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Is that something you would be interested in a hosted solution for? We've built the infrastructure to deal with incoming webhooks but we've been exploring the idea to also leverage it for dispatching. Turns out the same infrastructure works both ways!
We are morons!

http://atdt.freeshell.org/k5/story_2004_2_15_71552_7795.html
This is only true if everyone using the currency agreed completely on its future value. Currently, some people think it'll tank and sell, and others think it'll rise and buy.
The author is Ray Dillinger, who has an axe to grind, having been involved with BTC since early days, and losing out hugely.
Who decides it is a good product? Seems to me it is rather "selling a lot". Lots of people do not think Apple make good products and prefer Dell or Huawei etc. That doesn't change the valuation of Apple.
Sure it's a line of code but if you fork and change that line of code you need to find consensus on the network to accept your fork as the "true" Bitcoin. See Bitcoin cash for an example.
I use the same method - don't install things at home that allow me to work from home. If I need to I'll bring a laptop home, but I dont do that daily either.

On a couple occasions I came in at a reasonable time only to have missed an extra-early meeting or call that someone scheduled at 7:00pm the night before. A polite "yeah I didn't see the email until 8 this morning" seems to send the message "what the fuck were you thinking" without any complaints from anyone. They learn, and hopefully question they own constant availability.
Never was. Was a good job out of engineering grad school. Actually spent a fair bit of time on offshore rigs and in shipyards. Fairly fun place to spend a few years but very little real culture--some jazz aside--as the wealthy were too busy planning their Mardi Gras balls. And to a local, Mardi Gras was mostly a zoo. Left after a few years to get another grad degree, which was pretty much my plan from the start.
> as everything in the market is priced in the same underlying asset

> the increasing worthlessness of the USD

I think you must be using words different from what I take them to mean, which means you can draw radically different conclusions from how I read them.

If everything in the economy is tied together, such that $10 is still an hour of work at a grocery store, and $10 still buys you a lunch or three gallons of milk, and $10 still buys you 4 gallons of gas, etc etc, then I don't see how you can say that there has been some kind of "secret" sky-high inflation over the past few years that is only detectable "from the outside."

Inflation is defined by the purchasing power of money within the economy. If that's not changing, inflation isn't happening.

Pointing to a single asset whose price is fluctuating wildly and insinuating that that is the only real source of truth, and that literally everything else is hiding the true cost of living seems to be just showing what you want to believe.

(Note, I'm not saying that there's been no inflation. It's been about 2.5%/yr over the past 20 years. But simply that the notion that it isn't visible from "inside" the economy is contradictory.)
> the DOJ continued to prosecute Flynn for doing something completely normal for an incoming National Security Advisor to do, speak with a foreign

So normal that he lied about it to the press and his own entire incoming administration? Yeah right
Good luck passing a wealth tax, but I'm all for it.
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Doing more for less often equates to 80% security because 99% security is an order of magnitude more costly.
The dollar doesn't change value like Bitcoin, not cash as a whole.
If they were the ones responsible for leaking the XP source not long ago, then they deserve much thanks from the underground retrocomputing and software preservation community --- MS would've likely never opened that source themselves. In the same way that those who leak schematics and service information to enable third-party repair are also to be commended. "An enemy of an enemy is a friend."
It’s okay for the commenter to use an anecdote to undercut the discrimination POC frequently face. But a POC calling this out is “extremely fragile”.
> Using their OS or their DB... not so much, primarily due to licensing.

The state of SQL Server's MVCC suppot is arguably enough to preclude use even before we talk about licensing.

I never thought I would miss Oracle until I learned about NOLOCK and the cost of enabling MVCC in SQL Server.
Well it's at least an indicator something has gone terribly wrong. Your project management software, one of the flagship features of which is reporting - now tells you essentially "no work is being done". Somebody in management panics, the team is told to get its act together and some variation of "improve the numbers". Yet features are getting shipped and clients are happy. The two most frequent (bad) options teams take to get out of this are:

1) Ignore the burndown chart / any other reports. Everything is fine on the business side, so let's just accept that the reports are broken and not spend time trying to fix them.

2) Have everyone invest more time into using the system (usually on an ongoing basis), so that it produces the correct looking down-and-to-the-right chart.

The problem is that with #1, the software is arguably not producing much value, if any. The problem with #2 is that you're spending extra energy and effort to make the software happy, even though outside of the software it seems like your team is working well, shipping features and keeping customers happy - all of which are more important than a pretty graph.
Running an .exe in Windows on a slow internet connection doesn't slow down Windows,so they are not there yet.
If by "rich people" you mean institutional investors, then yes. The flows into crypto from institutional investors is absolutely staggering. And it will only continue. This is just the beginning.

Even if the returns of btc were poor, it would still be a very attractive investment as uncorrelated assets boost the risk adjusted returns of a portfolio.
> I use Bitcoin where ever possible, so your opening claim is wrong.

Just because a random guy barters bitcoins for goods/services, that by no means implies that bitcoin is anything close to money.

There is a very specific definition of what money is, and bitcoin's volatility alone rules it completely out.
yeah, agreed some new type of activities were using bitcoin... but after some of these gangs were busted they seem to be switching to monero...

Its very risky to buy with bitcoin if you are in a jurisdiction that makes drugs illegal. I think still cash is king in those places.
Why do you think that money would ever reach normal people? Or stays in stock /bitcoin until sind and then gets reinvested to make more money...
> There's additional benefits as mentioned earlier like not needing to comply with KYC laws.

Why would Bitcoin transactions be exempt from KYC?
Same here: There are programming languages that are faster or can be ranked higher on technical aspects based on the type of project but none are Fun, Ruby is Fun.
Same. At least now there's a promise of cross-platform UI in the form of https://github.com/dotnet/maui
Economists weren’t born yesterday. Inflation is measured in many ways, most often by looking at a basket of goods where the prices are relatively non-volatile. Using the USD/Bitcoin ratio as a yardstick for inflation seems very misguided, as Bitcoin is heavily speculated.
Si, así lo tomé. Un abrazo!
> How often is it used for that use case?

100% of all cases. You just used gold to ask that question.
You can just hedge your exposure on a futures exchange and still use BTC to transact but be unexposed to any price movements. Although doing that is very complicated and defeats the purpose of an easy to use alternative to centralized cash.
I doubt you can get 0.1 thou tolerance out of a water cutter.
What annoying self-pity. Both the hero (I work for a non-profit), and victim (but that field is deeply gendered, classed & 'racialised').
> What, and what it replaced (arbitrary ug+w sockets in /var/run, speaking to custom one-off RPC-listener ABIs for each daemon) wasn't fragile?

Sockets like initctl are far less fragile. You don't need a dbus-daemon that you can't restart if you cant talk to systemd. Your parser needs to recognise single-character commands instead of a complex rpc syntax plus an xml parser or javascript vm for filtering. You can't honestly believe DBUS isn't miles from the robustness of initctl.

> IMHO, all that's changed is that there's more uniformity, meaning a single set of tools can be used to test+harden all such RPC interfaces, and security flaws can be fixed in one place (DBUS itself) rather than requiring theory-level descriptions of vulnerabilities to be communicated to each project, whereupon they're hopefully translated to separate one-off patches the affected daemon.

Instead of easy-to-audit socket permissions you get a complex mess of xml and javascript filtering rules. This isn't progress in terms of security, its quite the opposite. Pounds of additional attack surface and additional obfuscation hindering defense.
The problem is we're currently in the worst of both worlds. When politicians promise to tax the wealthy they usually end up taxing the upper middle class: people rich enough that nobody feels bad for them but "poor" enough that most of their income gets reported on a W2.

In my opinion building the infrastructure to adequately tax the wealthy is part of the solution to building a more equitable tax base. That's a separate issue from spending our tax money wisely.
What are you talking about you piece of shit.
[2019] please - I can't believe I didn't see this before now!

I don't see any mention of the "load" feedback mechanism to let clients discover a server's load, but I assume that comes as part of their framework.
Agreed. There have been 21 million forks of Bitcoin with all manner of modifications. You don't hear about them because practically no one agrees with them enough to mine/trade/use them. You could make your own fork in an afternoon. The hard part is convincing anyone else to care.
That's the beauty of it; he had been favored as the harbinger of "moderate and peaceful islam that west had been trying to spread in the middle east, starting from turkey", and he played it pretty well in their eyes. and by milking this very support of the western countries, he managed to infiltrate in very critical positions in Turkey, thanks to his well educated followers, who were picked up from poor families as teens in the outskirts of Turkey. For this very reason, his followers also have held key positions in many african and asian countries.

These well educated brainwashed army of his followers, who are hidden their secret agenda under the "peace, love and cooperation" are greater threat to Turkey and all these corresponding countries than Erdogan might dare to pose, whose followers are just uneducated, nationalist inferiority complex driven, unintelligent turkish people.

Yes, it is certain that it was fethullah gulen movement behind the coup. However, erdogan took advantage of this to gain the absolute power of the country and to suppress all the opposing voices.
Bought in and unfortunately sold out @ $1/BTC. At $30K/BTC it's a life of regrets left to live.
Anyone know if any bitcoin exchanges definitively have a fractional reserve of bitcoin? Seems to be that would be a recipe for bankruptcy given the volatility.
>> The capital gains tax issue isn't stopping your average person from wanting to use Bitcoin

How are you so sure? if I had to report and fill forms for every single transaction that I do, like say buying coffee or video games I would be put off with trying to use the currency. it is a way to cripple it's usage.

>> The bottom line is that rational consumers like the features and services offered by traditional banks and credit cards.
>> If someone steals your credit card and spends a ton of money, you just call up the credit card company and get your money back.
>> If someone gets access to your Bitcoin wallet and takes all of your Bitcoin, that's it. Game over. Should have had better OPSEC, grandma.
>> Likewise, people don't want to manage wallet passphrases and key files themselves. They want an exchange to handle the details for them, including as much risk as they can move to the exchange.
>> The reality is that Bitcoin is still far and away an inferior experience to traditional payment methods. If I pay with Bitcoin, I have to deal with transaction fees and variable network delays and I have zero recourse if the vendor simply steals my money. With a credit card, the bank literally pays me 1-3% to use their credit card, payment is instant, and I can simply call the bank up and reverse charges if something goes wrong.

I completely agree with these points. And I hope the ecosystem improves on these. Still the advantage of Bitcoin's fixed supply and it's ability to hold value vs fiat systems whilst it's capacity to also act as a currency is still something valuable. While it doesn't do everything the way horses (fiat) are now, it will get better as it is the car in the race.
GitLab is an Open Source software that we host ourselves, no BS pricing scheme that silos the company unnecessary.
Super interesting! Could you share the link to your 2 qubit algorithm paper? I'm also doing quantum research, bit on the hardware side, and really interested in knowing algorithm development.
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> No one treats Bitcoin as a currency. ... 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.

Nope. I don't buy things in crypto only because of the reporting burden. Every cup of coffee bought with crypto has to be reported on a tax return.
Such an HN comment... You found an accurate way to look at something negatively.
To my understanding, inflation -- and the causes of such -- is something that can only really be assessed ex post facto.

What's being asked is, "is what we're seeing a warning sign of inflation-yet-to-come?" Rephrased, "are people bullish on technology stocks and Bitcoin because they're speculating that there's major fiat inflationary risk and these asset classes are most likely to hold value?"
My opinion as a casual bicyclist:

* I bought a bike during the existence of these things and never knew they existed (and I'm casual enough that my bike has a cupholder).

* I'm certainly interested in less maintenance but have no interest in losing handbrakes, and if I did, would probably prefer fixie over coaster-esque.

* Seat storage seems neat, but bike seats are very finicky person to person in terms of circulation, numb feet/toes, etc.

* In my view single shifter is great and newer style single sprocket stacks that do 5 to 15 speeds off one shifter are where it's at.

* I suspect if there were good (in same price bracket) disk brake options on very upright riding stance bikes people who tried would like.

* A better default derailleur + shifter is probably an improvement casual bikers don't realize they'd love, but have no basis for ever getting.

* Casual bikers need at least one very low gear because we find hills miserable.

* Storage options can really make a bike for a casual rider, but they're less obvious to figure out than ideal.

* It confuses me that these would win design awards.
Funny thing is, MS Defender was originally written entirely in VB 6 (the 1998 one, not .Net). MS re-wrote it in C++ out of shame, mostly.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150107212718/http://winsupersi...
Typing in the description field of a ticket lags and spins up the fans on my laptop. It's doing something wrong.
> After all, you can only charge what consumers can afford to pay.

In the US, it is more like "you can only charge what consumers can go into debt for". The self-correcting force of consumer inflation on price discovery has been time-delayed buffered and confusing price signals for a long time for select industries by acommodative consumer debt issuance. Without that effect upon price discovery, I suspect the number one reason bankruptcies occur to consumers to trade categories every few years as the inflation works its way through different key industries and their customers. Which is why US personal bankruptcy has been quite consistently caused by medical bills for decades [1].

When/If this inflation wave takes root in the consumer sector, it first has to overcome the deflationary secular bias that has plagued developed world economies for a few decades. I suspect this is because price discovery in wages has been quite robust, but in goods and services it is obfuscated by many means (consumer debt issuance is only one of many mechanisms), and the end effect is people are functionally broke.

If it breaks that deflationary bias, then it will break a great many households who cannot bear inflation while their wages stay functionally unresponsive to the same inflation. If that happens, then I expect the deflationary bias to turn into a depression.

[1] https://www.debt.org/bankruptcy/statistics/
Sure, maybe put a few percent of your portfolio in it. But my point is that Bitcoin is highly speculative and risky compared to pretty much any other kind of investment. Even gold has industrial uses and isn’t simply a token of value like Bitcoin.

I will concede though that there is a huge market of derivatives which often seem pretty unusual and risky to an amateur investor such as myself, so maybe Bitcoin isn’t that different from some of those investments. I don’t know a lot about that market, other than that it played a large role in the Great Recession, which is a dubious distinction.
I was thinking more like "damn it, we failed to blow up the government again", and "you got your bacon in my tagine" and "you woke me up with your call to prayer", "you might worship a different god than me, but at least we both hate women's rights". The domestic terrorist could be a coal-rolling hick. That kind of shtick.

I'm scared to even type that. You'd need writers legitimately from each culture to keep it funny, balanced, and self-deprecating.
Irony alert!!!
That is a good way of thinking about it. "The Internet of Money" is a very good way of labeling it. The internet protocols itself and it's openess are very foundational like bitcoin. Everything we use today is built on top of that. BTC is really just the brand right now. Moving forward we will see if BTC is Yahoo/Myspace and who will be the Google/Amazon of this new sector.
Use cases like this are far more than you can imagine. The longer I work for AWS the more I realize this...
That you brought up banking is precisely my point. Imagine if you needed a bank account to give someone $100 cash. Or to spend a few bucks at a street hotdog vendor.

Most people take it for granted that they need a bank to do anything, and they don't really consider how powerless they are over their own money. Like how it's illegal to carry too much cash (and it can simply be taken away). And how your bank can impose arbitrary restrictions against you like rejecting transactions and freezing your account. I've lost various bank accounts over the years as a permanent traveler. I'm banned from Paypal.

I want to be able to send $100 cash digitally with the operational minimalism of giving someone $100 cash in person. I want some control over my money even when I want to exchange it digitally.
Presumably, they are on https://opensource.apple.com/source/bash/bash-118.40.2/ although sources for the latest macOS are usually not released in a timely manner (no Big Sur at the moment, for instance)
"Taste the world"

Works for dogs.
I think back to the line "MF DOOM, he's like D.B. Cooper" off of Hoe Cakes on the album MM..FOOD. He always was an enigma, and I guess having your passing be a secret for that long, for someone that influential, in the age of social media, just goes to show that it wasn't just an act.
Make it illegal for calls originating from international origins to lack caller identification. Also likely unenforceable, but again, it sets the basis.

Since I sense that caller ID is completely spoofable for calls from international networks, now add some technical salt: Require domestic phone companies at the edges to add some kind of "network of origin" prefix to caller IDs from international origins. This is prepended to what is provided by the outside network, even if they provided "no caller ID" or "unknown caller".

Make it that domestic calls don't have this prefix and it is illegal to insert anything that resembles one.

This way I can see incoming calls from network Xyzabc for the junk they are. And networks will each get a reputation from consumers.

I can dream.
Yeah, that’s a fair point. It’s going to take more than a playbook to fix the problems, but there are some movements in the right direction. Government is just very very slow to change. Sometimes that’s a good thing, but not so much when it comes to technology.
For such an early stage and low salary you should be looking at a minimum of 5-10%. 0.1% is common when you come in after a couple of decent funding rounds and then it’s based more around a multiple of your salary. I’d walk away. Don’t get emotionally invested in something where your contribution isn’t respected.
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We do work on hiring as well
CEO of National Survivor User Network (mental health survivors ) not having good mental health techniques? Ironic by Alanis Morissette

Take some time off!
The vast majority of mined gold in existence is not used for industrial purposes.
> Despite the above, the quality of the code is generally excellent. Modules are small, and procedures generally fit on a single screen. The commenting is very detailed about intentions, but doesn't fall into "add one to i" redundancy.
The x86 BIOS Emulator in the Windows Vista HAL
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37% of gold use in the US is for electronics.

https://geology.com/minerals/gold/uses-of-gold.shtml
Most gold is not used for industrial purposes
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> The CDDL was intentionally written to be incompatible with the GPL. Which other copyleft licenses do you have in mind, and what advantages do they have over GPL-compatible licenses?

What strong copyleft licence do you know that is compatible with any GPL?

The F.S.F. indeed alleges that it was intentional, and perhaps it was, but every single strong copyleft licence is pretty much incompatible with every other — one must go out of one's way to make them compatible and even it's typically an asymmetric compatibility.

Advantages? They obviously do things differently and there's probably a reason why big companies tend to craft their own licence rather than relying upon a template.

Examples:

- Eclipse Public Licence
- Mozilla Public Licence 0.1 and 0.2
- Apple Public Licence
- Common Development and Distribution Licence
- GPLv2 — yes, it should be mentioned as an example

> If you release your code under a permissive license, it's basically guaranteed to be compatible with the future GPLv4, so you're in that situation anyway.

You assume that the only option one have is GPLv2+ or a permissive licence.

Linux is simply released under GPLv2, exactly because Linus Torvalds and many others in it disagree with some of the GPLv3 provisions; ZFS is simply released under the CDDL, and FixFox simply under the MPL.

They have their reasons to choose other licences than GPLv3, because they disagree with some of the provisions thereof.