peterjlee

Alternatively, you could put your computer in a tank of mineral oil.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V06LLTNxc4

Millennials still watch sports and it's still pretty hard to watch sports without having your parent's cable service logins..

Have you tried https://play.pocketcasts.com/ ?

I've been frustrated with many free podcast apps so I paid for Pocket Casts and I've been happy since. I think it's a smart move by NPR et al. What they want is the usage data like where they pause, where they skip, etc. These data were traditionally not available to podcast publishers because podcast is really just an mp3 file uploaded to some server.

NPR has the NPR One app but I guess not enough people are using it. They've been open about what data they're collecting and I honestly don't mind NPR knowing about my podcast listening habits.

I don't like using fingerprints because my fingerprint is literally left on the reader. Anybody with a scotch tape can get a copy of my fingerprint left on the reader or the screen. That's like writing down your password on a post-it on your monitor. Anybody dedicated enough can then make a fake finger that can log in.

Not that I'm worried about someone pulling this spy operation on me but if my laptop is lost or stolen, I won't have the peace of mind.

I think what killed AIM, MSN, etc. was SMS. You had to meet your friends in person at school or be home in front of a computer to talk to your friends. With SMS you can talk to them anytime, anywhere. Then smartphones came out and apps like WhatsApp, FB Messenger and LINE took over.

Here's a 2014 study of top 39 US CS programs on what language they user for their intro courses. More than half use Python, followed by Java.

https://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/176450-python-is-now-th...

I'm using unit cost here so it's easier to see how I personally feel about it. Just multiply the number by however many employees you want to imagine.

I'm just using the per user cost here. $6.67/user/mo is the standard plan price if you pay annually.

If Slack was down for 5 minutes in a month that will break the 99.99% SLA. If you pay $6.67/mo for Slack, 6.67 * (0.01%) * 100 = 0.07

Yea I'll rather have Slack for that 5 minutes than save my company 7 cents.

I'm not suggesting any theories. I'm just pointing out that Apple isn't really in a terrible position because of this news.

This might be a good scenario for Apple. Apple doesn't have to build a backdoor, which is good for PR, and the Feds got what they want to they'll stop bothering Apple. Which is the position Android/Google was in all along.

One thought I had was that species evolved to maximize the survival of the species, not the individual organism. Once an organism is too old to reproduce or contribute to the survival of the species, it's probably better to die than becoming a burden to the rest of the members of your species. It sounds cold hearted and brutal but that's just how nature works. Maybe it is possible for an individual organism to reproduce and live forever someday but that would be very hard to achieve and we're probably stuck in a local maxima.

Just anecdotal but all of my friends who majored in chemical engineering are somehow software engineers now..

How does one go about telling the DMV that your car is no longer in use because you sent it up to space on a rocket?

Who are the "wilfully accepting" people you speak of? I think most people aren't accepting nor rejecting anything.

Someone is hungry and now they have food delivered. Someone doesn't have a job and now they have a delivery job. It's a win-win situation in a short-term micro scale and people are just responding to short-term incentives. It may have a bad effect in the long term but hungry/unemployed people don't have time to think about that and middleman-apps are making good profit exploiting that.

I think the point of undergrad is to have as much exposure to relevant material in the field, so later in their professional life if something relevant comes up they'll at least remember that they learned about it and know where to look. Also, if the students find one particular thing interesting and want to learn more about it, that's what grad school is for.

I don't remember the details of every algorithm I learned in college, but if a need arise, I know what my options are and the details are usually one Google search away.

I've been wondering why Korean and English is so different and one obvious reason is geographical. If humans originated from Africa and spread East and West, Korea is pretty much at the Eastern end of the spectrum and England is pretty close to the Western end of the spectrum.

This isn't something new. Scoop is already doing this and Lyft had carpool for a while before they shut it down.

Finding the origin of contents are already a challenge these days. A random idea I have is creating a blockchain where content creators can register their creations to prove their origin. Also, camera manufacturers can get involved and build in a hardware that signs every picture and video captured by that camera which can then be registered to the blockchain.

I agree with the gold comparison. Gold is priced far higher than it's industrial usefulness because it's seen as an value holding asset.

The properties that make gold a good value holding asset is:

1. It's rare and supply is limited (holds value in low physical volume) 2. It doesn't decay or rust 3. It's easy to split into smaller pieces or combine into a larger one.

Bitcoin is good at all three plus added benefit of easy, fast, cheap global transaction (compared to gold at least).

Whatever inherent value gold has is far below it's current price though. If gold wasn't seen as an asset and was purely valued based on it's utility like iron and copper, it'll be priced far below the current price.

I don't think $1B is the transaction amount. In the last 24 hours, trade volume on GDAX(Coinbase's exchange) for Bitcoin alone was $247 million.[1] Their trade fees are around 0.25%[2] so in the last 24hr they made over $60M in Bitcoin trading alone.

[1] https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/gdax/ [2] https://support.gdax.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2425097...

Anything can have "value" if someone is willing to pay for it. The US dollar is just a piece of paper if nobody is willing to exchange anything for it. Cryptocurrency has value because some speculator is willing to pay for it because they think it'll be worth more in the future.

There's a high demand in S.Korea (mostly FOMO) and it's a bit hard to transfer a large amount of money out of S.Korea for some legal reasons, which makes arbitraging hard.

Here's a relevant video from Wendover productions explaining why Boeing 787 is doing better than A380.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlIdzF1_b5M

What do you mean by "they do have the ability to credit their accounts"? So the Fed will print more dollars and buy bitcoin? The total number of Bitcoin still doesn't change and it will raise the value of Bitcoin while devaluing dollars. The bailouts can still occur but it will occur in dollars since that's the only currency the Fed can print. If the Fed prints more dollars, it will devalue the dollar and everyone who holds dollar will have less purchasing power while if you had Bitcoin (or gold or any other currency), you're purchasing power won't be affected.

Isn't it already a common knowledge when someone says "the Fed prints money", they're flipping digits in their computers and not actually printing paper bills?

The Fed doesn't print the paper bills anyways. The Treasury does it.

It wasn't "The sort of activity which led to the financial crisis" that inspired bitcoin. After the crisis happened the US government funded the massive bailout by printing more money. It turned out to be a "good" decision since it prevented a catastrophic economic failure but it did cause more inflation and some people weren't happy that a government can just print more money on a whim.

So that's how the bitcoin came about to make a currency where there are no central governing body that can just print more whenever it wants.

Right after the S.Korean Justice Ministry announced this, the Finance Ministry is like WTF? we were planning on taxing them. We can tax them if you get rid of it.

So far this plan doesn't have the full government support so it might not actually happen.