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I have never understood what stops POS algorithms from being havens for opportunistic cheating. There is no punishment for spending energy on attacking the network unsuccessfully because you are still also playing good with the majority.

In POW schemes you can only use your mining power on a single chain; in POS it seems like you can "stake" every competing chain simultaneously.

> . I think people dramatically underestimate the likelihood that Bitcoin and all cryptocurrencies get completely banned.

I expect this will be almost as effective as the banning of narcotics, pirated media, alcohol during prohibition, etc. It's far, far too late for this to have a lasting effect (though certainly a short term reduction is price is likely)

Seems to be South Park is having a bit of a renaissance.

We give coding challenges to our intern applicants, and most fail. We give different challenges and expect different levels of competency for a senior role.

Code challenges at least have the capability of being very useful. We try and present the type of problems people will have to be solving in that position; if they struggle with it and someone else excels, they have done their job.

> DRM makes it hard for 99% of the people

Does it though? I mean, there are already non-drm versions available, and have been "forever". Yet 99% of people still choose netflix because it's easier. Even the 1% choose netflix because it is easier.

How does restricting the delivery of legitimate/legal content impact the way that people consume illegitimate/illegal content?

I also don't see it changing, but it seems like it will have /obviously/ literally zero impact on the availability of pirated content, and how/if people use pirated content.

As a follow up, isn't all this DRM for naught? If you send the video and the audio to my computer, I can record it after it's decrypted. What problem does this really solve? I already use netflix/amazon because it's more convenient than torrenting, unless it isn't. Seems the possibility is nil DRM-free versions of DRM content won't be available anyway.

Bitfinex is probably your best bet.

China bans bitcoin, for 900th time in 7 years.

> OKCoin, BTC China and Huobi, the country’s three biggest bitcoin exchanges, said on Monday that they hadn’t received any regulatory notices concerning bans on cryptocurrency trading.

It was definitely closer to the former than the latter. Things that are obviously profitable now were not hip or obvious, nor was the infrastructure to commoditize everything available.

Eh.. that's like saying "Can't blame me for cruelty to animals, the people I buy the meat from treat the animals cruelly; not me."

Certainly if most people owned them, there wouldn't be a market to rent them out.

Yes they are different. They are also WILDLY different value propositions. Crash prevention is nice, just getting safer and safer is nice--though I personally wouldn't stop driving ~$5k cars for even "really good" crash protection.

But a car that can drive me while I sleep and become a Taxi while I work is something I would go into debt for.

freedom pop is sketchy AF. without clicking that link, based on my experience its: hiding fees, making it difficult to cancel service, not actually canceling service once the service has been canceled.

Well, if you know it will go down, you shouldn't invest. In general for IRA stuff the sooner the better though.

yes but if you mine a valid block around the same time someone else mines a random block you can't know until another block is mined (and even then, you might not know)

you do have the new coins now. you load them into a wallet that supports bcc

Anyone know how to / where to get an idea of hashrate distribution? It seems it can really only be estimated by the number of blocks that come out; which means (if I understand correctly) it could be days before the next BCC block if BCC has some minuscule amount of hash power.

Just as much as people want to solve the halting problem.

I don't know what could become conscious; but it seems pretty obvious to me some sticks banging together cannot be.

I like to use examples like this to illustrate why classical computers will never become conscious despite the hype.

::phew:: world is a safer place now

/s

Globally distributed ledger that you can trust without having to trust any specific entity; that has to be worth /something/ right?

there doesn't appear to be any research in that article, just opinions? it doesn't surprise if that's true that you are likely to be gone; especially if you count the times that you aren't given a competitive counter offer.

that's easier to remember than 'weather' for getting the weather?

It would be pretty straight forward to buy tickets in advance for a specific day.

Interestingly, I heard about the stunt and idea when it went viral before; and I read this article. I have no idea who the politician is.

TIL. even faster than the google

I think this is the right answer, assuming OP actually wants to get better at bash and not route around his original question by learning stuff that isn't bash.

I use bash/shell scripts frequently and have many running 'in production' as cron jobs th at run various jobs or manipulate data for other jobs to run on.

One thing I really like about pure shell is that it's extremely portable and transparent about what it's doing.

I still have to re-learn control structures almost everytime I write a new script, I don't try and memorize [[]] vs [] and all the weird ways equality can work, I just google each time and answers are always on top (once you know what you're looking for).

As someone who has spent nearly 6 months in spanish speaking countries, trying to learn spanish; I think language acquisition is a similar-but-different aptitude type thing.

I am just bad at parsing audio basically, I also have a hard time picking out lyrics in songs and whatnot. My spanish is terrible to this day.

I definitely learned some, and can stumble around by myself without english, but no one is going to mistake me for a spanish speaker.

I think programming aptitude is similar; for sure just about anyone could learn to use a loop and if statement to solve fizzbuzz type problems; but are they going to be able to modularize those control structures and come up with solutions for "real" problems?

I am pretty sure not.

I have tried to teach people to code. More often than not it does not work out. It appears to me there is something intrinsic or developed at a very young age which sets a mind up to be both able and willing to think like a programmer.

Most people simply don't think that way, end of story. Some do though, I hope you picked one of them.

I wouldn't worry too much about teaching him to "code" as there are a lot of ways to be valuable in the industry in general, and helping your friend is a very good thing to do.

In any case, I think you will probably get a lot out of this . Just don't try and force a square peg down a round hole.