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"Ignore"? Maybe I didn't ignore that particular failure mode, but didn't ever consider it? Or I was going to mention it but forgot? Or have considered it before and concluded it's not worth reexamining, hence it wouldn't occur to me to reconsider it for my comment? The third option is the case here. I didn't think about it again for my comment and then decide to ignore it. A better verb would be "omit".

But let's briefly reexamine it again... What does happen to bitcoin if no one spends it? Well it probably goes to a value of $0. Is this a hard inference? That makes your comment kind of reduce to "you ignored the problem of what happens if bitcoin dies." If it dies, your coins are worthless. Duh? In reality we see people are spending bitcoins so there is presently some sort of incentive to spend, so maybe the problem isn't the lack of incentive to spend itself, but whatever causes that lack of incentive to spend in the first place, and that cause cannot be currently at work because currently there is incentive to spend. So the cause cannot merely be "deflation", as that's already happening. A future cause could be hyper-deflation, but then I'll ask you what happens to the USD in hyper-inflation...

A more general thing to look at is the incentive to use bitcoin and ask whether bitcoin is useful. Bitcoin is more than just a currency, it's also a set of tools for making transactions. If bitcoin isn't useful, there's no incentive to spend or hoard it. Presently I think bitcoin is useful; bitcoin has the pretty cool feature of being able to pseudonymously send an arbitrary amount of money from anywhere in the world to anywhere else in the world, instantly, without reliance on a single third party. And the stuff highlighted on https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Contracts and elsewhere for future applications that the core infrastructure is more or less ready to handle is very cool. And there are items or experiences one can acquire with bitcoin that are difficult to acquire with traditional currencies and financial systems. All of these features are subject to competition. The US government could make drugs and online gambling legal and vendors could make such items and experiences easy to acquire with USD, Visa et al. could stop charging their array of fees (at least with bitcoin the only fees are small not-percentage-based transaction fees and currency exchange fees that are typically less than credit card processing percentages), PayPal could get better, etc. The many ways in which bitcoin could die due to better competition make that threat much more interesting and plausible to consider and wonder whether bitcoin could keep up or would die immediately as the case would be for "what if it dies because no one spends it anymore?".

Edit: Admittedly a more interesting question can be "what's likely for the future of bitcoin when considering the ratio between people who find bitcoin useful for its features vs. people who just find it useful as a way to get more USD?" If this was what you really meant to highlight, I'm sorry for misinterpreting.
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Xkcd: Encryptic
Is that a Pratchett reference?
The right tool for the job. I wouldn't try to cut a piece of wood to length by using a hammer.

Declarative languages tend to lend themselves to being used at a much higher level, for example easily encoding rules regarding salary payments rather than low level bit twiddling.
It's not even accurate - Pringles is not owned by P&G anymore
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I can't stop looking at this cat
This cat is a potential meme-maker. (Disclaimer : It's not my photography)
I was able to order the nano SIM card for FREE from the tmobile website

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With an inflationary currency all those wonderful things you describe that allegedly help recovery are actually done at the expense of those who save. When you say "deflation punishes those who are in debt" I raise you "inflation punishes those, who save". Now why do you believe being in debt is somehow more noble than saving? I beg to disagree. Also, remember, borrowers, if they really need to borrow, may decide to only borrow from those who account for estimated deflation, so that they would be able to pay back. It's just an accounting trick really. Deflation only punishes unsmart people who mindlessly seek for deals that don't account for the changes in the economy. Inflation punishes people who didn't want any kind of deal and simply had their money saved somewhere.

> It reduces the velocity of money and therefore economic output

You would have to explain how exactly this happens. Output != value. If you dig holes or build cars no one buys you increase output, but you don't add value to the economy.
What about bat files? vbs? exes? they aren't dis allowed by default. If an organization has reason for being very paranoid it should try to ban all of those. But the os default should be to allow scripts to run.
I think the people who valorize the 60's should actually listen to Don Draper. From some 5'th season episode, roughly paraphrased (working from memory):

Roger Sterling: "Buying a Jaguar is how you know you've arrived."

Don Draper: "I grew up on a farm. Indoor plumbing is how I know I've arrived."
Wikipedia article you are pointing at clearly says "The day has been controversial as the Legion is seen by some as Nazi and the Legion Day itself as a Nazi honouring, while others hold that the Legion was a purely military unit fighting against the Soviet Union that had occupied Latvia in 1940 and was not itself responsible for any of Nazi war crimes."

While you present that as clearly Nazi. That's not the case.

Still we can go even deeper in history and found some historic relations between Latvia and Germany.
What did you use for the terminal (shibe) art?
Flipkart open-sourced HostDB at #LISA13
Today, flipkart devops team is releasing HostDB as an open source project on github. HostDB is our attempt to solve the problem of finding hosts and their purposes in a large environment. HostDB acts as a Single source of truth about all Physical and Virtual servers and is used to define their purpose. It helps us group our servers through tags and all the software written by the operations team revolves around HostDB. HostDB acts as the centralized configuration store for all sorts of information.
> I just don't see how those kinds of optimisations could be done in a declarative language.

Not to be an ass, but why not? All of your examples are, in principle, doable in a declarative language.
I'm not concerned. This was my response to the claim that it is "very much in the hacker spirit". I find it neither utile nor humorous. I think compiling it to Javascript is trivial and not worth our attention.
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No, the entirety of English society paid to keep Rowling barely fed and sheltered for a short time, during which she wrote the first Harry Potter book. Then all the people who like her books enough to pay for them made her incredibly wealthy.
Did I really write ready to squire? Correction: ready to acquire, convert and activate visitors.
Latvian here.

The so called "startups" that are mentioned in the article are just a fancy way of entertaining hipsters who are children of rather wealthy(by the local standards) parents.
The Erenpreiss bicycles are owned solely by rich children. There is no way that can be called a startup.

> But last year, Davis Kanepe, 28, took matters into his own hands in Riga. He leased a crumbling, Italianate music school building on a down-on-its-heels corner in the middle of the city and, with some friends, turned it into a bar and cultural center.

I have been there, guys. Its just a piss poor empty bar, with cheap booze, full of teenagers, and people who call themselves "artists".

The constant comparison with Estonian skype makes sick. Its like saying that "Maybe US will be as good as Canada, because Justin Bieber is from Canada" whenever you speak about music.
https://github.com/rossy2401/img2xterm

It's pretty easy to use. The problem is usually to create good input for it. I spent roughly an hour in GIMP just tweaking the original doge.png and trying to get good dithering for the colors.
I haven't read that article yet, but in Western Europe (at least the Netherlands), streetcars (and regional trams and trains) were in decline in the same period, although the larger cities kept them. But you may be right that it was actually implicit subsidies that made the difference.
More interestingly, deflation is an ultimate rich tax. If someone makes money in the economy he automatically shares it with everyone else, even with the poorest guy who only has 1btc on his wallet. You don't need IRS or any other agency to come and collect it. It just happens naturally.
Zach put a lot of good thinking into the article but ultimately the approach with the shell technology licensing company isn't suitable for many small and medium sized businesses that are stuck with their existing legal structures for a variety of legacy reasons that relate to accounting practices, relationships with business partners and so on. Also, until the approach is proven to work in court there is a significant risk for a company to organize based on the proposed shell technology licensing company structure.

Trolls exploit a number of asymmetries in the system. First, at scale, a patent demand letter is cheap while the cost of the response to the letter is high. Second, cost of patent litigation is several orders higher than cost of patent licensing. Third, the return from winning a patent litigation case is effectively negative for defendants (because trolls are usually shell companies without funds to pay defendant's court expenses) while trolls, on average, receive a positive return from patent litigation cases because they can target a large pool of companies.

To put small and medium sized companies on an even ground with trolls we need to bring together targets of trolls to organize and defend themselves. As a group, companies can balance out the asymmetry in the system. There is some good work in this space from EFF and fightthetroll.com
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I am a programmer and also have done engineering team management and enjoy doing both.

My preference is to work on open source development projects or do systems administration on open source stacks and cloud technologies.

Also, I have a particular interest in audio synthesis.

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If I put this in my iPad and go abroad, what will happen?
very humor

enough
wow still doge
homepage again

stop now
done shibe
I don't understand the elitism that happens around here about where content is located. It's fine to say that you don't use regularly Quora, LinkedIn, Facebook etc because the signal/noise ratio is bad or it's not something you want to sign up for. But to refuse to click a public link to even see what it is?
> Does it exist for the benefit of the poor then?

No. But we have ample historical evidence that huge wealth and privilege disparity does not lead to societal stability. The selfish vote of those rich and privileged seeks to increase this disparity. The selfish vote of the poor does not.
Out of curiosity, is there anyone here who uses the virtual machine approach to get unix tools onto Windows? Wouldn't that work much better?

I'm currently using OSX as my development os and I would like to switch to Windows because I do a lot of hardware hacking and often drivers are Windows only. The only things that holds me back are battery life (about half compared to OSX) and command line tools.
What's that font in the terminal? Inconsolata?
Image tooltip text made me laugh:

>>It was bound to happen eventually. This data theft will enable almost limitless [xkcd.com/792]-style password reuse attacks in the coming weeks. There's only one group that comes out of this looking smart: Everyone who pirated Photoshop.<<

[xkcd.com/792]: http://xkcd.com/792/
Yes, but one cannot eat a smartpone. Poor families care more about things like healthy food, groceries and fuel. The sad part of this 'New Normal' is things like smartphones and TV's becoming cheaper and things a family can't live without are becoming more expensive. (Although I have to hand it to the US, they can export their inflation because of the reserve currency status).
This is worth a few good giggles from my friends so good job! Just a few questions after peeking through the source: how long did it take you? Why is it so much more complicated than it seems on first impression? What was the hardest part?
Josh is currently downvoted, but is absolutely correct on US employment law. People wanting to run companies take note.
I think the auto-expanding pictures have more to do with advertising than improved discoverability.
It would also suggest that the murder rate would have been ridiculously low - in modern times, it's 1.2/100k. In 1831, the start of the era, that would mean that the UK had a mere 3 murders of its 13 million people for the entire year. Difficult to believe.

Difficult indeed. Wouldn't 1.2 per 100k translate to 156 when scaled to 13 million?
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also, considering going completely open source with this, coz open source sexy! :)
The poverty line is a moving goalpost. People below the 2013 poverty line have more goods and services than the middle class of the 60's and 70's. The mean American with $0-5000 in income consumes $22.7k/year. The mean American in 1967 produced about the same amount (and therefore consumed at most that much, since consumption=production-investment).

ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/ce/standard/2009/income.txt

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/USARGDPC

This data actually wildly overstates the real consumption of people in 1967, since CPI is a gross overestimate of inflation.

If you believe living standards are declining, please list the set of goods and services that people had more of in 1967 than today. If you are correct, it shouldn't be hard - the answer should be most goods and services.
Interesting, how did you market it? Also, did you try different pricing?
I remember in the USA when the Harry Potter books were starting to go mainstream (and the Christian Right were still trying to get the book banned because they promoted witchcraft). There was an short piece on an NPR program that talked about the phenomenon of kids lining up in droves outside bookshops for the launch of the books - this was way before Apple copied the idea :) I would say that the net gain to humanity in the long term, purely based in terms of kids literacy, was worth many, many times Rowling's personal fortune.
Cuba Banned Arcades and Movie Theaters
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is that legal in the US?
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There's a lot that can be said on this topic (I'm even tempted to make the argument that borrowing is indeed, in most cases, more noble than saving), but I just want to pick you up on one point. When you say 'save', it's not clear whether you're talking about hoarding (where the money is no longer doing anything useful in the economy) or investing (where the money is still part of the economy). Inflation doesn't punish those whose savings are invested, in fact it rewards them, it does however punish those whose savings are hoarded.
It's more like the original Ripple concept:

https://classic.ripplepay.com/
His essays are way older than YC.
Absolutely a valid, if tangential, point - businesses are not without risks. But if you want the reward, you have to take the risk - and I want the reward. Aside from that, you get to look back over your life and, whatever your mistakes, say "at least I tried". Better than "damn I was lazy, you kids better support me."
Blocks will continue to be mined after the 21 million is up. The incentive from that point forward is txn fees, which the miner gets to keep.
Basically advertisment to http://riga.techhub.com/
Remember, there are two variables in the equation: (hours worked) * (hourly rate). Try to avoid the temptation to max out the left side of that equation early in your career, since you have a lot more control over the right side than you think you do.

Look at what you're making now (assuming early career from the tone of your post). Now know with near certainty that you'll be making double that five years from now. Maybe 4x or even 8x by the time you hit 40. Does it really make sense in that context to toss out your entire 20s grinding on that entry level salary? Even though you'll be able to make up the entire difference with a single year of 40 hour weeks fifteen years from now?

Work on your value. Never just trade time for money.
The initial code work was probably not even an hour from initial idea to actually having random colored strings and a test shibe. Then I spent some time tweaking the image to be better, as already mentioned.

I never felt it looked complicated. The code is not even 300 lines, and at least I feel that the abstraction is all right. I wrote the code to be flexible, and because of that, adding piping to stdout was really simple. What parts of the code do you find complicated?

The hardest part was getting the Python packaging right, haha. It was difficult to get the doge.txt file distributed in the package in a path that would work both when installed to site-packages and that would work whilst developing. I have since started doing more Python packaging for my other projects (I'm on a contribution streak, so I do a lot right now) and it's gotten a lot easier.
Go for it if you'd like to learn a natural language.

Nothing worked for me as well as making a basic French language grammar parser. It is beautiful to throw some rules at it and then get the number of sentences I can construct out.
You're right, however life is never perfect. Most people make statements/questions off the cuff (without the assistance of a team of lawyers whispering into their earbud communicator).
You can connect up to 7 to a rpi.
Have you heard of the Ripple 2-phase commit protocol?
I have a C compiler on my Lisp Machine. C uses curly braces. Does that make C a member of the 'Lisp family'.

There was a Haskell compiler written in Lisp - Yale Haskell - others were and are not written in Lisp.
I wish I could have your optimistic view of the worlds situation in 10, 20, etc. years.
It depends if you are talking about the latest Iron Man or "La Strada" from Fellini. Simple plots sometimes rest on very subtle cues.
There has to be a balance. A lot of NuGet scripts aren't signed or are signed with a MS cert that's different from their normal code signing ones.
http://www.websitepulse.com/help/testtools.china-test.html seems to be a much better resource. The latency for successful requests is usually pretty high, and blockedinchina.net returns too quickly for me to think it's accurate.
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Again, how much of that is economic necessity, social norms, expectations, etc etc. There are so many reasons that could explain the trend of higher female employment over the last 50 years that simply assuming that they all just wanted to work is absurd.
On hours: I'm reasonably good at what I do. But there are other things I'd enjoy more. Consider that I work 40-50 hours/week at a normal job, and the remaining 30-40 on escaping the rat race or dealing with this troublesome thing called "life". If I'm in front of a TV, it's with a laptop.

On freedom: At 25 and with your income, it's likely you can have plenty of freedom and fun while putting away a fairly decent portion of what you're earning into e.g. ETFs or ETNs and by the time you're my age, 30, you'll have far more freedom than I do.

Unfortunately I was pretty naive at 25, and I have people to take care of now, so my only option is go big or go nowhere. I don't really have any comfortable middle-ground.
Actually, bitcoin as scarce money is pretty much as directly opposed to this as you can get. If you want to make a digital currency comparison it's more like Ripple's trust networks (minus the XRP).
Our company was founded on not working insane hours. From our jobs page (http://www.polleverywhere.com/jobs):

"We do not do death marches. We do not do lockdowns. We do
not believe in 80 hour work weeks as a way of life."

If anybody is stuck in this kind of unnecessary insanity looking for a way out shoot me an email!
One problem is that work requires something to work on or with. For the most part, people don't really create out of nothing--they add to and build upon what already exists. They need land to farm, or materials to build with, or computers to work on. Even writers need languages to write in. As property becomes held more and more by fewer and fewer, and even intellectual property is becoming increasingly locked up there's less and less that is physically or intellectually available to build upon.
So, after it got mad about me putting in Bud Light or whatever, it suggested "HOFBRAUHAUS BERCHTESGADEN JUBILÄUMSBIER", which I then copied and pasted back into it. Instead of telling me to fuck off, it just blue screened and hung there forever. If you replace the fancy "Ä" in there with an "A", then it will not get stuck but still tell you to to fuck off.
Yes and we don't allow use of NuGet due to this amongst other reasons.
If I think about it tonight I'll build you a version that checks its own hash, then signs itself if possible. That way your script will have even more reach. No need to be dismissive
I think you missed my point.

It's not the type of the file but the source of the file that is the issue.

It is also that these sorts of scripts are the source of many untrusted, unsigned and unverified files as well and you cannot necessarily trust the canonical source of them either.

If some random guy gave you some pain killers on the street, would you take them? Probably not. That's exactly what this problem is.
I talk about hoarding and there's nothing wrong with that. If you want a new house or a new car, I think saving money until you have enough is a much nobler way to do it. When you say that "money should work and do something useful in the economy" what you're actually saying is that they should work "now". Hoarder's money will work just the same when he decides to spend them. Thus, what you have to discuss here is not hoarding, but rather "spending now" vs "spending later". Why do you think the former is superior to the latter?
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So what prevents the 9% from forming an economy amongst themselves? This problem seems self correcting. Or your theory is wrong.
Where's the hypocrisy in that? Perhaps I'm just being dense, but I fail to see the connection.
to be frank about it those types are literally gambling away time of their lives. they're going for a huge payoff which might mean they won't have to work ever again.

all these posts about "making an impact" and "being good at what you do" are all bullshit posturing. they really want is marketing material to show investors that they can be trusted with their money. the problem is that those kinds of shitpiles get confused with actual content around here.

it's like the hacker news equivalent of meme posts on reddit, except instead of karma points they're hoping for actual dollars.
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