).

In my experience, high-level synthesis makes things a lot easier for the programmer, but you still have to be aware of very low-level details (and you still can get bitten by abstractions that you don't fully understand).
I am pretty sure VW is advertising them as driver assits and not as autopilot.
Then call it $0 to $7000 in 10 years, it doesn't make it any less incredible.
What seems difficult about facebook search ?
Using for yoga unlikely falls under fair use
A client-side encrypted PasteBin
The Model 3 does have a driver-facing camera, but would require a software update to enable eye tracking, assuming the resolution and angle are good enough.
Most of these comments are insane. Probably not even people. Did any of you listen to the 911 call and watch the video? http://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article192244734.html
> But you don’t “constantly” exert force on the steering wheel. You only exert force when turning. Otherwise you are just resting your hands on it

Even if you're driving on a perfectly straight road, you're not just resting your hands on the steering wheel, you're constantly adjusting it to keep the car travelling straight. Most roads aren't even that straight to begin with, so even more constant adjustments are required.
I'm glad someone mentioned this. It's frustrating that the general public doesn't understand what the word 'autopilot' means... Otto the automatic pilot from the movie Airplane! isn't what an automatic pilot is.

However, since it is commonly misrepresented, they should change the name of Tesla's system.
Gradient Topography emits SVG, so you’re clearly not allergic to vector formats; yet Trianglify and Particles emit PNG because they’ve been drawn on a canvas rather than with SVG in the first place.

Being able to emit both PNG and SVG would be best, instructing to use SVG where possible because it’s better than PNG.
I have had loads, many of them are telling me that they will no longer be able to email me unless I respond. Which means I get a load less spam email from next week.
> if there still isn’t a better solution than using chrome.

A better solution is use WPF for the complete GUI.

Text & typography, raster and vector graphics are very compatible to HTML5. Effects, animations and templating are far superior. The only areas where HTML5 is winner are styling, maybe layout, and definitely the labor market i.e. it’s easier and cheaper to find a front-end developer than a WPF developer.

Also WPF is better integrated into Windows. Its easier to implement per-monitor DPI awareness (starting from .NET 4.6.2, released in 2016), easier to support accessibility (narrator & others), etc..
Where do you see the "no warnings are required"?

Article 58 says that fines can be issued along with, or in place of, other enforcement action. That isn't "no warnings". Plus if you read the text of the law you would note that it is very clear that the size of the fine is dependent on 11 factors, many of which revolve around future compliance and efforts made by the business to resolve the breach and showing willingness to conply.
> Weren't you the one previously saying that don't panic (https://jacquesmattheij.com/gdpr-hysteria) because of GDPR back in the day?

Yep.

> And now you are advocating that they should have already complied with GDPR given its impact!

Obviously yes, because today the law becomes enforceable. Not having done the required work is just plain dumb.

> Make up your mind.

I made up my mind well over a year ago, spent the time required to be compliant (a couple of days) and that was that. Instapaper being as small as it is would not have had to spend more time than that unless they are doing something they shouldn't be doing, are unable to plan or changed tactics in the last 2 days. After all, if they weren't going to make the deadline they had a very long time to announce that, instead they announce it the day before the law becomes enforceable. That's just not ok. At a minimum they should have had their export facility up and running.

> Stop attacking people who haven't complied because small developers have other things rather than trying to figure out whether they have to redo their logs if a user asks their data to be deleted.

I suspect you are in the same boat?

> This is almost bullying behavior.

Right. Well, sorry, it really isn't, it's the perspective of someone who has been in business for a very long time and who feels that the GDPR addresses some fairly urgent matters. Companies have been running roughshod over users' privacy rights for decades and it is one of the worst things to come out of the internet. The level of tracking and data brokering that is going on is utterly disgusting.

If you weren't doing anything you shouldn't be doing the GDPR is going to be a pretty simple affair if you're a small company. Larger companies will have some more work but have more resources.
You don't need a new employee, just someone who is assigned the task to deal with queries that come in. For a small start-up this is not likely to amount to many requests, and even then the requests from the public first go through the regulator. So many requests will be weeded out at that stage with the aim of reducing the burden on businesses, only requiring them to act when the regulator has identified a breach. At this point they have to fix it, if they don't fix it, or don't try to fix it (fizimg it is usually by deleting the customer data) then they are open to prosecution. If they fix it the regulator isn't then going to seek huge fines, they are aimed at non-compliance firms who have no intention of complying (e.g because it is their entire business model).
The only thing I've ever found Cruise Control useful for is avoiding a traffic ticket. If I see a police officer patrolling it's a tool I can use to go at slightly under the posted speed and only worry about traffic around me.

When using the cruise control I find I actually have to pay /more/ attention to the vehicle actively, as I need to be aware of when to cut off an external (otherwise) uncontrolled system. If I'm controlling acceleration it's handled by more unconscious portions of my mind.

I'm also a much more alert driver and far more aware of my present state of tiredness when I have to maintain interaction with the vehicle directly, including minute adjustments in speed with the accelerator.
> "Autopilot" aka adaptive cruise control is going to continue failing since drivers think it's more than that.

> Turn the thing off if hands aren't on the wheel, end of story.

Spot on. IMO calling this "Autopilot" was a big marketing misstep-- it should've been called "Advanced cruise control" or something along those lines.

"Autopilot" yells "this car can drive itself", which is great marketing, but if your consumers have that idea no matter how much you warn them they'll assume it's probably not that dangerous to take their hands off the wheel and leave the car unchecked for a minute.
We do, sometimes. I remember a Peugeot-Citroen designer in the 90s complaining that he couldn’t tell the latest Rover apart from the Citroen he’d designed a year before.
Just out of curiosity, is there a specific reason you don't want to use face unlock?
Better click bait is my speculation. I haven’t seen any comparative statistics of adaptive cruise control accidents. Would be interesting to see. But then the features are relatively different so hard to compare.
You mean "The most resilient torrent website in the Galaxy"? The TPB crew was ahead of the times.
Grace period was for past 2 years and it is over and surely, they will be warned first, but I bet noyb isn't the only one filling complaint.

https://iapp.org/news/a/icos-wood-gdpr-grace-period-no-way/
In the Uber self-driving accident in Arizona, the Uber supposedly sped up as well or was in a speed up mode after coming over a slower bridge speed of 25 to 40 mph on Mill Ave. I wonder if there is an issue with some of the LIDAR software that coincides with speeding up or a state issue in that condition, not able to identify the objects correctly in that state.

The Uber classified the pedestrian pushing the bike across the street as an 'unknown object' and the driver was supposed to take over but did not and the Uber kept accelerating. [1][2]

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/19/17140936/uber-self-drivin...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNDtfHSD_M4
General public has little idea of what a plane autopilot can or cannot do. Somewhat ironically, the Tesla Autopilot is quite close to a real plane autopilot in that it’s a rather dumb system that cannot adjust to unexpected events. But Joe R. Driver reads Tesla marketing material and doesn’t realize that, dictionary definition notwithstanding.
Tesla's brand power has substantially raised the public interest factor in any story involving it, including accidents. There are no single-edged swords in PR as it seems.
Lots of work to be done in Malaysia.  how we'll help
You’re the first person I’ve seen mention property taxes. They are getting out of hand around these parts,
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> The irony that some of this liquidity is your very own retirement funds is not lost on me. A self-feeding loop.

This “self-feeding loop” is actually completely expected and not at all ironic.

One of the core benefits of credit markets is the ability to shift your income across your lifetime: to support spikes in spending like buying a house, or fill periods of lower income like retirement.
Also there was a car between the truck and the Tesla for some time. Since they are not specific about the timing, the car in front might have just avoided the truck which leaves little time for sensors below the lights to even register that there is something else. Does Tesla also have sensors at the top to see two+ cars ahead?
Without this verification you have high confidence no one can know. After this, you are suddenly trusting companies to do the right thing.

Renting a porn vhs and having the guy photocopy and file your ID is a much bigger deterrant than just having to show your ID to the clerk.
I don't think it has anything to do with "Silicon Valley darlings" (of which Uber is certainly not anymore). It has more to do with "super cool future tech" that they really want to see implemented in their lifetimes - so much so that they may make dubious arguments to support thier position.
It's not as complicated a problem. Turning off the feature when hands aren't at the wheel, or not calling it "Autopilot" so people don't assume it's smarter than it is, IMO, should be enough.
Have you read the law?

Did you start working on compliance in a timely manner or did you become aware of this a few weeks ago?

Does your company have a clue about what it is doing in general?

Do you take a user centric approach to data ownership?

If those are all 'yes' then compliance is easy. If you don't care, do illegal stuff, are clueless or don't care about your users then compliance is going to be hard, that's what the law intends because those companies should change their ways.
FWIW, Philip Bloom appears to be British and we don’t have “fair use” per se. We have “fair dealing”, which is more limited.
Unfortunately this.

Engineers make up a tiny percentage of phone buyers, and a feature list that will excite engineers has very little in common with a list that will make most consumers hand over money.
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The commission is appointed by the member state governments. Those governments in turn are elected. Commission members are therefore rather similar to regular cabinet members in member states which usually aren't directly elected by neither populus nor parliament, but chosen by the head of government.

Personally, I think it would be better if the EU parliament chose the commission members. But it's not like the citizens of the EU had no say in who gets to be a commissioner at all: you can cast your vote differently in the next memberstate election if you don't like your government or the person it makes a commissioner.
I am not talking about ACC. I’m talking about autosteering. But it’s interesting you concede the primary benefit is paying less attention. If you did that in a Tesla you would be violating the TOS and be responsible for resulting accidents. Ergo, what is the TOS-compatible benefit?
It's not actually. What I didn't say, is that my other half works for a large Law firm. Most of the Partners there (100+) have switched from iPhones to Blackberry KeyONEs as they can actually work on them because of the proper keyboards.

At the end of the day, keyboardless and keyboard phones CAN co-exist. I was just disagreeing that with the point that no-one wants a keyboard phone.
What do you mean by "1-D"? If it doesn't measure height, then it would still be 2-D.

EDIT: it's a 1-D array of distances, ie, an array of polar coordinates on the 2-D plane. So, it's 2-D data.
Facebook’s GDPR modal explains what they do with your data and why it’s legitimate. You can opt out of targeted advertising. The only thing that Facebook doesn’t offer is not filtering your News Feed by interest, which they see as a key feature.
> You don't ignore a law for 2 years

And that's only GDPR. We've had PECR (in UK) since 2002 and DPA since 1995.
As an autopilot regular, I hate reading stories such as this. Just last night I had a 150 mile drive in non-perfect conditions (light rain and dusk) and had Autopilot (v1 with a single camera) engaged for the vast majority of it. It is probably my favourite feature of my Tesla. It is significantly better than Audi’s lane assist features I have used and genuinely reduces strain on long journeys. I now perform journeys without hesitation (sometimes looking forward to them coupled with a supercharger stop to recharge myself) when before I’d expect to arrive at my destination stressed and exhausted.

However, I will admit that to use Autopilot safely and effectively you MUST understand the system’s inputs, what its behaviour is based on those input (and driver controlled variables) and what its limitations are. I am a software developer by trade and whilst I couldn’t hope to replicate the autopilot software stack, I probably could write a detailed pseudo code representation of the systems behaviour (without factoring in sensor failure etc).
This kind of shit isn't even close to the threat model that 99% of users care about. If you're the kind of person who needs to worry about Mossad breaking into your phone, you know who you are and you're not using fingerprint unlock.
> Hakka in Chinese really is just an archaic name for migrant, which is why I say they're defined by migration and the conflict with locals really caused them to identify with one another and group together

If this were an accurate description, it would be very surprising for all the Hakka in an area to speak their own language, distinct from the local languages.

They do, though.
The manufacturer should not be giving such unrealistic instructions in the first place. Everyone damn well knows that people will treat this like full autopilot. And everyone damn well knows that if you give people the chance to be a bit lazy and stop paying attention to the road, they will! Tesla knows what human behaviour is like.

We've been saying this from the beginning. This half-baked "autopilot" will only end in blood.
" You do need to have a privacy policy that discloses what data you’re collecting, how you’ll use that data, and provide someone signing up to your service with a means to consent to data collection. It can just be a checkbox "
I can tell you're not familiar with the latest C++ developments. RAII solves deadlocks so do things like std::lock_guard. C++ 11 is as safe as you're ever going to get while still maintaining fine granularity over the control of the system.

C++ applications are some of the most vastly complicated programs in existence so I don't follow the argument that they break on projects larger than a breadbox.
Lets change the marketing, then people won't die from car accidents anymore.
Thank you, I will take a look!
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This article is very reassuring for me to read, as I own several side projects that store user accounts and send emails! Thank you so much!
> Broadly speaking, rents are tied to incomes, house prices to the availability and cost of credit

Mind citing a source for this? I've seen a situation where rents and house prices didn't both rise together. Maybe not precisely the same rate, there may be some noise from other factors, but within a few percentage points of each other.

Rents may be somewhat related to the incomes of the people who are renting in the area, but these people are not necessarily the average population. In a housing shortage the people with high paying jobs rent decent places, everyone who makes less is forced to live with roommates or commute from further away and many leave the area altogether.

And then in your example, that's not necessarily so crazy. Some of that $45k goes towards the mortgage interest which is tax deductible (in the US, not sure about Australia), and of course over time more and more of it goes to the principle so effectively paying yourself.
Why is brexit relevant?
Is it hard to create a Tor node? And is it juridically safe to be an owner of a Tor node?
I would rather say, it allows me to pay more attention to other things, like the traffic around me, or doing lane changes etc.

But that TOS thing is kind of weird. What is "not paying attention"? Looking at a sign while the car in front of you slams the breaks? Technically you are not paying attention to the car at that moment and breaking the TOS.
> His posts were clearly politically motivated, zealot-type propaganda.

Oh my. Terribly sorry for putting up a political manifesto.

> Either self-interest or useful-idiot.

Take your pick. No third options? Such as a genuine desire to take some of the heat off for SMEs, of which I own several and participate in several others?

> For some reason he is such a fan of this legislation that he is willing to overlook its glaring problems.

Yes, I'm a fan of this legislation. I also was a fan of its predecessor and it's a joy to see companies that don't have their house in order make all kinds of panicked moves. I have a pretty good behind the scenes view of what goes on with respect to privacy abuse by corporations due to the nature of my work. Those companies that do illegal stuff, don't give a damn about their users and that in general are clueless (and which in turn increases the chances of their online properties being compromised) will be the ones that run into the 'glaring problems' The only thing that I see as troublesome with the law is the lack of reciprocity and enforcement across borders. The EU picked a complex and for really small companies expensive way to resolve that and that's something that I see as a real issue.

> No objectivity there, I am afraid.

I think you mean to say you don't agree with me.
Build a water trough.
Tesla's marketing has directly contributed to a number of deaths now.
You're making it sound as if Tesla invented the phenomena of distracted drivers that cause traffic accidents.
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