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Hah, I didn't know precisely because in my case I've always seen an IPv4 address on mobile...

I thought pH = -log[H+]? where [H+] is the molarity of the hydrogen ion? That doesn't involve water in the definition... what is the definition you're referring to?

Edit regarding your reply asserting water is necessary (I can't reply now due to throttling):

What about all the acid/base reactions that don't involve water? You can't ascribe any pH to either of them in that case?

What would be the threshold for calling something "pure acid" (in the acid/base sense ;) )?

Yeah you're right, it certainly does. I would be curious if it goes mainstream enough to replace IPv4 in the foreseeable future though, which was its intention.

Is it fair to say IPv6 has been generally a failure? Or is it too early for that?

> Also, I'm fairly certain synchronizing isn't an issue because there's nothing to synchronize on since the data structures are immutable. Am I understanding you correctly?

No -- I'm referring to synchronization on the heap itself (think new()/delete()). Multiple threads allocating memory need to synchronize in order to avoid trampling on each other. You can't just get rid of synchronization entirely.

Er, the comment was, "Most filesystem images aren't intended to be ported directly between machines in general."

The entire complaint itself is the fact that this file system isn't able to do what people expect from most file system images (read: pretty much every one, except this one). Citing the fact that this particular one fails that pattern isn't a justification, it's circular logic.

What in the world? Why is this?

Is there any research on the tradeoff between this kind of thread safety and the penalties incurred on the memory management side (specifically the fact that now you have far more heap allocations with immutable data and they have to synchronize too)?

> Most filesystem images aren't intended to be ported directly between machines in general

You don't have external hard drives or flash drives...?

Right, but presumably a reasonably large merchant would find that they need to accept both though, right? And now you would have more purchasing power with them which feels a bit weird, since the old Bitcoin and the new Bitcoin would not have the same purchasing power...

Thanks! Isn't this something a currency should fundamentally prevent? I don't know of any real-world currency that can be used twice.

Can someone explain how old Bitcoin works post-fork? Can you sell the same old Bitcoin twice now? Is this already priced in somehow and still going up?

Retrophin was a company and not a drug, right? The comment is saying things like "Retrophin isn't a widely used drug" which is really confusing me and makes me think either I or the writer (or both) don't have any idea what he's talking about. I'm trying to make sense of it compared to what I'm reading from other sources and am completely failing because of this.

Without even any mention of what the manufacturer can do to cover cost increases? You really think it can be so simple?

It seems like you are completely missing the point. This has little to do with economic inequality. The issue is not that this guy had a random product and raised its price. If this had been a car or an iPhone, we could not have cared less if he had been "greedy" and selling it for $1M/piece. The issue is that this is medicine we're talking about. People don't view healthcare and medicine like they view ordinary services and products. Many people (perhaps not you) have a much higher threshold for what kind of practice is moral/ethical/acceptable in medicine. That's why even in the middle of a battlefield people think it is inhumane to prevent doctors from treating injured soldiers, the war be damned. There is more to humanity than money.

> It was kinda sleazy to see the congress question him about his price increases when they knew damn well it was perfectly legal and they haven't done anything to stop it.

Do you have any suggestions on how what exactly they should've done? Passed a law that says "you cannot increase the price of a drug beyond 5x" or something?

I don't understand your comment.

For what it's worth, I've colored the usernames on my HN discussions so I don't make mistakes like this. Maybe HN should do that natively.

> This case isn't about that.

That wasn't your question, was it? You asked why he's human garbage, I explained why. I wasn't defending or attacking this case, I was explaining why some think he is human garbage.

> Okay, I'll bite. Why do you think he's human garbage.

Obtaining a license just to increase a drug's price from $13.50 to $750 for no apparent reason other than greed isn't enough for you?

How reliable of a source is this? I'm not familiar with it.

A nerd is a single-minded enthusiast. A computer nerd is a single-minded computer enthusiast.

Awesome, thanks! I kind of want to be an SRE now. (Not because of the video game part, though I wouldn't mind that ;) I meant because it sounds exciting.)

Haha I see, thanks!

Ah I see, thanks. Hopefully you don't need to use the bathroom too badly during that shift I guess :)

That's hilarious but did the comment even need a reply?

Wow. How can you even have that kind of an SLA? Like what if you happen to be in the shower or in the middle of traffic or if your Internet drops out or something? How do these SLAs work?

I'm guessing it was because "trivial" suggests it is so for everyone, whereas "easy" suggests it is so for someone with the expertise.

No, it's not FUD. First, magnetic strips are already phased out in many places and continuing to be so in even more, so I don't understand that complaint. Second, see my reply to the sister comment -- even with magnetic strips they're still safer.