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I agree. If you read the news you are just informed about how the world is going to shit and everyone is corrupt or a killer. This really colours people view of the world and they end up leading a life of fear, whereas the reality is 99% people are actually good.
part of the 'doodendraad' was reconstructed in 2015 near Zundert. along it, people planted 24000 crocus bulbs as part of an art project called 'de dodendraad leeft!' (the wire of death lives!). this march, they bloomed for the first time.

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Oh. I assumed this was open source and you host it on your own server. Yes, not a good idea to use a free hosted product provided by a company where you're using the service anonymously over the Internet.

It's funny that you mention Google. Google used to offer a web-based chart API a lot like this one. Well, it looks like they're technically still offering it as Image Charts [1] but it is deprecated. I think it used to be called just Google Charts, but that brand was repurposed to a client-side JavaScript library. I'd say it's virtually certain that they pull the plug on it at some point, given Alphabet and the whole "era of fiscal responsibility".

I've actually written a clone of Google Chart API for private use. It relies on ChartDirector though which isn't free; it's basically a URL skin over that product. If this would be useful open source to anyone I could see if my company is willing to agree to release it. However I had sort of assumed that web-based charting APIs were dead by this point in favor of client-side ones.

Edit: Is this a paid API? StatHat looks like something that's a paid service but I can't tell if the feature in the article is paid.

[1] https://developers.google.com/chart/image/docs/making_charts
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(I didn't downvote you.) Yes, but it does not make operator overloading any less useful. In fact, I'd argue the opposite. In a language with only doubles you can use overloaded operators not just for matrices, complex numbers, rationals, etc., but to make it relatively painless to work with your own implementation of integers.
> The benefits will dwarf the cost of the program.

There will be no benefit if nobody can pay the costs.

> I truly believe the whole point of going to Mars is to challenge ourselves.

SpaceX does not just want to go to mars, they want to have people permanently live there.

> But above everything, humans are wired to explore.

The point of exploration is to discover new places and what they look like. We know what mars is and what it looks like. We're currently exploring it. Sure, bringing humans there will make us know a bit more about it, and in that sense that's still exploration, but that's very marginal an improvement over what's currently done.

Also, exploration is a scientific endeavor, and as I said SpaceX's goals are clearly not just scientific. It's that non-scientific part I find insane.
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To be fair, extraordinary rendition has some striking similarities with Sonderbehandlung (though the latter was even more sinister).
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Not true. The four year old died accidentally by touching the wire while playing. Still tragic but not as depraved as made out.
At the very top of the page. I thought it was already gone.

"Warning: This API is deprecated. Please use the actively maintained Google Charts API instead. See our deprecation policy for details."
They're both giant companies who manufacture and sell competing products.

Apple Google and Amazon are even larger companies who manufacture and sell the competing products mentioned by this guy.

It's a direct comparison.
No details or proof?
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As a graphics programmer, I'm always a bit disappointed that materials on sharers tend to concentrate on fragment/pixel sharers and neglect vertex, geometry and tesselation shaders.

You can do pretty cool procedural stuff in a vertex shader (without any vertex data inputs). It's a necessity for animated models.

There's even less material on geometry and tesselation available.

This book seems to have rather nice pixel shading tricks but I'd like to see some stuff about the other stages too.
Getting back to the context of this post:

I'm sure putting tape over the camera isn't the only security precaution the director of the FBI has taken.
In conclusion, use Vim instead. ;)
Nation state spies, criminal groups, insiders that want to whistleblow, etc. etc.
I'm less interested in Facebook. With this, I'm even less interested as I were.

After deleting the account (which was 6 years old), I came back after 6 months and added a close group of people I actually care about now and in the foreseeable future. I don't like things, don't follow, don't publicly comment on businesses, only use the events and chat. The only app on mobile in use is Messenger with all the data collection turned off, for the site I use a wrapper app.

This seemed to me as a reasonable use of FB. All the rest is junk.
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I'd seriously consider it. It would not be a sole criteria, but it is important to me.
> no built-in mic/camera

Most people would settle for a physical switch, that is, a switch in hardware.
How is money = free speech only when the recipient is a politician?

For the record, money is just an idea shared between people, and the communication of said idea. For strong demonstrations of this, consider hawala or consensus-based cryptocurrencies.

Humans have been assigning value to tokens and trading on the tokens since the dawn of civilization. Outlawing this activity is dangerous to free society. It will also make the beggar class and the poor generally even more beholden to the state.
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> Sorry I stepped out for a minute, are we talking about fundamentalist Christians? Orthodox Jews?

Well, in few years/decades you may have one more significantly influential group for your list :)
Never heard of this before! Thank you for posting this link.

OT:
Historians deem it unprofessionial to ask this question, which always comes to mind: what's the moral of this story?

Should it remind us about the contradiction of "what is right" and "what is necessary"? Should we take lessons from it at all?

For me it's exactly this what makes history interesting. We may never get rid of atrocities but we'll get to know a lot about human nature, about what our actions will lead to over the long term and what delusions we can entangle ourselves in. For Germans this fence made a lot of sense. And who is to say that if Germany didn't erect it, the Netherlands wouldn't have done so at some point.

Like a financial bubble that inevitably will pop, we will repeatedly live in these scenarios that seem to be outrageously unsustainable afterwards.
I'd imagine you'd need to relentlessly patrol the wire for it to be effective. The barrel method, as seen in the pictures you linked to, seems to be an easy way to defeat the wire.
According to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4804604/html5-iframe-seam... the attribute is still in draft and isn't implemented in any browsers yet.
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But I can't run W3's CSS validator while I use my development environment!

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> things like accelerometers

Personally, I am not worried about quite sophisticated attackers. When securing my house I'm worried about run-of-the-mill burglars, and this is like that.
Don't be too down on society. Humans are doing a lot of horrible things but we're also doing some wonderful things too.

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I was referring to " the sort that has only existed on Earth for a couple of decades." That's why I said that ;)

Actually my mistake was here, where I wrote:

> actually a new form of intelligence than individual intelligence.

should have probably said "actually a new form of intelligence on top of human sentience." since I was referring specifically to the emergent intelligence of a sentient species able to encode our intelligence and transmit it throughout the network at near light-speed.
Its great if you're an American. If you're not, it just sounds like passive-aggressive bloviation.
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How was this measured?

The article says "number of lines", but wouldn't time or words be a better measure?
"We" started treating gay people and women and nonbelievers well to some extent in the past decades. And disagreement over such rights are not the only cause of anti-refugee sentiment. In Sweden, extremist arsonists light refugee housing on fire. That's sheer hatred, not liberal concern.
I used to have a piece of tape on my webcam. But I figured that it couldn't possibly be so interesting to see my face, so I took a different strategy, and moved the tape piece 1cm to the right, so it covers the led indicating if the camera is in use.
I don't trust that LED anyway, and if someone should peek at me, I do not want to be made aware of it (and thereby distracted)
"made unintelligible by a feature, product, or service owned, controlled, created, or provided by the [company]."

So no more Hash functions I guess, better store those passwords in clear text. Also encryption is the key to any form of distributed system where you have misbehaving actors.., you know like the internet..
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> But I don't want to live in your idealized non-commercial world, and your proselytizing became quite boring for the last 25 years.

The FSF has no problem with commercial software. They just hate the existence of proprietary software. There are many free software companies. Commercial free software does exist.
Why? It is safer, doesn't block loading of main page assets and causes way less breakage when things go wrong.
1. How do you make money doing this?

I don't profit. The investors do. They pay USD to buy a certain amount of GD deliverable at a specific future date (the Transition) that's the same for everyone. Since all FGD becomes GD at the same time, all FGD is equivalent and is fungible; there can be a market for it. If you're an investor and you buy your FGD cheap, you could flip it for a profit when its price increases.

As the transition date approaches, the price of FGD converges to its nominal face value in GD.
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As someone who always "thinks with a pencil", this isn't terribly surprising. Even if coding, if something was especially tricky, I'd sketch/doodle/write on paper to get ideas straight. Always worked out quicker and better for me, though I know some saw it as quaint.

Same for note-taking and todo lists+organising (I have smart phone always on me, but small notebook that's my todo list). I tried and failed with dozens of electronic organisers, apps and so forth.

I've only ever seen anecdotal ideas as to why this is so. I'd be fascinated to see some study into why. Is it a more manual process, does it involve more brain regions, does it interface with memory differently?
What compels people to use Facebook? That's a genuine question, I don't think I fully understand it.

Speaking personally, the only value it has for me is in keeping some form of connection to people I would otherwise have lost contact with. I don't use it for people I keep in contact with in other ways. For me the staying power of Facebook is that it places low demands on staying connected. The setting also seems to add to the informality, I could see myself preferring to email long time friends (and I sometimes do), but perhaps the directness of connection is off putting for some people who are used to sharing amongst an audience.

Does anyone here have any views about why people continue to use Facebook?
2. Where does the investment for USD come from?

The USD reserves are crowd funded through the selling of Future Gresham Dollars. I've described FGD in other comments.

Our USD reserves also increase any time someone converts USD to GD in their account.

How is this renewed?

If we desire more USD reserves, we can sell more FGD to the open market.

The FGD debt doesn't renew. We just issue more of it as needed. And after the transition date, there's no longer any such thing as FGD.

How are loans and/or investors paid back? What risks do they face?

On the transition date, all FGD becomes GD. The risk is that, if Gresham Dollar fails, GD may not be worth as much as the investors were hoping.
It would be nice to see a comparison against students who don't take notes. I never took notes in any of my classes, and my father (a senior Chemistry professor) is a firm believer in this approach -- while he doesn't prohibit students from taking notes, he has provided lecture notes for two decades and encourages his students to pay attention instead of transcribing.

Of course, there's always the inherent problem of observational studies: Is the note-taking style affecting student performance, or does student aptitude determine note-taking style? The students who already have a reasonable grasp of course material are likely to be manage with the limited bandwidth of handwritten notes, whereas students who don't understand anything and are consequentially unable to identify which parts are important may be predisposed to prefer a higher-bandwidth note-taking system.
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That is a pretty bold statement.

Combine typed arrays with BLAS and you have yourself a numpy (well, kind of). In Node you can move performance-critical code to C++, which does have integers. Browser support of typed arrays is a bit disappointing, but it's getting better.

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My anecdotal contribution:

I always took notes on paper, even though I never even read them. I have trouble sitting still and get bored and distracted very easily, so having something to do with my hands helped me pay attention in university. Doing the same on a computer would mean I would tab into something else and get distracted.

Note taking is similar, if I write something on a piece of paper on my desk, when I get fidgety and move around I'm going to see it. If I wrote it on my computer, it'd be buried and forgotten behind my 20 browser tabs, mail client, editor windows, terminals, etc, and that's if I remembered to open it the next day.

Having a whiteboard on my desk made me way more productive at work. So I would think the reasoning is less deep, it's more that there's less distraction on paper than on a computer.
3. What are the barriers to entry?

The barriers to entry are primarily intellectual. I've never heard of this idea before. Most people (including economists and politicians) would balk at the suggestion that the United States could fund a basic income through perpetual deficit spending. People tend to think of basic income only as a way to address social welfare. I see it as a fundamental source of economic stability.

Once people see Gresham Dollar succeeding, they may create their own Gresham Dollar Type (GDT) currency. There's no reason why all the various GDTs wouldn't coexist in synergy.

Why doesn't _everyone_ start such a service? An "I'm creating my own money, care to join" venture is fine and dandy, but one thing a currency sovereign enjoys is, well, currency sovereignity. And in particular, legal tender status.

Gresham Dollar is not an "I'm creating my own money, care to join?" venture. It's an "I'm giving away free money in the form of IOUs for USD that you can spend before they become USD, do you want some?" venture.

We piggyback on the currency sovereignity of USD. We're backing ourselves against an existing currency, which is what central banks do.

I actually came up with this idea last year when I was pondering a possible Greek exit from the eurozone. I asked myself what would happen if the Bank of Greece tried to re-introduce the drachma. With too few capital controls, they'd have trouble stemming a currency run that would deplete their reserve of euros thus collapsing the drachma/euro exchange rate. With too many capital controls, they'd have trouble enforcing an official exchange rate.

So I asked myself what would be the smoothest way for a country like Greece, who's mostly out of money, to introduce a new currency? The answer I came up with was for the central bank to forgo on-demand currency exchange in favor of a kind of timer on new drachma that automatically converted it into euros when it expired. But the trick would be every time the new drachma get spent, the timer on it would reset. Thus the more the new drachma circulated, the less the Bank of Greece would dip into its euro reserves. Furthermore, the less people trust the new drachma, the more likely they are to try to get rid of it. If a Greek citizen has euros in one hand and drachma in the other, he will spend the new drachma first, thus keeping it alive.
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The funny thing about those stereotypes is that they go both ways. American tourists are viewed in France as people who wouldn't even try to speak at least one word in the language of the countries they visit, and expect everyone to speak English, because, you know, everyone speaks English, why make the effort.

I haven't met American tourists like that, and I haven't met French people that are arrogant asshole overprotective of their language. Somewhere, there probably are some specimen of both categories, but, as always, anecdote is not evidence, etc.

Disclaimer: I'm french.
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This was a great read, and the charts were very fun to interact with.
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4. Who's left holding the bag? If this collapses, who loses out? Presumably, merchants. Is there any provision made for this possibility?

The investors are left holding most of the bag. In the end it will look like what we did amounted to the equivalent of taking money from investors and handing it out to people.

We have a provision for what happens when our USD reserves fall to the level at which we can only meet our present obligations. It's called the Disruption event (see other comments).

If Disruption hits, merchants are still guaranteed to get a certain percentage of their GD converted into USD, as specified by the reserve requirements stipulated in the contract they signed. We also have a single required USD reserve level to back the non-merchant accounts. Initially, our reserve requirements for everyone will be 100%, then we'll gradually lower them.

At any given time, users will be able to see how much of their GD balance is guaranteed to convert to USD. The GD balance is divided into three parts denoted in three different colors:

GREEN: GD that is guaranteed to convert to USD even if Disruption occurs at the soonest possible date given current USD reserve levels.

YELLOW: GD that is guaranteed to convert to USD even if everyone stops spending their money immediately and allows their GD to sit idle.

RED: GD that would be suspended (not convert to USD) if everyone stops spending their GD immediately.

Users will be encouraged by seeing their red and yellow balances shrink with time as the potential Disruption date moves further into the future.
It isn't really a technical problem, so I don't think it makes sense to look for a technical solution. But it's not complicated; like kerning and optical adjustment of letter shapes, someone with an eye for it will need to adjust the size of each logo manually so they all "feel" equal and look good together. For reference, Tobias Frere-Jones has an interesting blog post about optical adjustment of typefaces [1].

As it currently stands, anyone using the font will need to do this themselves.

[1] https://frerejones.com/blog/typeface-mechanics-001
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>> But he also mentioned that they already have investors.

He's bluffing. The activity could be paid for.

He wants to look strong, either to dissuade you from competing in the same market, or for you start negotiating with him, giving him the advantage.

But it's not like you can sit on your hands either.

Go right ahead and add Chinese translation to your website, I say. You can then use the same i18n infrastructure and hire Vietnamese, Indonesian, Tagalog translators and expand to the rest of South East Asia. Do Traditional Chinese as well, and get into Taiwan and Hong Kong. Translators from upwork.com should be quite cheap. Be careful to only send the translatable message files, though, don't send the code - I've heard of people getting their code ripped this way.

Try do that in a month.

Then you have them surrounded, and you can negotiate with them from a position of strength.

You can send them a grateful email thanking them for introducing you to the Asian market.

Send a bottle of European wine as your regards.
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