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The word you're looking for is "asset", and mediums of exchange are by definition always assets. When people talk about their aspirations for Bitcoin, the most techno-utopians want it to become a commonly accepted store of value or unit of account.

Keep in mind that mediums of exchange can be seen as purely "any mechanism that can signal the irrevocable transfer of the value". The innovation btc brings to this is instead of transferring physical items you create cryptographic hashes that you then publicize.

It's worth noting that when we talk about money we're trying to describe emergent phenomena. This is what we've got, and the following items are just useful ways of thinking about the issue - except unlike in physics we don't have the leeway to conduct careful, repeatable experiments.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium_of_exchange
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Store_of_value
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_of_account

I forget the (accounting/financial) term for talking expenditures like videogames or movies or haircuts. I'm pretty sure we can describe those all as "services" but I've yet to find the appropriate wikipedia article. If someone can jog my memory that'd be great.
> Perhaps the next currency to emerge will be corporate sponsored rather than state-sponsored,

What about celebrity-sponsored? "Buy his next album in Bieber-coin."
When? Always.
I disagree. Dogecoin has the backing of one of the strongest communities on the internet. It's quite feasible to see it as a virtual currency used to pay for online goods, such as karma, games, or media.

It's friendliness means it may be adopted by the majority of consumers, who are scared off by the volatility and high price of bitcoins.

What needs to happen? First, it needs to distance itself from the meme part of it, and just become the standard fun, digital currency. Second, the barriers to entry need to be reduced. That means buying DOGE with USD instead of bitcoins, and easy online wallets. Finally, it needs uses, the most likely to happen are inter-app payments, such as over reddit or imgur.
> I can certainly see myself asking people to take them off if they want to talk to me

I bet that ten years ago, you would ask people to turn their phones off before agreeing to talk with them.
For me, what I dislike about Chomsky's analysis is that he conflates things that might reasonably be called class war (like campaigning for lower taxes for the very rich and for lower welfare, or various kinds of rent seeking by big businesses) with things that are just the free market, like outsourcing jobs, and paying market wages.
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I was in the early days of Dogecoin and it was fun BECAUSE it was worthless. Give out 10k on a lark for a funny picture, etc.

Now that's it's being seen a real story of value, rather than a tool to send a bit of karma around... it's kinda losing the fun. Serious investor/speculator people are buying and selling, arbitrage between exchanges, absolutely massive GPU farms that out mine anything regular person could get.

I guess that's what an efficient market does. Reminds me of the auction house in Diablo 3 where the developers finally realized that an efficient market drained all the fun out of playing the game.

I still have a bunch so one part of me hopes it goes up in real value but the other part of me hopes it stays worthless so it can continue to be used the way it was at the start.
Besides intentionally sending a message, what were they thinking? This is the guy who crosses borders with no hard drive in his laptop and the Bill of Rights written to the block device of his USB thumb drives.
Without morality, the market economy will destroy itself
I absolutely love doge coins. And I absolutely hate bitcoins. I will never own a bitcoin, and if anyone tells me to use bitcoins I will refuse.

It's time for doge to go to the moon, and the community behind dogecoin deserves every piece of their success right now.
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You've also massively increased GDP, good job!

Another interesting observation on subjective value; if you put your money into another currency, say bitcoin, and the exchange rates change, you have to pay taxes on that. You haven't actually produced anything or gained any income or even sold your bitcoins yet, just changes in exchange rates. Because someone somewhere decided it was more valuable to them.

It also depends how long the tax period is. For example bitcoins can increase in value one month and decrease the next. Over the year you will have gained nothing, but if you had to pay taxes every month then you lose a lot. If we had a super-efficient government that could tax in real time, you would lose some money every time bitcoins (or whatever) increased slightly.

If only taxes could go negative for assets decreasing in value.
> And then Git itself wasn't working for us anymore because it wasn't scaling when we'd have an operating system release. So we ended up hiring most of the Git team.

I didn't know most of the core Git team worked for Google. Has this changed the development of it by much? How did this solve the scaling problem?
It wasn't reported that he was strip searched, but I hope that's just because strip searches are pretty standard procedures when admitting detainees in most countries. Drugs and weapons can still be found in jails and prisons, of course, but I would hope most countries put in strict measures to at least minimize the number of weapons that detainees have.
>Replace "servant" with any low-paying job. That's the old argument for ending the minimum wage.

It's a pretty good argument, too.
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Well we could always make a new worthless currency. And set it so it intentionally inflates infinitely so that this can't happen. Zimbabwe-coin maybe.
Every transaction to every address is public with blockchain technology. The tricky bit is associating an address with a particular human...

This would affect any attempt at making something like this. I'm not sure that you can enforce the human/address connection in software.
That was my first thought as well reading this. It's hard to tell from the phrasing whether that's what the agent actually meant, or whether there really was some Mac/MAC confusion, but it seems far from the clear cut "The FBI is stupid" case Techdirt is trying to make.

And along those lines, it would be nice if people would stop posting Techdirt links here. Even for important stories (this is not one of those), the Techdirt spin on it is always the most juvenile option imaginable.
A very minor gripe, but it seems weird to use the "bool success" return value convention for one function, but the "int return, negative on error" convention for the other.

Also there's a few places where ERRNO is going to get clobbered, eg. by closing the socket before reporting the error back to the caller. A more careful implementation would save errno before calling close.

Otherwise though, good simple abstraction of a relatively obscure feature.
Interestingly you can buy the same RapidSSL certificate through Namecheap for $9.49. I'm not sure why they allow resellers to undercut them so dramatically, but I have been using Namecheap's version for years and the savings add up.

https://www.namecheap.com/ssl-certificates/geotrust-ssl-cert...
2014 will be the "internet of things" (Bluetooth LE) and wearables will be a subset of it.
How would you compare Cmder and Console2?
That would be hilarious, and quite in keeping with the status of celebrities in our society as the new aristocracy. Gaga-coin or Bieber-coin - millions of fans would actually buy that sort of thing. I think they'd need physical gold coins though, for extra bling, or perhaps Gaga would go for pink plastic. Oh, just looked, and it turns out someone already thought of this but with dollar bills:

http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/pop-culture-cash-by-james-...
Yes, I know "white collar" was not the best term, it's just the most commonly used for the type of crime(s) like what she committed. Please, let us not get mired down in nitpicking over the precise term I used hours ago which I already freely admit was the wrong choice. I think it's clear now what I meant.
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No need to freeze/seal if you deep-clone; it's not your business what the recipient does with its own copy. The point is, copying can be expensive. In C++, you can pass by copy, by reference, or by const reference. The idea is that a const reference means that the object is not modifiable through that reference, no matter whether it's itself const or not.
The issue is not about remembering password or how difficult the password is to guess, is how responsible one is as a user.

Don't sign up hundreds of accounts. I only have one bank so that's just one password.

Relying on another software to take care of security like this is not a good solution to me.
Smartphone can use its microphone to extract RSA decryption key from laptop
I'm not saying proof-of-work is appropriate in all cases.

To use a more extreme value, a vault containing gold that was protected by proof of work would be useless, since the work required to open it would have to equal the value of the contents in order to discourage thieves.

My point was that in some cases, like bitcoin, it might be possible that the value to the attacker of a successful attack on bitcoin was significant, but still much less than the total worth of bitcoin.
Yes. They do. It is sad to see the society being dominated by libtards.
Cellphones weren't meant to have their microphones left turned on, in order to constantly be processing ambient audio for recognizable words, or to process commands, or to match voices to identities. Smart glasses are far more confrontational and intrusive by design.

If I held my phone up and pointed the camera wherever I went, people would be annoyed at it, and not irrationally so.
it was -1 many hours ago. and now +7. And yes I can track by remembering how many points I get for each response. And next to logout tells me my total karma.
it's easier to just hijack DNS anyways
Some app development environments (not pointing any fingers right now in hopes this gets fixed quickly) do not support bypassing SSL certificate checks. So in some cases the answer is not to deploy HTTPS. :(

Wouldn't it be better to be able to specify a set of accepted key fingerprints, instead of bypassing security checks altogether? Outright bypassing security checks will make MITM too easy.
>Well we could always make a new worthless currency. And set it so it intentionally inflates infinitely so that this can't happen. Zimbabwe-coin maybe.

Yeah that might work. If you could somehow decay the value of held currency to encourage spending directly that would be even better though I can't imagine it being feasible.
OK, let's suppose that everyone is already at the point where consuming more power is not economical. Then a new technology that would allow everyone to use only 1/10th as much power for the same hash rate comes along. Power consumption will not decrease in that scenario; instead, it will remain the same, and the hash rate will increase.

My original point was that when a technology comes along that allows banks to be more energy efficient, the incentives are all in place for banks to adopt that technology and reduce their energy consumption. There is never an incentive for a Bitcoin miner to reduce their power consumption.
I think there is absolutely no reason to NOT deploy HTTPS.
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A see a couple of reasons, some positive and some negative:

* Erlang is not as popular.

* It is rather a niche language suited for some domains but it is not for others (compute oriented languages). So not many "How to write games in Erlang" or "Statistics in Erlang"

* Erlang documentation is pretty good. It is not pretty (look like it its style got stuck in late 90s), but it is comprehensive

* Erlang programmers I find are good self-starters and of higher quality than other programmers. It is just what I observed I maybe wrong. This is the same as Haskell or Rust perhaps. That means they learn and find out stuff on their own.

* Erlang is self-consistent. There are not that many ways to do one thing. Not like Scala, C++ or Java. That means there is usually a canonical good way. That also means less "Erlang patterns". Usually large number of "patterns in X" means there is some deficiency in the language or library. That means a small cottage industry of writing "patterns in X" books.
You can, if you start punishing the employers, which the US government has always been loathe to pursue but is coming around to.
IIRC Puritanism connected being "unlucky" with being a sinner/touched by the devil so everybody tried to work as hard as possible and consequently those who didn't were seen as infectious. Couldn't this still play a role in modern every-day life in USA?
There has been talk that Snoop Dogg (I think he changed his name back from Snoop Lion, yes?) is going to sell his next album in Bitcoins...
What's embarrassing is that you believe access to computers and software is some sort of basic human right. It is most certainly not. You and I have no more moral obligation to ensure free and fair access to software than we do to ensure free and fair access to electron microscopes.

So, go take your "free software" ideology and shove it up your backside. How dare you lecture me on morality, you insolent, self-righteous gas bag.
If you get into a "tiff" with the US where you need F-35 fighters, you have more urgent troubles than these Fighters being unreliable...
Hmm, the warming itself might be predictable but the side-effects could be a different matter.
Very similar to tall poppy syndrome in Australia. As an American it's always bewildering to see these attitudes play out.
>"The US seems to have an aversion to the concept of servant, not to the reality."

I hope this is deadpan sarcasm.

You're drawing an analogy between sub-living wage housemaids to the for-television version of an exceptionally flamboyant professional athletes entourage.

Worse, you're extrapolating the latter - the promotional image of a singular talent, the elite prizefighter of a generation, who earns the U.S. median yearly income every 1.5 seconds in a 12 round fight - to be somehow representative of "the US".
> The fact that people are buying Dogecoin simply because it is a fun internet meme kind of flies in the face of people who still view the price of financial assets as mostly rational, value-based prices, ...

I don't see anything particularly unique about all of this. They buy dogecoin because they value the dogecoin more than the asset they're using as payment. That's how all purchases and trades work. You're just pointing out that the reason people value dogecoin more than the money they spend for it has to do not with something "essential," like buying food to stay alive, but rather for entertainment. The way you phrase things is making the concept sound more unusual than it actually is.
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Looking at your submission history, you certainly have no problem posting articles about politics and things that are off topic.

- On Swedish Billionaires (National Review)

- Why Not Protect Workers from Customers? (Library of Economics and Liberty)

- The War of Rape (Washington Monthly)

- Why climate change is good for the world (Spectator)

- US laissez-faire serves a greater global good (Overcoming Bias)
I'm a foreigner who worked in a summer camp in US. We've been told that this is a "culture exchange" program, as in we work some time and then we "exchange cultures".

In reality we've been working in the kitchen 6am-9pm 7 days a week (no days off).
We didn't get paid anything - as legally we were "exchange students".
All we got was "pocket money" ~600$ for entire summer.
If something didn't get served right - cooks would blame us, and we wouldn't even be able to fight back as our English was not good enough (besides - we had this weird notion of "morality" almost unheard of in US).
There were no cultural programs either and everyone treated as as if were slaves (which we were essentially).
We couldn't get away either - as we were in a foreign country and to get anywhere would require 30 min. drive.

My point is -there is a lot of hypocrisy towards that Indian woman who only does what thousands of American businesses do every year.
Only a few minutes in, but it appears as if this man has a lot of extremely interesting things to say. It really is a unique window into the mindset of espionage workers and the military industrial complex in their rote application in the world.
You are mistaken. To some, NSA employees are just as bad as the scumbag drivers. To redeem themselves, some might argue they need to be Snowden and face the public, have their knees down and apologize. The two examples are the same if we just think killing democracy is the same as killing someone's life physical (because now we can't trust anyone and we live with doubts and skeptics).
Thanks. I'm with the first commenter on the Schneier post - remove your phone's battery (and the corollary: try not to own a phone which you can't confidently remove the battery ... though, is that even possible anymore?)
The many legions of people more thoughtful than us all throughout the millennia who have moralized against greed might've made a dent by now if moralizing were the answer.
I don't know of another language that put fault tolerance as top item on the design "todo" list. Erlang did that. Processes are lightweight (only a few KB overhead each). Processes have isolated heaps, much like OS processes in fact. That is rather unique. People who have been burned by large concurrent C++ programs crashing with segfaults, dangling pointers and rare race conditions stemming form concurrency units (callback chains, threads) stepping each others' toes, will appreciate that.

Its VM is rather elegant and powerful. It is a marvel of engineering if you wish. O

Even though rather advanced, I would suggest reading blog posts by Jesper Louis Andersen he covers some of these topics at the level I like.

http://jlouisramblings.blogspot.com/

The books are also good. There is also Learn You Some Erlang book, I even have the dead tree version of it (but there is a free online version as well). That also touches on some uses.
1982: "downloadable". This word already seems dead. Who says that?
This serves as a reminder that it's pretty much impossible to defend against an attacker that has physical access to your box.

... or is able to hack into your phone.
I submitted it as well with a suffixed URL to force a repost. Your list is proof, if any, that it's really down to chance now even if excellent stuff makes it to the front page anymore..
What is the voting argument? There are so many people that a vote does not matter? Is this just the US, or other places, too?
The haskell-suite exists as standard of sorts, but the IDE specific tooling generally just involves invoking them like command line applications and using stdout in your editor/IDE.
So the author got angry because he thought Dogecoin was making fun of cryptocurrency, then (wrongly) decided that Dogecoin was actually making fun of all currency?

Cryptocurrency is a very interesting phenomenon, especially since it involves very significant amounts of money. But the total value of all cryptocurrency is still very small compared with say, M0 (the most equivalent measure of the total number of US dollars). I personally predict a future with neither huge upward or downward movement in the total value of bitcoins. There is still plenty of room for improvement and innovation in fiat currency, and fiat currency doesn't have the problem that new ones pop up all the time.
I just don't believe this is reproducible... seems fake.
Where does JPA fit into Clean Architecture? Seems like annotation-based persistence straddles several boundaries, or else you code your entities multiple times as both "real" entities and DTOs.
Agreed. I think unit bias might have something to do with it as well. People love receiving even 10 dogecoin, but the equivalent value in Bitcoin, which would be some small decimal, is not regarded as being as valuable (even though they're equivalent on exchanges).

What's more is that dogecoin's transaction fee is much much smaller than litecoin or Bitcoin, making it easier to make small transactions and give internet tips.
> If you could somehow decay the value of held currency to encourage spending directly

Freicoin has a demurrage fee, based on the theories of Silvio Gesell:

http://freico.in/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvio_Gesell
What I'm specifically pointing out is that, if my partner is officially married to me, her 20K is added to my salary (let's say 100K for arguments sake) And now, according to the government, we make 120K. We are placed in that 120K married bracket which is NOT a whole lot different that say someone making 80-100K individually. But, if you divide by two: 120 becomes 60K each. Being married in the USA has very little financial advantage.
Nice. lingual algebra is the new snowclone
Reminds me of "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." (John Adams)
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OOPS! That's not a bad number at all then.
All social problems will be eventually solved through technology, not morality.
"Thou shalt not take the name of root in vain."
> unless they're the same people that currently browse/text/play on their cell phones during conversations, as that's a conversation you might as well not have anyway

How about people that have a laptop in front of them as they talk to you? Like interviewers, or stenographers?
The password is 00000000000
I think the problem lies with Northern California's chronic NIMBY-ism, which makes it impossible to build infrastructure other than roads. (Let me know when BART gets extended down the peninsula.)

The deeper issue is that people choose San Francisco because of the relatively low density, which does make for rather pleasant neighborhoods.

High-density low-income housing projects have been proven a failure in every other major city, so I'm not sure that's a solution either. Most cities have already town them down, settling on San Francisco levels of density. As an occasional visitor, I certainly find it nice. (Though taking the bus to the Richmond District from downtown is quite an ordeal. 30 minutes to go like two miles!?)

There really is no easy answer; I don't think anyone knows what to do, and I don't think NorCal has the risk appetite to try something experimental. That's the problem.

(My solution would be to make San Jose more appealing to the tech-worker demographic. It doesn't have the charming hills or coastal location that San Francisco does, but it is pretty close to a lot of jobs. I would consider living there if I moved to the Bay Area. It's even biking-distance to Google, and it's not quite the suburban wasteland that Mountain View is.)
The latest podcast of Freakonomics discussed this; believe it or don't, but it was quite thought provoking nonetheless.
I agree, I don't like how people just throw the term around as if it were rooted in exploitation.
Morality was one of the first technologies.
Your vote will never be even close to a swing vote, and most of the time the options you get to vote for are bad. The former holds in other societies, the latter, less so.

As such, voting is probably the least efficient way of enacting change, second only to not voting.

Convincing other people to vote (Or to vote the way you want,) on the other hand, is far more effective. Alas, this is most accessible to people with a surplus of time, money, or, far preferably, both. As such, the wealth gap contributes to America's political apathy.
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