skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would you put your money in gold rather than bitcoin?

Also why is the concept of blockchain as currency is flawed? What construction would you use instead for a currency that is trusted throughout the world?
Why coca-cola would 3ple their prices in 2021? The loans are cheap, the wages are stagnant, energy and raw materials are cheap.
I really don't see this scenario playing out unless the financial institutions collapse.
Seems like adoption as a payment method halted when Bitcoin had scaling issues.

Now the community seems pretty split in two. There's people who are for Bitcoin and see it as a store of value and people who are for Bitcoin Cash who see it as a store of value and a method of payment.

The main contention seems to be around block sizes and wether to increase the block size to make it more scalable, hence the BCH fork.
Good point and maybe true for PHP, but not for Microsoft or its products. They've continued to "update" their bad practices too, and it's not just old criticisms that are rehashed again against them.

And no, to me Microsoft is actually worse than before as they have turned Windows into a spyware. The forced updates (not just security updates) make it even worse.
fear of serverless cost getting out of hand, mainly at the start. In AWS, you charges for each call even if blocked by WAF or whatever, so all logic may only protect your app but not your wallet from abuse
I didn't like the names at all, and also it shouldn't be in the main namespace, but under ctl/

https://github.com/rurban/ctl

In work are map, forward_list, unordered_set, and utf-8 support for strings and identifiers, with its stricter rules.
BTC prices have been driven by institutional demand and federal monetary policy.
But governments can subsidize the electricity to create new Bitcoins. Isn't that the same as printing money?
The entire point of some of the alt-coins was to address all these complaints. So instead of piling onto Bitcoin which is years of stuff we already know about, focus on those alt-coins that support the ideas you want in a cryptocurrency.
As a POC, I find this comment and line of thinking demeaning, and out of touch with the reality we face daily.
> If my mother is no longer competent to reason on her own, it is my responsibility as the eldest male in the family to take responsibility. Is it not?

Believing this particular set of lies is not, however, a reliable market for mental competence. You yourself note how widespread these ideas are among your family, most of whom are presumptively mentally competent adults.

Any chain of reasoning that leads to a conclusion like "half of the country is mentally incompetent" should be suspect.

In a way, this whole situation is where a whole suite of ideas like postmodernism, epistemological/cultural/moral relativism etc., come home to roost. After all, these are just alternative facts, and what we hear from so-called experts is just, like, their opinion, man.
It is a good idea but doesn't address several other points of critique in this post.
There is a dangerous animal on the loose, threatening people. The owner is failing. Public authorities are failing. Community pressure doesn't work. Killing the animal is a legal and possible option that remains. Care to point out another one instead of baseless criticism?
I buy computer hardware (SSDs, network switches etc.), recently bought t-shirts and etsy like stuff on gethaven.app

Bitcoin has always been pseudoanonymous and its perma history is something that I am aware off and not that bothered off. Though looks like the bitcoin devs are working towards something to improve privacy called taproot and schnorr.

The thing that it solves for me compared to traditional fiat currencies is that it retains its value very well over a period of time. some of the bitcoin stuff I bought long back and spent it on hardware now means I got the hardware for nearly more than 500% cheaper if I had chosen to hold it in dollar or other fiat currencies.

Fiat currencies are a liability (depreciating value) if you are not constantly trying to invest them just to keep their value from crashing due to accelerating money printing/inflation.
> Gold is good for nothing useful imo, but is used in jewlery and other because it has value (not the other way around, as in gold has value because people make jewelry with it).

You do know that gold has super low reactivity and it's a very good conductor, right? :-)
Do you believe that speculative activity is not related in any way to inflation or expectations of inflation?
instrument or at least measurement limits i think
Don't all currencies work that way?
Several coins started off with proof of stake and aren't flailing arguably.
> If we assume the market is efficiently pricing these assets (like AirBnB's IPO) then it could very well be that the actual value of a fiat dollar has dropped dramatically

Note that many other assets such as energy, financial, and real estate stocks, consumer goods, etc. are not experiencing sky-high valuations - indeed, some of those asset classes are down for the year.

So it's not just fiat dollars that have dropped dramatically in value by your reasoning.

It seems to me more likely the market is simply overpricing one class of assets (tech stocks) here. Occam's Razor comes to mind.
This is a great example of how public perception has been manipulated by the media.

In fact, the Obama DOJ set Flynn up, sending two FBI agents to question him before the transition to the new administration. They pretended that he was not the subject of the investigation, so Flynn felt no need to have an attorney present while being questioned.

Afterward, the FBI agents themselves, on the form they filled out regarding the interview, stated that they did not think that Flynn lied.

Regardless of that, the DOJ continued to prosecute Flynn for doing something completely normal for an incoming National Security Advisor to do, speak with a foreign diplomat. Only after bankrupting him with legal fees, which even forced him to sell his home, did they relent.

And then, when the DOJ refused to further prosecute Flynn, a federal judge refused to dismiss the case, a bizarre act forcing Flynn's attorneys to file a plea with a superior court. The judge even appointed his own prosecutor to continue prosecuting Flynn!

Now, why did all this happen? Is it because the then-newly elected President's incoming National Security Advisor spoke with a foreign diplomat? Or is it because the Obama administration hated Flynn because of what he did while running DIA (which they fired him for), and the incoming President appointed him to be his National Security Advisor, and the DOJ is apparently full of "#resist"ers?

But that's not a perspective you'll hear from NYT, CNN, WaPo, etc. From them, you hear, "Treason!"

The old saying applies: You can fool some of the people some of the time...
Exercise and drink a nutrition-balanced smoothie. Cos if you don't have your health, you don't have anything.
> Fixing a bug or delivering a feature where you haven't documented the process, (how the criteria were decided, when it was tested and deployed) is as good a running a web site nobody visits.

This is patently false, as evidenced by every business in existence that doesn't use issue trackers, including most non-tech divisions of current businesses and most tech businesses until the rise of agile. And I question the value add of these things; my current company was built without them, and it's only as we've matured (well after the product was built and mostly refined) that issue tracking was used.
The intent was 'actual digital cash', the result was 'instrument for speculation, money laundering and other fraud' which is entirely dependent on actual real money (and its institutions). Whether one finds that ironic or not is a matter of taste but it's clearly not exactly what the goal of "digital cash" was supposed to be.
I think you're right.
The economic stimulus is mostly going in rich people's pockets which happen to like the idea of BTC and Tesla.
They're likely worried about inflation, so they need to invest the money.

And that's how you get BTC and Tesla's meteoric rise.
Dollar is STILL the king of criminal activity, money laundering, kidnapping, ransom ... it will take awhile for the shift to happen.
Is there a useful signal in the dollar price? Price of silver? They are all used in hedging bets. Same for BTC, people with a lot of cash are looking for a safe spot while we have the possibility of hyper inflation.
It really hadn't hit home to me that yes, BTC is being mined using ASICS by a handful of players, probably operating out of various authoritarian regimes. We've got the US getting all angry because TikTok is a Chinese country, and yet we've oestensibly got libertarians telling us to move out money into a currency controlled by Chinese BTC miners. It'd be fascinating if China could cause a recession in the west by taking down bitcoin overnight.
> When clicked, you’re taken to the web version of the social platform.

This seems like something that would drive more traffic to Tik Tok and Instagram. Why the heck would they retaliate?
Is there a good documentary on gov or political disruption as attacks?
But does it run Skyrim?
I've seen sources to corroborate institutional demand, but is there a source for your claim on the link to federal monetary policy? Ideally beyond correlation to show causation.
Those articles point out that the governments stopped it rather than enabling it for considerable periods of time. You probably have to pay off a police officer when you're climbing the tower, but I don't see any cases where corruption at wide scale was involved.

The articles point out the value of the electricity stolen but not the gained profit. E.g., what percentage of BTC was mined with stolen electricity based on the cases we've found so far?

If only a vanishingly small amount of BTC was mined with stolen electricity then the rest of the argument kind of falls apart.
Or 21 billion fake tether dollars.
He's an Ally in the same Brutus was to Caesar.

1) Did not investigate any voter Fraud. Still ran his mouth saying there was none. Georgia seems to have a Zombie voting problem. Amazing!

2) Sat on the Hunter Biden investigation. Knew there was one, kept his mouth shut about it before the election when it could have helped Trump.

Its debatable how much loyalty Republicans have to Trump.
Or subject to VAT...
How often is it used for that use case? Does gold have a high value due to this? No. I would even say that we might see more use industrially if people weren’t inflating its price by using it as a store of value.
But a stock represents ownership of a real company that (hopefully) will make profits that can be distributed as a dividend or be used to grow the company and increase the value.

A Bitcoin is totally speculative and has virtually no useful purpose in the real world yet. You can’t actually buy stuff with it from stores, due to its niche status, high fees, slow transactions, and wild price fluctuations.

Looking at it that way, it’s clear that a stock is a much safer investment than a Bitcoin.
3ple?
>I'm not talking about people like that... though that is another conversation that should be had more often; no one should have to be stuck in a situation like that

that's a lot of people mate. Over half of the workforce doesn't have a degree, half doesn't have any or barely any savings and cannot cover a few hundred bucks emergency, and if you have at least one kid or a family member who is dependent on you good luck. Most people cannot risk forgoing even a month without a salary, including a lot of white collar workers even with an undergraduate degree or similar.

The particular person here runs a charity for inmates, and if you're self-employed or own a business in a sense ironically enough you have even less control over your schedule because you can't just dial the numbers down and people depend on you, in this case both workers and clients.
We only need a deal on 'refugees' with Turkey because of political cowardice.

In practice we don't need a deal, we need to secure the EU border as we should be.
Ah, yes, physical currency doesn't have institutional/governmental middlemen because private regulated banks aren't the government. /s
Well, take the upsides of cash (e.g. don't need to open a bank, prove residence, etc.) and now add the ability to exchange it digitally without the pointless gatekeeping of large corporations like Paypal.
> I don't feel like I'm in full control when I'm using a computer running windows.

Yes, they've started imitating macOs / ios and have even gone beyond what Apple does in blatantly turning Windows OS into a spyware.
Curious whether source maps and breakpoints still work?
Why not Tulips and Beanie babies?
Your armchair analysis is on the mark. in a fiat dominated world, any market distortions caused by monetary mismanagement (money printing through QE, asset inflation) is not visible as everything in the market is priced in the same underlying asset (USD globally). Since bitcoin is outside this system it is actually holding up a mirror to the increasing worthlessness of the USD and other mismanaged fiat currencies.
If almost the entirety of the money ends up, in the medium run, in the hands of a few wealthy people who want to invest, it explains the lack of inflation for everything but investments
Seems like very suitable for his character. Anyway, this is a big loss...
Exactly. And barring an unlikely collapse, cash/dollar isn't going to fluctuate much at all in value. So... a feature.

At this point, bitcoin is a competitor to gold as an asset store. Maybe it will be more like a currency at some point. But there's a long way to go and a lot of forces against it for that to occur.
I agree with you mostly, but market makers on exchanges are not middle-men, they are simply market participants like any other. Conceptually, there's no difference between a professional market maker and a individual who puts a limit order on the book.
That doesn’t work well in practice. The US government pays insane sums for those things. The best direct comparison is roads and other transportation infrastructure, where the US’s costs per unit are way, way higher than the rest of the Western world. It isn’t all regulation, either.
Hal is not satoshi. This is baseless speculation which puts Hal’s family at risk.
Gold is very much used in almost any electronic appliance because it's a noble metal with low electric resistance.

Jade however is actually without any industrial application and is purely valued for it's scarcity.
>> The point is that Bitcoin has introduced an actual "digital cash" currency without institutional/governmental middlemen.

The emergent cartel of miners becomes that.
hmm...think this misses the point.

bitcoin is a store of value against inflation
No one treats Bitcoin as a currency. It’s treated as an investment vehicle.

And the reason behind that is obvious. Something whose value may double in a month or whose value may halve within weeks is a terrible currency.

If I expect it’s value to increase then I would be a fool to spend it. If I expect it’s value to drop I would be a fool to accept it.

Cryptocurrencies are anything but currencies.
Which is exactly what they do in 9.9/10 cases. As an example, Healthcare.gov was built via a contract with CGI.
Happy New Year everyone, all the best for 2021!
Yeah, I've had really positive experiences with Jira, and I think it's only because the person who configured it knew what they were doing. It was also a smaller company so the limited complexity of the project could have also helped.
> academics [...] saying things they shouldn't.

Who gets to define what an academic shouldn't say ? While there might be a consensus we could come up with, the problem with cancel culture is that it will seemingly be used to cancel any little thing that displeases SJWs _regardless_ of whether what was said is actually _not_ *phobic and whether or not it is objectively demonstrable and / or a reasonable hypothesis / statement.

That is what is outrageous to many; the over-abuse of this tactic against just about anyone all the time. The most maligned figure I can think of is Jordan Peterson ; please explain in an articulated fashion WITH SOURCES why you don't like the guy ? I have seen so much false and distorted stuff about the dude it's not funny.
It's fourth:

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

I'm guess the author meant "3rd largest in Texas" and I'm guessing that whatever statistic she was referencing included Round Rock. (which using Wiki would add 128,000).

Plenty of people include Round Rock in Austins numbers.
I agree that it’s inherently flawed, however I don’t see how it would be big enough to trigger another 2008. That seems way out of proportion to me. I think bitcoins affect on the real economy is just too small.
(or) you are wrong and there are some people who see asset inflation caused by stupid governments printing for everything and moving away wealth from these systems into Bitcoin.
If you held any other foreign currency you would have to track it like this. For example, I live in Canada and if I bought USD and then spent it over the course of a year in Canada I would be responsible for the capital gain tracked on each expenditure based on the day's exchange rate. It's hard to see how Bitcoin should be any different.
Is that an ad hominem? Because it sure sounds like an ad hominem.
Theoretically companies like Mindgeek who have been kicked off of the VISA/Mastercard duopoly, would be able to use Bitcoin as a censorship-resistant way to accept online payment. There's additional benefits as mentioned earlier like not needing to comply with KYC laws.

Of course, as Bitcoin currently stands, it's difficult for this to come to fruition because most holders are speculators rather than people interested in using it as currency.
Heartbreaking. And here I thought the pain of 2020 was over already. RIP
nothing wrong with reinventing the old stuff as long as the new ones are better.
"is an upcharge fee subscription service offered by telephone company providers which, when dialed immediately after a malicious call, records meta-data for police follow-up. A police report must be filed after each use, as law enforcement will only act on the trace once a formal police report is filed in regard to the call. "

So, I will get charged for reporting a scammer? And nothing will happen unless I file a police report? That is certainly a solution, but not the one I would hope for.
Everyone in our company hates redmine. We were doing great before when we used trello, but managers want to track and feel they have control of the projects.
Something I've had a long and hard time learning is that others treat my time approximately as valuable as I do. When I'm always an instant message away, responding to any problem, allowing interruptions, and not setting boundaries, I'm signaling that my time isn't as valuable. So others treat it that way, and I become overworked.

If instead most of my interactions with people are on important matters, then they see my time as important. Setting boundaries and saying no to more trivial requests generally increases the respect people show.
That's just the reality of cash, no less in digital form, so it would be naive to think Bitcoin wouldn't inherit the same uses of USD (speculation, money laundering, fraud). It's just not very damning. Though I'm sure various people in the government/Visa would love to ban USD cash with the same demonization.
Bitcoin is scarce like beanie babies are scarce, except you can make more bitcoins.
Hey - this is the second time i've ran across one of your comments that intrigued me. I'm currently in the process of selling my business and will be focusing full time on ethereum development. I don't know anyone in the space so i'd love to chat and i'd gladly pay you for you time. Email me at Rhoades.lorenzo@gmail.com if you're interested.
Getting most people to agree to such a fork is likely impossible
Ask HN: What is the best Chrome extension for converting pages to dark mode?
How do you send USD to someone digitally?
These are all terrible uses of Bitcoin, as mentioned in the OP. All transactions are publicly visible in an immutable database. With a little investigation, law enforcement can find out who owns certain accounts and trace transactions very easily from there. If you are a criminal, you want no paper trail whatsoever, which is why they use paper money.
It isn't as simple as that. Not only have you got to change that line of code, you need to convince all users of bitcoin to run that version of the code including miners. Otherwise you have forked the coin and you might be the only user of it (your version is incompatible with the rest).
I remember a great article in Make Magazine that described growing Spirulina.
I believe it was this article by Dr. Aaron Wolf Baum:

http://www.algaelab.org/2011/05/09/algaelab-diy-spirulina-ar...

A recent post (11/20/2020) on that blog announces that Dr Baum has started GreenSpring Farms in Brentwood,CA and is selling fresh Spirulina.

https://www.freshspirulina.com/our-spirulina
I love you all, happy new year!

Here's to another year of fun and interesting discussions.

Let's continue trying our best to grow and improve.
Russian government has the same power in regards to VKontakte, Yandex, etc. However it does not really stop stories spreading.

What they have realised recently, is that injecting misinformation, even if it's outrageous bullshit, is far more effective.

Coming back to the West: Snowden and Assange are still pariahs, Assange is remembered by the public as a rapist escaping justice rather than for wikileaks. Id say the strategy is working.
Who will be the largest Bitcoin vendor because they are trusted.
Unless you have a case so egregious there is a high likelihood of punitive damages or a class action, no labor attorney is going to take a typical non union individual’s case. 30% of the actual damages alone aren’t even close to being enough to get an attorney to take a case that will take years to resolve and will cap out with a low 5 figures payout for the attorney.
Not while in the jet fuel, but that was localized. A tiny number of people survived the collapse while inside the WTC. https://www.history.com/news/world-trade-center-stairwell-de.... Miraculously, their small group ended up being the only survivors within the stairwells of the north tower after it collapsed, somehow emerging from a pocket of rubble.

Presumably the contents of various safes similarly survived.
I see a lot of biased posts on Hacker news regarding Bitcoin. How it will replace fiat, how it will revolutionize banking, how it will continue to go up in price.

The fact is that the technology powering Bitcoin is not great. There are better alternatives to Bitcoin, transactions still take a long time to finish on Bitcoin. And the alternatives themselves need to be refined too.

There are also still a lot of scam coins in play, I personally know a few founders (no relation and no business doing work with them), where they admitted to me their coin was a scam in them getting rich.

So I’m skeptical, very very skeptical. These “friends” got rich off poor chaps looking to make a quick buck. I am almost envious, then I remember that the feds or IRS or some other institution will come after then at some point.

One of them is paying off their current user base because they got hacked.
sounds salty
Yes but this whole set of "playbooks" seems to be written for government agencies who are doing the work in-house.

The playbooks aren't wrong, but it's silly to think they'll actually fix the issue of technology not being a government's core competency.
Try to make a concrete point without encumbering it with sarcasm. I don't want to guess at what you mean and then have a meta discussion over whether I correctly interpreted your point.