skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i don't think network effect applies here the way many have been claiming. twitter & the like 1) were not open source 2) kept a significant user base early on

while bitcoin does have a big user base, currency is a more personal thing and if people see too much volatility they'll just pick the one that is most stable, meaning without this flawed crazy dispersement scheme

i, for one, do think Bitcoin is a ponzi scheme but it's a more complex one with a lot of Game Theory involved. That's whats unique about the scheme -- it guarantees the founder and early adopters a ridiculous amount of wealth, while still having the ability to satiate the greed/hope of new buyers

Also people need to stop comparing this to company/stock valuations. Those are more like an estimate of a company's worth whereas in Bitcoin the figures given are always a supposed value of currency unit.

Consider this -- when companies sell stock it is to fuel more work and production within the company. When a Bitcoin is sold for $600, it is so some dude can by a Playstation 4. It's not attached to lifestyle in the same way as stock/investment in companies.
Excellent point.

I've been looking at economics as a discipline, and what it does and doesn't take into account. Three of those factors are stability (which allows complex and advanced concepts to flourish, including advanced infrastructure), risk (and who bears it), and power relationships (again, who has power over whom).

Another example would be religious catacombs -- underground structures with religious significance, notably in Rome, Paris, London, and elsewhere. Again, the Church (large, stable, wealthy) established these.

Another aspect of London's underground infrastructure is its sewerage system, constructed in the 1850s, and one of the modern world's first sanitation systems. It was constructed in the face of a massive cholera epidemic (imported from India) which was claiming millions of lives throughout Europe and tens of thousands in England, and exhibiting a mortality rate of 10-20%, often killing within 12 hours. The mechanism (oral ingestion, gut development, fecal-oral transmission) had just been posited and demonstrated by John Snow and his famous map of cases identifying the Broad Street pump, contaminated by a nearby (3 foot distant) septic tank which was leaking into it.

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

There are many histories of this, one of the better ones I've encountered is James Burke's "The Day the Universe Changed", episode 7, "What the Doctor Ordered". The entire programme covers the emergence of the modern medical and public health system. The portion specific to the cholera epidemic and the infrastructure effects starts at 19 minutes in:

http://fixyt.com/watch?v=wM2UZ26b1EQ

The fascinating part is that much of what's now considered to be "British nature" (cricket, stiff upper lip, jolly good) emerged as a consequence of this epidemic as well.
Maybe it's very different where you live than in France, but what you say clearly isn't true here. For more than the top 1% gets real freedom. Getting into CNRS or Inria or other public research institutes is hard because it's very competitive, but it's not impossible. And then there are positions at universities which are reputed to be less hard to get (depending on the uni, of course) since there are more of them.

Concerning the pay, I question what you call "little". Salaries in public research institutes in France may be little compared to what you could make at a good position in the industry and given your diplomas, but it's certainly not a bad salary in the sense that you can live off of it with reasonable comfort.
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Wow, a country with Tesla Model S as top selling car... powerful :)
There must be a subtle detail I'm missing. Isn't "air molecules hitting our eardrums" essentially hearing?
I believe he said, 'you are chided' or something along those lines. A public reprimand is quite harsh but I wouldn't call it a threatening message.
Equally, people who run away from North Korea might also be tempted to bend the truth, most especially when they're being paid to write about it.

A lot of what they said was clearly lies. This rang true though.
Me too. If anyone is offering something then do contact me as well!
Google search autocompletions are not a great way to gauge public attitude. To start, they are personalized, which is probably why vim was on the author's list at all. Secondly, they lack context. For instance, when Google auto completes "women shouldn't " with some sexist completion such as "drive", the resulting search is often full of blog articles orating _against_ sexism.
It's not a ton, but he could also get a summer salary if he has grants for it (netting 33% more salary) and do some consulting on the side.

Also on the whole we should take into account that professors didn't have to pay for grad school unlike medicine / business and instead got paid for it.
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I just started scraping this site at 100 pages per second. It should be complete in about 2.07896e55 times the age of the universe.
As a Norwegian I would like to see sale numbers in Oslo compared to the rest of the country.

My educated guess is that the vast majority of EVs are bought and driven in the larger Oslo area, and if I'm right, I think we actually should be discussing Oslo and not Norway as a country.

Edit: Reorganized two words.
Everything you need to know about this author and article can be summed up by this:

> In other words, bitcoins cannot possibly fulfill their supposed purpose: to serve as an unregulated currency unit.

Oh that's funny, because for many years they have been doing exactly that with no end in site. Again , I say, the mental dissonance of bitcoin's naysayers is becoming more comedic by the blog post.
The data that there are three pro-BTC articles on the front page every day. It's personally why I've stopped visiting as often.

We get it: You want to keep convincing yourself you didn't waste thousands of dollars on a huge, pointless bubble. Don't get pissed when it gets pointed out, though.

And another data point: Your account has 6 comments, all Bitcoin-related in different threads. I wonder what virtual currency you invested in?
sarcasm They hate fact that such cool feature can be implemented without node.js sacrasm
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For Roger Mahony, clergy abuse cases were a threat to agenda
The book is great and I'd say the case he makes is pretty water tight (and I say that as someone who wasn't much of a Hockney fan going in, and was very resistant to the idea that some of my favorite artists "cheated" ... but of course artists always "cheat" -- their goal is produce their artwork, not follow some arbitrary set of rules on how to get there).
> why do you say you can't solve puzzle problems? How many have you tried?

Frankly speaking, they do not interest me.I would rather collaborate with friends and work on a project than solve competitive problems or puzzles.
that's the Keynesian viewpoint. The prevailing wisdom right now is that policy-controlled inflation helps prevent a wide range of issues. Bitcoin is inherently deflationary, which scares the crap out of people with their stake in the Keynesian camp.
What is the probability that a future cryptocurrency will possess some property that the majority of users want that bitcoin does not have?

The source code is open but the processing power is not so quickly reproducible. I think this is the biggest argument for bitcoin's sustained dominance at the moment.

There could be many cryptocurrencies. Some issued by commercial entities like Amazon, some for use in a specific online game, others perhaps behave like an ETF and are backed by USD or Gold, may be even a cyptocurrency that magically(?) security-ignorant individuals can use. These currencies could all be subject to market exchanges and futures.

Bubbles are fermented in hysteria that if you don't buy now you will never get a chance again. Whenever I start hearing those arguments my interest in speculative investment begins to dissipate. A bubble will not deter me from my optimistic interest in bitcoin because I believe its properties are incredibly productive.

As for bitcoin and ponzi schemes, the withdraw caps and illiquid nature of certain exchanges right now make it very possible to conceal a ponzi scheme.

Here is my challenge: for those really bullish on bitcoin, build things that use it! When all you do is speculate, then you stand on equal ground as everyone else. Do something to get an advantage.
Of course they are victims. Only because somebody does something, which might be annoying or in case of Diane offending (for the flight personnel), does not mean they become outlawed and can be rightfully, publicly and globally punished for their missteps by anyone who likes to do so.

I think you only see black and white instead of the whole spectrum of the human condition.
Also:

> He made this money out of digits.

No, he didn't. He made the protocol, miners made money out of WORK, not digits. Didn't even bother reading further.
All the more reason to automate operation of trains. If it is almost possible with cars (meaning, is possible in some cases, like Google's cars), surely it is possible with the many fewer degrees of freedom a train has.
oh oh.. this again.
http://wayback.archive.org/web/20130607104502/http://www.bbc...
Here's his revert message, copied from below, in the full:

"@isaacs may have his commit bit but that does not mean he is at liberty to land patches at will. All patches have to be signed off by either me or Bert. Isaac, consider yourself chided."

Refers to a procedural matter, kind of snarky. Hardly 'threatening'. Does not discuss the pronoun, content of the revert, or any content related to gender issues at all.

By the way, it's rather fatuous to refer to my comment as a 'spin attempt' just because I didn't reflexively grab my pitchfork and torch and run out to join the mob trying to crucify this developer as a incorrigible misogynist, but asked for evidence and clarification instead. Food for thought.
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Hockney does not argue that every painter of realistic paintings used the techniques he describes. He in fact goes through a series of painters and discusses who probably did and didn't.

Basic clue: if the painter seems more interested in showing off his command of perspective details (e.g. the lettering on someone's desktop globe, or intricate floor patterns) than, say, people, then he's quite probably using the technique.
I would guess management wants the prestige of using the best facility possible, and the engineers wanted a chance to use the room.
Are all the articles on Vulture Beat like this? "Someone said..", "Someone else said...", "This one time at band-camp..."
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Maybe it's a little different because I grew up in New Mexico next to the Navajo reservation, right smack in the middle of tons of pueblos, but you have a very euro-centric view of the world if you think everybody in America thinks 100 years ago was a long time ago.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoma_Pueblo
No one can realistically claim they truly understand the current system. The Austrian economists seductively claim this, but that's because they reject empiricism as a way of challenging their axioms. Keynes seems to have hit upon the most predictive model we have for how economies operate at scale with currency, especially how we can get into depression-like circumstances when internet rates are 0% like they have been these past 5 years. But we are still debating whether he was a genius, villain, or charlatan, because people refuse to look at the data and arguments with fresh eyes.

So what constitutes a "hack", vs "bug", vs "works as designed" is a matter for debate. You point to the debt ceiling - that's a non-economic political enomaly unique to the USA (and interestingly, iirc, Denmark). It's not so much a hack as a periodic configuration change.

You also mention inflation. Currently there's very little inflation anywhere in the world. We are printing money everywhere, and yet there is no real inflation, not a peep, completely contrary to over 5 years of dire warnings from inflation hawks. Why is that? You'd think there may be a lesson here.

Southern Europe had massive capital inflows from the North during the past 10 years, leading to wage and price inflation. Private excesses led to a massive crash in demand when the financial crisis hit, and a major outflow of capital. So now the South is uncompetitive relative to their Northern neighbors. The typical tool to get more competitive is to drop their exchange rates relative to their peers to bring export prices inline. but with the Euro, they can't do that. So they're stuck in a deflationary spiral - difficult (high unemployment, lowered workforce participation) and destructive (business and livelihoods destroyed and permananent damage to the country's wealth generating capacity) considering prices and wages tend to be sticky downwards and thus don't trend in a nice linear manner.

The above situation doesn't occur quite as suddenly and badly in the USA among its member states because they have fiscal integration, which enables Federal transfers to poorer states to shore them up relative to their peers. Decay and deflation still eventually happens if the underlying reason is structural (see the Detroit area). But Southern Europe itself was a growth story, not a case of mismanagement but rather a victim of reckless investment with no EU system to soften the blow when there is a crisis.

As for the requirements on the money supply, there is plenty of history out there discussing the trouble with previous eras of the gold standard (see the Great Depression), or decentralized free money (the USA had hundreds of currencies in the 18th century- the civil war reparations was the onus to coalesce into a standard Federal reserve currency).

We have switched between predominantly commodity (deflationary) currency and debt-issuance (inflationary) currency for thousands of years. There's dangers on both sides.