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first time in history innovative tech with tangible benefits is called a cult. bitcoin hating is more of a cult
I don't hear often about banks providing API access. Only big companies on special contracts may get something like that, but it is usually very limited - talking from my personal experience, but what I learnt from the internet - it's the same everywhere.

But... In Europe thanks to just another EU laws we should have every bank offering an API access for everyone starting from September 2018 IIRC. That would help a lot with automation, I hope generating few api keys with different access permissions would be possible with that.
Taking a break from sitting at the desk and going for a walk and thinking about the problem has worked surprisingly well for me many times. It was something I first read about in a Poincare's article on how Mathematical ideas are generated.

Coming to general methods of problem solving in recreational math, I always look for symmetry and transforming the problem from one problem space to another and induction techniques before attacking it. For a research/modelling problem, my approach is to start working on the most simplified version of it and gradually progress towards the original problem.

There is an excellent numberphile video on Josephus problem that illustrates how examining specific instances to observe patterns can help solve the general case.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCsD3ZGzMgE

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> Government bonds are stable if you ignore tail risk

Nothing is eternal. That doesn’t make everything ephemeral equally risky. Bitcoin is a speculative asset. Speculative assets are volatile by design (you want them to go up).

More critically, government bonds’ role as a store of value is ancillary to their core purpose: to enable public deficit spending.

> Bitcoin is however similar to a government bond in that it a) has value, b) is not directly useful for consumer transactions

My cat has value and is useless for consumer transactions. That doesn’t make him a government bond.
Impressive animation of 1941 Eastern Front movements, also great YouTube channel
In addition to the obvious reading books, enjoying music, and taking pictures of interesting people, my main hobby is dabbling with embedded programming and hardware-devices.

I started with arduino, and later moved to other (similar) boards with onboard wifi which makes them more useful.

I'm typing this while a small radio I assembled is playing Radio Rock (Helsinki station), and can be controlled wirelessly from my PC, phone, or tablet.
The shit you read on reddit is full of conspiracy theorist nonsense, and completely detached from Bitcoin development. Development is done and discussed in the open on mailing lists, github etc, and is subject to community review. There's a process outlined in BIP2 for any (non-trivial code) changes to the Bitcoin Core software. Of course, anyone can fork the software and make complaints publicly if there was malicious intent from the Core developers. There are a lot of people who have money invested in Bitcoin, and keep a close eye on the developments occurring.
Speech to text is certainly getting better but it makes mistakes. If the transcribed text was sent over the link and then a text to speech spoke at the other end you'd lose one of the great things about codec2 - the voice that comes out is recognisable as it sounds a bit like the person.

A few of us have a contact on Sunday mornings here in Eastern Australia and it's amazing how the ear gets used to the sound and it quickly becomes quite listenable and easy to understand.
ho another troll from /r/bitcoin. Read carefully, everything is sourced. Everyone favorable to small blocks came to that opinion after all the communications channels were censored by Theymos and the like to delete alternate opinions. Was absolutely fascinating, and disturbing, to watch that unfold.
That actually has an interesting failure. The first interesting number that's interesting because it's not special works. The second might qualify, the 10008 does not.
It's an open-source project and not a startup, but I think that Namecoin [0] is a very interesting non-currency use for blockchains.

It is a decentralized name registry that maps domain names to public keys and IP addresses, removing the need for Certificate Authorities and resolving Zooko's triangle [1].

I do agree that blockchain is insanely over-hyped, has very few real use-cases and mostly used as a PR tool in ways that makes no sense. Sound money and cryptographic identity registries are among the only reasonable use-cases that I can name.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namecoin

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko%27s_triangle
What are they doing? My 951 uses 3W maximum.

https://mikrotik.com/product/RB951-2n
Those two laws are, actually, my personal bullet against virtually everything I don't like happening to my own computer -as well as those owned by others (though that is not within my responsibility)-.

I feel like you missed the point though. There's no obvious question to the computer user that this is going to happen; ie. there is no consent. Which is important with regards to GDPR.

Next, what happens is the question. Either the security of the computer is breached (which I'll just call "malware" from hereon), or PII is being send (spyware).

Malware seems obvious to me. That's breaching computer security, been illegal for quite a while now. Not worth the discussion though recently the government of The Netherlands made it legal for the police to hack its civilians.

Spyware's legal status seems to have changed since GDPR though. Sure, a lot of spyware is shady, makers of it don't care. But the spyware being bundled with software was done by someone. And in this case, it appears to be within FileZilla's responsibility.

You may not be from EU; I saw FileZilla developers being obviously from the EU and I am from the EU as well. So the GDPR does apply for me, for sure.
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I actually used this very technique to go from struggling in undergraduate math to top 8% of my class in less than two semesters. Peeking at the answers is fine as long as you aren't "cheating" -- you just have to put in the effort to fully understand the processes and then practice applying them on your own with other completely unfamiliar problems.
You sure about that? Arpanet was created to exchange short messages in case of a nuclear attack on the United States rendered all above ground communication and survivability useless. I hardly consider that a practical use case. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Internet_during_the_Cold_W...
I worked in a place (a bank) where an estimate that was more than 10% out in either direction would get you fired. Their view was that they valued accurate estimations that highly.

But when I was there it was already being worked around... managers would create lots of smaller projects that delivered cross-functional behaviour to multiple projects and allowed them to externalise and hide the overages in what might appear to only be dependency lines to existing internal projects. The managers of multiple projects would collude to sponsor each others externalities so that they all had a layer of protection from being fired, obscuring what the costs were actually contributing to.

The reason I was there was precisely to build a revenue recognition type system for their project management system to try and identify which projects had asked for some other project to start.

But after that I worked at a UK govt department and they'd become so good at tracking who had been first to demand the creation of another project that their problem became one of legacy... no-one could sponsor even upgrading their long obsolete software or hardware, because even though it was a thing that benefited everyone, the project that demanded it was going to be the one that paid for it (literally paying for the certification, hardware, software, training, etc) which meant if you were the team that said "We can't support this on IE6" then you had to pay to replace laptops, OS, to get onto a later version.

My conclusion... if we don't embrace a pragmatic reality of what things cost, if we try and manage the costs tightly... the side effects usually have unintended consequences that are worse than facing or embracing the original costs.
I confirm, doesn't work for me too. Neither in Safari 56 nor Chrome 67 (macOS 10.13).
Does it always default to the cheapest, or always to theirs?
People in the US have to support a family at US living standards. Indians on the other hand either have their family in India or are used to living in conditions that Americans balk at, multiple people per room, no lawn, one car or less per family.

Listening to the dumps some of my co workers live in I can see why median hourly wages have not increased in the last 40 years.

This is political economy 101. One of Malthus's suggestions for reducing the mortality rate was getting exotic materials to become staples of life so food wouldn't be the limiting factor of population.
That is true.

There is certain smugness emanating from judo-christian corner in this thread, I was responding to that.
The poor person’s solution would be mint.com... though the security model there is dubious.
Eventually people can be educated, but what you have to do is find a way give them the experience, to put them in the situation. Sometimes this can only happen by making real the thing you are describing, but sometimes by dint of clever artifice you can simulate it.

With luck, eventually there will be an “Aha!”. If you’re really good, the “Aha!” will followed by “Oh, so that’s what you meant”. But don’t be too surprised or upset if the “Aha!” is instead followed by “Why didn’t you tell me that?”.

This jives with how children learn. Perhaps adults are actually the same in many respects. Kids don't learn how to pronounce words by listening to someone explain how to form the lips and place the tongue and vibrate the velum to form a z sound. They just learn by observing it and then trying to attempt it. Ironically, foreign language pronunciation may be one of the examples where you do need to teach adults how to do it before they try to do it because their brains have already defined what's normal and find it difficult to make foreign sounds.

But various other topics? Learn by doing. Light bulb moments by doing.
Even if the doctor could fix your broken leg, you'd die of old age eventually anyways.
Bitcoin could be similar to art in those terms. A van Gogh has value and isn't practical for consumer transactions. Your argument has painted itself into a corner and the next step is to knock a hole in the wall.
siacoin would be a fully encrypted alternative but not ready yet
They were not aztecs! They were mexicas.And to put things into context the university of oxford is older than Mexico-tenochtitlan(1325 of our age). Repeat with me mexicas.
I don't completely agree, you can move BTC around, mix it and exchange it for other cryptocurrencies while leaving only a very small trail. You don't have to involve other people directly, you don't have to carry duffel-bags of cash across borders etc...

Of course if your money starts in your "books" before being converted into cryptocurrency then yeah, it's useless. But that's not the use case, it's more about laundering money that's not in the books to begin with (corruption, black market, undeclared sales etc...).

I believe that right now the main deterrent to this scenario is the same reason people don't use cryptocurrencies for legit use cases: it's wildly unstable and you have to convert it to dollars or some other "fiat" to do anything with it.
Like you said — it should be about amplifying the skill difference (e.g. Tennis is phenomenally good at this.) rather than arbitrarily giving one ransom team a bigger chance at winning.
Interesting idea, but personally I like the Dynamic Range (DR) measurement developed by the Pleasurize Music Foundation more. It also provides a one-value output that has a direct relation to the statistics of the input audio, and AFAIK it is a somewhat established measurand in audio engineering.

Self-plug: A while back I reverse-engineered the DR algorithm and implemented it as a Python script. It's [DRmeter on GitHub](https://github.com/janw/drmeter).
I once made an automatic humidifier controller (aka a humidistat). It consisted a remote-controlled outlet, a RF circuit, a temperature/humidity sensor, a humidifier, a screen, and a AVR microcontroller. The AVR microcontroller is programmed to loop, sleep, and read the measurements from the sensor periodically. If the humidity is below my threshold, it fires up the RF transmitter and switch on the outlet hence the humidifier connected, vice verse.

The remote-controlled outlet is a commercial off-the-shelf product for ordinary consumers. I reverse-engineered the 433 MHz signal using a RTL-SDR receiver and some widely-available programs. Using this outlet instead of making a circuit by myself allowed me to bypass the regulatory issues, as the outlet itself is already UL-certificated - no physical modification at all, if the outlet blew up anyway, I'm not liable for the damages at school.

A simple little thing, but extremely useful. It did a good job for maintaining a prefect humidity in my dorm room and made us survived the dry winter (RH <15% otherwise, due to artificial heating). I tweaked the microcontroller with an oscilloscope to make sure it uses minimum power. The whole controller is powered by 4 AA-batteries, with > 10 days of battery life, and fit on a single breadboard. All I need to do is refill the humidifier with water every morning.

The only trap is the unreliability of the humidity sensor, because humidity measurement is inherently hard. >15 USD sensors are reliable, don't attempt the project with cheaper ones, as the only humidity-sensing element they use is a resistor and it was completely unreliable. It was pretty frustrating and lots of fruitless debugging involved because of the crap sensor initially.
I grew up in the UK and watched the (Japanese) cartoon series. Nowadays I find myself living in Finland, and Moomins are everywhere (no surprise I guess!)
How would you achieve a 170 degrees pannini projection in real time using opengl? Do I really need a cube map?
I've tried Mint... aside from the security I neither trust its privacy model nor did I see it working very well either.
Before we all get swooned by the effectiveness of his business model - most people probably bought this as a gag gift rather than because they believed in its medicinal properties. Because if they didn't, these sales would qualify as a scam.
If God in Genesis really wanted the sacrifice to happen, he wouldn't have stopped Abraham before it happened

Maybe it really wanted to, but then changed its mind :-)
The only issue I have with the artwork is that I'm pretty sure Molly is black in the books.
Speculative fiction .. or religion? Because if there were some way we could access the sum total of all human experience, wouldn't that method be as close to "God" as it was ever described?

One wonders if this is, indeed, the concept being described, over and over again in every religion (and science) ever ..
The blob on the left is the rice (I thought it was a human finger).
That was an surprising thing to see listed here. A couple of years ago my Finnish wife gave me a copy, and she later followed up with "The Adventurer", & "The Wanderer" (each in their English translations).

They were fascinating reads, although I was a little disappointed at how hapless the main character was. He bumbles around while stuff keeps happening "nearby", I guess that's kinda the point. It is all about the journey.
He did his presentation in english at FrOSCon 2015, can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=95&v=c0O6UXrOZJo
Wasting billions of dollars trying to prevent a few astronauts from dying, while that money spent on saving lives more efficiently could have saved thousands of lives, is called "statistical murder".

https://reason.com/archives/2012/01/26/how-much-is-an-astron...
Inside the bad math that lets Coca-Cola say it gives back all the water it uses
Chaining codecs arbitrarily tends to create really bad artifacting. Current cell and VOIP systems already utilise multiple compression algos.
Xiaomi plans $6bn IPO
I suppose this is indeed a bug, since new recently tagged images will push the page downwards. Currently the script assumes no new image additions until the scraping is done which is clearly wrong, I'll open an issue and fix it soon.

Thanks!
I think we agree context is important. However GitLab is collecting IPs in combination with hostnames, not to mention the rest of the traffic that could easily be used to fingerprint users.
The U.S. government considered it a practical problem. That’s why they paid for it.

If it helps, replace “practical problem” with “a problem customers will pay you to solve.” ARPANET had that. Bitcoin, on the other, never had an original sale. It was mined as a curiosity and then jumped from narrative (“currency of the future!”) to narrative (“store of value!”) to narrative (“mostly goes up!”)
Yeah, I thought of that. But I guessed that the foil would hold.
No the lord was the lord. Yes they had powers over their serfs, but they weren't the government and they could not make laws.

Certainly being a serf was not ideal, but most serfs had very little interaction with government. They paid a small amount of tax and beyond that they were left alone by government.
Interesting, I might reverse engineer and see if we can introduce some kind of backoff and then resume the scraping again.
yeah but $US is a Cult
> Death is debatable, but in some cases fully warranted.

Myself and a lot of other people don’t believe in death sentence no matter the severity of the crime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_by_country

The two main reasons why I don’t support a death sentence in any case are:

1. People sometimes get sentenced for crimes they did not commit. By at least letting them live in prison rather than killing them we give them a chance to fight the sentence.

2. The law is not objectively “correct” because there is no such thing as a single “true” morality. Multiple moral stances exist, and we should be somewhat tolerant of that.

Amnesty International has some more arguments against death penalty as well. https://www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/death-penalty/

Finally I believe that the justice system should to the greatest extent possible exist to prevent crime and reform criminals so that they can be productive members of society, not primarily exist to punish criminals.

In my country — Norway — this is reflected in how the police handle confrontational situations. The Norwegian police force always tries to deescalate, whereas in the US the police are very aggressive in a lot of situations that should not call for that sort of reaction.

There are very many people that do bad things not because they are fundamentally bad people but because of their circumstances. Everyone deserves a chance.

Some people cannot be helped and need to remain locked up because they pose a threat to the rest of society, but that should be what we do when we see that we cannot reform them, not how we treat everyone who breaks the current set of laws.
> to make a SPA, you are talking about pulling in at least: npm, webpack, react, react-router, lodash, redux, bootstrap

NPM and Webpack are developer tools, and Bootstrap is a CSS framework. Correct me if I'm wrong but WASM still needs CSS since it generates HTML

As for the others, they're libraries. Optional libraries. There are plenty of optional libraries in the Go ecosystem but we wouldn't say it's "fractured". You can't format a string in Go without importing a string library, but this is acceptable.
Robots wash my dishes and my clothes for me, keep my household boiler stoked, and manage the ambient temperature. I also don't ever have to refill lamps, or go around with a match each evening to light them.
That's funny, my AmazonBasics USB power bank was recalled. And I bought it to avoid all the knock-off crap you see on Amazon...
Not the Instagram developer APIs, but the one that instagram's frontend consumes. The script scrapes instagram's frontend here.
The point is not that Bitcoin is a government bond, if that wasn't obvious, but that just because some people said it's a currency and proceeded to build failing businesses on that faulty premise doesn't preclude it having actual, unrelated uses, such as a store of value with a vastly different risk profile than any other asset ever known.
iOS 12 will automatically share your iPhone location during 911 calls
I read, and listemn, to this, and am impressed.

Then I think of the possible negative applications.

a noation of 100m people, talking an hour per day on phone or other audio channel, could be stored on 100m * 365 * 1.5 MB of storage annually: 54 PB.

In raw storage, that's less than $2 million. Far below national actor budgets.
Hi, I don't know if you are still reading these comments, but I wonder if your situation had improved, or if you were able to find help or support. I am happy to help out, as I'm sure many others are, if you need someone to talk to.
What if we knew when and how we'd die?
Yes, but if WASM is single-threaded, then how can the GC run in a different thread?
I automated all my piracy.

My NAS automatically downloads files as they are released by scene/p2p/pirate groups.
Files are extracted (if compressed), renamed, metadata is added, and published on some apps like plex and trakt.

Movies, TV Shows, Music.
Bill pay?
Missed opportunity to call it Hogwash.
Autohotkey?
The way this article fawns over Dubai's economic successes while glossing over the human rights abuses that make it possible is nauseating.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Dubai
One of the very few things I know about audio codecs is that they at least implicitly embody a "psychoaccoustic model". The "psycho" is crucial because the human mind is the standard that tells us what we can afford to throw away.

So a codec that agressively throws away data but still gets good results must somehow enbody sophisticated facts about what human minds really care about. Hence "artifacts that are natural".
Saying Bitcoin is like one thing does not preclude it from being like other things. Never the less, it's not necessarily useless just because it doesn't have the use some people mistakenly thought it had.
Seems a silly article. The fact that bitcoin has attracted some idiots is entirely consistent with the hypothesis that bitcoin is a great success, and destined for continued success and not at all a cult.
You missed a big obvious one there, you've automated your grocery shopping. I'm still driving, parking, grabbing, paying, packing, and driving like a sucker.
> a store of value with a vastly different risk profile than any other asset ever known

For which there (a) is zero evidence and yet (b) are lots of unsophisticated investors throwing money at. This combination is well known in financial engineering circles, which has had a habit of dreaming up assets with inobservable specialness since the days of John Law.
Indeed. That was also my point though I didn’t say it explicitly, but probably should have.

What I said applies not only to Apple but to a lot of different groups of people.
Please provide evidence of this.

There is widespread, documented evidence of Russian interference in the US and French elections as well as Brexit. Which when you throw in state sponsored doping demonstrates a pattern for “not following the rules”. And I don’t see why that even if what you say is true why Russian interference can’t be investigated also.

Countries can do more than one thing at once.
The true story behind the multi-Oscar-winning film Saving Private Ryan
This looks like a paid advertisement to convince people to buy some of the stagnant real estate of Dubai.
Yeah that's a good point. I've got an Olympus BHM metallurgical microscope now along with the camera attachment for an SLR which I should try out for this.