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What you can read about the topic in Germany is that the switch had a lot of ideology behind it and after more than 13 years people are still unhappy.

You have to consider this is an administration of one of the largest cities in Germany with lot's of custom processes and tools. Also workers there vary from their IT background and I guess most are not power users.

Their approach was basically eliminate Windows everywhere and tell everyone Linux is better.

They even gave everyone notebooks with with their own flavor of Ubuntu and KDE4 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux) and more or less forced them to use this. They were using Kolab - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolab and while I appreciate the effort if they really forced all users to use KDE Kontact with KDE4 I can understand that frustration was there. In my experience it's a UI nightmare and source of endless bugs. There is a difference between using out of personal interest or depending on it for work.

Their OpenOffice addons called WollMux was written in Java and at least judging from the screenshots is also an UI nightmare.

There was also criticism that the project was badly managed in parts and incompetence in the IT could have played a role.

These are all rumours, but it's believable.

Add to this that basically everyone else uses Outlook and MS Office and consider the difficulties when opening .docx stuff in LibreOffice and you can guess where the frustration might come from.

Another aspect is that Microsoft has quite a good story and technology with .NET and Active Directory / Group Policy and Powershell as well as .NET Integration to Office. Everything is accessible and .NET devs are plenty. Linux is more or less a wild garden of different solutions of different quality. This might contribute to the problems as more effort is needed to bring the software up to scratch. It's not something that is nice to hear but I can imagine that in the reality of public administration this stuff matters.

These might be reasons besides the political aspect of it. The polical stuff has some conspiracy touch to it and while I can image that a successful Linux toolkit for public administration that works well enough and can be deployed would easily kill Microsoft in that sector it's also likely that the opensource software is just lacking in some key aspects. Maybe it's a mixture of both.
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Please don't post inflammatory political rhetoric to HN. It lowers signal, raises noise, and triggers flamewars. You probably have a good point in there, but the Molotov cocktail is not an acceptable delivery mechanism.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13626479 and marked it off-topic.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the WSJ is Rupert Murdoch's paper. Take a look at their editorial page.

In this case I think the WaPo fact-checker was unfair in handing out Pinocchios. Four Pinocchios should be reserved for bald-faced, baseless falsities. In this case, Bernie had a source, based directly off of research. The "fact checker" criticized the details, application, and methodology of these conclusions, and offered its own, completely speculative conclusion that the real number is lower. I'm not saying this didn't deserve a Pinocchio or two, but I do think it's a bad call. That doesn't make it worthless, but I do think it certainly undermines its credibility a bit.
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Another way to look at it is that home buying in the millennial generation is at a historical low. They are the biggest generation besides boomers so the effect of this is somewhat magnified.

"Devastating" the housing market to make it possible for younger Americans to buy homes again will only decrease wealth inequality since the ones who own homes are generally wealthy.

It's not like the houses will suddenly go away if housing prices drop. They are hard assets, nothing is destroyed by the lowering of housing values besides speculative worth.

Sure some people would lose a lot of money but it would largely hurt the wealthy and help income equality along with leveling the gap a bit between those generations and poorest one in our history
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I said VPS service, not VPN service. I don't trust VPN services at all.

Meanwhile, I doubt that Linode has any interest in injecting ads or selling traffic logs.
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Working in defense and talking to candidates who applied from China (graduated from M.S. programs at some US universities), I sometimes wondered if some who applied would be agents working for Chinese Intelligence services...
I wager their print edition subscriber base is considerably wealthier.
Yes, that's what we're doing. We're rewriting the server on modern systems, not using the Stratus.
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Asynchronous, analog, spike-based, co-located memory. Closer NN sim than von Neumann architecture, orders of magnitude more power-efficient.

One human brain-equivalent NN on classic architecture costs ~$70M and uses ~100 houses worth of power.
That's also in his book "The Tao is Silent". I picked this book off the library shelf at random, so many years ago, and couldn't stop reading the lovely, approachable writing. He helped me think through and finally rid myself of all the fundy Christian mental baggage leftover from when I was a kid.
I think devastate is a very strong word. Anyone who can afford a home in these overpriced areas is doing very well for themselves.

No idea how you sell that idea to voters though.
Falling home prices is absolutely a good thing. When home prices are too high, it prices out regular consumers, only professional investors and landlords can afford them, they take economic rent, it's a drag on the economy and cost of living, and hurts the working class.

It's pretty easy to see in places like Vancouver, and while it's not as bad in many other places, it's still insidious.
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And if you look at hardware, energy and all the other costs, then you probably still end up in the $5 to $10 range as true costs per transaction. But this will not become fully visible until the block reward becomes negligible or the demand for new coins becomes essentially zero so that the deflation becomes visible.
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Nope, The Vatican has been saying for a couple years now, that the existence of extraterrestrial life, even intelligent life, does not contradict the Bible. They accept the possibility, because after all, "In the beginning God created the sky and the earth."
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Segwit requires 95% of miners to activate. Currently about 75% of hash power is controlled by a group of chinese miners/pools. This is about the % of hashing power that is missing for Segwit to activate.
Eventually logically python 2 will be little used enough to be dropped and there may not be a python4 any time in the foreseeable future so perhaps you are just borrowing trouble.
The whole point of the block reward is to subsidize the network until transaction volume can grow to an equilibrium point where the network can be supported on fees alone. The fact that transaction volume is capped by the block size is troubling because it won't be able to grow to that equilibrium point.
Cities can raise rates if they need to, the problem was that in the recession, people didn't have the money to pay the taxes, which is not really a concern in any of the places which are overpriced.
> Eeveyone else is shadow banned.

On reddit, only admins can shadow ban, and they claimed that they stopped doing it over a year ago, in my understanding.
Sure. I find the education system very straightforward and downright boring, to be frank, being a high school student, however, I am constricted to it on a day-to-day basis.

I love real-world application and so I see coding and development in general as the way forward for me personally - to be honest the whole world of startups.

I'm currently running a start-up company and learning code on the side. I guess the end goal is to be able to develop world-class applications? That's why I want to learn C++.
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You can play semantical games but segwit gives about 2x onchain capacity. And the only thing holding it up is a group of chinese miners/pools. Anyone truly wanting more onchain capacity should be engaging those miners/pools.

Of course that's not really what people bitching about tx fees want.
Windows is pretty inexpensive, and if you want something supported for more than a year or two, the options do tend to be somewhat costly. RedHat, for example, is $50/year for the equivalent of Windows Update. There are also a number of other advantages for windows in terms of things like remote management which RedHat doesn't have equivalents for.
Licensing costs is just a proxy for CPU time on the database, so in that regard it is still relevant to other RDBM systems. You could scale the database processors (vertical or horizontal), but usually it's easier to scale the app servers.

Anyway, the articles point is being taken a little too absolutely in this comment thread. He wasn't suggesting pulling in an entire multimillion row table and sorting it to extract 50 rows. Just that avoiding sorts in the database where it makes sense and deferring to the app can be a better solution. What those situations are could be an article itself.
Probably the people who live in those neighborhoods do, which can be a useful reference if you're in those areas.
And Dantzig himself was known for having mistaken a couple of unsolved problems for homework :)
I think I implied that. They still need cover, however.
Then make a website, register a company, and make it official. Maybe take a page from RStudio's model and adapt an IDE to use Octave. Offer a product, any product, and people will buy it.

I have no doubt people will pay for the author to continue to develop Octave, but simply sending money to a PayPal account isn't something most people are comfortable with. Plus how do you invoice that?
If what you say is true then that would imply that miners are losing money. I don't think that is the case. Total network hash rate has strong growth. People don't normally invest huge sums to turn a loss.
Our company devolops for Linux and BSD only. We all run Windows 10 on the desktop and Linux in VMs. Linux sucks as a desktop environment.
"You're moving the goalposts. You said homeless."

No, I'm not. I'm pointing out that the definition given in your "factual" source, to wit "sleeping in public places not meant for human habitation" is ridiculous on its face.

Ever slept in class? Then you've been "homeless", according to your source.

I really don't mean this as a personal attack, but rather as a suggestion: you should learn to tell the difference between factual research and advocacy pieces. Your source is the latter. There is absolutely nothing wrong with advocacy, but one must take it with a grain of salt. When it starts out with a straw man definition (as does your source), perhaps a boulder of salt would be preferable.

"Furthermore do you have source material that calls the numbers used in the article into question"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK138716/

Mental illness:

"An earlier literature review on physical and mental disorders among those who are homeless (Martens, 2001) cited reports that found that anywhere between 25 and 90 percent of people who were homeless had a mental disorder. A review by Toro (2007) suggests that 20 to 40 percent of people who are homeless have a serious mental disorder, with 20 to 25 percent having depression and 5 to 15 percent having schizophrenia. In their introductory review, Greenberg and Rosenheck (2010a) note that estimates are that between 20 and 50 percent of people who are homeless have serious mental illness (SMI). Research reviewed by McQuistion and Gillig (2006) also indicates that between one third and one half of people who are homeless have SMI."

Substance abuse:

Another Midwestern study recruited subjects who were homeless from food programs and shelters (Forney, Lombardo, & Toro, 2007); here, 77 percent of men (n=161) and 55 percent of women (n=57) met criteria for a substance use disorder. Velasquez, Crouch, von Sternberg, and Grosdanis (2000) found that among a sample of 100 clients of the Service of the Emergency Aid Resource Center for the Homeless project in Texas, 60 percent reported use of illicit drugs in the prior 6 months. In an analysis of NESARC data for people who had experienced an episode of homelessness since the age of 15, 74.2 percent of respondents also met criteria for a lifetime substance use disorder; only 30.5 percent of those who had always been domiciled met such criteria (Greenberg & Rosenheck, 2010a).

There are many other citations in this report.
It's pretty easy to know where to begin: slavery. Just look at the constitution of the CSA, which requires all member states to have slavery. How is that promoting states' rights? Or look at the ordinances of secession: https://www.google.com/amp/s/aliberalthinker.wordpress.com/2.... To say the CSA was mainly formed on any issue other than slavery requires conspiracy theorist contortions.
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That is a really good idea :-)

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> intelligent, conscientious people are more likely to be wealthy

We're talking about kids; their access to wealth depends almost entirely on their parents, not the child's own intelligence and conscientiousness.
According to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon-class_submarine of the 6 built, 3 are scrapped, 2 retired, and 1 in service (though later on that same page it says the last SLBM of the type used was decommissioned in 2012).

Based on the pictures, it definitely doesn't look like in service. Also, seems quite strange if they'd let civilians (?) run around and take pictures of a strategic weapon system in active use..
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That's my point exactly people calling segwit a block size increase are playing semantic games. Miners and devs met a year ago and agreed on a path forward of segwit+hardfork blocksize increase to 2MB. Now they are trying to get people to activate segwit w/o a 2mb increase. It's not a mystery why this is happening and it isn't just Chinese miners that oppose it.
It's always been a multi-decade cleanup project, but recently the estimates were pushed further into the future (~40 years). Also, the last article I'd read puts it at ~$180 billion. I can easily see that double before the end.
I've been an outside observer of the block size debate for a while now, so here is my naive take on it:

The anti-block size increase camp says that increasing the block size is only a temporary fix, and that no blockchain can accommodate Visa levels of throughput.

They also posit that any increase in the block size will make running a full node more difficult, meaning Bitcoin will become more and more centralized and consolidated around the big mining pools that have the hardware to handle bigger block sizes.

However, many in the anti camp are pro segwit (segregated witness), a code change that does several things and is the first step to enabling off-chain networks like Lightning Network. These are basically pools of Bitcoins tracked by networks off the blockchain that would allow you to instantly exchange Bitcoins to anyone else in your network.

This is a big problem for miners who have poured lots of money into their rigs, because now the blockchain would be little more than a settlement network. There would be far more transactions occurring off the network, meaning less money for miners.

Again I'm no expert on this but this seems to be the crux of the debate. The Core developers seem to be OK with having the blockchain relegated to being a settlement network (similar to how Visa, your bank and merchants work together), but many people are opposed to this, partly because these off-chain networks would quickly form large central "hubs" which would obviate many of the benefits of Bitcoin (anonymity, privacy, security and decentralization).
None of the comments I make in that sub seem to show up any more and the only reason I realized it is because I stopped getting any responses and checked from an incognito window. Sure enough nothing there. I know others who have experienced the same. Some people are outright banned as well.
Probably high enough up, there is not enough air for it to burn -- and the heat conductivity of wood is really poor.
Aware of how Segwit activation works, thanks. I'm speaking to the miners' motivations. They've been asking for a simple blocksize increase for quite some time. See the HK agreement if you don't get the politics.
That's just the transaction fee paid to miners. You also have to consider the currency conversion cost of getting into and out of Bitcoin. Most sellers use Coinbase to immediately get out of Bitcoin. There's also a volatility risk.
Yeah, this is true, but the point I wanted to make is that physics doesn't care what it's called, just that you're moving data incredibly long distances with massive decoders.
This is, in essence, what costs the huge amount of energy. By contrast, "pouring memory on die" solves this problem almost completely, but your compute (which was your major problem anyways)is still your biggest issue, and it's gotten worse!

By "pour memory on die" I mean that the memory is on die, clearly there are some special techniques being used to manage that memory, but physically, this is what's saving power.
The important difference being that pigs and chickens cannot speak to human beings. Comparing human slaves to speechless animals is pretty offensive.
A web front end to memcache? I wrote one in Python 5 years ago. This is trivial stuff, although configuring your nginx proxy or whatever, takes some study. SSL can have 0 security if you do it wrong. I like the HIPAA advice from here https://luxsci.com/blog/level-ssl-tls-required-hipaa.html
IANAL, but even though this is true, Facebook could still ban accounts for complying.

They are a US company, and their TOS says they can ban an account for any reason or no reason at all. If they chose to ban anyone who shares passwords, even with the US government, even if they are Americans or not, they are within their rights as a US company to do so.
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You admitted that "The whole reason people want bigger blocks is for higher transaction throughput on-chain."

And said that "Segwit doesn't deliver that".

Segwit delivers that.
I would guess that this varies a great deal depending on what country one happens to be in at the moment of becoming stateless, but that's really just a hunch.

Update: the Wikipedia article seems to back that up.

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It's not about not being able to afford but rather how much people are willing to pay. No one does. Ask any chef-restauranteur. For whatever reason, in the USA..we are very resistant to opening our wallets for food needs. Reluctance.. I can't explain why. It's a mystery.

That aside..take this example: http://www.freightfarms.com/blog/data-from-our-growers-opera... ..semi automated hydroponics system. It's easier to crunch numbers here. I would seriously dispute the 'profit' of $39k/container. There is also the cost of the land and insurance(its same for 1-20 acres. About $800/annum. How would they treat a container for ag insurance? Rent for space where it's parked etc. I don't know) and certifications(GAP audits etc). Reliability of market etc. I would put it at about a third of it. Because these guys will probably be competing with the Salinas and half moon bay suppliers. Also note that they are not certified organic and perishables have to move quickly to a very certain market.

And you do have to plonk $85/container.(I would round it off to $100k).

I am just trying to show you how even a little bit of deviation towards farm automation makes things better. Of course, it's also highly risky as it's a closed system. The numbers won't apply to other produce. Grains and certain commodity crops will have to be grown in soil only. So automation has to be robotic solutions and slowly complementing human labour. And ultimately full intelligent automation. That's our only option.

We have reached a certain carrying capacity I feel and scaling food production using human labour to feed the billions of people(and animals that go to feed the billions of people) is soon going to become un feasible. Not just in terms of actual labour logistics and costs but also in terms of environmental costs..not to mention resources like fossil fuel, water etc..plus the pollution that is inherent to food production. It's all going to be about carbon footprint.

That's why local food production is important. For every load of lettuce harvested, there is a cost too to transport, refrigerate and then transport it back again to the shelves of the local greengrocer. Makes no sense. Example: a head of lettuce grown in salinas..not too far away from Palo Alto goes through the entire supply chain distribution trip before it ends up at a Whole Foods in Palo Alto. There is so many inefficiency leaks in terms of energy, costs and time. Probably decreased nutritive value also due to the age of said head of lettuce.

This hand wringing over labour issues..illegal or not is moot...is useless as 'fixing' this problem is not really fixing the real problem.

The solution would have to be re how tech is going to help us automate our farms. Who knows..maybe farms could even become profitable if that happens. And food distribution has to be local.

I don't know if I have digressed from your original point..that food won't be expensive if we raise wages. Perhaps I have..but I hope i have shown some other facets of the problem and how raising wages is really not a solution.
Yes that's the issue here, the miners are playing politics by trying to flex their power. But no one is willing to play petty games. There's an obvious win for everyone sitting on the table ready to go. Political games will be ignored.
As a long-time cheerleader for Vim, I totally agree. Vim is a paradoxical beast: incredibly convoluted code almost (but not quite) rescued by extremely great documentation.
I don't even bother with r/bitcoin anymore. The level of groupthink is insufferable, but hard for me to say whether it formed naturally or via direct influence (considering it's Reddit, both are likely)
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Is that really true? You'd think that the government has security provisions that requires software updates.

As for K-12, is that really a requirement in some places, or is it just the case that some clients just happen to not be updated?