skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Try paying your taxes in Bitcoin.

It's happening already: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/-crypto-valley--canton-to-accep...

> You want to live in a jurisdiction, then you pony up the tokens that jurisdiction demands.

It has less to do with paying the taxes in the currency used by the State and more with protecting your wealth at the same that you can keep yourself liquid. If you ever experienced hyperinflation you would understand. Growing up in the 80's in Brazil, I remember how every 5th of the month (when my dad and my mom would get paid) was very busy.

- Pay school, bills as early as possible to try to get a discount. Prices were adjusted 20-25% every month and if you paid earlier you could get some 5-10% off.

- Going to the supermarket to buy 3/4 shopping carts of groceries.

- Fueling up the car. I remember the traffic(!!) caused by car lines backed at the gas stations, waiting to get fuel before the prices went up.

- If we needed any clothes / school stuff, head to the mall.

As soon everything was paid that month, my father would get whatever money was left in the bank and would buy US dollars. For him it was worth the 5-10% spread between the black market rate and the official rate because the alternative was to see all his melt away.

He would still pay his taxes in local currency.
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A bitcoin transaction typically takes 30 minutes for 3 confirmations which is plenty sufficient unless you think the other party is pulling a very sophisticated/expensive attack on the network.
It sounds like you are going to shite clubs!
The original claim was "All EV's are worse for the environment than buying a used Petrol car". If your claim is that buying a used EV will be best of all then that seems reasonable.
Please don't, the only thing worse than no response is a byzantine system that makes you think there's a path and becomes the biggest time sinkhole of your life.

Just vote with your feet and move out of their services, life on the outside is just fine.
> How many innocents have to get caught in the crossfire before we start protecting them?

> Again, it's not a "request" [..] suspension notifications can also be automated.

Can you clarify what you mean by "protecting" them? I'm not sure suspension notifications qualify as meaningful protection
>Including the EU so this isn't a matter of just "masks are easier to manufacture locally than vaccines".

But masks are easier to manufacture locally than vaccines.

And context is important too. Had there been no patents, are we sure the private investments would have been made 10+ years ago to developed COVID-19 vaccines in record time this year?
A move that already made them millions due to the Bitcoin going up 7%.
Gold's inherent value represents less than 1% of its total value. The rest is monetary premium. Bitcoin is 100% monetary premium, ie. inter-subjective value.

Another thing to consider is that people buy gold jewellery as a store of value. You don't spend $30k on a watch if you don't think it will keep its value.
yall think eth will experience the same highs as btc? considering mainstream adoption, I think eth has more viability than btc due to possible enterprise adoption (either via the public or private blockchains). With the enterprise adoption, mainstream usage should accelerate even faster than btc would.
It's interesting and sad to see the forced assimilative process of erasing written Cantonese. I remember HK in the late 90s still had newspapers that published in written Cantonese. Just across the border in Shenzhen, without the British influence and prior to the explosion of industry and tech in the early 2000s, you could still see nonstandard signage that were in Cantonese in store windows. I think getting rid of spoken Cantonese is likely a generational and not just an effort that can be done in a decade or so, but I've both experienced and did field work on how the Wu dialects were more or less systematically erased from official, and now even private realms. The Shanghai variety, itself developed only in the early 1800s from a pidgin of the Suzhou and Nanjing varieties mixed with northern influences, is actually quite well-documented by foreign sources in writing, with a pidgin developing off of that and English and Portuguese that also survives in English sources and academically studied in great detail by Chinese authors in English but not in Chinese to anything close to the same degree. Starting with the millenial generation the speaking of the dialects in schools, even outside of class, became subject to punishment. With public education starting at the pre-kindergarten level enforcing the rule, across two or three generations even those whose first language is one of the dialects became more or less forced into Mandarin speakers and losing their fluency. I have little reason to doubt that something similar will simply be forced upon Hong Kong as well. Luckily sci-hub is your friend and written Cantonese seems to be better represented than written Wu through a cursory search.
FWIW (at least in tech industry), apparently the automated filtering systems are a myth spread by companies who make money on the promise to optimize your resume to get past the filter.

https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1292909844886945792

(The OP of the tweet was an engineering manager in several big tech companies, wrote The Software Engineer’s Guidebook last year, and talked with many recruiters in the process)
can you, though?
A tool designed to find people guilty is biased to find people guilty.

As far as I know it is fairly easy to take a generic dna sequencer meant for healtcare diagnostics, and repurpose it for STR analysis. The only major difference between the healthcare versions and the forensic versions is the software i/o.
To be more precise: You can pay them to get your ads listed as "acceptable ads" which will then pass the filter rules of ABP.

Would be a real shame if some software would block your ads because you didn't want to pay, wouldn't it?
Strictly speaking the former. You could, however, say it's both since submitted issues trigger an e-mail being sent to people following the project.
"Yet, historically, when forced to make the choice, governments have almost always chosen continuation of fiscal policy over the gold standard. Many times (e.g., the early 1930s), governments chose the gold standard only for things to get even worse and instead opt for fiscal policy. In the long run, every country has ultimately abandoned the gold standard."

This. There's a lot of very very smart people who are totally lost among the trees on the technicalities of Bitcoin who don't get this 1 simple aspect. It's never happening.
To be clear, this is just a classical computer component but leveraging a quantum effect (Josephson junction, which can be sensitive to a single quantum of magnetic flux) for its operation.

Quantum computers are very different in that they maintain a non-classical state throughout many components, allowing certain kinds of matrix calculations to be solved significantly faster than is possible for any classical machine, analog or digital. (Although quantum solutions have a stochastic nature and there are other caveats to quantumness that potentially stand in the way of actually exceeding classical computers).
It's not that complexity is a direct cause of corruption, but that it gives corruption a place to hide. A complex system with incentives to abuse it will be far more corrupt than a simple system with incentives to abuse it.

You can a) reduce the incentives for abuse, b) reduce the complexity needed to hide abuses, c) both.

Since government is basically power, the incentives to abuse that power always exist. So look for complex government systems and you will inevitable find abuse (if you can navigate the system's complexity).
No, also people who host themselves and enjoy the hobby time and don't understand how the general public lives.
I hear you, the same way the GameStop was a long term position.
Sure, but what happens when that jurisdiction’s currency can no longer put food on the tables of its law enforcers?
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Other coins will have to not only be technologically better than Bitcoin but also work to accumulate the same level of trust that Bitcoin has. We can see this already happening with the success of Ethereum

> Yes, but you really can't fight the government and run a parallel currency. If the government bans it then you cannot use it for any legal transactions.

But even in that situation, you would still be free to bring your money into the control of a different government instead, who has laws you find more favourable. You wouldn't be victim to currency controls and bank runs
Have you ever tried to use Western Union while in a foreign country? I did it in Vietnam.

Everything was a barrier. Language, paperwork, carrying cash around safely, time and finally most importantly, fees.

No thanks.
I actually paid for this feature thinking it was ok because I wanted to support them anyway. But the 8tracks client has been broken for a long time and I was paying for a feature that didn't work
Internet is not required [1] to sync a full Bitcoin node. There have also been numerous proof-of-concepts for transmitting Bitcoin transactions via radio.

[1] https://blockstream.com/satellite/
This reminds me of some times in the mid 2000s, I was looking for a job. I had a friend who was a manager at EA. He was trying to get me a job as a game tester but no luck. I had to apply online through their system, but they couldn't find my application.

After days of applying and not appearing, someone told him that it's possible that my application was being rejected. They found my name in the rejected pile. I don't know what exactly in my application was turning me into a red flag, or of if he didn't really want to hire me, but unless the system accepted me, I was not going to get hired.

I was never hired.
Dean Radin has a fascinating book looking at the evidence for ESP. There is quite a bit since the topic has obvious military applications if it works. There are a number of metaanalyses he looks at which indicate it is not p hacking. The book has some interesting brain impulse graphs which show a clear anticipation of randomly chosen images, when the image is distressing.

As for Randi, who watches the watchers? Is he truly disinterested in his challenge, or are his examinations also biased? Additionally, the research I've seen shows a statistically significant, but faint result, so it may not be easy to reproduce in Randi's setting.

All that being said, I have not personally been able to reproduce the results, even though the claim is that almost everyone has a low level of latent ESP capability, which can be amplified through training. SRI even has an ESP training app if you want to try verifying the claims.
What if compiler hijacked? What if the OS itself hijacked?
What if the hardware has built in backdoor?
Elon Musk: “Are such large transactions even possible?” (Dec 20th 2020)
Do you really think this is a technical limitation of the current banking systems and a missing "feature"? Or is it the Bitcoin technology that "solves" this?

The whole reason that it is not allowed to send money to an anonymous person is... Well don't actually know where to start explaining it.

Anti money laundering? Counter-terrorism financing? Financial transaction reporting?
Quantum computers use qubits, which doesn’t really have an analogue in analog computers.
Capitalism is incompatible with counter culture. We need to get back to realising that if we try and work with the system it will destroy us, we have to work in the shadows, break laws, and create an underground again.
Give this a watch, and I think it may change your mind on some these points: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofH9_sE2qy0
If you are buying individual stocks, you can't really diversify your investments too much. I myself also enjoy the feeling of "getting it right" and only invest in companies that I absolutely believe in (and when that stops, I sell them). I don't hedge my bets by buying their competitors in the case they might do well too.
The people who reach the top are the people who outcompeted everyone else who wanted to be at the top, therefore, the people at the top are, nearly without exception, extremely competitive people. This applies to business, academia, and just about any other form of endeavor where only one or a few people can be at the top.

Even for individual contributors, if you want your fair share of the compensation pie, you are going to have to compete for it against your peers. Failing to do so will leave you undercompensated.
That's a huge if, and in order for that if to become true, I already have to be past the hurdle of believing this to be true; thus it's a bit circular.

In other words: the mass public is unlikely to become Bitcoin-first until they can gain confidence in the stability of Bitcoin. This is notwithstanding the fact that stable governments likely will not accept BTC as a national currency, meaning citizens will still need USD/EUR/GBP/their local currency for paying taxes and transacting with the government.

It feels as though your post just handwaved away all of the practical issues with actually making the world BTC-first and then asked why I cared about them. Because, in order for the world you're proposing to exist, we almost certainly have had to solve them.
There’s utility in Bitcoin but also massive scaling problems that haven’t been tackled yet. It has long term potential, but you have to separate that from the asset bubble that’s inflating everything these days. If you don’t see the parallels between bitcoin’s price and Tesla’s stock price you haven’t been paying attention to what’s happening in the economy.

Hope this illustrates that Tesla’s commitment to clean energy is shallow, and their real commitment is to easy to manipulate financial securities.
Well then it's shocking how much if this is outsourced by the average automotive company
Cute, but don't equivocate. There's enough nonsense flying around already.
>There is not a single alternative service in the world that would have made this possible.

Are you kidding me?

>If people thought a little beyond their personal use cases, they would understand the utility of Bitcoin/crypto for many others.

What use case is that? Skirting AML regulations? You think governments will allow that?
I feel like a good modern way to explain Bitcoin is to say it's like the gamestock drama from two weeks ago, except the people who have bitcoin are playing both r/wallstreetbets AND the hedge funds. Just inflating the price of something hat doesn't make sense at all to inflate without volume.

The value is made up and the economics (and lack of eco-validity) don't matter! Eth's new developments may fix this but 99% less is still a lot without investment.

A more fun way to frame this story is 'Self-aggrandizing Green-tech company admits to supporting use of payment processor that uses more than 1000X more power than other options'
a) Let's say you vaccinate all south-africans with AZ+Moderna+JJ+PB, then 1/4 of the population will be barely protected.

b) Let's say you vaccinate all south-africans with Moderna+JJ+PB, then all the population will be protected.

If you pay the same in both scenarios, why on earth would you choose a)?
That seems plausible.

I would argue that if prosecutors and/or cops get to pick the tool, false positives would result in more sales.

Just as false negatives would result in more sales if the defendant gets to make the pick.
Well mostly, although corporate power is not a single entity or a unified bloc. And independent media does exist, just without the reach of the large operators.
> The co-founder of the company, Mark Perlin, is said to have argued against source code analysis by claiming that the program, consisting of 170,000 lines of MATLAB code, is so dense it would take eight and a half years to review at a rate of ten lines an hour.

First, the defence doesn't necessarily have to evaluate all 170,000 lines. They just need to find one buggy line which could potentially overturn the result.

Second, even if it did take a full 8 years, is that a good reason to deny the defendant due process?
> these have both been built-in for years.

If Android has a built-in QR scanner now, that must be something that came with Android 11, but
September 8 2020 cannot qualify as "for years". It takes a while for OEM's to catch up as well.

There are certainly Android phones that ships with this feature (QR-scanner), but stock Android 10 does not. (Google lens != Standard Photo app).

If you know about it, you can start "Google lens" app, but that app does not even come up as a suggestion when you type QR scanner into the play store. I.e. even when you have a QR scanner available on your phone, you wouldn't know unless you somehow knew about "Google lens".
Do you have an example of this happening where people didn't settle on land/sea that was already claimed by another entity? Because that's still in someone's jurisdiction.
"Getting rid of currency altogether" - please explain this nonsense
I work with a lot of psychological testing, and IMO it’s absurd to expect these kinds of tests to describe individuals. They’re fine at creating norms and viewing statistical deviations, but There’s a reason why, even in the ideal case, when you have a gold standard diagnostic test, with obvious symptoms, hundreds of thousands of previous cases to look at, few things are diagnosed solely on testing alone. And these tests likely don’t get anywhere close to any of these ideals.
And on the ETH network, a whole new world of extortionate fees.
Far from the whole $1000 but I bought a monitor arm and a second screen. I really like the monitor arm, as it allows me to use more space on my desk.

I also bought a Bluetooth headset but I'm considering buying a real, big microphone to ease meetings.
What are the differences between Digital marketing and branding?
A lot of DA and other prosecutors are measured by the number of convictions they get vs the number of cases they take to court.

Their goals are always to get plea bargain because that is automatic guilt or if they take it to court, they'd better win. That's a lot of state resources just to lose.

Overtime, you'll get people willing to bend the rules, turn a blind eye to 'weak evidence' or whatever.

You're only as good as your measurement/incentivisation.
Ah the "Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown" defence.

or maybe you ned some high profile sackings of HR directors at a few big German companies ala github.
Tastes vary, so you are probably not alone, but I for one enjoyed her books greatly.
That sounds like it could be discriminatory against people with certain disabilities.

Besides the fact that it's stupid and somewhat embarassing.
It's a real problem, and I've been struggling with it for two decades, but even so I am legitimately impressed (and not in a good way) if they have 170,000 lines of Matlab code in their production software. That takes a really special combination of productivity and cluelessness, even for academic specialists. Regardless of the facts of this particular case, it should be absolutely horrifying that anyone's freedom is left up to a gigantic pile of unaudited Matlab code. (That said I am almost certain he added some zeros to the number, I have a hard time imagining what they're doing that could be that complex.)
Even just a random process might give better results - sometimes.

From THHGTTG:

> To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
The fees alone must have been astronomical. I was astounded that it took 4 hours last week for a transfer of mine to confirm (4 confirmations were required for the broker to recognise it as legit). And I'd paid $15 in fees!
I.e. Bitcoin: The best way to run a sex-trafficing ring.
When I was a juror on a murder trial the one thing that was most clear was the disparity in resources.

On one side were 6 impeccably dressed men in what I presumed were multi-thousand dollar suits. On the other side was single overwhelmed, overworked, and under-dressed defender who was steam-rolled at every sentence she spoke.

I ended up in traffic court last year for a parking ticket that I can only think must have been stolen from my car during a festival. After spending just a few hours waiting my turn, it was pretty clear who exactly the police target for traffic violations. But this is a tangent.
I think its a different kind of representation. "The Expanse" book series, for instance, also features this sort of "UN" representation of many people form many kinds of ethnic background, and this is really great! However, the experiences of these characters is divorced from those of many non-white people living in the U.S. (this will of course all vary by the country of the audience). There is also a matter of who is the main or POV character, and who are secondary characters.

Butler, however, offers a different kind of representation. For one, her main protagonists are black. And, at least in the parable books, she focuses on a near future where the experiences of the black protagonists would be more familiar to black readers. Third, these are black characters written by a black women, who can draw on her own experience to more effectively capture and communicate the experiences of black women.

Representation in sci-fi is tricky, because once you start getting too far away from the current time period, you start to lose out a lot of the cultural experiences that people can relate to. N.K. Jemisin's "The Broken Earth" series does a decent job of capturing the experiences of non-white people living in the U.S. in a deep and thoughtful way, while maintaining an abstract fantasy/sci-fi setting.
Like short bursts over the PA? That's absolutely hilarious.
170 GHz is the speed of a PLL published by a popular chip designer on youtube a decade ago in 130nM SiGe BiCMOS.

The "100GHz" headline tempts comparison to CPU clock speeds but those are absolutely not the right point of comparison. GHz doing one thing != GHz doing another. CPU clock cycles are very deep compared to a bit-serial adders and operate under heavy thermal constraints. To compare apples to apples, we need to know: what is the speed of a bit-serial adder in near-future CMOS? Silicon bipolar? 3-5 bipolar?

My guess: you could implement a 100GHz bit serial adder in CMOS today and get several hundred GHz if you dropped thermal constraints, went bipolar, etc. That doesn't invalidate the research -- we need more public cutting-edge device research, not less -- but the posts assuming this result translates to 100GHz CPUs are getting a bit ahead of themselves.
I think if a law goes against your company values, such as egrariously stomping on human rights, you should have a principle and a backbone and not sacrifice those value to make money.
Unfortunatly icloud does not work well unless you are all in on their ecosystem.

I dont have a mac at the moment but have a iphone. Their windows application is very bad, unreliable sync and their web interface is missing a lot of functionality. No linux integration at all, but that is expected.

Onedrive works well for file sync but almost have no photo library + editing functionality.