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OK, so, it actually says:

"Basel-based BIS's Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructure (CPMI), made up of central bankers from across the world, said it could challenge banks' role - but if the technology became widespread it was unclear who would then provide credit and savings facilities."

Emphasis: "but if the technology became widespread it was unclear who would then provide credit and savings facilities."

Having worked at a bank, they're interested because it could reduce the large role of simply making sure everybody's shit lines up at the end of the day between counterparties. This isn't the disruption you're dreaming of... It's not changing how capital and resources are directed and allocated throughout the economy... it's changing how those decisions get confirmed across systems.

It then goes on to say it could theoretically challenge the need for a central bank, as it's decentralized... this makes a huge, implicit assumption that a rule-based interest rate decision is desirable, which, I don't know, until we can have an actual way of knowing the natural interest rate and hand off analyzing the economy to algorithms, it may be best to leaving that to people who spend their lives devoted to that.
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Lay user here. I feel a rare sense of violation whenever I find an unexpected push notification on my Android device. Perhaps it's because most of my experience is as a Windows user; if I see something 'spammy' popping up unexpectedly somewhere I might expect to see system-related or user-defined stuff, my instinctive reaction is one of suspicion than an app has wrapped itself around the OS/my device and over-stepped its invitation to be installed and used. It reminds me of malware that would pop up in the icontray of some people's Windows systems, or the 'helpful' driver control centres.
Thank you! But I'm not offering cheap developers.
I'm one of those kids who started coding by himself at age 10 and did really good at coding contests. I have a lot of friends like me. I can hook you up with one of them :)

edit: Also my plan isn't to bring cash to my town. My plan is to give power the real hackers of my town. Companies charge about $100/h and pay about $10-$15/h back to the developer. Money is already pouring in - it just goes the wrong way...

edit2: Yes. Romaina is a broken country. Cluj is not like that. I would have moved a long time ago if that would not be the case. Cluj is actually the only city in Romania that is growing in population.
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hmmm. I thought I'd be criticised for being left wing but whatever.

The alternative is what has been the alternative forever in banking bailouts. Bankrupt the bad banks, temporarily use fiscal policy and more, actual infrastructure investment by government (job creation) to soften the blow to the economy (not very "right wing" though). You then have a much better clean-sheet kickstart to new investment, letting markets allocate efficiently, as they do.

On siphoning. Is it controversial that instead of a continuum of credit pricing set by markets, we have a disjoint between 15-30%+++ on one side, and zero on the other? You have a major actor distorting markets in favour of supporting banks. Is it controversial that the asset side of banks (the target of all the policy) is owned by the wealthy classes, and that therefore they're being favoured? I assume you know that LIBOR is currently around 0.25% and the wealthiest will borrow at only a few basis points above that, whereas the rest of us are lucky if we can borrow at 10x that price with collateral (i.e.: mortgage), and 20-100x that price without.

Let me correct you on who is wealthy. People who need interest income are not wealthy. They are middle classes or pensioners. At a long stretch they have a couple million in the bank. They're moderately wealthy at best. Real wealth owns equities, companies and property. That's what's benefitting most from this policy. You soften the blow to moderate holders of debt through government deposit guarantees up to a certain amount. But you do not wholesale buy shitty securities from rubbish banks, at 100c on the dollar.

I do not apologize for believing that unfair transfers from the poor to the wealthy are morally wrong. Everyone should have paid their fair share of mistakes in this crisis, whereas not everyone did.

Examples. Every emerging markets crisis in the past 50 years has seen large haircuts to debt, hurting the incumbent politicians and corporate bosses to the extent that they are usually replaced. This is what is supposed to happen. That's renewal. Brady restructuring of latam debt 80s. Russia late 1990s. S&Ls in the early 90s. Arguably, the dot-com crisis of the early 2000s followed a similar principle. Remember AOL, Nokia, Worldcom, or Nortel? They're gone, replaced by better companies and products. Boom inevitably followed all the EM restructuring. BTW, there is an excellent argument that Hungary, which was one of the few Comecon countries not to default on its soviet-era debt, was held back hugely by it. Its growth rates in the 90s/2000s was much lower than Bulgaria, Poland, the Czech Republic, or indeed, Russia.

A nickname may hold more truth than you think! The linked post is just the same tosh we're hearing from central bankers constantly dismissing inequality effects as "uncertain", "unclear", etc. Heli-ben loves low rates hence the nickname. His entire phd is about it. He is clearly not a good potential critic of the policy because his entire legacy depends on it working.

oh, and, nice unicode ;)
I worked with Tim Paterson (creator of MS-DOS) when I worked on the Visual Basic team at Microsoft. When he worked on code generation he just read hex dumps, not disassembly, because it was faster for him.
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> If you're going to eat something sweet, it's far better for you if it comes combined with fibre.

My question is if the fibre has to be whole or not. If I put an apple into a high powered blender, it will get pulverized, but I'm not removing any fibre from it the way I would if I were running it through a juicer.

Does the "slowing" factor of the fibre depend on it being in clumps (i.e. a chunk of apple digests slower than apple sauce)?
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I'd certainly consider a central bank that deliberately pumps and dumps the economy around it to be morally wrong. Do you think Greenspan - that Randian acolyte - had no idea what he was doing after 2000? If so, why was he in charge of the Fed?

The better alternative is democratic oversight of the entire financial "industry", an international clamp down on corporate and personal tax avoidance, checks and balances to minimise the manic depressive boom and bust cycle, an aggressive program of financial and social support for small-scale entrepreneurs with a proven record of originality, creativity, and inventiveness.

It would also be nice if Wall St could be retooled to provide finance to businesses with long term prospects, instead of being the crack casino it is now.
The spanish common word for the animal is 'saltamontes', that could be translated as 'mounts-jumper'. Samely as 'grasshopper' this word (used mainly for short-horned grasshoppers) do not have any edible or culinary connotations. Is just an animal (and sometimes 'a disciple').

Chapulín have a richer meaning, can be used to name a dish, a type of insect (including some crickets), can be easily interchanged as toddler, or as 'a dishonest politic' (that jumps to another party), and is also a beloved super-antihero of a popular series for children in the mexican tv that was later photocop... parodied again in the simpsons to make fun of latino spanish speakers (bumblebee man).
I think that CM tools are complimentary to Docker (TV did not kill radio..), but at least some of your points do have emerging solutions.

For example, ssh keys: Kubernetes has a concept of "secret volumes" that are used to distribute secrets. i.e. don't store mutable (and secret) state in the container.
I think it is utterly disgusting what the media do to manufacture outrage. They ought to apologise unreservedly. But what can we do about it? A lot! We, as consumers with power, ought to boycott any of them that don't get the message.
For me, it just doesn't taste nearly as good. Try it fresh if you haven't recently. It's barely the same beverage at all.
Most people are pretty dumb so what most people think isn't relevant.

Example: Donald Trump's popularity.
> But I'm skeptical about the "juice is bad" meme.

Are you skeptical of "sugar is bad" meme? If you are, not sure how sugar disolved in water is a different.
Cineplex in Canada does trivia through phones before the movie starts. You connect to their wifi network and answer the questions in their app and the winner gets some sort of prize at the end. They show the leaderboard and such in between questions.
I do a lot of testing on mobile and this hasn't been my experience at all. I have no major issues with GIF, but SVG is always 'retina resolution', typically smaller, and we can even make the contents of the SVG responsive in the same manner as the other elements on the page using CSS.

My experience has been that SVG, where you are able to use them (browser support requirements) have been a huge hassle-saver! Plus you still have the editable file in your codebase so anybody can pick up any tool and make non-destructive edits :)
A suit is all about fit, and it's a lot of labor to make one fit properly.

Also, it is generally possible to charge more for products sold to folks who gotta wear suits.
Probably because it works, they have been using it in the past, and there is no reason to move off of it.
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George Zimmerman is the man who was subjected to a media-fueled outrage campaign after lethally defending himself against an oversized thug who was on top of him and pounding his skull into the ground. The campaign against him involved the president making public statements effectively condemning him and his due process rights were cast aside to sate the bloodlust of the mob. (According to the laws of the state of Florida, he should never have even faced a trial.) People were walking around wearing "Kill Zimmerman" shirts and he was made the enemy of asshats like you who don't need to know the facts of any matter before developing an opinion. The episode inspired one jackass, Matthew Apperson, to try to murder him.

All of this, mind you, was the result of someone daring to exercise his right to self-defense against someone who had black skin. If the dead thug hadn't had black skin, none of the ensuing lunacy would have followed.
Yes but what if you store it after removing the oxygen? And just the oxygen. It might last a lot longer. Then put it back at the end and taste it.

Industrial companies have a lot of resources and techniques available to them that the typical person making juice in their home does not. For example, what if they pasteurize the juice? Then it might also last longer, etc.

Some people react negatively to these sorts of scientific techniques out of what seems to be the naturalistic fallacy, a sort of (mistaken) belief that "natural things" (whatever that means) are intrinsically better.
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You mean like blink the Morse code for "torture" like what Jeremiah Denton did? That would be classic.
Any app that shows me a notification that isn't a message or something that someone sent to me, I uninstall right away. I don't even check if there's a way to disable it unless the app is very useful.
Maybe they work with Androids or enjoy coding for Androids or don't know how to do it on the web or any one of a myriad of reasons?

This isn't a very relevant or constructive comment. It's just saying "why didn't you build something completely different," which, I think, is sort of condescending/non-productive.
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One place where I ran into this was when I was building an ETL framework in Scala. The scenario was that I wanted to be able to move data from one database system to another and not have the end user of the DSL have to care about the types. The use case was essentially that you should be able to show up to an arbitrary database, run a query, and then pump that output somewhere else (e.g. another DB, flat file, transformation function, etc...)

I went around in circles and ultimately concluded no amount of type inference or other things in Scala's bag of tricks would let a user of the API avoid the dreaded type cast.

I have often seen this situation whenever I have tried to write generic code in a static language that needs to interact with a database.
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The author wasn't asking about the presentation or writing style.
To those who aren't religious like this author Coke is always better than juice. It has caffeine in it a least which is good for you.

Of course sugar free Coke is close to good for you compared to the toxic juices and Coke.

Water is only better than sugar free coke in that it teaches you not to continuous rely on the addictive sugary taste and better on your teeth.
I don't think you give yourself enough credit as a user - I would suggest a more typical "lay-user" is not going to even slightly comprehend the design of the system that runs on their phone, that is, they can't much figure out what happens during installs much less envision what it means for software to "wrap" around the OS/device.

The truth is, I don't think a lot of people find notifications all that frustrating, at least not privately. Regardless of the content or how annoying it is, whenever someone's phone alerts/buzzes with new content, they tend to look. Though this is anecdotal, I can recall friends even in the tech field who would pull out the phone mid conversation to get a notification from Facebook or from a shopping app offering a 10% discount; they'd look, complain about the annoyance, put it away, and then repeat as soon as the next notification popped up.

This is a bit of a tinfoil hat theory, but I suspect that the entire structure of notifications is just designed to feel good on a certain level - even though you don't want the content, you're important because you're receiving so many notifications. No one else can see what it is you're getting, no one else knows that it's just some offer from a company, they just know that you get a lot of notifications on your phone. (Or, conversely, maybe they do know, but at the end of the day, you're the one who is so busy that you need to keep checking your phone while theirs sits idly by)
You double click on the file and Windows shows two 7zip programs as an option.

If you choose the wrong one it will not work later.

And it will not repeat the dialog box with the options.
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chinese seem to do just fine at that price point

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This is turning into reddit with all these clickbaits.
You can long-press on the notification to block Amazon from sending them again. The Kindle app is great, but its spammy notifications really aren't.
> ...increased data collection on teacher effectiveness, the introduction of performance-based teacher pay...

A friend of mine teaches music in a public school, and half of his performance review depends upon his students' math and english scores (à la Common Core). Many of his students were raised in families that don't value education. And if all of that absurdity isn't enough, he's making a lousy salary, with the prospect of making a modest living in five years if he plays the administrative game well and gets a bit lucky.

It's not that complicated: if we paid teachers like we pay coders, we would have better teachers. That would cost something like 1% of GDP per capita in the US.
My Brit friend moved there about a year ago, does motion graphics with remote clients in London. Loves it and lots of amazing scenery appearing on my FB regularly :) I'm working with an iOS dev from Cluj currently, good guy. Looking forward to visiting soon.

Northern Romania and Transylvania is culturally closer to Hungary, it's not really comparable to say, Bucharest.
It doesn't take that long to learn when you have to do it. When I had to write an assembler as an undergrad project I became pretty much able to read 6809 machine code directly.
I like how she exempts herself from "the evil media", while being in the media to start with.
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I don't think we are talking about the same thing. The machine I mentioned sits inside a supermarket and is definitely cleaned every day, it's always pristine. Most contamination comes from fruit surfaces anyway, if they are properly washed there is no danger. Also if you look up incidents of food poisoning from juice, they all happened with the industrialised/pasteurised ones, as a result of the handling/storage/transport. Most humans eat fresh fruit during their entire lives, there is nothing to worry about :)
BetterExplained is a really great resource for any math that they cover. It's the kind of explanations of math that I think Khan Academy was originally going for but lately has seemed to drop in quality.

I really hope math teachers and professors can start to move more towards this kind of "intuition" training as opposed to the arbitrary instruction found in most textbooks. It won't get as good of grades on tests but it's much more helpful in a students long term to have "knowledge" as opposed to "instruction".

It's been frustrating because my high school Calculus teachers were really good about teaching in that way. In college the teachers have been really dismal at reaching any kind of usefulness. They've long abandoned any kind of real understanding for the short term benefit of "just remember this formula" on (their own) tests.
I agree. Signing up for a race motivated me to train. I hated running. The first part was the hardest, but I learned to love it. My garmin device and online tracking has made it quite a fun and rewarding experience.
> ... as it's decentralized ...

Is it? Compute resources are not free and that protocol has an inherent bias towards centralizing.
As per my comment down thread, I believe these technologies are complimentary (CM tools are not going anywhere) - but I totally get your point.

The linked project uses CM tools to get ELK running in a vagrant image. That alone is not terribly interesting - because I probably want to run it on my production cluster - not some standalone image.

I can edit the configuration - but this introduces dependencies on my particular environment (is it AWS, GCE, VMWare, bare metal, etc.)?

What I find compelling about Kubernetes (which to my mind is much more interesting than Docker alone) - is that it attempts to abstract at a much higher level. In theory (yet to be proved in battle...) I can deploy a k8 configuration on any number of environments, and the "description" ( a bunch of k8 yaml files), is the same.

Is Docker being hyped beyond belief? Yes, but I do think there is something significant about containerization.
> I hope someone will build on top of them to improve ext4 support in Windows.

Is not better to just improve this already working Windows driver: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsd/
?
Thing is, davelnewton is right. Eat right and be active and you'll see results right away.
Commodore 64s, ZX Spectrums, BBC Micros and the like never came with monitors, you just used your TV. This board has HDMI out on it, or composite if you solder in a connector, so you can use it with your existing TV or monitor.

A mouse is optional too, you can do everything you need to from the keyboard.

So really, it's only a keyboard that you need.
So you would you advocate the so-called Noble Lie? [1]

The problem to me with such an approach (even given that the end is in fact alturistic and beneficial) is: who gets to decide which lies get to be told, and who decides what is beneficial? Beneficial to whom? the whole society? some subset of society?

Do we allow all lies in advertising? Or just ones you or some elite (perhaps scientists or technocrats) determine are for the benefit of society?

Personally, I'd rather have the truth be told, and hold advertisers to a higher standard.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_lie
The Starbucks fiasco was fascinating and frightening to me. Timeline:

- Nov 5: Breitbart reports "Starbucks faces criticism from politicians and campaign groups today after it decided to remove all references to the festive season from its Christmas red cups'

- Nov 8: Huffington Post picks up the Breitbart story and reports "Some Christians Are Extremely Unhappy About Starbucks' New Holiday Cups"

Note the difference in headlines. This started as a Tory MP and a professional Christian shit-stirring group in the U.K. criticizing the move. It is rapidly generalized to "Christians".

In an age of people consuming news in 140 characters or less, news outlets really have a responsibility to apply the same journalistic integrity to their headline as to the rest of the article. They are there to report the news, not cause the news.
It's amazing to see over and over again the "moral implications" of fiscal policy being paraded around while having "free markets" ipso facto shimmed into the argument as the counterbalance for better "moral fiscal policy".

Paying ones debts is not a moral act. Defaulting on debts is not an immoral one, either. While we play games with this kind of phrasing of the problem, there's no coherent argument about how best to handle Debtocracy that has become the banking sector of the world.
There is a "Dragon Box" on Amazon that sells for $270ish and appears to be a lower-powered Android Kodi box. I imagine that a second generation Pi could perform just as well.
"Bringing in Boost" doesn't cost you much at all in terms of compile time. Using some of the advanced template meta-programming stuff in it may, but basic things like the legacy compiler and OS support you mention are largely using the C preprocessor and take very little time. In other words, give it a try--I'm sure you won't have half an hour compile times just by using Folly.

If you want to compile C++ (or C) really fast, look at icecc: https://github.com/icecc/icecream
Thanks, didn't know about this.
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> Billionaires can boss people around. Not much to do about it.

Work toward a system that creates fewer billionaires, maybe?
Let's get angry! Let's have an outrage about media manufacturing outrage!

Oh wait...
I mean I actually agree with you, that was just what the article was suggesting.
> news outlets really have a responsibility to apply the same journalistic integrity to their headline as to the rest of the article. They are there to report the news, not cause the news.

And those without integrity, who manufacture news, will earn more.
Or...the less partisan and probably answer: The economy has just gotten better and people can afford to drive more.