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I can't read this...there are no pictures!

Just wait until they place an ad in your clipboard

- Exact position (altitude/latitude/longitude)

Given the context, when I first read this I was like wow! Advertisers want to know your sexual position? Then, I saw lat, lon and then realized that either way shouldn't surprise me.

Great work and congrats on making it to the top of HN.

I did something similar awhile back...I called it inception host :)

https://github.com/jrhea/inception/blob/master/readme.md

Will do. Thanks for the tip.

Well said

One more thing, this is not an ICO. There is no token sale, no profit motive, we just want to democratize results from computation math and showcase what is possible with Ethereum/IPFS.

Here are some additional links:

To participate in the Collatz Conjecture: http://arithmetica.network/contribute#Collatz%20Conjecture

To define a new problem for others to work on: http://arithmetica.network/contribute

These links point to the version of Arithmetica that was submitted to ETHDenver. Since then , we have been working on refactoring and coming up with a scalable solution for saving state.

The project is open source and anyone is welcome to contribute, or fork. We welcome any questions/feedback.

There has to be some kind of Bitcoin faucet, as euphemism for the clap, joke here.

Great analysis... I like your 'outshine the master comment'. There is a good chance that the OP is intimidating the interviewer and should make an effort to display humility to counteract this.

You just used the same argument that some parents use when they decide to not vaccinate their children. They essentially rely on the fact that everyone else vaccinates so they don't have to. This trend catches on and now measles are at a 20 year high.

He made his 'Bitcoin is a fraud' comment in September when Bitcoin was somewhere between $3000-$4000. In October, he called Bitcoin investors stupid.

Bitcoin has done nothing, but increase in value since then. If JD was trying to spread FUD in order to buy cheap....that clearly didn't work. No one in the Bitcoin space gives a shit what that guy says.

These people can't help themselves.

Why read it multiple times? Just close your eyes

All the confusion from Americans is totally understandable. That being said, the title addressed his audience...Londoners. Comments suggesting a title change, so that people he wasn't intending to talk to can understand, is expecting too much. If the topic interests you, take the time to read for more context, maybe even ask, or research it.

You are an angry little man.

Given the context...I think his response was apt

Sorry...DFW over Houston.

Better weather, higher elevation, significantly lower cost of living, and more people.

Sources: https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Metropolitan_Statist...

Where are you getting your numbers from? Philadelphia's cost of living is higher than say.... Dallas (And Houston And Austin). Plus DFW metropolitan area is the 4th largest in the US (7.2 million) whereas Philly is 7th (6 million).

Sorry..I couldn't resist using Dallas as an example considering it is American Football season.

Sources:

Cost of living (1) https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...

Cost of living (2) http://www.bestplaces.net/cost-of-living/dallas-tx/philadelp...

Population https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Metropolitan_Statist...

Don't forget that we can listen to their attempt at verbalizing that knowledge and then, in turn, draw/verbalize our own sketchy conclusions....and so on.

Fyi...there are no basements in Houston (or Texas really) despite what the article states about how water will have to be pumped out of all the basements.

Do you have a link to the source of this claim?

I love that you posted that.

Fyi, the original paper by Ralph Merkle where he introduces what is later called Merkle Trees is definitely worth knowing. I wouldn't say it is my fav, but it resulted in a key component in some of my favorite technologies.

https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~raluca/cs261-f15/readings/...

To add to pjc50's comment and to demystify the phenomenon a little...Figure 7 is just a plot of the deviations from a trend line of the GNP. I can't say for sure, but I would bet that this trend line is refit to the data at a regular frequency (probably yearly). Imho, it is useless by itself as a predictive tool....it needs to be combined with other signals to have any real value in signalling a change. It is one of those things that looks like magic in hindsight. To be fair, the article does cite other signals that indicate a downturn and I don't have any insights or desire to call bullshit on the prediction.

Thanks for the Discovery Science explanation.

Annoying plug though: >Subtext: another feature of Google Cloud that doesn't exist at AWS or Azure. Nothing to turn on, no extra charge.

I get it GCP has TPUs and BBR, but are we really implying that it is more feature complete? I don't agree.

It's fine to disagree, but I just don't understand what you aren't understanding about his concerns.

He doesn't like the idea of this list being made. Is that not enough?

Excellent point. The labeling is sure to be flawed and studies using it as a data source will treat it as absolute truth/substitution for thought.

Interesting point, but if I remember correctly it was religious zeal rather than political.

Not to be a pedantic, but I guess I will be. From bitcoin.org

"Bitcoin - with capitalization, is used when describing the concept of Bitcoin, or the entire network itself. e.g. "I was learning about the Bitcoin protocol today." bitcoin - without capitalization, is used to describe bitcoins as a unit of account. e.g. "I sent ten bitcoins today."; it is also often abbreviated BTC or XBT."

The article is a bit dramatic, but the funny part is that he spent so much time trying to prove that whales install buy and sell walls to manipulate the price. This is not news and happens with every cryptocurrency on every exchange. It is especially common and easy to spot with altcoins. The typical life cycle of an altcoin is similar to this:

1) Bitcoin code forked and slightly modified.

2) New coin announced on Bitcoin talk and the creators premine enough to control the price

3) attempt to hype the coin and gain interest

4) coin is added to exchanges and people begin buying it

5) buy walls are installed by the coin creator to prevent the price from crashing and they continue to hype the coin in trading chatrooms

6) price raises high enough and enough demand exists for the coin creator to remove the buy walls and sell off premined coins

7) the price crashes and the coin is abandoned

This is called pump and dump and it happens all the time. With more successful coins...the effect isn't as dramatic bc there are investors that believe in the value of the project, but the mechanics of the price manipulation is the same.