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Yeah you are right but it's just how they did it in here.

They gave people 15 days to exchange the bank notes for smaller ones or deposit their old notes in the banks or exchange for new ones, we can all agree that this looks like a really small period of time but due to the nature of our economy it's actually a decent time. But the bill is not really "banned" it will be tho and I will explain you the reasons a bit later.

In my case, I deposited all my 100 notes without any problems by monday. I just use debit/credit cards now and other small notes to make cheap purchases.

It's incredible hard to find actual correct information on whats going on because all the media is focused in creating chaos and missinformation, this is an actual good source where you can see the explanation of why only the 100 notes are being replaced on this 1st phase

http://www.analitica.com/economia/canje-de-billetes-en-banca...

But an small resume is that only the 100 VEF notes are being replaced now because they represent the biggest percent over all the notes (is around 50%) so people will want to have a bill of 20.000 instead of 200 bills of 100 VEF.

Once the 500, 1.000, 5.000, 10.000, 20.000 notes are around, they will finish replacing the other small notes 10, 20, 50 and 100 leftovers for coins.

But well, as I said before, the media has started a campaing to make people belive that right now their money will have no value at all and a bunch of other lies, this of course leads to desperation and to problems like we had today where there was violence at diferent banks around the country.

And to explain why the bill will be banned after 15 days is pretty simple, the money in this country has a super high rotation, bills NEVER sit in your pocket or your wallet for more than 1 hour, aditional to this, money in cash is barely used now, a huge percent of the transactions are made electronically because is just not confortable to have a pack of 300 bills to buy food for 3-4 days so cash is actually not really used because of high inflation

So yeah if after 15 days you still have bill leftover you pretty much were into corruption, drugs, money laundering, smuggling, etc and thats exactly what the gov wants to avoid, to all those guys who spend years smuggling in the borders and have containers or warehouses full of 100 VEF notes.

Take a look of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p23Fn1LVGv0

This is an asian guy (well known to have smugglings business) showing how many 100 VEF bills he had, it's just hillarious.
They implied one of those has the machines, not the motivation or intended desire to do so. Learn to read before you start trying to call someone an idiot.
Just go work somewhere else. Luckily for many of us, demand has been outpacing supply for years.

If the market was worse, then it wouldn't seem so strange. Lots of other professions require a portfolio of work.
I suspect it was more that ()-is-nil-is-false-is-0 is entirely visible to the programmer ("see through") rather than an implementation detail hidden by the language.

I still need the occasional reminder myself that nil is () is nil when writing Common Lisp code, lest I do un-idiomatic things like set a slot's initial value to '().
For those uninformed you should expand on this to. It is a great suggestion but a statement like this to a uninformed isn't very helpful.
China has done this. It has been pegged to a (somewhat secretive) basket of foreign currencies for some time. Before that it was pegged to USD.
> Tech moves fast and to stay on top of it you have to move fast too.

This is a myth that comes out of drinking too much VC kool aid and watching too many TED talks. Most successful tech is built using 20-40 year old programming languages, operating systems, and data stores. Depth is far more important than breadth.
I recall an interview with William Binney where he suggested simply rearranging your message's payload at the protocol level would be enough to thwart automated analysis. It would require human attention, which is ultimately finite.

The trade-off there is that it might draw unwanted attention. Such an approach may be more suited for use inside of a message already encrypted using standard means.

It's worth noting that if there's no network interception angle, the NSA can easily penetrate all but the most hardened systems should they be so inclined.
It IS a mom-n-pop store in front of Amazon as far as the 'cloud' is concerned.
> Here we go again with the "shortage of workers". In one article it's tech workers. Here it's GenX workers. A "shortage" of a good is pretty meaningless if you don't mention the price you're offering to pay for that good. Unless they're saying they literally can't find qualified GenX workers at any price--That would be a real shortage. Otherwise, maybe you need to just offer a little more money to find skilled mid-career workers nowadays.

By that rationale, there's no food shortage in Venezuela. "There is food, people just need to offer more money for it."
Disagree here, consider health care. Free market solutions here have led to healthcare being tied to your job, and only big employers able to gain any negotiation leverage, so individuals and small companies get screwed, big company employees are scared to leave, sometimes for this issue alone, and in effect, the desired "insurance" effect is undermined as people get sliced into smaller and smaller buckets.

Despite what conservative propaganda would have you believe, nationalized health care does not preclude private health care on top, and in fact it makes the market for that care much more competitive and reasonable for individuals who seek it.
AVG says my programs are viruses (2012)
There are many ways to intentionally compile this kind of information into your binary. It's frequently done to include things like "this binary was compiled on 'x date'", usually for debugging use.
Given that most of the hundreds of Lisp implementations each have their own way to open a TCP connection, Clojure just added another incompatible one. To claim that it is a standard one, is a bit funny. Each of the hundreds other implementations could claim that, too.

Clojure generally added incompatibilities, since it is fully incompatible to any other Lisp before in fundamental ways. Clojure was designed with zero backwards compatibility. Lisp concepts were removed, renamed, redesigned. Even identifiers with the same name are doing completely different things. If it did something similar to what Lisp did, Clojure sure has it renamed and redesigned.

I doubt that you ever had talked to anyone from the ANSI CL committee. It would also have been easy to find out that Common Lisp was designed by a few core people (the gang of five) with lots of community input from 1980 to 1984. This part is well documented. 1984 the first version of Steele's book Common Lisp the Language was published. The ANSI Common Lisp standardization was started later in 1986, when the core of Common Lisp was already defined. Even there the major extensions were designed by small groups with community input. See for example how CLOS was designed by a few people (Daniel G. Bobrow, Linda G. DeMichiel, Richard P. Gabriel, Sonya E. Keene, Gregor Kiczales, and David A. Moon.) and by providing a complete reference implementation (PCL).
Another interesting aspect of M-expressions is how much like Mathematica/Wolfram they look.
To give you a counter-example, Stockholm/Sweden is more multi-cultural and multi-ethnic than some US cities/states. And they have great public transit.
That's right. Pegging a currency does of course have its advantages and disadvantages - in China's case, it's worked out very well for their economy (and for some groups of people in China, though certainly not for everyone).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renminbi
They'd still have to create a new currency that way. And you can't force a value on that one. Sure, it could have the value you want on paper, but just like the current one - it wouldn't match the usage in practice.

Adopting another currency makes sense if it's easy to do a lot of trade using it. The closer you are to other $ users then, the closer the real value, because you can easily trade outside of the local bubble.

(It could work of course (and did for some countries)... but you still need to have actual well working trade to make sure the currency has the value you expect)
>"every LISP garbage collector writer, knows about CDR-coding."

I thought CDR needed hardware support as opposed it being a general programming technique, is that not correct?

I've only ever read about it on FAQs like in the following:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/faqs/lang/lisp/part2/fa...
> I don't know if .NET Core will catch up with Node, probably not

What exactly does it need to catch up to? C#/.NET already vastly exceed anything in Node in performance, features and flexibility.
How French Artists in 1899 Envisioned Life in the Year 2000: Drawing the Future
I always go through an extreme opposite hiring experience. I'm not on linkedin by choice. Currently I use my SO developer profile as my online resume. But the lack of a linkedin profile and associated connections makes it look like I'm not a professional in the view of certain employers. I have a decent bunch of side projects, and a moderately active github profile and I have gotten all my jobs including my current one based on that. I don't regret not being on linkedin. I'm just happy showing my side projects for my coding knowledge as I cannot show code I have worked as a part of my employment. Also I believe when talking about code written as a part of employement, it all boils down how effectively one communicates/talks to the potential employer than how actually we did it. This is one of the reasons I try to maintain side projects independent of my day job.

For me, the whole idea of proving oneself as professional by being on linkedin has been a biggest turn off. Coupled with this, when I look at some of the people's linkedin profile and the actual attitude and proficiency they demonstrate in their jobs makes linkedin look like a ridiculous circus.
What do you think is propaganda, exactly? That crypto is hard to do well?
Eh, I'm actually a tea drinker, I can't stand the taste of coffee. And more like dinner at one of my favourite restaurants on the continent (which is why I picked Montréal specifically) and a really fun weekend.

As far as it being a Win-Win, I'd consider it a Win-Win for myself as well. If it works out, it was a great weekend and we'll remember it fondly. If it doesn't work out, it was a great weekend and I have an awesome story.

Either way, I have no ragrets[0].

Edit:

I just realized that when you said

> Ok that concludes $1200 for just a Coffee!

you probably meant that I paid $1200 in exchange for the coffee (which she bought me?) so my dinner comment doesn't really make sense. However, she only bought herself a coffee - she didn't pay for any of my stuff.

Edit:

Speaking of awesome stories, have you seen the metro trains in Montreal? Those things are ridiculous, they honestly look more like subway cars attached to the bottom of a bus.[1]

[0]: http://i.imgur.com/OG2hHwW.jpg
[1]: https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/28/50546136_b729b4c9ca_b.jpg
I imagine restauranteurs who welcome food safety regulations may do so out of a genuine desire for the restaurant business not to sicken the public.

I also imagine light-industry manufacturers who welcome pollution controls would do so out of regard for people and families living nearby.

In fact, I think there's probably significant amounts of regulation that would be non-controversial to business owners, and not merely intended to "keep out fresh competition".
To be frank, you'd probably be terrible at it. All of us would, if only because lots of rules and regulations deal with more nuance than anyone could be reasonably expected to understand, if they had to vote on everything. That's why we have government committees staffed with people to research this stuff. I wish I could be that involved in things, but there are real, complicated considerations at play, not just, "Hm, given the choice between these two paragraphs, I can pick one and everything will work out."
> reading English is more difficult than speaking it

I'm a non-native English speaker. I agree, reading English is easier than speaking. In rural places basic grammar is not taught properly. Even if they do learn to read somehow with the help of dictionary or internet, Speaking English is far out of their reach. For using App reading ability is enough. But for overall, English as medium of communication this is very problematic. This is more frustrating when you are among elite (for academics or career purpose) who speak English fluently.

Most important thing is they can't express their idea. For using App this isn't big problem, but as overall expressing idea this is a barrier.
Seems like i do too, Caroline! I've worked on elaborating a version of faceflow's communication system framework following Dany's goals and ideas for the project.

If you have any questions, concerns, feel free to ask Dany or have a go at a guest session on faceflow.com
Rather than voiding it, they force it out of circulation by giving a deadline that requires people to deposit it in a bank.
Keep in mind they have to defend against multiple state actors (Russia, China, even some much smaller countries with a lot of investment in SIGINT) who are also very competent and have a ton of attack vectors to work with.
I can't speak for COBOL and Logo... but Java, really? When you're looking at a hello world program in it, 80% of it doesn't make sense to someone not familiar with the concept - import? class? static? void?

BASIC is even worse in many respects. It starts being deceptively simple, but do you think that someone looking at these two lines:

PRINT a, b;
PRINT a; b

would be able to tell the difference? Or, say, what does this do?

LINE (0, 0) - (100, 100),, BF

(no, it doesn't draw a line)

And then if we're talking about classic BASIC, you have to remember that A% is integer while A$ is string etc. None of that is at all obvious.

Or, say, you see this:

NAME x AS y

A reasonable guess would be that it renames a variable, or maybe creates an alias, right? But no - it actually renames a file with a name corresponding to a value in variable x, to a new name corresponding to a value in variable y. And many BASIC dialects will even helpfully stringize it for you, if the variables were, say, integers.
I've worked with plenty of developers who knew what they were and massively overused them without any thought as to whether they were appropriate...
Mexico did the same in the 90s, but old and new currency coexisted for a while as legal tender.
I've also never seen anyone fail FizzBuzz in the wild; I feel like even the barest of 20m phone prescreenings should be able to avoid that...

I was asked for my second job ever - on the phone - for commands that would list files in a directory, change directory, and create a symbolic link. I guess I've started doing that kind of prescreen now too
The idea is that to be outside the universe is to be causally disconnected from it, not to be outside of some arbitrary system. A "universe" is not an arbitrary system -- it is the whole of reality.

A computer program is not a universe independent of the programmer. They both exist in the same universe because they are causally connected. If they were in different universes, they must be causally disconnected. You're whole argument rests on the assumption that the program and the programmer reside in different universes, which is clearly not the case.
But the end result is the same.

It doesn't matter who is doing the "price dumping" or what their motivations are.

The effect on society is equally good or bad no matter who is doing the dumping or price gouging.
If they were doing their job, would you expect to hear about it? See the comments in this thread about Enigma. It's an interesting thought exercise; how do you tell the difference between peace which is organic and peace created through really effective intelligence?
"the entire timeline leading up to turning on a quantum computer is also part of the computation"

why?
Space Apart Hotel
I think the fact is that in most cases, you can't do much about government actors, especially not the US. All you can do is use the best crypto that's available and hope that the government hasn't cracked it yet (but you should always expect that the message will be as good as plaintext in 30 years).

If you roll your own crypto, you're liable to have the guy down the street spot an issue in your custom implementation and walk out with all the goods before you realize what happened.

Maybe the most technologically advanced spy agency in the world can decrypt some industry-standard encryption if your messages are interesting enough and it justifies the time-cost (police, prosecutors, and laypeople still can't), but probably someone on HN can pick out errors with your custom cryptography and render it useless, at least until you've really spent a great deal of time testing and refining it. That's the difference, IMO.
In 2013, HSBC was fined for failing to appropriately monitor nearly $700B(B as in BILLION) in transactions between Mexico and the US alone. [1] Yet we're supposed to be more worried about digital currency because of $600 (dollars, not millions or billions, just dollars) worth of bitcoin found its way to the Gaza strip? [2]

The only interesting part of this article is that post publication, the bitcoin numbers were updated by a source from the Dept. of Treasury.

This article is just FUD and nonsense during a slow news cycle. Banks and wire transfers will continue to be the primary vehicle for money laundering and terrorism financing for the foreseeable future.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-07-02/hsbc-judg...

[2] https://www.thecipherbrief.com/column/private-sector/new-fro...
So could I use this to conveniently optimize frequently called or inner loop functions?
I have to agree with you and couldn't have said it any better. Wholeheartedly agree with the "increasingly terse" comment.
> But it's not confusing or strange at all: a homogenous society is easy to make work.

What has being a homogeneous society to do with building a proper public transport system? Maybe you could argue that having only "John Johnssons" makes being nice to each other easier, but it's not a necessary condition for making a decent schedule or building trains.

Besides, Berlin has probably the least homogeneous population of all of Germany.

> On the other hand, we invented jazz and stuck a flag on the moon, so we've got that going for us - which is nice.

Resting on one's past laurels won't help solving today's problems. How well did that work out for the Roman Empire? Case in point: The US actually lost its ability to send a person to space, and hasn't been able to send people to the Moon for 44 years now.
Or in the non-DoD branches of government. That's some combination of the FBI and DHS (specifically NCCIC and US-CERT).

https://www.us-cert.gov/about-us
The point is that they have been user and competitive marketplace hostile far more recently than 1995.
The US has only ever "acknowledged" that the PRC considers Taiwan a part of its territory. The fact that diplomatic recognition has switched to the PRC does not imply that the US believes Taiwan is part of the PRC. It's deliberately ambiguous on all of this.
I think these links are better support for SF not having public bathrooms.
I wonder if donation through anonymous currencies could be protected under the first amendment through religious freedom (e.g. Bible: Matthew 6:3 )
Few points of comparison from India [1]

- Population: 30.8 million vs 1.29 billion

- Internet usage: 61.87% vs 26% of population

- GDP: $371.3 billion vs $2.074 trillion

I think it's far easier/achievable by Venezuela to implement than it has been for India.

[1] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=venezuela+vs+india
Could you explain what you think is wrong with Clojure? Maybe it's because I've spent far more time using it than CL, but I see Clojure as having a very consistent, well designed core. It's very opinionated in it's design, but it's a practical and pragmatic one. I don't see what's unlispish about it.
Let me tell you... my company got acquired by Oracle. We thought things would be OK. Nothing changed immediately. Slowly but surely they turned the screws. 5 year laptop replacement policy. You get the corporate standard laptop and you'll like it. Sales? Oh those guys can buy new Macs every two years, they get whatever they want. Then you understand where Software Engineers rank in the company hierarchy. Oracle took the average price of our product from $100k to $5 million for the same size deals. Our sales went from $5-7m to more than $40m with no increasing in engineering headcount (team of 15). Didn't matter when bonus time came, we all got stack-ranked and some people got nothing. As a top performer I got a few options, worth maybe $5k.

Oracle exists to extract the maximum amount of money possible from the Fortune 1000. Everyone else can fuck off. Your impotent internet rage is meaningless. If it doesn't piss off the CTO of $X then it doesn't matter. If it gets that CTO to cut a bigger check then it will be embraced with extreme enthusiasm.

The culture wears down a lot (but not all) of the good people, who then leave. What's left is a lot of mediocrity and architecture astronauts. The more complex the product the better - it means extra consulting dollars!

My relative works at a business dependent on Micros. When Oracle announced the acquisition I told them to start on the backup plan immediately because Oracle was going to screw them sooner or later. A few years on and that is proving true: Oracle is slowly excising the Micros dealers and ISVs out of the picture, gobbling up all the revenue while hiking prices.

tl;dr: If your company is getting acquired by Oracle run away. I wish I had followed my instincts and bailed out much sooner. The place is horrible as a matter of policy to drive down the cost of software engineers so they don't have to make as many layoffs from their constant stream of acquisitions.
The Objective
Because the computation is just physics too. It's the particles of your brain that moved your hands that typed the program into the computer that will eventually compute the final result by what appears to be a quantum phenomenon localised in space-time, but that really stretches back infinitely.
Why not? TOR was largely created by the US government, what makes you think BTC is different?
Not sure what is going on at Newsweek, but if they are publishing this, it can't be good.
We paid $600 per lead for a meeting with a CEO or VP of a sizable company that met various criteria. It sounded great because we were confident that we could close enough deals to make it profitable.

In reality we only got a few leads and they weren't as relevant as we had hoped. We ended up suing for breach of contract and got about 1/2 of our money back.

My takeaway was to be very skeptical of someone else that says they can get customers for you. It may work at a later stage for a company but for earlier stage companies I'm not sure you can (or should) outsource that.

That said, you can probably find people who haven't had the same experience as me that would pay you some $.
I am not saying that you can't acquire 100 real customers under $2000 (in many niches you certainly can), but that if you can do this on demand for any service then $2000 is far too cheap. If you can get me 100 real customers I will pay you $10,000 in a heart beat.

In my niche we can't acquire customers under $2000 a pop - luckily the LCV supports this expenditure. My customers don't click on ads, don't respond to emails, don't respond to snail mail (even hand written ones), and don't answer their phones. The only way we can reach them is by physical cold calling and we have to visit each prospect multiple times in person to get to the stage we can make a presentation. The only good news is once we go through this ordeal 75% of our prospects buy.