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Not a single item has arrived broken or non functional. I’ve had some extremely discerning buyers. I don’t sell generic stuff for ref. Specialist restored items. Mainly specialist equipment 40-50 years old that has been restored to new condition.
Or did it already burst like that? Bitcoin was at ~$20k, now it's ~$6k.

The dot com bubble didn't have a contraction like that before it popped. That was the pop.
Some PC games have ad-tracking software installed
Too much detail for me!!!

I'll assume that the cubits will be able to do total enumeration right away!

Now, while we are waiting on that, if there are some problems in combinatorial optimization to solve, trot them out and we will see. Maybe for some of the problems, current techniques can make big bucks.
I've got this smart friend (hi Shaun!) who over malted beverages made the statement that Blockchain could replace the Big 5 accounting firms, because everyone's books would be out in the open at any time, and gee wiz wouldn't that be a great thing. I see a parallel between what he was saying and what you've written about how great it would be if we had all this open business logic from which we could all benefit.

Except that's not how the world works at all. Having those contacts in one's own Rolodex is exactly how many top salespeople get hired; they have a direct disincentive in sharing. Same for business logic and processes. Accounting? Companies _do not_ want to make it obvious how hard they have to work to make the books look good those last few days of the quarter in order to appease the street, thus there is zero incentive to sharing that data.

I like your ideas. There are a lot of nifty ideas floating around in Blockchain world. But so many go against market incentives, making them non-starters. Likewise, so many of these big ideas are better accomplished technically using other technology than Blockchain. The point of trust pops up a lot but... we have a legal system for that, and the track record of security issues does not give me hope that Blockchain is really the answer.
Not really. Wendelstein is not for practical usage of fusion. It's only there to make a point that the Tokomak design is inferior, and all the money should have went to the germans instead.

But thanksfully both teams are working together. We will see if something better will come out of it. Even if I'm extremely sceptical on both.
“This can lead people to dismiss them, in the same way people dismissed early smartphones because they traded off computing power and screen size for portability and new sensors.”

Right ...
I'd wager that purely economic concerns ("oh no, my property values!") are only a part of it. I think some of them don't want "temporary" people (i.e., renters) living in their neighborhood, or high-density buildings blocking their view, or an influx of neighbors increasing traffic and decreasing parking. Or change, in general, from a status quo that fits them just fine.
A lot of registrars get away with selling WHOIS privacy packages, but now thanks to the GDPR, most personally identifying whois data is private by default.

I would get contacted occasionally about selling domain names. I did take one company up on their offer for $10k. In retrospect, I do kinda regret selling that name. It was one of the rare six-character long .com domains.
In my world, which is the same as yours, where the word "propoganda" has a definition, I consider all news which fits the definition to in fact be propaganda, yes.

Let me ask you this? Do you consider Fox News propaganda? How about MSNBC? CNN? If not, which shows specifically? I'm fairly certain the _majority_ of what those networks air falls squarely in the propaganda bucket because what they air is primarily dictated by how much money they think it will make them.

An example of news which I would not consider propaganda is PBS Newshour. In general they are pretty good. Not easy to tell though; you really have to do a lot of work on your own to be certain.
Any thoughts from the Dota team on how drafting heroes will work by the time we get to TI? Am also curious if you've seen more experimental drafts in early results that aren't as popular in the pro scene.
"All of that said, I'd still stand by my original point that newer designs are well-understood and dramatically better in these respects than most currently operating plants, and are only not being built (at least in the US and Europe) for political reasons."

Well your original point was written a bit more absolute...

With this I go along. And as I said, I also prefer fission as the short term solution. But only as a transition on the way to fully renewable (or allmost full, I am for pragmatism).
As there are just many problem involved with nuclear power, like danger and waste and the need for uranium, etc. that you would not have with solar energy. So this is the goal for me, fission power only as a way to get there or where there are not really other options. (submarines, spacemissions, etc.)
Do you think that the “smash the board” case isn’t considered? Not that any given game theoretic analysis isn’t flawed, but the “madman attack” is one of the main scenarios that’s been considered in blockchain from the original bitcoin paper onwards.
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This sounds surreal.
The godfather of AI - Geoff Hinton - hasn't sat down in 13 years
In case anyone cares: programming, downhill biking, frisbee golf, Rubiks "cubing" and photography. I get to enjoy all of these hobbies alone or in a group and without a fixed schedule! At least for me these are very rewarding, but sadly you cannot cheat your way to progress to more difficult challenges. Anyway it is quite obvious or measurable what you can and cannot do, and you learn how to learn new skills.
I mean... under that definition isn't all media propaganda? At that point does it just depend on whether or not you choose to use the term in a pejorative manner?

If any biased claim can be called propaganda - then it seems the word loses it's meaning.

Perhaps the word propaganda is losing it's weight over time? Do we need a specific word for state sanctioned biased media? Or perhaps one specifically for attacks on political states or policies?
Most of the people on hacker news, myself included, aren’t skeptical of the technologicy of block chain. I grant Block Chain’s central technical premise, no other medium/platform/whatever can create decentralized trust wherein all you have to trust is the network. Where I think most of the criticism comes from is that many of us don’t see why this decentralization is actually all that valuable. Currency seems like the most likely candidate, but even it has proven finicky. What efficiencies are gained from decentralized trust. I’m skeptical that decentralized trust creates that much of an improvement.

Case-in-point:
Block chain for supply chain problems was touted and hyped a few years ago, only to fall flat on its face. Why? For most companies decentralized trust in their supply chain didn’t provide that much of a benefit. I know a bit about supply chains, and from what I have heard from most supply chain experts (yes I know a fair number of supply chain experts) centrally managed trust works fine for them.

That’s the extrapolated crux of the issue. I am open to being proven wrong, but so far no one has ever been able to calmly explain to me what fields would see a 10x improvement from decentralized trust.

We’ve been dealing with centrally authenticated trust and decentralized unauthenticated trust for 100k+ years as a species. Block chain promises decentralized authenticated trust and it delivers, but why should I care? Is it actually going to be beneficial. No one can argue that the jury is still out.
Check out the guy who still owns milk.com:

http://milk.com/value/

Jesus.com was once owned by a guy who offered "Showers with Jesus" (he had long hair). ... or was it baths with Jesus. It was one of those.
Obviously the point is that the difference between the West and China, is that here we believe that censorship by the government should be illegal. Obviously if you want to live in China, go right the heck ahead.
I don't think IPFS is uncensorable; if you have MITM on a user (like the Chinese government does), can't you just block any requests for a certain hash?
With IPO rumors existing for at least 4 years and a price under $2B, is this a good exit for the company’s leadership and employees? (Understanding that an exit is better than nothing at all!)
I did not say public. Private blockchains are a thing. And it's not just an internal database. They are forkable and potentially run by the customer themselves or in their own AWS private cloud or wherever. But by following the protocol, they could easily switch providers, or integrate several clients that provide different features around the same data. The customer can truly own their data and the side chain can interact with the main chain where it makes sense.

Lots of technical problems there, that's why I say it's a ways off. But it's all doable.
Great points. I’d love to know what Steve would have done with Blockchain (or when). Well...
Volkswagen's Electric Car Just Broke the All-Time Record at Pikes Peak
I would argue there's value beyond distributed trust: smart contracts (though you could argue that this is merely an application built upon the concept of distributed trust), the tokenization of physical assets (think real estate, oil and gas exploration/drilling/royalties, etc.), and more generally the ability for money to become a "product". These are all domains that blockchain is enabling, though it remains to be seen whether these problems/opportunities are solved via blockchain or not.
Protocols don't necessary assume that players are profit-seeking. Ethereum's Casper for example allows that players may wish to smash the board; however, it makes attacks very expensive, limits the damage they can do, and makes it easy for the network to recover.

Subtle ways to get extra gains can be a problem; e.g. people didn't figure out selfish mining attacks until Bitcoin was several years old. Cryptoeconomics is a new field, and it advances as people discover attacks and invent solutions to them.
Microsoft explicitly sells a license to use their ‘secret sauce’. That’s their business.

I’m not licensing the ‘secret sauce’ that runs my business, so I don’t want it exposed in the blockchain by my CRM software.

Why in the world would I want everyone to be able to see who my hot leads are anyway? Wouldn’t that put me at a huge disadvantage?
While most of the specific companies in the dot-com bubble ended up going bust, the underlying technology was certainly not a bubble - I mean, you're posting this on the Internet, to people all across the globe who you have never met. That was unthinkable 25 years ago. If you invested in Amazon in 1997, or started working at Google in 2000, or even just learned HTML in 1998 and started a niche e-commerce business, you're probably doing pretty well. A lot better than the folks who just dismissed the Internet as a fad, at least.
I've only ever seen one person successfully negotiate a PIP and keep their job (for another year, until they took a much better offer at a company that paid them more and treated them better).

The biggest thing is to ensure that the targets in the PIP are both realistic and measurable. All too often I've seen people being asked to meet a bar far higher than is possible (and not even met by top achievers at a company) and with no real way to measure it other than "if I think you're doing good enough".
It does kind of seem that way. At least, what people generally call "mainstream media.. ;)"
> Trust is a new software primitive from which other components can be constructed.

This kind of talk is extremely misleading. At the end of the day, we're still people buying and selling goods and services from other people. The most blockchain can do is remove some types of middle-men (financial or otherwise), but the endpoints will always be human. Trust between humans will always be a requirement to buy and sell goods and services.

Just like chatting with someone over an encrypted channel can't make you trust the person you're chatting with, only the channel itself.

Perhaps blockchain's "killer app" is an automated escrow service. How exciting... :-/
I wonder what sort of performance impact this has on American internet speeds.

At the very least, AT&T might be limited from upgrading their equipment until the NSA can revise their monitoring systems to keep up.
The world is full of shades of gray. Saying there is a 25% wage gap may not be technically incorrect, but it also doesn't go into _why_ that gap exists. It doesn't say how that number was arrived at or if it is the best representation we can come up with.

If you think the world is black and white you're going to lack understanding on almost any subject because, in the real world, nuance is a thing.
In a given year, Oliver's content reaches dramatically more than 10x the number of people that VOA does.

He has a platform and he's pushing an ideological view. He isn't just a dude with a comedy show on HBO. That same argument was used to try to undercut critics of Jon Stewart, who similarly had a massive reach and was aggressively pushing a specific ideological view, using comedy to do so. It doesn't matter if you're getting your point across with comedy or non-comedy as the means.

Edit reply to pvg below (my replies are throttled):

Reach isn't necessarily consumption. Oliver actually has massive consumption, VOA does not. VOA's political propaganda doesn't have the implied consumption that is claimed there. Not even remotely close.

If you want to see just how weak VOA actually is, check out their YouTube channel. 187,000 subscribers, hardly anybody is watching their content. Where is the massive audience? Where is the epic demand implied by 236 million? There is blatantly minimal interest in VOA. They're lucky if they get 1,000 views on a video. That's after ten years on YouTube and publishing numerous videos per day (which, again, nobody is watching).

https://www.youtube.com/user/VOAvideo

Last Week Tonight has 6.2 million subscribers. 1.6 billion views in just four years. A typical video is getting three or four million views (3,000x+ of what VOA is seeing on their YouTube channel).

https://www.youtube.com/user/LastWeekTonight

Oliver actually has vast media consumption, VOA has reach with a small amount of consumption.

I also never said that having a viewpoint is propaganda directed at other countries, nor did I say that propaganda is shorthand for what I disagree with, you're inventing all of that.
There are several good Python books to start with depending on what you're trying to build. Many of them are published by O'Reilly. Have you considered going this route?
React Native is far from dead. I suspect your conflating "React Native isn't good for Airbnb" with "React Native is dead". The reality is Airbnb already had mobile applications. They wanted to use React Native to potentially accelerate their application development. However, after a couple of years, they still had a hybrid application with both purely native screens and a some React Native screens. I think the number was roughly 200 out of 800 screens? Anyway, point is if you're in the same situation as Airbnb, yes, React Native as it stands right now might not be the ideal for making a hybrid application.

If you're not in Airbnb's shoes, React Native may be a completely viable way to build your applications. One hint is that hybrid is harder than it seems. That is is more than just a technical problem. I'm going to avoid rehashing the Airbnb articles but you can read them to get a sense of the pain points. To continue the hint though, it's worth looking at those for whom React Native is working. I've noticed most seem to be greenfield applications developed from the start in React Native.
I think there’s definitely an argument to be made in that direction, but it runs into some problems. Guns were state of the art quite a while ago, and the current state of the art is just too dangerous for individual control. I don’t think many want to live next to someone who is exercising their right to grenades, NBC weapons, missiles and rockets. If we look beyond guns to the broader issue of self defense, and take that more to mean armaments, then we have to seriously entertain civilian ownership of tanks, jets, and the rest of a modern arsenal.

I’m not prepared to argue in favor of that, but without it, there is no real argument that some man-portable guns represent a credible self defense when compared to a government. If we look out another hundred years when robots are the majority combatants of developed nations, the issue becomes even more difficult to manage. The argument can still be made that a well armed populace wouldn’t be confronted by a well armed military as in the US declaring martial law and the army being turned loose. I’ve heard staunch 2nd amendment advocates point to insurgencies in everything from Vietnam to Baghdad as examples of how a relatively lightly armed populace can hold off the US. Even if we accept that st face value, the proposition certainly dies in the face of automated warfare.
> where this idea comes from that the Internet must be archived.

Once newspapers finally kick the bucket (which is happening right now, in slow motion), all the information about our world will only be available in this ephemeral form - ready to be rewritten, manipulated or discarded by our rulers like China does now.

Surely that is a terrifying thought, even if you haven't read 1984 or Fahrenheit 451...?

The accountability that comes from historical records is one of the pillars of democratic societies. Losing it will plunge us in a very technological version of the Middle Ages.
More breathless fawning rhetoric and nebulous jargon, but I guess the target audience is blockchain enthusiasts so that makes sense. At the end of the day it's their money, so what I do I care?

I find it frustrating when I hear comparisons of the blockchain to internet and cellphone communication platforms. The potential use cases for the internet and cellphones were immediately obvious (instant remote communication) and available on day one, compared with blockchains which has given us bitcoin and nothing else of unique value. I actually think bitcoin is pretty damn cool and a marvel of software engineering, but it's a fact that it's mostly useless for the vast majority of people and certainly not in any way comparable to the impact of cell phones or THE LITERAL INTERNET; the insinuation is absurd and intellectually lazy based on blockchain's track record.

> We believe that just as the last three megatrends -- mobile, social, and cloud -- intersected and reinforced each other, so will the next three megatrends -- next-gen computing devices, AI, and crypto.

This kind of rhetoric inspires derision.
>I mean... under that definition isn't all media propaganda? At that point does it just depend on whether or not you choose to use the term in a pejorative manner?

If you define "all media" as MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News, then sure. Of course it's a spectrum as well. For example I'd consider PBS a _far_ less biased source than e.g. Fox News, but I'm sure they have their moments as well. I'm not sure writing everything off as propaganda (or not) is useful in any way.
Well, yea. I'd be surprised[1] if it wasn't on the list.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
It’s also possible to be Marxist, socialist, and vehemently anti-Stalinist.
Once again, it seems like people who read dictionaries missed the boat.

Propaganda has a specific legal definition which maybe is more relevant than what you found in Webster.
There is no known proof of separation between BQP and NP.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BQP for the relation of BQP to other complexity classes.
It is just the next round of the "Uber for X". Little attention is paid specifically to what that technology and business model provide. We end up getting hundreds of startups that use the buzzword to secure funding but quickly flame out when they realize that the advantages don't really matter to their specific market. However that doesn't mean there are not viable "Uber for X" or blockain business ideas out there.
> These are all domains that blockchain is enabling

It is reasonable to be sceptical when someone proposes a new domain that doesn’t solve any problems.
Thanks for the list of books!
It's a lot easier to find a new job when you already have one. Plus, you don't lose income while you search for another one.
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Someone should

A) run a neural network across thousands of historical economic / financial metrics and find the best predictor
B) ??????
C) Profit!!!
Why would a customer fork their own blockchain?

If it’s not public what’s the point of using a blockchain? How is it not just a secured database?

Databases can be moved between providers. You can choose where/how to interact with them.
You can now download iOS 12’s public beta
> These are people's livelihoods we're talking about here.

You can leave off the 'lihood' bit and it is just as true if not more so.

Recessions kill people.
Thank you! I will pass the hint regarding the Device Manager on to our automation people!

But as far as I recall, the software runs on DOS (for real!), and attempts to run it inside a VM have not been very successful, because the link between the software and the PCL is very timing-sensitive or something like that. FreeDOS did not work, either; I got to install MS-DOS 6.22 on a few machines two or three years ago for that reason. It was fun actually, but finding three floppy disks for the installation media was ... challenging. ;-)
Business logic is not commonly open-sourced for SaaS products. Salesforce, Workday, etc, do they open source their code base? No. Ecosystem, portability and that it's an audited code base will gradually produce benefits that exceed the established SaaS players.
It is. If someone eats 100 hot dogs in 20 minutes, you might still say "That's impressive" but also feel horrified and sickened.
If anyone is looking at 60% keyboards, I suggest they take a look at the KBC Pok3r too - it's heavily programmable (on-keyboard), unlike many of the options listed above.

On a 60% keyboard which has many keys missing, programmability not only 'brings back' those keys but also (in my experience) made for a more natural experience than a full-sized board, since programmed keys are within my hands' natural reach (for example, I put some on the home row).
> It's distributed trust. That's the problem it solves. It's incredibly cool technology. That solves a specific problem.

That's still not it. "Distributed Trust" isn't a problem, its a trait. What actual problem is solved by distributed trust?
How did your company solve it?
> You severely underestimate the bandwidth of your eyes and ears and other senses

Sample size and record size are two different things.
The Avg Trip metric doesn't at all take into account the loiter and distance to fare mileage.

Also the MPGe mile ratings on EVs are great for comparing one EV to another but as an EV owner I do not think they're representative of the actual range of an EV.

I have an Nissan Leaf with a 24kWh battery and my 25 mile commute uses anywhere from 8-12kWh of charge. With a range rating of 84 miles, that's 28-42 miles. You might dismiss that by saying I'm driving aggressively but the Leaf's range estimator usually indicates 90+ miles when I'm at 100% charge and is based on the previous trip's performance, so I'm beating the average.
Does anybody know a good technical history of Intel?

I teas “Inside Intel” and there was some good stuff but seemed too superficial.
I think they meant you trust that the network will compute the transactions properly.

You need to trust that Bitcoin network is strong enough not to be hijacked, as Bitcoin Gold was with the 51% attack earlier this year.