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Yeah right, from someone who has been waiting to attack Gavin.
Social Justice Warrior, an attempted dogwhistle[1] used by GamerGaters / men's rights activists / anyone of scared of a more equal society, in a derogatory way against people who promote equality and not being a dick on the Internet.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics
Pedalpete -
Thanks for the feedback. This is very good stuff.
We'd gladly extend a 30 day-trial for you (or others who view this thread). Your solo-developer option is a great idea, and we'd work with you on that as well. If you are interested contact me at ryan@systemmeasure.com. In any case, thanks again for taking the time to help us out.
We're all working with fiat currencies you know.
Honestly, that applies to any kind of currency.
What kind of currency do you accept for your work? Is it reason and logic based or a fiat "belief based" currency?
Another words to add : yield/cost
This author has a pretty cynical view that the only reason people use iPhone is because of vendor lock-in, like from iMessage.

This disregards the fact that many iPhone customers are still first time buyers with no lock in hanging over their head. And also Apple has an extremely high customer satisfaction rate keeping customers coming back. Customers buy iPhones because they like the experience and ecosystem, not solely due to some service lock-in.
>I'm not sure how much weight that has.
>think he would support & exploit it every way he could

I'm not going to claim to know Trump's ambitions but you're dismissing the source and countering with "that has no weight...I think..."?

The article yesterday about the uninformed vs the misinformed mentioned this: in a time where we are overwhelmed with information, people dismiss things that don't agree with their preconceived notions as "baseless", while seeking "news" that supports their biases. It's a problem.
I have not visited Hiroshima, or Japan at all for that matter, but I just recently came back from visiting the beaches of Normandy, the American cemetery, Arromanches, and other war memorials around there.

While obviously not the same thing, I recognize what you say about the scale of horror – it really is unfathomable from pictures, movies, and other representations. You simply have to visit to get a feel for just how big some of these key events of the war actually were, and it's absolutely mind boggling and horrific.

What really got me about visiting Normandy though was how real it all suddenly became. I'd like to think I'm a fairly well educated person when it comes to modern history, and particularly in terms of WW2. But since I grew up in a country that wasn't really pulled into it, everything just seemed so distant (even though it physically wasn't, I'm from Sweden) and in many ways unreal. That all changed with Normandy, and it was a very strange and mixed set of quite strong emotions involved. I can only imagine what it's like to visit Hiroshima, and hope I some day get the chance to do so.
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This also applies to every other fiat currency like the euro or dollar.
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Up front: I'm thinking about leaving NoSQL because I hate its memory model.

SQL requires joins to get a "document" back. In order to properly optimize that process, you'll want an index. Most DBs don't do that (if I understand them correctly). See 1 for details about PG.

NoSQLs like Mongo lack joins. As a result you pack most of your joinable data into a document. When you need some manner of linked relation, you can store either the key to the collection, or a URI that goes through your API to that collection. In either case, you're pegging against an indexed key (probably the PK).

http://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/53809/need-for-indexe...
I think that's the point GP is making.
I wouldn't be surprised at costs like that though. They offer 2G ram VPS for less than the 512M PG instances here.

Obviously it makes sense to be cautious but they don't seem like insane prices.
I think internet libertarian would be more accurate http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Internet+Libe...
What is up with this specific comment thread being so horribly wide on mobile? Why isn't CSS enforcing a width and wrapping the page?
Yes, if you were, you wouldn't have to ask, you'd already know.
In case I didn't misunderstand your comment, no, the ongoing WW3 is not obvious.
>Think about it. You probably owe your life to regulations ensuring your food is edible, and your medicine isn't poison.

This is just laughable. Yeah, nameless, faceless companies who earn profit from consumers eating and drinking their goods are just going to poison everyone. It's not like they are composed of actual people with friends and families too, right? They want to kill everyone.

Again, show me the greatest historical body-counts being business related, not governmental or politically motivated.
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My grandfather was a Ford man. He would only ever buy a Ford, even during periods when other manufacturers were making vastly superior vehicles.

I used to think such loyalty was a silly generational thing. My generation was a fickle consumer. We would research and decide on a purchase based purely on merit. That's how I was with phones. When iPhone was the most compelling phone, I would buy an iPhone. When there was a more compelling Android phone, I would buy that.

However, as I get older I'm starting to understand loyalty, and it's not what I expected. It isn't a dogmatic belief in a brand. It's recognizing that sometimes it's easier to stick with what works and not worry about whether there's something better out there.

Now that we've been living with smartphones for a while, and they mostly just work, I don't expect people find as much value in switching between Android and iOS. As long as both exist, neither will ever reach 100% market share.
It's gender politics when you tell me that using 'he' is not gender neutral. Sure, you may think otherwise, but we all have our opinions.
I'd say the tweet's sentiment is still on target, if not more on target, given this excuse.
There is circumstantial evidence that he isn't Satoshi, eg, he doesn't sound like Satoshi sounded, he doesn't act in ways congruent with Satoshi's actions, he doesn't seem to share goals with Satoshi's actions, he doesn't seem to have knowledge Satoshi had, etc.

On the other hand, it's absolutely possible that Wright is Satoshi, and is simply engaging in an elaborate hoax in which Satoshi does a great job of pretending to be someone else who is doing a bad job of pretending to be Satoshi. It could be!

This is the bitcoin equivalent of Last Thursdayism (http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Last_Thursdayism) and much like the original, it's impossible to disprove.

Bottom line though: The real Satoshi could trivially prove he was Satoshi if he wanted to; Wright has not. Either 1) he's not Satoshi, or 2) he doesn't want to prove that he is Satoshi. Given that he spoke to the BBC in an apparent attempt to prove he is Satoshi, we can provisionally rule out option 2, leaving option 1:

He's not Satoshi.
No, the problem with industry general is that it is tightly interwoven with politics and naturally tries to find loopholes in any regulatory system. The question is, given that the regulatory approach is not perfect, which one has still more benefits for the consumer.

* a new pesticide enters the market. After three years we find out that it kills bees and would lead to the death of a species.

Germans usually would want that some independent upfront effort is done to determine that this product is potentially harmful and prevent it from entering the market. In real life, this leads to all kinds of practical problems. But that does not mean we should give up this approach, just because it is not perfect.
Cecilia Malmström, European Commissioner for Trade, on the documents:

> First of all, and contrary to what many seem to believe, so-called "consolidated texts" in a trade negotiation are not the same thing as an outcome. They reflect each side's negotiating position, nothing else. [...] In that sense, many of today's alarmist headlines are a storm in a teacup. [...] No EU trade agreement will ever lower our level of protection of consumers, or food safety, or of the environment. Trade agreements will not change our laws on GMOs, or how to produce safe beef, or how to protect the environment.

http://ec.europa.eu/commission/2014-2019/malmstrom/blog/nego...
I am and I'm disgusted that the only two people we deem worthy of putting to the forefront for our forthcoming election are Trump and Clinton.

Prepare for the Bill of Rights to be eroded further when either of these two idiots are elected.
It'd be nice if there was any form of data to support the position of the article. I know that among my non-technical friends there seems to be no worry about algo feed vs time-based feed - and there doesn't seem to be any slow down in their scrolls through their Facebook/Instagram/Twitter feeds. I get wanting to call a change, but lacking any data it's hard to take seriously.
Show everybody how you move one of those old Bitcoins in the early blocks. Other than that, this is just a circus.
> I prefer leftism than rightism, because in my mind rightism leads to having your water poison you, Flint-style.

It may be shocking to you, but Flit has been ran by democrats for years.
In the US at least, the semi-governmental FDIC automatically publicly insures accounts, not banks, up to $250,000.

In addition most banks are privately insured against fraud.

I've dealt with an 8k fraudulent charge on my card before. The bank investigated, sent over a sworn affidavit to sign, and they refunded my money in less than 24 hours.
>Definitely not something you would ever find yourself doing in a moment of weakness and fear.

It might be something one does during a "a moment of weakness and fear", but there is zero evidence that's the case. It's mentioned only because it fits some corny, pseudo-intellectual narrative.
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Because a) it's a seriously fascinating system from a technical standpoint, b) it has immense potential to solve a lot of problems — especially for those in areas with underdeveloped financial systems, and c) a lot of people are heavily invested in its success.

Regardless of whether or not you think it's overhyped, it's a really really cool experiment in economics and cryptography.
Let us see... in my day, we called an "asm code generator" an assembler... anyone remember MasterSEKA, Devpac, TRASH'M-One and ASM-one?
I'm as interested in the Satoshi/Wright drama as the next bored geek, but...

...come on, this is just getting silly. Nobody really thinks Gavin was hacked, do they?
Is there any actual evidence that I'm not dead? Well, yes, there is :)
I'm wondering what formalism people use for pseudocode in their papers, and if this could be improved upon. I often get the feeling that authors invent new programming languages just to write down some pseudocode.
"I have access to $440M. I just can't touch it until 2020."

Perhaps the oldest con ever. Hence the detailed previous story from him of placing all of Satoshi's stash in a trust.
Except that Reddit is gradually turning into 4chan. Every time I see /r/all, it's a little more mean-spirited, a little younger, a little more toxic.

Outsourcing moderation and libertarian ideals all sound nice, but when the rubber hits the road it gradually chases normal people away. Reddit just did it it slower because the strengths of their platform and content overwhelmed it... but it's getting there eventually.
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So in general ECU's are not easy to just wholesale replace as they may have safeguards built into other electronics looking for proprietary signals from the ECU to activate. You can reprogram aspects of an ECU pretty easily, and you can even clone an ECU. But as far as just replacing it with a non-OEM ECU, I would think it would be cost prohibitive to do the research and development needed to do it properly. This is especially true of higher end cars, where the ABS computer, Radio, Transmission Controller etc all are usually separate and require signals from the ECU. You could reverse engineer it again, but time isn't free.

There are specs you can find on ECU's, most are SAE specs, and most late model ECU's use CAN bus for communication. Sparkfun has an article that talks about reading diagnostic codes etc and shows a list of most specs, although I don't think it is comprehensive. https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/getting-started-with-ob...

Aftermarket companies that sell "chip" tuners, from what I understand, work by first using the known protocols to gain access and tune what is possible, but then also will either pay the OEM for access to make other modifications (and thereby usually be covered under factory warranty), or they will reverse engineer things like the fuel map so they can modify it, which works but isn't so warranty friendly.
It's not that conservatism is hateful, but that the brand of conservatism propagating on Reddit is a particularly hateful one.
> True, except that as a developer I'd prefer to target only one architecture. Now we're forced to write apps for iOS and Android and the web separately.

How is it a bad thing ? more work == more money for you as a developer.
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This is probably the most important takeaway

In most cases TTIP raised the level of consumer protection to the highest on whatever side of the pond was already best (for example Americans see European chicken as raised in shot basically do our chicken farmers will have to up the game (assuming battery hens is something we think is a high standard anyway)

As for beef, Germans think the US do beef like we do chickens. And so there will be a cost to the US cattle industry.

But consumers win

Are there parts of TTIP that are frankly dumb and will be damaging for years? Yes. Would that have been fixed by an open process. Meh.

So if we the people don't like this, then we the people need to write our MPs and congres people and say "start a new WTO round and don't stop till you get something good - keep it open and don't let people like trump comment on it at all"
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Hmm, can you link to the sartre quote on some public block explorer?
Looks like the EU will only get the standards from the US:

"The US insisted on its request for the commission to “require” in its standardization request, CEN and CENELEC to involve US experts in its standards development process (with no guarantee of reciprocity) as a condition for referencing harmonized standards."

https://twitter.com/jwildeboer/status/727086878621634560
The problem with these sort of definitions of the terms minority and majority is they lose all meaning. It allows anyone to arbitrarily categorise any groups they want as a minority or majority depending how they split or lump everyone together.

I guess I am a little old fashion in wanting to use words to communicate which gets impossible if anyone can use any word to mean anything they want.
I did develop for J2ME.

> With J2ME it was basically close to impossible to create any app apart from the most basic ones without producer-specific APIs. Nokia, Siemens, Samsung, Motorola, etc. - they all had their own special extensions. Even if some game was released for more than one handset, each make had its own version.

How is this different from the firmware issues that plague Android?

Have you ever tried to make the support library work properly across Samsung devices, or even worse cheap chinese brands?

Or track down native crashes or memory leaks across Android firmware?

Whoever believes that Android is better than J2ME, never had to make their apps work on cheap or network specific Android devices.
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As transient as his positions on social issues seem to be, his public statements on "free trade" appear to have been eerily consistent. Here is him talking in 1988, and if you substituted "China" for "Japan", it could be a speech from yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEPs17_AkTI

No idea whether this is consistent with his actions, though.
This is a great resource. As someone who knows little about clustering, this was clear and very informative. It covers potential pitfalls much better than other similar documents I've seen, which is a useful approach.
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If the DoD gives Congress guidance on budget bands and what capabilities are given up in each band below the "ideal" band, especially in projected political terms, then I can see Congress setting a preliminary budget and finalizing after some more detailed DoD analysis of what is projected to be accomplished under that budget. For example, tell Congress for a $1B ideal budget of a weapons program, a $750-800M budget band would mean response time to deploy the weapon drops from 6 hours to 6 days. Not such a big deal for a littoral combat operations boat, but a huge deal for a cruise missile block upgrade. But we're all outsiders here, and I'd love to hear inside baseball on what the real factors are behind these procurement processes.
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Some people like to do interesting work instead of doing basically the same thing over and over again.
In what ways would the TTIP effect his real estate empire? It seems to be much more relevant to other industries.
I'd say fairly good, first side project, so no other to compare to. Also an invaluable source of experience.
The USD and the Euro are backed by the fact that the government will only accept payment in those currencies. That's why it says "for all debts, public and private."

The strength of a state-sponsored fiat currency is two-fold:

First, the amount of commerce done with the government.

And second, the government's ability to use force to prevent the use of other currencies in the licit domestic market, to stop the free movement of cash, and to detain those that do not comply.

Succinctly, fiat currencies are maintained by tanks and taxes.
Not saying it's not odd, but have you seen this video of Wright?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZNtbAFnr-0

If he is Satoshi, and what he's saying about being forced to reveal his identity now is true, it would make sense to provide the minimum that the threateners would accept, knowing that the community wouldn't buy it. That video is really odd. (FWIW I don't believe this claim is or isn't true, I'm waiting for more info.)
I still browse the homepage, even with the need to switch it back to most recent every other day when they try to sneak you back onto algorithmogeddoen.
The nett result of this will be US business will be less and less trusted by the rest of the world and bypassed wherever possible.
I find a lot of those brand loyalist tend to be foolish in many ways. They make decisions based on emotion, rather than analytical thought.

I worked in retail for a good part of a decade, and I was dumbfounded by the number of people who would never buy another product from X manufacture based on a single poor experience with one product. It's simply an emotional response to their unpleasant experience which results in the person making a decision without statistical data to validate their idea. Which seems like nothing more than just plain ignorance.
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Who's to say that those companies are not in favor of this kind of stuff as long as they can get the right provisions in the final bill? If real encryption is illegal for all other software vendors that makes your software a much safer bet for the people who actually care about that stuff.
Regression to the mean...
Honest question: what's in the cards for after 2022? That's only 8 years away. How can the trend continue for another 50 years?
I have been developing odd-ball physics apps (ThreeBody, Geodesic Asteroids most recently).

I'd say I put in about 10 hrs/week => 520/yr.

Last year my revenues were up 400% (to $88) with expenses of about $400 (apple developer fee, web host, test device, couple of books) - so a loss of about $300.

Time/revenue = 88/520 = $0.17/hr
Just out of curiosity, does anyone know Obama's stance on this particular part of the legislation? He was just in Hanover and was asked about this by the public, but avoided giving a clear answer. Are there any records of him explaining why he actually might think this is a good thing?
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> How is this different from the firmware issues that plague Android?

What "firmware issues plague Android?

> Whoever believes that Android is better than J2ME, never had to make their apps work on cheap or network specific Android devices.

This must be a joke
I don't think there are any more first-time buyers of phones left in the world. Really. Its not a thing any more. Also no first-time shoe buyers, or food buyers. Except maybe the very young trickling into the market.
It's always politically easier to tax foreigners or outsiders more generally.
That Sartre quote is incredibly ironic. Sartre turned down the Noble prize. His point was that signing with the affectation was in bad faith.
What is the value of uncovering who Satoshi is? Or rather what is the value of being considered Satoshi?

My pet theories: If Wright is Satoshi and wants to hide the fact, a good way to do that is to come off as a fraud

If Wright is not Satoshi but knows who Satoshi is, and wants to protect him, why not just keep quiet? Was someone actually getting close to uncovering the identity and Wright is just trying to muddle the waters?

If Wright is not Satoshi and is actually trying to get people to believe that he is, what would he gain by it?
I agree. I was not surprised that President Obama waded in on the British EU exit referendum. This issue is not of much importance to US citizens, but it is very important to the one world government movement. Off topic, but: I find it sad but amusing when my friends argue about democrats vs. republicans; both parties serve their 'people', the corporations.
>this is what we get when countries still want to dominate each other.

The most peaceful, prosperous, and healthy period known in human history?
What's even better is that I've almost always seen the 3 day old post (and often even liked it) 3 days ago, but it's apparently still the "most relevant" thing for me to see. I do wonder if I'd appreciate the algorithmic model better if the algorithms weren't just so damn bad
Keep in mind that many people spend a lot of analytical time on other aspects of their adult life: work, vacations, insurance, children (including paying for college), home maintenance, etc. Sometimes smartphone and entertainment fall into the group of things just not worth spending your limited thinking time on.
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First time iPhone buyers, coming from Android, for example.
I don't agree.

As a working programmer I get access to all the papers I want.

One just needs to care for the field.

Many authors provide their papers, or at least the drafts on their web sites.

Also many do gladly send copies if asked about them.

What I do agree, is that the majority of the working programmers I know couldn't care less, they don't even read blogs, books or follow sites like HN. Only when management says so.