JustAnotherPat

How is the Writer's Union a subset of the UAW? At what point do we consider this Union a monopoly itself. I am sick of their tactics.

Baby Boomers giving up on space exploration will be one of their many, great embarrassments.

I didn't read it that way. You're essentially reading it as the monkeys will eventually write Shakespeare scenario.

The way I read it was, you have a robot and it:

1. knows it has to build a ferrari (implying it knows what it looks like at least)

2. knows nothing about building, parts, etc

3. can engage in some sort of learning behavior

Once a robot knows it can only connect two parts by screwing them together, it will only try to screw them together, and it might even transfer that behavior over to other parts.

The possible scenarios become much more limited as the robot gets smarter.

>Second, the possible moves are several orders of magnitude fewer than the steps needed to build a working car out of parts.

Aren't the number of chess moves, for practical purposes, near infinite? A car can be made only in so many ways, but a chess game can be won under scenarios that outnumber the atoms in the universe.

Bitcoin enthusiasts in 2009: Bitcoin is for making currency transactions

Bitcoin enthusiasts in 2017: Bitcoin is for storing value

Ethereum enthusiasts in 2015: Ethereum is for making trustless currency transactions

Ethereum enthusiasts in 2020: Ethereum is for storing cats

Not that amazing. Vichy France was an ally of Nazi Germany

Does this just apply to ships registered with a country? What's to stop a ship from registering in Brazil, porting in Russia, and selling cod for dirt cheap to Japan?

One day only about 1 bitcoin (worth 1 trillion) will be actually tradable. Everyone else will be holding.

> They are focused on making a product that works, not on optical theatrics (in fact one of their biggest weaknesses is they've been horrible at optics)

Is bad optics the new 'fake news' because it seems like the Breitmans have been focused on who controls the billion dollars they have.

you laugh, but a guy who knows Hadoop is worth more than a guy who doesn't all else being equal

same for me. I don't even want to move it out of the exchange because it costs too much.

News to me that people still use bitcoin to buy drugs. Everyone i know got out of that game years ago.

there's nothing candid about snapchat. Candid is heartfelt. Not something that disappears in 20 seconds.

There's one huge flaw with the American Free Diner, and it's that it would inevitably be supplied by a place like Sysco or Aramark. Not only that, it would be the cheapest option with the lowest quality ingredients, and it would still wind up being relatively expensive to run.

I remember the Malcolm Gladwell piece ripping Bowdoin for serving good food, and thinking how he got it all wrong. There are so many schools that wind up with garbage from Aramark, and they still pay an arm and a leg for it.

Is Meetup popular outside of NYC? Every time I've looked at non-tech meetups outside of the area, the offerings seemed scarce.

> Their dedication to great journalism is why I subscribe

Their dedication is to go after people Jeff Bezos doesn't like

Anyone who associated with that sociopath Steve Jobs was questionable in my book. I'm not surprised.

Because they only recovered a fraction of the bitcoin lost, so there wasn't enough bitcoin to be distributed. They wanted the equivalent price in cash, which seemed like a more obtainable goal but still at the time was greater than what could be met by selling the 200K bitcoin they recovered. Who knows, maybe they thought they could get it from insurance or something like that. Of course, now that the 200k bitcoin are worth more than the 800k lost were at the time of the hack, they want more money.

I don't know what you're talking about, but the rents are easily the 2nd worst, possibly the worst, in the country. COL adjusted, it is the worst of all the major tech cities [0] for software developers. 0. https://hired.com/state-of-salaries-2017

Almost certainly the Chinese alerted Kim of their plans and have talked it over with NK, so they probably have some sort of idea of what his response will be. Wouldn't surprise me if they hedged it in some way to make him feel more secure.

It's a risk worth taking if you think you're too good to work in private industry. Almost all liberal arts phds i know couldn't stomach working for the man.

These photos all have a very "Shot on the Iphone" feel. Can't tell if it's because Iphones excel at one type of picture or because Apple/this reviewer feels the need to go all the way to India to test out a phone camera.

I don't see how Brave/BAT solves this problem. There is no anonymity between publisher and advertiser on Brave. Amazon could just as easily pull ads on Brave.

I assume this takes into consideration costs, because otherwise, I don't see how NYC-DC isn't number 1.

There are other Chinese exchanges. If they announce something similar, Bitcoin will drop even further.

Can you just overprice it and let bidders fight on lower than asking? Essentially the same thing, but with different psychology. I wonder how it would play out differently.

I don't think it's completely irrelevant. It's meant to get the idea across that it is easy enough to do at night when you're bored.

>It took me 7 days to move $300k from one bank account to another, because of closures on weekends & ACH limits. This is not "working well". With Bitcoin I can move $100k+ in ~10 minutes.

You can move the bitcoin equivalent of $100k+ in 10 minutes. It'll take you longer than a week to convert to cash (not to mention the cost you'll be paying in fees). Plus you still have to deal with all the regulatory checks (unless you think you can get away with laundering money)

>“Bitcoin cannot be regulated. There is no need to regulate it because as a system it is committed to the protocol as is and the transaction fees it charges the users are determined by the users independently of the miners’ efforts.” The authors said.

Isn't this false and the reason why bitcoin cash exists?

Do they really have to jazz it up with all this bluster? Can't they just say, somebody told us the logo must be the letter A, can you make it look pretty?