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10951.
by api 9y ago
When the crash comes or when someone comes up with an ASIC for Ethereum, all these cards will flood the secondary market and the spare capacity slack will cause a price crash. You'll be able to get the highest end card in the world for
10952.
by api 9y ago
It's less insane than some of what passes for art, and the fact that Pepe became a white nationalist symbol adds extra edginess and irony.
10953.
by api 9y ago
What would trees give you for the usual ledger use case? Or would it be some other use?
10954.
by api 9y ago
Most compilers have directives for packing structs. What the OP suggests is something that can be done for high performance, but don't expect it to be portable outside of common architectures and compilers. I'd consider it somet
10955.
by api 9y ago
Why do so many fascists and racists like him then? They're collectivists. (Not necessarily saying Peterson is a fascist or a racist, but that's a separate question.)
10956.
by api 9y ago
I'm fairly socially liberal too and on the fence about him. He says a lot of interesting things and I've never been a fan of postmodernism which I regard as a form of "pseudo-profound bullshit," but I keep getting hung u
10957.
by api 9y ago
"Pretty much like a TED talk. Actually, if you look up TED talks about how to be an effective speaker, you will find the advice to talk in simple language and to use metaphors. Also, they advise you to throw in sentiments to which your
10958.
by api 9y ago
Those are for fast I/O, but they don't change the architecture.
10959.
by api 9y ago
Yes, and I think it follows that new protocols and new file formats should be little-endian if possible.
10960.
by api 9y ago
Big-endian is the canonical form for storage and the wire because back when the Internet was designed most "pro" machines were big-endian: Sparc, old MIPS, old PPC, DEC Alpha, etc. All these are dead or dying now. It's easy e
10961.
Ask HN: Is big-endian dead?
202 points by api 9y ago|187 comments
10962.
by api 9y ago
The is/ought issue is one of the core philosophical issues under the surface here. It goes to the heart of what it means to be a liberal (broadly defined) or a conservative. To be a conservative is to tend toward deriving "ought&q
10963.
by api 9y ago
I'm not sure if he makes the leap, but it's not hard to go from his soft biological determinism to "well then this is the way things should be." For example if women "don't want tough careers" then it foll
10964.
by api 9y ago
I agree that the interview is awful, but consider what an interview with an advocate of social justice and equality would be like if it were given by one of many popular alt-right Youtubers. There are some incredibly hot button emotional is
10965.
by api 9y ago
Alt-right vs. "SJW" left posts get flagged around here. Usually I agree and one of the reasons I hang around here is to stay away from that whole scorpion fight. Personally I view both as two sides of the same coin. Both the alt-r
10966.
by api 9y ago
I really don't want to use snap since tarring up containers is a hideous hack, but then again we have a "curl | bash" script which is also an evil hack.
10967.
by api 9y ago
(1) We still get "it doesn't work on upstart based Ubuntu" questions. Lots of these are still in use. (2) "When they package it" is when exactly? Our software is GPL and has existed for years and it's not in De
10968.
by api 9y ago
I really sympathize with this view. At ZeroTier we try to support multiple distributions and versions of distributions going back quite a while and it is hell on wheels. It's so tempting to just build everything as a static binary and
10969.
by api 9y ago
That's much worse for tons of reasons. The extreme version of that is a guild system and a bunch of secret societies, which is basically why the ancient world never industrialized. Egypt, Greece, and Rome had the basic knowledge for th
10970.
by api 9y ago
I agree with the sentiment but unfortunately we've never found a way to implement real socialism without creating a massive permanent welfare underclass that does nothing and a sclerotic self-serving bureaucracy to support them. Most p
10971.
by api 9y ago
VC-driven Silicon Valley innovation is directly aimed at making money. The fact that money making overlaps significantly with oppressing the underclass is not the fault of Silicon Valley, though SV isn't doing anything to help. It&#x27
10972.
by api 9y ago
I understand the downside, but how else would he ever get paid for this?
10973.
by api 9y ago
This only works for HTTP, and all systems are not HTTP nor should they be HTTP. We've gone far, far backward in networked system capability and efficiency by trying to shoehorn all possible uses of a network into a massively overloaded
10974.
by api 9y ago
There's a lot of anecdotal evidence that similar things can happen occasionally and to some people after psychedelic drug exposure. Could the mechanism be similar? Maybe certain drugs and traumas can kick the neural network into anothe
10975.
by api 9y ago
I lived through the 80s and early 90s. The difference is that I could do stuff with the early Internet. I could do stuff with BBSes. I could do stuff with early PCs. These things were almost immediately very useful to a lot of people. The r
10976.
by api 9y ago
People who see and call out bubbles are always wrong N-1 times where N is the number of times a prediction is made. Look at the fundamentals. What we have here is a bad currency (volatile and deflationary) whose utility is diminishing as it
10977.
by api 9y ago
I think a big problem is that people are conflating two kinds of value. One is the technical value of block chain and other distributed consensus algorithms. The other is the monetary value of block chain backed assets. The latter could ind
10978.
by api 9y ago
People made a version of that argument with mortgages and mortgage backed securities. Mortgages are spread across too many people, too many geographic areas, etc., and there's no way they'll all decline or default at once.
10979.
by api 9y ago
BitConnect was an extremely transparent scam, so this shouldn't surprise anyone.
10980.
by api 9y ago
It's not about where the oil physically comes from so much as managing the global oil market. We might not get much oil physically from the middle East anymore but volatility there affects the price here. Oil is a global market.

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