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>This may change in the future, but the current reality is no better than a 1-to-1 transformation of fossil fuel into biofuel.

I was with you until this. a brief thought experiement makes it seem impossible that it would be 1 to 1, but rather that some smaller amount of fossil fuel used would yield a much larger amount of biofuel

early on bitcoin was, for a long time, regularly crashing to ~50% then rising to ~200%

2 - 10 - 5 - 20 - 10 - 40 - 25 - 100 - 50

when it crashed to 50 from 100 in 2013? 2012? i really wanted to buy 10 of them as i had observed the pattern for a long time. wish i had. oh well.

so clearly now it's going to rise to ~40k (kidding)

there's a parachute

no doubt the Takahashi brothers are mourning this one

>Simple, they have hit a price range that the average person feels they can spend and not feel to bad about wasting money later if it sits on the shelf.

I would add...

'and the vast majority of americans dont understand why they should care about government surveillance and how that relates to installing an internet-connected microphone in their home'

unfortunately most of us in the hn crowd probably feel like there is tons of awareness about surveillance right now, but my guess is that feeling is the result of filter bubbles.

i disagree with the author's logic here - yes any individual result is disconnected, yes the gambler's fallacy is wrong, but if we simply expand it to say, a 100 sided die landing on 1, 92 times in a row, then we can see the flaw here.

or to put it another way - expand his argument to 1 million coin flips, and all of them heads.

at some point probabilities should be evinced in results. it is surprising when they are not.

It's not impossible to stop most though. and Hacks like sony, equifax, linkedin and many others are the result of what should be criminal negligence. I.e. not encrypting sensitive personally-identifiable information.

instead of investing in securing their customer data these companies pad their bottom line. so yes, they should be held accountable for failing to follow basic industry-standard data protection practices.

Digital security is long dead so just dont use smart-anything if you aren't ok with it being pwned

I'd argue that the exonomic value is in the opposite direction.

is the salary of a graduate higher than those of someone without a degree who has been in their career 4-5 years already? plus the huge cost of uni weighed against the 4-5 years worth of salary accrued during that time?

i think this is trending towards that gap being smaller as a generation disillusioned with the value of college moves into upper management

speaking from my experience only, and with regards to the US only as I'm not familiar with the situation in other countries

I'd be happy to elaborate.

Only speaking from my experience in the US but many CS or IS graduates do not have the real world knowledge to excel in a job squarely in their field. They learn 90% of what they actually need on the job.

My uni's CS degree required a ton of math that is irrelevant to 90+ % of development jobs, lots of language and liberal arts classes that are also useless in the field, etc, etc...

at least here, uni is a total money grab. very expensive, not a whole lot of practical knowledge imparted.

ahh i see the lack of clarity - i was referring to cases where the person whose rights were violated was someone clearly guilty of or at least very likely did commit the crime with which they are charged

with all the info available about rampant blanket NSA spying/access, and the content of most privacy policies, the basic operating procedure anymore should be to assume that all devices are pwned.

if you're cool sprinkling always-on microphones around your house for convenience, more power to you.

I can't do it.

It's unfortunate that so often the constitution is defended in cases where there's clear wrongdoing, but I sure hope the fourth is upheld, and law enforcement learns to - and is forced to by court rulings - knock it off with massive orwellian surveillance

>But for most moderately smart people college is the best choice.

I just don't think this is true anymore, given the financial burden of modern academic education and the fact that they teach so little useful skills

programming is increasingly a trade, and can definitely be self taught better than any college will teach it.

the rest of the education may have other value but IMO not worth the time + money + opportunity cost

>Just pay the toll

especially when the cost of doing the right thing is higher.

i mean look at HSBC - laundered trillions of dollars of mega-organized-crime money. for a decade. 400m dollar fine probably isnt even .01% of what they made off that endeavor

Dont confuse 'Hustle' i.e. to run or work energetically with 'Hustler' i.e. slang term for one who swindles (oversimplified, but this is the definition used in the article)

with regards to [0] You're using definition 1. the writer is referring to definition 4

although it does seem like the writer is ascribing uses of definition 3 instead to definition 4.

[0] http://www.dictionary.com/browse/hustle

>Plus, we know there is some water on Mars already

do we know that?

what i'm reading with regards to this article and comments is that now we're back to not having any concrete evidence of this

to take your statement a step further than just retail, I'll say that the entire economy is effectively largely dependent on people spending money. Which is why trickle-down economics has been not working at all for at least a few decades and yet somehow this is still the resoning for tax plans.

the idea being that the 1% who has 90% of the country's wealth needs a little more to create jobs (from thin air)

whereas the truth is that people spending money is what will create jobs

it's such a shame

it looks like 'the periodic table of US retail jobs growth'

all of the news about how the 3-letter agencies operate from the last decade

FTA:

>It also doesn’t use any kind of network connection, so it’s not broadcasting the stuff it captures anywhere. You can connect to your phone to check what you’ve got.

I'd add:

and, once connected, undoubtedly upload everything captured automatically to google for ad services, datamining, and machine learning.

VR is pretty legit right now.

lots of fiddling for the current best experience but totally can blow you away. you can't imagine what it's like - you have to experience it to understand.

also... tesla/spacex... and tons of other things. tech is evolving very quickly. Tech history is being made much faster than it was back then

> Microsoft want me to buy subscriptions to their cloud services and ideally devices running their OS.

Microsoft pretty clearly wants 100% telemetry about everything you do on your computer - to the point where they will explicitly override user settings to the contrary - so you are underestimating the scope of their motivation

because then google can't quietly change the design of future versions to monitor you with more than they can get out of the touch sensor

>If someone is sexually assaulted and reports it to Uber and not the police,

>that person is a liar.

non sequitur

theres an irc with 2000 python devs ready for instant feedback. it's like a live chat stackoverflow for python or better.

given the python community imo there's no reasons for beginners to shy from libraries. ESPECIALLY python libraries and frameworks, e.g. django is magic and can easily be learned/used by a dev who only has basic python knowledge

Didnt verizon already lose a court case saying they couldnt do throttling and still call it unlimited?

this is cool but i had to leave part way through the main video. it gives me anxiety thinking about getting all those parts back together without loosing a screw or messing something up.

do you know the name of the movie?

its the aggregation and easily searchable format for 2/3 of citizens that makes this REALLY dangerous for identity theft. they were still grossly irresponsible. no consequences will happen though.