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"you are likely to see a much more stable valuation"

Does this not assume that Bitcoin remains the only currency of its kind?

I've been assuming that there's an incentive for anybody capable to design a new currency and make sure they're in on the ground floor as it appreciates.

So in x years time there may be dozens (hundreds?) of competing currencies, giving arbitraging and carry opportunities that will contribute to volatility.

And a possible end result (though I can't see it happening outside science fiction) is that somebody designs a way for you to make your own currency, backed by your own labour, potential value, or assets. So everybody has their own currency, and it's priced according to how clever you are, or how many horses you own, or some other fundamental.
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Alternatively you can start mining litecoin and exchange it at btc-e. Or join a pool in either btc or ltc mining.
There are many things that a person can do to liberate their time so they have the flexibility to spend good chunks of flexible time on their startup. Those things (e.g. moving to a more consulting/self-employed type role, not an employee role) also teach that person how to run a profitable business, deal with taxes, cash flow, sales, etc. Having someone else's money in your bank account teaches none of that.

I agree that it is far better to be in a position to work full-time on your startup, but I think it is not so valuable that it is worth taking the downside of raising funds just for that. "Relentlessly resourceful" (to use pg's words) people find the time to make it happen somehow.

Similarly, relentlessly resourceful people make it happen without having to fly to east bumfuck. Shit, in today's world, with all the remote communications available, and the fact that most companies (at least the SMEs) are perfectly happy to do business remotely. And if your business requires you to go to east bumfuck to make sales in person, and you don't have the resources to do so, then you're just doing the wrong business. Pivot to one where you can do the sales remotely, or there are enough clients nearby to sell to.
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In 1999 everybody used <HTML TAGS IN CAPITAL>, so its fake.
Because nobody wants to be called or to call himself a 1/10 developer! It's goddamn demeaning!

And we're all at different points on the learning curves for different technologies, so we are all "1/10 developers" for some techs! But if you get the "1/10 developer" label for a technology that you end up working with but you've never touched before so you're running in the "learn on the job" mode, some will tend to mindlessly generalize this and you'll end up with a "1/10" label on your head, and you never want that, especially if you're also freelancing or doing independent consulting and your "fame" has financial consequences!. You just label the pro/experienced/uberproductive guys as 10x and leave the others to learn and perfect, it has the same "positive" effect that having a "like" button and not a "dislike" one (or both) has on social networking sites. (Now , having "learn on the job" guys working at 1/10 productivity is horrible for the customer, but this is how it works and how you get paid for learning instead of paying for learning by going to a top notch university and/or crawling through badly paid internships - as wise men said, "paying customers get shafted every now and then", but this is how we keep learning and keep our jobs fun :))
Something is burning in the server room; how can I quickly identify what it is?
I guess I wasn't clear, sorry. What Alan Kay meant by the "spreadsheet value rule" and what the phrase "a limited form of first-order functional progamming" means are semantically equivalent; they are the same thing.

I have no idea if Alan Kay ever used the latter phrase, but it was easier to use that phrase here on HN than Alan Kay's made up phrase, which would have be difficult to understand without the content of the article explaining it.
>This can't be universally true. If food gets continually cheaper, unless the cost of owning land and farming it goes down by the same amount, farmers must eventually make less money than before (or be driven out of business entirely).

Or the same farmer could be producing more food than before, but at a reduced cost. He would make the same amount but the price of food would be lower.

>And I don't quite buy the comparison between technological progress (where things get cheaper due to massive amounts of competition and research) and switching to a fiat currency which is arbitrarily limited (bitcoin). Using bitcoin doesn't guarantee technological progress.

No but technological and economic progress is almost guaranteed anyways. A currency like bitcoin means you actually get the reward from it in the form of cheaper prices over time.

>Yes, printing money is in effect a government tax for usage of that currency.

Exactly. In that sense bitcoin and currencies like it are free of that form of taxation which is a good thing for everyone using them.
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Yes, indeed. And yet he thoroughly and aggressively misunderstands Bitcoin.

They also claim that Bitcoin stores its data in HTML files and other crazy stuff that made it clear that the paper must have somehow passed review on the name alone.
Excessive hoarding is obviously dangerous to a currency though.

Imagine a fixed supply of 1.000.000 coins and suppose 99 people managed to nab 10.000 coins initially and are just sitting on them.

The bitcoin economy will then run as though the remaining 10.000 coins is the entire economy, but 99 people will have spending power equal to the value of the entire economy.
The result is a sentient being with a disability. It doesn't matter if a mutation caused it or you physically injured the child, the consequences are the same.
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the most important bit, i think, is that a cucumber test suite is documentation that cannot go out of date, because if it does your test breaks and you have to fix it, thereby updating the documentation aspect of it.
everyone company who joins this 'kill the trolls' fund would love this until one of their own patents are accused as trollish by another member.
Not experimental, just that there are good libraries that aren't Py3k yet.
The guy ruined his company, blatantly stole money, probably destroyed many lives, and we are lamenting his suicide? Dafuq?
You've really hit the nail on the head here, and my response to the article was along the same lines:

Solving the right problem in the right way is the key of programmer productivity. Every programmer in existence who has a baseline of critical thinking has written the wrong code before, and then reflected on it and improved it. You can do this at any level of abstraction from the details of bit flipping all the way up to whole systems architectures. The very best programmers are the ones who are able to think about the gestalt most effectively. This is a tremendously difficult task give our limited conscious brain capacity, and I constantly feel myself bumping up against the edges of it when I work on a big project.

One example of a programmer I really look up to is Yehuda Katz because of his work on Bundler. Rubygems had an awful lot of pain points for large projects, and worse, it had a culture of borderline denial about the existence of these pain points. Yehuda and Carl Lerche worked relentlessly to come up with a solution that addressed 99% of all the recurring projects across a wide variety of scenarios. Then they powered through over a year or more to hammer it into a reliable solution built independently and only loosely coupled with Rubygems. Sure it took months and months and untold hours of hard work, but in the end they effected in a sea change in Ruby dependency management which would have been impossible without the ability to see all sides of a very multi-faceted problem. To me that goes beyond 10x because you could have 1000 good engineers and still not be able to design Bundler.
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I agree that the article is well written for the scope the author targets, however I think it is disingenuous to group all PhD fields into the same demographic as the return on investment for pursuing that degree is not equivalent for each area.

Further, using only monetary reward as a metric for PhD utility is not reflective of the reasons why people pursue a PhD.

Even excluding monetary reward and the fact that a PhD is often required to do original research in industry (and receive a position as a professor at a university), the people pursuing a PhD are doing so because they are obsessed with the area they are studying and want to have sufficient knowledge to expand the available information known about the field.

The article is overly dismissive of knowledge being considered as its own reward among the demographic and eschews the trait to focus only on monetary reward, and as a result the conclusion is nonsensical by concluding that the smartest individuals in their areas of interest are habitually irrational actors.

An individual has to reach the giants to be able to stand on their toes so to speak and getting a PhD is often a requirement for even being given a chance to do so.

A more damning reason to not pursue a PhD is that the hours are insane and academia is increasingly less available as a career path, which for a lot of fields is the only option for employment that will utilize the specialized knowledge for a PhD holding individual.
Exactly. My first thought about the Fitzgerald quote is "that's how fundamentalist nutcases are able to function".

The ability to hold mutually contradictory ideas at the same time and continue to function is something we all do - it's a fundamental part of the human psyche. There's nothing special about it. It's just that we generally do it by compartmentalising the ideas to different parts of our lives.

Dealing with multiple contradictory ideas at the same time and knowing and accepting how they contradict, is very different.
Calculated Failures.
> But for the network, that would look like you sending both $99 and $1 to new(?) addresses.

That's exactly what actually happens. When you make a transaction, it takes a previous input to one of your addresses(or multiple if none of them are enough) and splits it, with part of it(the amount you want to send) going to the recipient address and the rest of it going back to a new random address in your wallet.

There's no way to know which output is the recipient and which output is the change going back to the originator.
I am a heavy user of Google Analytics. Though, I'm curious how long it will maintain its free tier. If GA provides Google with enough data to understand trends in the web to help refine its search and ads algorithms, then it has a shot at being free indefinitely. If not, I wonder if Google would abuse their ubiquity and eliminate the free tier similar to what they did with Google Apps.
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"Buy an economy" is a meaningless term. They can either buy products and services or invest. And this is dangerous why? If they decide to start spending their money, this would indeed mean temporary inflation as the money supply circulating would increase. But this also means that they themselves, the rich ones, will lose a lot of the value of their remaining money. Also, they wouldn't be able to spend it all at once, so with each new chunk of investment the value of their money will be less and less and less.

The truth, as it turns out, that in a deflationary system rich are only rich as long as they don't spend too much and invest wisely. Thus the incentive is there to continue hoarding, even though this incentive is quite different from the incentive of the poor: for the poor in a deflationary system the incentive to hoard is making money. For rich the incentive is not losing them.
> The one thing they'll have is the knowledge that you just left the earth peacefully and calmly.

Death by suicide, no matter the method, is always deeply distressing.

> about 1 million people commit suicide each year. You and I are not going to change that.

At least I'm trying to change it.
Note, however, that the "scathing Forbes blog post" was written by the Bitcoin Foundation's press secretary.
I don't have information, but by focusing on NGEN for .NET 2.0 you forgot all the other implementations I mentioned.

Bartok compiler for Singularity uses another approach of code generation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartok_%28compiler%29

http://singularity.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset/view...

Windows Phone 8 only runs native code. .NET IL gets compiled down to native
code when uploaded to the Windows App Store, by making use of an optimizing IL to
native compiler.

http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Mani-Ramaswamy-and...

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2012/3-005

Mono also compiles to native code on iOS and other systems as well

http://docs.xamarin.com/guides/ios/advanced_topics/compilati...

The IL2CPU compiler used in the Cosmos project, which is still not fully implemented

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/220071/Csharp-Open-Sourc...
http://cosmos.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset/view/1011...
http://cosmos.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset/view/1011...

Going back to the runtime code generation (JIT), there is also SPUR being used at Microsoft Research

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/spur/

Don't mix languages with their implementations.
> This is totally wrong. Movies are a subset of video games.

That seems a little...subjective? There is certainly far more critical literature suggesting the opposite thing. Seems to me what you're saying is just as much an opinion as Ebert's.
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Well, my idea around "fair" pricing are simply that if you have a meter that it is accurate and calculates according to displayed rates. I don't think the actual values charged should be regulated.
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I'm curious, how can you discourage kids from hacking into core infrastructure and accidentally breaking things?

It is very natural for kids and teens to test their boundaries and try to get as much access and control over any system that they could get into. And from a kid perspective it doesn't feel like a particularly dangerous or wrong thing to do. Hacking into stuff feels just like an elaborate and very rewarding game. Game that requires specialized knowledge and skills, but a game nevertheless. I think we all remember the feeling.

But in reality this is not a game. Damage that can be done by an accident involving a such a game/hack that goes awry can be catastrophic. That includes loss of life and likelihoods of a large number of people.

Examples? Say, can a hack interfere in a subtle way with remote surgery? Or with hospital power supply? Or chemical plant? The answer is unfortunately, yes. Our systems a networks are not secure enough and not kid-proof. And probably will never be. So there must be some policy that discourage kids from hacking into stuff that matters. And yet it should be friendly, because it is preposterous to put people in jail for 'games' that are very unlikely to cause any harm most of the time.
The Left, in fact, is anti-capitalist entirely. Please stop trying to build false dichotomies to support your right-wing views.
Saving and hoarding are not the exact same thing. Saving is invested (on any variety of forms and risks), meaning that it is actively used in the economy to (at least try to) generate more value.
Hoarding is just sitting on top of it, which is not a great for economy.
> it takes away your ability to arbitrarily mutate state and perform IO

No. Haskell requires that you declare where IO is allowed (via the type). Once you assert that you admit mutable state (ST) or arbtirary IO (IO), then you are free to use them.
The typeface in many new OS X 10.8 apps is Helvetica. The typeface of OS X is Lucida Grande.

I bet this changes in 10.9. At least, for Retina machines. There's a reason why iOS uses Helvetica Neue as the system font, and not Lucida Grande. It looks better on sharper displays.

The new iMessage app in 10.8 lacks instant messenger integration with services such as MSN, AIM, and Jabber, forcing the use of a different application for these features.

Erm. Those services are still there. Same as ever -- which never included MSN in the first place. Hell, theres a new framework, IMServices, which lets you add support for new services to Messages.app.
First, Moore's law is technological hyperdeflation. Your dollar buys more computer power in 18 months than it does today. Yet people still buy computers. And computers are the one bright spot in this otherwise Fed-bubble-governed economy.

Second, a deflationary currency is inherently viral. The more people in it, the more valuable it is.

Third, 99 median powers are better than one government having power over the whole world currency. Power over the economy is linked to the capacity to delay gratification, rather than the ability to maintain a monopoly on counterfeiting dollars through violence against alternate currency providers (see Executive Order 6102, Bernard von Nothaus, e-gold, et alia).

In your scenario, spending by those guys would drive down the value of the currency. But they couldn't do so to an infinite extent; at best one guy could devalue it by 50%. USG by contrast has devalued the dollar 96% since 1913. Moreover, their purchasing power will rapidly decline as they sell more and more off. Finally, the blockchain will show the global distribution of holdings, making "monetary policy" of this kind more predictable than the opacity of the Fed.

People have gotten into this mindset that inflation and infinite debt are good. But I'll go with something backed by computer science over macroeconomic pseudoscience anyday. At best, consider this a controlled experiment, Satoshi vs. Bernanke. I know what side my mine is on.
I'm sure there must have been a similar reaction when the works of Homer were first written down - I'm sure bards who relied on memory must have regarded writing as "anti-intellectual".
I'm pretty curious as to how the author came up with the answers in that quiz.
These on-topic comments are all well and good, but what we really want to know is what Objectivists think of the government~
I've been working on a similar strategy after having read Nejat's book:
http://www.amazon.com/Investment-Intelligence-Insider-Tradin...

The plan is to derive trading signals from insider purchase data while taking into account the insider's relative risk-aversion (estimated from age, salary, sex). At this point I'm just trying to recreate Nejat's results. Data-quality seems to be an issue (stock splits aren't recorded in the yahoo data).

If you would like to collaborate or trade ideas message kal00ma on reddit.
Agree. Here we got a juvenile offending doing vandalism to a website. (The suggested claim).

Normally, if a youth do a first time offense, and its a Misdemeanor (which vandalism is grouped as), the act is generally punished by a small monetary fine. Even trespassing, ie unlawful access, is a Misdemeanor.

Society need to stop treating things "on the Internet" different from actions "not done on the Internet". vandalism and trespassing is no different if its done to a store, or a webshop. If the police house wall was spray painted, or their website defaced, why should the first one give a small fine and the other several years in prison? It makes no sense.
What about that other open source Blink project
That's just a movie. Actual evidence has shown that IQs have increased over time.

And if in fact people are getting dumber, then there must be something about that which makes it... preferable, which means you either have to re-evaluate what dumb means or open your mind to the fact that maybe what you or I think is "smart" might not be good or desirable.
It turns out that understanding how to make a website handle an influx of visitors is also important.
I like your point about adoption. It makes sense that a deflationary currency would attract more people due to its speculative nature. Without this aspect of bitcoin, it would still probably be trading for pennies and languishing in relative obscurity. Any digital currency designed with an inflationary system will probably fail to attract a critical mass of users, because outside of anonymity, which is only important for a small minority, there is no significant upside to owning the currency.

Where I don't agree with you is that the divisible nature of bitcoin somehow makes it viable (most currencies are divisible by the way, 100 cents = $1). The fact is deflation suppress spending (and hence economic activity) because the currency will be worth significantly more in the future than it is now, and therefore, I would prefer to hold onto it rather than spend it. Divisibility does not change this.

Where I am still up in the air, is whether or not a digital currency needs to be inflationary. Gold has some industrial uses, but it's value is largely due to tradition and speculation. It has long been used as a common store of value and is bought by traders as a hedge against fluctuations in the global economy. Bitcoin could become the 'Gold of the internet'. A new way to hedge against the global economy, but other than that, not something that really affects everyday life, except maybe at the fringes (when was the last time you bought something with gold).
The only reason prices get so low in the first place is that no one wants to buy anything. The same amount of goods is now divided among much fewer people. Which makes the people who aren't hoarding incredibly rich at the expense of the hoarders, since the hoarders aren't getting any of it.

The second the hoarders "cash out" prices go up back to normal to cover the increased demand. They only gain insofar as the actual amount of goods in the economy increases (which is natural deflation.)

And in a real economy most people who save money do so by investing it or putting it in a bank, which lends out 90% of it back into the economy anyways. At the end of the day, the loans are paid back and they get the same amount of bitcoins back, so its all the same to them, but they also get interest.
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"something like 90% of them were found to be bogus. But this was after dozens of OEMs were extorted into licensing these dodgy patents"

No, what happens is

Most of the company directors/managers doesn't know much about patents. They think it's a magical thing and that if MS is saying that we violate them it's better to pay them because MS invented computers or something.

I'm not making this up.

So then came B&N that apparently knows a bit more about patents and call their BS.
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how about we work on making that infrastructure kid-proof, instead of demolishing the kids?
Not a bad idea, but I don't print the templates out. Just use a scrap piece of paper. It'll save money and trees.
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Heh. I do exactly this already, except with the top and bottom switched around (action at the top).