I am missing the point why this bookmarklet is needed. You right click the preview image that google gives and either 'Open Image in new tab' or 'Copy image address', or even 'Save Image'. Actually Googles change makes it easier to handle images, since you get directly the original in the preview view, instead of some cached version... what am I missing?

I'd agree. It saves a click (instead of right click, left click, it's just a left click on the bookmarklet). But it's not applicable for mobile and takes up space on your bookmarks bar. I think the next step to replace the missing functionality would be a Chrome extension to add the button back.

Already done by @devunt (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16391285) : https://github.com/devunt/make-gis-great-again

I think it's related to https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/15/17017864/google-removes-v....

also worth mentioning here is Vc - portable, zero-overhead C++ types for explicitly data-parallel programming https://github.com/VcDevel/Vc/ (http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2017/p021...).

Vc also looks rather more conventional in terms of license and distribution method (3-clause BSD and github respectively).

Custom licenses are a headache and I always wonder whether the academics who promulgate them wonder why no-one uses their software.

Can bitcoin be "damaged" by quantum computers?

Yes, a quantum computer with a few hundred error-corrected qubits (many more before error correction) would clean out all addresses with exposed public keys, by solving Elliptic Curve Discrete Log to recover the private key.

This includes many old addresses that didn't hash the public key, any re-used addresses, and, using replace by fee, even all new addresses in the time frame between broadcasting a spend transaction and that transaction being included in a block (which can currently take many hours).

It's actually closer to 2330 qubits and 126 billion Toffoli gates: https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/598

This is an interesting question to me, because I know little to nothing about the cryptography involved with cryptocurrencies.

1) What's the probability of the cryptographic ciphers behind cryptocurrencies being broken?

2) If they were broken, is it possible to 'move' BTC or other coins to a new cipher?

I apologize if I'm using the 'cipher' terminology incorrectly.

As far as I’m aware, hash algos like SHA or Scrypt are not the type of math that quantum computing threatens.

But elliptic signature algorithm are, and that's what lets you steal coins.

The difference is how we arrived at the realisation. Big Bang is by scientific method, looking to be improved or proven wrong. And God is through stories that somebody just made up.

The Big Bang scientific theory is how it happened. God, Hawking's quantum fluctuations in the metaverse, etc. is what caused it. They are completely unrelated.

Also, science has nothing to say (no falsifiable theory) about what caused the Big Bang, unless we find some way of observing outside the universe. The argument by Judaism/Christianity/Islam is that an entity exists outside of the universe (God) and has communicated with us, and said entity asserts to having made the universe. Presumably via the Big Bang. The stories might be made up, but then again, it is possible that some of them might be true. However, unless God acts consistently over repeated observations (unlikely), you will have to use a different way of evaluating truth than science.

So GBps or Gbps? article mentions both. Don't think first one is even a thing...

kb3075249 - "...adds telemetry points..." (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3075249)

kb3080149 - "...Telemetry tracking service..." (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3080149)

kb3068708 - "...Telemetry tracking service..." (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3068708)

kb2976978 - "...performs diagnostics on the Windows systems that participate in the Windows Customer Experience Improvement Program..." (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2976978)

kb3021917 - "...Telemetry is sent back to Microsoft..." (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3021917)

kb3035583 - "...installs the Get Windows 10 app..." (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3035583)

kb2952664 - "...ease the upgrade experience to the latest version of Windows..." (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2952664)

previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8081384

Seeing the comparison to Eich is ridiculous tbh.

Do I want to drink a beer with Eich? Looking at his donation record - no. Will his contribution improve the Mozilla product? Looking at his history as a technologist with Mozilla and JavaScript - probably yes.

Do I want to drink a beer with Rice? Looking at her career history - no. Will her contribution improve Dropbox? Looking at her career history - can't imagine any positive effect, probably negative, especially in the privacy area.

Definitely going to try some Dropbox alternatives now.

If it was just a block of text, I would probably skip over most of it, but this running line thing is a cool idea to try and make the reader read every sentence. Not knowing how long the actual text is also helps a lot. There should be some browser plugin which does this to texts!