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> However, you must trust the underlying software! This is a fundamentally different risk from usual financial transactions where you trust the institutions servicing the exchange, but not necessarily the counter-party. This turns finance upside-down!

No, this is just normal finance: most of the financial service industry is providing exactly what blockchain provides—a way to have a trusted set of institutions and processes in places of trusting counterparties.

It's different that the crypto world likes to pretend it's just the automated processes embedded in software that need to be trusted—until those processes produce unacceptable results which requires social intervention, revealing that, yes, ultimately it's still trusting people—whereas traditional finance is overt about social constraints backstopping blind process.
How is that valuable, aside from ones ability to speculate on how much people will want it in the future?

As an aside, I agree with the other poster that there is no intrinsic scarcity to bitcoin, because anyone can create bitcoinN which are nearly identical to bitcoin. I say nearly because you can’t necessarily replicate the network, so the scarcity really depends on complicated emergent human behavior.
They notice:

-The share buybacks

-The dividend yield

-How it’s Warren Buffett’s largest position

-The exposure to China (for better or for worse)

-The compelling new iPhones

-Apple Credit Card

-AirPods

Etc.

But #1 and #2 are the most important in my opinion as an investor in Apple. They effectively form a 9% net payout yield.
> ... thanks to Brian Ferris, who created the popular OneBusAway app before being hired by Google in 2011.

https://www.geekwire.com/2015/onebusaway-creator-brings-seat...
I was thinking of the same, if you go to any R&D center (or even a large manufacturing plant) in China, there is an unreasonable level of security. I've been held up for hours in front office security room because they won't let me go home with my briefcase since it was not registered during check-in, and I can't leave my briefcase with the security due to obvious reasons. Security guys had to escalate to corporate VP of security in HK to let me go.

This is an inevitable trade-off but it will not be like China mainly due to strong sense of distrust in Chinese society.
My clone of bitcoin would have exactly the same properties as bitcoin. Your lead bar doesn't have any of the useful properties of gold (ductability, beauty, conductivity, etc).
This year's test paper is here: https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/study-here/undergraduate-study/ma...

I was surprised and (as a math major) delighted to see these sorts of problems. There are a lot of standard topics tested in nonstandard ways on the math portion (integration via change of variables, asymptotic analysis, determinants to name a few). Questions that would be difficult to "teach-to-the-test" for. I personally would have found the computer science questions impossible at that tender age. The question in the article is a non-obvious greedy algorithm. Inside the test paper you'll see a question that basically "discovers" Floyd's cycle detection. I don't know if there is any equivalent of this for high schoolers in the US, or if it would even be possible.
Tell me, how do replicate the network effects of current miners? You know, the thing that prevents someone with decent mining power in their garage to take over your clone? (or do a doublespend, or whatever) The network effect is security. Which come from the expenditure. Which is sustainable with the rising price. Which was baked in through the declining emission curve. Beautifully well thought, and well executed.

I too was doubtful about bitcoin at first. It's just plain obvious now: first mover advantage, leading to the development of highly specific ASICs, with a side advantage of allowing the cross border trade of electricity when turned it into mining power. So if you live in some isolated place but with cheap energy, money!!

BTC is too big to fail. A success that can't be replicated or taken down as it was ignored for too long. Even more unimaginable now that it benefits some people who wouldn't let them happen without a fight, and who have the power and the money to give this fight.
I'm not sure about this game but I thoroughly enjoyed other zachtronics game like TIS 100 where you program a parallel single register machine in a simple assembly language.
Both exist. There are "last chance" public schools in some areas for those expelled from the main schools, in addition to charter and private schools for the higher achievers.
> That's illigal.

That is irrelevant.

This is done, to some extent, via auxillary schools in many affluent areas. If a student is problematic in any myriad of ways, off they are sent to the school with lower standards (often within sight of the other campus). For example, 1994 presidential blue ribbon Brea HS has the Canyon high school meters from its campus, specifically for this purpose.
Judaism and Christianity. Although many of their followers strayed from the original teachings.
It's a novelty product. Once the novelty wears off, there's nothing special about them to make them any more desirable than any other doughnut. The Twin Cities has plenty of other doughnut outlets, many of them locally owned and run bakeries.
This is the real lesson. Programmers prefer simple, atomic programs that are short and digestible.

Most other users need safety restraints such as a GUI. Doesn't stop you from using minimum viable product as a philosophy.
That is part of it, but the term "financial aid" is usually trotted around to make people think that the less wealthy are getting "aid" but in reality, the majority of that "aid" is in the form of non-dischargeable student loans.

I don't consider a loan "aid". Especially since that loan has interest.
Too many buzzwords! Hype field at critical! Implosion imminent!

I like rust and more architectures are sorely needed, but this seems... Calculated
Ask HN: What's your experience with async standups?
Once you're a billionaire, what incentive do you have to better yourself when you can just pay to change the world around you?
I wonder how this affects the gaming industry.
Key passage from my last two letters of resignation: "There is exactly one person in the world who is allowed to speak to me in that tone of voice, and I am MARRIED TO THAT PERSON."
Does Operation Earnest Voice and Project Mockingbird not count as government sponsored troll farms?
Why? Why should a student who isn’t (or probably shouldn’t be) college-bound have theoretical (or actual) access to an AP course?

I was barred from taking our Vocational-Technical courses (auto repair, auto body, advanced shop, etc) because they weren’t offered to G&T kids. That also seems fine to me. Not every human is well suited for every endeavor.
Do you prefer they lean to the right, increase deficits, and promote a military budget larger than the military asks for?
Look at how the US K-12 education system works in practice. This is probably a reasonable enough guide to what the populace want because of democracy. You see a system designed and run for the pretty average children with substantial investment in bringing up those who are academically behind, whether or not there’s any prospect of them becoming average or exceeding it. You see basically nothing spent on the most academically gifted, as such. If they’re lucky there’ll be streaming with honours or AP classes.

Special needs gets about 25% of K-12 education spending. Gifted and talented hovers around 1%.
Oh good, I'm sure most organizations can use something like that guide as well as the tools. There's a lot of legitimate worry about both the wellness side & the legal exposure issues, but it seems like beyond the common wisdom to be very careful (somehow) I think in a lot of minds there's a lack of clarity as to what exactly that means. Is there a particular reason access to the guide requires handing over contact information?
They're using a different measuring stick for these cases. They equate being in the office with "being constantly interrupted". Well, sure. Obviously that's bad! But does it have to be that way?

In other words, remote work is how people give themselves private offices when their company refuses to.

For 10 years, I've seen people write articles which dance around this fact. Everybody is afraid to say "private offices", even when that's exactly what they're describing.
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> Bullying and peer pressure cause serious harm, not just emotionally but economically when good kids drop out of society. These harms would be magnified if kids who don't fit in with the crowd had even fewer options to escape.

That's perhaps a good argument for having smaller free-and-equally-funded public schools with more within any given radius of every residence, with policies that leverage that to provide greater permitted and practical choice for students/parents independent of wealth, but unless freedom from bullying and peer pressure is desired to be gated by wealth I don't see how it opposes, in any way, abolition of either private schools or public districts with superior funding because the local residents are richer.
According to the following, it's prohibited:

[1] https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Leviticus+25:36%E2%80%9325...

[2] https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=Exodus+22:25
> "I'm pretty excited, I've never won a single thing in my life before. And to do it in service of taking down evil patent trolls? This is one of the best days of my life, no joke. I submitted because software patents are garbage and clearly designed to extort money from productive innovators for vague and obvious claims. Also, I was homeless at the time I submitted and was spending all day at the library anyway." — Garrett, San Francisco

This guy is a legend.
Another psychological phenomenon which I suspect is relevant- people don’t want to buy into something at an exponentially higher price than their peers. I think there’s a spite/jealousy thing between “OG Bitcoiners” and “no coiners”
They do have a loyalty program now, which is designed to drive brand loyalty. Whether it actually works is up to the market.
Leviticus 25:36-37 says otherwise.
I own an F150 I inherited from my grandfather. As much as I lust after Teslas I wouldn't trade it for an electric for one simple reason: my F150 is what I drive if I must drive at all when it floods. AFAIK you cannot and should not submerge the motors or the battery on an electric car. Still, that's an edge case.
Sure, get them the attention they need. Just don't make the rest of the class pay for it.
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That's already the case, you get pretty much no information from a patent nowadays, it's just legal-speak to be as broad as possible.
Ironically TikTok, which some governments are afraid of, does this by learning of your viewing habits and only showing you what you might like.
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Regarding anything "Marvel" - including most of the other movies you mentioned - , utterly irredeemable trash is the word you are looking for.

Here is a very well written critique:

https://jacobitemag.com/2019/05/14/capeshits-endgame/

“Bombastic effects and painfully long fight sequences coupled with jokes anyone of any age can understand; this is the formula studios have spent decades refining. Any modicum of intelligence possessed by the best of the comics, (and there is very, very little) is completely drained in favor of material designed to appeal to literally everyone. These movies take no risks. They are thoroughly vetted, focus-grouped, market-tested. That one could walk away from three hours of such blatant pandering feeling anything other than insulted is indictment enough of our cultural moment.”
You might be misremembering but strength reduction is part of ‘-O1’ [0].

However, my point for a general purpose language system like OpenJDK that favors multithreading or multiprocessing or server workloads, each core/thread and process/thread share the I-Cache/L1 cache. Address lines are still 64 bytes. Code for these systems rarely is expected to run in isolation. I tend to want to be a good neighbor and reduce code size when I can.

[0] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Optimize-Options.html
This make me curious about mutations and human evolution.

By 50 years of age she has past her (natural) maternal age. So it's not like women with that mutation would bear more children.

How would such a mutation help her lineage? But that same question, more broadly, how do mutations that benefit people past their child bearing age factor into human evolution?

I suppose mentally healthy grandparents are able to spend more time with grandchildren freeing up the parents to be more productive. They can also pass down wisdom, techniques that could benefit grandchild.
If you want an element that acts like gold (doesn’t oxidize, high electrical conductivity, high thermal conductivity, malleable, etc.), you need gold. You can’t replace it with lead and get the same results.

If you want a string of bits that acts like bitcoin, you can replace it with Xcoin, for many values of X. You can even create your own coin which does whatever you need. You may not be able to replicate the network, which may provide some amount of scarcity, but it’s not the same as gold.
You're an idiot if you lose $100 from your pocket, but you're a genius if you lose -$1.1B of other people's money every quarter.
If you and 1 other person use the cloned Bitcoin, that's a network. How many other participants do you need before new Bitcoin is comparable in every tangible way to old Bitcoin?
Except that your bitcoin won't have exactly the same properties as bitcoin, mainly the miners which do provide network security.
Same. This is utterly bizarre.

He somehow thought being a second class citizen in a second class OS would be better than just biting the bullet and buying one of the Dell developer edition XPS 13s that ship with Linux installed. I don't get it.

Font rendering in Linux is hilariously one of its strong points these days. Whether you prefer the OSX way of font rendering or the windows way, it's just a config setting. You change it to the way you like it and then it's the way you like it. There's no giant faceless organization trying to convince you that the "other" way of rendering fonts is objectively bad.

Also the Linux machines Dell ships all have 4k displays, and it's objectively difficult to render fonts poorly at those DPIs. That probably helps.

I use msys at work, despite WSL. It's just... easier. Haven't been able to get into powershell, but were I to go all in on the windows platform, I'd probably try to start there.
Again you spend more time replying than reading.

I said this internal API rejection situation of Apple not treating developers like partners

Like it's literally right there in the comment you replied to clear as day and yet you manage to muck it up then spend several more paragraphs on a new screed nitpicking your wrongly quoted text.

I'm done replying to this.
Id love the summary of this article as I don’t have a subscription to the WSJ anymore
How do you reconcile your view with the fact that China is building up its domestic patent system? https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2018/10/04/weak-chinese-patent-ap...

https://www.raconteur.net/risk-management/how-china-became-l...

> “Over the past decade, China has demonstrated serious resolve to enforce an effective IP rights regime, and to bring the system in line with other developed systems in the US and Europe,” says Xingye Huang, associate at trademark and patent attorneys Abel & Imray. Indeed, China is on track to achieving its 2020 strategic goal laid out in 2008 of attaining a comparatively high level in terms of the creation, utilisation, protection and administration of IP rights.
Easy to solve this problem: just spend this $2.5B on bribes and repeal a bunch of bullshit laws and regulations which enable NIMBYs and don't allow housing to be built. Moreover, there's no other way of solving this problem. I'm not an Apple shareholder, so I don't really care how they spend their money, but if I were, I'd be pissed.
Which will be promptly rejected as invalid since the nodes on the Bitcoin network validate everything. This is partially why (among other reasons) Bitcoin is transformative tech. It can resist quite easily individuals trying to forcefully change aspects of it, like say, cloning the entire supply of bitcoin.
I expected a much higher concentration, judging by the tone of the article. It seemed pretty normal though.
"We're sorry, but this URL is not supported by Outline"

Does anyone know how this service works? Do they leverage robot accounts that fetch non-paywalled copies of the articles and then rehost them?

As an aside, I'm really torn.

Yes, I could pay for this content. But it appeared in my social media stream at the opportunity cost of some other interesting but free content that could (should?) have taken its place.

Paid content slipped into the stream. In a way, it's a kind of noise.

I'm not going to pay for 10 different news websites, and thus I will pay for no news websites. It's the same situation I'm about to find myself in for movie and tv streaming.
A low price is not loyalty
Also need to be careful not to lump the bully and the victim into the same category of "fighting". Both need different interventions.
What is the next step when you have created a new operating system?
*serious question

Some features:

- Based on a micro-kernel structure
- (Not based on Linux)
- ≈70K LOC, Assembly.
- with a HTTP server embedded
- low-power management
- with own easy-to-use CMDs (more than Arduino or Raspberry)
- with complex algorithms (PID, FFT, Autonomous navigation, artificial vision...)
Oops, sorry about that. I forgot to make an affirmative point, which is yes I agree with you.

Telco talk makes me grouchy and of course I cannot resist :)

You're right about that dark fiber doing nothing for connecting end users, as you mentioned. As soon as a WISP or municipality lights up the fiber, out come the steep conversion discounts and carpet-bombing PR and if at all possible, the lawyers.

Thanks again, I'll try to ensure I'm not wasting time with grousing in the future.
Hey cloudflare, why don't you start a venture that productizes this process for smaller companies that can't afford to do this themselves by pooling all the companies that are being targeted by a particular troll together, for any patent troll, not just blackbird.
What do you mean "plain ol requirements.txt" in this case? Either you're pinning your dependencies in requirements.txt (in this case, you wouldn't have a problem since requirements.txt is acting like a lockfile) or you're doing it wrong. I mean, there is no problem to depend in a internal API if you're locking the versions, if not, just assume the consequences.

BTW, I don't rate Python dependency management very high: most other languages have better solutions. However it is manageable.
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The gist isn't the line that you are focusing on. Scorsese loves movies that expand the mind and enrich the spirit. Irrespective of where the line is drawn (losing sight of the forest by focusing on a tree), he thinks that the Marvel movies aren't trying and are playing it safe. He says that that is fine but that their massive success is crowding out movies that could potentially expand the mind and enrich the spirit from getting made or being seen. He didn't bring up that they were based on comics (that's a straw man argument).
> shady work-for-hire deals

Is that the kind of deal where you work for an employer and they pay you?

Kind of like the deal most software engineers take.
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I believe the person is referring to ‘uber cash’ as an loyalty incentive, paired with changes to the uber credit card coming next year which will only give uber cash (akin to airline miles).
TLDR: software is eating finance.

BTW something I've read here and I adopted as my tagline: it quite fun to come on ycombinator and read every single time the rambling of all the people predicting the doom of bitcoin -- you know, the thing that has managed without venture backing to become more valuable that ALL the ycombinator companies PUT TOGETHER.

TLDR2 : Sour grapes :)

I remember reading about a swedish guy that said he had seen the light and converted all of his savings in BTC. He was torn to shred by so many posters.

Funny thing: I haven't heard about him since, but I sure have read the moaning of the same people who had predicted he'd end up destitute. I think he's doing ok while they aren't.

I sure wish I had seen the light like he did, but I don't blame him for his hindsight. And after I saw most of the negative posts as sour grapes who just regretted they didn't act on the information that was available to them, I decided to act. Like you did.

Maybe more people should follow your example and stop misunderstanding the problem. Yes it needs economics + philosophy + psychology, but it can be learned. For those who don't want to learn, please don't blame those who do. Even more important: don't try to strop those who want. We need fewer sour grapes. Not more.

EDIT: Came from another thread to apologize when I saw my karma going to new lows. Sorry for rubbing it in. Downvote if it makes you feel any better about yourself and your past action.
illiquid != insolvent.

If I have a house, I can't turn it into cash immediately. I may have a fraction of my net worth in cash. That's not the same thing as only having the small amount of cash and nothing else.
I can scarcely believe the level of elitism I'm seeing here.

Guess what: Most art is garbage. Scorsese here is complaining that the movies we're seeing are the "bad" ones, but if we just went to see his preferred kind of movies (ie totally new and unexpected), most of it would be infuriatingly bad.

So yeah, we watch predictable, samey movies because we know they will at least be watchable. Because we're not artists and it's not on us to move the medium forward.
Krispy Kreme doughnuts are great and you can actually see the process. I’m not even sure if Dunkin Doughnuts makes their own stuff. KK sells half a billion dollars worth of doughnuts a year.

The stores left the area after 6 years. Sounds like they should’ve downsized instead of left the area completely.
The web audio APIs allow you to generate an audio waveform, process that waveform, and then read the waveform. The article covers how to do this. I'm still a bit confused about why it provides such a good fingerprint, I would have thought it would only vary by browser and version, and then only if the browser updates its audio algorithms. But I'm guessing the APIs interact with the OS in some way to do the processing.
I still think one of the better ways to handle the patent issue is to charge a property tax of, say, 2 percent of its value per year. The owner gets to declare the value BUT they MUST sell it to the first person willing to pay the claimed value of the patent.
The commenter you're replying to is "all in on the concept that Tether is a fraud", not "all in on that the concept of Tether is a fraud". Ie they're talking about Tether specifically, not the concept of fiat-backed digital assets.