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previously flagged without explanation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46218640

> But instead the CCP rejected that and undermined global good will

Can you elaborate on this? This feels a very US centric view. The US itself has repeatedly failed to comply with its own 'rules-based order', whilst expecting other powers to comply.

It might be worth taking a look at Mattereum [0] as an example of work in this area.

Much of their work has been on how to make smart-contract based 'ownership tokens' (akin to NFTs) enforceable in existing courts in as many global jurisdictions as possible. They believe that they've found a way to make their arbitration system enforceable "in 150+ countries via the 1958 New York Arbitration Convention" [1].

Vinay Gupta ('hexayurt' on HN [2]) is co-founder and CEO and may be able to enlighten further.

[0] https://mattereum.com/

[1] https://mattereum.com/2021/04/01/mattereum-product-walkthrou...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=hexayurt | https://twitter.com/leashless

AFAIK only the pool operator can see the full set of transactions for the block being mined. Pool workers only get to see the block header for the new block. This header only contains the hashed root of the transaction tree, and so they are unable to front-run private transactions in this way.

Brunner's 'Shockwave Rider' has an interesting vision of how super-intelligent dogs might take care of security for village sized human communities.

Thanks for linking your talk! Just started watching it now. Is that Dan Boneh in the front?

Just please, for the love of god stop trying to show me Jordan Peterson videos!

Delphi XE IDE (2010):

Crashes often when stepping into multi-threaded code, frequently 'forgets' whole families of types.

Throws a fit if you switch git branches from underneath it.

In its defence it does compile damn quick!

Gut flora in humans appears to have a significant influence on weight gain/loss. Perhaps ABs fed to livestock tilt towards weight gain.

Wow, this is really appropriate for the day I've had today. Repeatedly failing to get a brand new install of Bitcoin Core to index and sync with the blockchain. I finally dusted off my Memtest86 and voila, bad RAM stick!

I suppose crypto would fare pretty badly inside this language, or has anyone thought about this kind of thing?

Downvotes require a karma threshold (of 500 IIRC).

BTW, whatever you do don't overuse the 'flag' feature on stories as it seems when this is revoked it is permanent! I lost mine when trying to encourage news other than the passing of Steve Jobs.

Failing a 'dream bard' like you mention a fairly good alternative is a laptop (scraptop) with a broken screen. It may need to be fairly high end, e.g. many Lenovo models I've seen (even X series) have two m-PCI slots available for Wifi.

It possible that the ballot box is no longer the biggest tool in your kit. Stick your neck out, support a local cause that is affected by this perverse phenomenon if you can. Myself, I have been arrested multiple times and have convictions relating to environmental protest (terrorism?). Do not underestimate the empowerment that comes from taking the leap of faith to back up your convictions with acts of resistance.

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Benjamin Franklin

Here comes the corporate damage control!

Bluemix is too little too late, and appears to be an advertisement for all the open-source 'cool' tech that IBM did not invent.

Let's not even get into the fraud that was the share-buyback (second only to Apple I believe). Now that's ended the tricky question of where that elusive revenue will come from looms its ugly head.

I'm pretty fucking scared about what a company in decline with an arsenal of patents like IBM's is going to do to hit its EPS targets in the next few years.

I think what will happen is for any given target a weighting will be inferred, giving the likelihood of that person being sarcastic or joking.

As more and more data about us is collected, about what we say/type vs. what we actually do, this has the potential to become more accurate over time.

Facial and voice-tone analysis, analysis of our peers' responses to what we say/write, analysis of our actual movements/purchases compared to what we say/write ("I'm so going along to that Nickelback concert at the weekend...!") etc., combined with leading brains in stats and ML lead me to think this problem could be tractable to some extent in the future. Scary :-/

If something like this comes to be, and is deployed 'wholesale', it has the potential to influence our behaviour, and over generations, alter our definition of 'sarcasm' by what we are able to get away with saying. Insidious!

That said I hope Charlie is right and that humans can game the system significantly that it is a non-starter.

How about DNSCurve for traffic between you and us? (client requests). That'd be nice!

This looks very much in the spirit of Yegges' 'Grok' project at Google [1][2].

Does anyone know if that project is still alive?

[1] http://bsumm.net/2012/08/11/steve-yegge-and-grok.html

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTJs-0EInW8

I didn't say you won't get your money but that legally speaking the money, once deposited, is not yours any more, it is an asset of the Bank. This is why you'd need insurance/government-guarantees during a bank failure, otherwise you'd be treated just like a stock or bond holder who holds no collateral.

"From a legal and financial accounting standpoint, the term "deposit" is used by the banking industry in financial statements to describe the liability owed by the bank to its depositor, and not the funds that the bank holds as a result of the deposit, which are shown as assets of the bank." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deposit_account

"Bank deposits are simply a record of how much the bank itself owes its customers. So they are a liability of the bank, not an asset that could be lent out." - p.http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Documents/quarte...

Don't forget, 'real' bank accounts work like this as well. The money is no longer yours once you deposit into an account. The bank represents it as a liability on its balance sheet. As an account holder you are an 'unsecured creditor' of the bank. I have a feeling a lot more of us will be aware of this arrangement within a year or two, once the bail-ins begin.

Scheme syntax and main semantics are taught by the first couple of lectures IIRC. The main issue for me with the book and to some extent these videos is the assumption of the student being fairly comfortable with certain (fairly basic) mathematical ideas and techniques. This motivated me to pick these up as I went, but meant that the workload was fairly hefty. I still have not made it all the way through!

Tools and environment were another matter, getting MIT Scheme installed and running was a bit of a pain. Next time I'll probably try with Racket and Neil van Dyke's SICP support package :

http://www.neilvandyke.org/racket-sicp/

From the looks of it support for the 'Picture Language' is supported, looks like fun. :-)

There's something reassuring about these vids, possibly the timelessness of what they attempt to convey. The enthusiasm, Sussman's especially for me, shines through well. They were filmed at HP in the 1980s, there's some great examples of 80s fashion going on there at points :-)

Thanks for all the effort to get to this stage Eben. As someone who was repeatedly told (on the RP forums) that I had no business to desire the user-land graphics to be open-sourced, and that only hardware engineers would get any benefit from this code, I thought this day would never come!

I'm happy to be proved wrong, and happy that many little 'RasPis' will have an extended lifespan from this decision by your employer. :-)

I hear there is a coin launching soon that may interest you, SchadenCoin!

It seems it is too early to state with any certainty that MtGox are also a victim here.

http://falkvinge.net/2014/02/28/the-gox-crater-crowd-detecti...

http://letstalkbitcoin.com/the-ghost-in-the-machine-at-mtgox...

"At least they can finally sell the patient history to third parties"

Not sure your sarcasm is all that clear. To those not aware the UK government is passing this off as a way to improve your care within the NHS via centralised records. They have made it opt-out and have sent out a confusing leaflet that leads the reader to believe their care will suffer if they opt-out of selling patient records.

Records are already centralised within the NHS. What is happening is the government is setting up a free for all with easily de-anonymised records being sold off to third parties (read: private health providers and insurance companies).

Well, it's more of a 'they are breaking the rules of our community' outcry. Sure some may be crying out for law enforcement to get involved. I agree that those folk are being naive and/or hypocritical.

I think Bitcoin is a fantastic exercise in educating people about personal responsibility, and in particular responsibility within a community. The current structures that govern and police our societies don't look very stable right now (yes, even in western societies). Anything that teaches people (sometimes harsh) lessons on personal and community responsibility is a good thing and necessary to soften the blow of the gradual (or sudden?) collapse of industrial societies.

Good points, especially treating addiction as a medical condition.

There's a lot of folks on SR, or whichever is the latest online drug market, selling good quality and relatively safe soft drugs. They are able to earn reputation in a community allowing users to have a low risk way to obtain the drugs they would seek out regardless. This, to me, is a step in the right direction. Why would you be against this?

So the health concerns worry you. Have you ever considered the health effects the stress of a modern lifestyle on people, especially if they are poor. It's a tradeoff but I think there are definitely people (myself included) who get an overall health benefit from some drugs if it allows them to relax and escape their daily reality temporarily. All we have in our lives is our experiences ultimately.

I am convinced light use of Cannabis, Psilocybin and even Ketamine have all helped with my depression. Far more damaging to me were the SSRI anti-depressants my doctor seems so keen to hand out. I have never had the same difficulty stopping any of the 'illegal' drugs I use compared to coming off SSRI anti-depressants. Not to mention the horrible side effects of SSRIs when you are on them.

Fuck off Zed, its just people selling drugs man, get over it. Not everyone agrees with prohibition.

Between you and Miguel Icaaza there's enough 'Bitcoin schadenfraude' to power a small town.

Video of interview/talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQZ-0mXFmk8