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> No, all it shows is that there is a physical component - and probably for only some people.

In science, the word "probably" is best left behind.

> It is hardly the same as something like diabetes.

But that's just the point -- until we know what causes depression, as scientists we should not arbitrarily assume anything. The recent findings point to a physical, biological cause. The fact that psychiatrists and psychologists cannot treat depression points in the same direction. Or didn't you know that? Studies of psychological depression treatments and drugs have yet to reach statistical significance.
This is willful ignorance.

What drug kingpin would ever be morally against theft? Does the fact that this trade is being done via the internet imply that these groups have all adopted some kind of code of honor? DPR of SR1 put out hits on people.

Parent's suspicion is right on the money.
He's no longer a minor, so does that still apply because he was a minor at the time it happened?
Reversible transactions are a security mechanism. And not all mainstream financial transactions are reversible - short term bank to bank loans, which can run in the tens of millions of dollars over periods of mere minutes, are not reversible within the transaction process itself (set up another transaction to balance the books if necessary). Of course, this is hardly a realm for consumers! Only a rarified few that have passed stringent regulatory requirements can participate in high-end mechanisms, and they can be booted out easily in case of fraud or failure.

Irreversible, unregulated, software-driven money at the consumer level is a thief's wet dream. It's even more appealing than cash. Money can be stolen from halfway across the globe, anonymously. Digital currencies face security challenges that go far beyond those of the fiat currency so many people despise.

Besides the theft problem, there's the crime problem. Digital currency is extremely convenient for high-dollar criminals like international drug and arms dealers. They're the first big customers, while mainstream businesses lag far, far behind in their own cautious way. This makes governments even more hostile, and civilians as well. And a currency that isn't accepted by the vast majority of legitimate businesses is not terribly useful.

But to your other point... yeah, banking software is not necessarily a paragon of security, any more than any other big enterprise software. But consumer-facing parts are generally fairly limited in scope (worst breach I know of is the recent Target breach), and the really big-money parts are hidden well away from the world and buried under many layers of process as well as software security.
"just moves the bitcoin economy forward"

Contrary to popular(?) opinion, there is such a thing as bad publicity. At least when you're selling a get rich quick scheme.
I see a major problem with both of those.

You covered #2 - yep, those are banks. And you'd be giving them a lot of control over the currency if this became the standard means of transacting.

#1 ... if bitcoin is to replace fiat, then it must replace fiat. I can go ahead and walk into a bookstore with a $20, bill and walk out with a book and $10 in change.

It's not a replacement for fiat if there's an hour before I can leave the bookstore, and during the same hour can't buy anything else with my remaining $10...
Either SR2 was hacked or someone ran off with the funds. Whatever the case may be, I do not see how the friction (or lack thereof) of Bitcoin has anything to do with this.
It is entirely possible. Being a marketplace their software sends coins around for all sorts of reason, this is what was hacked. Someone's personal bit coins are not at risk.
Tor != can disappear forever and completely untraceable. The marketplace they have set up is often used to sell illegal items and substances. I would imagine there is a high percentage of those involved that if they found out who is behind and Silkroad 2.0 owners plainly and simply said -- "haha, I got your money now, too bad" would put enough resources into tracking them down and physically injuring them.

It just makes sense for them to mitigate risk and having a plausible "hey this recent vulnerability killed us, sorry, go read about in the news, it is bad..." excuse perhaps does that.
But isn't Craigslist's lack of vetting a good thing (1)?

It depends on who's trying to use it. Some people simply prefer a more curated experience.
> And I've often found that the users paying the least ask for the most.

This is a universal truth. Any business where they tried to under-cut the competition will have horror stories about their lowest-paying constantly-dickering customers trying to squeeze every last ounce of use out of the service or widget they under-bought.
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I've gotten the advice of using the bedroom only for sleep and (well other very specific things) but I personally have no problem to fall asleep after using my computer in bed. Programming or watching a movie or surfing the web. I honestly think it helps me (I've tried to leave my laptop on a single dedicated room before, never taking it from there as a personal experience and I did notice I got more antsy, and had difficulty falling asleep).

But my wife is the opposite, if she uses her iPad or laptop in bed, she will go to sleep a couple hours later than usual. Different strokes and all ;)
I suggest you think a bit harder about the causes and effects of this situation, because you seem to have them reversed.
But this isn't a beta test. People treat Bitcoin as if it's ready for primetime and ready to replace traditional currency.
Without serious campaign finance reform, I'm not sure how likely that is. I'm all for it, just don't see it happening, sadly. The chances of someone on the right beating here are very low, but they're better than someone on the right. Sad state of affairs out here.
No, $90k is peanuts. Ross Ulbricht was making $19k a day on SR1, according to the complaint. Given that SR2, for all its problems and pissed off users, was still the biggest market, $90k is not worth killing it over. The estimates of >4500btc, on the other hand...
The economics of open source software is fascinating.

I think the best model for open source is to be the "base of the pyramid", with companies adding a little bit of proprietary stuff that differentiates them at the top, and collaborating on the infrastructure below. Stuff like Ruby on Rails works this way, with Basecamp being the point of the pyramid, and Rails, Ruby, Linux, Mysql etc... being all the stuff it's built on.
Oops, good catch, thanks.
... and things like this do to a point hilight why there is a lot of regulation around money and trying to create a new "freer" currency is actually really dangerous. I'm pretty sure his operating practice of keeping all the money in one place would be against regulations. Also usually there are big security standards. And finally high transaction fees do in some part support insurance so when my/your visa is stolen or what ever, the bank can just refund me, and take it out of its insurance. Because storing a lot of money for a lot of people is a big deal, but its a well looked at deal, and trying to start from scratch ignoring all of that... well... you just end up with people loosing money in ways that would never happen otherwise. :/
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I think that's a bit of an exaggeration, don't you?
> One is the MtGox problem where you might not realize a transaction was successful and you are duped into sending the money twice.

This isn't really a malleability issue however. Lets say it wasn't successful: You send again. Opps, someone pulls the original out of a hat and both go through.

The only way to safely reissue is to double spend the original transaction. Then you get atomic exclusion, and it's completely safe: only one can possibly get into the longest chain. This safety still applies if there is mutation going on.
Well, Nuremberg trials and the American revolution show that ethics are above law in many peoples minds at least when convenient. And in many ways, opposite expressions of the notion of Natural Law vs. State. (not Socrates, of course)
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If this is really how things went down, then suing the city seems reasonable. The rest of your comment is a little over the top though, no? Have the police in question spend years in prison? The only good cop is a dead cop? I'd imagine the OP doesn't think this way given his usual, positive interactions with the SFPD.
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MTGox's reissuing was automated and running on a timer, fwiw.
Just because the files are not open, doesn't mean we don't have some idea whats in them.
If police forces were organizations of justice, they would compensate victims of false imprisonment as a matter of course. Say you spend a night in jail for an errant arrest, you get an immediate $2k for time lost and distress incurred. This way, they wouldn't be able to shuffle the damages from their run-roughshod approach onto innocent people.

But instead, they do everything they can to stick with and make-proper the mistake, and pettily punish those who don't just submit and take it. They know full well that time in their jail is (an extrajudicial) punishment in and of itself. This entire blue-shield assume-everyone's-guilty mentality makes them just another gang of thugs to be avoided. The fact they're given a fancy costume by the out of touch populations of whatever jurisdiction they're in ceases to be relevant.

While still extremely callous, one would take far less issue with what I said if it were explicitly about "violent gangbangers". And given that the problem is institutional yet new recruits are still signing up for the trip, I have little empathy.

edit: and I will admit that short of things like automated home-defense turrets becoming commonplace, empathy is the only thing that is going to fix anything and what I said actually hurts that. But given that the problem stems from police getting things mostly right (because most of who they interact with are criminals), I don't see reforms to make them impartial justice organizations ever gaining much support, as the sheer majority will always see them as doing a good job.
Speedup is not the only kind of progress. Programming in Python has gotten more convenient due to more libraries, while avoiding buffer overflows in C will always require enormous care.
> The only way you can have double transfers

Is if you replace the transaction without double spending it, which is unsafe.
> They don't give a shit about your elbow nor should they.

What? Just because you are being arrested doesn't mean that they can treat you like that.
It's also not right that the police abuse their power to such degrees.

They really should up the qualifications on becoming a cop. Right now it's "Eh I can't any other job, guess I'll just be a cop" and you're left with these incoherent slimeballs thinking they run things without any regard for actual law.

I've been thrown in a cell for one week. I was drunk the night before, woke up in a cell. No window, no view, locked door. I was slipped cheese sandwiches for a week and juice boxes.

Do you know what that does to a persons sanity? After day 3 I had literally just accepted it, that I'm staying here with 0 answers and that's just the way it is.

Who is accountable for that? Nobody. Nobody gave me any answers.
My wife has Celiac's and all I can say is that I am very glad that gluten-free has become a bit of a fad. There is a much larger variety of gluten free foods than there were 6 years ago when she was first diagnosed, and the prices of many of them have dropped by half.

Not to mention all the foods that had no real reason to contain wheat but had it added as a filler or something and have now dropped it.

Life is much easier for us now.
Implementing a system to detect transactions being confirmed is orders of magnitude more complicated than send and forget.

I've sent literally tens of thousands of bitcoins transactions and have never once had a transaction that wasn't confirmed within 48 hours.

The important part here is that I have always used the reference client with the latest ruleset for transaction fee calculation.
Thanks for pointing that out. So hang on, what you're saying is that according to the original bitcoin spec, addresses should be single use only ?

So that means that this unspent output issue coupled with the confirmation time lag is basically an implementation problem due to the way wallet systems have evolved.

It can be a pain to generate a new address for every transaction, even for automated software. I suppose these are the kind of issues that show us that bitcoin is still very much a work in progress and while it's always being worked on, it's still in 'beta'.
For SaaS product with pricing, I always give discount if they ask for it before doing trial. Why? These people will not pay anyway. No need even to waste time on telling them to sign up. Just try it and see.
Allegedly, SR2 was setup in ways which made it much, much easier to run off with larger quantities of money than with SR1. Given the circumstances, you could reasonably conclude this would happen.
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And this is why I fucking HATE COPS. I don't care if it's the few, this god damn country-wide gang is a piece of shit and I will do everything I can to avoid them and teach my two children about staying away as well.

Fuck these pigs.
This is almost certainly hogshit, and anybody who has been paying even a little bit of attention over the last week can probably smell it.

The "hole" in MtGox's security was a social one. You could contact customer support and claim that you had not received your coins, and they could re-issue you new ones if they chose to. There is also no evidence that this ever happened.

This wasn't, and isn't, a flaw in the underlying architecture, it's just a way to convince a customer service rep that you weren't lying.

If SR was re-issuing coins automatically, it's because they were being intentionally stupid.

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They're using this as a scapegoat. Either somebody ran off with the coins, or something otherwise hacked them and they're using this as an explanation.
I really liked the criteria that http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html outlines regarding lgpl or not. It's the same criteria I use to decide whether to use a strong copyleft license or not:

>The most common case is when a free library's features are readily available for proprietary software through other alternative libraries. In that case, the library cannot give free software any particular advantage, so it is better to use the Lesser GPL for that library.

>This is why we used the Lesser GPL for the GNU C library. After all, there are plenty of other C libraries; using the GPL for ours would have driven proprietary software developers to use another—no problem for them, only for us.

>However, when a library provides a significant unique capability, like GNU Readline, that's a horse of a different color. The Readline library implements input editing and history for interactive programs, and that's a facility not generally available elsewhere. Releasing it under the GPL and limiting its use to free programs gives our community a real boost. At least one application program is free software today specifically because that was necessary for using Readline.
not at all
this story is a great example of this, but there are others
I agree there wasn't much information either... But Have you tried lower gluten flour before ? perhaps from France or Italy ?
I know people who are gluten intolerant in the US but totally fine when they eat bread/pizza in these countries.
I agree, that's wrong. I am hoping that maybe they're referencing the idea that if there are bad cops, the good cops are just as guilty as the bad ones - if they're not doing anything about it. To that degree I agree, though I wonder how much unions have to do with keeping bad cops in jobs.
I agree, the rest of that comment is silly.

I wonder if, somewhere out there, there exists a Bizarro Earth where people go out of their way to tell everybody about their pleasant interactions with police. I just had one last night, actually. Very friendly dude, and it wasn't the first time this had happened.
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I sincerely hope you sue and get paid an exorbitant amount of money for your trouble. You were kidnapped and held without charge, abused and lord knows what else.
By which they mean, "I am uncomfortable because you don't conform to my notions of race. Please put yourself in one of my boxes."

You seem to be assuming.

At least when I ask what background someone is, it's usually either:

- bewilderment. I'm mildly interested in the differences in morphology between ethnicity, so I get very curious when someone's ethnicity is completely ambiguous. I also get excited when I can successfully identify the ethnic background of people with a mixed background, which of course requires asking. "Your cheekbones look Native American; your nose & eyes look Swiss...?"

- an attempt to quickly sketch out an early mental model of that person, to understand them better. Does every asian kid have super-strict parents? Of course not! But it is a common theme, so it gets tacked on to the early mental model: "May have had strict parents?".
It's really easy to focus on the bad ones, but good cops exist whether you know it or not.
If I would guess, I would say that you want to design the language in such a way that things such as types are typically easy to guess for the JIT compiler.
> Giving your product for free undermines its value.

Not if it's a fucking beta
So you really, really have to have Internet/cable, and they must give it to you cheaply and at high quality? If you're not even considering the option of walking away from them, you're giving them enormous leverage over you.

EDIT: This is the behavior of "rational economic actors", IMHO. If the benefit you get from the expensive Internet they offer is bigger than the cost, it's rational to take it. If it isn't, then it's rational to pass on it. If enough people do this, then the corporation realizes they get more customers by lowering prices (if they also act as "rational actors").
I agree. This isn't the first time I wish I could revoke an upvote, but I suppose that's my fault.
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Interesting to see different views on this topic

https://signalvnoise.com/posts/2580-why-non-profit-pricing

Who decides who really needs a discount?
We believe prices should be fair, public, and consistent
Like I said, don't give two shits. The risk is too high. All pigs are evil to me and I'll keep the hell away from them. If they abused a white woman in her 30's what the hell do you think they'll do to a latino like me? Pfff.
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The one that immediately comes to mind is Information Architects."

Welp.
How we got here is largely irrelevant to the very real fact that the drug trade is impossible to describe as victimless.
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At this stage those two thing (free and peaceful drug trade, and illegal drug trade) are very much the same thing.
They have guns. They have the power to end your existence. So yes, they CAN treat people like this. We gave them that power when they were hired and our tax dollars started paying their salary.
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The author argues that nine out of ten bad customers will self select during the trail period, but does not offer any indication for how to positively verify that. Perhaps those asking for discounts are doing so not because they are problem customers waiting to happen, but because your product is priced at too high a price point?

Can anyone recommend a strategy for verifying that isn't the case, rather than insisting that good customers will be happy to pay the price and damn the doubters?
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Well sure. But you're answering a different question.
Nope! http://huonw.github.io/isrustfastyet/

It's important to track this over time to make sure regressions don't get in.
Of course there are others. There are also many people having pleasant experiences with cops every day - they don't make it to the top of Hacker News.
Necessary link to Pr. Duane's lecture:
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Don't talk to the police. Ever.
I remember, once, a very cynical person telling me not to call the cops, in any circumstance, unless mine or someone else's survival or long-term well being is completely dependent on it. If you see someone shot dead in the street, for example, don't call the cops; leave. You're the first suspect if you do anything else, and you'll be treated like one.

I was very put out by this attitude. I'm starting to wonder if it's perhaps quite realistic.

I don't know what the cynic would have suggested in this situation. I don't believe he would have said, 'leave her to fend for herself,' but perhaps to call a hospital directly, or ask her to call a family member or something, I don't know.

Police are dangerous. They have too much power and not enough brains. I'm an optimist; I think there must be some possible infrastructure that incentivises police to be good, and incentivises everyone in the system to weed out those who are not. The current system doesn't resemble that remotely, and for now, perhaps the cynic is right.
Integers are infinite, and real numbers are infinitely fine-grained, but we have no problem quantizing that sufficiently for most purposes.

In this case, Facebook is going from 1 bit to 6 bits. I think they can handle it.
I would love a way to do multicast UDP in a VPC (i.e. for discovery). I've been hopeful for years..
I wasn't aware that it was possible to develop coeliac disease.
They aren't actually good ones if they go about business as usual in an organization where there are so many bad ones.
You can do something about it, you just can't offload those costs onto other people you've never met.

Anyone is free to attempt to investigate and go after this guy.
Maybe not. Rust is starting to mature and the code generation is already quite good (though there are still many opportunities for improvement). Hopefully this exposure will inspire people to improve these benchmarks. With a little effort Rust should be very competitive on them.
Your mistake is your idea of "they". They aren't all one.

I don't know that I can blame you for taking the "safe" approach and avoiding police, but don't punish them for your irrationally-negative outlook.
Because, as that article pointed out, gluten is relatively inconsequential culprit: hysteria and individuals capitalizing on it by recycling shoddy science are the problem.

Gluten is the new vaccine.
> Healthcare takes place between doctor visits

Just to let you know I like that quote a lot and I'll be using it myself.
This is my interpretation of Alan Watt's concept of abstraction of wealth. You can't eat money, it's just paper or coins with no inherent value in and of itself. More than that it's also a unit of measurement, which is an itself an abstraction.