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Why wouldn't it? Humans prefer living next to each other, creating dense clusters.
Another way of thinking about this is to consider the different means available for navigating 'idea space': one can crawl up hills to local-maxima using discursive thought, or one can sort of teleport around via analogical processes (as you point out, it's not clear what sort of valley you may end up in by doing this, though). Discursive thought has more of an 'if, then' character, while analogical processes seem to be kicked off by wondering about which things might have a similar structure to (i.e. are isomorphic to) some other thing of interest.

Edit: and another way: the local-maxima situation has to do with finding solutions within some particular framework, whereas you get a shot at global maxima in the search for/attempt to build new frameworks.
I think this is more of a vanity/luxury than actually TRULY useful thing. Many complex geometries are designed on CAD - from Airplane assemblies to intricate VSLI circuits.

Physical model is nice...but its utility is not justified for the expense of 3D printing.

Probably in industrial design and architecture. I don't come across a 3D graph where I go "Gee! I wish I had a physical model. I just can't understand this thing".

Don't get me wrong, it is nice. But I am debating how much better?
The reason is simple. Swamps are commercially strategic, since they're located on rivers.

For most of history, shipping goods over land didn't make much sense.
It's not a big city, anymore.
Android executes native ARM code. Additionally, average GC pause times are now 0.4ms in Android O. To clarify, that's not 0.4ms for every frame - that's every time the GC needs to do a STW. How many milliseconds does ARC lose during its reclamation of memory on iOS? As for memory usage, Android N did use a bit more memory than iOS apps, but that's also been reduced by Android O.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFE2Utbv1Oo&index=110&list=P...

As for your claim that iOS apps have a significantly less memory footprint overall, well, you would also be wrong about that.

https://youtu.be/lCFpgknkqRE?t=6m27s
"And they see more and more American consumers willing to spend $8 or $12 for a cup of joe, which would offset their high costs of production."

Good luck!
I'm indifferent, not resistant. I've never seen someone put forward an argument for how or why I should care about blockchain.
>Bits are bits, regardless of how "advanced

By the same token quarks are quarks. I think a better way to approach this is to azk the question "Does it suffer"

Pets are considered property and ultimately their lives are based upon not your Hardware but your resources, your ability to provide them with food, shelter, etc. Although we provide for them, we have laws against animal torture, cruelty, etc.
He is one of the few people I can think of who would actually be worse than Drumpf.

Putin would be better. Kim Jong Il might be better.

I'm not joking. ;(
>> The value of a blockchain stems from the fact that, combined with proof-of-work, a single history of transactions can be agreed upon without a central party.

PoW is not the only consensus algorithm out there. Sure, in a completely trustless scenario which is what bitcoin and some ethereum apps are doing - something like PoW or PoS needs to be in place (although Ripple has a different approach for example).

For internal private blockchains, this is not really necessary however and would just reduce the tx approval rate.
And his physical models are now rendered to our computer screens just like a virtual 3D model would be. Just with a bit more noise and shading.
> But I don't think you should state that the standard model is evidence of that emdrive cannot work

I specifically said that reactionless drives contradict conservation of momentum. This is a direct result of all useful physical theories.

> what if your assumption is wrong? What if emdrive don't violate it?

Believe it or not, but I've answered this question before. If EmDrive doesn't violate conservation of momentum, then according to standard model it cannot produce more thrust than a photon drive, which makes EmDrive utterly useless.

> My point is, rather focus your energy on building your own version [...]

My own version: EmDrive inventor is a crackpot, which can be deduced from papers he writes and statements he makes.
I'm not obliged to explain every single crackpot claim. The burden of proof is on the side making extraordinary claims.

> [...] than throwing out statements which also have no proof

Please quote specific statements rather than making broad accusation of baseless speech.

I'm tired of dissecting every single one of your sentences.
For me, the interesting problem, as mentioned in the article, is that developers still need to make the AI opponents suck. We want FPS games where the enemies 'feel' real, but we can't make them too clever. Most shooter games put you in control of a lone fighter battling against countless foes. If the enemies were clever, then you'd have absolutely no chance of surviving!

You could improve the AI so that your opponents do smarter things (flanking you, working as a team, etc) and less dumb things (repeatedly popping up out of cover, for instance), but then the game would be immensely harder. To balance that out, you'd have to handicap the enemies in other ways, like make them even worse at aiming, or giving them weaker weapons, but that might make the game less fun.

Perhaps improved AI may lead to different gaming styles? Fewer 'you vs an entire army' scenarios, instead more nuanced challenges with lower numbers of bad guys...
What ever made you feel like you should have any illusions to start with?
Why not just make the very sound argument that white American men are an extreme minority of the population and designing to their needs puts your product at risk in the marketplace?

Losing a $1x10^11 market for want of a $1x10^8 investment in talent diversity up front is just poor investment.
> immigration doesn't target flyover areas - not so many immigrants come to middle of nowhere places. Instead the (desirable) coast areas get packed.

In addition to the other examples already mentioned, suburban Detroit has the largest Arab-American population in the entire US.

http://michiganradio.org/post/what-explains-michigans-large-...
Could the UK be about to break end-to-end encryption?
I have no knowledge of Spanish, but I think your comment is spot on. I think the author of this article is wrong that things like simplicity, well-placed verbs, and economy are unique to English. The students from other language cultures who claim otherwise likely have a very distorted view of their own language.

Good verbs are like a universal principle of good language, as is the one thought per sentence rule. These rules might need to be tweaked - perhaps, for example, simple clauses can be strung together into a single sentence as dependent and independent clauses more easily in one particular language, but the universal part is then the simple clause with a good verb. These universal principles of good writing are like the foundation of the house - they have to be in place - , and everything else, like nice adjectives, proverbs, etc. are ornamental. The author's students are confusing the ornaments of their languages for the foundation.
What if you bought a copy of a person's mind from him, and put it into a few clones and/or robotic bodies.

Would it matter to you if the conscious entity was organic or mechanic?

Would it matter to you that the copy was from a human, and not "developped from scratch"?

Do you think all highly intelligent conscious being should have a right to freedom from slavery, or does it only apply to natural-born humans?
Yes. Screenshots is designed to make it easy to share by providing hosting. Also, you can search within the text of the shots you have taken, since in the browser we have access to the actual text, not just the pixels.
Yeah, this.

We've already got opponents unbound by human reaction and with abilities far better than normal humans. They're basically a mainstay of the fighting game genre:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PerfectPlayAI

And they're not that fun to fight, because they're too 'good'.
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I'm pretty sure it was described on small introduction booklet in iphone 4 package. "Shake to undo" was also there.

Do you guys ever read instructions? :)
People don't want to be lied to. They want a narrative, they want to be told a story that integrates information into something digestible. All narratives are simplifying, some are based on emotion, some are based on facts, but all are false, to one degree or another.

What's really going on is very hard to figure out. The Arab Spring took everyone by surprise; it's not enough to look at individual leaders and what they say and do, it's the superposition of multiple trends that are the cause of things.

Different people have different appetites for trying to figure it all out, and some have a hard time with unpleasant or contradictory information. They can become numb and start becoming avoidant, clinging to simpler inflexible positions that make life easier to live.

Others develop shortcuts to understanding the world and start coming to very strange conclusions, conspiracy theories that connect not through cause and effect, but by who benefits, outcome oriented post hoc rationalisation. Cynicism protects the ego by dismissing people who talk about the actual complexities as naive. But fundamentally they want to believe there's order to the chaos.

I personally think that the lack of a common enemy has created some kind of social autoimmune disorder, where reality isn't testing and proofing ideas, and our collective attention is free to amplify small irritants into national issues. We don't have enough real problems. Even terrorism today is a non problem, looked at in proportion to its lethality.
Well, for example: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/trump...
I'm pretty high on crypto; my full-time job is writing and auditing smart contracts on Ethereum. Which message board do you recommend for me?
I read you could pile all the 5 billion human bodies on earth in a pyramid and it would only be 1 km square base.
I only want to know one thing: do you guys live in this world? I have been following Bitcoin since the beginning and there seems to be an utter disconnect between the blockchain hypers and the real world.

Seriously, who in their right mind would accept this? That you pull some data in a ... what, app? Provided by whom? And it proves house ownership? Have you ever bought real estate or are you 14 to believe this shit?

In the real world, there is a chain of trust made out of lawyers, notaries, various government agencies and so on. It's only in the fever dreams of juvenile hackers and Ayn Rand believers who thinks the world work without it.
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I spend only slightly more than that for 3 pounds of Kirkland Signature grounds...
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I've heard "java can be as fast as c" for 20 years now and "android is fast and smooth" for 10 years and my experience has always been the opposite. At the point I wouldn't believe them if it was true, there is no credibility left.
Lots of words, not a lot of concrete use cases.

If you scroll way down this is what you get:

- "a reserve/settlement currency" - Why?? certainly not for stability.

- "replacements for huge swathes of today’s financial industry" - Still not concrete!

- "namespaces (such as domain names)" - Also vague what it would improve.

- "implementations of distributed storage systems" - To which he adds "the centralized solution works just fine".

So... still waiting to hear a concrete, specific, cogent use case.
But we don't do the same thing for things which have full dependence, fetuses for example. Your dependence defines your right to life, if you depend on someone else's hardware entirely to simply live, you have no right to life as you are owned in full by them.
Very true - but I don't think invasion is the same as peaceful immigration.
I'm down in many places and many times saying I think ultimately they will not pan out. I'm still confident in that belief though that isn't to say it won't make a lot of people rich in the short term.

I'm also down in many places being wrong about the current increases as I was pretty confident we'd not see it rise above the last bubble again.

Outside of black and grey markets I've still not seen one good use case put forward where using a blockchain is better than the centralized or non-blockchain decentralized solution. The day I see that though my beliefs will change and I'll admit I was wrong many times.
This is relevant, why? "There are roughly 800 coffee farms in the Hawaiian Islands producing as much as nine million pounds of unroasted beans a year; California produces only hundreds of pounds. Globally, 12 billion pounds of coffee are consumed each year
Your smartphone could soon translate your thoughts into text
But you see how you are making my point. Mathematicians as a bunch are very creative and precise at the same time. Going back to my point about the article setting up a false dichotomy. Mathematicians study formal systems which are as precise a thing as humans have managed to make so far. Even if their initial exploration of new territory is not precise it is always in the context of formal systems.

I think the problem is the article is trying to put vaguely defined terms on some spectrum and the tension he is talking about is just an artefact of his own special mapping. Really there is no tension and this mapping is not canonical because the terms are not well-defined. So comparing accuracy, creativity, etc. on a single spectrum doesn't make sense. Mathematics being an existence proof that you can do both things at the same time.
Even top notch beans from CounterCulture are $18 for 12 oz. This would pretty much br a gimmick status symbol for the wealthy
Would you also accept being tortured for fun on a daily basis by your "owner" in the "do we live in a simulation" example?

Would it be ethical to torture a sentient being existing in your hardware, for fun?

Why do you believe ownership is decided based on residence? Do I own my pet dog? Is it ok to torture it?

I think you are grossly underestimating countless nuances of the ethicalities AI brings to the table.
As hominem is wrong for Boolean logic, fine for Bayesian reasoning.
By what definition? Could you point to any resource that defines such case?

I am seeing it completely opposite. Assuming they gain a self awareness, they would know nothing about server they are living on. They wouldn't know a thing about our world or about the player. They'd think that their world is the one and, if any, will see other servers or our world as some sort of "heaven" or another dimension. Would you know if our universe would run on some server?

That is, unless someone told them that they have been created for a sake of entertainment and will die as soon as player is bored enough to uninstall the game. Which would probably make them behave completely different than expected, since they would know they aren't "real". Not to mention that it would simply be a cruel thing to do, considering above mentioned assumption.
Generally the only way I enjoy playing FPS games is using a stealth approach, or failing that, a plan involving mines, distractions, sniping, etc. If an enemy spots me and starts attacking, it's a bit of a failure. If I get hit, it's a total failure. Think base takeovers in the more recent Far Cry series games. All time favourite was the Thief series; Dishonoured didn't quite do it for me.

Games that require or force a Rambo situation with enemies on all sides are just ridiculous. I like to observe, plan and execute, in that order. Randomness can't be controlled; you're just lucky, or your enemy has been hobbled and it's not a fair fight, otherwise.
The banks own SWIFT.
> Would you also be ok with you being tortured for fun on a daily basis by your "owner" in the "do we live in a simulation" example?

Yes, if I'm owned, I'm owned, not like I have any choice in the matter.

> Why do you believe ownership is decided based on residence? Do I own my pet dog? Is it ok to torture it?

Ownership is not based on residence, your pet dog lives as a separate entity from you. It can live without you, it is composed of the same stuff that makes you unowned. This is a very different kind of ownership than a pet.

> I think you are grossly underestimating countless nuances of the ethicalities AI brings to the table.

So long as AI is machines created by people, running on machines owned by people, it's no different than owning any other machine.
Some people just have too much money.
How long does that last you?
Nice, I have a 2TB Apple AirPort Time Capsule which handles routing, switching, WiFi 802.11ac, but the Edge Router X looks sweet.
This looks nice but so far I'm thrilled with ktor (which is very much in development).

Some of the main draws are:

- It supports multiple server hosts (Jetty, Netty, Tomcat as well as running as a servlet)

- It's Kotlin done by the JetBrains guys so very much Kotlin to the core

- It supports co-routines

Not trying to throw water on your hard work, but what reasons would I want to consider Javalin?
I will make a prediction so I can come back and make fun of myself in a month. It is a bubble and it will pop real soon going down back to $500 bringing down all the alts with it, then it will slowly go up again at a normal pace for the next couple of years.
Share the projects you are working on with the world
The Trump EPA is going to force people to live in the badlands?
The list of 4 items is excellent. Under no circumstances should you act in an insubordinate manner until you've exercised other channels of communication. Acting before things get too far is the easiest remedy.

I'd recommend the following order of operations:

Convey concern over associated risk to your immediate manager. Verbally first during the meeting, switch to written (email, a paper trail of opposition) if no action is taken.

When documenting the paper trail, simply reference meetings which you voiced opposition. Your notepads should also be able to back up the talking point you're referencing.

Being asked to briefly switch hours or work late is often listed in your job description so stopping suddenly at 5p can be considered insubordinate. Time should be compensated in a time off or paid OT arrangement promptly. If your verbal requests go without action, again, switch to email.

Simply documenting the events as they occur makes it easy for when you need to go above your immediate supervisor ( more senior manager, corporate hq, department of labor) for help.

Key is to be polite in all interactions. Innocent mistakes happen. Managers are under deadlines too. Paper trial should be maintained regardless of action or inaction.
I tried to say that it appears only on mobile, but now there is no such button! Seems that author changed blog theme, because floating "+" button also transformed into normal "menu" button at the top.

His blog appearance is now ideal in mobile ux. Pretty operative!
Note that this does shell detection and works for most common shells, but your eval may be different.

https://github.com/github/hub/blob/master/commands/alias.go#...
Proof of Stake has some difficult problems to overcome, and it's not clear if they are solvable or not, see the paper https://download.wpsoftware.net/bitcoin/pos.pdf for some background.

It's likely that PoS really just degrades into PoW, with stake holders needing to perform calculations as fast as possible to prevent attackers from out-competing them and generating alternate versions of the blockchain. Adding complicated fines and 'punishments' to deter PoS cheaters just increases the amount of work that they need to do, but cannot stop the problem.
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Mixing is hard, using different sources for different sorts of data is likely fine.

http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Licence/Licence_and_Legal...

You can however, put separate and distinct data layers on top of your map, such as icons showing specialists points of interest, routes, track logs, shaded areas, contours and the like, then Share-Alike does not apply to these elements as long as they do not interact with the map underneath.
https://github.com/github/hub/releases shows some pre releases. I suspect they'd be stable enough.
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You might ask the company for some references when you interview. After all they require the same from you.
If we look at the past 10,000 years of history - commodities are useful things, objects with utility. Currencies are commodities which people begin to favor for use in trading. Currencies are commodities which have properties that make them good currencies - they have properties such as uniformity, durability, divisibility, portability. This is why precious metals like gold have been favored as currencies through history - gold is uniform, durable, divisible and portable.

The paper dollar bill is, and always has been, completely worthless in and of itself. It is just a piece of paper. Just like Confederate bills were and are pieces of paper, just like the Papiermark was and is a piece of paper. US bills have a history, just as German bills do.

In 1914, the German Mark, or "Goldmark" was redeemable for gold. The Mark/gold link was broken in 1914 and the Mark became the "Papiermark". By 1923, hyperinflation had made the Papiermark near worthless and it was replaced by the Rentenmark and then in the next year this was replaced by the Reichsmark.

Swinging back to the USA, the words "redeemable in gold" were removed from the hundred dollar bill in 1934, and then by 1971 Nixon had closed the gold window entirely. Sort of. Because if he really had, he could have just taken the thousands of tons of gold in Fort Knox and paid down the US debt. But he couldn't. Because that gold still backs the dollar. The dollar was an abstraction of gold before 1934 and 1971, a promise. Then it became an abstraction of the abstraction. It's still on some level backed by the gold in Fort Knox, Trump and the Fed chair could just reopen gold/dollar reconversion if need be, and a hard floor would suddenly appear under the dollar.

Bitcoin has no such floor. There are no thousands of tons of gold waiting in the wings for Bitcoin, no nuclear armed #1 (going on #2) world economy with the power to tax and receive tax payments backing it. We don't even know who created Bitcoin.

It's an odd argument - the only commodity people can find which has no apparent value is the dollar (or euro), so that's what people compare it to.

If this was 1917, you might be asking me why the Papiermark had worth when it was not backed by something, and thus Bitcoins must have value. What people found out was that the Papiermark unhooked from gold did not have value, as the German government of the time didn't give a damn about its value. It's kind of the same argument - Papiermarks in 1917 had value, so Bitcoins must have value. People found out in the 1920s that Papiermarks didn't have value as the implicit promise of government gold conversion went away.
> Games generally have to be enjoyable to the player, and making your enemies too realistic can hinder that.

If you're talking about inducing gambling addiction in the player, it shouldn't matter whether the enemies are too realistic or not. It has to do with rewarding the player in such a way that the player's brain believes that there is a pattern to the rewards when there really isn't. You should be able to do that with realistic AI.
Luckily, those kind of attacks can be detected and corrected in a non-blockchain world. A blockchain's features are not a good fit for this kind of use case.