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I can't reply to your comment, so I'll reply here (I'm not crazily replying to myself ... )

People need to obtain dollars from somewhere. If the total tax liability in NewZims exceeds the number of dollars obtainable then people will have no choice but to use it.

Also of note is that strong banking institutions are invaluable in this process. If people owe money in NewZims because of money created through private sector lending they'll also need to obtain them from somewhere in order to pay those debts. Making it illegal for banking institutions to hold accounts in currencies other than the national currency is also a means of avoiding this problem (ie. if people want to use banks they need to hold NewZims).

Of course this all hinges on the ability of the sovereign to actually impose sufficient liabilities on the populous in the first place and it would take time for the new currency completely replace the foreign ones but it's doable and is the only road to long term repair of a nation unless they're accepting what amounts to being colonised again.

You can't have sovereign government without sovereign currency.
I'd buy it. I mean, if the guy's stocking one book, it's going to be pretty good, right? I mean, what is it going to be like that (redacted) book I was reading written in a dead author's name? [1] I was like, wait a second what is this piece of crap - then I was like, ohhh. Yes, that would explain it.

That's not going to happen if I buy this guy's one book.

[1] like this - http://www.avclub.com/article/pay-no-attention-to-the-man-be...
1080p bluray looks better than Netflix/Amazon Prime at 4K, when all things are even bitrate matters the 1080p quality of Netflix is close to 720p HDTV rips at this point.
Great!!! I will attend this!
it seems to me spinlocks are fundamentally dangerous in user space because you cannot disable preemption in user space as you can in kernel space.
> Inaction isn't an option.

You create a false dichotomy by presenting only two options: suing Google or sitting still and suffering through the defamation. But she has another recourse, a recourse that long existed before Google did: suing those who created the false information in the first place.
The fact he's investing his time in building tools for others rather than putting all his time into winning on his own, raises doubts about his actual winnings.

One explanation might be that he's maxed out how much he can win.
I hate to be that guy, but Confucius probably said no such thing.[0]

[0]https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Confucius#Misattributed
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There was a really interesting Planet Money episode from NPR about how introducing a new currency saved Brazil from hyperinflation. I'd highly recommend it:

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2010/10/04/130329523/how-f... (podcast and article but I'd recommend the podcast)

They invented a new "virtual currency", stabilized it, denominated goods and services in the virtual currency, built public trust in the conversion rate between the (stable) virtual currency and (unstable, still experiencing hyperinflation) regular currency, and then finally switched the country over to the new currency.

> Four economists wanted to create a new currency that was stable, dependable and trustworthy. The only catch: This currency would not be real. No coins, no bills. It was fake. "We called it a Unit of Real Value — URV," Bacha says. "It was virtual; it didn't exist in fact."

> People would still have and use the existing currency, the cruzeiro. But everything would be listed in URVs, the fake currency. Their wages would be listed in URVs. Taxes were in URVs. All prices were listed in URVs. And URVs were kept stable — what changed was how many cruzeiros each URV was worth.

This was not the only fix, though, as I understand it. The government also had to change its policies that were causing hyperinflation in the first place. However, inflation was continuing more than it should have because the public had lost trust in the currency and assumed it would debase in value every day. The finance ministry needed to regain trust, and the new currency and currency swap allowed them to do that.
I've always wondered about that. Isn't there some way you can hedge against that possibility, say, by buying puts? Or is that forbidden by contract?

I had a friend who worked at one of the early e-retailers. During the lockout period she was a multimillionaire (on paper), and by the time it ended her options were under water. It made me wonder if you could give up part of your potential payday for a little certainty.
> Take the upper mid-west for example: Chicago, Minneapolis and Detroit are relatively easy (cheap) to wire up...

Why does Chattanooga, TN have gigabit symmetric FTTP service for $70/month, [0] when San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, or those cities that you mentioned don't have anything comparable?

Hint: It's not a population density problem. It's a political problem. Internet service over municipally-owned infrastructure is so cost effective that the incumbent players have work very hard to make it illegal in many districts. [1]

[0] https://epbfi.com/internet/

[1] If you find yourself thinking that this is a reasonable move, ask yourself: "Why do we deliver electricity, water, and sewerage service over municipally-owned infrastructure, but balk at doing the same for Internet service?"
I lose one of my favorite stations during those five weeks. Harumph.
It seems to me almost a given that the authors and publishers are paying or otherwise helping support these endeavors, via some sort of cooperative advertising type model. Some of his comments seem to hint at that.

Either that or he has a trust fund, given Tokyo real estate prices there don't seem to be many other reasonable hypotheses.
A patent for a long left-click to show a context menu when the right mouse button for some reason isn't available? Sheesh. Some of these are enough to turn anyone into an anti-software-patent crusader.
For used book stores, I usually wander in out of curiosity, and often walk out with six or seven books that I didn't realize I wanted when I walked in.
> many startups in reality do start paying at or above market

I think that's the key phrase here. I don't know if they paid at or above market rate and that would be where I'd start looking before passing judgement.

Your company's job postings suggest "competitive salary and meaningful equity", which is a much better signal than Heyzap's posting[0] i.e. no mention of compensation whatsoever (I personally prefer a salary range to know if the discussion is even worth our collective time).

They're a small startup so the data is incomplete and meaningless, but assuming the one salary posted on Glassdoor ($65-75k for a marketing manager) is accurate, I think it's fair to say that their compensation package was quite low and heavy on equity.

> I'm not too upset about employees who have been making market salaries not getting much out of an acqui-hire

I completely agree with you. If you're getting market or above market salary then equity shouldn't be an issue whatsoever.

[0] https://www.glassdoor.com/job-listing/software-engineer-heyz...

[1] https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Heyzap-Salaries-E493011.htm
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Except, according to the article, in this case the Court found Google published and promoted the defamation vis-a-vis its search results.

A newsstand may in fact be liable if they took a defamatory statement out of a paper and published that false statement like an ad/signage attached to the newsstand.
It does seem like a gallery. Also reminds me of a prix fixe menu.
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Another, perhaps more cynical explanation, is that he's actually being paid by one or more Fantasy Sports companies to help promote the notion that playing is a skill based activity rather than a gambling activity. Since the latter gets you banned in NYC :-)
Wouldn't commercializing these tools reduce his own potential earnings?
Not generally, no. The exception was the GM bailout, where the unions used political muscle to get moved ahead of secured creditors. That's the only case of which I'm aware, though.
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I don't know that I've ever read an article tracking the progress of a math conference before...

I tend to think of conferences as a tinge to exchange some ideas, stir the brain, and plant seeds that will grow during the next few months of steady work. It's pretty rare for me at least to expect real breakthroughs, unless I'm going to collaborate directly with a particular person on a problem where we've both die our homework beforehand. It's interesting to read a piece where there's an expectation of fundamental progress in the conference environment... makes me think a mathematical hack a thon might be fun....
It may not be, but are there any widespread ones?
I used to work at a very busy pub/pizzeria. Customers could order from the standard menu of about 45 items, order a modified standard menu pizza, or they could completely build their own custom pizza. Custom pizzas could be half and half, and have almost any number of sauce, crust, or topping choices. There were at least 75 toppings/sauces to choose from, in addition to the rotating ingredients every two weeks. I can't say that I loved the touch-screen POS system utilized by this restaurant, but the GUI it provided was designed specifically for pizzerias.

I am having trouble imagining how a keyboard-centric interface would require less key strokes than the number of screen-taps for a POS system designed for a pizzeria. For instance, to add or remove a single ingredient to a pizza in the touch-screen POS system it required a single tap. In a keyboard-centric POS system, assuming the ingredients are identified by id starting at 1 through 75, most ingredients would require two keystrokes plus the enter key. My personal experience leads me to believe that specialized touch-screen POS systems certainly work well for some of the more complex restaurant menus.
This is a logical fallacy. Lets say.

A) Scientists believing in the supernatural should not be hired.

This statement could be correct or not.

B) supernatural events can not be explained with the laws of physics. There is not any experimental evidence of any supernatural event.

This is true.

C) "natural rights" can not be explained with the laws of physics. There is not any experimental evidence of any "natural right" inside a human body. If you cut someone open you can't find any "natural rights" in there.

This seems true, but is false in fact *

D) Thus, we conclude that people believing in natural rights should not be hired.

Not. This is a fallacy because C is not related at all with neither A, nor B. Thus your example can not teach us about if A is false. Is not a proof of anything.

To suggest that people "believe" in a paper with something written on it is equivalent to people "believe" in god is wrong. You can sacrifice a chicken and them put its corpse in a fridge, but you are not trying to make the fridge happier or less angry. Is not a god. Fridges, as laws, are just created by humans to improve the life inside human societies. A law is just a pact, a paper with something written on it its origin and creation can be explained perfectly without to breaking any natural rule. Laws can seem esotheric, but this is not remotely equivalent to such thing as "a supernatural event".

* Yes, C is false. If you cut someone open that believe in natural rights you could find some copies of those "natural rights" of course, as chemical traces saved in the cells that hold the memory and culture of this people. At least for a while.
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I think the key word is "hopefully."

I accepted a below market salary at Square and barely made enough off their stock to bump me up to market. It would have been much easier to just get a market-rate job to begin with.
I've been trying to up my game on reading:

- Founders at Work: Jessica Livingston. Good. Less repetitive than Coders at Work.

- Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage. Awfuly boring. But I don't care at all about sailing (it was a gift).

- Terre des Hommmes: Antoine de St Exupéry. Brilliant, the chapter with the 2 girls made me decide to read all his work in 2016.

- Practical Common Lisp: Peter Siebel. Had to start Lisp!
sounds like you never lived in a country even with high inflation, less hyperinflation.
> you come up with bullshit excuses for your oppressors

Remember there are a lot of paid shills. It's pretty cheap to wage a "information war" in order to prolong good gouging times.

Shame it has to happen at cost of rest of the economy.
Because you're running payroll. You could lose it all pretty quickly if you screw a few things up.
Everything that gets covered in the news.
If this is allowed to stand, it will set a precedent expanding Google's power, not restricting it. Now many content creators must fight under the judgment of Google, rather than the courts, whether what they write is defamation against another person, or risk their websites unlinked from Google's search results.
This might be a naive question, but I don't know any better: Why can't your mailbox be represented on a server as a directory, perhaps like Maildir format, and then synchronised to your device using a directory sync tool, such as rsync?

Changes, or online access, could be done using any standard remote file access method, such as sftp.

Are there downsides to this approach?
In addition, with the attention fantasy sports has been getting, his competition is probably stepping it up a bit. It may be easier to beat everyone's uncles than to best teams of people who are also using statistics/machine learning/sports analytics.
Thank you for this post; I wish there were more like it. You used incisive logic to critique and explained another, better way of understanding the idea.
interesting read. yes native can't be beated especially if we conside loadtime, animations, api support. the only reason for me to go non native would be the cross platform compatibility. however the cost of compatibility is much less over the performance.
> Except, according to the article, in this case the Court found Google published and promoted the defamation vis-a-vis its search results.

And the point is that this is stupid. This is like suing a newsstand for displaying the headlines from a local newspaper that is defaming you. This is not publishing.
"Six months ago Zimbabweans were told that they would be able to exchange bank account balances of up to 175 quadrillion Zimbabwe dollars for just 5 U.S. dollars – a heartbreaking sum, given that it was many people's life savings."
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I thought the same thing, but then I clicked on the Learn link and it was made pretty clear.
Not sure what kind of a privacy policy his software will have, but I imagine the aggregate data of thousands of people using his software (if he has access to it) might be even better than just using it by himself.
I don't think an English language article on the Guardian will draw many readers to a Japanese bookstore, unfortunately.
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> No, they don't. They attempt to figure out which site you might be looking for based on the terms you typed in; relevance to your search terms may or may not be correlated with veracity.

Can you give an example of a search where relevance doesn't correlate with a common cultural sense of veracity? I think they're more intertwined than you seem to be willing to concede.
This will be way too slow, and is not at all feasible on a device like a mobile phone where you want only the recent email cached locally, but want to be able to stream on demand the rest with minimal latency (so it appears to the user as though it's all loaded locally under ideal network conditions). The server needs to be able to sort the messages, calculate threading, unread counts etc.
Hmmm. That's sort of clever. But this part:

>But, just as important, you have to stabilize people's faith in money itself. People have to be tricked into thinking money will hold its value.

Is the key. I don't see that happening in Zimbabwe until Cap'n Bob kicks the bucket.
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One of their investors is In-Q-Tel, a CIA organization that's apparently designed to bring the best technology into the Agency's hands.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel
But both skill and luck are at play in DFS.
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Ok, we s/adopt/use/'d the title.
Despite the URL, the article text explains that the store actually doesn't sell them. They only buy more.
> Two things which I never understood about using environment variables are how do you version control the changes and how do you manage these variables when you have more than just a handful of them?

If you're using Cloud Foundry, you put them in your manifest.yml and check that into source control. When you do `cf push`, they'll be updated.

Disclaimer: I work for Pivotal, who donate the most engineering to CF.
I think it's a bit of a stretch to just call Google a "newsstand". If the same company owned all the newsstands and they all carried the same papers, at what point are they publishing? (Especially if they're excerpting papers to promote them.)
I built a system that scraped projections off http://apps.fantasyfootballanalytics.net/projections and joined them with weekly salary information from DraftKings. I then ran that data through a genetic algorithm that maximized projected fantasy points while keeping the team salary under the limit.

I entered about 10 matches ... and I lost every single match.

I don't know if my projection data was bad, my sample size too small, or if I was just unlucky. I gave up after a few weeks.
>> The largest price discrepancy emerged in the hair care category: Women, on average, paid 48 percent more for goods like shampoo, conditioner and gel.

Sexism or market forces dictated by fashion? Is it sexism to accept that women value their hair, and therefore their hair care products, more than men? They literally have more of it to manage. Shampoo doesn't count for much if you are bald or at least short-haired. So it is totally understandable that men place less value on their hair care products. Is it also sexist that men pay less on average for haircuts than women?

The OP author strikes me as someone looking for something to be angry about.
So, um. This feels like a release announcement, but there's nothing about a release on the mailing list, rakudo.org or perl6.org. Rakudo star is still at 2015.11 in the git repo. Is it not meant to be a release announcement?
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In CF-land the most common pattern I've seen for important keys is a "secrets" repository which is merged with the base config at push time.
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Implying that structure doesn't already favor putting sociopaths and bullies in positions of power (management, CEOs). One solution is to not grow too big, however that is not always an option.
> Do they expect you to restart when you switch backing services? Do they expect you to run all your internal traffic through load balancers?

12 Factor was pioneered by Heroku, so yes.

Edit: I don't understand the downvote. This is the factual answer. 12 Factor apps are supposed to delegate a lot of cross-cutting concerns to the platform, including the problem of "where does that service live?" and "can you give me another chunk of service?"
His previous bookstore had also a gallery space for rent, so it may be the case that this new store's model is actually closer to a gallery---author or sponsor may pay some fee. Just guess; I couldn't find an official document stating so.
> As you can see there’s nothing special here, but if you look closely you can see this application will only startup under specific conditions, which we’ll call the happy path. If the configuration file or working directory is missing, or the database is not available during startup, the above application will fail to start.

Why not let a PaaS do this for you? Heroku, Cloud Foundry, OpenShift or the others I've yet to learn about?

Disclaimer: I work for Pivotal who donate the majority of engineering effort to Cloud Foundry.
But that is what I call it!
> If the same company owned all the newsstands and they all carried the same papers, at what point are they publishing?

At the point that they're producing the content. Anyone that's simply regurgitating someone else's content is not publishing.
Sad. Rhodesia was once one of the strongest economies in Africa.
I doubt that 6502s are still actively used. There are many better microprocessors available today (the last one I used was under twenty cents in quantity, with a clock rate 10X that of the 6502s back-when).
As the top ranked player, selling his "methods" could be more lucrative than his competition earnings. If the he considers the barrier to be sufficiently low, then he would expect his earnings to drop with time. There are ways of looking at it that make his decision rational.
Earlier discussion from 3 hours ago (35 points): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10785985
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Brazil is fighting the dengue fever for 20 years now. More than a million people get the disease each year. Every year the public policy is the same: send agents to enter the houses and search for still water. When the same measure fails for 20 years, shouldn't they be thinking of an alternative?
That's really, really slick.
I stumbled upon this book in the college library. I spent the next 3 days in there.
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I don't buy this "we're just a search engine" thing. Being just a search engine isn't an ethically neutral choice, merely because it's inaction. Here we see Google doing the equivalent of walking on by when someone's being roughed up.
I adopted a similar strategy for Tomotcha: we pick/sell only one tea each month. Most of our competitors send several samples each month, and from a revenue point of view maybe it's better, but I like the ability to give focus to a single tea.

For instance our next shipment is a Genmaicha: it's a combination of green tealeaves and roasted brown rice. The first time I drank Genmaicha I didn't like it much, because it's so different from what I was used to drink. But now I love it. You have to give each tea a try: if you just drink small samples you'll never develop a taste for the more complex ones.
Personally I have never liked the idea of a middleman when it comes to charity, among other things. Similar to how micro payments can work well only with really low transaction fees, charity needs a low overhead to make proper sense. If your goal is to help small organisations that need donations, then improving on micro-payment technology would be a good start. In fact, this could better allow individual contributors of open-source projects to be compensated, which is something that has been needed for a long time now. If you think about it rationally, who is currently being compensated the least for their efforts -- individual hands or the central websites that benefit from these hands?
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