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An interesting take on Google vs Apple. I would have loved to hear at least something about Alexa. I’m a hardcore Apple and Amazon user (plenty of Google too). I see myself staying imperfectly hybrid for awhile. (Edit:) the observation of post-screen being a way to be connected but not distracted was a real revelation. Would love that....

Similar to what is required for bitcoin futures on cboe

the cost of transactions has stayed mostly constant when priced in bitcoin. Like the article says, why always convert back to the dollar price?

When it comes to Bitcoin, I think of Linux as an analogy. When it first emerged, many people questioned it's basic premise: "why is there a new operating system? Everyone uses Windows, or Mac". People didn't know or understand the idea of open source: "Doesn't that just mean people will find bugs and ways to hack it?" "Without a company behind it, how do I know I can trust it in the long term?" At first it's usability sucked. It took forever to get it up and running. It was confusing and hard to learn. It had a small, rabid fan base who kept obsessing about desktop adoption rates and wondering when it would take over. That is all kind of the same vibe as Bitcoin. But just as Linux showed, you don't need a monolithic, centralized entity to back it, it can start slowly and improve over time. "linux on the desktop" basically failed (cue all the linux desktop heads on HH....!) but it completely took over the whole back end of the Internet. Every server runs it. And it then morphed and took over almost all mobile/tablet/smartTV/etc/etc devices. I think something similar could easily happen with Bitcoin. It has securely held Billions of USD equivalents in value for years. The software continues to evolve. Its core technology has morphed into many other formats. And like Linux on the Desktop, maybe the early idea of digital cash will change into another idea, like a settlement layer. who knows? But I remain pretty optimistic about it.

There was a story about this in Motherboard just the other day. Tl,dr— Metals and drugs are a big problem *edit: spelling https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8q8xnk/turns-out-...

no, it's not trivial, but you can just follow these steps. https://glacierprotocol.org

It’s a mind virus breaking out to infect all the world’s humans

This is already happening. For example Coinbases’s new COO is ex-Ameritrade

This is such a fascinating (and disturbing) situation. And quite mysterious. High frequency ultrasound is used routinely in medicine and has never been shown to change brain tissue. Infrasound has some effect on tissue but its probably overstated. (the infamous 'brown note' [1]. Other sonic weapons rely on volume/amplitude. None of this seems to be the case here.

Another really interesting point is the description of the hyper localized nature of the sound -- present in one part of the room and not another. Its really hard to localize a sound signal, as anyone who has worked with parabolic speakers can attest. Yes, there can be focal points, but the sound definitely drifts out to the surrounding areas to a significant degree. One example of hyperlocalized sound perception is Lamont Young's 'Dream House' installation in NYC [2] Although not captured in video documentation, there are distinct and significant microtonal shifts that are easily perceptible as you move through the space caused by standing waves produced through the interaction of the tone generators and the architecture. But this happens within the context of a loud drone that fills the whole room. Not at all what is described by the diplomats and family members.

I hope they can get to the bottom of this and I hope that more information is made public.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_note [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC6bhnu5Luc

Back in 2012/2013 there was something called "Mt Gox codes". It was a USD transfer mechanism that was supported by Gox, btc-e, early bitfinex and others. You could magically and instantly get a USD balance transferred from one exchange to the other. It was pretty crazy to see in operation as funds would instantly flow from Japan to Hong Kong to Russia/Bulgaria/wherever-btcE-was.

It was shut down by US authorities sometime in the Spring of 2013 as I recall. Tether is playing a similar inter-exchange roll today. At least now there is some kind of public ledger, but that may not be saying much.

agreed. There are many examples of attempts to put into dialog these different traditions of postmodernism vs humanism/analytic rationality:

The Foucault/Chompsky debate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wfNl2L0Gf8

The Heidegger/Cassirer debate: https://newrepublic.com/article/81380/heidegger-cassirer-dav...

I also think it could be seen as realpolitik. I depends on how strongly you take "we create our own reality". Even Postmodernism has a kind of 'classical' version that emerges historically from Hegel, Kierkegaard, Marx and Nietzsche.

cf. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/postmodernism/

That is a fantastic quote from a truly great American thinker. You could add to it the quote from Ron Suskind's article from an unnamed Bush administration official:

"The aide said that guys like me were 'in what we call the reality-based community,' which he defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.' [...] 'That's not the way the world really works anymore,' he continued. 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do'" [1]

This is a very 'postmodern' statement, but coming from the Right and from a government official able to wield the power of the State rather than a poor undergraduate or marginalized assistant professor of humanities.

Arguably postmodernist thought has been so effective in describing contemporary social reality that it has been fully absorbed by the cultural/political Right. Claims of "fake news" alt-right social media memes, totalizing institutional critique -- these all are 'weaponized' forms and tactics from the postmodern Left, but now as mainstream tool of right-wing political action.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/faith-certainty-a...

$1M doesn't buy you the time of day where I live in northern Brooklyn. And it's $1250 minimum per person in a rental share, often more.

The Ethereum Foundation owns and controls the trademarks of Ethereum. While they cannot dictate the code the various participants on the network run, they get to explicitly decide which version of the code gets to be called "Ethereum". That's how they maintain control.

"The advent of photography freed painting from the task of verisimilitude, opening the door to a world of abstraction."

But you are essentially staking "off chain" by buying the gear in fiat money. So there is a built-in exchange rate arbitrage. And the on-chain velocity of value is not slowed down. This isn't true in ETH POS.

Basically yes. CB has said that they won't support the coin.

This is very similar to the ripple pre-cursor called ripplepay. A clear explanation of that can be found here. https://classic.ripplepay.com/about/

Related work: The artist Jason Salavon is well-known for making work using a software-driven frame averaging technique. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Salavon

Using analog techniques there is a famous set of photographs of films playing in movie theaters by Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto. In this work a long duration time-lapse photo of the film renders the screen glowing white with a pale outline of the theatre around it. https://www.sugimotohiroshi.com/new-page-7

This is an interesting and relevant point. However, I believe that the expectation of privacy could still be arguably maintained because of the contractual relationship between the user and the service provider. The EULA and privacy policy would limit data sharing. There remains an expectation of privacy between two parties, and only within the context of the 'trigger command' that starts the process. A warrant obviously by-passes this, but you are talking about warrantless searches.

Namecoin has a number of innovations. It's the first 'alt-coin' fork from Bitcoin, and it pioneered the technique of "merge mining" where a miner could do Proof of Work on both the Bitcoin chain and the NameCoin chain simultaneously. A lot of mining pools implemented merged mining. Even though the alt-coin space has become much more crowded and noisy, NameCoin retains that early hashing advantage. It's a very secure chain.

We built this with glimmer. https://mcast.io/katgraham-exclusives/

This doesn't apply to Rollins and Black Flag. The work they did got better and better, more and more innovative, culminating in 1984 with the release of both "My War" and "Slip it In". Totally innovative records. And that's not to mention the graphic work/cover art of Raymond Pettibon. He's got a huge retrospective up right now at the New Museum in NYC. Amazing output from another creative workaholic from that crew.

a very different aesthetic, but I like Matt Bua's buildings in upstate NY: http://bhomepark.blogspot.com

that would speak to the debris you possibly grabbed on the way down. Use that piece of fusilage, seat or luggage as a sled and work those bank turns

You may find it interesting that artists in the timeline also are here in HN.... http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/2002.274a-e/

The Venezuela stock market has had quite a run over the past few years too, but..... https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/IBVC:IND

"The graves of investors have been dug with political shovels." awesome quote! hadn't heard that one before. reminds me of the old 'the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent' line.

It's informative to look at actual examples of SHTF scenarios, war zones for example. In Afghanistan, Chechnya, Syria and so on, groups band together for survival. As far as I can tell it isn't particularly about the fortified redoubt. And armed militias seem to be the form that the groups take. I don't think it is the wealthy business executives that rise to head those militias. So maybe these rich peppers will just provide targets to more ruthless and bigger bands of raiders.