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So still plagued by whales and cartels dominating the votes.

Merkel trees have been around since the 70s.

He definitely seems like the exception to the rule. Whereas if I've slept 5 hours I'll be ready to pack in at 4pm he's still fine.

And I'm pretty sure its not an act as he's older than me, consistently competent and I've known him like this for years,running the same schedule.

Probably just on one extreme of the bell curve.

Not having one vote per person seems to be one of the main grievances. How will ethereum solve this aspect?

Then don't call it a crypto currency and pretend its going to replace fiat currencies any time soon.

A currency is something people want as means of exchanging goods and services, an investment instrument isn't that.

And crypto has performed terribly as an investment instrument as well...can you imagine the chaos if the stock market swung 5-15% from one week to the next for months on end?

Lastly you're conveniently ignoring that stocks can pay dividends, and don't serve only as a speculative asset... Because publicly traded companies generally produce something useful and of tangible value to society, unlike cryptocurrency projects.

And for a comparison in the same tech era: Facebook had more than a billion users after 10 years.

The "its still early days!" argument holds no water.

> As a counterpoint to your "gains nothing" view, many "average citizens" used bitcoin for transactions in the early days, only to find out that holding some of their currency in bitcoin made them rich, so they did gain something. Even if that is only a small possibility, the possibility is still there.

Confirming that it is preferable to "HODL" than spend this currency...and any gains were at the cost of new bagholders who in turn expected to sell their coins for an even higher price.

And proof of stake has its own problems, if the EOS project is anything to go by...

Everyone's different. I'll wake up after 7 or 8 hours without an alarm if I haven't had any crunch time recently.

A colleage of mine seems to do fine with 5 hours sleep, and another needs 9-10 hours like GP.

Yes, the fact that the Linux kernel is written in C is nothing short of total disaster. It is bad for humanity. Just count all those "use after free" vulnerabilities.

Musk gets told his PR stunt is unwelcome and should bugger off, and his reaction is to call one of the people who risked their lives to save those kids a paedophile?

What a narcissistic prick. Confirms his stupid sub was nothing more than ego-stroking.

Most "paper" money is already digital, IIRC only something like 10% exists in physical form as bank notes and metal coins.

And which decentralized ledger would this be? Bitcoin, with its maximum of 7 TX/sec? Before you come back with the "but LightningNetwork will fix that!" argument, please do a back of the envelope calculation of how long it would take 1 billion people to open just one channel on the LN, and let that sink in...

> Because if you don't know what you want you are almost guaranteed to pick the wrong technology.

That's one way to look at it...but a bit shortsighted.

Requirements can and do change, and a well designed model in an RDBMS will be far more extensible than a similar one in NoSQL document store. So RDBMS' aren't the "wrong" technology, they the safest bet; not to mention most modern relational DBs already out-perform mongo, so the point is sort of moot anyway.

Or use a language with reified generics :)

Sigh...

The repo's readme is melodramatic and entitled. If you don't agree with GitHub's direction, and have already made your objections known to them, then move somewhere else. Or you know, perhaps pay to host your own source control and ticket system.

This is what you get by leaving the invisible hand of the free market to "regulate" itself. Companies have enough rope to hang themselves dozens of times over with the way they collect and handle personal information (startups included), so it's no surprise that strong user-focused data protection is now law.

A good rule of thumb for asking questions on StackOverflow is to only do it as a last resort.

And then, put effort into your question:

- explain clearly what you've tried, and how it didn't work

- link to other resources that appear on the surface to be the answer, but really aren't because of x, y, and z reasons.

- provide code! don't just dump a metric tone of it in the answer though, provide only what is necessary to demonstrate the problem. if for some reason you can't provide the actual code for IP reasons, try to reproduce the problem separately with a very minimal example. for larger code samples, linking to Github gists or repos is a good idea.

I've asked very few questions over the years, and one of the main reasons is because I ended up finding the solution myself; the steps above force you to review your own work thoroughly, and lay out the problem clearly, so you might catch a mistake that wasn't obvious after cursing at your screen the first time around.

For those questions that I have asked, I've never been downvoted or had the question closed; at most no replies but that was it. If readers see you put in effort to ask a question, then they are also more inclined to put in effort to help.

Or perhaps a skin rash.

A bit melodramatic, don't you think?

Corporations will continue to have their details listed, this covers what info can be stored and published about actual persons.

Fair enough :)

Correct, but the rest of the paragraph sort of gives that impression (at least to me) by mentioning how language compilers are usually written in a more primitive language, like the Go compiler being written in C then later rewritten in Go.

IMHO that sort of blurred the line between the platform and language in the article...rewriting the Go compiler in Go sort of makes sense, but I don't see why this was a good comparison to the .NET ecosystem. Rewriting the CLR JIT in C# isn't making it "self-hosting" as its not language specific.

Does that make sense?

Thanks, enjoyed the article! Though on this point:

> As you may know, in .NET CoreCLR (and Mono), the JIT has been entirely written in C/C++. That’s sometimes even a joke used by C++ developers to remind the enthusiastic C# developer crowd that their ecosystem is being actually ran by C++.

The CLR has never been only about C#. While C# may be the most popular language to target the VM, it will run anything that has been compiled to valid MSIL (or even emitted at runtime).

Yep.

If you follow his Robots series right through to the end of the Foundation series, the theme is how robots R. Giskard and R. Daneel "evolved" to not follow a strict and rigid interpretation of the 3 laws, instead taking actions that are of long-term benefit to mankind even if that might mean short-term harm to a few individuals.

You also have the Solarians, who'd simply ended up programming their robots to only recognize Solarians as human; so if you're an Earthling or Auroran a robot will have no qualms about murdering you. That was pointing out the biggest flaw to the whole concept of the 3 laws: even in the Robots/Foundation universe where they have been implemented with great deal of success, they're only as reliable as those who define them.

There's definitely something evil (extremely unethical?) about handing the decision/burden to take someone's life to machines.

Also, I don't think your remark is a fair representation of the parent comment.

> "No", respond taxpayers.

"K, enjoy prison. And the fines. And interest."

> How do they intend to record this?

Coinbase shares data with the IRS. I imagine Kraken will also, as they are US-based. Maybe you've used a foreign exchange that isn't obliged to share this data with the USG, though if you've received large fiat sums to your bank account you may have raised some AML flags already...

Thanks, my mistake (and apparently too late to edit my original comment).

> The original story wasn't very clear how blockchain was involved.

Didn't stop the ridiculously titled "Sierra Leone just ran the first blockchain-based election"[1] from being shared and strongly upvoted here on HN.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16622245

"blockchain-based election" is a bit of a stretch. A third party recorded part of the election results using a blockchain. The election itself was still a paper ballot.

Perhaps if the company had used Postgres to store the results there would have been an article called "Sierra Leone just ran the first RDBMS-based election"? Probably not, since relational DBs are not buzzword material.

Acebook?

> Surprisingly this is not true with Blockchain topics. Upvoted Blockchain stories feel ok but not that relevant or often random. Comments, discussions are sometimes constuctive (like this one) but often anti-blockchain or of low quality.

This is due to most blockchain projects being overhyped garbage.

The tech itself is also of questionable practical value.