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Many people have become rich from violating the law or selling to other speculators. It’s much harder to come up with an example of someone who has built a viable business with good long-term potential – it’s like the dotcom bubble with only etoy and cement.com but no Amazon or eBay.
Wouldn't a prominent "I don't have anything to do with Disney" do it?
BTW, Sorcery is available for iOS, and it's a great implementation.
We can never know enough to be safe" is simply and obviously false. Crab-bucket thinking at its finest.

Way to go to wildly twist my words out of shape.

I submit that, with that point of view, you're better off quitting now so you don't have to experience the doomed future you propose.

I'm quite open about my struggles with being suicidal. But let's give the benefit of the doubt and assume you don't actually know that.

As kindly as possible, actively encouraging an internet stranger to off themselves because you don't agree with what you imagine they said has got to be one of the absolute ugliest tactics I've ever seen in an internet argument.

So I'm done here. That's not something I consider to be remotely within the realm of a good faith argument.

Note to self: Suggest to my would-be co-founder that such a thing should be a bannable offense on his forum. Cuz: Ew!
Well, the first time so saw it Done was for the only large company I ever worked for - what was then a Fortune 10 (non tech company). But on the other hand, the department that I was hired into was actually a recently acquired small company with four developers and the manager was the founder of the original company - so take that as you may.

But, just because a company gets big, doesn’t mean that you can take hiring less seriously. You still have to be sure that you hire the right people. A false positive - hiring someone that can’t do the job - is worse than a false negative - not hiring someone who would be a good fit.
So I was teaching a new guy on building some of the interior work on sailboats. I showed him how to drill a couple of holes through the fiberglass flange to mount something-or-other. Several hours later my boss asks me why there's two small holes in the hull. Well, I didn't specifically tell him not to drill through the flange, the cm of space, and through the whole hull.
A rare victory for public interest over rentier interests. I so hope it becomes a trend.
Also, or alternatively, make sure you have your loan approval in hand as well. I recently bought a car and thought I got an okay rate at the dealer through CapitalOne, but they “figured out” a way to get my interest rate a whole point lower (much better than anticipated) if I went with the dealer warranty. So the price of my purchase went up, but my monthly payments went down. That’s okay with me in the end, but I really would have preferred my “real” rate and no extra warranty of course.

Having a hard price and a solid loan letter in hand before you even step on to the lot is really the only sane way to deal with auto purchasing.
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> there are some legitimate criticisms of the Register piece that I cited in the first tweet, but I merely cited it as an example of why I think the hype is calming down.

On the one extreme, you've got the evangelicals who insist that everybody will benefit from cryptocurrency today and the only reason it hasn't replaced all of modern finance is because of a conspiracy. These people ignore anyone's attempt at a rational counterargument.

On the other extreme you've got people who are very strongly against the idea of cryptocurrencies. They see that tremendous harm can come to individuals who jump into this system unprepared and who aren't aware of the security or privacy implications (for example), because the previous group doesn't admit that there are any. They are also able to see through the greed and the overhype and as a result dismiss Bitcoin for being nothing.

The thing to recognize is that these are both extremes. They both contain some truth, but it feels that the public discourse is largely just a fight between the extremes rather than any meaningful discussion.

If you want to contribute something meaningful to the discussion, be honest. You have some good points in this followup and in your twitter comments, but your opening line is just blatantly dishonest.

> For example, a study of 43 use cases found a 0% success rate

So, apparently nobody is buying drugs with cryptocurrency anymore. Seriously! This line is demonstrated to be blatantly misleading if you give it TEN SECONDS of thought. Did you? In truth, I think you did give it thought, and then you dismissed it because it's a good line that supports the way you want things to be and supports the message you want to push.

> but I merely cited it as an example of why I think the hype is calming down.

You said a misleading thing; own up. Don't downplay it. Nobody expects an apology or anything, but just admit to yourself that it was to some degree dishonest, and think about whether that's really an attribute you want to preserve in your writing and in the way you present yourself, and whether exaggeration which doesn't present itself as such really does anything to advance the discourse.
It's best for society and culture as a whole not to have the expressions of that culture and the archetypes that shape it be controlled by corporations and usable only for monetary gain, at least not forever.
I, too, would pay $1000 for unlimited use of any supercar I want.
That’s describing the situation in the US. Elsewhere the 1940s movies are already public domain.
Yeah i seized the oppertunity with both hands. I proposed and married my girlfreind in 2 days to get the visa jointly.

I got a job offer becuase i wrote software to solve a particular issue with firebase at the time, and posted it to their user group, then they offered a guest blog post which i wrote here https://firebase.googleblog.com/2014/02/firesafe-add-complex... then i think i got the offer!
How would one measure each employee's individual profitability?
Forgot the /s. =(
There isn't currently a huge demand for public crypto currencies but I see a lot of demand from enterprises (particularly in financial services and supply chains) for blockchain. The tech is iterating to solve for these needs.

I don't think that means public crypto has failed or will go away. It just needs time to mature as a technology.

Fwiw, I find it interesting that OP says public crypto failed because of both fundamental misunderstandings and immature tech (internet trying to compete with newspapers in the 80s). Eventually, the internet was able to compete with newspapers and I think eventually public blockchain will compete with centralized companies.

Networks can benefit from economies of scale without the rent seeking bottlenecks.
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You use the word "countless" in a context that is not familiar to me

"People seldom get to even see champagne commercials"

10 seconds of googling: https://productplacementblog.com/tag/champagnes-and-sparklin...
> On a semi-related note, I don't know if torrents are successful outside of piracy.

Regardless of the cause, they've been successful don't they? :)

I think partially it was because you had to download a separate piece of software -a BitTorrent client- to utilise the network. This is also changing thanks to WebTorrent[0] and IPFS.js[1] which works right in our web browsers without even requiring an add-on! They enable initiatives such as PeerTube[2] -a decentralised video-hosting platform- and distributed (NoSQL) databases such as OrbitDB[3].

Convenience is the key and huge advancements have been made in that direction!

[0]: https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent

[1]: https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs

[2]: https://joinpeertube.org/en/

[3]: https://github.com/orbitdb/orbit-db
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Please don't resort to whataboutism to defend a move that would obviously alienate a very core part of Firefox's userbase. Being better than Chrome is a very low bar. This hubbub seems overblown to you, but not to others, and from your comments on this thread, you don't seem to understand why.

Firefox has traditionally been the _only_ major browser that champions the traditional freedoms that many folks (myself included) associate with the web. For me personally, that involves looking at the commercial internet as a subset of the internet as a whole, which is a successful decentralized system which has reached escape velocity. The legacy of Firefox is the legacy of that system. You seem to presume that the corporation and its profitability is necessary for Firefox to be successful, and so a "decent privacy-respecting effort to find another revenue stream" rooted in advertisements is reasonable. I don't agree on principle, and I don't agree in practice, because these things take away the sole differentiator that prevents Firefox from becoming Chrome with less market share.

This is probably the central thing that might make sense for you to think about: what is the market differentiator for Firefox? Why would anyone bother to use it versus Chrome? Being less obnoxious in doing sketchy things but still doing them is not a good reason. Not doing sketchy things is a good reason.
This is already starting to happen in China. The upper class are able to utilize air cleaning technologies to eliminate any external pollution within their living spaces, while the lower and middle classes can't afford such luxuries.
All good if your Dad is a Guild Member not so much if your an immigrant for example.
Maybe I2P would be better example but it hasn't gained as much traction as Tor unfortunately.
> What is the argument for not protecting copyright?

Copyright is censorship.
Ironically I guess, your bank has been keeping your account balance as an append only ledger since literally the introduction of banking.

That the word 'decentralised' is tacked onto the idea is really a red herring.
You're talking about the "left wing" as if has any real meaning. You should use better political terms.
Basically whenever you create a vacuum of power, it gets filled eventually by a few individual actors - i.e. Bitcoin miners being predominantly Chinese at this point.
Its useless for other users to read. A 1 star review could mean "I was paid to review this", "I don't know how to use computers so I will blame the app" "some very obscure feature no one uses isn't in the app" or "the app is genuinely bad quality".
That doesn’t seem like a lot.

You should be comparing the price against the cost of building in house or the cost of implementing and fixing an open source solution. You’re probably saving money.
Apple introduces a way to access some system files -- every desktop OS supports it, and the iPad is slowly positioning itself as a desktop replacement. But I dunno, it'll be interesting to see.

And every desktop OS has the potential for viruses and ransomware because of third party apps having access to system files and to what benefit?
My attack was neither personal nor "nationalistic". It is against the HN guidelines to respond to comments that you find inappropriate:

> Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did.
This may be unfair, but I tend to not trust the quality of "Choose Your Own Adventure"-style books to be particularly high just because it's hard enough to write a great novel to begin with; throw in a maze of branching possibilities and unless the author is willing to put in vast amounts of effort (even relative to the massive effort already required to write a great novel)—it's likely quality will have to be compromised. (I think the exception may be when the structure of the particular story is somehow related to branching narratives to begin with, e.g. Bandersnatch.)

That said, I did enjoy reading some Choose Your Own Adventure books as a kid and haven't actually revisited them in close to two decades.

Writing interactive fiction has also appealed to me, but I've been discouraged from even trying for the same reasons mentioned in my first paragraph.
Not really you recall the adulterated meat scandal we had in the UK - and try tasting cheap orange juice vs the better quality stuff.
Ok, I think we are talking about two different things:

One thing is biodiversity and the ecological resilience of biodiverse systems, of which there are many (still) where different species live in a healthy, productive and dynamic balance. These habitats are under attack for sure, spurred by industrial production modes of various kinds.

Quite another thing is the notion (represented by GP if I'm correct) that the whole earth somehow is a balanced system, were it not for greedy humans. This is a mystical belief that I don't see any proof of.

It is far-fetched not to think that comet impacts, massive volcano eruptions and/or solar radiation variance accidentally could make most if not all ecological systems devoid of life, quite without human intervention.
The stated objections make sense if you consider that they include an unstated risk component: e.g. "This isn't a useful mutation [given that its downside effects predispose carriers to more severe flu and West Nile + risks inherent in the technique itself]", or "the parents weren't informed properly [and will have to live with the guilt/shame that their ignorance may have caused serious harm to their progeny for generations]"
There are even network/ecosystem risks: if governments get the idea that CRISPR's practical potential is trivial, or if potential participants can't trust practitioners, the entire field could suffer setbacks.
Ah, didn't know the LORRI was the primary and not the Ralph, thanks. So when do you think we'll see the LORRI images of Ultima Thule?

My point remains though, and it was just a general metaphor about how astounding the stuff they are trying to do is from an imaging perspective.
I posted this as a response below but still

I find it interesting that OP says public crypto failed because of both fundamental misunderstandings and immature tech (internet trying to compete with newspapers in the 80s). Eventually, the internet was able to compete with newspapers and I think eventually public blockchain will compete with centralized companies.

Networks can benefit from economies of scale without the rent seeking bottlenecks of centralized agents. I agree with op that in some cases centralization naturally happens but it doesn't follow that this is true in all cases.

On a diff note, has anyone read the Master Switch that OP recommended? Worth reading?
There is a very basic argument, not against decentralization per se but about its real power: even imagining a future where you can decentralized social networks like Facebook, at the end people interacts with the service through an application and this application dictates what the user sees beyond the protocol.

For example, OpenBazaar is a decentralized marketplace but if people search for products in the GoogleBazaar site, GoogleBazaar can sort or hide the items as they wish not matter how perfect the decentralization protocol is.
I think it goes even further than what the previous comment said. The value of the painting is different for everyone and even for the same person it will change in different circumstances (value of a cup of water at home or in the desert).

When a transaction happens the two people very probably don't agree on the value. Rather, the seller values the painting at "less or equal" of the strike price and the buyer values it at "equal or more". The transaction happens if those two regions overlap somewhat.
Microsoft got into trouble because Windows had a very dominant market position (80%+)

iOS does not because there are more Android devices than iOS devices.

Regarding your first part about apple having a monopoly on what runs on an iPhone: so does Samsung on fridges/washing machines/ovens, or almost any other embedded system for that matter. My router-maker also does not allow me to put different software on my router, and I can’t run software that hasn’t been allowed explicitly by Microsoft/Sony on an Xbox/Playstation.

This is ‘whataboutism’ but why is it only an issue for Apple devices but A-OK and ‘normal’ for every other example?
Not that it makes it any better, but they only took down the episode in Saudi Arabia, not globally. The headline makes it sound like they took down the episode altogether.
While this is still unflagged, I like when people say the emperor has no clothes. It's obvious that the US has selective policies on human rights.
I doubt the same company would offer less for a contract on the same position.

I can see why it is balancing out in general though. More investor money going into companies that prefer to hire full time staff rather than contractors would push up rates for permanent staff.
Your numbers are completely wrong, and you are engaging dishonestly, which is in violation of the HN guidelines. Please stop responding to me, you're ruining this discussion.
i went in with a 3.64% approval rate.

car guy says "oh, we can beat that!". Come back with "how does 3.5 sound?". "well... fine, I guess... not a huge difference, but if it makes it any easier... whatever".

Mind you this was... $9k loan.

I get their paperwork... reviewing it - 3.59%. .05% difference. I mean, yes, it's lower, but ... "damn, we can beat that!". He was so excited! It's about 40 cents per month cheaper.
This is no left-right issue. This is billion doller CEOs vs the rest of society.
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Given the recent news about there being small bits of asbestos mixed in, one has to wonder if that was the actual reason for it being on the list.
Much younger me worked in a very different environment with respect to communications, information availability, etc. of course. But I still can't really envision newly graduated me hanging out in my apartment and just communicating using my (then-nonexistent) laptop.

Today, I attend a lot of events, go into an office sometimes, have some off-sites, etc. But I'm much less interested in day-to-day coffees, lunches, work sports leagues, etc. than I once was.
The US, UK and other countries are using facial recognition to round up and re-educate ethnic groups? You have invented a lie of convenience and sold it to yourself.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/08/world/asia/china-uighur-m...
Because employers are unavailable for comment. Few would be willing to say out loud that their business is bullshit, but makes money, simply because of negative PR effect.

That someone's willing to pay for it doesn't automatically imply the job is useful on the societal scale, and the latter is IMO a more important concept. There are plenty of businesses that can earn money even though everyone would be better off if those businesses weren't being done.
The 'blockchain decentralization' story is hurting, but the 'decentralization' itself, as a concept, is still gaining momentum, though it has few real vectors of enablement, i.e. few vanguard products.
Something something about biting the hand that feeds you. Not a critique against the left, more like the system as a whole seems more and more about pandering to special interests and corporations.
Will an army of Einsteins be impervious to atomic warfare? I mean if they have a superior grasp of physics and build the tech to intercept an ICBM then I suppose...
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This is why Saudi Arabia is trying to buy up tech and especially social media (Snap, Twitter)
At that time, Austria doing Ecommerce and enterprise web dev.
New article, but it's old news: https://www.welivesecurity.com/2018/09/27/lojax-first-uefi-r...
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Most of the increase in transactions you see now are from HFTs speculating, who generate demand on any high-risk instruments if they think it has a return somewhere. Demand for Bitcoin as an asset isn't that different from any other commodity, but demand for Bitcoin as a currency is not there as many competitive substitutes exist.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-16/high-spee...
I remember fondly analyzing the old facebook game Maze Defence, and proving that the optimal ratio between area dedicated to towers and area for paths is .5
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The blockchain hype fell apart. Which is good, given that it bears no resemblance to reality, and came less from practical applications of the idea and more the one that blockchain tech was 'magic' and was going to magically fix every industry in existence. Companies sprung up based on blockchains and crypotcurrencies and what not that didn't need them in the slightest, and where their only reason for existence was 'get VCs to invest/hype up gulliable people on Reddit'.

But blockchains have their uses, and those where they do work well will hopefully be done better without the lunacy. Decentralisation isn't dead/falling apart either, and in that sense... well I think its time is still coming.

After all, privacy is a hot topic now. Facebook and Google are getting lots of bad press. Mastodon is (somewhat slowly) taking off. The ingredients are there for change, and at the end of the day, it's really just UI + network effect holding it back now. If someone made a good decentralised Facebook/Reddit/YouTube alternative, I definitely feel it could capture the market. Anger is building up with these sites, and the more they force ideologies/censor/shut down people and groups for corporations the more popular an alternative will be. Heck, I feel the time may be right for a decentralised Patreon competitor right now. Imagine a way to support creators which VISA/Mastercard have no easy way to stop, which makes PayPal and co irrelevant and cannot be shut down by angry Twitter posts. That may come up in a few years or so.

But yeah, blockchain hype fell apart, some decentralisation hype fell apart, but blockchain as a concept still has its uses and decentralisation could still have its time to shine.
What does that have to do with a private company removing an episode of a tv show for users in a single country
So, it might seem that getting so much heat against this one component of your writing is just overreaction. Realize that I'm using the above comment also as a reply to the hundreds of people I see all over HN (and elsewhere) who align themself to one extreme or the other.

Extremism is ruining the discourse in the public sphere. It happens in politics, but now more in tech too. Everybody seems to have an opinion and their goal is to push that opinion at all costs, including blatantly disregarding truths. How is this possibly a good thing for communication? Increasingly if I want to have any meaningful conversation -- one where I might get something from it (e.g. one where I will understand more sides to an argument, one where I might change my opinions, one where I might improve my philosophies), I have to go hunt down the people who I know are truthful. That almost always takes me offline, or at least out of the public sphere. And it seems like an oversight that all the real discussion of a thing has to happen in private. It feels like so many lost opportunities that could have benefited more people.
I don’t think that’s why they do it. It this wouldn’t be a viable strategy. I think that they have other reasons.
That sucks for sure. I bought both for iOS. But hardly use OmniGraffle, OmniOutliner has worked like a champ though.
I had the hardest time getting a Honda Fit when I wanted one this summer.

Everybody wanted to push me to buy an S.U.V. though... I'm not sure if drivers really want S.U.V.'s or if carmakers really want to sell them.
Or lasers?
I bought a car recently, I was in a hurry and I got stuck with the extended service contract.

When I got home I read the contract carefully and found that I could cancel it within 15 days, so I did.