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This is terrible - the thing about cryptocurrency, as opposed to traditional investments (or just banks), is it's extremely rigid, which means if you misplace a digit, you can lose a lot of stuff. I would guess that you shouldn't really expect to get out much more, in traditional currency terms, than you put in, in traditional currency terms (and, stuck on Earth, what else is there). Imho cryptology has it's place in the privacy and security realm, so the real use case for playing with these things is as training to do work in that area (obviously feel free to disagree).

You know, if everyone on facebook would stop doing this stuff:

[link deleted since although it's all over the internet, who knows if that subject agreed to it being everywhere anyway it's "Guy slightly changes his friend's Facebook pictures"]

then I think it would help the platform. It was a great site when it was just basically a nicely formatted yellow pages for people, with no news feed. Now it's just another place trying (well it feels like it) to push, bot generated news down my throat. This kind of sucks because I can tell they, do, put a lot of effort into what they are doing (which means they must care about it) but the result is still much worse than when it was just a personal homepage, (imho of course). Also I get the creepy feeling that they it's the most likely thing to turn into the people rating engine (like the black mirror episode), so that kind of turns me off, quite a bit (I mean, that wouldn't be quite as bad as having jew armbands in 1939, but... it's in that direction certainly).

I am going to hold my $3 of bitcoin forever. To the moon!

[If I put a do not resuscitate tatoo on my blind friend is that a paddling](philosoraptor.gif)

I like this comment so I'm retiring this username so this stays at top of my comment list. Who knows what the new username will be.

These are just the most beautiful pictures.

Napkin sketch prediction that before we get to actual AI that will benefit us / enhance free will and lives / not just enslave us for their own / rich peoples / military benefit, we will run into some fairly shitty versions.

I actually don't mind a little censorship of illegal-ish stuff (or at least warning, that hey, this person is trying to metaphorically sell you something illegal !), but what really bugs me is the subtle (and not so subtle), targeted manipulation I sometimes feel I experience, where there might be like many different usernames all targeting you but somehow all controlled by the same person / interest, and you just think it's normal conversation... (Apparently Reddit is mostly bots?) I think we saw some (heck, a lot of this) in the 2016 election, and personally I try to keep myself to a human-usable number of usernames (I think I have like 5 to hackernews as I forget passwords, but tend to use at most one, or two obviously linked ones for an extended period of time, and then switch if I say something too stupid and want to get a clean start) I don't think something like necessitating a real id is a good idea, since then everything you say is tied to you forever (hail satan), but I'm sure some kind of manipulation detection would be possible... would be an interesting project to work on actually.

It seems hard to find non-blockchain related/ ethical, crypto jobs in the US which would lead to quantum cryptography type output.

Ah thank you.

At one point I read that the british universal system is actually cheaper per-person than the US market determined system. Sorry I don't have a reference for that, but anecdotally, I can recall several stories of simple items like "saline solution" receiving excessive markup in the market system because it would all be covered by the insurance anyway. I wish some more knowledgeable healthcare people can comment here.

If his mental state of enthusiasm for working in this field is not completely wrecked by this occurrence... Your github is inspiring work Zack - I've ran across it several times in the past - I hope you get paid reasonably somehow or whatever you need to be happy.

I will attempt to make a shitty, hacked-together version :)

Come on Silicon valley - one up this please..

Not that I think this would be abused or anything, but I remember when technology seemed sweet and innocent just a couple of years ago

Hrmrmrmmmmmrm..... saw this on le reddit today about Charlottesville:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/12/virginia-uni...

"He said that they would not back down fr" ... article starts to get pretty scary about here...

... side note ... I feel like my comment is at least semi-appropriate response to this article (sans rhetorical styling), and yet feels a bit off-topic for the website. I wonder if one could parse the site and split into 'social articles' and 'tech articles' with some textual analysis / browser extension-y magic..

to continue my point, I'm sure Charlottesville is usually a decent place, but maybe needs a diversity education program or something before it is a /really/ nice place, idk.

I honestly don't care if there is a "sinister" purpose behind the good scifi I've read. Fund the next Iain banks please. In fact - throw me $50k to live for a year and you've got yourself a book - or I can at least guarantee some words on pages mentioning spaceships / robots, etc.

I know this sounds selfish, but I sometimes wonder if it would be possible to genetically engineer a pig to stay a cute young piglet for it's entire life, rather than turning into a large, hungry adult pig. In this way, pigs could be companion animals, rather than food animals, and I haven't thought through all the angles, but if I was a pig, it seems that would sound be more appealing for sure. (Compare below images:

http://beavercreekfarm.co/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Charlot...

http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/disney/images/b/bb/Free_... )

wait ...

Does x86 count as an '80s computer?

For the reporters friends I have, not sure how I feel about that - if I was a reporter, I feel I would want some software which enhances and improves my job experience and reporting ability, rather than flat out replaces it. (Not to criticize google, I'm sure any company startup, could be doing the same).

It is really such a sad story - I'm glad that this mother seems to have been able to get her costs down at least (if I read the story correctly), sad that probably there are others that can't. We must all learn to love and forgive one another

So many security products to try, hard to juggle them all

:)

Just bought a copy this morning funnily enough.

If you work 40 hours a week, it's not putting you at risk, and you are getting a reasonable salary, that sounds pretty decent to me (just some words of encouragement) :)

I think in a software startup mindset it could be easy to think that more efficient => better, but a point not mentioned in the essay is that written Chinese is simply beautiful compared to e.g., the simple 26 character alphabet, which is quicker to learn. This also applies to some of the other alphabets such as Hindi, Arabic, etc. But Chinese has so many characters, it really shines.

Apparently cannot edit comments after they are made anymore within two hours (it used to be three I believe), but I was going to add a point to the analogy in the second paragraph, since I know things are easily taken incorrectly: I am not trying to make equivalent fat <-> racist (there is nothing wrong with being fat, and yes there are things wrong with being racist), the equivalence I am trying to point out is that if we attack / look down on people, for whatever reason, we are not being helpful.

This is how I see it: Post-primaries, I think Hillary was a much better candidate. However a large number of liberals chose to campaign for her by just straight up calling the other side racists, while ignoring her flaws / blaming them on Russians. (We are all flawed, just accept it and don't blame it on others, otherwise you might just come across as narcissistic). In the case this was done in a false-flag fashion, then the democrats didn't catch it / didn't do the obvious thing to combat it. I mean come on guys.

It is likely true that there 'are' lots of racist / deplorable voters however it is analogous to this: If I were fat, I would probably not like people yelling "hey fattie! / run forrest run" at me while I am out jogging trying to improve myself. In the end, although I did not vote for Trump, (and am not fat), it did kind of seem to me that Democrats / liberals during this election, came across (regardless of whether they actually are, which I strongly doubt) as the gang from globo-gym, and I can just picture an image of a White Goodman (Ben Stiller's character) calling the other side 'deplorable.'

(To Hillary's credit she seemed very apologetic during the second of the three debates)

Add to this exchanges like the one between Podesta / Assange [1] which just served to reinforce this image, and you have a recipe for the election upset which happened.

I am sure at the end of the day there will be some voters you cannot reach, but I imagine, if you just use basic human empathy, it will reach a whole lot of people.

The moral of this story, for either side, should be:

1. Don't treat the other side poorly / call them names. Instead, use reasoning about policies, compassion, and acceptance of your own flaws to win voters.

2. Be wary of possible false-flag tactics- no one has brought up evidence that this happened, but I wouldn't be at all surprised.

3. Don't rely solely on things like this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/11...

humans are not machines to feed variables and get out votes- use actual compassion / empathy/ and talk to people. Or maybe, smarter, don't rely solely on your super algorithm sauce - obviously data analysis will help, but it shouldn't be the whole picture.

[1] http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/301069-podesta-fires...