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I think everyone can agree that cryptocurrency got way ahead of itself but HN almost seems Luddite in it's treatment of the underlying technology to the point that we are going to have our own "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame." moment that people will link to for years to come.

The underlying technology is actually pretty worthwhile. Ethereum is providing a base layer protocol for apps that never go down, never fail, and are fully trusted. That's something that future generations will take for granted but HN is largely ignoring right now. Even Google goes down (sometimes once or twice a month). Take a moment to imagine a few of the things you could do better if you had 100% reliable hosting that was safe and private. And basically free. (Either the user pays a penny or two when using your app or you pay a penny or two for each user).

You wouldn't look at the internet in the early 90s and say it was useless because all it does is carry short messages on Usenet which take a while to appear. The tech was being improved. Those short pieces of messages evolved into images and then later video and now we have the internet of today. This isn't going to happen overnight but it's going to happen faster than the improvement of the internet since Ethereum is just software and no hardware needs to be rolled out.

Go ahead and ignore it right now. It's still building time. But don't assume it's useless or beanie babies. In a few years the layer 1 protocols will be good enough for something useful and I would bet that we see something truly unique come out of the blockchain space that we never before knew we needed.
That's because we still don't build enough. Watch as SB 50 dramatically changes rents in CA.
Funnily enough, about 5 years ago, I did pretty much the same thing. It turned out to be a right pain to actually find, and keep all the data up to date.

(Comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5434186 - the actual site has been taken down)
In recent years everybody was telling me I needed a smartphone or I’d be left behind. Now I have a smartphone these same people are saying they wish they didn’t. So I cut the cord by returning the smartphone within the 14 day window. I’ve now gone from late adopter to trend setter all thanks to Apple’s two week return policy.
Plus, even Beanie Babies have some intrinsic value as toys. Housing far more, as shelter. Cryptocurrencies’ value is entirely extrinsic, as far as I can tell; it doesn’t have a nonzero lower bound built in.
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>leading to a boom in number of houses

The requisite for this seems to be little or no govt intervention. In Akl, NZ, for example, you're only seeing high-end homes being built yet prices & demand keeps going up for all housing. Now they're subsidizing projects for entry-level homes as if building a set number of homes (and failing to meet build targets by a long shot)will solve market woes.
in that time period, Amazon both operated at a loss and made money.

Fun how that works.
Two powerful, mind-bending items missing from the list of paradigms:

(1) Dependent types. c.f Idris (or Agda, or others -- but Idris).

(2) Logic programming. (It appears in the list of languages ("miniprolog") but not the list of paradigms.)

I consider both of these much more important than some of the more popular paradigms (object-oriented, procedural, dynamic typing -- if I never use such a language again it'll be too soon).
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This is almost certainly a health and research policy issue. Any of the journals that do cover policy should be interested: Science or Nature for example.

You can't solve a problem without discovering what the problem is.
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I'm not sure why you believe we are disagreeing.

They chose to operate at a loss because they couldn't generate enough business to do anything different. Their shareholders wouldn't have allowed for it otherwise.
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The site asks for "home country" when it really means citizenship. Not the same thing at all.

Also, it's missing a way to input multiple citizenships.
Don’t forget to make it IoT!

In all seriousness, particle.io has some very good forums. They are mostly product specific, but a great product to start with for novice embedded developers.
I feel like this splits hairs a bit, as the Potsdam Declaration[1] already had warned of utter destruction unless Japan surrendered. Our firebomb raids had already demonstrated this resolve and killed more civilians than the atomic bombs, in likely more horrific ways.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potsdam_Declaration
In case of Wolfenstein book, PDF from Play Store looks bad. It seems that fonts are included as bitmaps (not vectors) and it renders pretty ugly.
Not novel or unexpected, or "would disrupt everyone's research and make it impossible to publish data"?
Because the vast majority of crypto/blockchain things are either outright scams, obviously doomed to fail ("it's Yelp but crypto!") or misapplied ("we're using blockchain intternally").

I honestly can't think of a single crypto startup that's had a compelling product.

Edit: typos.
I can't understand why it has so many stars.
(Changing the subject away from the cut)

I applaud Fabiens' work. I have been following since his blog days on the source code analysis of games and I'm so happy he's writing books on the matter. I will fully support him going forward.

However, the first edition of the Wolfenstein Black Book left me a bit miffed. It had many grammatical errors and even some layout awkwardness that would not pass an editor's review. I understand the reasons: English is not his first language, this was a work of passion, etc. But it still mars the experience. I assume the second edition fixed those; I wish I had waited.

I've been eagerly waiting for his book on Doom. But I recommend waiting for the second edition, once he had time to take the readers' feedback into account.
(3) declarative programming (e.g. SQL)
You mention some of it, I genuinely don’t want my OS to install short cuts for candy crush and mind craft when I’m not looking, it’s more than that though, because I really don’t like my corporate windows 10 either and it’s free from all of that.

We don’t even suffer from the faulty updates because we don’t roll them out right away.

I can’t put my finger on it, I wish I could, because it’s not terrible constructive to say that it just doesn’t feel nice to use. But that’s how it feels. It certainly also lacks the unix command tools. Git bash was a nice addition, though it’s hardly the same as a real unix terminal, but mostly it’s just that using windows 10 feels wrong to me.
SEC exists to enforce the caste system. Like how income tax only looks at how much you made, but accredited investor takes into account how much you have.

It's regulatory lock in for stealing the future. They are also responsible for a lot of this crash - attacking random ICOs and developers to the tune of 6-7 figures.

Keep thanking them.
So excruciatingly painful to travel on the Indian passport. I was rejected from visiting my fiancee in France even though I had a UK, Swiss (was not schengen in 2007) and H1b visa on my passport.

Also visa requirements are by the passport you are holding not usually the PR so requirements don't change that much.
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I thought he was planning to use the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope which is still in the works, and not to be confused with the Ice Cube neutrino detector which has been operational for several years.

https://cdr.skatelescope.org/

https://icecube.wisc.edu/science/icecube/detector
Depends on the valuation models used. There's no accepted standard yet.

The way I value currencies, the size of the network and the number of projects built on top of it is what matters and in that view Ethereum and Bitcoin are definitely worth much more that their current fx price.
Assholes and idiots, as usual, fuelled the crypto craze. They ruined a reasonable, although flawed, means of exchange with their greed and stupidity.

There’s no value in a currency that is unstable either up or down because it’s not possible for those who wish to use it for its intended purpose to keep track of the fluctuations.

Plus, it was another way for monsters to destroy the planet, as if we needed another one of those.

When will you self-centred fucks understand that your personal profit does not justify destroying the planet?
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The problem is that if the state were to provide secure public-private key cryptographic identity, there would be absolutely no need for PoW or PoS. Eventually we'll figure that out, and all of this work will haven been useless.
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There's actually quite a bunch of less than $199 solutions (and also not requiring a soldering iron) the OP could also have used to achieve a good experience listening to music.

One solution would have been to just buy that 15 year old hardware he talks about, a lot of older digital music players still just work, I have a bunch of them. Or an external soundcard for a laptop. Or stream music from phone to a Raspberry Pi with a DAC. Or a portable CD player which doesn't hiss.
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> we are going to have our own "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame." moment that people will link to for years to come.

That quote is a product of its time, and only seems foolish or misguided with the benefit of hindsight. There is no shame in skepticism, even if it ultimately ends up being incorrect (likewise I'd have no misgivings about making a wrong decision rationally). There is also an element of survivorship bias: many such quotes about things which did fail were wagered on similar amounts of information, but have since fallen into obscurity. I don't think it's fair to call the author of that quote a Luddite.

Speaking as someone well acquainted with the technicalities of distributed systems and cryptography, I am deeply skeptical of blockchain technology. I think the vast majority (but not all) of it is "lame"[1], for lack of a better word. I would happily accept being quoted for a decade or two if I'm wrong.

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1. I'm skeptical for reasons I'm not going to try to defend, because they've been rehashed on Hacker News over and over. The justifications will likely not convince anyone who remains unconvinced.
Currently, solar that has 3-4 hours of output at 50% of peak primary solar outbut, is about $35-$40/MWh in Colorado, Nevada, and I think even Indiana had bids in that ballpark. This is between 1/5 to 1/2 the cost of nuclear, depending on who you believe for nuclear's costs. Storing a MWh probably costs around $80-$150 currently.

Why so little storage? It's not really needed at the scale of projects that are being planned, and storage gets cheaper every year.

So let's say we could start building a nuclear plant and get it done in 10 years (which is highly speculative, but let's give nuclear the benefit of the doubt). What are the costs going to be 10 years from now? Or more importantly, what are costs going to be 30 years from now? Because the storage lasts 10-15 years, so you get to replace it with cheaper tech at that point, whereas with nuclear you've locked in your costs for the next 60 years.

This is why no sane entity wants to build nuclear, unless they are ideologically motivated. There are some nuclear startups that may make nuclear cheaper, and less risky to build, but they are still startups without functioning prototypes or manufacturing facilities. By the time they start production, the utility will be ready to replace any batteries that get deployed on the grid today, so one may as well start deploying wind/solar + storage. And add more time of use rate plans so that energy is used efficiently.
> Certainly the execs shouldve been arrested.

Some of them were. What really should've happened is that the big banks should have been broken up, and we should've fixed the regulatory environment to make it more viable to operate a small independent bank. But it's never too late for that.

> I meant using TARP money to wipe out a portion of that debt or create jobs instead of QE.

TARP "cost" -$15B. The government turned a profit. If you wanted to cancel TARP so the money could be used for something else, the other program would have to somehow also cost -$15B. If you had such a program we presumably should have done both and made $30B.

Moreover, the total US mortgage debt is ~$8.8T. The only thing that's going to make much of a dent in that is inflation over time -- which is what QE does. It also lowers interest rates, meaning that homeowners are paying less interest on their existing mortgages. It also lowers interest rates for government debt, which allows the government to fund more programs with less tax revenue. Ever wonder how Obama managed to pass the ACA subsidies while passing a tax cut? QE. Allows the government to pay less interest on the debt and use the money for something else.

QE doesn't cost money. It creates money. Far more money than the government profit from TARP. The "cost" is in inflation -- assuming you weren't otherwise fighting deflationary effects to begin with, which we have been and still are.

"Unwinding" it -- meaning getting the level of consumer debt back down to a reasonable level -- is probably going to require more. What you need is for people to have an incentive to reduce debt, also known as raising interest rates (as has been done), but then you need something to counter the deflationary effects of doing that. This is why interest rates are normally raised in a booming economy -- booms naturally cause an increase in borrowing and therefore inflation. But this "boom" hasn't seen much inflation because of various countervailing deflationary effects (housing bubble wanting to deflate, software eating the world, much of the boom being caused by low interest rates to begin with, etc.), so that isn't there, which is why interest rates remained at zero for longer than they probably should have.

The best thing they could do right now is to have another round or three of QE, but use the money to fund a UBI rather than to lower bank loan interest rates, then let the higher loan interest rates cause people to pay down their mortgages (using the money from the UBI) and deflate the housing bubble over time without causing an immediate crash or catastrophic general deflation.
I used to be a reactor operator and never saw any evidence they were hard to throttle. That's why they are used for warship propulsion: loads in battle are not predictable by their nature, what with changes in course, catapult launches, etc.
If you're worried about climate change you can choose one that doesn't have proof of work (of the top 5, EOS and Stellar with maybe Ethereum to follow). Not sure about early adopters - if buying into early Amazon, Apple etc made the buyers rich is that a problem?
It was in development before, but the at least philosophical ties to the troubles of the classic economic systems are right there in the Genesis block of Bitcoin, persisted forever by Satoshi Nakamoto:

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Genesis_block

Scroll to "Coinbase".
Why do you need it to be legalized? After all, it's a one way trip, you don't care about being convicted post mortem, do you? :)
https://medium.com/ab-chain/market-news-germany-officially-r...

https://cointelegraph.com/news/ohio-appears-to-be-first-us-s...

https://cointelegraph.com/news/us-georgia-next-state-in-line...

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

Some reading required. ;-)
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But little but very important note for people from those countries: Add region called "Central Europe". Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, Hungarians... they hate being marked as eastern europeans ;)
It’s refeshing to hear this opinion on HN. I feel like every comment is “remote only or it sucks!”

Yes, I find huge value in flexible work times. Yes I find huge value in ability to work remote. But there is a lot more to most business than just implementing code. Those components are hard to do well with remote only (IMHO). Especially so if there is a physical component to the business/product.

Personally I like the human interaction and I like the separation of work and home.
Those two projects were directly intertwined. The Titan missile is what took people into space in Project Gemini. The space program was, in my opinion, a front for the intercontinental ballistic missile program.
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Multi-nationality is becoming more and more common especially with permanent residency visas
> I think you’d find it hard to publish simple replication of someone else’s work.

Yes, but this shouldn't be the case. The replication crisis clearly points out the problems with this.
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It has a few example programs.

[0] https://antime.kapsi.fi/sega/files/ST-240-A-042795.pdf
> I bet you feel the same way about minerals whose extraction process is vastly more damaging to the environment.

I don't understand this reasoning: is "X is bad but Y is worse" supposed to convince people that X is actually good?

I think everybody with sufficient information would agree that we should limit both harmful mineral extraction and the runaway energy usage of cryptocurrencies.
Well done! I like it as a potential way to brainstorm travel.

However I would not use it as a definitive resource simply because there is no authoritative central source for the data, and the official sources are sometimes very messy (I assume you're scraping consular websites to keep current).

Feature suggestion: show the name of the country when hovering on the map.
TBH Apple stuff is about the only thing you can repair as repair shops are nearly exclusively focused on Apple because of the large volume and long lifespan of their models.

Good luck getting a Samsung Note 2014 repaired (I tried) or a Lenovo laptop that needs say a mainboard or some BGA replacement.

While I don’t agree with how Apple restricts 3rd party repairs the reason they are the only one you hear about is because they are the only one with a 3rd party repair ecosystem to begin with.
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I remember friends and collegues who were all crazed when the bubble started. They were buying, spamming on facebook about how cryptocurrency was the way to go and how they have a high R.O.I etc.

But I knew and just like physics, all increasing bubbles eventually burst.
Afterwards it was the bankers fault. All various conspiracy theories etc...
I detest the overall HN commenting community. You may be an exception. They're always downvoting and shadowbanning. I am reluctant to share much useful info here.
While this is super cool, as an Argentinian I show up as visa-free for a bunch of Schengen countries, which while strictly not false it's not super useful: We get 3 out of every 6 months stay, and the list would prob be a lot more useful to people who don't know this if these things were somehow displayed; it's after all not a minor caveat when picking travel destinations
How does that make them less novel?

Your impression that the "vast majority of crypto/blockchain thing are either outright scams" is a personal opinion for which you can't find supporting evidence. The SEC has only issued a hand full of notifications and LOST the only court case I've seen so far.
> For example, one of the questions that people ask me again and again is how close the Germans were to getting an atomic bomb. The answer is, more or less, not very close at all. Why not? Because even if their scientific understanding was not too far away — which it was not, even though they were wrong about several things and behind on several others — they never came close to the stage that would be necessary to turn it into an industrial production program, as opposed to just a laboratory understanding. That sheer fact is much more important than whether Heisenberg fully understood the nature of chain reactions or anything like that.

I found this article to be very interesting. The point above in particular, for example, has parallels with the allied code-breaking efforts, which were similarly organized primarily as an industrial operation. (The Bletchley Park data base lists more that 10,000 people who were associated with work there during the war). As with the Manhattan project, much is written about key figures, like Turing and Flowers, whose contributions were of course crucial, but the true genius of the effort was the fact that the British, and later the Americans, created a large industrial organization for code breaking.
thinking globally... if someone holding the bag (i.e. bought at 20k and sold at 3k) - someone (smarter?) else got the difference and now have capital to deploy it more efficiently (if we assume bitcoin is not efficient deployment of resources) So overall things did not change - non-efficient money-managers lost, efficient money-managers got more resources to deploy to better alternatives.

is my thinking flawed somewhere?
> Has anyone considered bootstrapping on completely different stacks and then diffing the results?

Yes.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12666923
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What other ten year old technologies, that went on to be successful, were as useless for their stated purpose as crypto?

If crypto is money, can I:

Spend it at Amazon?
My grocery store?
My corner deli?
Pay my rent?
Pay my employees?

If crypto is a store of value can I trust it will have any rational storage value over any time period?
> There will need to be a lot of battery storage, which means there needs to be a lot of lithium.

No, if we actually want this, pumped-storage hydroelectricity is a proven solution that works. There is actually no uncertainty regarding energy storage: we can do it.
As a trans person, Tumblr was the best place to find other trans people, having shared experiences talked about, negativity processed, and where I was able to post pics of myself as I shifted seeing myself from ugly (as reinforced in me in movies) to worth loving. It was one of the only places where I didn't have to be bombarded with the hateful remarks of transphobes, as I got to pick who I followed.

I had some of my content censored following the acquisition by Yahoo. It happened to other folk too. I really wish there wouldn't be this shame around bodies, sexuality and gender identity that companies enforce with their censorship algorithms.
As a native speaker, a "housing boom" sounds like a boom in the number of houses, not a boom in the price of existing houses :)
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Great website! I travel a ton (50+ countries in the last few years) and usually use Wikipedia to check visa requirements. I'll be switching to this.

Where did you import all this data from in a structured manner? How do you plan on keeping it up to date?

Are you associated with a commercial enterprise in the space (e.g. travel startup)?