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If this is accepted and implemented, could someone explain how Ethereum is a decentralised cryptocurrency?

I like Discord and use it to talk to friends while playing games, but I would be hesitant to use to use it for any big project. Unlike Slack which has a viable business model, I have to wonder what will happen when discord consumes their runway and has to start making money. A company can't live of VC funds forever. Accessibility and whatnot is obviously important, but after being 'kicked' of Slack I would be hesitant to switch to another propitiatory platform.

If you want to see what this OTCA Metapixel can be used for, besides simulating Conway's Game of Life inside Conway's Game of Life, I highly recommending reading:

https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/11880/build-a-w...

Over four years a number of users from StackOverflow built Tetris using the OTCA Metapixel. To summarise, they built layers of abstraction to move from the Game of Life, to Metapixels, to wires, to logic gates, to a RISC computer. There they developed their own assembly language to write tetris and finally compiled and ran it. In total the world is 2,940,928 x 10,295,296 blocks in size.

Here's an interpreter for that language running Tetris: http://play.starmaninnovations.com/qftasm/#jllHdnBGSP

If you are currently using your keyboard for push-to-talk and your mouse allows it, I highly recommend binding the/a side mouse button to push to talk.

For something named Tiny Player, it wastes a surprising amount of screen real estate.

> Since you pretty much have to have a car to just exist in society

Perhaps in America, but you can certainly "exist" in virtually any European city without a car. Anecdotally, I have managed to "exist" for the past four years without owning a car. I know how to drive one and possess a driving license, but have chosen not too.

The software industry is still relearning update best-practises, just look at Android fragmentation and how a mere 1.1% of users are running the latest version [1], or the entire Internet of Things [2]. If Google cannot manage to keep Android users relatively up to date (And yes, I am blaming Google), what are the odds that a random automaker will fare better.

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[1] https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards

[2] https://twitter.com/internetofshit

Performance is the reason I switched from Atom to Sublime Text in the first place. I was annoyed that it took seconds to start, and even then it felt sluggish. At some point I might give it another go but for now Sublime Text suites my needs perfectly, even if it has a smaller package ecosystem than Atom.

In my limited experience, it's hard, but in most cases that isn't a problem. JavaFX is powerful, separating layout and styling from code via FXML and their CSS like language. If you want to style the application like a webapp it's a piece of cake, but if you want to style it to look native then you'll have to use stylesheets such as http://www.aerofx.org/

On the otherhand, with Swing all you need to do is add the following line:

  UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());

From my rather limited understanding, it's basically how crunchyroll also got started.

> You can't legislate [...] the value of pi

Amusingly someone (inadvertently) tried: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill

Needs a loading indicator, I thought it was broken until the assets started popping in.

If nothing else by buying a phone manufactured by google and running stock android, you need to trust one less party.

Language is a means of thinking and of communication. If the old meaning is still well understood by the audience and helps communicate ideas it would be wise to use it. However if it hurts, not helps, it isn't worth sticking to the original meaning just for the sake of it. Context matters.

Good job facebook

There are two sites, and two sites only that I like autoplay on: YouTube and Twitch.

Honestly, the only downside I can see vs. TouchID is that you can in theory point the phone at the person and unlock it. However this is balanced out by not working while unconcious.

PINs as discused are not directly comparable.

As someone who finds Bitcoin interesting I hope it succeeds.

While I see what you mean, there is compass which is essentially the safari logo, and there is a globe which can be used as a generic browser.

Bitcoin can never and will never be a fraction of the efficiency of the modern world banking system, and it can never and will never be able to handle the number of transactions. While you could argue that updates and changes over the years might be able to mould Bitcoin into an efficient transaction network, at that point it would not be Bitcoin anymore.

VISA is capable of handling 56,000 transactions per second [1] while Bitcoin is capable of handing a measly 2.5 [2]. Bitcoin would need to scale by 224,000% to match VISA, and VISA is one of my different global networks. I don't know how much energy VISA uses but as of today, the bitcoin network is estimated to be using 16TWh [3], that's the same as all of Jordan or Lebanon or 5.2% of the energy consumption of the United Kingdom [4].

Assuming no energy consumption improvements, to scale to VISA levels Bitcoin would need to consume 224,000% more energy. That's 35,840TWh, which is nearly twice as much energy as the entire planet uses (21,776TWh)!!!

So, if Bitcoin is able to become 90% more efficient, it would only require as much energy as nearly two European Unions. If Bitcoin is able to become 99% more efficient, it would only require as much energy more energy than the entire United Kingdom. If Bitcoin is able to become 99.9% more efficient, it would only require as much energy as Qatar. I can keep going but I won't. I might have made a mistake and been a factor out, but even then it doesn't even matter, that's how ridiculous the numbers are.

I don't know about you but I find it rather unlikely that Bitcoin will every be a viable replacement for the world banking system. Maybe in a universe where Nuclear fusion is easy and ASICs never wear out, and the cost of cooling them is free but unfortunately for Bitcoin we don't live in that universe.

Bitcoin and crypocurrancys are horrible inventions if you care about the planet, if you think a massive decentralised network where value is created from ever increasing difficulty proof of work could be more efficient than VISA you are frankly deluded. Granted, this is someone who does not own any Bitcoins, so maybe I just haven't drunk the kool aid.

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1. https://usa.visa.com/dam/VCOM/download/corporate/media/visa-...

2. https://blockchain.info/charts/transactions-per-second

3. https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption

4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_electrici...

Legal questions aside, this should have been an online form that creates a zip file containing the generated privacy policies in various markup languages and a configuration file. I don't know about you, but the barrier to entry here is too high. You have to run a PHP instance yourself, at least momentarily.

Maybe decades ago, but I find it hard to imagine any recording studio still having an analogue recording process. Sure the different mediums may call for different mastering, but the loudness war wasn't a result of limitations of tapes/CDs.

And if you're doing it right, it's not even 32kb because chances are your visitor already has it cached in their browser even before visiting your site.

While the NSA's mass-surveillance and the CIA's targeted hacking cannot be overlooked, these organisations are for all intents and purposes separate entities to the FCC. The FCC's view and ability to enforce net neutrality will never effect the NSA and CIA; I don't know what, if anything, would. And besides, ISP's have formed oligopolies for most regions. Do you trust them to keep the internet open?

When you consider that planes have crashed killing all on board due to overloading, it's actually a pretty big deal.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/18/us/crash-that-killed-21-ap... http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2015/11... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-32732607 https://sputniknews.com/latam/201612261049016624-plane-brazi... https://generalaviationnews.com/2011/07/18/overweight-airpla... http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2004/Mar-29/29...

Google tells me that the average person weighs 80.7kg, let's conservatively round up to 100kg to take into account clothes, and luggage (It's probably higher). From this we can estimate that the PIA flight had an extra 700kg (It's probably closer to 1 tonne) of weight on board, and extra 700kg that wasn't properly secured or distributed.

Depending on the plane, the effects could range from using up more fuel (planes carry extra fuel for emergencies and so they can circle their destination while they wait to land, it would eat into this reserve making flight incidents more deadly), to failing to take off the runway; The pilot wasn't informed until he was in the air.

While the plane in question is certainly larger and more powerful than the majority of the links I provided, the fact of the matter is an overloaded bus or train may refuse to move if overloaded, a plane can fall from the sky killing people both on-board and on the ground. Planes fail deadly.

You now have 7 extra, fragile humans standing in the aisle who have nowhere to belt down in case of emergency. If the plane crashes, needs to make an emergency landing, or even encounters incredibly rough turbulence they could be thrown around the cabin hurting both themselves and others.

As for a 1 to 10 scale of transgression, it's hard to place because of the nature of such a simplistic scale. Assuming your scale is confined to aeronautics (lest we invoke Godwin's Law) what counts as a 1, and what counts as a 10? If your 1 to 10 scale is truly inclusive of every possible aeronautical incident then 1 has to be a passenger with a typo on their ticket, and 10 has to be 911. I don't know about you, but I have no idea where to place this overloading incident on such a scale.

I love Musk's plans as much as the next Hacker, but he's proposing to significantly more than double the number of satellites in orbit. I hope he succeeds.

>to bug

>conceal a miniature microphone in (a room or telephone) in order to eavesdrop on or record someone's conversations secretly.

>"the telephones in the presidential palace were bugged"

Arguably it is a bug that users should know about ;) Pedantry aside, I seriously hope it's a software bug, and not an intentional wiretap bug.

So basically I should uninstall it, correct? Does anyone know of anything to replace it?

Sure they could, it's called disconnecting your internet connection, unless you are arguing for every ISP to implement some sort of proxy, which itself would be mid-point infrastructure.

> twitter simply cannot reach people who don't go looking for it

I'm not so sure. Hashtags are everwhere both physical and digital, companies want to to start tweeting about their event/product/etc. As for a direct connection, how often have you see a tweet embedded in a news article, or displayed on live TV?