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The exact sequence of events you are describing happened between 2013-2016 when Bitcoin fell from a hype induced >$1000 to (at its lowest) $200, and didn't rise above $1000 until this year.

It clearly did not kill Bitcoin, and Bitcoin won't die if the same thing happens again.

It seems that the biggest difference between the American right and left is whether to preserve the wealth of the rich at all costs, or whether to prioritise some other objectives ahead of that.

That depends whether the other occupants knew about the safety features and record of elevators. If they did, then they were making a sound judgement. If they didn't, then they were being completely reckless.

I admit I know nothing about C++ modules proposals, but the post talks about an "acyclic graph of translation units". Does this imply that modules can't import one another?

What happens when two .cpp files want to do the equivalent of including each other's header files?

Betteridge's law strikes again.

Singapore is in the northern hemisphere. It's north(west) of Pontianak which is on the equator.

How does a tablet fix that? The distance between touchscreen and keyboard is even further than between keyboard and a trackpad.

In the UK there is no such thing as an SSN, only "national insurance numbers" which are used for transactional purposes with the government, but are otherwise not part of daily life.

Society seems to function just fine. It's totally not necessarily to give each person an identifier.

Also it's pretty easy to detect if someone has a large piece of ferromagnetic metal inside them or not.

There's nothing wrong if users independently choose to use code generation. However when a programming language starts to rely on it, it becomes a major problem.

We've been here before with the C preprocessor. There's nothing wrong with having a preprocessor, but in C it is necessary to use the preprocessor and that causes a lot of problems, like making it especially difficult to write tools.

Yeah far from finding a sweet spot, Go exists in some kind of type system ghetto, because its type system is so crippled users have to resort to code generation (go generate).

Neither Python nor Java programmers have to do that.

I'm aware I might be fighting a losing battle here but the term is "expansionary" not "inflationary".

Inflationary means that the value of a currency tends to go down over time. Expansionary means that the supply of a currency tends to go up over time.

Bitcoin is mildly expansionary at the moment because the rate of coin creation is (presumably) greater than the rate of coin destruction. At some point this will flip and it will become contractionary.

Regardless, Bitcoin is obviously highly deflationary as the value of a Bitcoin tends to go up over time.

In the US, the value of someone's life depends on their citizenship, so they can perhaps get around this problem by only crewing their rocket with non-Americans.

Not now, but at the time of its introduction, Chrome was significantly better than everything else. Once they added extensions at least.

Chrome was the first web browser that didn't crash and didn't need to be frequently restarted. Chrome was immune to memory leaks, Flash was sandboxed, each tab was sandboxed, etc. It was a revolution.

British is an en dash separated by spaces, American is an em dash with no spaces.

> Empirical studies have shown that older people are better than younger ones in terms of control over emotion, knowing themselves better, making better decisions that require experience, and having more compassion and empathy towards others. These are the things I include in wisdom. So are things that are components of wisdom that can increase with aging.

How does this explain Brexit?

https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/docume...

    18-24: 71 remain / 29 leave
    25-49: 54 remain / 36 leave
    50-64: 40 remain / 60 leave
    65+:   36 remain / 64 leave

Sure seems like a clear inverse correlation between age and things like "control over emotion", and "compassion and empathy towards others". I'm going to suggest that every aspect of the brain degrades as we get older, including 'wisdom'.

You can turn it off.

Or you can apply a threat model and determine whether the people for whom TouchID/FaceID is keeping your phone secure against would have the resources to mount such an attack.

Nobody is suggesting that Uber did anything illegal, their licence to operate is being revoked.

Passive advertising is not an evil thing that needs to be eliminated. But when companies start building dossiers on all of us that even intelligence services would be jealous of, that is evil.

This is a really observant point.

Users expect every website to have a unique identity (unlike anything built with WinForms), that is what creates the complexity.

If you actually use something like bootstrap, your website will look unoriginal, but it will be dead easy to make.

Even if there were a perfect HIV cure, and antibiotics were 100% effective, there is a risk of infertility from chlamydia, etc.

So no, unprotected sexual freedom isn't a practical goal for medical science. Better to use condoms instead.

If the money is in a bank account in a foreign country, a court may have no jurisdiction to recover the money.

The classic example of political correctness is the term "happy holidays" instead of "merry christmas".

The use of political correct terms makes people mad because it contains within it an implication that they are being rude, and often the person coming up with these euphemisms has not the faintest idea whether the existing term was offensive or not!

Bitcoin is not the only game in town, there would be a mad scramble to Ethereum et al.

Who says? npm is proof that package managers need to do none of these things to be successful, and indeed the traditional design of a package manager as a constraint solver is self-defeating, because it puts a perverse pressure on libraries to have as few dependencies as possible and to avoid using the package manager to resolve their dependencies.

The reason npm has teething problems is because it's one of the first package managers to actually reliably address the problem of libraries depending on other libraries. Almost incredibly, nobody bothered to solve this problem before npm. i.e. npm addresses the case of library X depending on Z v2.0 and library Y depending on Z v3.0 without falling flat on its face.

a|b would be the obvious choice, because it already works for set:

    {1,2}|{2,3} == {1,2,3}

I guess the reason they went for the weird {∗∗a, ∗∗b} syntax is that it is not a commutative operation.

Yes, the PIN is the least secure way of unlocking a phone, by a wide margin.

If someone can shoulder surf while I unlock my phone with a PIN, then they can watch which buttons I press and now they can unlock my phone too. If I use the fingerprint reader to unlock, then they have no chance.

Complexity begets attacks. Apple's policy is "no rootkits". Allowing the user to modify the system software is basically a backdoor, and backdoors have an undeniable history of being abused by people other than their intended users.

Apple sees the iPhone as a hardware security device. Apple wants users to be confident enough in its security that they can use their phones to authenticate financial transactions.

It's great that some phones are modifyable by their users, but I would never ever link my Android phone with my bank account.

Apple wants to protect you from attackers, who may have physical access to your device, who want to install a rootkit on your phone.

It's fair to say that the GPLv3, which predates the iPhone, did not anticipate the nuances of people storing all their secrets on a tiny little computer that they keep with them at all times, including when they pass through international borders.