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> Excluding people based on their beliefs is completely a judgement call about whether you think their beliefs are so far from your own that nothing productive can come from sharing a department with them.

Would the author of this comment be willing to say the same thing if the shoe were on the other foot? Say, a high school refusing to hire someone based on their liberal beliefs (say, transgender people being able to use the bathroom they identify as)? After all, it's very possible for the school to say "nothing productive can come from sharing a department with them".

Anyone else see this headline and thought, "Some government gave them a 10-year-old?"

Is the website super slow for anybody? Scrolling takes several seconds on my desktop with an i7 on Chrome and Edge.

This is absolutely fascinating. Is there a website like airbnb.com where you can read reviews and book something like this?

"Tax revenue is down so we must raise taxes"

Yep, definitely happens a lot outside the corporate world.

I cannot emphasize this enough. To bid for a government contract is a MASSIVE undertaking. Just to win the bid is very, very difficult. The RFP, RFQ, ITB are just a small part of the process and the evaluation process of each bid is not merely the lowest price, but also a combination of responsiveness, history of responsibility and the politics of a selection committee.

And the computer systems that run the bank. And the disaster recovery systems that back up the bank. And the cars that come to the bank to do banking. And the construction vehicles that build ATM's, bank vaults, bank buildings. And the furniture production systems that supply the bank with furniture...

It goes on and on. Most of that stuff, bitcoin doesn't have to do at all.

Fun game. Just finished.

May I suggest a part 2? It can include rebasing, cherry-picking, stashing and resetting, among other things.

Believe it or not, the alternative was much worse. In the US, the Civil War cost roughly $8 billion (in 1860 dollars) and 600,000 lives. There were roughly 4 million slaves in the US at that time and using the New Orleans auction prices of that time you get an estimate of $2.7-$3.7 billion for the entire slave population of the United States.

Basically, NOT compensating slaveholders cost more than twice as much and many more lives in the US.

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I'm not sure how the exclusive sale model would work with information. Some problems I see are:

1. You can't prove a negative. The seller cannot prove that there's not a copy of the same information elsewhere.

2. If you prevent the same data from being sold again, the exclusive owner is also prevented from selling. What if that person wants to sell bits and pieces of the information as an arbitrage play?

3. Doesn't this obligate the police to bid for any child pornography whatever the cost?

Lots of money has been lost in other security breaches, oftentimes with much worse consequences because the data is centralized. This hasn't stopped people from shopping at Target for instance.

The nice thing is, security breaches in a decentralized network like bitcoin serve to make the entire network anti-fragile. There's a huge incentive for people with bitcoin to secure their own bitcoins against known exploits and hence make that exploit null while inevitably protecting against similar class exploits.

This proposal reminds me of the people that want to redo the world's calendar (every year still has 365 days, but each Jan 1st is always Monday, for example).

Changing something as deeply ingrained as time simply isn't going to happen anytime soon.

They have a lot of verified users. Depending on how much you're willing to pay for a user, it' may not be that terrible a proposition and a lot of the reputation problems go away when you bring in new management.

Basically, their assets might be worth more than you think.

Very interesting observation. It's very similar to work resumes in that it's very difficult to tell which positions a candidate had which meant anything.

tl;dr urgency and prudence don't go together.

tl;dr liberal intellectual claims criticism about liberal intellectuals and their friends are invalid.

Those are the realistic paths to upward mobility in each society.

I've noticed this, too. There's often a violent rejection of bitcoin at an intensity that doesn't correlate to how much it's hurt them. In fact, the nastiest remarks about bitcoin come from people that own zero bitcoins.

My theory is that the more something challenges your world view, the more violently against something you will be.

Overtime laws definitely affect the cliff at 40 hours. That said, there's something to be said for reliable and consistent employees. I know that a lot of small business owners I know would rather have a few trusted employees than many not-as-trustworthy ones. There's a trust cost to adding each additional employee that may or may not offset the overtime costs.

Prediction: /r/Science goes the way of /r/politics and /r/atheism and stops being a default sub-reddit.

It's interesting to note that this guy NEVER gets more than 30 hours. This is most likely to make sure the employee can't be considered full-time. I'm sure Google would rather hire 15 guys at 40-60 hours instead of 40 guys at 20 hours, but the sad reality is that the costs of compliance for a full-time employee are just not worth it.

Please spare us the lecture on what an investor should and should not do. What someone does with their money is their choice and the consequences of what happens with that money is their consequence.

The author of the article is obviously schilling for Cleveland and other rust belt cities that no longer have the manufacturing jobs that they used to.

Cleveland is one of the most heavily regulated and wasteful cities, as is Detroit. I would say that big companies aren't wanted there any more than they are in SF.

I know all too well. But, as the Paypal compliance department has told me umpteen times, their policies are not the same and are under different laws. So, eBay will let you list any physical good you want that conforms to their policy (basically anything that's not guns or child porn and things like that). Paypal will not you accept payment for anything that they define which contains e-currency (bitcoins, litecoins, etc), including Casascius coins and the like.

ebay is not the problem. it's paypal.

The author specifically claims that to understand bitcoin usage, you only need to look at the trading activity. That is what I'm disputing. No, you can't understand bitcoin usage without actually understanding the protocol.

In your analogy, it would be someone saying that you can understand Photoshop by looking at how people use the resulting pictures. It's nonsense and that's what I'm disputing.

I wouldn't say "just a tool". It's an enormously powerful tool that has backups everywhere, is not corruptible without at least 50% of the hashing power on the network, and has a consistent, decodable, verifiable format.

No registry of deeds by the government, no bank vault and certainly no website has this level of security around transactions.

> Understanding the trend towards Bitcoin usage is less in understanding the caveats developer Amir Takki employs: i.e. “a pure form of money with a mathematical basis,” and more about the social behaviours of those playing the system, those employing the mechanics of scarcity for leverage.

Ugh, I hate these sort of comments. It's as if bitcoin is only an exercise in speculate supply and demand. People, there is a huge network and protocol that's behind this thing! It's not just about the currency everyone's trading, it's about the underlying network! There's a distributed registry that anyone can look up. There's a source of truth for every single bitcoin (and future uses thereof) in existence. There's a reason network difficulty trends with price.

No, bitcoin is NOT just a bunch of traders trading and no, that's not what's going to give you an understanding bitcoin. That's like saying that understanding how a computer works is just by watching the monitor. There's an underlying fundamental, dare I say, intrinsic value to bitcoin that gets ignored by almost everyone fixated on bitcoin the currency's price when the real interesting thing is in bitcoin the protocol.

The actual number of public addresses that correspond to the generated group from the elliptical curve function is not 2^256, but slightly lower, since the cardinality of the group needs to be a prime number. Hence, if it's in that small gap, it would provably have no private key.

This is especially true of 4th down plays. A surprise play-action pass on 4th and 1 can go for an especially long gain and thus should have higher expected value. There's also the fake-punt scenario, which I suspect tends to be more successful than a regular 4th down.