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Not sure how many could really cover it, but my wife and I did just that a few years ago. No jobs lined up and a few k in the bank account, some from selling what little we owned. It was a great decision for us and has worked out well. We both were in the social work profession, so were by no means rich. Maybe we're not a typical story, not sure, but it can be done successfully. Taking healthy risks is an exciting part of life sometimes, and I am glad I didn't listen to my own fears or to others who said we would fail.
A cryptocurrency needs to happen. Today or in the future economic incentives will drive politics out of money.
I tried to reproduce it by keep saying education education. It didn't pick it up. Tried with FB and Messenger. Maybe it doesn't work for me...
> There are so many problems left to solve in the world it's a joke to say "there isn't work to be done"

There is a lot of work to be done, and there will be in the conceivable future - but it doesn't mean there's profitable work to be done by humans. a) machines keep replacing us doing more work and doing it better than us, and b) capitalism doesn't optimize for useful work, it optimizes for profitable work - so even if there's a lot of world problems to solve that could be tackled by the poor and uneducated, they're still screwed if they can't feed themselves from that work.
Not sure how you manage to miss the point of the article. I'll break it down for you:

* A lot of traditional sql solutions have scaling issues.

* A lot of nosql solutions for these issues have become popular in recent years. Their main use case is web scale (simplification)

* A ton of actual use cases fall between those two chairs i.e they would have scaling issues with traditional sql systems but don't really have billions of transactions to process.

The article presents some valid real world approaches for this third case, some of it might be case dependant but overall pretty good advice.
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> deploy for free, run indefinitely with zero downtime

So who actually pays for the runtime - is it the work the miners do? If not, what is the mining work used for exactly?
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At least for Apple I don't think it's fair to say that. Apple tends to deprecate little parts of the API of their API, but the core has been quite stable. By that I mean Cocoa / Cocoa Touch. Since the introduction of OSX these two and Carbon were the only core APIs you had to care about. Now with Swift there's some movement again (which isn't enforced yet), we'll see where that goes. All in all not bad for ~16 years of development. If you count things like the move to ARC or Auto layout, I think these transitions were handled well and didn't lead to that much additional investment, it's on the order of expected support you need to do.

It's a different kind of stability though. Windows tends to support everything old written for their platforms in some way or another through tons of compatibility layers. It's 98% legacy and 2% of what's currently the favourite thing Microsoft would like you to do (which is constantly shifting). With Apple it's a lot less legacy support but the stuff actively sanctioned by Apple is also more stable.
Yeah, as you can see the issue was that it is a different function, pushxGenericCommand(), which is used for LPUSHX, RPUSHX and LINSERT. For me having the same function for LPUSHX / RPUSHX and LINSERT does not make much sense (it uses different code depending on whether or not an argument is NULL anyway) so I had started by making LINSERT not rely on it.

My initial goal at the time was not to make LPUSHX and RPUSHX variadic, since like you said they are not used so much. It was actually to make LINSERT variadic, which can result in a significant performance boost compared to calling it several times.

Anyway, I will try to find the time to adapt it to the current code base.
> Common law: some of the laws are based on customs, which means that things are against the law and can be punished because they have been punished by judges in the past.

Can anyone give an example of this?
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if I read that graph correctly, people drive slightly to the right of centre
So a twice convicted felon couldn't not commit another crime (theft, no less)?

Well by all means the enlightened thing to do would be to allow him to keep victimizing people.
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> the broader play here is worrying: billionaire finances lawsuits he has nothing to do with, in order to take down media entity that he dislikes.

Is it? I think it's a lot more worrying the fact that I can only have the protection of the law of if I have a lot of money. If a billionaire helps me with the bills, what's wrong with that?
In case you're curious, the five systems in the article are mentioned by the original paper, and correspond to the ones described here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_mathematics#The_big_fi...
Computer programming is so error prone, it's hard to see how it could ever be used for critical applications.
I think you are right, it seems perfectly reasonnable to me (French) while the comments like "he could kill 10 people in his lifetime" seems ludicrous.

That's cultural differences for you !
> "redesign the unix terminal"

... is not the same as the Bourne Again shell and scripting language, that IshKebab was talking about.
Android M above (<strike>N</strike>) you can disable various permissions asked by an app. I have disabled everything for Facebook (except storage). No location, contacts, microphone, calendar, phone, sms or even camera. You're not allowed here, facebook. So it can't do much damage for at least those versions of Android.
What the fuck is the point of life if not to leave your descendants better off than you? What a depressingly narcissistic brand of individualism.

Moreover, if you refuse to help your descendants and expect them to "pull themselves up by their bootstraps" like you did because (ultimately) "it builds character," you shouldn't be surprised when they get their asses handed to them in life by the multigenerationally wealthy that were playing the game from the start.
I love the fact there's a long popular article devoted to the proof “that RT^2_2 is Π^0_3 conservative over IΣ^0_1”, as the abstract of the paper summarises it. Reverse mathematics is a fairly niche area even within mathematical logic. Kudos to Natalie Wolchover for taking it on.
You've made a few jumps of imagination in there.

I'm actually convinced that Ethereum has something unique to offer specifically to developers. Ethereum will be a common ground for a lot of high value code and data between organizations, people, etc. A lot is possible in a few lines of solidity, I've seen devs create working decentralized exchanges in a few weeks. As you can see, the use of Ether here is just to ensure that the code a user wants to execute on the EVM gets executed. Users need not have to use it as a currency.

Ether's primary purpose is to secure the Ethereum network, not to be used as a "currency" like Bitcoin. If someone gave me an ether every time the Ethereum devs keep emphasizing this, I'd be very rich by now. If Bitcoin did a great job at transferring value in the network without being slow and full all the time, all the ancaps would have stuck to Bitcoin and would have left us in peace.

The Bitcoin challenger is not Ethereum itself, it will be services like Maker that are currently being built on top of Ethereum. Ether purpose is to secure Ethereum so that services like Maker don't have to worry about the security and scalability of the underlying blockchain and can focus on the EVM abstraction and above.
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I just looked it up. In Czechia the sentence for murder (killing with intent) is 10 to 18 years; or 15 to lifetime in special cases.
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I tried something similar and while it definitely works I found such displays even at their lowest brightness setting way too distracting. I continuously notice it's there because it doesn't blend into the rest of the interior, unlike a painting or so. And if you're close enough you feel the heat from it. Very much unlike a painting.
This is what shoots down the biggest myth of the "pure capitalism" crowd.

They have a habit of presenting complicated economics in "Lemonade Stand" simplistic terms. "Labor will move to where they can make the most money, until equilibrium is achieved".

If your job moves to China, you can't move your family to China. The same restrictions apply at less restrictive levels for anywhere else.

The fact is, labor has never moved freely, and so any model built on that argument is inherently false.
By school do you mean "high school". I took "home grown" to mean that you learned programming yourself, not via a degree in college.
Not only disk space, you are limited to just two nodes (one primary and one standby). Of course you can create read replica, but that if you are write intensive, you can end up consuming all of your pools.
This is very accurate, thanks for doing this.
That's awesome! Too bad they removed the content here http://verizoncraft.github.io
The ultimate goal of prison is to reintegrate people in the society. It fails at the moment miserably also because people consider the prison as a way to prevent people to come back to the society.

Your comment and the one to whom you respond show these two points of view. It is interesting that at the moment in the US you have more a "keep the criminals away from the society" point of view and in Europe "try to reintegrate them".
I love mysql , saved my ass many times , but this article doesn't mean anything .. it just says that you can use subqueries and joins to do "nosql"... we all know that .. you can also use a text file.
I'd like if mysql copies what postgres has done with hstore.
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Now we need good e-readers which can process PDF properly and fast. An iPad with this screen would be a great alternative if video is not important. But it probably will be Android that's going to drive these screens.
It is kinda funny... but it would be funnier if this was not a joke.
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Some devices are always listening for "OK, Google", if you turn that feature on (Nexus 6, Nexus 9, and Samsung Note 4, according to a Google help page [0]). I vaguely remember reading something about a subprocessor in those devices, looking for that phrase, to cut down on battery usage. Most of the speech recognition processing happens remotely on Google's servers, though.

[0] https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/6031948?hl=en
Alternatively, one could live in a high-priced city and purchase high-priced real estate to live in, and upon retirement or at a later age, sell the higher priced property and take the potentially greater retirement account contributions and move to say Missouri or a place where the cost of living is lower, with a significant advantage.
That's how I always understood it. Miners machines do all the operations and for this they are rewarded with bitcoins.
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That sounds cruel, assuming you're talking about natural persons. They should at least get to live until the first gray hair shows up on their head.
This can't be the correct way of thinking of the prison system. A person should not be sent to prison for the sole purpose of suffering for the crime which they committed. There is a reason people call a prison a correctional facility. The point is to correct the problems in their character that caused them to commit such a crime. If you isolate them from the world it's no wonder they would eventually commit a crime again. Because they have no idea how to fit into society. And then we just have another person to take care of while they don't do anything to contribute to society.
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Sure when a low-life kills your children with cold blood and get away with it for 8 years, I would like to see your reaction after murderer goes out of jail and smiles at you.
Makes you feel being totally in control, doesn't it?
I'm still waiting for the economically priced A4 black and white e-reader for reading research papers on.
Well, in most legal systems having a prior will very likely increase the sentence.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_criminal_law#Common_...

Most common law was codified and modernised in the latter half of the 20th century.
Alternatively, one could live in a high-priced city and purchase high-priced real estate to live in

This reminds me of a joke. (I can't remember who told it.) But it goes something like, I'll tell you how to make 10 million dollars. OK, easy, so you start with a million dollars. <Every detail after this relies on that first million.>

It's a pretty big assumption right off the bat.
Think of it as reverse stack ranking.
But with quicksync you can probably get a multiple of that.
FB just recently shot their credibility though by making statements that seemed very dishonest regarding their content bias. I don't think it's a big issue but it'll look that way. It'll cause people to think twice -- who knows, maybe next week FB will announce "a bug in the code sometimes accidentally listened to a few users' phone calls" and "we are reviewing our auditing mechanisms to ensure this doesn't happen again".

Is it a net gain for society if they're more wary, even if this particular instance is wrong?
I have a feeling, albeit one not informed by deep knowledge of either field, that there are already-known pure mathematical results that can cause a <insert your favorite way of saying "paradigm shift"> in machine learning, just "waiting to be discovered" by people in the latter field.

All this talk of maxima and minima reminds me of Morse theory, for instance (and that Wikipedia page is more than what I know about it). [1]

Is there any sense in what I'm saying?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_theory
Nothing about decoupling health insurance and employment says it has to be nationalized. It could be like car or home or life insurance, where you buy your own without your employer's input.
I use full-disk encryption via LVM on LUKS [0]. I rarely bother with per-user encrypted home directories since I'm the only user of the device and I don't leave it on while traveling or unattended.

For external drives and cloud storage I use EncFS via Gnome EncFS Manager [1], which makes it easy to keep track of and mount "stashes".

[0]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dm-crypt/Encrypting_an_...

[1]: http://www.libertyzero.com/GEncfsM
No, the ultimate goal of prison is to prevent crime.

Both by deterring would-be criminals, and by keeping future lawbreakers behind bars where they can't do harm.
I think all these ideas will be best realized when we can have entire walls made of programmable, maybe electro-organic with properties like chameleon skin, material that can be set to display anything we want.

Go one step further and it can be even better; have them also emit air with different temperatures and smells, so that I can have one wall displaying an open field, for example, complete with the feeling of a fresh scented breeze coming from that direction.
Theft is when I take property which I have no right to take possession of. It doesn't matter if guns or force are involved, or fraud, or sneakiness, etc. If taxation is theft, then it is theft even if it's unenforced and involves no threats of force.

Why is taxation theft?
Its a pack of fucking batteries mate. You've just ruined a guys life, the life of his family and friends because of a pack of batteries.

The enlightened thing to do would be to help him re-integrate into society so that he didn't need to steal a pack of batteries, help him get a job, go to counselling etc.

By all means give the guy a fine, or tag him. Treat him like the child he's acting like. But life in prison for a pack of batteries is a bit much.
We don't need to hypothesize an answer. We live in a world where we can see an answer, if we know our history. People decided almost 10 years ago that there was a better way to do certain things than use the Bourne Again shell, and switched to using the Debian Almquist shell.

* http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/250965/5132
Not at all. There's dedicated dialer programs, and they use much, much, cheaper providers than Twilio. Dialer wholesale companies make around 10% if they're doing well. It's a very high volume business, and they are constantly on their feet since other providers will cut them off if their call acceptance and durations aren't high enough.

Telecom makes most "web scale" stuff look very small. Even a one-man operation might be doing 4000 calls a sec, each requiring about 20 packets, plus routing and billing lookups and records.
No, but it does listen to your audio when you have your profile/post active for a period of time.
By this logic, I can just murder anyone I like, and then demonstrate that I won't do it again.

After that, no reason to keep me in prison any more right? It's not like the dead person or their family count for anything - it's all about me and the government's budget. Yeah?
He said it once in a 6 minute video. Twice if you count saying "I don't think anyone else has ever done this".
This is where I find the Norwegian prison system interesting. It seems their prisons are just pretty remote "villages" more like monasteries where the prisoners work together. ASFAIK they are much more successful in rehabilitating people back into society than countries with more traditional prisons.
I don't think you need to use open hotspots - assuming you have your own WiFi at home, you can just do your syncing once you're back at home after your run. Also the core has GPS, which the iPod Shuffle doesn't.

I didn't find Germany's mobile internet too expensive, I was quite happy with Congstar prepaid when I was last over there. Certainly comparable with Australian mobile internet pricing. On the other hand, Australia now has free mobile Spotify streaming (on Optus), not sure if Congstar does.
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Agreed. Thank you for this important amendment.
US and UK courts help develop the law through the precedents they set in their judgements. Law is not just a product of the legislative process and statute, but also of case law developed by judges. Common law often leaves a lot of the details of implementation to judges, and judges are also left to interpret and establish the law when an unforeseen case comes to their court that the legislative process did not deliberate over. If a higher court establishes a precedent for punishment then a lower court might cite that precedent as part of their legal reasoning of why they are bound to a particular punishment, and an appeal can be made against that judge if it is found they don't follow precedent. If you read a formal judgement you will usually find references to case law created by previous judges scattered throughout a judge's argument.

Edit: As an example maybe look at the recent popular case of Oscar Pistorius in South Africa in which a major contention has been the interpretation of case law by the judge to decide the appropriate category (murder vs manslaughter) and punishment for the killing of Reeva Steenkamp.
That might be very true; this was in the Netherlands in a 'prestigious' math/cs major; there were no (0) people with an ethnic background there. Come to think of it, we had no people with ethnic backgrounds in the electronics minor I did either.

I live in Spain now and it's normal here to stay with your parents until, what is in US tv shows referred to as, far beyond serial killer age.
The purpose of the legal system is NOT to offer retribution to victims. Making the murderer suffer won't bring back your kids. It will accomplish exactly nothing, in fact.
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Wow thanks for this, didn't know about it. Super useful :)
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The 14th amendment does not guarantee privacy so I'm not sure why I'd believe anything else this page says...
I think you loose flexibility with sql. If the usage changes slightly and you need to index one or two more fields you would have to do an alter table and read through 200 GB of data deserializing all blobs to put the values into the new field. A good nosql would just add a secondary index.
You might also have a hard time doing map-reduce on sql. It is often built into nosql systems.
How do these finitists handle things like the real numbers? Do they just not consider questions that require the notion of infinity?
What were the "very dishonest" statements?
One key difference is Ethereum is not being built only for writing code for monetary transactions using Ether.

Ethereum is being built to store and run code in the EVM. Ether main use is only to pay for gas so that any user of the network can execute the code. Although in Bitcoin there is no point in writing code other than encode conditions upon which monetary transfers can be done, this isn't Etheruem's main goal.

An example of a non-monetary use case is - A concert ticket issuer could issue tickets on the Ethereum network. When users want to resell, they need not rely on a re-seller and instead can do a direct exchange on a decentralized exchange. They will pay a few cents worth of Ether as fees to run code that triggers this exchange to get the guarantee that the tickets are not counterfeit. After a quick confirmation the ownership of the tickets is updated on the blockchain. The exchange of money between these users can be in USD itself directly without any conversions to Ether.

It is non-monetary consumer use cases like these that drives the Ethereum team to bring the transaction confirmation times to the current 15 seconds and even lower in the near future.
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I understand you might be saying that sarcastically, but yes - as far as these specific permissions on my phone are concerned, I feel being in control (e.g. I know it can't record my voice even if it wants). I have otherwise given a lot of my information to both Facebook and Google, and I'm aware of the potential consequences.
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IMO Nim language (which compiles to C) is a better option than writing web applications in C.

http://nim-lang.org/
I hear what you're saying, but I mean the person would work and save to purchase the real-estate. The assumption I make is that one saves a percentage of income towards a down payment on real estate. That can be done anywhere, and I do agree that in some places it could be easier. That doesn't mean that since it's easy, it's the best decision for someone's life (but it could be).
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That is not at all how it goed. If someone mills all your children they gets a much higher sentence. It all depends on what you killed or what you stole. (Stealing two AA batteries vs stealing 10 million dollars with years of planning) But you don't get 5 years or more in prison for driving under influence.