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Yeah BAT was not the best example. I was just trying to illustrate that ANY altcoin can be purchased using BTC. Only some can be purchased with ETH

Yeah I should have made that clear. The price had already started a correction, and the crashing was more associated with uncertainty related to Bitcoin exchanges in China shutting down, but his statement certainly didn’t help. It was picked up by pretty much every news outlet.

Well, you could certainly draw that conclusion and make that argument, but I like to think of it as investing in the internet vs. investing in pets.com during the dot-com bubble.

As of right now, you are right. The entire crypto market is speculative. I think a platform like Ethereum has a better chance of being valuable than a random token that someone with no blockchain experience put together a whitepaper for in a few days and then launched an ICO for.

I suppose that is true, but if the price does crash back down to $1,000 and then rises up to $6,000 then what does that mean? The bubble burst and the price crashed, but now we are in another bubble?

This article is an interesting read and seems to suggest something like that:

https://medium.com/@mcasey0827/speculative-bitcoin-adoption-...

That is a very good question. I didn’t do a good job making an argument for why I think the value of a currency like Bitcoin could be so much higher than an altcoin that did an ICO.

In my opinion, Bitcoin has the first mover advantage in this space. It was the first real use of the blockchain, is still the gateway to pretty much every other crypto currency, there is a maximum supply of coins, and is one of the only coins that can be purchased/exchanged for US dollars (or other fiat currency). In order to purchase an altcoin such as BAT (the token behind the brave browser the article refers to), you have to first purchase Bitcoin. If you want to sell your BAT tokens, you will receive Bitcoin.

Also Bitcoins do cost real money to actually mine (electricity costs).

Other tokens such as Ethereum are gaining popularity as well and have some advantages over Bitcoin, but I don’t see Bitcoin being displaced anytime soon.

In the case of Ethereum, the value is that the token is used as “gas” on the Ethereum network. Any action you want to take or data you want to store will require that you send a certain amount of Ether in order to perform that task. Since Ethereum is a platform that many of these ICO companies are building apps on top of, it stands to reason that the value of the platform should be greater than the value of the company building on top of it.

Ya, I am aware of that. I don’t think it really weakens his argument that much though. Your bitcoin is only redistributed to new addresses when you send and receive it so even looking at just people who have bought and held it will give you a piece of the puzzle.

You can also compare Bitcoin’s current market cap (~$60 billion) to that of gold ($7 trillion) and see that it still has a ways to go (if it is going to become widely adopted).

Ah, good point. Well there is still some irony in that!

I think there is a difference between a cryptocurrency bubble and an ICO bubble, and this article fails to distinguish between the two.

You can see Tom Lee, a financial strategist, talk about Bitcoin here: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/15/bitcoin-could-surge-another-...

He points out that there are only 300,000 Bitcoin wallets that hold $5,000 or more. In the grand scheme of things that is very small compared to the overall global economy. He also refers to Jamie Dimon’s comments that Bitcoin is a “fraud” (It is worth nothing that JP Morgan bought up millions of dollars worth of Bitcoin after the price crashed following that statement – on behalf of their clients).

ICOs, on the other hand, are absolutely in a bubble. Companies are raising hundreds of millions of dollars without even having a product. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand how absurd that is. In my opinion, regulations in this area would actually do more of a service than disservice to crypto, and I welcome them with open arms. For one, it will legitimize token sales as a fundraising method, and for two it will remove most of the scams and illegitimate projects that seem to be popping up daily.

I think Blockchain technology is here to stay. Even if 99 out of 100 ICO projects fail (they will), that still leaves a few that will survive and may become quite valuable. While the recent explosion in crypto prices seems unsustainable, if it really does become the money of the future then the prices now are going to look like pennies in five or ten years time.

I am glad to read articles like this since I specifically opted to get the non-touchbar MacBook Pro when the new models came out. The only annoying thing about the non-touchbar model is that the specs are not quite as good.

I tried it out in the store and I decided that using keyboard shortcuts will always be faster than using the touchbar which the article linked from this one mentions.

If you use Chrome, I recommend https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jk-shortcuts-navig...

You can press j to scan forward one result and k to scan backwards and enter or command enter to jump to a result

It works on a bunch of other sites too like hacker news and reddit!

I am NOT the author

The only thing I can think of is that the data you store is still distributed across multiple servers and can’t be removed or tampered with easily.

By joining the EEA you are not committing to use the public Ethereum blockchain.

In most cases, I think companies are likely to use the Ethereum codebase and run their own private chain using their own servers.

That mostly defeats the purpose of a blockchain, but it arguably still provides more security than using a single, centralized database somewhere.

Or job postings asking for a minimum of 5 or 10 years of experience working with Solidity and Ethereum

I was just going to comment this, but I will upvote your comment instead. This drives me crazy

Yeah, he probably did not read it, but he does bring up a good point which is that this is only an issue because there are third parties involved.

If you were sending a Bitcoin payment on your own and you by accident sent too much, there is nothing you can do about it. That money is gone for good.

At least here it is nice that there is a chance to get it back.

Coinbase’s problem lately is that they can’t keep up with their growth. See this recent post:

https://blog.coinbase.com/improving-customer-support-139d99e...

For me, PayPal and GoDaddy have the worst customer service I have ever experienced. It is hard for me to pick which one is worse.

Hopefully we can all agree that Amazon has the best though :)

It seems like the replies here are very much in defense of Apple which I am not surprised about, but I do not really consider it to be warranted.

I have been using f.lux for years and it has definitely had a huge impact on me. I don't have any scientific data to back up my claims, but f.lux is a fantastic product.

When you consider that f.lux released a side loading version of their app on iOS and then Apple threatened to remove their developer license, and then after it was pulled, released their own ripped off version of the software that does not work as well, you can understand how they might be upset about that. I understand that is business, but as someone who has used both I find f.lux to be completely superior.

Apple probably should have bought f.lux and then integrated it into their products, but instead decided to do it themselves. I'm not saying the software is earth shattering, but they spent years on the problem, and it feels as if Apple implemented their version in a few days.

I think Apple should open up the screen/display APIs on iOS to allow f.lux and other similar apps to be installed. I would happily pay for it rather than use night shift.

Safari's reader view is actually a modified version of readability. At one point I believe Apple even mentioned this in some about screen or article.

There are extensions/bookmarklets available for other browsers at https://www.readability.com.

Personally, I've been reading long form and paginated content using the readability Send to Kindle bookmarklet which works great.

You are right that iOS could solve pain points for some of these customers, but then THAT is how Apple should sell people on it. That's what their marketing of old was like. Insulting those people does no one any good. Most likely the people running the types of PCs you speak of do not even know any better.

I'm sure a large percent of the PC users are content also. It's not like iOS is some magic piece of software. I've been using it since iPhone 1, and it has really regressed a lot since iOS 6. My parents have trouble doing a lot of things that should be and used to be easy. I have trouble too from time to time.

As for me, I am still using a 6.5 year old, 11 inch MacBook Air. I have wanted to upgrade for a year or two now but Apple has yet to give me a compelling reason to do so.

It is unbelievable that they have not been able to produce an air with a Retina display in that time. The 12 inch MacBook is the closest they have come, but that has its own shortcomings that have kept me away (no MagSafe, single USB port, keys that barely move when you type on them). The MacBook pros are nice but even the smallest, thinnest one still weighs more than my old air.

If Apple had made an 11 inch air exactly the same body as the one I bought over six years ago and added a Retina display I would have bought it immediately.

I think if Apple expects people to upgrade every couple years then they should give people more compelling reasons to.

$0.99 a month I believe

I'm pretty curious about what new features you are looking for in Sublime. I spend more time in Sublime Text than pretty much any other application.

I understand the idea that "development may have stopped", but there are not any glaring bugs, sublime text 3 is super fast, and there is a huge community building sublime plugins.

The editor was built in such a way where it allows the entire community to keep moving it forward even if the original developer has moved onto other things, and I happen to think that is great.

I'm not sure that editors like vi and emacs receive regular updates. It seems that emacs releases can have up to 2 years between versions, and I can't find the last time that vi was updated. Those do have the advantage of being open sourced, but unless there are glaring holes in Sublime then I don't see this as a big problem.

Besides all that it DOES look as though there are plans for the future of Sublime as someone mentioned in a forum post on here. If it is true that development has been focused on improving the payment system for purchasing Sublime then I am all for that.

This article reminds me of conversations that we had at Vimeo when redesigning our video player.

Our previous share icon was two arrows facing diagonally in opposite directions. The main problem with that was that it was very close to our "embed" icon. We knew we wanted to change it, but we didn't know what icon to use.

We had a bunch of mockups that included some of the icons found in this article.

Ultimately, we ended up deciding on a paper airplane. It definitely is familiar to people in terms of sending email, but we also thought it was a playful and fun way to indicate sharing. Really it was the only icon that we all liked.

It might not be immediately clear at first, but hopefully after using it you get the hang of it.

You can check it out here: https://vimeo.com/76979871

And yes, I am the one in the opening shot of the video who throws the airplane :)

I think this is great advice. Two of the biggest annoyances I had with Sublime Text were the autocomplete suggestions and the bracket/parenthesis matching (or lack thereof).

I still think the default behavior (as of Sublime Text 3.0) is pretty broken with both. For autocomplete suggestions I found this to fix the problem:

https://github.com/atombender/sublime_text_alternative_autoc...

For bracket/parenthesis matching it was annoying me so often that I ended up fixing it myself by writing a plugin:

https://github.com/ccampbell/sublime-smart-match

I think this advice rings true for more than just editors. Third party libraries, browsers, frameworks, etc, all have their limitations/weaknesses and fixing things that annoy you is always better than living with the problems.

Could not agree more

Just wanted to provide a little bit of context. This extension is NOT for everyone.

It fulfills a very specific purpose. I have found that I constantly have way too many tabs open. I often click new links to open new pages without closing out older tabs, and it was getting crazy. Somedays I would have 30-40 tabs open.

I wrote this extension so that I could keep a cap. You pick a maximum number of tabs an algorithm (least recently used, least accessed, or oldest) and as soon as you hit the cap it will discard an older tab.

It will never close a pinned tab or a tab that you have never been to (never been to means you haven't been actove on the page for more than 3 seconds)

The source is available on Github here: https://github.com/ccampbell/xtab

Am I the only person who thinks that nearly every feature added in iOS 7 and iOS 7.1 is pretty terrible?

This is just another example. It's great in theory, but this should not be something that is left up to the content creators to decide.

It provides an inconsistent user experience for the person USING the browser. Imagine if you were using Chrome or Safari on desktop and you had to guess if the url bar and back button would be there every time you clicked a link to go to a new page. I suppose it is fine if you want people to feel like they are trapped on your page.

Awful.

When the iPhone first came out there were no native apps. Only web apps. There is no way people would be making this much money if Apple hadn't opened up the platform.

If you are looking for a standalone event (delegation) library check out one I wrote http://craig.is/riding/gators. The syntax is very similar to jQuery.

I'm not wondering how to download songs for offline playing. I'm wondering how to toggle/filter so I can only see the offline content.

After reading through https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/1250232?hl=en-G... I do not think the iOS version has this functionality right now.

I can figure out how to download stuff so it is available for offline playing, but I can't figure out how to filter out only content that is available offline.

This is a feature available in the Android app as an "On Device" filter. Has anyone figured this out?