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> the same way gold hoarding caused the economy to collapse in 1929.

You state this is if it was a fact, but it's not. There are some theories that puts the blame on the gold standard, but there are many others and there's no consensus in the economic community on which is more correct.
To be fair the article claims they will have other vaccines available in a couple of weeks.
I suspect that the major tech providers are so pervasive that the impacts of account-locking span all party lines.
or at least double check the math.
Thanks, looking forward to your feedback!
I don't care as much for DDOS protection as for free easy SSL which gets semi annoying to set up for me personally. I assumed cloudflare was an option from their advertisment and never worried about it. Now I suppose I will.
Any time people are asked to review their peers, there's at least some compulsion to rate others poorly because it'll make you look better.

IME, the only times that it can go well is with people who don't think the results will matter. And in which case, why do it?

The one exception is someone who is already somewhat of a leader and isn't looking for a promotion, and so they don't have much desire to make themselves look better.
The flu vaccine skips the effective part of the trail, but still needs to go through safety tests for a few months.

I'm not sure at what point we are comfortable enough with vaccine technology to agree to that. There have been a few vaccine candidates in the past that made things worse, we think we understand the flu well enough to not worry about that. However for the new vaccines we don't have as much information.

Although if the virus keeps mutating there will be pressure to bypass the process to approve faster. That pressure is why the flu vaccine bypasses steps, if we did everything "by the book" we wouldn't have a working flu vaccine ever.
If you have this super powerful quantum computer, you can still front-run transactions.
If you are going to reset it each day why not just disable Youtube history?
Like I said below, you cannot fully outlaw and police tribalism, human bias and cronyism that is evolutionary ingrained in us as a species since the dawn of man.
false positives would result in more sales.

That seems highly unlikely. Prosecutors, like all attorneys, talk. It wouldn’t take too many getting burned by a false positive before word would get out (regardless of any nda).

For example, once an expert gets Dauberted, you’ve got to think long and hard about being the next guy to use them.
Thank you for sharing, I never knew that was a thing. If you don't take the comment at face value there's obviously differences between the two systems:

Bitcoin is well known globally whereas Hawala in a subset of countries.

In OP's example he has to trust the Bitcoin ATM whereas for Hawala you'd have to trust the honour system (thus at least 2 parties).

Bitcoin is digital whereas Hawala requires exchange of money in person. In OP's example this gives him the flexibility of not having to prearrange a transaction.
I can buy mining equipment or stay at an hourly love hotel located in the red light district in my city according to the map. I guess some of my needs could be met.
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> Neither Apple or Google have the ability to directly remove apps on a users device

I'm pretty sure both can. But it's a legal problem, not a technical one.
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You're right. And the real takeaway is "it depends".

My "smartest" investment decisions have been never following through on plans to sell, after thinking "This can't go on forever".

(The same can be said for my dumbest decisions though!)

I remember reading here on HN, back in May or so, someone saying that they pulled everything out of the market in March, and avoided huge losses.

Sounded smart at the time. Luckily, I was not that smart!
I personally worked at a place that stack-ranked all their employees then cut the bottom 1/3 of performers. I was on a team of two, with the other guy a 15-year veteran.

Guess who didn’t make it past the first year? Guess who also fixed more outstanding issues in that year than had been fixed in decades? Yep, me, the guy who failed the stack rankings and got fired.

I’ve worked dumber places, but really that one was a bit much.
Skipping this group is not an inevitable consequence of continuing to uze the AZ vaccine. The rate at which this group can be vaccinated with other vaccines is an orthogonal issue.

people in other groups may be unwilling to take the AZ vaccine, but so long as they are not being coerced to do so, this is not an issue.
Agreed, and with ML we'll need both open source and open training data.
I have been around house cats for almost my entire life and have been bit and scratched countless times and I never have had any wound that has had an infection as a result. So would like to see the actual statistics on how often people lose their hands from their pet cat biting them.

Not that I am saying one shouldn't use applicable wound care but find it difficult to believe that you must visit a doctor right away or else you will get a bad infection and lose a limb.
This works as long as the app does not enforce certificate pinning. But if it does, there's no way to override it and inspect what's actually going on, as I can on my desktop.
I once under estimated how much cash I needed in Germany. The easiest way I could find to fix that was to use WU to send myself cash. It was far easier than dealing with my own bank to fix the ATM card. Bitcoin was a non-starter.

I just don't get the Western Union hate.
This was for a short period a two or three years ago, no longer.

Now, unless you are high follower count, they will reply asking you to DM and give you a hold.
The fact that you think those things are unrelated to their work tells me I should probably avoid working where you work.
Choosing MATLAB as a language for software that could potentially lead to people dying (in areas where they still have the death penalty) is a gigantic red-flag

I don't know how many job postings ask for a software engineer who knows MATLAB, but I can't recall any
Eye-opener for me that I really need to set up a fallback email address
Since this is 30mins, could you please provide at TL;DW ?
> miscarriages, deaths, anaphylactic shock

I've seen coverage of anaphylaxis, but not death and miscarriages. Anaphylaxis is also extremely rare and causality is unproven.

Would you please provide references for the other severe side effects you listed?
Yes that’s what I meant sorry.
> mainly the question 'what can I actually do with a bitcoin?'

If we're talking about cryptocurrencies in general, then start here: https://whycryptocurrencies.com/eli5.html
What do you think the chances are that it's unsafe?
In any larger project, the reviewer are not able to predict impact from reading commit.

More importantly, typical reviewer have only small partia area where he has good idea about which commit is bad idea. He however does not understand whole codebase.

Knowing what the whole does and knowing what my module does are two different things.
> * GDPR/Privacy laws (The law requires the deletion of no-longer needed data. As soon as his account gets banned, the data is no longer needed for Googles business purposes (of providing service to him), so the deletion process can't be delayed.

I do not think GDPR works like that. You can absolutely store information pertaining to "why" questions because that is still a service they will be providing. Also, whenever they restore some's service they give data back. So they have obviously not deleted the data.
If you live in the USA/UK/EU/CA you will probably be vaccinated by the end of the summer as far as I can tell.

(I am an amateur not a doctor)
In the US, it's been ramping up to about 1.5 million shots a day and a one-shot J&J vaccine will presumably be coming on line. But, yes, depending upon the assumptions you care to make, it'll probably be later in the summer before the majority of people in the general population pool <65 years old get a vaccine.
And getting cloud-bill shock is like going to emergency department :D
>>>If someone needs something they should have it.

What mechanism will exist to validate conflicting "needs" of different people in the not-so-distant future? Extreme example: we can't give everyone their own mansion with a beachfront view in order to prevent triggering them.
Well, that makes more sense, thnx.
I've paid tuition twice abroad. Once it took days, multiple forex/bank accounts, and had several annoying surprise fees. The second was in BTC and was settled in five minutes, directly.

It's been said before but the experience is a lot like writing an email versus a letter.
My understanding about the problem with the diet of "the current poor population of North America" is not so much that they don't eat enough plant food, but that they eat all kinds of over-processed food, full of saturated fats, sugars and salt, and that any kind of food they get, meat or plant-based is of poor quality. Removing meat from that diet, even the poor quality meats they can afford right now, sounds like it would hurt their diet even more, not improve it.
Yeah but most people aren't paying for g-mail. It's like if you were using T-mobile "free" plan where you don't have to pay anything but you get a number that starts with "TMO", and then getting mad when you can't transfer your free number to Verizon because T-mobile refuses to transfer it.
Now, I agree that WU is a bit of a nightmare, and preying to an extent on the poor, remittances, etc.; and that better fintech alternatives are required, such as TransferWise.

However, part of the costs of course arise from supporting

a) a branch network that also enables those without smartphone to use the service, and

b) all the pesky KYC AML measures that Bitcoin conveniently circumvents.
> there are a dozen people or so that could destroy the whole system if they so chose to

there's powerful people that can destroy industries and countries, so that point is moot. there's no much point in debating wether there's someone with the power to drop a nuke, or the economic equivalent, on your head.

are you talking about devs and miners?

explain yourself.
I tried, I sincerely did. I had many friends who were strong believers in bitcoin. I read articles, I watched videos, and every time it felt like hucksterism. There was no serious discussion of the advantages of bitcoin, no attempt to explain blockchain.

There was a lot of repeating, over and over again, how amazing and revolutionary bitcoin was. "For the first time ever, a computer owns currency!" one youtuber said without the slightest effort to explain why I should care.

Maybe I missed something. Obviously some people did well on it, and if I'd just skipped all those videos, bought a few hundred dollars worth, and then sold those shares a few years later I'd be a lot better off right now.
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Bitcoin is 12 years old. It’s very very young. Problems will be addressed as it matures.

Further, every currency has problems. Is USD perfect in your mind and without it’s own unique set of issues?
Well ham radio operation, in the USA at least, requires a license. Are you proposing that everyone get ham-radio-licensed as a prerequisite to participating in the new economy?
As an anti-speciesist vegetarian, I’d like to note that the above viewpoint probably sounds as extreme and incoherent to me as it does to most other people.

Parity as regards rights should be based on interests. There is nothing special about life itself. A mouse’s interests are not on par with the interests of a child, and saving the child would generally result in the least amount of suffering.

I did my best to take the parent comment seriously, but I really need to stress how ridiculous it is. Please don’t assume that that is a common viewpoint amongst vegan or vegetarians. It ultimately commits the same error: devaluing the life of an individual because it happens to belong to the “wrong” species.
Absolutely, there's one big catch here:
the most interesting and difficult work I’ve been involved in

What I experienced both at startups and big corporations is that it's easy to end up in a path that has neither interesting nor difficult or even useful work. If you're forced to get promoted to get more interesting things to work on I think it forces some really selfish behaviour.

Of course it's possible to just move on (I did), but that has other implications.

One thing I liked at university was being able to switch teams and projects much more easily without a manager in the way with their own (not the organizations) goals. I ended up working on much more interesting things and experienced better team dynamics, making it much easier to get this balance right.
A totally fair point but in this case I wouldn't consider "famous person" being the shocking part of this. The shocking part, as others in the thread have pointed out, is that this is a business partner of Google's.
> If this isn’t resonating with you after the past year, I don’t know.

On the contrary, it's made me more firm in my position: fiat is better than bitcoin because fiat is responsive to the demands of democracy, while bitcoin is responsive only to a protocol written in the late aughts.

There's a lot of issues with American democracy, but it's still democracy. I can vote, and theoretically any root problems can be fixed with constitutional amendments. The only way to do something similar with bitcoin is a hard fork, which just proliferates additional coins like bitcoin cash.

If global democracy fails and is replaced with authoritarianism I'd be all on board with crypto, but until then I'm happy with a currency where I'm a part of the decision making process, even if it's just a tiny little part.
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We are a small SaaS vendor and fighting spam is, like, 20% of the technical work that we do. Bad actors register trial accounts and then reverse engineer your front-end and forge millions of requests. Just 2 days ago we had a very similar issue [1]

We have all sorts of protection: rate limiting, crippling non-paid accounts, detecting if a trial signup comes from a VPN/Tor (+5 to "suspicious" score!) etc... But they still manage to find ways. It's a never-ending battle. And the saddest part is - all this hard work is completely invisible to our existing paying customers :(

If your app has an email-sending module of some sort it WILL be abused. Even a trivial "reset password" form is a target.

My support goes to the GitLab team. Good luck and no hard feelings.

[1] https://www.jitbit.com/news/5354-spammer-attack-post-mortem/
>Or about as much as a single large hydroelectric dam.

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

According to this list, there are two dams in the world which generate that much electricity. And if you take the Cambridge estimate, zero dams.
If everyone on earth used Bitcoin the energy use would not go up. What would go up would be transaction fees because bitcoin only can process like 4 transactions every second.

Proof of work is not the only trustless consensus algorithm and there are already plenty of projects on varieties of proof of stake.
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Sadly this would make the system utterly trivial to gamify. Google have multiple billion accounts (Chrome has 2B users). I use "utterly trivial" here because "XYZ is likely" type events that might occur at xxx,xxx users translate to "sheer overwhelming force of statistics" when you get to x,xxx,xxx,xxx users - if you have 100,000 users and just 10 people successfully figure out how something works internally, scaling that to 1,000,000,000 users increases that pool of 10 people itself to 100,000. And a pool of 100,000 proactive and interested people is more than enough to create several thousand cottage industries, lots of competition, then one or two emerge at the top and become an exponential force, etc etc etc.
The Louisiana Purchase was paid with gold.

The people who sold Manhattan may not have understood the selling of territory, or been good representatives of all of Manhattan's residents, but I don't think beads are entirely the problem.

Napoleon sold inhabited territory he didn't control, and had no intention of wearing all of the gold. He was going to trade it away for useful goods and services necessary to take Britain by force.

What were the plans for the beads?

Let's say you have no prospect of sourcing the same beads (or therefore no need for a deep water port either) yet there is an entire continent west of you that has been depopulated by disease, and the remaining population has even less access to beads.

My point is that vanity and status confer real value on beads and gold, because it makes them tradable goods. Likewise legalistic notions of owning land are different than de facto control. I think the discomfort comes from the dynamics of a deal made when one party has more power.
Specifically the US population, this number is much less globally.
I'm Scandinavian too. I don't assume that.
Not all jewelery has a huge markup over the metal weight. If you buy a gold watch, you can always get its gold value back. Same with stones.
You can't invest everything you have, that generates bad investment decisions that doesn't generate products that the market actually demands, it destroys the economy
Disappointing that a BBC piece does not cover any UK-based business in this sector, like Arctic Shores (https://www.arcticshores.com/). The journalist lives in NYC but these days that shouldn't really matter...
Bundling meetings together for one individual is an improvement for that person, sure.

If you think about what meetings are attempting to achieve, it's about allowing a number of people to participate in a conversation, achieve progress on some decisions or plans, and if necessary communicate out the actions required.

If you think about it this way, then scheduling half-hour or one-hour blocks of time across groups of people requires significant scheduling and co-ordination overhead, and it places blocking time bounds on when each conversation officially begins (start of the meeting) and when it should conclude (end of the meeting).

The useful aspects of scheduled meetings are that they encourage the participants to prepare in advance, and a well-run meeting creates a sense of focus on a particular set of agenda items.

If someone's able to create a system that can achieve (measurably) the same quality of outcomes that scheduled meetings do, without the time-restricting side-effects, they'll be on to a winner.

The closest thing I can think of, off the top of my head, is issue tracking systems. They allow conversations to take place asynchronously over a long duration of time, and participants and communications can be looped into (and step out of) the thread when desired.

They also have the benefit that participants (current and future) can take more time than would be available in a real-time meeting to check the prior discussions, claims and statements that have led the group to their current situation.
> If that is the only problem then the obvious solution would be "just use f(x) = 0.5 instead", right? (i.e. allow for an extra digit.)

Yes, but in many cases that's not desirable. E.g. if you want to compute things in hardware where adding an extra digit means adding more transistors to your chip. (And then why not always use that extra digit instead of rounding to one digit less?)

> mostly within slightly more than half an ulp

The reason this doesn't say "at most half an ulp" but allows for "slightly more" is the table-makers dilemma. (If you keep reading after the part you quoted, you'll see that he's talking about precisely the case where a value is close to x.5)

> almost always well within one ulp

This is a different case, concerning functions that are expensive to compute to a high degree of precision (e.g. due to high sensitivity to rounding of intermediate results) but "reputable" libraries will still try really hard to give good results.

In terms of the midpoint-radius representation, the first is about not knowing how much smaller the radius needs to be to achieve correct rounding to a predetermined number of digits, whereas the second is about needing to wait for a long (but usually predictable) time before the radius drops below a predetermined target.
You can actually do from a private Docker image that YOU have created and going upwards you only hit from "scratch"

so in that case there are no external communities involved. I am not saying that people should do this in practice, but it is certainly possible.
... and yet every single hit on the first page of a Google Images search for "Swiss cheese" is of a firm, yellow cheese with large holes.

I completely accept the premise that there are many different kinds of cheese made in Switzerland, however it also seems pretty clear that the kind with holes is the one that has achieved a critical mass of global mindshare.
That works both ways: the sooner the alternatives are available in adequate quantities, the less the harm (if there is anything to be concerned about) of continuing to use the AZ vaccine at least until then.
Google makes ~$90 billion in profit a year, they can shave off a little to open up a few call centers to deal with issues like this. It's seriously shameful at this point.
When the officer shows up and swears under oath that he "calibrated it that morning" it's not so easy. :shrug:
Ok, you convinced me, it's a government research institute as opposed to a government research think tank.
Ok then what did they do with the Bitcoin you sent them
Do you have a valid source for any of the information you just claimed?
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(F)OSS by itself is not a security solution. Largely because you can't "solve" security.

There are plenty of insecure open source apps. To deny that would be to deny tons of security-related CVEs.

Yes, open source software is easier to audit, but does nothing to a) make those audits actually happen (frequently enough), nor b) improves the quality of those audits.

i.e. just because I have access to information does not validate that information. Work still has to be done.
If I had a bank account with balance, why would I use western union?

What if I lost my wallet with my debit card, why would I know the language?

You are making a TON of assumptions and not considering A LOT of use cases.
> It is increasingly looking like vaccination is our only option

For those at high risk, vaccination sounds like an excellent idea. A bit like we do with seasonal flu?

Except note that: "Flu viruses are constantly changing, so the vaccine composition is reviewed each year and updated as needed based on which influenza viruses are making people sick, the extent to which those viruses are spreading, and how well the previous season’s vaccine protects against those viruses"[0]

What do we do about those who are at low / very low risk from Covid19?

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/vaccine-selection.htm
Tesla's gambit of making a cleaner world with non-polluting cars gets canceled out by the dirtiest waste of energy, the bitcoin proof-of-work algorithm.