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I think you just answered your own question. The only thing that needs to happen for a currency to exist is liquidity and people to think its valuable.
Compared to typical stories everywhere else, with simple and obvious solutions that are totally wrong, I'll take SSC any day. Scott is one of the rare breed of writers who seem to actually think things through.
Agreed. However, and not to be political but a realist, if this is the only merger we see in the mobile providers in the next 4 years, I would consider it a win.
Yep - I mentioned Christina's book in my article as a great resource. My wife is a therapist, and she sees a lot of other people in the field struggling with the same issues, especially for those who work with high-risk groups.
Walmart doesn't pay minimum wage to it's store employees. It may be a low wage, but it's well above the legal minimum wage...

[1]http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/27/wal-mart-is-making-it-easier-...
It seems like that would be just for the purpose of detection and wouldn't stop people from using either the map or the software.

DRM is bad because it both doesn't stop pirates and hurts normal users. This allows detection of pirates and hurts no one.
It says that humans are territorial.
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This is also a huge problem for social workers, especially working with high risk clients. A lot of times the departments are unfunded so the workers also do not get the treatment/counseling they really need.
I have a very ambiguous opinion on that.

Wild experimentation always washes off after some standard gets any big adoption. So, it's very natural that our interfaces are evolving slowly and iteratively. It's expected as otherwise things would break a lot.

Yet, it's unimaginable how far we are from every concept in a interface being free to interact with every other concept on the ways that make sense. Current GUIs are incredibly brittle and underpowered. Why are we not getting a big revolution there?
'Cyberattack' seems to be the latest buzzword that tech journalists like to use. I'll agree that all the information I've seen points at this being a regular trojan rather than some targeted hacking. Will be interesting to see how it started.

Maybe targeted emails with attachments?
Morality is just an attempt to describe the actions our monkey brains view as acceptable and unacceptable. If you remove the monkey far enough from its natural habitat, far enough that the shape and magnitude of consequences are susbtantially altered, people feel more and more free to act in ways that are immoral. Cryptocurrencies CLEARLY are having that effect. People think they are above the law and consequences, largely because they are, and act accordingly.
There's also the choice of statistic. The article says that the average household (composed or hardworking men and women) pays $13,000 in income taxes. But that is the mean. US income distribution and taxation isn't well summarized by a mean, the typical household pays much less than that in income taxes (and probably receives government transfers that exceed their income taxes).
> The only thing that needs to happen for a currency to exist is liquidity and x number of people to think its valuable (who buy/sell it)?

Yes? Of course, trading can vanish just as quickly as it came.
The comments from reddit posts are worth reading:

https://www.reddit.com/r/dogecoin/comments/69vycc/important_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/dogecoin/comments/6a1eh0/options/
Italy Antitrust Body Fines Whatsapp Over Customer Data Terms
It's hopefully not connected to the internet, but to the local network.
Many medical appliances in hospitals expose remote control over regular tcp/ip, Preferably running Windows XP or CE.
The apps still needed to be recompiled, because Google Play services weren't ported. The iOS bridge is still supported.
I don't believe I'm saying this but, start a company. Knowledge of how companies are assembled is one of the things that accountants bring to the table. Maybe it's not a startup in the sense of possibly growing to a billion dollars in monthly recurring revenue. But if blockchains are the future, then there is an opportunity for a business that resells and integrates the technology.

Realistically, most developers probably don't have the chops to have a reasonable chance of success programming down at the nuts and bolts level of the blockchain. It's cryptography and distributed consensus algorithms and they are brutally hard to invent right.

Good luck.
> In the absence of regulations and legal enforcement,
Well, it's not "GPL software", it's software that's also distributed under the GPL. That's being freely distributed at all is a win compared to most commercial software.

And in fact, it could be argued that it's better (for rms' goals) than MIT/BSD/etc, since the proprietary license will impose some restrictions on its usage by other proprietary vendors.
Counter point: if you're a giant software company, your focus is good looking UI and new UI concepts. Not just one. Making things shiny and instantly useable is good for your product. Implementing new UI for the sake of progress is silly. I'd argue that these software companies move forward when it makes sense for them and it will always be that way.
> What I can fault is them lobbying against/killing labor unions [0]. Labor Unions would fix this problem in a capitalist way.

But that's not true at all. Unions do not actually benefit all workers equally, they benefit senior workers more at the expense of the more junior workers. And because of Union wage requirements, many times the junior workers are pushed to supplement their income by working in other industries, by suppressing wages in other industries.

Unions have a lot of problems associated with them, you should talk to someone who is young and part of a union and see all the issues they have.

I once had a conversation with an actor who was claiming the huge benefits of actors union and how because of that she is able to afford to have healthcare. The problem with this conversation was that this was happening while she was talking my order at a restaurant where she worked to supplement her income. I mean that defeats the whole point of union, wouldn't it be better if she was able to work more number of hours on screen at a lower wage and increase her skill set rather than working as a waitress on the side?

Nearly all the union attempts to increase wages result in companies either dropping the number of employees they have or drop the number of hours they employ them for. Sadly only the younger or junior workers pay this cost. If you are an older union workers, then there are nothing but benefits for you.
The good ol' "channel 1" versus "channel 2" conflict, or whatever it's called nowadays.

Basically Big 4 "have to" audit but what they really want is to offer consulting services. There's a huge conflict of interest regarding these two parts and every few decades the Big 4 are forced to spin off consulting divisions. Not that stops them from trying again :)
Thanks! There is a live session now (started 34 minutes ago), as every friday. He's apparently coding a Minesweeper. It seems like a really good resource.
> Have the Government Digital Service or similar work on it directly and ditch the contractors?

Basically, yes. Bring it all in-house, ban the contractors/consultants/mercenaries/etc. Remove the profit motive and suddenly you don't have millions of dollars/pounds being siphoned off by vampiric consultancies and third-party vendors. Suddenly you can spend tax-payers money in a sane and rational way.

Hire a bunch of talented people who care about the wellbeing of their nation state, pay them well enough and task them with building the best systems possible in the most efficient way possible.
PCs can address at least 8-bit segments (bytes). Current transfer minimum is probably 64-bit for uncached writes.
The Grammys went in the opposite direction this year. Opening the competition to streaming only for the first time. Two steps forward one step back. Cannes will come around in the next 5-10 years or become obsolete.

Theatres should be able to show streaming movies. I'm sure they have the tech for it. Licensing and permissions are always a thorny beast for new tech though.
I see no justification for the arm of that 'iff' which is equivalent to "if what the plaintiff says is not true, then it is not the case that a contract probably exists".
I saw your post on the IH forum for feedback. Are you looking for other alternatives where you can get more feedback?

I would say look for Facebook groups or even just regular forums with Google search that may be in your niche. If you know of a particular set of keywords that relate to a niche you want, you can utilize the google advanced search to narrow down places where people are discussing this online.

There are a couple of books out there that talk about this technique, and it is a popular method talked about in affiliate marketing forums.
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They can't burn money forever, and while I can't blame anyone for going the cheaper option for now they won't subsidize forever.
Or, indeed, over-investment in trash-tier IT services

Yeah, I think this is probably closer to what's happening.

I've worked with some of these Enterprise-level IT consultancies in the past. I do understand that it's quite a different market from the lean, tech-focused web development market, but some of the solutions I've seen implemented are shockingly* bad.
Wait I'm being serious here: how is that not a feature? People trade humans and hit jobs on the darknet.

Do you really think "get rid of laws and people will do the right thing" is a reasonable assumption? You seem genuinely shocked at this outcome, but how many times has a story like this played out?

Myself, I relish these stories.
I think both are consistent with each other. In this article, Scott is defending a group of people who he believes are a target of unjustly generalized accusations in media. In particular, wrt. the quoted "if SV screws up" argument, we're still talking orders of magnitude less damage to society and economy than the other two examples.
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If the software doesn't run on versions higher than XP, then there's no alternative. There's a lot of expensive equipment which is stuck on XP.
> Your experiences with UK IT make for depressing reading.

I am astonished that even skilled techies don't take security seriously, using passwords like their car registration or company name - I've seen that with a military contractor, ffs. People who had signed the Official Secrets Act and had network links into supposedly secure sites. It depresses me too.
> My first question is how much of a burden is it really? Are we hearing the squeaky wheels, or is it actually pretty bad?

It's pretty bad. It was bad enough that we had to hire multiple full time people on our side just to deal with the interactions, people with engineering backgrounds who basically just did paperwork, who could have been doing much more useful things given their knowledge and experience.

> My second question is how much does it help. It's fine to say that it codifies practices that companies mostly do anyways (and if so, how bad can it be), but it was also a response to some troubling behavior in the market. How many problems does it prevent for the burden it exacts?

It's important to remember that there are two aspects to SOX: Operational and financial. I don't have a lot of experience with the financial side, other than to say they have just as much overhead, but perhaps it prevented a lot of things.

But from the operational side, it made us do things in bad ways so that we could show the auditors, and also slowed us down. For example, production access to financial data must be limited so that it can't be modified in production after the transaction but before it gets to the financial systems. Sounds like a good idea, but then when you have an outage, you have to scramble to find multiple people to unlock the access keys and watch over your shoulder while you make fixes on production systems.

Or instead you rearchitect your entire system so that only a few machines are actually handling financial transactions and keeping the rest out of scope.

Either way, it's a huge burden.

Another great example is password rotation. The law demands you have a password rotation policy. It doesn't say what that policy should be. Most auditors have settled on 90 days. Most researchers have shown that forced password rotation is bad. Without SOX, I would just follow the recommendation of the people who actually used science to figure out that password managers are better than password rotation. But with SOX, I either just follow the auditor's redone checklist, or spend a whole bunch of time convincing them that my policy is better than rotation. Either way, a bunch of overhead either for me or for all my coworkers.
Great, but what about the other 99.999%?

And what about the mysteries of the afterlife? Aren't you even curious?
Sprint isn't CDMA-only any longer. They're running an LTE network.

CDMA as an access method is dying in the US. I'd expect it to be completely gone in a couple of years.
Well, that's what happens when people use wrong terminology and instead of explaining or suggesting fixes you just go "nope, you are wrong, every X is Y because Z says so". And I didn't downvote this post, btw.

On a tangential note, there's also a load of work to do from somebody to educate you wtf EFF is and why it doesn't care about the GPL and who actually does care ;)
Out of curiosity: which parts of v3 do you believe to be unenforceable?

I think that, given the time, effort, and professional expertise which went into drafting it, that the entire thing should be enforceable.
Thing is, no bank or brokerage account exists in the absence of regulation or enforcement. So it really is peculiar to cryptocurrencies, even if it is not a logically necessary feature of that system.
I'll be contentious here.

Andela's business model is to scout for young talent and train them as developers. They rent them out to companies in the developed world essentially exploiting the gap in wages that exists between the West and Africa.
Not bad in the sense that it gives young people a job and exposure, but hardly an innovative idea and not a startup if you go by the common understanding of the term .
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I mean, this is hilarious if that's the approach you have been taking throughout your career but for anyone else reading this comment it's wholly inaccurate.
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>or up to four can play together in a split-screen view on the TV from a single console

I didn't even expect that, honestly.

Also I wonder if minecraft still runs java underneath - probably yes, but you never know.
And Portugal, affecting telecom companies (confirmed by the cybercrime unit of the police): https://www.publico.pt/2017/05/12/tecnologia/noticia/ataque-...
Hey, I'm in a similar boat. Is your motivation more curiosity or career-related? Do you really like front-end code? I'm finding that it's an easier path to get into ML through conversational UX.
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> Konga (a Nigerian company) is trying to upset Joomla (a South African company) to become the Amazon of Africa, and co-working spaces are starting to sprout all over the place.

I think you meant Jumia instead of Joomla, and it's also a Nigerian company. The South African company that seems to usually be mentioned in the same breath as these two and Amazon is Takealot.com which is a South African company.
What proportion of costs do you think "immigrants that haven't had immunization" and "fgm" represents in the NHS versus "old people"? Here's a hint: a rounding error.
I know, they are pretty hard to get and as such largely ignored by HPC and gamming communities.
Hmm... for this statement, I guess it depends on what you would classify as "machine learning".

From what I've read on machine learning, a lot of the more basic techniques includes statistical methods (linear regression, logical regression, random forests, Bayesian statistics) that more or less are taught at master's degree level statistics courses at most, not doctorate level. If I remember right basic linear regression even showed up in stat 101.

I realize that many of these techniques can't solve some of the problems the deeper, more complex machine learning techniques can (for which your Ph.D statement might be right). But not every problem needs a very complex solution.
When I say "work" I mean "lead to human-grade general intelligence".

Of course for niche intelligence AI has been working forever.
I'm not sure if I hate self-checkout or not. But I do think they're abused too often by stores who don't have adequate staff. I know it's all about a cost saving measure but I have to wonder how much are they saving when people are avoiding them?
This is a great idea, but since it's practically to the left of Corbyn I can't see any chance of it being enacted.
> If people could provide enough value to live off of, then they would. Everyone wants to be paid more.

Have you ever had to support yourself or others while earning minimum wage? Or did your upper-middle-class family fund your college education so you could make a comfortable living as a software engineer? I'm seriously wondering because your tone is full of self-entitled, condescending ignorance.
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This is such a gross exaggeration. Were the Frankfurt School, many of whom were Jews who escaped the Holocaust, exploring how Capitalism gives rise to fascism through the lens of Marxism, "evil thinkers?" Are the democratically elected communist politicians in countries like Japan evil?

Bending over backwards to defend totalitarian regimes like the Soviets or CCP is obviously grotesque, but this kind of blanket pronouncement is about as nuanced as their thinking.
I understood it perfectly. They want to provide more services so that they can say "this is out of compliance but pay us money and we can fix it". But their "fix" is just looking over your shoulder and checking a few boxes.

But the other part of what they want is then not have the government looking over their shoulder to see what they did.
I think a cursory search of "finance suicide" will demonstrate that we are far from unique. We just express it in ways, and within bubbles, shared by our peers, so it's very visible to us.
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If you are doing anything with complex behavior that requires error checking, interpolating strings with possibly invalid values, or just writing a lot of code, then Python is already more convenient and if you didn't notice it is because you are hiding a lot of Bash problems under a carpet.
I always thought Moolah and Mohland shared a remarkable amount of characters.
Best value for money health service in the world absolutely no contest. Free healthcare for all no questions asked. Sounds like some johnny foreigner to me. Probably a Trump supporter chiming in with his alternative facts. Even he can get treatment here. I'm not so sure about a cure.
Same in Portugal (confirmed to be affecting PT, one of the biggest telecom companies, and EDP, the biggest electricity company)

https://www.publico.pt/2017/05/12/tecnologia/noticia/ataque-...
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JavaFX has been released almost a decade ago, and it's much nicer to work with. There is really no reason to be using Swing anymore.
Sure, but they are framing the problem incorrectly which will poorly bound the types of solutions legislators will shoot for. If the problem is framed as "Walmart is abusing the system" then the proposed solutions will probably all be some variant of "punish Walmart". However, the problem is actually that the system (wage laws, tax laws, etc) is poorly serving its constituents, not that Walmart is abusing it. The proposed solutions to this problem look very different and involve raising the minimum wage and changing the way tax incentives are provided.
Note that if the copyright is registered before hand the infringement occurs actual damages changes to triple actual damages. (In the US) registering a copyright is cheap, but for software you have to register each version separately which adds up quick. You have to register copyright before you can sue for violations in any case.

Most of the time lawyers advise the policy that you don't register until you are ready to sue for a violation. You only get actual damages but this is typically enough. However if you believe someone is actually going to violate your copyright (or you want to spend $25 + plus lawyer fees) you should register before you release software: you will get triple damages.

I'm not sure what damages means in terms of the GPL though. In the case of a book you can say the book sold for some amount of dollars so every sale of your illegal copy cost me that amount of dollars.
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LTE has made the distinction go away. LTE is the next generation for both the 3GPP camp (GSM, UMTS/HSPA) and the 3GPP2 camp (CDMA, EVDO). From LTE onward, it's 3GPP only.
It probably wouldn't register on your radar for "creativity" but the first killer app for PCs was an application of the "list" or "table": spreadsheets (https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2012/01/06/how-trello-is-diff...).

The spreadsheet was a major move forward for unlocking creative potential. A part of that probably brought us the financial crysis of 2007-2008, but nobody can complain that it wasn't creative :p
And if the bees continue their die-off, they'll take a majority of the mammals and insects with them, because as much as 80% of plants are pollinated by these creatures. Goodbye food chain.
As if that's not enough, imagine global warming if even a 50% decline in CO2 converting plantlife were to happen.
How magnanimous! Such a generous heart.

The problem with socialism is, you eventually run out of other people's money.
I wasn't seriously suggesting it was directly connected, but my understanding (and I am far from knowledgeable when it comes to security) is that mission-critical devices should be physically 'firewalled' from the Internet, and even any network.
One can't really fault REST for the flawed implementations - Fielding's thesis is very explicit about what REST is and isn't.

Just because something becomes an often-misapplied buzzword doesn't say anything negative about the original concept so much as the people mis-implementing it.
That's a big problem I have with the article - there was way too much attention paid to a shaky example of an open marriage. "Elizabeth" seemed to be emotionally cheating on her husband and then "opened" the marriage to rationalize it. "Daniel" says their marriage is better for it, but I have my doubts about whether he's happy about it or is just trying to cling to it. And they've only been "open" since 2016.. not nearly long enough IMO to garner too much meaning from their arrangement, let alone have most of an article devoted to it. The couple with children and open since 2011 was far more compelling.

I do appreciate the author's honesty about their feelings toward the subject though. I think the subject is interesting and challenging (in a good way) to fundamental assumptions about marriage. But I do wish more attention was paid to other, longer-lasting examples.
I've personally been part of it at two public companies, and my friends have been in many other public companies, and we've all had the same experience. So sure, maybe it's different elsewhere, but amongst the people I know, that's how it works.