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This is among the most ridiculous statements I have heard about how the markets work. Its actually the exact opposite, the lesser the people the lesser the fluctuations/volatility. And this is not just about the markets, it applies to most things. ex:

1. Single drug company selling the life changing drug = High near-fixed-global price | As soon as more drug companies can sell increase price competition, higher variance in generic pricing, different rates globally

2. All company valuations remain relatively steady until an IPO

3. If a man/woman suddenly gets a lot of suitors their current relationship if less than optimal may crash and burn , in the absence of alternatives the relationship may have a better chance of survival.
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My only counterargument for now; Bitpay https://bitpay.com/bitcoin-exchange-rates

I've recent been using bitcoin as money for lots of things. easiest way to cash them out
I would feel extremely embarrassed and stupid at having carried out such a private conversation in a place where people could obviously overhear me, and would take care not to do so again.
I filed this as a hyperopt ticket [1]

My hunch is that this algorithm, like GP-based strategies will excel in small numbers of dimensions, but struggle in high numbers of dimensions, especially with conditional parameters. But it's a classic algorithm, and a great fit for some problems, so it would be a nice addition to the lib.

[1] https://github.com/hyperopt/hyperopt/issues/177
> There will be an eventual cap at 21 million bitcoins.

At the increasingly slow rate that coins are produced, this won't happen for some. But assuming that bitcoins are still around and in use at the point in time in the future when this happens, what will be the effect of this?

The supply is fixed and no more can be produced; and since it's still around, chances are there is demand / usage that would likely grow. The likely result seems to be that from that point onwards, bitcoin's value would only grow to due an increase in its scarcity. Perhaps, this is a possible justification or rationalization for bitcoins as a (very) long term investment.

Also, not too familiar with the internal bitcoin protocol but what will happen to the network of miners who help with verifying / maintaining the transaction ledger? I think the reason they participate is that they are (proportionally) rewarded for their services in new bitcoins. When this is no longer the case, who will agree to do this work then?
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This is a good point. In Linux Mint, Unity is in the repositories, but not mandatory - there are plenty of supported DEs. Wheras in Ubuntu, Unity is in the repositories, but not mandatory - there are plenty of supported DEs. So that's a big advantage of Linux Mint then.
Yeah, I hate those people who show their human side in public expecting me to sympathetically ignore it. I think the state could really earn back some money for all the cameras in public places. Maybe with a TV show like this: "London Life, your neighbours firsthand -> Do you know this idiot? He broke down in Oxford street after seeing his 'girlfriend' with his best friend kissing. Such a shitty looser." -.-
Leaders in various contexts are fine, but the whole notion of "class" needs to go away. Classes are just constructs of culture, politics, and law that are contrived to keep the people with power in place so they can take advantage of their special status.
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Something else to consider for this post and parent. Using photographic techniques to make a painting does not guarantee a photographic "look." If you look at Warhol's traced drawings, the only clue is an even, utilitarian line, he was clearly not interested in copying visual reality (or he gave up on it when he realized it wasn't that easy to do from a projection). As counterpoint to that, you can look at Ingres' drawings, which are a world apart (it's likely he used a camera lucida, judging from the small size of the drawings and type of line). There is ample opportunity for the artist to bridge the "technological" gap with their own effort and ability, and it's likely this would happen to different degrees.

If using unconventional tools is part of your assigning value to artwork/artists or not, is another question.
Mining is not just for distribution of tokens. I would argue the more important use is for maintaining the proof-of-work blockchain. There have been some experimental attempts at maintaining a distributed ledger using a proof-of-stake/proof-of-work hybrid, but I don't know of any successful attempts to do it without a proof-of-work component.

If you have an idea of how it could be done, you may have a shot at dethroning Bitcoin.
But what if I'm having a quiet conversation over coffee with a colleague in Starbucks (lambasting our boss), intended for our ears only, because inviting said (perhaps opposite sex) colleague to my house would be odd/creepy (or it's lunchtime)? What if the person on the table next to us can just about make out our conversation and decides it's interesting/humorous enough to tweet?

Perhaps we don't want to meet in the middle of a park or a deserted bridge - we want a coffee and it's cold. We're expecting some level of privacy and we're not broadcasting - we're just unfortunately seated.

I'm all for discretion and appropriate behaviour in public, but just because you can hear something doesn't mean you should tell the world about it. Have some decency! (I'm not referring to you personally!)
That depends whether you want to repay inconsiderate behavior with inconsiderate behavior or not.
Addressing you and growupkids, CGI Federal is responsible for the Medicare.gov site, which I can attest to being a bit clunky but otherwise working well for claims and Part D selection and application (the prescription drug benefit program).

They were on a list of already vetted vendors, plus if "a proper competitive bidding process" had been done it could easily be hung up in the courts by losers lawsuits.

As you note, and as I've been noting, given the structure and processes of the project, especially it being run by political and bureaucratic types from the White House on down to CMS (the integrator prior to getting replaced in late October), there's no way they and the other contractors could have possibly succeeded, especially with change orders continuing though the week before launch. Heck, the integration tests CMS ran in the last week or two before the launch told them it couldn't possibly work, but it was launched anyway....
The scrypt hardness parameters are related to both processor and cache. Once hardness gets big enough,GPU mining won't make sense, because each GPU core has relatively little cache vs cpu.
http://vikraman.org/posts/2013/12/1/linux-ng.html

I shouldn't disclose how this was done until it is fixed. It seems github is unhappy with how this turned out, but I hope they fix it soon. I have already written a personal apology to Linus, and also, apologies if I have offended anyone else.
Crypto currency definitely has a big future, that I can give you this 12a9hmRF8Aueu38tXyuj7eswTUgsemszp2 and you can pay me there without a bank or government in between is amazing. Anyone who's integrated with a payment processor to run an online business will appreciate the value offered by crypto currencies.

Unfortunately I don't think BTC is that currency, it's built in limit is a terrible idea conceived from the mind of someone who doesn't understand the difference between money and commodities. BTC will never be a good currency, it'll never be stable enough. BTC is e-gold, not e-cash, and it'll suffer the same fate as gold, that of a value holding commodity but not a currency. However, that's a petty flaw easily fixed and BTC paved the way for a whole market of crypto currencies by being open source with each trying slightly different approaches based on different ideas about how currencies work. This is awesome. Regardless of which few crypto currencies eventually dominate, it is the future.
Miners will continue to mine for the transaction fees.
>in the UK where I currently live, politicians are going into prisons for faking a couple of thousands of pounds as expense and profiting from that.

Thats more of a distraction than anything else. For the juicy stuff, look into the spending obligations on PFI contracts:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_finance_initiative#Dev...

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AtE8tc3zkyCLdFVBNWF...

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/datablog/2010/nov/19/pfi...

The UK does its corruption over the table.
It turns out Linus has gone fully mad. While eschewing microkernels, Torvalds will make linux-ng exokernel based.
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Is is so astonishing to find out that the various security services and the government are in bed with each other? On the other hand, you'd expect some MPs to raise a stink about it.
> Sending money back home is a far different scenario than laundering, and the assertion that it is assumes bad faith from the beginning.

The government can and will assume bad faith in any transfer involving large amounts of money and/or items of value.

> Similarly, if I send $10,000 worth of virtual roses to friends on Facebook, the government is not interested, and I haven't seen anything that convinces me, at the moment, that BTC should be treated differently than any other all-digital good.

Actually, I believe Facebook would be required to report that transfer to the IRS.
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Thing is Bitcoin fails miserably as a currency TODAY(2013). It currently cannot be used as a currency because of its volatility, unlike other fiat currencies, it cannot be controlled, potentially destroying any economy based on it.
( Think of it, some random panic on the dollar supply would send the value of the dollar spiraling to 100 time its value over the course of 1 year, with absolutely no way the US could do anything about it )

Bitcoin is successful as a proof of concept of how you can create a modern currency that retains most the benefit of electronic and physical money. For the supply, I have just the opposite reaction. I used to think that the limited supply of bitcoin was a great idea, now I'm thinking all the clever people that wanted to get us out of the gold standard may have had a point after all.

It is also not a ponzi scheme, just a risky investment.
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Heh.
Why is that relevant for this article?
Unfortunately if you ever drink in a bar, eat in a restaurant - hell, pretty much do anything in public - at some point you're going to overhear someone's conversation. If it bugs you that much, you could stay at home (or get headphones) :-)
Interesting. I always thought "manager" and "worker" (as commonly employed for thread pools) could be less emotive terms. Or "master" and "servant", perhaps? English has lots of words and I'm sure we can find something less emotive.

(But perhaps I'm just too PC - as I actually genuinely don't use the term male and female for plugs and sockets. Never liked them.)
> but still, I can not comprehend a level of arrogance that would get you shot down in a job interview.

It must depend on the company. Where I work, we have a "no assholes" policy and acting like one would make it very very hard to get past the interviewers.

Moreover they took me in spite of my Ph.D., and I didn't even know any programming languages they used. There is definitely more to this than the number of trendy bullet points on your resume.
I live in a neighborhood nearby a major public university, populated by a lot of academics. Most of the people I know who are pursuing academic careers just want to do good work in return for decent working conditions and a decent middle class living. Few aspire, or expect, to become superstars.

Academia has those positions, maybe not enough to go around, but they're there. I'm not sure that drug dealing does.
Out of curiosity do you have many people who pay in bitcoin?
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Ask the Arabs how that "waking up" is going for them. Instability is never a good in itself, especially if you don't have a clear alternative to slide in place.

Young people have a hard time learning this lesson from history. They just like to see change, but often live to regret it.
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> When this is no longer the case, who will agree to do this work then?

The miners will still get transaction fees even after all the Bitcoins have been mined.
He/She/They should, but having 4% of the total amount of a currency in the hand of one completely unknown person / organization is quite a threat to its stability. Also I would see a reward of one billion dollar as pretty excessive. And that is only the worth at the current market value.
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The total number of Bitcoins is capped at 21 million. So how it can handle GDP growth?

The amount of currency should reflect GDP size. Otherwise there will be deflation.

Gold worked well as currency. Its yearly production increased total amount of mined gold by about 3%. Which was on GDP increase level.
You consider crying over a cheating lover bad behavior?
I develop in Qt4, and when you want to use cross-platform notifications without packaging the Growl API within your bundle, it is easiest to use the QStatusBar class. I haven't found a more reliable way to display notifications on all three major desktop platforms.

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I hate to say this, but at this point when I see someone use the words "fiat currency" unironically, I also expect to hear an argument about gold fringe on a flag, and other similar easily-repeated cargo-cult phrases/arguments against whatever the person doesn't like.

One of the real dangers to Bitcoin is precisely that sort of public image.
Thanks, Actually we did that, My co-founder attended blogger events and he got nothing but positive comments.
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Bitcoin does not stick to that norm. The supply is completely inelastic.

Whereas a money supply typically requires different rates of creation or even destruction to respond to the market demand, partiularly in a time of currency hoarding (such as we are experiencing now in the real global economy).

There is also a strong argument for multiple currencies with different supplies of money rather than a single global supply, so there can be mutual adjustment of prices and wages without the social wreckage of a deflationary spiral (such as Southern Europe is currently experiencing because of the Euro).
This isn't the same guy that discovered the last Github issue and committed to Rails, is it? The similarities of how this is being handled by the discoverer are pretty eerie.
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