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> Trust me the UK gov is not down with this idea

Then again, it looks like UK is about to leave the union[1], so their ability to influence policy at the European level is fairly limited at the moment.

[1] I would not be surprised, though, if both sides just dragged the exit out long enough so nobody will care about it any longer and then quietly drop the issue.
Yeah sorry I meant legal. If you're running an online drug market or a cryptolocker extortion scheme it is probably the best solution.
Platform and content providers tend to have a more healthy relationship when the platform is not a monopoly. So there is only one way to solve this - break Facebook. Otherwise, we will need to wait for many years before Facebook loses its steam, Facebook itself may become boring one day, but FB can keep its vigor by buying the 'next big thing' (Instagram, Whatsapp).
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Isn't this exactly what people were saying about BitCoin as well?

BitCoin has a genuine inherent worth now and while it's still not nearly large enough to fend off crashes, it's there and it's growing. I don't see the argument for why Ethereum is different in this respect.

Perhaps I'm just not getting the real point of the linked article?
"End-to-end encryption means the company providing the service does not have access to the key, meaning it cannot "listen in" to what is being shared - giving the sender and recipient added confidence in the privacy of their conversation.

"The principle of confidentiality should apply to current and future means of communication, including calls, internet access, instant messaging applications, email, internet phone calls and personal messaging provided through social media," said a draft proposal from the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice, and Home Affairs."

How would this work in practice? Would any web service that includes a private messaging feature need to ensure it is end-to-end encrypted? Would there be fines or penalties for startups that included an unencrypted messaging feature in their product?
I'm always full of respect to people who break the law - it takes a lot of courage.

So far - 10+ different employment contracts - every single one explicitly forbid working on the side.

Bonus question - how do you do this with 2 young kids?
Excellent posts in this thread. Howsoever the distractions and entitlements of those upon whom manufactured [1] consent [2] are 'lesser of two evils' given a false hope of the US climbing out of its new normalcies[3], vs that which our towns in the 1800s may have assented to...
[1] by force, all too often
[2] imposed by sheer lack of compassion, at times
[3] in which the appalling can be wished
away as decency and in a shortsighted
attempt at appeasement(s) ..

.......................
Note that this is mostly just a bookmark so that I can re read this thread when I have time and want to quote it elsewhere, as
I have not stated, sorry to say, the reason for each phrase. As such, substandard input to the discussion. [ unless of course someone completes it for me... ]
> using narrowing and expansion

Narrowing and widening to be precise. As many Emacs features, narrowing seems useless at first, but it has surprisingly many uses. Especially with `expand-region` installed: no matter where is my point, I can quickly select current block, narrow the buffer to it and start using bulk-edit tools, like `iedit` or `multiple-cursors` while being sure that they won't affect other parts of a file.

> In this way, "Emacs OS" UX is superior to my "host" OS UX (be it Windows or Linux), because I can perform all those actions in an unified way, without breaking my flow

I still use the combo of urxvt+tmux+zsh though. I could probably get most of the same features with Emacs+Elscreen+Eshell+Auto-Complete/Company, but setting it all up seemed like a lot of unnecessary work, while I had my `.tmux.conf` and `.zshrc` already configured before switching to Emacs. I'd still love to switch to Emacs for terminal emulation, but all the available options right now (from eshell to ansi-term) lack some important features I'd rather still have.
What is k-CFA ?
I clicked around a few pages on this site, and every single one of them threw up some fucking fixed-position popover soliciting me to buy something, listen to something, or subscribe to something, or whatever. This trend is such a cancer on the web.
Well, there's this, for example:

http://www.coindesk.com/united-nations-sends-aid-to-10000-sy...

Not a pyramid scheme.
That's an interesting point.

To follow-up on it a bit, whenever Western countries are put into a situation like that, they're effectively forced to do exactly what happened here. After all, whether or not something becomes public or not is completely outside of both parties' control. The minute some newspaper-person looked up the terms on the treaty and published it, there would have been an immediate international confrontation. So Britain was forced to come up with some kind of framework whether they wanted to or not -- simply to prevent random crises in the future.
This was basically my thought. After dealing with twice a gestationally diabetic wife, I can tell you that much of the hate on refined foods is very much founded in science. Glycemic indexes of food really was something we had to take into account, even though it was hard to get good data for.

I can't take seriously anyone who can ignores the basic insulin effects much of our diet evokes.
How not both?

You are forced to comply with the law, even if it is democratically legitimized.
Djangos ORM is really really good. Plus it's integration with RabbitMQ through Celery, and so on. Django is kind of the golden standard of web frameworks. (Not having tried rails)
Super interesting article.

Shame the mixed the Walgreens stuff with the acurian problem though, as these seem to be 2 very different situations. You only notice if you read carefully and understand a bit about the tech behind it :/
You only do that when you want EXACTLY those people to hear it - akin to booking a conference room to discuss something with a certain closed group.

Talking on a channel is more like talking aloud in a team room with one or two people, the other people are allowed to overhear and join if they have some input. Or they can put on their headphones or tell the noisy people to get a room or shut up.

With a team chat system you can just disable the notifications when you don't want to be disturbed and read the backlog afterwards (if you're so inclined). No need to tell anyone specifically to stfu. You can also be invited to the discussion with an @mention and you can immediately read the previous comments and join in without anyone having to spend 5-10 minutes re-explaining everything to you.
Does amazon.com, today, run directly on the same AWS we use, or on some private copy of it, or some hybrid of the two?
When the voters were made promises about 350 million per week to the NHS, that was backtracked on within hours of the result, do you really consider it democratic?
What is the compiler switch?
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By making its own hardware, of course.
Popcon also has the disadvantage that it has an unconscious bias: if you care about security, you don't send your package lists out to be part of the survey.

Corporations setting policy for their systems are also unlikely to install popcon.

The overall effect is to bias popcon in favor of home users who don't think much about security.
The same as any other similar legislation, like requiring cookies notification on every website, or the data protection requirements.
Yeah, and here in Brazil, the right-wing is the unofficial US Democratic Party vassal, starting by Globo (CNN-affiliated).
Here "liberals" are not considered left-wing but right. Sanders and a few would be considered somehow left wing here, but not that much.
I bet if the driving/parking situation for these larger vans were better in cities we would see them driving around taking orders to people.
I assumed between that and the fault tolerant nature of the architecture that it would be ideal for a standalone device that would be harder to service. I remember doing specs for in vehicle systems in college and the "what if it crashes" question was a nightmare.
Supporting Wikileaks when the US government wanted to defund them.
That's not Ethereum the thing that's being traded. That's "ethereum" the tech. Using that terminology, we should call most altcoins "Bitcoin".
Except that it provides access from every corner too...
He just compiled it with gcj. It offers the best of both worlds: The performance of an interpreted language with the standard library of C.
Here's some irony for you: a significant result of Brexit is that the U.K will have a censored, tightly monitored Internet without encryption and Europe will have data privacy and end-to-end encryption. The pro-freedom crowd will benefit, but in the opposite way of what they were expecting: the control freak British government is removed from EU politics. Nigel Farage is going to be really confused.
That doesn't sound very tasty.
i did spend an embarrassing amount of time trying to find an example of RNA life after reading your initial reply lol.

I suppose viruses do count as 'life' in some sense, so fair enough, thanks for clearing that up.
Dutch. We say "lenen aan" and "lenen van", resp. "lend to" and "lend from" aka "borrow".

We also use the same word for nephew and cousin.

I'm not sure about German, but they do got "sea" and "lake" mixed up ;)
> If Microsoft for example can't ensure the EU that Windows doesn't contain backdoors for the NSA for example

What counts as ensurance? Simply MS saying "no backdoors" clearly isn't good enough. Open sourcing the whole OS, to make it harder to find backdoors, would help.
By being born in the UK.
Maybe you just need to buy one of these new smartphones with a stupidly tall 18:9 display.

Jokes aside, screen space on mobile devices stopped being considered precious by publishers and designers long ago.
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Cool. https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel
It also makes me wonder, is the conversion rate on these god awful popups really that good? I've ever entered an email address into one of these boxes, and why would I? More often than not they shove them into your face before you even see the page content, then again when you try to leave. It's terrible.
> If Microsoft wants to sell windows here then it will have to conform.

Or say they are conforming but not doing so.
Except that Xbox isn't doing that well in comparison to PS4 because it's a significantly inferior gaming machine.

This years Xbox announcements were thus only about the games.
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I think this is mostly to keep in line with indexing, where you have that same sort of semi-inclusion.

'example string'[3:8] # gives you 5 characters.
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Those are decisions made by social workers and local government, that's a long, long way from the Met and MI5.
I'm not sure it's necessarily "old school". It strikes me as self-aggrandising, and speaks of someone uncomfortable with their place in the world. Much as old money asks for the toilet, and new money asks for the rest room.
A theory is that not much money is poured into elections for who is sitting in the EU chairs, allowing small parties to gain votes.
Does Ethereum solve Bitcoin's core problems? increasing usage leads to transaction fees becoming prohibitively expensive, bitcoins get stolen regularly without any way to get them back, bitcoins are often used for illegal transactions and tax evasion.
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After hard fork to cover their failure, Etherium lost my support. Bitcoin is much more solid in that aspect.
Author here. This is a follow up to [1] with a lot more technical details on moving to async/await, including:

- eslint config

- node config - getting proper tracebacks and using util.promisify

- testing

- implementing common promise patterns with 'await'

- how to handle await refactoring for larger codebases

[1](https://certsimple.com/blog/javascript-equals-async-await)
> Slack is great when used as modern irc.

I am not sure if sarcasm or what. It's way worse then IRC because it's so damn slow.
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> They consistently get outmanuevered in gpus, ssds, low power socs, machine learning, et cetera.

I totally agree with you except for maybe one small thing - if anything I'd say they've outmaneuvered the competition for graphics chips. Their market share for PC graphics hardware is about 70%. By tying the graphics hardware to the CPU, and making it good enough for everybody but hardcore gamers, they've relegated AMD and nVidia to fight over the other 30%. (And I'm honestly shocked that AMD and nVidia have that much of the market. The truckloads and truckloads of PCs bought by corporate buyers generally do not have discrete GPUs...)

http://jonpeddie.com/publications/market_watch/

Now, you can certainly point out that they have 70% of a declining market. Which is true. And you can also say that Intel has little traction in graphics hardware outside the PC space, which is also true. And that is why I agree with you and your point still stands, so please take my post as a semi-interesting footnote and not an argument.
It says nothing but that doesn't have to be a bad thing. My only worry is if it's easy to spell and how it's pronounced.
For both recent attacks the authorities already had information on them, they were already on watch lists.
Not disagreeing. But as far as Brave/BAT goes, given that the founder is Brendan Eich, I imagine somebody might.
Every site with the cookie notification violates the original cookie regulation. The original regulation is clear, you only need to ask the user if you want to track them, no matter how, but they have to be able to opt out of tracking.

- Login cookies? No notification required.

- Tracking via fingerprinting? You need to ask.

- User says no to the tracking? You have to allow them to continue using your service.

It’s pure bullshit what most sites do, based on the UK interpretation of the cookie law. Luckily, that’s gone soon (both due to the EU GDPR, and due to Brexit)
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It's not bait-switch; it's not Ponzi; it's in no way illegal.

It's fucking douchebaggery though.
I actually think document should be kept/written by a chat/email app.

Most companies have a wiki for document, but how many of them can stay up to date? Discussions happen all the time, and they often require changes to previous documents. Maybe an ideal tool is one can capture team communication, present it in a organised way, and let people edit it later for a more polished view.
You can build a mutable payment system on top of an immutable blockchain but you can't build an immutable payment system on top of a mutable blockchain.

Without immutability, the blockchain will eventually lose all of its differentiating features, and have no value proposition.

But I think the parent comment is wrong about Ethereum being 'less immutable'. Either a blockchain is immutable, or it isn't. A year ago, for one moment, Ethereum was mutable. But that was a unique situation that Ethereum will never find itself in again:

It will never be that small of a community, and have that little happening on the blockchain. It will never be that young. Ethereum's leaders will never fail to that degree to properly warn people about smart contract security.

The Ethereum community will never be that inexperienced with smart contracts, both in terms of their security properties and their economic properties (the DAO was the very first smart contract of its kind, and had a goal of attracting $500,000 worth of ETH, and instead $150 million worth was deposited). Now that the community has gotten a lesson in how smart contracts work, there will be much less sympathy for anyone who loses ETH they deposit into one. It's buyer beware at this point.

So the likelihood of another hard fork happening to reverse a hack of a third party Dapp is extremely low in my opinion. Ethereum is for all intents and purposes immutable right now.
> BitCoin has a genuine inherent worth now

Does it? Why? I mean, people currently want to buy it, but then in the early to mid noughties people wanted to buy securitised junk mortgages; simply having a potentially temporary demand does not mean it has an _inherent_ worth.

If anything, it has less of a worth than before, in that its "success" has made it largely useless for actual transactions. Look at the current costs to actually get anything through; it's stormed past SEPA and threatening to hit Western Union levels of expense (it's already exceeded Western Union and friends for small transactions). What is it _for_?
Nothing stops people from building centralized organizations ( "banks") providing _reversible_ transactions on top of an immutable payment platform.
Those aspects might be problems for you, but for me they are huge advantages, for example. If there's no way to get stolen bitcoins back, it means that there's no way to stole properly secured bitcoins. If they can be used for illegal transactions, I can help dissidents, for example. And tax evasion is a good thing as well.
I worked on the older version of FUZE BASIC, which ran on a modified raspberry pi, for quite a while; It was very fun to make games etc, but it required quite a bit of knowledge. Teaching children to make simple text-based games was easy, but this had all the failings of the original basic, such as no oop, no else if, GOTO, no garbage collector, no hand-holding for graphics, no double-buffering etc that mean you have to wrap your head around some theory to even get started making much fun.

Another advantage is that fuze basic is/was backwards compatible with BASIC written for bbc micro, so if you have the time you can copy games from old magazines, maybe even the original version of Elite! (though i did hear that had some lower level Assembly tricks that may be iffy)

Especially using the garbage collector correctly was a struggle, I often had to help people clean up after drawing on the screen because they would run out of memory very quickly.

Nonetheless, I did successfully teach a couple kids to make text-based games, and one did get back to me with a pirate themed number guessing game.
> BitCoin has a genuine inherent worth now

Huh? It does?

Beanie Baby valuations looked stable for a while until suddenly they weren't.
> The current status of HK is the result of, and guaranteed by, a treaty between two sovereign nations.

One of which is in no position to exercise its guarantee.
>Conglomerates Didn’t Die, They Look Like Amazon (nytimes.com)

More like all Japanese conglomerates look these days (Marubeni, Mizuho, Mitsui etc) Except, the topmost structure is not likely to be publicly traded.
How urgently do you want this - I have a collection of recommendations people have been sending me over time, but they are still in raw form and need sorting. I can do the processing, but it will take a little time.

When do you need this by?
The UK is already a solid police state, they didn't need to leave the EU to implement that. Of course, it can always get worse.
The last of those is a feature, not a bug. Bitcoin is actually pretty bad at hiding tracks, but many next-gen cryptocurrencies like Zcash and Monero are explicitly designed for anonymity.
But implementing end-to-end encryption is much harder than adding a cookie notification.

https://www.howtogeek.com/166507/why-most-web-services-dont-...

There's a few startups working on platforms to make adding E2E encryption easier, but I doubt the EU is planning to mandate everyone use their services.

The plan sounds nice from a distance (who in tech is anti-encryption?) but closer inspection reveals problems. All legislation can do is ban certain activities. You want to release a new dating app, or add a basic messaging feature to your Q&A site, and you're not a crypto expert with 3 months to spend adding E2E encryption? Should it be illegal for you to release your app without encryption?
My mental response to those banners - particularly on aggregator sites, but also for content sites - is "does your app support tabbed browsing? Thought not." Losing tabs is an experience downgrade. Apps are almost always worse than the browser for a site that isn't actually an application.
don't forget roaming fees
yeah, i just imagine how painfully difficult it will be for them. Every time they will try to make arrangement with a new airport to become their point of service, they will hear a lot of 'young man, get off my butt, you don't know what are you doing' before they will get a deal. The people who are in charge of these things in airports are very entitled, arrogant, and bound with a lot of regulations because it is a border and customs control zone after all.
> So as you suspect, by random chance molecules are in the right spot very frequently.

With that in mind I'd guess the bigger issue is how cells avoid having to deal with molecules being in the wrong spot.
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Obviously they're fucked. Luckily we are still in the hardware design phase, otherwise we'd be even more pissed.

I don't think anyone built a product with enough volume that Intel would reconsider the discontinuation.

Long-term component availability is a major issue for hardware products. Discontinuing a product basically over-night is not a nice move from Intel and I hope people will remember this when Intel launches their next IoT/robotics product.
Interesting point. I think I disagree, but if the primary value is that it was something to talk about, then it makes sense that it no longer has any value.

Also, no one talks about the weather or movies anymore either. Because people don't talk anymore. So nothing has any value now. :(
Pronounced "pie tree" or "pee tree"? as in "pitri dish"?

As @arkitaip said... it doesn't say anything to me, but that isn't a bad thing. Depending on how it's pronounced, it may not be very phonetic in spelling, so if you plan on using the internet, people will need to know how to spell your company to find your website.
Impressive work! One question though, what is the bootup time? There's the GIF on the Github repository, but I can't accurately tell it from that.

Would it be possible for you to make a program that just exists and then time the whole bootup process? Thank you.

I have a specific use-case and would be willing to buy the board if it is fast enough.
The logo is literally two pyramids joined together and it is named after a classical material that doesn't exist. I'd like to think it was designed as a joke.