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By design, as you say, Gresham Dollar will at first be considered an inferior currency to USD. This is important for the Gresham's Law effect.

All businesses have expenses and there's no reason why a given business wouldn't adopt a policy of spending GD before spending USD whenever possible. As more and more businesses start accepting Gresham Dollar, they'll start passing GD among themselves like a hot potato. Due to the mechanics of Gresham Dollar, I wouldn't be surprised if we saw very little GD automatically converting back into USD during this time.

Our goal, however, is for Gresham Dollar eventually to surpass USD and become the superior currency. After this happens, it no longer makes sense to peg Gresham Dollar to USD. When we remove the USD peg according to this plan (the Transition date), the value of Gresham Dollar will not crash.

Your concern, however, is with what happens if insufficient USD reserve levels force us to abandon the peg early perhaps before merchants can easily start passing around GD like a hot potato.

Yes, in the initial phase, as long as you are putting USD into the system for merchants to cash out, it seems like it would work.

Right. And this initial phase is perhaps our most vulnerable. Merchants may not have easy ways to spend their Gresham Dollars during this phase because there aren't enough other merchants who accept them. Instead, most merchants will let most of their GD expire and automatically convert to USD.

However, once you and investors stop funding GD, and the expected value of GD goes down, a merchant would then be selling goods paid for in USD, and receiving GD worth less than their USD cost.

Gresham Dollar's USD reserves are designed to be continuously crowd funded through the sale of FGD. Additionally we may boost our USD reserves through the Gresham Points system and our participation in the USD/GD market. Other than on the Transition date, there's no one cut-off point at which USD funding stops.

There is a hypothetical cut-off point (Disruption) at which, despite our best efforts, our USD reserve levels drop to exactly what's required to pay every USD according to their required reserve ratio. For example, if you're a merchant with a 90% required reserve ratio and $10,000 GD in your account when Disruption begins, $9,000 of your GD is still guaranteed to convert to USD if you hold on to it. The remaining $1,000 will only convert as USD reserves become available to back it.

This would be a negative profit per sale and no volume effect of sales in GD would make up for this.

During Disruption, merchants are not required to maintain price equality between GD and USD. The impact of Disruption depends on a lot of factors, but merchants would set their prices so as to avoid taking losses on their sales.

It would seem like at least at this point, merchants would stop accepting GD payments?

Some of them might. Most of them would probably just set GD prices higher than USD prices.
The blogger in question is John Regehr, a very well known researcher in efficient and sound compilation. I suppose I don't have his word, but I can only imagine that he did make sure his modifications were safe.
I'm not informed enough to have an opinion on Dan as a person or on HubSpot, but this is the third article I've seen posted to HN that all pretty much say the same thing, and are all obvious attempts to sell his book. Why do these articles keep getting voted up?
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Greg Young (of DDD fame) is the founder
If existing armor is already effective enough, improved materials means we can have the same effectiveness at lower weight. This could improve survival by increasing mobility or allowing soldiers to carry heavier non-armor equipment.
OK, now someone put this in PDF readers, so that once they open the specified PDF file, but before they start reading and parsing it, they call "pledge" and lock out further file opens. (If this breaks Adobe WebBuy, so be it.)
A lot of tech offices do look like freaking playschools now. One I went to looked like a cat therapist's waiting room, with cartoons of fishes and cats on the walls.
I added filters for minimum 10M domestic revenue and released 2000 or later for various data fidelity reasons. (I do not have access to budget information so cannot account for that) Sample Size is still 2,012 which is good enough.

Spoilers: yes, movies which star male actors (fitting this criteria) earn significantly more than female leads on average, and it is statistically significant.

Additionally, there is no difference (practical and statistical) between RT/Metacritic scores of movies with male leads/female leads.
These used to be called tenements.
> You seem to be upset that Lyons has mischaracterised your work, yet you also seem to be happy to do the same to him.

Not even close. Speculation is fine as long as it is labeled as speculation ("I suspect..."). It's nothing like what Lyons did, which is to misleadlingly paraphrase the contents of a book.

> I think that you are getting just criticism, and you are taking it quite badly.

I think his complaint is totally understandable, and I find the personal nature of your criticism bizarre.
Have you ever left the US?

There is no way not wanting lifetime employment is something unique to the US, it seems far more likely that it would be connected to status than nationality (and that has been my experience for what it's worth)
Why are you even posting if you have zero knowledge of the topic?
For sure. I was always uncomfortable with JS frameworks that used markup with no content from the server. In my professional experience I've also found that developers underestimate how slow Ajax requests are in real world scenarios. I wrote some comments on this when I started learning React, just gonna screenshot them instead of pasting: http://i.imgur.com/XSnCqjK.png

Two great articles I reference in this tutorial:

1) http://tomdale.net/2015/02/youre-missing-the-point-of-server...

2) http://rauchg.com/2014/7-principles-of-rich-web-applications...
unless you have some way of generating a key on the fly. Like a hash of some human readable id.
That depends on how well the obfuscator works and scrambles your code. Does it rename ALL classes, variables, methods and constants to gobbledygook? Does it add redundant code every now and then to add more confusion? If you do all that, then it becomes very difficult to crack even for advanced hackers. But ultimately it should be possible as obfuscation is based on a human logic (though executed by machines) - but it will certainly increase the needed difficulty and dedication to a considerable degree.
You're probably thinking of my article on the classic 555 chip in February [1]. This is a new article about the CMOS version of the 555, but there is of course some overlap in the two articles.

[1]: http://www.righto.com/2016/02/555-timer-teardown-inside-worl...
Well, yeah, look for a way, and then, what do you do upon not finding one?

You either act, or you do not, but you must choose.
Easy: as people get out of homelessness, new ones become homeless. $40k for the transition is not crazy given that it includes police and medical.
http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/nevius/article/Sidewalk-t...

>“I could have a job, be living in an apartment and all that crap,” he said cheerfully, “but I’m not ready. Right now I just like getting high.”

>Fikes, who says he moved here last month because he heard San Francisco had excellent homeless services, said a church group comes by from time to time with free tents

There is no solution here. City leaders are pressing for solutions while many homeless are just waiting for another handout.
This is a really interesting idea. I'm not convinced from your description that you have a viable product just yet, but I think you're headed down a really good path. Here are some more thoughts:

- Testing and certification is the most economically valuable aspect of education (at the high end the most valuable test a student can take is getting accepted to an elite institution (I'm using "test" broadly here)).

- Learning itself can and has scaled quite easily thanks to the internet. But testing and certification hasn't really yet.

- There is a huge opportunity to build a new authority for testing/certification/credentialing. (In many ways YC is doing this almost by accident, but it's not their main focus and they're not doing it in a scalable way).

- The kind of knowledge and skills that are valuable in white collar "knowledge worker" jobs are typically not what you study for and get tested on in school. It's more the various soft skills that let you succeed. In other words, it's not the algorithms themselves, it's that you're disciplined and smart enough to figure out how to learn them. The same is true for white boarding interviews - and lots of management roles too - it's not just that you know how to balance a binary tree, it's that you can explain how to do so in a clear way, can handle curve balls without getting flustered, and seem like a good person to work with.

- There are lots of professional certifications that various professions require. But it's not necessarily in anyone's interest for workers to take these kinds of tests more often or in a more rigorous way.

- There probably are some industries where concrete knowledge testing is valuable. I don't know how big a market it is, but it's probably there. One strategy would be to go after these industries. I'd look for fields with high turnover, and/or where companies are losing money due to worker error.

- Another strategy would be to go after the higher end, and try to become a trusted authority for certifying employee skills. I think this is better because this seems like the kind of thing where it's easier to go from high-end to low-end than the other way around.

- Certifying knowledge workers would probably look less like giving them pop quizzes and more like conversations with them, of else just tracking their work closely and assessing it.

- To get it off the ground you need to decide who is your customer - the worker or the employer? It sounds like you're thinking workers will be your customer. In that case the most important thing will be to show a return on investment for a few early adopters. I'm not sure how best to do that early on, but I think you'd want to have some clear benefit that they get - i.e. getting a job or a promotion indirectly as a result, but that probably way beyond your control. Maybe there's something else?
To paraphrase a quote I read a long time ago: you can't make a man understand something, if his paycheck depends on him not understanding it.

The City spends $240M/year on homelessness (and that doesn't include the money hospitals spend on ER visits by the homeless). There's a whole bureaucracy built around "solving" the homelessness problem; and this bureaucracy would be out of a job if the number of homeless people shrank dramatically. And that is why this problem may never be solved.

The "solutions" proposed involve so much money that it makes you question the sanity of the proposer. Example: building 6,000 housing units for the homeless. Really?!? How have the dense urban housing projects turned out in other cities? And where will the billions of dollars come from? And who will maintain these units? etc. etc. Of course, these proposals are outrageous simply because the more outrageous the proposal, the more money your non-profit gets, it seems.
This is fake drivel. The only ones having good job prospects are people managers, networkers and rote learners.
I'm hugely in favor of graded sentence level translations especially for adult language learners. It is a more natural form of spaced repetition and requires much less will power to stick with it. Finding decent suitable corpora is the difficult part but very amenable to crowd sourcing efforts.

Also see this link for why reading is a really good way to acquire language: http://llt.msu.edu/vol12num1/mcquillan/default.html
I like to push the boundaries of what is acceptable to say in public, both online with accounts tied to my real identity and with friends, coworkers, etc. This is a dangerous game and I'm sure someday it will get me in more serious trouble than the occasional hurt feeling. If someone is motivated enough, they can take offense with every little thing you say. I'm not commenting on any aspect of what Greg said or did. But kudos to anyone anywhere who says something that isn't 100% politically correct.
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> They do the opposite of what insurance should do

There are a couple of points you seem to be missing:

- This insurance works precisely as you say it should, but on a lower scale. In exchange for a fee, it protects you, the holder, from losses too large to easily absorb. If those losses aren't too large for you to absorb, you can post a bond instead of having insurance.

- You don't have car insurance for your own benefit. You have it for everyone else's benefit (that's why you're required to have it). It doesn't matter if you get wiped out by the fines resulting from an accident because that's not why you have insurance. The point of your insurance is to make sure that the parties you injure can recover something. The legal limit is therefore set at an appropriate level for that goal. If you want insurance that protects you at a higher level than that, you can easily purchase some with a higher cap.
Absolutely this. The VW is the MOS 6502 of engines.
The poor are really pro at spending money. Then can turn trickle down into firehose-up and given the chance.
But the popular image is that of a hardworking man who got evicted by some Google-bus-taking tech bro and lost his job!

Ask any longtime resident, and they'll tell you that most homeless, basically, can't be helped. They have severe substance abuse problems and no desire to settle down.
Getting fired sucks. I really hate corp doublespeak, but it's a little commendable that this corp is trying to soften the impact by calling it a graduation - which it is in a way because you get some time off to reskill and seek out other prospective jobs rather than doing the same thing everyday in your current job.
So, what's stopping them from making 2.5m high units? Making it small and cute is just a trick to reduce the fear inspired by Boston Dynamics' war bots. I like this bot but I liked the BD bots too, sad to see such a promising company be cut off.

Just take a look here, ain't it cute? So human-like (after a few bottles of wine)

https://youtu.be/rVlhMGQgDkY?t=38
Homelessness should be a federal issue. Services should be rendered at the jurisdiction they've spent the most time in the last X-years (decade?) so you don't get clumping and for it to remain dispersed, rather than concentrated. Trying to address this locally has an inherent conflict of interest. If you give great service, you attract others from distant places seeking these services but still funded by the same base population and you become both a magnet and you exhaust your resources.
You are basically saying that all employment is for contractors with fixed start and end dates and that must be extended!

That's not how permanent employment works in many parts of the world, nor is it even desirable.
"I shouldn’t have to see the pain, struggle, and despair of homeless people to and from my way to work every day."

That sentence is 100% correct - we shouldn't have to see that around us.

The tragic thing about the blog post that was so reviled, is that it should have been a call to action for the community.

The thousands of homeless people in major urban centers and the lack of progress in doing anything about it is an indictment of our society.

And what has been the response of local government in the Bay Area?

Nearly every city on the peninsula has passed laws against sleeping in your car, making the homeless even more miserable.

The reality is that we haven't even started to address the problem, and most people are just fine with that - as long as the homeless are not in their neighborhood.
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> Health insurance companies are free to [...] split up states between each other to limit competition.

Aren't health insurance companies legally prohibited from operating in more than a single state?
In normal times, 100% of GD (subject to the Activation Cap) converts to USD and none of it rolls over. Only during Disruption is some of the GD held back from converting. And other weird stuff is going on during Disruption too.
Really I have to say, are you that naive? Apple and Amazon absolutely treat their employees like crap. Actually the employees behave with each other like crap because these companies are publicly traded and everyone is a stakeholder. The good work comes out of the employees being in competition with one another. You might like this approach, but at this rate we will be left with an Earth full of impressive monuments but no people to view them.
There are several rounds the military uses for small arms. 50 BMG and 5.56 NATO both have tungsten versions, though they are expensive, and hard for non-military to buy (when found, $50/rnd). Even the military does not normally issue them due to the cost, which is ~2-10x of a standard lead+steel round.
I agree that OSI thinks the two are the same. "The article you quote" disagrees, and that's the entire point of that article. It's totally fine that you might agree with OSI, but it boggles the mind that you can't see the difference between freedom and free, or that you don't see that the GNU Manifesto was always about freedom. Whatever happened to understanding both sides of an argument?
It doesn't work because homelessness is a structural feature of our economy. Until we decide to return to the level and type of wealth redistribution we had before the 1980s, it's going to remain about the same.
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"I can quit anytime I want to, I just don't want to."

Sounds like addiction to me.
I can fall in the yard in Nevada and only end up with grass stains. I can play catch with my child. Each "yard" has their merits, but a real yard to me is much more than either of those.
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My rent in Palo Alto fell 5% on my last renewal, and my apartment complex is letting me renew for 3 months at the 12 month price. Yes, Palo Alto's market is usually a lot hotter than the nation as a whole, but yes, it's currently following the average.
I did an MSc in computer science, and after that I had worked as a professional programmer for about 20 years when I started taking the courses.
Have you ever spent any time working for, or even around, any of these nonprofits that you so brilliantly deduce must only be in it to preserve their own jobs? I'll bet you haven't. You sould try it.

Building housing for homeless people has worked great in other cities[1], and is significantly cheaper than the current alternative, which is housing them in jails or hospitals.

[1] http://www.npr.org/2015/12/10/459100751/utah-reduced-chronic...
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There are a lot of factors that can contribute to the second week converting better or worse Eg public holidays, paydays, sporting events.. That's why ab tests run at the same time so you can compare the same population.
Actually most homeless people can be helped. The chronically homeless only make up about 15% of the homeless population.

The vast majority of homeless people are homeless for months not years, and the many programs to aid them in finding housing and preventing homelessness in the first place have a significant measurable effect on the average number of homeless shelter entries and length of stay.
Is a grammar pendant also more intolerant of petty crimes? I could see language errors as a sort of crime against the rules we as a society made.
How much time have you spent actually talking to homeless people, learning about their lives, their histories, or their motives for doing what they do? Are you just basing your opinion on the quotes from one widely disputed article? Maybe you should start with the most recent official data on the subject[1].

[1] https://sfgov.org/lhcb/sites/sfgov.org.lhcb/files/2015%20San...
"foam" is the right way of thinking, it's not some thin bubbles of mostly air, from comment above :

> The metal foam is made of 2mm-diameter hollow steel spheres in a stainless steel matrix (created using powder metallurgy).
At that point, wouldn't it be easier and just as effective to use a single, larger round? .50-cal rifles already exist; no need to invent a big bullet that turns into two smaller bullets.

(Unless you mean something that starts out the same size as the one in the video, in which case I can't imagine that two halves of a .30-06 would penetrate any better than one whole .30-06.)
The BSD license does so permit, but this only means that it is not a copyleft license; it is still a free software license.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html#Non-Copylefted...
Recently I can afford to implement this rule "I choose who can come and how much close to me, male and female alike, physical distance and psychological distance alike".

I learn every single word of this the hard way.

But the hardest is to learn that it's important to recognise "psychological distance". Because building up an "emotional armor" is trickier than keeping "physical distance" from some negative source.
I think that's the right line of thinking. To me it seems that people build and update rationality models and base the rationality of their decisions and thoughts on their personal model, not on some universal model. Conflict occurs when people's models don't intersect. People with good social skills probably recognize this. Unfortunately I have no data to refute this.
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I am working on this project, http://epsilonwiki.free.fr/lambdaway/, and would be happy to get your opinion back.
Thanks a lot.
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Anybody downvoting this comment should spend some time looking at how street homelessness emerged as a major problem in the 1980s, following massive reduction in federal public housing funding. This is well understood among people who have spent any amount of time working with homeless people, not so much by the general public.
Sorry, perhaps my comment was unclear.

Automation is not a threat to demand in the sense that people won't stop demanding products because they are making them at home (as OP ridiculously claimed). Rather, automation will drastically change the economics on the supply side.

You're absolutely correct that unless managed well this could lead to mass poverty (and hence decreasing demand). I'm optimistic we will eventually find some solutions, either in the form of basic income or higher-order work.
Saying it's a service already makes the control explicit. Adding the word 'substitute' does nothing on that front.
The whole point of software engineering is to automate yourself out of a job.
The hope is that as talent mobility increases, the power imbalance will ebb. But it is rare for the power to be perfectly balanced.
Oh! If someone asked me that question, I would describe the one change I would like to implement the most! You're exactly right, there are a few things you can measure with this question.
The point of insurance is to protect the person you hit by ensuring someone will pay their costs. If the legal minimum is far below the potential costs, then the insurance is failing at that purpose, because it doesn't matter how many millions you settle for, most people can't pay it to you and being owed by a deadbeat doesn't pay hospital bills.