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This happened from 2014 to mid 2016, a good 18 months.

Nothing happened. There have been bigger threats to the network, the revenue of miners isn't currently one. A threat to the usability of the network would be if 90% of mining power disappeared at the same time, this means it would take 900% longer to confirm a block until the next difficulty adjustment drops the network confirmation time back to 10 minutes. Difficulty adjustments happen every 2016 blocks, each block is supposed to come every 10 minutes. The worst case scenario would be hashrate disappearing right after a difficulty adjustment meaning 2015 blocks will be found very slowly, there could be a max of 4 months of a slower bitcoin network.

Makes me wonder what you even mean by death spiral, like what user experience do you expect to happen?

Users wouldn't immediately stop using bitcoin because it was slower, they wouldn't even know it would suck, so more likely the unconfirmed transactions would add up, and to ensure getting mined into a block, the users would increase their transaction fees to coax miners to include them first (instead of dropping their transaction completely when they run out of memory). With a higher fee market, this is an even greater incentive for miners to come back on the network, because now the block reward doesn't even matter, since the fees can potentially eclipse it totally. The price of bitcoin would even cease to matter, if there is a dollar figure of fees just there. Miners come back on the network would make the hashrate higher again, before the difficulty adjustment, making blocks confirm faster, instead of slower.

This equilibrium is already in the minds of miners, which contributes to them staying on the network so that they don't miss out.

This isn't theory, its all happened before.
Good for Patreon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
This is really a failure story that got lucky. They spent 2+ years and who knows how much $ before validating demand!
We are using it to write Express (node.js) middleware via Neon (https://github.com/neon-bindings/neon). This has a few key benefits:

* Progressively introduce Rust instead of replacing entire applications (Rust really shines in this area)

* Leverage node's strong HTTP and routing story while waiting for this to stabilize in Rust

* Leverage existing tooling for APM, config management, etc.

For example, one middleware verifies the request body with a signature from a header. Another one parses the body from a `Buffer` to JSON, transforms, and serializes as protobuf.
The State of UX  in 2019
Couldn't the protocol be extended, such that the hash algorithm could be switched periodically, in such a way that ASICs would no longer be profitable to produce?
Ask HN: Can you help me find a previous HN post?
So I read a post here earlier this year which was so useful, but I can't find it again despite spending hours searching on HN and my browser history.

Any chance you can help me find the post I'm talking about? Christmas cheer and all that!

This is what I remember about the post
- the post linked to a long Google Doc which was a guide of how to run a startup
- there was lots of advice on how to run different meetings eg. team meetings, 1:1s etc
- the Google Doc was created by an executive/CEO/startup coach with lots of experience
- the post was created in 2018

Any ideas? Any help would be massively appreciated
I'm not saying it is 100% wrong, but I have some major reservations with it and don't think it should be legal to use in the work place as many people take these types as gospel and not in a generic fashion as they should.
How do we resolve this conflict then? Do we censor everyone who anyone claims is a Nazi? Do we have an official review board to vet the claims? Or maybe we decide that it's better to not censor based on ideology or rhetoric but on outcome and damage alone?
Formatting dates with a format string is an anti-pattern. Format strings are too easy to get wrong and don't scale when you need to account for different locales. JavaScript's Intl functions do this correctly by providing an api that accepts a locale and options like weekday: narrow|short|long, year: numeric|2-digit, etc.
> What stops GS from replacing their fee-based offerings with a blockchain solution?

What does that sentence even mean? To me this is right up there with "I'll create a GUI interface with Visual Basic and see if I can track an IP address."
Start with an app, I use "Sober Time".
Getting those ASICs from where they are unused to where someone can use them to attack the network is not a simple task. The only way this becomes possible is if the current owner of the hardware decides to attack the network. Even to buy the hardware will require a large capital input, let's at you can buy $1m worth of hardware and ship it to your location within 7 days (shipping and setup), you then need to run it (electricity cost) and hope that you can recoup costs plus profit by double spending. The only option to double spend and profit is to double spend on an exchange and withdraw fiat currency before the exchange realises, the speed at which fiat transfers work this is highly unlikely.
At some point you want those 16 cores so MS Word will have an acceptable performance, even if your auto-routing electrical CAD uses just 1 of them to solve its own NP-hard problem.
Vue.js: Vue CLI 3 Released: Modular Plugin System – FrontNet Blog
Case-insensitivity is annoying to me, and much more difficult to implement than case-sensitivity. Yes, yes, one should always implement Unicode normalization or at least form-insensitive comparisons, but that's a subtly different. Even if you implement normalization / form-insensitivity, case-insensitivity still requires significantly more constant data tables. And you really have to have normalization support if you're going to do case-insensitivity.
Software i18n is still hard to do, even in 2018.

Not completely related to the post, but sometime ago I had to build a calendar widget, in javascript, capable of displaying ISO and Hijri dates simultaneously. It turns out the most reliable way to convert between the two is to use a lookup table, similar to what Java Time does. Algorithmic implementations available started to drift in odd ways after a certain number of days.
Which of the 2 books which are called How to Change your Mind?	Michael Pollan or Martin E. Seligman?
JK Rowling published the first Harry Potter book using her initials to hide her gender, which was recommended by her publisher. She could go back on that, but it's too late now that she's known by it.
No, but it certainly can be used for money laundering and tax evasion.

It removes the need to trust a bookie or agent to move money offshore.

There are lawyers/accountants in Switzerland and Hong Kong who will help you launder money from third world countries.

Moving your assets offshore without local government knowing is not a crime in other country!

Edit: why downvotes? What's wrong?
I don't understand why commenters in these threads keep noting that free speech only protects people from government censorship. This is a common, distracting, and empty statement. Proponents of free speech are pro free speech as a general concept and principle, beyond what protections are afforded under American law today. The idea of free speech predates the existence of the United States. Free speech is hugely valuable to defend, because what society finds acceptable or unacceptable is very much subjective and changes with time/location/culture/setting/leadership/etc. Having an open exchange of ideas is good and necessary for the long-term health and stability of society, especially if we care about being a collectively truth-seeking society.

There are also frequent comments on such articles saying that content creators can just seek another platform, which frankly seems like an obviously unhelpful suggestion. Twitter, Reddit, Patreon, and others are massive in scale and have a ubiquity and reach that isn't found elsewhere. Platforms that benefit from network effects don't face effective competition, and investors typically won't invest in new competitors in those arenas, because it is such a long shot to break through those barriers. We could argue that Patreon is not one of the platforms whose value is driven by network effects, but the underlying payment processors (e.g. Visa) definitely benefit from network effects. And of course, Visa has deplatformed many parties, including famously, Wikileaks back in 2010.

There are also examples of folks who followed that advice and left Patreon for other platforms (e.g. SubscribeStar) and then got deplatformed (e.g. by Stripe or PayPal). There are examples of lower-level entities like Visa/Mastercard _forcing_ platforms built on top of them to censor someone or risk being banned by them. Clearly, these privately-owned platforms are monopolies or oligopolies in a sense, holding access to large segments of the population with no competitive forces acting on them. Alternatively, we can look at them as being the digital public square, and therefore they should be subject to regulation that prevents them from taking action beyond what the law in their jurisdiction requires.

The big risk is this: when only a few entities funnel so much societal discourse or control our communication infrastructure or process payments, those entities making arbitrary decisions about who they serve has similar impacts/risks to the government imposing similar restrictions through the law. These companies should not act as a moral police and should not impose their own personal governance above what is minimally required by the law. Nor should they rely on the judgment of an angry mob to make decisions.
> It's very difficult to imagine Bell Telephone (in their 100% monopoly days I mean) feeling responsible for what people discuss on their wires, or feeling a need to deny (say) pornographers service so that its other customers wouldn't feel tainted.

Bell in its monopoly days was a common carrier [0], regulated by law to treat all phone lines equally.

> Or Visa likewise today -- it's understood that other people will use the same plastic to pay for things you morally disapprove of, just as they could use cash. But it's positioned as a neutral carrier, and nobody cares (I think).

Visa and Mastercard are not common carriers - they can and do discriminate.

One of the weirdest ironies in this debate is that the people Patreon is ending business relationships with tend to be libertarian/conservative types who are generally skeptical of government regulation of business. And yet what they really seem to want is regulation of Patreon, Twitter [1], Cloudflare [2], etc as common carriers.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_carrier

1: https://qz.com/1381708/twitter-finally-banned-alt-right-cons...

2: https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-terminated-daily-stormer/
I can't speak to what's really in the guy's head, but he seemed to be arguing with and insulting nazis.
If you've branded yourself as being politically incorrect, isn't this the kind of conflict and publicity you strive to achieve?

I'm getting a little tired of people who've made a career saying what you "can't say on TV" and then pretending to be surprised when their content gets pulled.

Wait - how do you know what people's intentions are?

Your entire comment is premised on the idea that 'people who've made a career' - as in "all of em" since you said "people who
."- are in fact trolls who deserve what they get. First you know their secret intentions (making a career out of it) and second you deem them unworthy of having their content even remotely worth thinking about preserving before being pulled. You're tired, after all.

Please don't end up in a position of power, kind sir/ma'am.
That's true of any prehistoric invention. Same goes for the wheel, the flint axe, the spear, and the bow + arrow.
Indeed. `/` covers 99% of my cases, `|` covers 99% of the remaining. I think i might have had to use something "exotic" once or twice in 30+ years now.
Unfortunately, it does so for everybody. Including people who have a strong interest in the world not seeing Bitcoin as scam central. It all strikes me as a classic tragedy of the commons.
I'm also probably a little conceited when it comes to sleep habits :) I feel lucky to not have any trouble falling and staying asleep.

I definitely have sympathy for people with sleep problems/ disorders. When I was in my early teens, I had horrible troubles going to sleep. I would lay in bed, sometimes hours, without being able to fall asleep. I grew out of it for whatever reason as I got older. This is interesting now that I think of it, considering the wikipedia someone posted below on chronotype, suggesting adolescents tend to prefer delayed sleep.

But the reasons adults or children have trouble with sleep are complex and difficult to identify I'm sure. I don't envy anyone with sleep problems.
I always interpreted virtue signalling not as implying insincerity, but rather implying the main reason they're broadcasting the belief is to put a spotlight on themselves.

If there was a murder in the news and you immediately went on Facebook to post "Murder is bad" so people would Like your post, that's virtue signalling. Of course murder is bad. Only a crazy person would think murder wasn't bad. So there's no point posting that opinion on your feed, unless your goal is to get Likes.

A less silly example might be if an acquaintance posts a picture of themselves at a restaurant and you post an unsolicited reply saying "I would never eat that, I'm a vegan." Ok, maybe you really are a vegan, but you're just posting that to look morally superior.
I understand I just thought that he was saying no counterclaims are possible through Youtube's system. In this case it's kind of YT specific because someone else made a false claim to copyright ownership.
Or be a different brand of extremely-hateful white supremacist while also being anti-nazi
No.

It just lets you setup "standard" record-types, such as A, AAAA, MX, etc.
Was he espousing this philosophy or merely using the philosophy of his audience to say: "even by your own philosophy, you're wrong"?

But "white people are meant to be polite and respectful to one another" is so counterfactual it's hard to imagine anyone actually believes that.
I just assume that, in order to qualify as an exaggeration joke, it had to be both an exaggeration and a joke.
I see this arguments being thrown all the time, but I also like the argument that current infrastructures needed to run "previous-gen" currencies are actually burning way more[1]. While I wait for concrete research to estimate how much energy was wasted in the creation and maintenance process of these, I will abstain from spreading the FUD.

[1]: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Myths#Bitcoin_mining_is_a_waste_o...
The point is a quip to push back against the culture of early risers lording their being up early over everyone else.
>Why did you need to create a new account for this comment? Give our regards to Xi ;-)

Because mods are pansies who keep banning me ; - )
It's rare that I need a sedex with both paths and alternation, but if I do I'll use something other than / or |. That's the point of this article; if what you're using is going to hinder obviousness, USE SOMETHING ELSE. Because... you can.
> ... free to grind their employees to a pulp in the company towns of not so long ago, free to send thugs to the ballot box to make sure you vote for the right person, free to pay you in company dollars only and then gouge you in the company store.

Ah, but who's more likely to do these things? Free corporations that must vigorously compete against any new upstarts, or corrupt ones led by government cronies, that can easily erect a convenient "moat" against competition, fully supported by government coercion? Hint: look at which countries do these things in practice. It's not the "small government", economically free ones.
https://marketcapcoin.blogspot.com/2018/12/will-cryptocurren...
https://goo.gl/Z5KnrZ

https://youtu.be/9Yq67CjDqvw
But it would be ok if he were black, right? After all, black people are free to use the n-word at will...
Not really. When the MPAA wanted action taken on torrented movies, they didn’t just throw their hands up in the air and go “whelp, it’s decentralized!“, they went after the authors of the protocol, the ISPs, hell even domain name registrars (that listed torrent websites).
You can still torrent films, but you could get prosecuted or fined. Furthermore, some content is completely censored from torrent sites.

All that to say, it’s not clear to me that “decentralized technology” can prevent the very human process of holding others accountable. It does slow down that process for now, since the software obfuscates what’s going on (who’s doing what), but regulators will understand how the tech works eventually...
Edit: Never mind, I misunderstood.
> Companies are run by people.

This is why lawyers have jobs. In a situation like this, the reasonable thing to do is ambiguous, and opinions are strongly split in half. If there's an objective standard, everybody can just point to that. It's not the most communitarian thing, but it's a way to bypass conflict and move on.

Now the particular reason half of the people are up in arms here is that it's stifling to know that you could lose your whole livelihood over a choice of words on (arguably?) your own time. On the other hand it's a choice of words that the other half the people deem beyond the pale in any context. It's a bit of a mess, and I'm not sure whether this will resolve itself on a useful standard that a lawyer can point to, much less what that standard might be.
Thanks for posting the actual content. Too often I think the actual content of the statements is left out of these things for political reasons (on both sides, depending on the context). I don't agree with all of Patreon's decisions on stuff like this, but this one seems reasonable, now that I can see the actual text.
Or double spend. E.g. you could send coins to an exchange, cash out, then mine off an old block to get your coins back.
> trying to take responsibility for his actions (as a non-officer)

So you think the only way he could take responsibility for his actions was to insist on telling what happened even though it was obvious that everyone already knew? Thereby getting himself punished and discharged? You don't think it would count as taking responsibility for his actions for him to accept a second chance, learn from the experience, and do better next time?

> I believe access to the franchise shouldn't be dependent on servitude

Volunteering isn't "servitude".

> "the punishment depends on whether you and your superiors are willing and able to cover it up" isn't a standard of jurisprudence to be aspired to

So you think the exact letter of the law should be applied in every case? No one should ever exercise judgment in applying the law? If so, I'll agree that that's a consistent position, but I don't think it's a realistic one, and I certainly wouldn't want to live in a country where that was how the law was applied. If you would, then you're indeed correct that we won't be able to reach agreement.

> increasingly inconsistent arguments

I don't see how anything I've said is inconsistent. But I agree that what I've said comes from a very different view of the world than the one you appear to have.
fire (deliberate control of) was discovered by birds and later copied by humans
And comma appears in repetition limits (like in /a{1,2}/). I don't see much difference.
That never really works.

There's a reason why these voices are getting stronger that are rooted in the current society issues.

Sure silencing them might buy some time, but unless the root problem are addressed more will crop up or people will turn to them and to populists looking for a way to externalize their sorrow against some external force.

You can trace the trajectory pretty well looking the political climate all around the world. People gave the right a try, the left a try, now the populists are going strong and it's getting worse.

You want to silence the alt right? Fix youth unemployment, income inequality and the rising cost of living and they'll disappear overnight because their platform will.

Silencing one or hundreds voices won't silence the thoughts people are having.

-2 Edit: so as usual it is apparent it is impossible to have a discussion on hivemind news. Oh well. If even the actual reality you live in can't convince that there's a strong polarization in the public discussion and the factions are bringing ruin to the debate, politics economy and even the world itself with populist undoing years of climate policies you are part of the problem too.
> Do they have the same stigma for those words?

We both know a dude from the UK, who primarily speaks English, and who talks about American politics would be aware of the stigma of the word.

> Are we okay applying American standards to their words?

It's important to look at the context of the situation to determine what's happening. In this situation, Sargon was appealing emotionally to white supremacists by saying they are as low as black people and that they should be better by acting white--this implies black people are lower than white people. It's racist and that's pretty obvious.
Preston Byrne pointed out since there is no pyramid, this can’t be called a Ponzi scheme. It deserves a new name, the “Nakamoto scheme”:

https://prestonbyrne.com/2017/12/08/bitcoin_ponzi/
I think another factor is that we've passed peak uncritical press coverage. Never again will there be as large an influx of media-driven naive optimists who think that the price will only go up.
Law enforcement is generally given the benefit of the doubt. They're professionals.
> arguing with and insulting nazis.

He wasn't arguing with white supremacists because he fundamentally disagreed with them. It was infighting between factions. He disagreed with a particular faction's behavior and words.

He was arguing with them because they, using his words, were acting like "white n-words"[1]:

> “I just can’t be bothered with people who chose to treat me like this. It’s really annoying. Like, I — . You’re acting like a bunch of n_____s, just so you know. You act like white n_____s. Exactly how you describe black people acting is the impression I get dealing with the Alt Right. I’m really, I’m just not in the mood to deal with this kind of disrespect.”

> “Look, you carry on, but don’t expect me to then have a debate with one of your f__gots.…Like why would I bother?…Maybe you’re just acting like a n____r, mate? Have you considered that? Do you think white people act like this? White people are meant to be polite and respectful to one another, and you guys can’t even act like white people, it’s really amazing to me.”

[1] https://patreonhq.com/hate-speech-on-patreon-a9026e52c2cf?gi...
I have a huge concern over anyone who is stating that the CCs are to partly to be blamed. Yes, they were used for firearms. Firearms are expensive and plastic (for the most part) is the currency in the US.

For me that's flipping the bozo bit for that individual. It's not "fascism" or "trump" that we should be afraid of. It's the mob rule.
many words are offensive while not being such a taboo as the n-word in the US
I finished the book recently and I cannot recommend it enough. The bragging sometimes shows through the stories and the end of the book feels like a clever marketing about his company. But the book is well written, well structured, stories are good, and each chapter brings new techniques. The book changed the way I handle communication. There are actionable practical tips and tools for communication and it shaped how I think about a hard phone call, how to prepare for a meeting and how to push coffee chitchat at work in more interesting directions. You will have to ignore more self-centered persons in your life than this book's author anyway, take it as a practice lesson :) And to Chris Voss defense he also talks about examples he made mistakes.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17446839
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