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Hmm, I'm not sure this will end cryptocurrencies but I think it might make some of the less tech-savvy users really think about their investments and who is giving them what advice. I have a small holding that I've held for a while now and I like that but when BTC/ETH was reaching their highs and I had non-tech people buying into it because "it has to go up" had me rolling my eyes. It almost feels like people that are true believers in real estate and think that purchasing a house at any price is a good idea. I'd hate to see this end any long term cryptocurrency development/adoption and I don't think it will.
The maple syrup heist episode is amazing. I still can't believe that's real.
I mean, tsort is already a library function. The important part is knowing it exist.
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Almond trees produce no (or very little) nector. Older bees need that to live. Brood will eat pollen though.

Googling images of almond orchards, they look like deserts. There is nothing else anywhere near so bees wouldn’t be able to forage anything else to sustain them. Given the look of the land, these orchards are watered, and that must be a massive problem also.
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I live in SF and can ask an ASD friend who lives in SF if he has any recommendations, if that’s accessible to you.
But please, of you're feeling that badly, if there’s anyone you can call, please call them. If not, I’m happy to be an ear/shoulder.
Never invest in something you don't understand.
> really think about their investments

you mean their gambling.
There are big battery storage moves coming up too.

A 300 MW/1200 MWh project planned in California by Vistra Energy:

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/vistra-energy-to-de...

Another California project, 182.5 MW/700 MWh from Tesla/PG&E:

https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/PG-E-Tesla-team...

Have We Reached Peak Peaker? ‘I Can’t See Why We Should Build a Gas Peaker After 2025’

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/battery-storage...

A Reckoning for Power Giants: Siemens May Sell Its Gas Turbine Business

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/siemens-may-sel...

I remember when solar power was ridiculously expensive. I'm amazed that in sunny regions it is transitioning so quickly from "more expensive than the most expensive fossils" to "cheaper than the cheapest fossils." Not long ago I thought that natural gas was going to have significantly more time to savor its victory over coal before being dethroned in turn.
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I have no idea if this will end the madness but I hope it will.

Given bitcoin's vast energy consumption, the "production" of bitcoins produces enough pollution to be responsible for a significant number of deaths, amortized. [1]

Thus I have zero sympathy with those who may lose money here.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/shermanlee/2018/04/19/bitcoins-...
Basically, only aggressive consumption of limited resources allows society to be worried about something higher in Maslow's pyramid.

Extinction of those resources will set us back to fight for scraps.
I have a gmail account that I would like to reset the password for, but I cannot because I do not have access any more to the backup email address. The automated reset process failed several times, so now I use an outlook.com address. Ironically, I had a device that remained logged in to my gmail account for at least a year after, but the ability to receive emails could not help the reset process. Nor did my linked phone help.

If there were a support department with intelligent humans you could call, even if it were $1/minute, that would be helpful.

I feel like working back channels to fix simple access problems is dishonorable and inequitable, sort of like the way various companies are lobbying to be exempted from the tariffs being imposed by the feds recently.

Random Google employees should not be fixing this sort of thing. Sundar Pichai should be fixing this sort of thing. Or government regulators.
Yup. Motion sensitive cameras, stamped frames with your details and the odd gps locator hidden in frames. It’s bad in New Zealand with the honey being very valuable (though less than half what the article cites, we use NZ dollars, which are worth half as much as US ones).
A few years ago, there were several promising alternative mobile operating systems. WebOs, Ubuntu mobile, SailfishOS, Tizen (a continuation of Nokia's Maemo/Meego), and of course Firefox OS. Nokia also had another in house OS that was killed off before it got a chance to ship called Meltemi.

Most of these had a few things in common:

- they were linux based
- they were aimed at cheaper form factors where Android made less sense
- (mostly) web based development kits
- all of them struggled to get traction/market share
- at the core of their failures was the success off the android and apple app stores.

So, what has changed? App stores are less relevant than ever. People still install apps of course but mostly apps are struggling to compete for attention. It requires a huge marketing budgets to get anywhere near the top hundred of apps and if you are not in there, people won't find you. So, a good mobile web experience is key for a lot of services out there and with stuff like progressive web apps (which Firefox OS sort of pioneered) you can get away with not having a fully native app. Many 'native' apps are in fact partially web based these days.

So, KaiOs makes sense. Android is still expensive to run and producing hardware platforms in volume based on chipsets that were considered state of the art ten years ago is really cheap. Android never really ran well on those. Which is why you see these operating systems targeting cheap platforms. Web based development kits make total sense. Of course, mobile linux makes a lot of sense since it basically runs on all of these platforms and there is a huge existing investment in things like drivers.

Google investing in this also makes total sense. Android is not going to run well on these devices but they still want people to buy into the Google eco system. Fuchsia is not aimed at this space either and instead intended to replace Android, eventually. It may scale down better than Android of course but everything I'm reading about it suggests that's not the main goal. So investing in this is a low risk, high reward type situation for Google.

Apple of course never really cared about low end. The margins are too small for them. They only do high margin products.
This is really clickbaity. The title implies Bitcoin just rapidly fell in value. It's been slowly declining all year, and is still nearly 10x where it was last year.
Even then, there are trucks that park somewhere and containers of grocery product queueing up to be loaded into them...
Yes. Theft here in NZ has thieves specifically seeking out tracking systems (passive, like marked frames) scattering unwanted parts around paddocks and taking good frames only. Keep in mind that the honey frames have to be extracted, and these usually go to an extraction facility so they can notify people if suspicious. This happens frequently in NZ but our market would be far smaller. This part of the process is now requiring tracking here for quality control (quite how is a mystery to beekeepers) and do it wouldn’t be too hard to add a marker of ownership. Barcodes and QR codes are used on boxes and there is plenty of discussion about adding it to frames.

It’s too late once the hives have been gone long like in the article. No one in their right mind would want them back as the disease risk is far too great. American foul brood is cured by burning the gear.
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"The problem with open source software is that you have to fix it yourself". Unreal.
If you bought $25k of BTC the first time an article like this ran in 2011 you’d have $75M right now.

Maybe I’ll go ahead buy. Thx.
No. When I visit friends I go to 1432 Union St. not to Walmart. I wouldn't even know how to tell the taxi driver where I want to go if not by the address.
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I think it's not acceptable, but there is really no way around it.

Google provides free services to over a billion people and it it would probably cost them too much to provide real support.

It's just too bad you can't have a "Pro" account with Google that you could pay for and have more reasonable terms of service etc.
I've spit-balled this with some coworkers- but- I think that conceptually, the idea of our world cooking because of block chain is a great idea for a sci fi.
> t's equally true, and for essentially the same reasons, that Android as a whole exists because the Google leadership basically assumed Apple would screw them over sooner or later if they could.

That is the whole reason. Same with Chrome.
> On Feb. 14, 2008, in Foshan, a city in southern China, 15,000 cartons of fireworks spread across 20 warehouses mysteriously exploded in the middle of the night, creating a tremendous blast that damaged windows and doors a half-mile away. Surprisingly, no one was seriously hurt.

i find this extraordinarily unlikely. i'm reminded of intelsat 708.
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Because a large proportion of "software engineers" are simply people who know how to use popular libraries/frameworks to crank out a simple website or app (which often satisfies the needs of most companies anyway).

Some companies prefer to hire people who can write software.
I think this may be implying a value judgement that, as always, evolution doesn't make.
Going from 20k to 5k seems like a crash to me...
I don't think bitcoin is of much value either, but I think you're going too far, in the grand of scheme of things, any deaths related to bitcoin doesn't even register.

On the other hand, there are people making trillions of dollars by literally being engaged in murder-business that is war racketeering. And there is lots of "normal" and "common" people involved, from the politicians, to engineers, and all the way to the top, all the while, military men and women are worshiped as heroes.
Why aren’t we involving the 20-year-olds in future planning?
Dollar bloodbath nears dot-com level as many shitstocks go to zero.
I remember it I think Lotus lost the suit. They could not copyright text commands I think.

It was used against Apple but Apple won because their GUI was different from Xerox.

500 is a lot for Lotus 123 and $100 clones sure look tempting.
Clickbait title and actually references 'Dead Coins' website which is completely unreliable - not to mention the fact that I could 'create' a new token worth zero in about 5 minutes.
Nearby cameras and distinctive frames (here are some pink ones https://www.ecrotek.co.nz/product/honeymaxtm-full-depth-pink...). Brand the frames, brand the box and lock the hell out of everything.

A fair portion of thefts have been performed by staff at companies too, so that’s worth keeping in mind. Also, get on with neighbours. Putting masses of hives up against a propert boundary, specifically to target Manuka that’s grown next door tends to rile people up.
News of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

- Mark Twain
Have you looked into iron/hyper? I’ve used them extensively and find them great and fast as hell.
As we live, we forget stuff, we change, the situation around us changes. So it's as if we gradually die every day, to be replaced with a new self. The day we physically die is just the last time we die. Not to mention that we experience nothingness and coming back every night.

By analogy, is a continually trained neural net the same as a previous version of itself? Is it a different one, especially after a long time? Did the old version end/die by continuous accumulation of changes?
I always have a hearty chuckle when articles like this are published. It was a little amusing when I saw people freak out when it "crashed" back down to a value over 500% of what it was just a short time earlier. Now it's even funnier. I don't know how many times people like this have to watch this happen before they get a clue.

There are few things more pathetic than someone who has been screeching arrogantly about the demise of cryptocurrency for over half a decade, laughing and taunting when the price decreases or someone gets scammed, and gnashing their teeth and desperately tweeting or posting when it soars, yet again, in response to market demand. If they'd used one PC to mine BTC in their downtime instead of screaming "LOL libertarians" they'd have paid off their house. If they'd put a few hundred dollars into it at literally any time in 2013, they'd be sitting on at least as much.

Please keep doing this stuff. It never gets old to me.
Completely over-engineered UX, it is almost as I have to reverse engineer the "app" to read the content.

I am always lost as to what kind of thought goes into creating this kind of bloated abominations to display static content.
For anyone who wants to try writing (Javascript) code in a literate style, give Observable notebooks a shot, https://beta.observablehq.com
It's serious for miners, if I remember correctly - bitcoin is only profitable at ~7000$. But it's quite a bit below that now.
So was the crash from 1k to 200...
As did $30 to $2 back in the day. And again at $1k to $300.

It's sort of standard practice for Bitcoin at this point. Not saying it's a guaranteed recovery, but at the same time it's not exactly an unprecedented event.
Here is another way to look at the price:

June 29 2017 BTC $2,480
June 29 2018 BTC $6,414
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Careful not to choke on that apple deep in your throat.
According to such articles bitcoin has been crashing for nearly 10 years. The problem often being it being compared to other assets. It's a totally new concept and has never followed any previous pattern in human history.
A crash implies you came down from somewhere. Bitcoin came from a price of zero. The 20k peak was just price discovery fueled by mindless speculation for a brand new asset. It will keep settling down, but I highly doubt it will ever be worth less than its value a few years ago again.
I always like flipping on the release flag at then end of my work day. I treat it like a stopping point in my code, where I get to see how fast it is compared to the slow running debug executables I’d been working with all day. Great way to end a coding session.
Encryption doesn't really help against traffic fingerprinting.
Wrong. You don't know which side will be heavier
There are shades of grey in SaaS implementations, though. That the product is operated through a third-party server doesn't always imply it needs to be only available when you're on-line, and doesn't imply that your data needs to be taken hostage. A big part of the problem here is what 'stillkicking mentioned - doing away with files. Instead of data files, you have "documents" (meaning specific to a service). You can no longer open them independently, copy to local storage, or e-mail it to a friend - you're restricted to "sharing" them within the platform. This is not a technical necessity. It's just driven by business model.
You need to use accounts with names that aren't so obviously alts in order to pull this garbage.
Never mind actually owning a television. The fact that you can purchase one for an amount of money that seems trivial is an indicator that you are, in an absolute sense, wealthy.

Our poorest people are in many ways wealthy compared to both people of times past and compared to people in poor nations. Homeless people can get apples and potatoes all year long, something even William the Conqueror couldn't have.
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Cloud + offline is best. Just offline is worse, but just cloud is the worst, and that's what we're being offered 99% of the time. E-mail is a special case because the protocol and traditions around it predate modern commercialized Internet. But e.g. all the other communication services regular people use nowadays are cloud-only.
Nah. Have you been one of these guys? I'm a XXL cleaning my act up and it feels great the whole time. All you realize is how fucked up you felt BEFORE. I've never known of anyone that went through that brand of withdrawl.
As miners withdraw and go bust the effort declines and the fees adjust until it becomes profitable again.

It's a clever aggregate system. Bitcoin is always worth what it costs to get it, which at root is relative to the aggregate effort deployed in the bitcoin system in 10 minutes.

10 minutes is a 'turn' in Bitcoin. Everything is relative to what can be done in that amount of time. Perhaps the inventor was an old school D&D player.
"that means you're not really getting any information if the beam balances"

Wrong. If it was true, that would imply that the probability of it balancing is 1, since the information you get is -log2(probability). Obviously the probability of it balancing is lower than 1, so you do get information.
Those are the worst illustrations I've ever seen in an article.

Just wow... https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/imm8kKJFsMQ...
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>Marijuana abused to self medicate is frankly cheaper than paying for mental health medication and therapy.

This implies that self medication has an outcome comparable to paying for mental health medication and therapy.

I would assert that it does not.
Bloomberg must have some interest against Bitcoin. There has been constant negative coverage from Bloomberg for months if not years. I haven’t seen anything like this from any other publication.
I hope this sounds the alarm on how shockingly cheap it is to promote political extremism on these platforms. Donald Trump saw much cheaper effective ad rates than Clinton on social media by crafting viral outrage memes as ads.

It will be interesting to look at the effective CPM rates of various candidates on Twitter using this data. I'm hoping they don't just show how many people were shown the Tweet as an ad, but also those who saw it from organic distribution via retweet.

I think you'll find that outrageous, incendiary politicians pay a lot less per view than reasonable ones.
Whats better free weights or machine weights?
It's been a little while since I did proto boards, but I remember a vast chasm between industrial & hobbyist, that basically forced me to wrangle packages I had no desire to deal with. You could get 4GB DDR2 DIMMs, or you could get a DIP 8kB SRAM. For a microchip you could get TQFP-32, or BGA-1000. So on and so forth. I remember a useful chip that came in nothing but QFN-16.

It seemed like it wasn't I need fancy gear to make blinky lights, but rather for anything better than 8-bit, kilobyte, and low MHz, the only parts available was the fancy commercial stuff.
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Almost immediately after this article was published, the BTC price jumped 8.72% : https://coinmarketcap.com/

Crypto market caps move rapidly in either direction. They're extremely volatile. And this is nothing new. BTC has had much bigger dips before (% wise) and it will have more peaks and valleys as time goes on.
siri search may also hit "apple mapping services" - the phrasing is a swamp of marketspeak
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The most likely time for somebody to notice a problem is a) when they are on the move, and b) when it's a location unfamiliar to them. These are terrible circumstances to expect somebody to stop what they are doing and edit a map.
Reflow trash PCB's. Focus on packages like TQFP, and discrete components of human-visible sizes.
My bet: in some countries because there are many more parents and grandparents. Young people don't have enough votes. A sci-fi like proposal to fix that: people's vote weights 10 at 18 and lose one every ten years. Totally against the principles of our democracies but more forward looking. And very risky for the elders, which are also the most defenseless against changes. I'm not really sure I'd like it.

A minor cause: most young people don't think about politics. They have other priorities. This starts a negative feedback loop together with declining birth rates.
A long tail of under performers exists for websites, apps, stocks (especially OTCBBs) etc. Crypto is no different. Just as with websites and apps, crypto will have it's own long tail of under performers. It makes perfect sense.
No, web views don’t share cookies with Safari. Apps have sandboxed cookie storage.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/nshttpc...
Does this explain why every vendor seems to have exactly the same stuff? I feel like when I was a kid, there was a lot more variety, and going to different stands you'd see different stuff. In my town of ~8000, there are going to be four or five firework stands, all with exactly the same stuff for exactly the same prices.
Which apparently is the psychology of others.
I had a co-worker that still liked ABEL, I think. Was that the crazy HDL that assumed it could output anything it wanted in unconstrained cases?
IMO start with QFP, yes. It's not trivial and has a lot of hand work, but critically you can both see & fix your mistakes.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1627246.
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Looks like the video got vertically squished?
It seem to me that people see not just science in a mystical way, but also coding and other similar activities.
> I think you’re missing a few things here. Kraken is the only exchange that has a USD-tether pair

No it isn't. Bittrex has both a real USD pair and a TrueUSD (audited, US-based) pair. Binance has a TrueUSD pair.

> It is not trivial to be an active trader on Kraken who can freely move in an out of tether and USD.

Yes it is. I have a kraken account. I've traded Tether/USD plenty. I have no special privileges.

> Most of the holders of Tether don’t have access to a market to exchange for dollars.

Yes they do. See, first two answers.

> If you are wash trading, you are not giving up valuable dollars for questionable tethers, that’s the whole point of wash trading! Kraken could can just provide heavy discounts to the wash trader to minimize slippage to trading fees (which I think they do).

Ok, and this accomplishes what?

> Skeptics of the conspiracy, scam theory about tether basically use as their main argument a variation of yours: the bottom line being the market, as it is, believes Tether is not a scam, or the peg would simply not hold.

I'm not actually making that argument. The argument i'm making is that this 'wash trading' theory is stupid, because there is no reason to wash trade. The only entity that would have any interest in wash trading Tether is Kraken itself, to make the market appear more liquid, and attract real trading activity. But if that were the case, that has no bearing on the Tether-Bitfinex conspiracy theory and just isn't all that nefarious an activity.

Nobody has provided any compelling reason why anyone would be interested in falsifying trades on this Tether market. In the absence of any motive, i'm skeptical both that it's happening at all, and that if it is, it has any meaning whatsoever.

That being said, Tether itself may or may not still be a conspiracy. These things are unrelated in my mind. Though, on balance, I think I lean towards thinking it's not a conspiracy, though for other reasons than this.
Terraform is on the way to become a programming language
This makes me think of Rich Hickey's Hammock Driven Development: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc

- "Stay away from the computer"
- Start by asking: "what is the problem?"
There are a lot of studies about inhaling PG in the context of smoke machines (in bars, generally). It reduces lung function, but not permanently. No more serious harm seems to be indicated.