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> The US borrows in its own currency. Ultimately, if the US government debt burden becomes to large it can choose to print money to print itself out of debt.

A major reason independent central banks exist and have monetary policy entrusted to them is to assure lenders that this—a common problem when fiscal and monetary policy are controlled in the same place, which is a short-term fix foenthe government thst crushes it's long-term credibility—won't happen.

> There are huge costs involved in pulling these sorts of tricks, but it's far cheaper than a nuclear confrontation with China.

Debatable. It's probably cheaper for the US in the short rub than a total nuclear exchange with China, but “nuclear confrontation” is a broader concept encompassing many less-costly potential outcomes.

And it has pretty enormous consequences that include, even in the intermediate term, a great escalation of security risks.

Not that war with China over debt, directly, is the alternative (war with China over resources as both countries try to secure growth is more likely, though.)
"Pirate Bay may finally be sunk after EU copyright ruling" -- As if we hadn't heard that a few times before. This ruling opens the doorway for blocking but if history is any evidence, it will 1) take some time before this turns into real blocks and, 2) technology will adjust accordingly.
Well couple percentage points make a huge difference cumulatively. 2-3% over 10 years adds up quickly.

I don't agree with your opinion though. If you are career oriented and want to be successful you will be drawn to big cities as that's where the best jobs are and where you can get ahead a lot. And real estate is very expensive there. I do think in rural areas it's also your biggest life expense as incomes are lower there. So it's the biggest cost item irrespective of where you live.
The logistics themselves are already giving me a headache. You have $400k, but are Gimp's developers (and they exist, right?) ready to just get an infusion of somewhere on the order of three years of salary and get to work? I assume the roadmap would change with that amount of funding.
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You're confusing insurance with healthcare. Insurance is supposed to be for risk mitigation, rare but extremely damaging events. If everyone uses insurance for everything health related, like we all want to do now, it's impossible for insurance to be anything other than a premium you pay on top of your healthcare costs.

Insurance shouldn't be used for routine stuff, and people shouldn't be required to have it unless they want it.
It won't be like SegWit/Unlimited. The politics are very different and the technology is very different.

1. Politics. Ethereum has a leadership team which functions very differently from Bitcoin Core. For one, the creator of Ethereum is well known and outspoken. He and the other members of the Ethereum Foundation made it clear that their intention was always to move to Proof of Stake. Though there are some who may not support this move, the general community bought into the project knowing that this was the plan from the beginning. And there's a lot of trust of Vitalik.

2. Technology. Ethereum adapts much more quickly to mining difficulty than Bitcoin. Bitcoin can't survive with 90% of the hash power on one chain and 10% of the hash power on another chain. The smaller chain would take 10 hours to mine a single block and months to readjust the difficulty. It would be unusable. Ethereum has already shown its resiliency to a split during the DAO hard fork. The smaller chain adjusted quickly and survived. What this might mean is that with the change to PoS, there could be a dissenting faction that remains on PoW, and both chains will survive. This will allow the PoS chain to go ahead and push through with a split easily even without 100% support.
Legal/compliance work is probably where this sort of service would be most useful.
Threads would be useful if implemented more clearly. Having to go to a separate tab from the channel they were initiated in, and/or scroll way back up, is confusing; and the replies-hidden-by-default is also confusing.
What's most off-putting for me is the political ideology that often accompanies bitcoin. It's a sort of Ayn Rand-inspired libertarian anarchy that, among other things, wishes to replace democratic institutions (like central banks or courts) with algorithms.

It's too close to the conspiratorial and/or anti-establishment mindset to be comfortable.
Good point. NIST has a list of 50 or so algorithms that will provide speedups when implemented on a Quantum Computer:http://math.nist.gov/quantum/zoo/.
That's an excellent point. I'll call them to confirm. Thanks.
Too bad Fowler herself is a "Silicon Valley technologist."
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TL;DR:

The important stuff that makes a good case for Python 3:

- Adittion of "yield from" allows easier programming with async I/O "a la " Node.js (using 'await')

- Standarized annotations of function arguments and return values can help in the future for type checking, optimization, etc.

Even more important stuff

- Unicode can be used in symbols. You can now use Kanji characters in your function names, to annoy your coworkers and win the International Obfuscated Python Code Contest.

Other stuff

- Minor unimportant stuff that is definitely no reason alone for switching for Python 3.
IIRC, It wasn't "hacked". Rather the contract was written incorrectly from the outset, and the "hacker" merely used the withdraw method to ... withdraw.
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> Furthermore, no matter what, poor technical ability seems highly correlated with poor communication ability – regardless of language, it’s relatively rare for candidates to perform well technically but not effectively communicate what they’re doing (or vice versa), largely (and fortunately) debunking the myth of the incoherent, fast-talking, awkward engineer.

My interpretation of this is that interviewees who can communicate clearly about code (whether they wrote it or not) correlate with high technical ability. Does this suggest that rather than having the interviewee write code on the spot, one could give them some new code they've never seen before and ask them to reason about it aloud for 30 minutes, then gauge their technical ability based on their ability to communicate clearly about the code?

In other words, could you replace live-coding with "here's some code, tell me about it"?
"decreasing marginal utility"

I know I'm bastardizing the meaning but it got me thinking about Elon Musk versus "prototypical lotto winner that loses everything" you could certainly argue that he is using his wealth(as well as others) to benefit society, ie. mars, electrification of transportation, etc.
Take a look at the Pulitzer categories:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize#Categories

Only 1 out of 21 categories are reserved for investigative journalism, and there are categories reserved for commentary, criticism, and editorial, all of which are potentially suitable for Fowler's article.
I wish these weren't all subscription-based, because this could work for the exact thing I want:

I will pay $100 - $500 for an Arq Backup[1] clone on Linux, with the same UI polish as Arq for macOS or Windows, optional encryption, deduplication and supporting all the same backup locations, including:

* AWS S3/Glacier

* GCP Nearline/Coldline

* Backblaze B2

* Dropbox

* SFTP

* NAS

* Google Drive

If you're absolutely going to force monthly subscription pricing down my throat, I guess I'll pay up to $20/month. I want this badly.

I know about rclone, Duplicity, Duplicati, that awesome rsync/cron workflow you have, etc. I want Arq (or something just like it). Arq works flawlessly - it is absolutely superlative when it comes to backups on Windows and macOS.

I use an Ubuntu workstation as my daily driver at home and I have a MacBook Pro. Through very careful configuration I have gradually made Ubuntu about as enjoyable to use as macOS (with the exception of 1Password, which has to run under Wine). But I don't want to use the command line, or handle an API myself, or keep track of cron. Duplicati was the closest thing to what I'm looking for, but it's cludgey and started not working for me recently.

I know polished UI isn't exactly the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Linux. But if you're the kind of person who makes "Ask HN: What is your pain point?" posts or who is looking for a problem to solve, this is a burning problem I am willing to throw money at.

EDIT: I'm adding a bunch of HN comments to demonstrate the interest I've seen for this.[2][3][4][5][6][7]

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1. https://www.arqbackup.com/

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14403321

3. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11742226

4. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9185632

5. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5718015

6. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13360604

7. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13011339
I agree. It sounds like they had some ML people who were itching to implement something and this is what they came up with.
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Lol - you can get 6 senior devs (3+ years experience/independent), or a 4/4 split senior/junior devs depending on what skills you're looking for (in East Europe)

The bigger issue is if you can pull a 400k Kickstarter and manage such a team why the hell would you be wasting your time on GIMP dev - you could do waay more profitable and interesting stuff.
Cool on Android. Look forward to using this.
For those who have not read Anathen, some context may be interesting.

> “Early in the Reticulum-thousands of years ago-it became almost useless because it was cluttered with faulty, obsolete, or downright misleading information,” Sammann said.

> “Crap, you once called it,” I reminded him.

> “Yes-a technical term. So crap filtering became important. Businesses were built around it. Some of those businesses came up with a clever plan to make more money: they poisoned the well. They began to put crap on the Reticulum deliberately, forcing people to use their products to filter that crap back out. They created syndevs whose sole purpose was to spew crap into the Reticulum. But it had to be good crap.”

> “What is good crap?” Arsibalt asked in a politely incredulous tone.

> “Well, bad crap would be an unformatted document consisting of random letters. Good crap would be a beautifully typeset, well-written document that contained a hundred correct, verifiable sentences and one that was subtly false. It’s a lot harder to generate good crap. At first they had to hire humans to churn it out. They mostly did it by taking legitimate documents and inserting errors-swapping one name for another, say. But it didn’t really take off until the military got interested.”

> “As a tactic for planting misinformation in the enemy’s reticules, you mean,” Osa said. “This I know about. You are referring to the Artificial Inanity programs of the mid-First Millennium A.R.”

> “Exactly!” Sammann said. “Artificial Inanity systems of enormous sophistication and power were built for exactly the purpose Fraa Osa has mentioned. In no time at all, the praxis leaked to the commercial sector and spread to the Rampant Orphan Botnet Ecologies. Never mind. The point is that there was a sort of Dark Age on the Reticulum that lasted until my Ita forerunners were able to bring matters in hand.”

(Emphasis mine.)
> Photoshop's content-aware fill first appeared as a third-party open-source plugin for the GIMP.

Indeed it did, and that plugin was hard to configure and hard to use. I remember installing GIMP just to try that plugin out, and it was not fun, it involved a lot of manual steps to get it working, and I never quite got the hang of it.

In contrast, when I got my hands on a version of PS that supported content aware fill, (which admittedly ships in the box, skipping the installation step) I was able to figure it out in a few minutes and start getting good results in half an hour. I am pretty sure I spent more than half an hour trying to get the GIMP plugin installed.
I just don't understand why people would want to get a job they pretend to be qualified for in the resume just to get a hell trying to compensate for the lacks of skil/knowledge. Money is not worth it. Having a stable life is much better than trying to live based on a lie.
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I wish there was an easy way to see which of my currently-installed addons are not compatible with Firefox 57+, instead of having to look at which I have installed and searching for each of them individually on addons.mozilla.org.

I did search and it looks like HTTPS Everywhere, LastPass, and RescueTime aren't compatible. Privacy Badger is compatible, which may satisfy people looking for an ad blocker.
There was a great blog post a while back posted here (I think it was a blog post) about a guy who was a summer intern way back when for a company that published cheat code books and he job was to use a device similar to that or an Action Replay device to find them, record them, name them and move on.
One hilarious exercise is to check your favorite fake news URL's in archive.org and also try a whois lookup.

Some of these operators are incredibly sloppy using (presumably) real home addresses. Their "origin story" on archive.org is equally sloppy-- immediately starting with primitive, thoughtless slurs against their targets and sometimes a glimpse into the genuine interests of the operator.

Unfortunately, these people don't have to be clever to "get the job done." Stupid is perfectly OK, when the only way of dealing with this problem is effectively a game of wack-a-mole.
Submitted projects, if developed, could be, potentially, for many customers. Also, the developers is who owns the software.
Any good Slack alternative for communities? We have a big community and are looking for a chat client but there is no way that we would be willing to pay $5/user when we have up to 1000 users.
hedge against stock market bubble?
They could use something like https://cumberlandmining.com/ and not affect the markets
> I did not know you could append to a Path via "/", but that's really awesome!

I didn't know that too. It's pretty cool. Seems like they overload __truediv__ operator: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Lib/pathlib.py...
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>Because people absolutely would have jumped at the chance to go from a place to another faster (and more comfortably) and had myriads of reasons to want to do so at any time in history.

The first cars were incredibly noisy, smelly, and actually killed a lot of folks. Yet somehow, here we are something like 100 years later, evaluating how many more years we'll have to wait before we can get go place to place without even having to touch a steering wheel.
Well, my Linux-fu isn't very up-to-date, but my guess (which actually goes for any file system) is that a directory is a bit more than just a logical organization. It's an actual "thing" in your hard drive which keeps track of everything beneath it. And so it grows in size when more files are there, which slow down access.
> Classical asymmetric cryptography would be in danger, but there are alternative systems for which no quantum based attacks are known.

What about asymmetric crypto schemes executed on a quantum computer? All the discussions I've heard so far assume attackers have a quantum computer and everyone else have classical computers. To me, this seems like an unreasonable assumption. Won't there be a way to use a quantum computer to do asymmetric encryption in a way that makes it hard for it to reverse it?
It's hard to evaluate that fairly, since I've known the other names for as long as I can remember.

How do you feel about computing distances with the Pythagorean theorem, performing a Gaussian blur, thinking about data compression in terms of Kolmogorov complexity, or generating random numbers in a Poisson distribution?
I like the idea of the page relying as little as possible on my code (you have a better chance to trust a well known public CDN on HTTPS than some minified code inlined from an unknow github repo).

But I understand your point, plus it would be nice to have a page working completely offline. Will add the option to embed the needed library in the single file.

It definitely does not need jQuery :) The page was a POC, since it seems it might be useful to some I'll clean it up. Thanks for the feedback !
In theory, you're right, but the way we measure things now basically prohibits that. Let's say we made sure, today, that "investment" were high so that it can produce the "output" that pensioners can consume. What would that look like, when it all plays out?

"You were promised $600/month. Obviously, we can't do that because that would require taxing 70% of labor income, which is way past the Laffer point. We're paying you $400/month instead. But it's okay, because we made productivity enhancements that let the same money go further. For example, the food tastes 50% better, so it's all a wash. Plus, you can move ten miles out to a cheaper apartment because construction and transportation are better now."

Strawman? A Federal Reserve banker tried basically the same thing to trivialize the inflation experienced by typical people: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fed-dudley-ipad-idUSTR...
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this is a really great article, because it highlight a very important dialectic that many blockchain enthusiasts, developers, entrepreneurs, and speculators don't acknoweldge. I would however, suggest that the issue of governance is not an "all-or-nothing" choice. Probably some of the blockchain technologies that try to do things like "link to a central bank", will suffer from a difficulty in establishing product differentiation from traditional currencies and transaction schemes; but the blockchain technologies that live on the more distant side of the spectrum (providing an, if imperfect, implementation of distributed trust) like the original bitcoin, will survive.
Call it Pimp.

I would say that I'm in too, but I also need a quality Illustrator alternative that works well on Mac.
I have always found the connection curious. In video games, for example, you do exactly this - not calculate something unless it is being observed.

Who is to say the quantum effects are not actually artifacts of some optimizations in the simulation we are in?
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Hmm, I'm seeing some slightly slower-than-usual response times but it still seems up to me. Hopefully the issue clears up for you.
Here's the thing with the Pirate Bay:

They don't care what the courts say or think. They've had founders get in trouble before, the site kept going. The servers were seized, the site kept going.

And after this... well the site will still keep going. That will never stop. People will always keep running torrent sites, and there will likely always be people from The Pirate Bay who'd set up their own version/fork/whatever the second it goes down.

In other words, this court ruling will mean nothing for it. They didn't care before, and they probably won't care now either.
Is this dementia?
Do you really need it to support all of these different backends? I bet this would more likely come to exist if the authors knew they could focus on a subset of these.
Homebrew does that in formulas (in Ruby), it's definitely neat.
Reminds me of the bullshit asymmetry principle:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit#Bullshit_asymmetry_pr...
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Just a run of the mill crank.
And the other 96% of us can move on, no need to act like you're the majority.

Py 2.6 is already EOL for almost five years.
> I think you want to talk about whether the strategy is efficient

effective and efficient are synonyms in this context

http://www.thesaurus.com/browse/efficient?s=t

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/efficient?s=t

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/effective?s=t
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We may be talking about different things. Parsing valid, standard-conforming HTML/Markdown/whatever is a solved problem. Getting multiple parsers to deal with arbitrary tag soup, authoring errors, variously-supported extensions etc in a consistent way is a lot uglier. The problems may be commercial/political/educational/organizational rather than technical, but that doesn't mean they aren't real.
It's not for no reason -- lots of people who go other places than America / English speaking countries adopt names in the local language as well, for convenience and ease of movement in the local culture.

Explaining how to pronounce a name with multiple vowels in a row is goddamn hard in a lot of places.
Foreigners relative to which country?
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You don't need to worry about a single process writing data to a file and then reading it back and performing malicious actions. That process could just as easily have been exploited entirely in-memory. Scan the database when it exits and you're fine.
Not to be "that guy," but...

unfortunately, not many people go to the site

and

Don't really want to promote it

are probably related!!!
Check out Wee-Slack[1], it's as close as you're likely to get for now.

Note this does not use the IRC gateway, but it plugs the slack API into WeeChat, and supports most slack functionality not found with the IRC gateway.

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This article really only focuses on organized fake news campaigns directed by a larger organization. But that's not the only source: sometimes fake news comes from a single individual looking to score fake internet points, such as the St. Olaf note that was fabricated by a student for a personal reason:

> ... they confronted a person of interest who confessed to writing the note.

This case was one of only two examples given in the article, and it doesn't even support the thesis that the sources of fake news are organizations. So, we shouldn't automatically assume that all instances of fake news or Twitter trolls are being paid to do what they do ... some people are simply trolls because they like to be trolls.
If your talking fractions of a penny per label even if the costs was 400% higher it might not affect overall profitability of the product.