Everyone has their issues with how windows work, but you have to admit he along with Bill Gates had a huge influence on the tech industry.
Isn't that a bit like saying "Everyone has their issues with how governments work, but you have to admit he along with Hitler had a huge influence on eugenics" when referring to Himmler?
Founding a monopoly and help crush tech innovation with a totalitarian boot while setting the stage for the modern tech clusterfuck.
Parking his yacht over so many coral reefs as to make himself single-handedly responsible for over 80% of the coral reefs mass lost (then claiming it was "global warming" - look it up, this shit is documented with all the fines he racked up in the process.)
Funneling money out of the nation stable enough to allow him to gain it for the sake of increased power for his social class.
A bit of misplaced blame there. Everyone wants to get by, but we have ~30% taxes on income, ~35% taxes on corporate profits, ~5% taxes (average) on sales, 2.5% average inflation compounded annually since the 1980's, etc - all in all getting your money to the maker of a product you're looking at paying out about 80% of that just in taxes before it reaches the poor bastard assembling the thing (and that's a best case scenario when you're buying direct from a manufacturer, it only gets worse from there.) Historically societies have collapsed right around the 50% taxation mark, we're long overdue for that and everyone (very likely every software developer, engineer, and other nerd on this site included) is in the exact same boat of thinking about how to get the most out of their clients without alienating them in the process.
TL;DR: The issue is taxes, not people being greedy on the civilian side.
Funny how if someone conspires to murder someone it's conspiracy to murder, but if someone conspires to fuck entire nations and commit awful warcrimes as a direct result it's just called business.
Yes, there's a resolution. It involves switching everyone over to 30KB+ signatures prior to the time quantum computers come, so starting around 2019 at the latest. The issue is that those signature sizes result in an unmanageable blockchain size - by the time the quantum computers arrive the notion of a blockchain will already be worthless because nobody will actually be able to verify anything on it due to the size of the thing and storage space required to do so.
There is not enough information on the blockchain to crack a bitcoin wallet using Quantum methods until after funds have *already been spent*.
This is just flat out wrong. The security of blockchain transactions comes from the published signatures. No signatures and it's no longer a blockchain. All you have to do is crack the key behind the signature for a given wallet to "own" that wallet and be able to spend it as desired. This is why quantum computers put a hard limit of 2022-2025 (given current growth rates) before Bitcoin is worthless, AND it's why you need to initiate the cutover years before that (it doesn't work as just "upgrading" everyone's client - every single wallet holder has to be able to publish a ~30KB public key signed by their existing signature to convert their wallet to the new system, anyone who doesn't effectively loses everything they have saved up to that point and given the transaction fees involved many wallets don't even contain the funds required to salvage themselves.
It's not about the proof, it's about the signatures. You can make a proof out of any arbitrarily complex thing. Signatures need to be for every set of transactions sent from a wallet and post-quantum protocols at their best come in at about 30kB per signature. Scale that up to Bitcoin's 360,000 transactions a day and you're looking at 10.8GB/day without even accounting for the data, ~4TB/year. That's data you don't get to truncate, and it has to be downloaded in full by everyone who isn't relying on someone else to say "yeah, trust us this is safe," which would in itself effectively void the entire utility of blockchain as a financial concept. At the end of the day you might as well be swapping P2P credits without any authentication, it would likely be more secure just because people wouldn't be fooled into relying upon a blockchain nobody can actually look at.
The real implosion comes 2022-2025, when quantum computers reach the point they can crack Shor's algorithm and hapless Bitcoin shills realize en mass that it's too late to make the cutover to post-quantum protocols. You can tell the whole thing is a scam because the post-quantum cutover needs to happen years in advance, must be initiated individually by each wallet owner, and the protocols which would allow for it are on the order of 30+kB PER transaction signature (as in, not just per block, per every individual transaction on a block - no lightning network solution for this because that would invalidate the whole list of transactions save for one "trusted" verifier.)
I want to believe they're reforming, but there's a little voice in my head screeching "IT'S A SCAM" as autistically and frantically as it can muster. Time will tell.
Stop acting like a bunch of zealous retards, you're just as bad as the flat earther's with this institutional bullshit. Science will never be settled, and there's a whole fuckload of room for interpretation because the scientific method is subjective as fuck in the hypothesis forming sections. If you don't ask the right questions you don't get the right answers, if you don't look at the right things you don't draw the right conclusions, etc.
There were nearly 100 years where people thought Humans had 48 chromosomes instead of 46 - NONE of that was bad science, ALL of the results were perfectly correct, nobody thought to consider that maybe males were lacking a chromosome instead of having two X's and a Y so the experimental designs were all just a bit off.
Darwin's original theory of evolution has outright been overthrown at this point (not at all to suggest creationists are right,) and supplanted with modifications to that theory.
Now the really fucky part here: relativity (as in all that shit Einstein "came up with") was lifted from 3 scientists: Minkowski, Poincare, and Lorentz - not a single new idea was included in general or special relativity, not one. Interestingly, all the math for relativity was lifted from Lorentz and Minkowski - the vector calculus stuff stemming from Heaviside's [incorrect] simplification of Maxwell's original quaternion-form equations. What's the point of bringing that up? You don't need relativity to describe anything attributed to relativity - it's ALL just electrodynamics described precisely as it was centuries prior to Einstein - every single thing relativity predicts electrodynamics already predicted, without exception, because they're the same fucking equations. But wait, it gets better: remember that part where Heaviside decided to rejigger the equations - well, turns out he was sloppy about it and dropped all the scalar components - the things which tie gravity in, go figure.
Nope, meant like the droll coming out of a mentally handicapped Mother Jones reader. Thanks for playing, pick up your participation trophy by the door, on your way out.
A font that's hard on the eyes and has the only purpose of making things easier to remember, so long as nobody remembers the font itself. This would literally be useless if anyone used it.
The thing is after you automate the task, you are no longer the one producing the results. The computer is.
Software is horribly under-valued, that doesn't negate the value of it. Realistically all automation, whether done at a personal or b2b level, should be SaaS (and for that matter, taxed at 50% of whatever the job it automated was paid adjusted for inflation over time to pay out a UBI so we don't all fuck ourselves sideways with automation.)
I am not keen on MOND because, as with dark matter, there are galaxies which don't fit the model. Theories which only apply selectively or at weekends are probably wrong. However, QI has some interesting aspects and should be tested properly rather than cynically dismissed.
Couldn't agree with this more. Most of the stalling in science outside of biology and computing over the last century is likely the result of the refusal to seriously test outside of the standard model.
The shitcoin pumpers are going to do a 180 in a few years when quantum computer break Shor's algorithm and destroy the entire market just by existing. The post-quantum signature protocols with the security required to construct a cryptocurrency from are too bloated to be of use (think ~30KB per transaction and unable to be condensed to a per-block overhead as it's required for every single sender,) and would take several years (already beyond the cutoff for that given the current rate of quantum computing advancement) to be implemented as a cutover would have to be initiated from each individual wallet-holder prior to the development of such quantum computers. There's literally nobody in shitcoin development at this point who both knows how computer security works and isn't lying.
What was the alternative? Because of Bush's abuse of the system there were folks in other countries that were no longer wanting to have their domain names registered with a body that answered to the US.
Shorting is selling stock owned by others sharing your brokerage at a rate under where it would be sold in a market free of short sellers with the aim of it going down further to buy back in the future. The act of selling alone drives down the price by increasing volume on the ask side of the ledger. There is no way to short-sell and not actively drive down the value of a company as a result, but the overwhelming majority of short sellers (Soros is effectively the patron saint of this) take it further by vomiting bullshit about the companies they're shorting, and in extreme cases manipulating politics to the point of starting actual riots and getting people killed in the process. They are self-serving parasites, they aren't skilled, they don't fulfill a valuable role, they just leech off of people aiming to be productive. Short sellers are everything wrong with the modern economy.
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That wasn't even their paradigm.
Everyone has their issues with how windows work, but you have to admit he along with Bill Gates had a huge influence on the tech industry.
Isn't that a bit like saying "Everyone has their issues with how governments work, but you have to admit he along with Hitler had a huge influence on eugenics" when referring to Himmler?
A truly great man.
A bit of misplaced blame there. Everyone wants to get by, but we have ~30% taxes on income, ~35% taxes on corporate profits, ~5% taxes (average) on sales, 2.5% average inflation compounded annually since the 1980's, etc - all in all getting your money to the maker of a product you're looking at paying out about 80% of that just in taxes before it reaches the poor bastard assembling the thing (and that's a best case scenario when you're buying direct from a manufacturer, it only gets worse from there.) Historically societies have collapsed right around the 50% taxation mark, we're long overdue for that and everyone (very likely every software developer, engineer, and other nerd on this site included) is in the exact same boat of thinking about how to get the most out of their clients without alienating them in the process.
TL;DR: The issue is taxes, not people being greedy on the civilian side.
Funny how if someone conspires to murder someone it's conspiracy to murder, but if someone conspires to fuck entire nations and commit awful warcrimes as a direct result it's just called business.
Yes, there's a resolution. It involves switching everyone over to 30KB+ signatures prior to the time quantum computers come, so starting around 2019 at the latest. The issue is that those signature sizes result in an unmanageable blockchain size - by the time the quantum computers arrive the notion of a blockchain will already be worthless because nobody will actually be able to verify anything on it due to the size of the thing and storage space required to do so.
When a quantum computer can run Shor's algorithm it can be broken in well under a minute - that's the whole point.
Humans evolved for endurance, if we can outrun or outsmart it at all we can get away long enough for the battery to run out.
There is not enough information on the blockchain to crack a bitcoin wallet using Quantum methods until after funds have *already been spent*.
This is just flat out wrong. The security of blockchain transactions comes from the published signatures. No signatures and it's no longer a blockchain. All you have to do is crack the key behind the signature for a given wallet to "own" that wallet and be able to spend it as desired. This is why quantum computers put a hard limit of 2022-2025 (given current growth rates) before Bitcoin is worthless, AND it's why you need to initiate the cutover years before that (it doesn't work as just "upgrading" everyone's client - every single wallet holder has to be able to publish a ~30KB public key signed by their existing signature to convert their wallet to the new system, anyone who doesn't effectively loses everything they have saved up to that point and given the transaction fees involved many wallets don't even contain the funds required to salvage themselves.
It's not about the proof, it's about the signatures. You can make a proof out of any arbitrarily complex thing. Signatures need to be for every set of transactions sent from a wallet and post-quantum protocols at their best come in at about 30kB per signature. Scale that up to Bitcoin's 360,000 transactions a day and you're looking at 10.8GB/day without even accounting for the data, ~4TB/year. That's data you don't get to truncate, and it has to be downloaded in full by everyone who isn't relying on someone else to say "yeah, trust us this is safe," which would in itself effectively void the entire utility of blockchain as a financial concept. At the end of the day you might as well be swapping P2P credits without any authentication, it would likely be more secure just because people wouldn't be fooled into relying upon a blockchain nobody can actually look at.
Let me start playing the worlds smallest violin.
The real implosion comes 2022-2025, when quantum computers reach the point they can crack Shor's algorithm and hapless Bitcoin shills realize en mass that it's too late to make the cutover to post-quantum protocols. You can tell the whole thing is a scam because the post-quantum cutover needs to happen years in advance, must be initiated individually by each wallet owner, and the protocols which would allow for it are on the order of 30+kB PER transaction signature (as in, not just per block, per every individual transaction on a block - no lightning network solution for this because that would invalidate the whole list of transactions save for one "trusted" verifier.)
I want to believe they're reforming, but there's a little voice in my head screeching "IT'S A SCAM" as autistically and frantically as it can muster. Time will tell.
Not in this case, short sellers are actual parasites.
Stop acting like a bunch of zealous retards, you're just as bad as the flat earther's with this institutional bullshit. Science will never be settled, and there's a whole fuckload of room for interpretation because the scientific method is subjective as fuck in the hypothesis forming sections. If you don't ask the right questions you don't get the right answers, if you don't look at the right things you don't draw the right conclusions, etc.
There were nearly 100 years where people thought Humans had 48 chromosomes instead of 46 - NONE of that was bad science, ALL of the results were perfectly correct, nobody thought to consider that maybe males were lacking a chromosome instead of having two X's and a Y so the experimental designs were all just a bit off.
Darwin's original theory of evolution has outright been overthrown at this point (not at all to suggest creationists are right,) and supplanted with modifications to that theory.
Now the really fucky part here: relativity (as in all that shit Einstein "came up with") was lifted from 3 scientists: Minkowski, Poincare, and Lorentz - not a single new idea was included in general or special relativity, not one. Interestingly, all the math for relativity was lifted from Lorentz and Minkowski - the vector calculus stuff stemming from Heaviside's [incorrect] simplification of Maxwell's original quaternion-form equations. What's the point of bringing that up? You don't need relativity to describe anything attributed to relativity - it's ALL just electrodynamics described precisely as it was centuries prior to Einstein - every single thing relativity predicts electrodynamics already predicted, without exception, because they're the same fucking equations. But wait, it gets better: remember that part where Heaviside decided to rejigger the equations - well, turns out he was sloppy about it and dropped all the scalar components - the things which tie gravity in, go figure.
Nope, meant like the droll coming out of a mentally handicapped Mother Jones reader. Thanks for playing, pick up your participation trophy by the door, on your way out.
A font that's hard on the eyes and has the only purpose of making things easier to remember, so long as nobody remembers the font itself. This would literally be useless if anyone used it.
Why does this dribble even make it to /.?
This needs an achievement.
The thing is after you automate the task, you are no longer the one producing the results. The computer is.
Software is horribly under-valued, that doesn't negate the value of it. Realistically all automation, whether done at a personal or b2b level, should be SaaS (and for that matter, taxed at 50% of whatever the job it automated was paid adjusted for inflation over time to pay out a UBI so we don't all fuck ourselves sideways with automation.)
I am not keen on MOND because, as with dark matter, there are galaxies which don't fit the model. Theories which only apply selectively or at weekends are probably wrong. However, QI has some interesting aspects and should be tested properly rather than cynically dismissed.
Couldn't agree with this more. Most of the stalling in science outside of biology and computing over the last century is likely the result of the refusal to seriously test outside of the standard model.
Energy has the same space-distorting effects as mass, that study is bunk.
Patents haven't worked for people without millions to defend them for years.
The shitcoin pumpers are going to do a 180 in a few years when quantum computer break Shor's algorithm and destroy the entire market just by existing. The post-quantum signature protocols with the security required to construct a cryptocurrency from are too bloated to be of use (think ~30KB per transaction and unable to be condensed to a per-block overhead as it's required for every single sender,) and would take several years (already beyond the cutoff for that given the current rate of quantum computing advancement) to be implemented as a cutover would have to be initiated from each individual wallet-holder prior to the development of such quantum computers. There's literally nobody in shitcoin development at this point who both knows how computer security works and isn't lying.
What was the alternative? Because of Bush's abuse of the system there were folks in other countries that were no longer wanting to have their domain names registered with a body that answered to the US.
Who the fuck cares? It's the American internet.
Shorting is selling stock owned by others sharing your brokerage at a rate under where it would be sold in a market free of short sellers with the aim of it going down further to buy back in the future. The act of selling alone drives down the price by increasing volume on the ask side of the ledger. There is no way to short-sell and not actively drive down the value of a company as a result, but the overwhelming majority of short sellers (Soros is effectively the patron saint of this) take it further by vomiting bullshit about the companies they're shorting, and in extreme cases manipulating politics to the point of starting actual riots and getting people killed in the process. They are self-serving parasites, they aren't skilled, they don't fulfill a valuable role, they just leech off of people aiming to be productive. Short sellers are everything wrong with the modern economy.