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Money is very broken currently.

"By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method, they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and, while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some. The sight of this arbitrary rearrangement of riches strikes not only at security, but at confidence in the equity of the existing distribution of wealth. Those to whom the system brings windfalls . . . become 'profiteers', who are the object of the hatred of the bourgeoisie, whom the inflationism has impoverished not less than the proletariat."

Doesn't that sound familiar? The quote is, ironically, by John Maynard Keynes, the very person policymakers cite to justify stealing from the poor and giving to the rich via inflation, in the name of "stability".
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IIRC There were a very small number of accounts that were corrupted during our soft launch period. I think it was something like only the first 1000 wallets were affected, but I could be off... it was a long time ago. Did you happen to work for stripe at the time? I feel like it was only the prelaunch wallets we gave out during our client testing period that got hosed beyond recovery.

But other than that, most people who lost their accounts tend to have bad password management skills, frankly. They certainly could also be victims of bugs in our client... it turns out one of our too ambitious goals during our early days was building a banking-grade wallet experience that offered broad browser support with as few developers as we were. Our support queues however were a sobering lesson in how bad passwords are for security and usability and it was just too much for our community manager and us on the dev team to handle. Our bad... we were trying our hardest believe me.

I apologize if you got hosed because of a bug. I do know that all of my friends and family accounts (6 of the earliest accounts in the system post launch) were able to successfully upgrade to the new wallet and network as late as sunday of last week. They. like you I imagine, got their free lumens and then promptly forgot about the project. They all scrambled to update their wallets when the craziness was going on at the end of last week with lumens and they all upgraded fine.

I'd be happy to help you troubleshoot you wallet to see if we can recover you lumens... email me at scott@stellar.org and we can work through it privately if you like. I can't guarantee much, however... I'm presently starting on a leave of absence for the next month or so and so the time I can dedicate to support is pretty truncated at the moment.
I'm not saying it's ideal, just that it won't go away.

Excel gives a lot of 'compute power' to non-developers. Nothing else is as good and flexible for so called 'end users'.
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This right here!

Closed SOC BSPs that are tied to android are the real problem! If google had stuck with the standard Linux APIs or added appropriate new one when they needed them and where more strict about open software we wouldn't be in this mess.
Yep, except you'd write it

extern(C) { void foo(); }

https://dlang.org/spec/interfaceToC.html
Yes [0].

extern (C++) int foo(int i, int j, int k);

In fact, D can both access C++, and C++ can access D, as you can see further down that link, on classes.

But, if you don't want C++, then [1]:

extern (C) int foo(int i, int j, int k);

Which is actually in the article.

[0] http://dlang.org/spec/cpp_interface.html

[1] http://dlang.org/spec/interfaceToC.html
Yeah no, if you go into a normal brick and mortar store you can be pretty sure that what you're getting is not counterfeit. Stores are still not competitive with Amazon.
I wouldn't say I "can't wait" for car viruses, but I do worry about all the stupid remote/automated features being advertised these days. You just know it's going to be exploited, and cars are at the top of my list of things that should be as safe and secure as possible.
Every account in stellar must keep a bond that "pays" for the storage they use in the distributed account database. This bond is represented by an enforced minimum balance on your account that scales with the number of sub entries for your account.

Practically: Most accounts can only spend down to their last 20 lumens, the most common bond amount for a minimal account. To "redeem" the bond and spend the last 20 lumens you have to issue a special "account merge" operation that is logically distinct from the normal payment operation.
Indeed. And supposedly, the Android Silver program was going to continue this [1], but failed.

[1] http://www.androidcentral.com/android-silver
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With this approach you are going to make it difficult for new writers.
You could also consider length of answer, grammar, known vocabulary.
Quora seems to also seems to rank recent answers on top for a while until it reaches a view limit. So probably takes rate of up vote as upvote/view count. Instead of taking age of answer you could consider view count .

Have a look at RankSvm if that helps. It would require good amount of data though .
He also did solid work in the C#/.net world.
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It seems to me that it makes more sense to approximate sinPi(x) = sin(pi x)

scaling[x_] := 8/3 (x - x^3)
indices = {0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10}
inner[g_, h_] := NIntegrate[g h/Sqrt[1 - x^2], {x, -1, 1}, WorkingPrecision-> 40, PrecisionGoal-> 20]
cheb[i_] := inner[ChebyshevT[i, x], Sin[Pi x]/scaling[x]]/inner[ChebyshevT[i,x], ChebyshevT[i, x]]
coeff = cheb /@ indices
apxi[i_] := coeff[[1 + i/2]]ChebyshevT[i, x]
sinPi[x_] := Total[apxi /@ indices]scaling[x]
Plot[sinPi[x], {x, -1, 1}]
N[Simplify[sinPi[x]/(1-x^2)], 9]

This gives the following polynomial expression for sinPi(x)/(1-x²):

3.14159264x -2.02611946x^3 +0.524036151x^5 -0.0751872634x^7 +0.00686018743x^9-0.000385937753x^11

So the function becomes:

sub sinPi($x) {
my $x2 = $x²;
$x * (1 - $x2) *
reduce * * $x2 + *,
-0.000385937753,
0.00686018743,
-0.0751872634,
0.524036151,
-2.02611946,
3.14159264
}

That being said, cool stuff, definitely.
> they just move money from rich people to poor people

That seems pretty cool if you're US, but what about Chad or Tajikistan where there are no rich people of the Forbes 1,000 variety and primary employment happens to be in government services?

The closest examples we have are resource-rich USSR and Venezuela, both of which did not do well inflation-wise. The jury is still out on Norway or Saudi Arabia.
Sounds A LOT like how FISMA is implemented. Only you can't find any two auditors who will agree on how to apply these overly complex set of rules.
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Here are some options that I have experience with:

- Time Machine with offline disks: Since Time Machine supports multiple backup destinations, you can use a Time Capsule or hard drive that's always connected to your Mac, and also have one or more additional hard drives which you connect periodically and otherwise leave in a drawer.

Pros: Free, built into macOS, can browse file versions directly from many apps.

Cons: Needs ongoing manual intervention (i.e. plugging in the offline drives). Some reliability issues… but I've experienced the most problems backing up to my own SMB/AFP shares, so a Time Capsule might be OK.

- Backblaze (https://www.backblaze.com/) or CrashPlan (https://www.crashplan.com/): Both of these online backup services have $5/month unlimited plans, and both let you specify your own encryption key (in the form of an additional password), which isn't shared with the backup provider. Note: In my experience, Backblaze's client is much lighter on system resources/battery on Mac.

Pros: Inexpensive, off-site storage, low-maintenance.

Cons: Ongoing cost, requires trust (In theory, the client software could be sharing the encryption key with the company/the NSA/your nemesis).

- Arq (https://www.arqbackup.com/): Paid desktop software which can back up to many different destinations, including S3, Google Drive, or your own server via SFTP. You specify an encryption key for each destination.

Pros: Full control. Option to back up to another machine that you own (so no ongoing cost for hosting).

Cons: Up-front cost. Support is less straightforward than hosted solutions since Arq doesn't provide storage.
This book is really good:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B014DIV1IO/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...

I've been using Unity for the last 3 years and that book covers a good chunk of what it takes to make a performant game with it. Good books on Unity are hard to come by. Also highly recommend this book if you are just learning about game and simulation engines:

https://www.amazon.com/Engine-Architecture-Second-Jason-Greg...
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Thanks. I talk 2 he say he also feels the talks are a bit rushed and will re-record them.
I'd applied a specific conditional to my response. You're disregarding it.

That doesn't address the case where the condition is satisfied.
It is simply not true unless you have a pathological idea of "hand-allocation" (which to be fair, some programmers do program like).

Let me put it this way ... all "garbage collection is fast" claims are saying the following thing:

"It is faster for the programmer to destroy information about his program's memory use (by not putting that information into the program), and to have the runtime system dynamically rediscover that information via a constantly-running global search and then use what it gleans to somehow be fast, than it is for the programmer to just exploit the information that he already knows."

It sure sounds like nonsense to me.
> Detroit is a city which was designed from the ground up to discourage public transport

This is simply not true. See [1][2][3][4][5] for the evolution of the transit system, from horse-drawn streetcars onward; notice that in the beginning the city's area was much smaller, but as annexations followed, so did transit.

Detroit's (current) transit woes are ultimately not that different from those of other American cities: transit needs to go where people work and live, and as both of those have become more distributed, fewer areas are suitable. It's really no surprise that this new development is along the highest-density core; it's also undeniable that this is the area that's experiencing a renaissance and an influx of investment. I'd say that these attributes are inter-related, in that they mutually enable each other.

[1] http://detroittransithistory.info/TheEarlyYears.html [2] https://www.chicagorailfan.com/dsrt1900.html [3] https://www.chicagorailfan.com/dsrt1922.html [4] https://www.chicagorailfan.com/dsrt1932.html [5] https://www.chicagorailfan.com/dsrt1951.html
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> I'm not sure that the rich usually invest in terms of making loans available,

Outside of the $100+ trillion bond market the examples are indeed hard to come by.
There isn't enough 'high value' work to be done. We don't 'need' so many people to feed or house or even entertain the planet. We have a distribution problem of affluence, not a production problem. Even much of our current value 'work' only exist because we are externalizing the disastrous impact it has on the planet and its inhabitants. Maybe VR will offer a way out. Keeping the masses 'occupied' with virtual labor that has less of an ecological impact. Grinding lvl 863 mining in an MMO, not for fun, but for life.
The only two reasons people put up with android on phones are

1) it's the only choice if you want something small with a cell modem

2) it's the only choice if you want to run Snapchat

Android is incredibly aweful. It's actually impossible to write apps for it that won't crash. If you're writing firmware it's even worse! Have you ever tried to build it? It's a nightmare! The source for a basic system is over 60GB and has a crazy number of dependencies.

For embedded systems/IOT you're thousands of times better off just using buildroot or an RTOS.
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Second CrashPlan; even allow you to encrypt with your own key (just don't lose it!) Linux client is fantastic.
There may not be a true distinction between these two life-modes. If you chase a goal, you are still experiencing life as a "toy" but with an added layer of abstraction and meaning you've built yourself that prevents you from seeing it this way.
I'm in the US, not in NYC. I use public transit (and my bike) exclusively. The most annoying thing about public transit is cargo handling. With a car you can buy groceries for a month. Or make a trip with several stops buying errands. Etc. With bike/bus I'm limited to what I can carry. That's a lot less than what can fit in a shopping cart / trunk˙.
In both cases you'd need to know some properties of the distribution to get a random bitstream.

Which pixel would you be looking at?
Below what threshold would you call it a 0 rather than 1?
How long till you can confidently say next reading will be uncorrelated?

I don't know how the astronomical imaging solved these (and TBH cosmic ray scanning seems a bit overkill to me too).
> we have to get updated database software from a vendor, and to install it we have to update the API the billing software uses

And so why haven't you updated the API the billing software uses, long before now? Why haven't you updated the database software before now?

CIOs create risk when they don't prioritize keeping their products up to date. When you can't even install security updates without breaking your installations, you have a problem. And your problem is more than some technical problem, it's a cultural problem.

Yes it's risky to update a large number of machines. But as a CIO, it is your job to mitigate that risk. There's no such real thing as "unexpected security fixes" in this day and age. They are entirely expected, and if you cannot deal with predictable occurrences then you are quite simply incompetent.
It really isn't. I mean it looks expensive, until you take into account all the dedup and everything it does to reduce the cost. I put in $10 dollars a few years ago, I still have almost a $4 balance ($3.91).
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> UBI can change that by making it feasible for underemployed people to live in those cheaper areas.

Detroit or Baltimore are pretty affordable already, and some counties will give away free land if one agrees to settle there.

That did not seem to spur much economic development.
I have a setup which works really well for my photos and videos [1][2][3][4][5]. It automatically keeps a copy of each file in 3 locations; my laptop, a Synology NAS and Google Drive / Photos.

[1] https://medium.com/@jmathai/introducing-elodie-your-personal...

[2] https://medium.com/@jmathai/understanding-my-need-for-an-aut...

[3] https://medium.com/@jmathai/my-automated-photo-workflow-usin...

[4] https://medium.com/@jmathai/one-year-of-using-an-automated-p...

[5] https://medium.com/vantage/how-to-protect-your-photos-from-b...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Flight_801

The flight in question. Captain was a retired and highly respected airforce pilot. It was determined that the first officer knew that things were going wrong but didn't say anything.
Usually just printing. I find the viruses on my USB drive after printing from it on other people's computers. I keep that drive for one-way use and never get files back off it because they're all potentially infected.
What if the encryption has begun, but hasn't reached your canary yet?
I've used rclone[1] with great success (it can sync specific folders which looks like what you want) but I've since then moved on to a commercial service called Insync[2] because I was having rate limiting problems with the Google Cloud API key that rclone needs.

I do wonder that I should move back to rclone because I don't like a third party having access to my google drive. As it goes without saying, use a good encrypted backup solution. I like cryfs for encrypting data.

[1]: https://rclone.org/
[2]: https://www.insynchq.com/
[3]: https://www.cryfs.org/
USB webcams get hit by cosmic rays, too. This paper is interesting because it's not just looking at the low bits of a normal image, but rather at at exceptional events. It's a different sort of random.
So... the reason it's so trivial to locate Windows and Office, and the reason why KMSPico et exist... is so that the latest version of Windows - and updates - actually propagate, er, fully.

Presumably so that Microsoft doesn't get bad press, and maybe due to (shady but arguable) legal implications.

Oh wow.
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What is the "thing" that directly represents save? A floppy disk?

Yeah no abstraction there.
Moron.
That mostly boils down to lowering the attack surface.

Individual cars doing their own thing, no problem. Cars talking to cloud, big privacy problem, potential security problem. Cars talking to each other locally, smaller privacy problem, but bigger security problem.
This is all true, and it's weird that you are getting downvoted for saying it.
"it's much more likely that Bitcoin will just adopt whichever features that make this competitor superior)." Yes. Particularly with Sidechains. Stripe is great but Stellar has huge headwinds.
In what way is the land collectively owned? The business would show a deed and prove they already own the land.

Also, if I already own a house privately, I would pay the commons rent on what I already own? This seems to pervert the notion of ownership.
I recently went to a consultancy sales meeting with a GP who wanted me to port the MS Dos Patient Record Management system used by his medical centre to the cloud. While I'm sure with a suitable budget it could have been figured out the fact that I could only find a handful of references to the database file format when searching google didn't bode well. It looked like I would have to reverse engineer the parsing and interpretation of the bytecode. In the end my advice was to hire data entry professionals to do it manually.
Oh you think it's ridiculous we use i.e. 7 in compatibility mode?

It's certainly ridiculous if you don't keep it utterly sandboxed and limited to only required use.

Also ridiculous is anyone falling for - or being allowed to fall for - a mail based phishing attack anywhere in the organisation.
> rsc is one of the most brilliant minds of 21st century software engineering

Are you trying to make pull quotes for the jerk? Because seriously kids. This is how its done!
> Public spending on infrastructure and services raises land values, as parks, police, and fire departments make locations more attractive to live in.

This sounds like how the property tax works today.

At municipal level, where a property tax bill is comprised of (a) land value, (b) improvements and (c) special assessments, which are voter-approved voluntary taxes to pay for things such as new tram line or a pump for the water district.

The land value periodically gets reassessed to account for improvements, public services, and general real estate prices in the area.

How does your system differ from the property tax status quo?
Where is this money that is captured and not moving? Most invested dollars are still moving in one form or another. Invest in a company's bond, and they're using that money to build a factory.
At times I thought it was like those ai-generated articles.
Bitrise can do that too, and has Xamarin support as well - https://www.bitrise.io/

(I'm the CTO there)
> Really? Because this is this the basic premise behind one of the greatest examples of satire in history...

This one?

A Modest Proposal

For Preventing The Children of Poor People in Ireland
From Being A Burden to Their Parents or Country, and
For Making Them Beneficial to The Public

By Jonathan Swift (1729)

http://art-bin.com/art/omodest.html
Annotate is great! I cannot work in a Rails app without annotate.
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In large part they are less common because of NAT's popularity.

Back in 2003, most people were on dialup or had a single machine plugged directly into the Internet. Microsoft had no firewall out of the box. So by default you exposed all your Microsoft networking services to the whole Internet.

NAT changed that, it made it so no one could directly connect to all the vulnerable machines floating around. Your phone is unable to infect other phones on your providers network or the wider internet in this same way.

No one is out mass exploiting those IOT light bulbs with default telnet passwords because they're not exposed directly to the Internet. There are a few however exploiting vulnerable NAT routers... probably the only sort of worm to see widespread success in recent years.
> Stupid question: If someone fixes or adds something valuable to GPL source code and wants to charge for it, then why not just charge for the patch or the additional code?

Nothing stops anyone from charging for the GPL code in the first place.
> make hospitals publish their prices

They already do http://www.oshpd.ca.gov/Chargemaster/

> ban insurance companies

So lose the negotiating advantage and be forced to haggle on prices on a case-by-case basis?
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> paranoid levels of security

> # paste this into your terminal
> # and get started in seconds..
> curl -# https://usrfy.io/signup | sudo -sE

:O
Devils advocate: they're not doing anything better than anyone else in the market and they don't make a product. They're very invested in their ecosystem which is only as good as they make it because they have a very quiet, well funded (pun intended) echo chamber and a lot of spare cycles to maintain a STDLIB on top of their actual business.
50 years ago, who would have thought of search engine optimization as a job? Social media manager? Video game storyline writer?

I'm not saying that people who are displaced will easily be able to retrain to a new job. They will have a rough time, and that's something we need to address as a society.

But assuming that number of "jobs" for humans will decrease to zero is a big stretch. I think that even if we had robots that could take care of all our needs for us, humans would come up with jobs to occupy their time.
> If poor people have income not tied to a specific location, I'm expecting that they're going to move to lower-cost locations, rather than stay in expensive urban areas.

So why haven't we seen a massive exodus to Detroit or Mississippi? Outside of coastal areas US already tends to be affordable and accessible.
AMD should just drop the support for VME. There is no need to carry such baggage in 2017. If you need to run your legacy systems that require VME: buy yourself a processor designed in 2016.
> Instead circumstances are going to overwhelm us until enough of the population is miserable enough to demand real change.

I'm not sure. During the great depression the USA did not embrace communism. Why should it be different with automation?