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The startup is Tachyum and they're based out of eastern europe. Here's their webpage: http://www.tachyum.com

I really hate clickbait styled article titles on HN.
>PBS still isn’t 100% unbiased like what you said would have to be the case for not technically propaganda. Seems a bit extreme and ridiculous to define propaganda as that.

You realize that _I_ am not defining anything, right? I suggest you write Webster.

I think the problem is the pedantry of your typical engineer. No one is saying that all propaganda is equal, or that it is all inherently bad. Per a literal reading of the definition I find it hard to accept anything other than a laying out of factual data to not be propaganda, but it can be minor (e.g. PBS), major (e.g. Fox News), or somewhere in between. That's why I said above that I don't think this is a terribly useful discussion.

But if you don't agree with that then maybe we can come to common ground on the "especially of a... misleading nature." Some reporting, even if biased, is far more misleading than the rest. So if Oliver presents the facts (_all_ the relevant facts) and then shares his interpretation of those facts, not propaganda I suppose. However, if anything relevant is left out I don't know how you can call it balanced.
Speaking as a longtime skeptic, A16Z has actually produced the single clearest answer I've seen to that question: blockchains may be good for bootstrapping new network effects by giving early participants in a network (in a Metcalfe's Law sense of network) an incentive to participate. Pure utility tokens can be like call options on the eventual value of the network if it gets off the ground. It's a novel way of solving a collective action problem.

https://a16z.com/2017/12/08/summit-crypto-alex-rampell/

Kind of like Kickstarter or Groupon, at least in their original incarnations?
Ah, I remember when you could get a full list of com domains from the Internic. Hell, I remember when SRI-NIC.ARPA was a root name server. I forget exactly when they stopped the ability to ftp that.

Interesting looking at the COM zone for August 1995 and June 1996. In August 1995, bulletproof.com, foolproof.com, and fool-proof.com were all registered - but not proof.com. Proof.com was registered February 3rd, 1996 (I applied for it the same day but didn't get it, they must have beat me by an hour or two). By June 1996, not only were all the above registered in the proof.com namespace, but also babyproof.com, birdproof.com, crashproof.com, cyberproof.com, digitalproof.com etc.

Of course if I knew back in February 1996 how valuable good .com names would be in a few years, I would have registered a bunch more.
What about getting a nice check while thinking you're doing something actually productive which ends up, in the final analysis, being meaningless? Alternatively, what about doing something that seems soul crushing and pointless but is actually productive?
Looking back at the Internet’s past decade
Trust isn't really a feature of blockchains, nor is it a byproduct (or "software primitive") of blockchains. Bitcoin was designed to avoid a need for trust, so it really just steps around the issue of trust in a distributed ledger.

This is a critical misunderstanding that a lot of people are still preaching and perpetuating. You can't really build systems that rely on trust on top of a blockchain, and those who have tried are mostly just moving (human/corruptible) authorities of trust to more obscure places. You can, however, build systems that do not require trust on top of a blockchain, though there are some very serious limitations that confine those systems/applications to digital-only transactions.

In other words, I can be reasonably assured that the Bitcoin you sent me is spendable by me (that it hasn't been double-spent) and that a government can't just issue 21 million more Bitcoin tomorrow, but that tells me absolutely nothing about whether or not I can (currently or in the future) "trust" your address on the blockchain, nor can it be tied to any kind of meaningful identity without reintroducing a real-world authority that requires my trust.

Bitcoin has proven itself to be useful on the payment side of transactions, but I'm unconvinced that blockchain tech will ever be able to facilitate the delivery side of transactions (unless it's a digital asset being delivered) without compromising the fundamental aims of Bitcoin.
Governance, Governance, Governance
>>> Sure they could raise prices, but you risk pricing customers out, and as the one restaurant owner discovered, customers will still spend the same amount by ordering less or cheaper items.

Wouldn't all their competitors face the same "problem"? So it wouldn't be a "problem" in the end?
There's some serious kool-aid going on here, which is unfortunate, because they at least wrote that they're focused on non-speculative use cases. Contrary to the announcement's characterization, crypto-powered platforms don't inherently fulfill the promise of equitable decentralization and immutability.

Ethereum has already demonstrated that one is wise to worry if the rules of the game will change later on. And blockchains enable distributed, trustless consensus, but accomplish it with the majority (50%+1) of vested nodes in agreement, which manifests as either a tenuous truce based on human trust to avoid mutually-assured destruction, or as an anything-goes monopoly where the largest cartel wins. Hardly any different from easier, cheaper ways of accomplishing the same thing.

Bitcoin's innovation was incentive in the PoW block reward, Ethereum's was embedding a VM in the client. Everything else has been minor variations on prior art, or speculative bullshit.
It did, actually, it's just that people only remember the big bubble and big pop.

There was a fairly big bubble over the summer of 1998 that popped in the fall:

NASDAQ: https://goo.gl/7ecN9J

AMZN: https://goo.gl/tjufK8

This also coincided with the fall of Netscape and its eventual purchase by AOL in November 1998. The dot-com bubble that people actually remember got started when that bust hit its nadir (right around the Netscape purchase), and really kicked into high gear a year later in the fall of 1999. I think that what happened is that Netscape's purchase and the subsequent recovery of Internet stocks is what convinced entrepreneurs & VCs that the Internet was here to stay, which led to a flood of capital in and a frenzy of entrepreneurial activity, and then once all their products started hitting the market 6-12 months later the public took notice and the dot-com bubble really took off.

There will likely be a similar effect with crypto as all the ICOs - the ones that are not scams, at least - actually start releasing their products for people to use. Crypto is bubblier than dot-coms because everything is bubblier now; capital markets are thoroughly globalized, and there's more capital sloshing around.
How to install freeIPA on CentOS 7?
CBD has a theraputic component whose benefits are still being explored.

> The drug, GW Pharmaceuticals’ Epidiolex, is made of cannabidiol, or CBD, a component of marijuana that does not give users a high. It is given as an oil, and in clinical trials, it was shown to reduce the number of seizures by about 40 percent in patients with Dravet or Lennox-Gastaut syndromes.

Another hurdle is an upcoming DEA review:

> Before GW can market Epidiolex, though, the Drug Enforcement Administration will have to reclassify CBD, which in this case, because it comes from marijuana, is considered a Schedule I drug, meaning it has no medical value and a high risk of abuse. The agency is expected to do so within 90 days.

This decision could indicate the long-term future of cannabis research and medical use. If this is approved, likely similar projects could be approved. However a denial would signal that such research may not be viable for several years.

They're using their own high-CBD, low-THC strain:

> Although Epidiolex was only approved for the two specific conditions, analysts expect doctors to prescribe it off label for a variety of epileptic diseases. It comes from a proprietary strain of cannabis grown by GW that has been bred to have high levels of CBD and low levels of THC, the component that does make people high.

Cannabis has largely been bred to have stronger and stronger effects over time. THC and CBD have effects that cancel each other out, so part of the stronger effect comes from the increase of THC content, and another part comes from the decrease of CBD content. Legalization has brought support for CBD-dominant varieties, and some cannabis stores in WA State have occasional CBD sales when their THC supplies get low.
I was thinking the same thing. There are tons of examples of forfeiture happening because of 'assumed illegality', especially when it comes to having money on you - that could have been a better way for the SC to strike it down harshly. I still don't agree with it in this case, but I don't think it helps the case that he did sell Heroin, which is a sore subject these days.
So have we completely lost the battle for the meaning of the word "crypto"? Because I clicked this link expecting to read about a new kind of cryptography.
You also could, it's implied, find a job elsewhere in the organization.

I agree that continuing to work with a manager who wants to fire you doesn't really work for anybody.
Would it be possible to build a consensus algorithm for factual information? Sort of a decentralized fact-checker system
So, a mix of Diplomacy, Coup, Twilight Struggle, Secret Hitler, Twilight Imperium, and arrogance.

Edit: In lieu of above, it sounds like a reskinned copy of Steve Jackson's Illuminati.
I've never heard of it being legal to withhold pay for time that has already been worked, regardless of the reason the employee is separated from the company.
I'm pretty sure these people aren't aware that ortholinear keyboards exist, or know that they're a better design.
One point is that my pfSense VMs have no routing to any physical LAN. Not without a guest-to-host breakout, anyway. The fact that they're VPN gateways is irrelevant for this.

Another point is that I have multiple LANs, to compartmentalize. There's no one router that can mix local devices and Internet hosts.
The software runs on MS-DOS, I assume it is hardcoded to use LPT1.
Uneven wealth distribution is a problem that Americans could fix by themselves if they wanted to. The solution is not to drive foreign investment elsewhere.
Ah, I see, I misunderstood.
A blockchain can prove historic data. That’s quite useful in some situations but making money off of it is hard.
But those raw materials are much less raw than sand and metal ores.
Sure that's fair. He's been guilty of this part though:

>...often by presenting facts selectively to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is presented.

And honestly, what major news outlet today _isn't_? Is that not a huge problem with "mainstream media" (I hate that term) currently? So... still not sure he or others can escape that label.
What's the rationale for this when we have YouTube channels such as Coding Tech https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtxCXg-UvSnTKPOzLH4wJaQ or InfoQ https://www.infoq.com/transcripts/presentations/?
Keeping in mind that I am not qualified to judge the medical efficacy of the diet-- the premise is to give your gut a chance to reboot and heal by taking away anything that is damaging, and providing nutrients to rebuild.

It starts as an elimination diet (the first few days you are only allowed bone broth, yogurt, and the juice of fermented vegetables). You'll be making all these things yourself, from organic ingredients if at all possible (is this necessary? Who knows).

There are 6 stages total, they gradually introduce more normal foods. You go from stocks, to vegertable soups, to boiled meats...

There's a general summary here:
http://www.gapsdiet.com/gaps-introduction-diet.html

For me the difficulty was, going about my normnal day, and devoting several hours a day to cooking with a toddler to look after.

But I would suggest trying it if you're of a mind. I felt better almost immediately. My complexion changed, my mind changed. I felt like I was not at war with the world for the first time.

Infact, just talking about it Im considering starting it again. :)

Let me know if you have any specific questions.
The original bitcoin whitepaper is focused on avoiding double-spend of digital cash, facilitating non-reversible transactions in a way that's not vulnerable to collapse or suborning of the central counterparty. It has the following statement in its introduction:

"Completely non-reversible transactions are not really possible, since financial institutions cannot
avoid mediating disputes. The cost of mediation increases transaction costs, limiting the
minimum practical transaction size and cutting off the possibility for small casual transactions,
and there is a broader cost in the loss of ability to make non-reversible payments for nonreversible
services. With the possibility of reversal, the need for trust spreads. Merchants must
be wary of their customers, hassling them for more information than they would otherwise need.
A certain percentage of fraud is accepted as unavoidable."

(No solution is offered for the merchant defrauding the customer, which is the business that ebay was built on solving)
Solve an actual, real life problem.

All I see are Long Island Ice Tea Blockchain Corp. and Walmat saying that they're using blockchain to help their supply chain (whatever that means).

The reality is is that Blockchain is no longer new. Compare it to iPhone - they both roughly came out at the same time, yet we're still having the same conversations - "What problem does Blockchain solve" - while the iPhone found its place in the market. The reality is is that if Blockchain had a 'killer app' beyond tech bros speculating, we would have found it by now.
Whenever my emacs starts up and the horizontal resolution of the display connected to the computer has changed, that fact is recorded to a file. That file is consequently a record of when my computer and consequently I arrived at and left my girlfriend's place (because the resolution of the monitor I use there is different from that of the monitor I use at home).

I also record the start and end times of any intervals during which I do not interact with my emacs. (I'd rather have a record of intervals during which I don't interact with my puter, but that would prol require me to write a kext.) This is useful for reconstructing when I left home and when I came back, among other things.

(One file records only intervals of idleness 49 minutes or longer. Another -- the one I refer to the most -- records intervals 7 minutes or longer. Another, intervals of one minute or longer.)
Even Cloudflare's "Full SSL" mode is a man in the middle: Cloudflare is the man in the middle who sees the plaintext of connections going through them.
>I think the key word there is misleading. Having a genuinely-held viewpoint and expressing it through media isn't propaganda, it's opinion and commentary.

It's misleading if you omit facts which run contrary to your narrative. I have no idea if this is the case in the China episode, but he has done this previously (specifically thinking about some comments he made on the wage gap, but I'd have to hunt for others.)
"That was kinda shocking to me as a SE to see a patent writing as a part of my job but I realized it was a holdover from earlier times."

Useful activity for current times. Patent licensing and suits are a big money-maker and competition blocker for companies like IBM. For instance, Microsoft has made over a billion dollars on patent royalties *for Android." All that distracting paperwork paid off nicely. IBM used their legal team to crush a company selling commercial versions of Hercules emulator. Oracle vs Google. Apple vs Samsung. Intel recently threatened patent suits if anyone clones x86 to get off Intel chips.

This stuff has a real, financial benefit to these companies. So, they're justified in investing in it.
In fact I don't call it a restaurant without one. There are three obvious, fundamental traits of a restaurant:

1) they cook the food (including knowing the recipes)
2) the serve the food to your table
3) they do the dishes (including bussing the table)

Lets award a potential 3 points to a food establishment for this 'litmus test'.

McD's of course gets only 1 point (they cook the food). Hardly a restaurant experience, no surprise there.

Your corner bar and grill gets all three points: they have a server and bus tables. And even a burger or frozen pizza counts as 'cook the food'

And so on. Easy! And I'll just leave you with this, my least favorite lunch place of all: Subway. They get Zero (0) points. Not really a restaurant at all. Just a place to store ingredients for you to come and put together yourself, for outrageous prices.
It's more like 25k than 6 figures.
Nah I mean it pretty literally. You are very right that the necessary physics isn't really there, this is a really difficult thing to state rigorously.

However I would argue that the underlying reasoning emerges out of fairly fundamental physics.. and that while difficult to state rigorously the core idea is kindof... obvious... to anyone with a strong physics background...
Thanks for your reply!

I’m in SoCal, US. I’m 24/M. No degrees. I’m a software engineer by day.

I spend a lot of time thinking about these topics but with no real fundamentals or knowledge to be able to put words to the ideas I’m envisioning. School has never been my first choice method to learning something new, but I realize that that may be the best bet for this type of study.
You should read a little bit more about this case. The actual question the Supreme Court is deciding here is whether the 8th amendment applies to rulings issued by state courts. Something that should be seemingly obvious but it's actually not entirely settled in existing case law.
It's worrying indeed how most people just take growth for granted and don't want to at least consider alternatives.

Btw, here's a talk I found interesting regarding growth and the future of the economy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKLDevYyE9I&index=13&t=0s&li...

One part I liked regarding the Madoff scandal:

Obviously, you were like how could these people be so stupid to give this person all this money? Didn't they read the details? ... But one of the reasons it happened, psychologically, was because people thought 8-10% with 0 risk was perfectly normal. That's why nobody asked any questions.

EDIT

And regarding my Reddit rant, also scared me that many people don't pay off their mortgage because they get a better return from the stock market, something I find quite wrong unless you're living in a hyper-inflation economy (which is not the case in the developed world)
Agreed, can't believe I am seeing this wrong usage of "crypto" to mean cryptocurrencies right here on HN. So disappointed that A16Z chose this name.
Hello, actually WINE works in a different way, it does not attempt to intercept system calls (it is not possible because Windows system calls work in an incompatible way), instead it reimplements Windows DLLs, and normal application code never calls syscalls directly, but always via the DLLs implementing the libc or other libraries. So the DLLs of the core Windows functions are simply replaced with the WINE implementation on top of the POSIX API.
That still is a 8kW difference that, over decades, may offset the energy cost of recycling the old set of panels.

Also, keeping the old panels means you can’t reuse whatever those panels are mounted on for the new ones. That can make installing new panels alongside old ones more expensive, sometimes significantly more so.
Or fear of bankruptcy.
> Edit: point proven, HN doesn't care about labor rights and prefers rights for corporations over the actual workers who make the corporation.

There is plenty of room for disagreement among people who accept that workers should have rights -- for example, what should the rights be, how should those rights be balanced against the rights of management, etc.
I think this is just what large multinationals do these days.
There is no way this is GDPR compliant
Yeah, you have to remember that in pulse dial days a central office station had a reach of roughly 3 miles. The longer you go, the more you're paying for cable, repeaters, or just losing quality. 90 volt AC for ringing has a limited range!
Perhaps we are looking at a different graph, but in the one I am looking at, blue is "sparse" (plateaus at 70) and orange is "dense" (very quickly hits 80). I believe "dense" means they are doing reward engineering.
The point of the paradox is that if intelligent civilization is only active for 200 years out of a 10 billion year timespan, there is something seriously wrong with the survival rates of such civilizations.
They specifically mention that room with a photo of it in the article.
Decentralized trust is a way to "open source" a customer/merchant database. If centralized trust is required the company controlling it can charge people to use it, for example think of listing fees as ebay charging people for access to their seller ratings. Or uber charging people to access its driver ratings.

With decentralized trust we could create a decentralized uber, where drivers get 99% of the money and 1% going to developers and providers of decentralized insurance.

One alternative to decentralized trust would be setting up a nonprofit to control the trust database, but then you are relying on the government to enforce that the nonprofit doesn't gouge the customers, manipulate the ratings, or embezzle the funds. You are basically just pushing the trust onto courts and law enforcement.
The justification is the police department gets to sell the vehicle and use the cash. And sometimes they can use that for parties. Providing police with more toys is the justification for the theft of property.

1. http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-what-police-bought-with...

2. https://www.forbes.com/sites/instituteforjustice/2014/06/05/...
This is from an auditing agency, so by definition these flaws were solved. Most ICOs get multiple security audits. How many startups can you say that about?
I see your point, and although technically correct, the writer had a lot of words to choose from.

For instance, if a nourishing lake had suddenly dried up, I'd use a different word. Perhaps devastating.
HTTP challenges do not offer meaningfully increased resistance to MitM over DNS challenges, and require measurements from multiple vantage points just as much as DNS challenges do.
AI seems more and more, in communication to the general public, to mean "computer program that does something useful, that hasn't yet been commonly called a computer program."