The fact that it's taking this long to finally reflect its true value... is the only reason this is even news.
What is the true value of bitcoin? If you can actually answer that, you can make a ton of money by buying when it goes below the true value, and selling when it goes above. =
If your answer is that bitcoin is worth $0, you are wrong.....at a minimum it has value as a money laundering and malware ransoming exchange medium.
Is it really alarmism when 99% of the experts say we need to solve a problem as quickly as possible?
99% of experts don't say we need to solve the problem as quickly as possible, you ignoramus. Not even close. Read some actual science sometime and stop reading blogs.
You should never consider email to be accurate as to who the sender is. If you want to be certain, have them sign it cryptographically. That is the only solution, and even that is not 100% certain (for example, if keys get stolen).
So it doesn't involve much thought, just recollection.
This just shows your ignorance. You probably read that somewhere, and now are parroting it back without much thought. If you really want to understand the thought that goes into a game, you can start by reading some grandmaster commentary. Hint: when a chess player thinks at the board for 15 minutes, they call it thinking because he is thinking
I seem to recall reading that basically Rex Sinquefield threw a bunch of money at 2 of the current USA's top 3 players to get them to change country allegiances to the USA. I think one of the 3 did actually move to the US as a child though. I don't remember his name, but I think it's the guy who was born in Japan
Nakamura moved as a child, and Caruana (the #2 or #1 in the world) was born in the US. Wesley So moved to America just a few years ago. The St Louis chess area is one of the best training places in the world right now.
Honestly, it's considered a harder game to solve in terms of computational power vs. chess. Because xiang qi is considered a harder game, you could make an argument that China spending so many resources to win chess championships is kind of a case of them slumming and trying to win an "easier" game. Xiang qi strategy is very different from chess strategy and I believe the Chinese did successfully convert one of their best female xiang qi players into a women's chess star, in general I would not expect skills at one to translate well into skills in the other.
I don't know why you think it is computationally more difficult. The 'king' is trapped in a small box, for example. The range of strategies that are available to players is much smaller. It's a fun game, but chess is more complex (and Go is more complex still).
It works best with _sticky_ software -- systems which are very, very hard for customers to get rid of. Bend over your customers, fuck them hard on recurring license revenue, do a little "labour cost arbitrage".
In other words, this is the end-game for Salesforce, after they have all your data? SAAS ftw.
The article doesn't refute anything. It doesn't present data, or even anecdote, to show how well these programmers in foreign companies are working. The article did manage to find some ex-programmers for the company in far off places, who basically complained how crappy the job was.
This has been my experience as well. You can try to hire people in Eastern Europe or South America, but if you want working software, you're going to need to pay the same order of magnitude as in America.
There is a very simple answer to the question of which security model will prevent abuse while allowing the API to be useful. They need the U.N.I.C.O.R.N. security model. It's called UNICORN because it doesn't exist. There is no security they can put on this that will work.
Yeah, I tend to agree. The best Google can hope for here is an API that lets them constantly answer criticism by saying, "Developers are using the API wrong! That's why it's insecure!" While ignoring the fact that the very nature of the API makes it practically impossible to not use 'wrong'
The main thing I would be looking to see here is if they can find a way to stop XSS exploits, because this API is going to have similar attack vectors.
"The API provides a lot of scary power to websites that WILL be abused in many terrible ways."
FTFY. Fix your current mound of security bugs to demonstrate you have the ability to make a secure API, and then you might be able to convince people you have the ability to actually make it secure.
The Chinese government already has this information. The difference now is the information is more open, more publicly available, it's actually a good thing.
Because that's where you live. If you lived, for example, in El Salvador, you would hear about this kind of thing in El Salvador, too. Not as often though, because an outbreak in New York will be reported in San Francisco, whereas an outbreak in Colombia might not be reported in El Salvador.
It's a big issue with politicians.......who are also allowed to do insider trading (for example, if they know a bill is going to tank the stock market, it's legal to short it).
They are far worse than any other industrialized country
How could possibly come to a reasonable analysis on that? Do you know how many industrialized countries there are? You didn't say "worse than most industrialized countries." You didn't say, "Worse than my country" or "worse than other countries I've tried," you said "worse than any other industrialized country." This sort of fuzzy language makes it seem like you are also a fuzzy thinker, and it makes it hard to trust your opinion.
Furthermore your criticism of American banks is that "they make you carry a wallet" and "they are racist."............What? That's the thing that bothered you most about American banks? Really? It wasn't all the service charges?
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The fact that it's taking this long to finally reflect its true value... is the only reason this is even news.
What is the true value of bitcoin? If you can actually answer that, you can make a ton of money by buying when it goes below the true value, and selling when it goes above. =
If your answer is that bitcoin is worth $0, you are wrong.....at a minimum it has value as a money laundering and malware ransoming exchange medium.
How many impressionable Slashdot nerds use manbearpig to shout down real science?
Uh, do you even read this site? The answer is "not many"
Is it really alarmism when 99% of the experts say we need to solve a problem as quickly as possible?
99% of experts don't say we need to solve the problem as quickly as possible, you ignoramus. Not even close. Read some actual science sometime and stop reading blogs.
You should never consider email to be accurate as to who the sender is. If you want to be certain, have them sign it cryptographically. That is the only solution, and even that is not 100% certain (for example, if keys get stolen).
Do we go the Apple way and curate the entire experience while blocking file system access through insane APIs?
Yeah I think blocking access to the filesystem is the right way to go here.
Again, if you can stop XSS problems, then give this a try. Otherwise it's just going to be a mess.
So it doesn't involve much thought, just recollection.
This just shows your ignorance. You probably read that somewhere, and now are parroting it back without much thought. If you really want to understand the thought that goes into a game, you can start by reading some grandmaster commentary. Hint: when a chess player thinks at the board for 15 minutes, they call it thinking because he is thinking
I seem to recall reading that basically Rex Sinquefield threw a bunch of money at 2 of the current USA's top 3 players to get them to change country allegiances to the USA. I think one of the 3 did actually move to the US as a child though. I don't remember his name, but I think it's the guy who was born in Japan
Nakamura moved as a child, and Caruana (the #2 or #1 in the world) was born in the US. Wesley So moved to America just a few years ago. The St Louis chess area is one of the best training places in the world right now.
Maybe the OP thinks the Chinese game is more computationally difficult because they've read scientific papers that say this. I know I have.
Link please.
It has a larger board and games tend to run on for longer.
You might be confusing "Chinese chess" and "go"
People in Eastern Europe can make good software. But the ones who can do it charge roughly as much as good programmers in America.
Honestly, it's considered a harder game to solve in terms of computational power vs. chess. Because xiang qi is considered a harder game, you could make an argument that China spending so many resources to win chess championships is kind of a case of them slumming and trying to win an "easier" game. Xiang qi strategy is very different from chess strategy and I believe the Chinese did successfully convert one of their best female xiang qi players into a women's chess star, in general I would not expect skills at one to translate well into skills in the other.
I don't know why you think it is computationally more difficult. The 'king' is trapped in a small box, for example. The range of strategies that are available to players is much smaller. It's a fun game, but chess is more complex (and Go is more complex still).
And in people's mind chess is related to intelligence, even though Carlsen seems to mostly have an exceptional memory
Memory is one of the important skills of chess, calculating deep variations is just as important though, and quite difficult.
It works best with _sticky_ software -- systems which are very, very hard for customers to get rid of. Bend over your customers, fuck them hard on recurring license revenue, do a little "labour cost arbitrage".
In other words, this is the end-game for Salesforce, after they have all your data? SAAS ftw.
Obviously, one would (should) get a separate PC and use it *solely* for this work.
You're not going to be happy doing that at $15 an hour.
Your claim is exactly what the article refutes.
The article doesn't refute anything. It doesn't present data, or even anecdote, to show how well these programmers in foreign companies are working. The article did manage to find some ex-programmers for the company in far off places, who basically complained how crappy the job was.
This has been my experience as well. You can try to hire people in Eastern Europe or South America, but if you want working software, you're going to need to pay the same order of magnitude as in America.
There is a very simple answer to the question of which security model will prevent abuse while allowing the API to be useful. They need the U.N.I.C.O.R.N. security model. It's called UNICORN because it doesn't exist. There is no security they can put on this that will work.
Yeah, I tend to agree. The best Google can hope for here is an API that lets them constantly answer criticism by saying, "Developers are using the API wrong! That's why it's insecure!" While ignoring the fact that the very nature of the API makes it practically impossible to not use 'wrong'
What is this mound of security bugs you refer to?
Just look here.
The main thing I would be looking to see here is if they can find a way to stop XSS exploits, because this API is going to have similar attack vectors.
I thought Google had good people working there, but apparently they have really really bad people working there, too.
"The API provides a lot of scary power to websites that WILL be abused in many terrible ways."
FTFY. Fix your current mound of security bugs to demonstrate you have the ability to make a secure API, and then you might be able to convince people you have the ability to actually make it secure.
The Chinese government already has this information. The difference now is the information is more open, more publicly available, it's actually a good thing.
Because that's where you live. If you lived, for example, in El Salvador, you would hear about this kind of thing in El Salvador, too. Not as often though, because an outbreak in New York will be reported in San Francisco, whereas an outbreak in Colombia might not be reported in El Salvador.
It's a big issue with politicians.......who are also allowed to do insider trading (for example, if they know a bill is going to tank the stock market, it's legal to short it).
It's near Gap in most malls that I've seen these days. Maybe not in your area though, who knows?
They are far worse than any other industrialized country
How could possibly come to a reasonable analysis on that? Do you know how many industrialized countries there are? You didn't say "worse than most industrialized countries." You didn't say, "Worse than my country" or "worse than other countries I've tried," you said "worse than any other industrialized country." This sort of fuzzy language makes it seem like you are also a fuzzy thinker, and it makes it hard to trust your opinion.
............What? That's the thing that bothered you most about American banks? Really? It wasn't all the service charges?
Furthermore your criticism of American banks is that "they make you carry a wallet" and "they are racist."
Why shop at Gap when you can shop at Uniqlo? Same price range, a level up in quality.