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From the same article I linked:

Others, however, are not as comfortable with the relatively new currency. The first ever single-family home sale in Texas involving bitcoin was announced last month. The buyer, who works in the tech industry, purchased the newly built home in Austin using bitcoin, but the seller, a custom homebuilder, wanted the currency converted to dollars during the transaction.

This article is from 2017 I'm sure if I searched for more I'd find more examples but regardless is buying a house really the final test of something's potential as a currency?

I'll believe this when somebody buys a house with Bitcoin.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/16/bitcoin-is-finally-buying-in...

"Our buyer has evolved, they've moved from mom and pops to young people who want to pay with various forms of payment," said Ben Shaoul, president of Magnum Real Estate Group. "Cryptocurrency is something that has been asked of us — 'Can you take cryptocurrency? Can we pay that way?' — and of course when somebody wants to pay you with a different form of payment, you're going to try to work with them and give them what they want, especially in a very busy real estate market."

I also had issues with the mediawiki/wiki editors and their clumsy nature.

For me I'm just after a simple pure text knowledge-base.

Currently I use vuepress https://vuepress.vuejs.org/

The positives with vuepress for me were:

* Plain Markdown (With a little bit of metadata)

* Auto generated search (Just titles by default)

* Auto Generated sidebar menus

The negatives:

* No automatic site contents, I mostly use the search to move around docs

* Search is exact not fuzzy

* The menu settings are in a hidden folder

I have been using firefly. https://firefly-iii.org/

This is also my experience after about 10 years of Dvorak and I work on other people's computers in QWERTY daily.

I will sometimes begin to type in Dvorak unconsciously if I am on a laptop keyboard that feels similar to my personal laptop. As soon as I see the mistaken letters coming out I switch back without any effort.

Sometimes it can be hard to know that your setup isn't working as you expected.

Whilst commanding someone to fix it should be the last resort most people with voice activation would rather the setup work for everyone in the server so they can keep using it.

On my setup for example I had a desk mic which sat on my wooden desk. People had to point out to me that there were sudden sharp noises coming from my mic. Eventually it was isolated to my mouse hitting the desk and vibrating up the base into the mic. I placed the mic on a bit of foam and everyone was happy. These types of activations are not picked up during self testing easily.

Exactly what I was going to write! :P I find it really easy to tune out to music I've heard before, But it has to be to a good rhythm if there is too much irregularity I'll get put off

That honestly blows my mind, My connection is 10MBit/s down and 2MBit/s up. And that about the best i can get..

I think i should move :P

Torrent streaming is very efficient for the server costs, However you have to stop trying to lock everything down somewhere because though it's a nice thought it only annoys the legit users.

In the end there is no way to stop someone just "dubbing" the video manually if there are a million software blocks in place, If you can see it you can steal it, Is the way media goes.

All the anti-piracy protections hurt more consumers who pay than the pirates who won't be worried by it once they have it.

However more to the point, Torrenting would be a wonderful alternative especially if it was made aware to the users that by leaving it streaming they'd HELP the BBC, It'd make for great content distribution.

http://trial.p2p-next.org/moreinfo/moreinfo.html

How much is your monthly charge though? I mentioned mine just above..

What are the caps/speeds like there on average? VS price..

I come from a world where "10Gig!" is a "extreme plan" and the largest cap is 80gig, Which costs 130NZD or 607.092087 Swedish kronor (So says my converter)

I agree, But how many Video streams would we need to stream at once for it to overrun moore's law is what i don't get, Sure it's a heck of a big job, but it's not a falling sky as such.

3D enhanced video sounds great! but all these technologies really won't be loading more than 3-6 streams of data at once, which we can keep up with easily.

It's just that choking bandwith doesn't cause any loss of customers until the competition offers better..at least that's how it is here

(NZ)

But i get it, there are huge files, But i still think we can keep up.

I think spam is still a technology problem more than a person problem, Spam can be beaten. Things like piracy can't.

EG, There are only so many ways to display spam to someone, And if we aren't seeing it it's going to stop.

But there will always be a way to share information, and it's the end user that cares they don't mind how they get it so it wont be stopped.

I found this article, rather vague..

How is it that computer networks will override moore's law? Either networking is inherently too costly on CPU/Hardware Or someone miscalculated that with a rise in computer power the networking infrastructure also rises in power..

Also using Youtube as an example for "clogged tubes" is silly, Youtube is clogging their own tubes (Ours too but only because we're not keeping up in rolling out new networks) Think of delivery via means like Bittorrent (no that doesn't instantly mean piracy) But rather as a protocol for distribution and even streaming media..More efficent so it makes the youtube costs much smaller and the overall load more distributed.

There is a maximum amount of traffic that could flow on the internet currently, but theoretically we will one day have a limit to our consumption above 1080p we might only ever need 2k and so that will be video, text is too small to worry about and music will only change in quality to a few gigs per album, So what more could we transfer?

Honestly I actually agree completely, If anybody actually bothers to search through the trolls and actually uses a mac they might understand this.

When you have a problem with a mac you can't fix it, 90% of the time the problems are hidden away and impossible to troubleshoot.

My first mac, Kernel panic when using "Internet sharing" You plug in the Ethernet and it was 100% guaranteed to happen every time I got no support. Cool one bad laptop ok!

So i get a second one, Macbook 15" and it builds up it's own little box of problems, Overall it's wonderful but it just always manages to pipe up a few little errors here and there, Crash sometimes and not support very simple things. I got 3 new logic boards (That's CPU/Motherboard/Graphics) All replaced and still had the same problems over and over, Either they didn't actually replace it or there was something very seriously wrong with my ram (Which was never replaced anyway and now is fine)

The whole bootcamp/windows/linux on a mac is bullshit, there are always problems, And you void your warranty if you remove OSX (Yes it's true I got refused repairs due to windows)

I wish I could replace this with a windows laptop.

I think it's much more positive to look at the development that is going on around the newest version of firefox, with open source technologies for streaming media.

Just look at adobe and their dedication to 64bit linux users, Because it was not open source people who could have made the software perfectly sat around waiting on them because there was simply nothing they could do.

Adobe is an alright company to me, But I think they hinge a lot of their goals on dominance rather than being feature rich and "liked"..

I'd love to see an open source Adobe/Flash initiative, That would really get things rolling, Because 40% of my cpu shouldn't go to showing a 400px video..

This isn't all true, What about the SSL providers that we hardwire in for security?

What about the Microsoft update domain.. And for that matter all automatic packaging systems

It is conceivable that if someone was to have enough access inside these services and then take over the domain they could cause havok!

But really that's just another alexa (:

wow, It's surprising how small that actually is in reality

Reddit links here, So they have some good comments as well for anyone reading on

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8cm8w/defensive...

Out of curiosity how much MB/GB bandwidth did this total too even though your host doesn't limit you?

Probably A history of computing and technology from flight upwards. Then give them a low down on wars and show them how ruthless we are.. Then before they go to bed i'd read them the bible as a short fictional story.

Apparently this guy is just taking the credit for this, He didn't really do it.. Or so say the interwebs.

It's good to see some smart thinking on the iPhone front, I find a lot of the closed source software lacking in features due mainly to the uncompetitive nature of the store..

"My app sells for 5$ with these features, Why add more when i can make another app that also sells for 5$?"

But of course I don't wish for a flame war, I understand there are many good developers on both sides, I just find this is a trend.

Great writeup though the title mislead me, I totally expected a RX-8 Driving around..

But very cool!

This article completely missed the point, Youtube has been the subject of fights for years, But Google bought it knowing it wouldn't survive without their power.

Google makes statements, They make browsers just to push the industry, Bid on the wireless frequencies to make them open to other devices.

Google is not amoral, they simply are easily spun out of context.

This site has been on 4chan for a few days, It's being bombarded with trolls and the like.

it's unlikely you'll get a good conversation in until they are bored

Hole punching firewalls is almost as old as NAT itself, but it's still really useful.

Got HTTP access? Tunnel a command to the server over HTTP and punch the ports

Of course if someone simply disallows access to the skype servers it breaks this approach, Or having a special NAT setup.

All and all hole punching is a cool subject.