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Any idea how this impacts things like the Citizen app? It's helpful to see if there is violence or similar risks nearby, particularly in major metros. Would be a shame if they were cut off from being able to provide that info to the public to help protect themselves.

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Except it's not a business. It's the government and it's job is to apply the law in a country founded on the idea of equality.

Should police only pull over people in luxury cars because they're more likely to be able to pay a speeding ticket?

I know this sounds crazy, but how about we apply the law equally to everyone? I have a difficult time seeing how targeting or generalizing any group of people rather than individual likelihood of tax evasion is an appropriate application of resources.

Rental units generally change hands much more frequently than owned homes. Accordingly, rental units offer a more real-time view of housing cost trends.

There are also a lot of homeowners who locked in at a very low interest rate (both new homes and refinancing) with little incentive to move any time soon.

This is simply not accurate.

I build financial market infrastructure and in the last twelve months I've seen companies in my industry presenting at AWS and Splunk conferences, and a Cassandra meetup.

There are lots of great technologists in the space that are just like the rest of us and love sharing ideas. There are definitely NDAs in place, but "financial infrastructure" generally refers to processing systems, not trading systems. The former is increasingly utilized, while the latter generates alpha (i.e. where you actually make money).

People like sharing ideas about processing infrastructure because everyone benefits when the rest of the market gets better at it also. Your efficiency is only as good as your counterparties' efficiency. If their system breaks, you still have a broken trade that costs you operational time and money no matter how good your infrastructure is.

There is a lot more wrong with what this author wrote, but in the interest of time I'll keep my answer to the question asked.

How do you mean? There are examples of formal verification working in the video. The resulting compiled smart contracts are on the live Ethereum blockchain.

There's also AxLang. It's a core DSL based on Scala. Enables formal verification. Live demo on the public ETH mainnet:

https://medium.com/axoni/axlang-formally-verifiable-smart-co...

Remarkably low amount of new info relative to the clickbait title. Huge surprise: Govies watch everything you do and wait for you to mess up.

Including this comment. I'm toast.

Great - an always-on microphone in my home that sends all of my conversations and interactions directly to Amazon for analysis

Agreed. There's something to be said about maximizing productivity and relaxation time. Also, it's nice that they have a business model that works from a remote location, but personal interactions with clients go a long way for most companies.

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This same justification was used for obtaining personal financial information from bank accounts (see US v. Miller, 1976).

My problem with this line of logic is that it can be applied to anything not owned directly by the person under surveillance. For example, let's say you rent an apartment. Can the government force the landlord to install mics and cameras without telling you? It's not your property, so do all of your fourth amendment protections disappear?

You're double counting the yuan fees and ignoring the bitcoin fees. The exchange makes 0.3% on the 340,000 XBT (1,020 XBT, or about 625,000 USD) and 0.3% on the 1.25 billion yuan it was traded for (3.75 million yuan / 615,000 USD). The buyer and seller each only pay fees on one side of the trade in the currency they obtained in the transaction.

edit: That's why the section you quote only has around half of the figure shown in the headline.

This is from 2007

This article is a scaled-down version of the original one in Bitcoin Magazine by Vitalik Buterin. You can find it here:

http://bitcoinmagazine.com/7050/bootstrapping-a-decentralize...

Wow, where to begin...

1). Interest and principle on USTs are paid in USD, so the notion that the Chinese government simply "wants to send those dollars back to the US" is bunk since they're ultimately getting more back

2). If the Chinese government wanted to directly influence USD value, they could also simply hold onto the USD as currency reserves to take it out of the market / reduce supply

By buying US debt, China is doing the same as the Fed: lowering yields/increasing prices of USTs via increased demand. This allows the government to keep borrowing large amounts, which in theory should offer the cash needed to continue buying Chinese goods.

Moreover, USTs are by far the most liquid high-grade paper available. Pretty much the only possible investment to support volume of the size China needs.

And, while not likely to be used in the near term, this is absolutely an investment in defense. Chinese officials have openly supported the notion that large holdings of Japanese debt could be used as a crippling weapon, why wouldn't that apply to the US?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/china-business/9551727/Be...

"those saying the federal heath insurance exchange cost $634 million are incorrect. The official said this figure includes all of the company’s contracts for a Health and Human Services Department program over the last seven years"

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/10/10/rumor-check-obama...

Still appears to be $100M+ ...

It's funny how analogous this is to the underlying debate driving modern politics.

Should the state (Rockstar in this case) offer direct monetary provisions to the citizens without requiring productivity in exchange? The tough part is that both sides of the argument make sense. It's not fair that some players have had an unduly difficult time getting started, but it would also be unfair to diminish the value of the achievement of people who have succeeded by distributing gobs of cash to satiate the masses.

The analogy breaks down in that there's no inflation in GTA (as far as I'd guess, haven't played), but interesting nonetheless.

Given the size of the market and the amount of hashing power required to do that you'd almost certainly lose more money from not mining during that time than you would make on the trade.

Those poor bastards. Their arms are going to be unbelievably sore by by 10a every day.

From what I understand, the primary benefit of Tinder is the double-positive response matching that offers the possibility of success without the hurt of rejection. It solves the one of the biggest problems in dating.

Since one of the parties involved in "Tinder for Clothing" is inanimate, where's the value-add? In essence this is just a product catalogue, no?

You can't withdraw USD from Mt. Gox, so people buy bitcoin to withdraw, driving the price up. Incidentally the same site did an analysis on that a few months ago as well:

http://thegenesisblock.com/bitcoin-cross-exchange-spreads-re...

Closed two weeks ago:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/09/20...

The mainstream financial headlines generally regurgitate what the Fed wants to message. While certainly 'most' were surprised, many weren't.

Tapering was dependent on econ data, which simply hasn't been there to support it. I know plenty of people who were betting that it wouldn't happen, myself included. Good overview of why from before the announcement here:

http://www.moneyweb.co.za/moneyweb-safm-market-update/r-1805

Not if your goal is to make other traders (algos) think that you're acting on market data

Awesome analysis. Keep in mind that while it tells a very compelling story, that it isn't necessarily proof that there was a leak.

All it would take is for one major player to take a view on what was going to happen without hearing the fed data in an attempt to beat the market. Other algos then see that and act on it, playing the other players instead of the data, as algos are known to do frequently. All of this could happen in the time it takes for the actual data to get there.

There were tons of people who expected yesterday's announcement to turn out just as it did. I'm not saying that's what happened, just that it's a possibility to keep in mind before jumping to conclusions.

I don't think it was. He could have informed the core dev team of this relatively easy fix before it was an issue. This arose out of a live error. I still want to know what he was talking about!

"By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's." - Paul Krugman, 1998

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A friend of mine recently brought up the idea of a curved smartphone design to maximize thumb reach. My head nearly imploded imagining interface development for that.