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The problem arises when you assume that the debt of a country in its own money is the same that private debts.

When a private bank credit some household or business they get an asset (the debt owned to them) and a liability (the money they just created from nothing) that cancel each other. The entity receiving the credit have the same position but inverted. So, if you take all the economy, everything cancels to zero and not "law of conservation of mass" has been violated.

The debt issue by a country is a very different animal. In fact, probably we should stop calling it debt. When a government issue debt they are creating financial assets that allows the private sector to operate. An interesting mental experiment is to think in what would happen if all the governments pay all the 'debt' and stop spending.

Stephanie Kelton write about those things:

"Our challenge is not whether we can “afford” to make the payments we have promised to seniors, veterans, the disabled, government contractors, healthcare providers, bondholders, etc. (today, tomorrow and into the indefinite future) but whether we will be a productive enough nation to allow the government to make good on those promises without causing an inflation problem. That is the debate we should be having."

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/10/stephanie-kelton-how-...
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This might sounds harsh ...

No, I'm not going to criticize you for leaving your job - that's your choice, and only you know the circumstances. There really are times and situations where it's better to jump, even without knowing what you're jumping into.

But if you're going to be looking for work, you really, really need to assess the situation, decide what the problems are, find solutions to those problems, and take action to solve them.

You're looking for work, but you haven't included a link to your CV, you have no contact details in your profile, in short, there is no evidence that you have shown any initiative.

So now I have clicked on your profile, clicked on the "comments" link, and I've found a comment you wrote some time ago that gives the details that really should be everywhere.

I can't help with recommendations about where you should start looking, or what you should try next, I don't know how much runway you have, or what your burn rate is. But my advice is this:

* Identify the problems

* Look for solutions

* Show initiative

* Identify possible employers

* Identify how you can provide value

* Contact someone in the company

* Convince them you are worth more than you would cost

Now it's up to you - what else should you do?
Oh, wow! This tool is something else. I highly recommend uploading a file. The interface is just spectacular.

Also, the brush lets you calculate and apply different views. Things like entropy, magnitude. It's very visually attractive.

One feature request I have is: please allow us to set the bit / word width of each unit. Currently it's fixed at 1 octet, and it would be useful to be able to change that.

Otherwise, this is awesome! :)
Readability. Just like you can cram a whole bunch of code on a single line for a regular program it doesn't help a person trying to understand the code.

Like this the steps required to build your mental model of what is going on are smaller, and so this makes it easier to construct that model. And hopefully with fewer errors between what you think it does and what it actually does.

The repetition establishes local context, it also allows you to make changes later that will affect the one but not the other construct without making a larger change.

I find myself being extremely skittish when changing FPGA code and I tend to play it safe until stuff works and then I'll remove that short of pattern when I'm sure I won't be inserting / removing bits or changing the conditions. Initially it helps me to write out the various conditions without any kind of optimization in mind (and besides the real optimizations are usually done by the toolchain).

This is one of the main problems I have with FPGA work, I've done so much software that it is hard to get back into the mindset of programming a device and small steps really help. I also find it considerably harder to read FPGA code (my own or someone else's, of any flavor) than to read a program and to figure out what it does.
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It is possible! Actually I remember​ pointing out a similar concern in my probability class back in the day. The teacher's answer: that is precisely the difference between probablity and possibility :)
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Cannabis is illegal in the Netherlands. Only the sale of small amounts of cannabis is tolerated in licensed coffeeshops. The problem with this system is that coffeeshops need to buy what they sell illegally on the black market.
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Looking at youth unemployment rate (44%, 38%, and 25% in Spain, Italy and France, respectively), you will find how serious this issue is. It's not only about young people's job skills.
This is an awkwardly worded title, which nonetheless should have had the word "stateside" in it somewhere.

>>The report also signaled the need for measures beyond the scope of the U.S. military, such as changing immigration policy to allow Chinese graduate students to stay in the United States after completing their studies, instead of returning home.

[...]

"The single biggest thing we can do is staple a green card to their diploma so that they stay here and build the technologies here – not go back to their countries and compete against us," Ganesan said.

I personally applaud a policy like this. But thinking strictly from the protectionist & security motivations driving the Pentagon report, Menlo Futures Ganeson's proposed remedy makes no sense: If green cards are handed out to foreign students upon completion of their (presumably advanced) degrees, this would allow said students to then perform both actions in their lifetimes (i.e. build technologies in the US, and go back and compete later in life).
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Haskell's laziness is an issue for you? Then how do strictness annotations (and/or module flags) not solve this problem?

Haskell also has inline-C FFI support for "type safe" performance escape hatches (in the sense that you can manually bring C constructs into Haskell's type system): https://github.com/fpco/inline-c

The only way that Haskell inescapably suffers from performance hits (that I'm aware of) is not in its laziness or lack of imperative programming support, but in its periodic GC pauses. In such cases where GC pauses are an issue, I still think you can -- in principle -- write more and more performance critical pieces of your application in a non-GC language (in fact, you could do this in Rust just as well as C/C++). You can also manually trigger a GC pass, although you cannot -- to my knowledge -- manually stop and start GC passes in your code.

This is the approach I'm currently taking in a performance critical VR application where GC pauses could absolutely be an issue (using as much Haskell as possible, with C and GC triggers as an escape hatch). And if someone could point out a flaw in my reasoning (in particular, how GC pauses might be inevitably avoided even with C FFI), I would gladly pay them money, because it's so important I not get this one wrong :).
Right...maybe you missed the "substantive" bit?
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The government doesn't want to do this because they will lose the next election if they do, guaranteed. They will never get enough votes from younger people to offset the guaranteed loss from the older people.
You need be a little more detailed with this.
My experience (for an application which had a working set of under 1 GB of files in the 50kb to N MB range, and approximately 50 GB persisted at any given time) was that preserving access to the toolchain which operates trivially with files was worth the additional performance overhead of working with the files and, separately, occasionally having to retool things to e.g. not have 10e7 files in a single folder, which is something that Linux has some opinions (none of them good) about.

Trivial example: it's easy to delete any file most recently accessed more than N months ago [+] with a trivial line in cron (the exact line escapes me -- it involves find), but doing that with a database requires that you roll your own access tracking logic. Incremental backups of a directory structure are easy (rsync or tarsnap); incremental backups of a database appeared to me to be highly non-trivial.

[+] Since we could re-generate PDFs or gifs from our source of truth at will (with 5~10 seconds of added latency), we deleted anything not accessed in N months to limit our hard disk usage.
Why the downvotes? I think he is correct; and if someone think he is not, please elaborate
Swift is useful if you're an Apple developer only targeting Apple users, seems like a bit of a niche.
How is this even a draft RFC?

It's like the author forgot about XML and the failures of its draconian error handling and decided to do it all over again.

It ignores the reality of implementations, and of commercial software development in general. Implementations aren't written in an ivory tower with an endowment for long-term maintenance, they're written in ten days against hand-wavy business requirements at companies that no longer exist in their original form. Users will go elsewhere, to software which uses formats and protocols which don't have draconian error handling.

Wishing it were another way won't make it so, it'll just give you XML all over again.

Some discussions from the time, none of whose arguments this RFC addresses:

https://web.archive.org/web/20081210125015/http://diveintoma...

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/001025

https://web.archive.org/web/20090416022813/http://diveintoma...

https://web.archive.org/web/20090309211058/http://diveintoma...
fair and square

And in those three simple words we encapsulate all of humanity's woes
a strong point. kind of puts a dent in the efficient market hypothesis, and the glorious dream that traders believe in: that the market is somehow inherently democratic. how are we expected to believe in this if we don't have access to the information?

this asymmetry would seem to skewer emh.

-- but then again ... checking the prices at "nasdaqtrader" the idea that we don't have access seems like the myth. $14 a month for Nasdaq issues ( I guess that means quite a lot of stocks ), is only slightly more than my Spotify. And if you don't have the money to pay $14 you probably don't have the money to make much of a dent in the market anyway!

so what's the reality here? is data you can actually trade on that affordable or is it not?
By the way: to know when your design is finished you can use this simple rule:

* If you don't know what to change it's finished.

This, of course, will change over time and might be different for every design.
Most people don't use synthetic oil.

In my case, it's cheaper to use non-synthetic oil and change it quarterly, which generally aligns with other maintenance activity. (Tire rotation, filters, lights, etc)
This is really good. A companion piece: https://blog.bitmain.com/en/uahf-contingency-plan-uasf-bip14...

I will caution you that the amount of Bitcoin backstory you have to be caught up on to understand why this matters (and even what is going on) is pretty high.
text files + syncthing + grep

https://syncthing.net/

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/87350/what-are-good-grep...
"They only have one hole apiece" is not the joke! rather the awkward explanation. I think the lol is at least misplaced here
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It's unlikely you'll have efficiency problems at the user acquisition stage.

It's generally 1 insert into a user table.

The most important thing is your users security. The passwords need to be hashed and salted.
It's bad style, because it's superfluous. It's forced humor. It's not really a punchline to the "old joke" in this phrasing.

That said, it's a perfectly fine introduction.
Typora is surprisingly pleasant to use, so +1 for that.
Let me introduce you to LaTeX: https://www.latex-project.org/about/
It's a difference in the oil used.

The standards for oil are tightly regulated in the EU.
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According to Japanese law the value is denominated in Yen at the time of bankruptcy. Therefore any payoff is to be in Yen. No source on hand for it right now though.
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Sounds like a reasonable feature request for systemd.
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I agree what I presented is quite a selfish POV. What I was aiming at is an explanation why those very liberal licenses are attractive to developers at the initial stage of an open source project. Initially, the userbase is much more valuable than monetary contributions - I doubt that e.g. NumPy developers at the beginning of their work were confident that their project will end up being widely used by the financial sector.

The presented reasoning may indeed be a big part of the problem here. I'm just describing it, not encouraging it. I am definitely not happy to see so much open source being used as critical components of worldwide infrastructure and businesses, and yet receiving little support both in terms of money and professional effort. FWIW, I do donate the little spare money I have to open source projects.
> Given a population growth rate of about 2% per year, like it was in the 1960s, an average mass of 60 kg per person, current world population of 7 billion

Economic growth in developed countries is driven by population growth, and this is why they all have a decent amount of immigration, to sustain that growth. In developing countries, they can grow by development - adding more subsistence farmers doesn't really grow the economy.

Australia has just taken the record for the longest period without a recession (26ish years), and this has been done on the back of immigration - since 1999, we've increased our population by a quarter, and our birthrate is only replacement-level. Population growth in developed countries != population growth globally.
Thanks for the suggestions - I've now done them and it all looks ok with multiprocess forced.
I was going to make a semi-sarcastic comment along the same lines, but some other authors rightly point out the benefit of using and RDBMS when then file schema is changing.
Yes, it was coming with the “Aircraft and Scenery Designer”.

http://fshistory.simflight.com/fsvault/msfs4.htm
They do, along with other entitlements.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_budget

EDIT: Keep in mind that this is just the budget of the national government. Each state has its own budget that barely goes to military spending at all, instead focusing on entitlements, especially healthcare costs.
I'd say restricting fully government paid healthcare to citizens is a good step. For non-citizens (full time residents etc) the government would give basic healthcare, but anything elective or above the baseline should be funded by that individual.

In general I would say that most of social safety net benefits should be applied to citizens, and then be scaled down for the other groups of people living there.
> The author didn't mention the work factor

It's not really the author, it's the Hashcat benchmark which they've just straight run onto the system, there's the exact same problem with e.g. PBKDF2:

Hashtype: PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256
[…]
Speed.Dev.#*…..: 14417.6 kH/s

Hashtype: Django (PBKDF2-SHA256)
[…]
Speed.Dev.#*…..: 729.6 kH/s

or

Hashtype: PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA512
[…]
Speed.Dev.#*…..: 4974.7 kH/s

Hashtype: OSX v10.8+
[…]
Speed.Dev.#*…..: 147.2 kH/s

(it's my understanding that current OSX uses PBKDF2-SHA512)
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Found this http://www.autoblog.com/2009/02/24/oil-change-intervals/

"For years the accepted oil change interval (as per carmakers) had been every 3 months or 3000 miles, whichever comes first. And why was that? It was because oils of yesterday broke down when left in the crankcase environment for longer than the prescribed interval. The combination of heat, friction, and the oil oxidizing over time resulted in an unholy clothing of the engine's internal parts called sludge."

That's an absolutely insane number, and I have never heard of that (I have had cars for 20 years that always were 10k to 15k km intervals, and simply done on a yearly or 18 months service).
>Is military spending that large a percentage of US tax revenue?

Those $600+ billion have to come somewhere, don't they? And that doesn't even account for the unaccountable [0].

It doesn't look that bad in % of GDP because of the US's massive GDP, but in pure numbers, the US spends more money on it's military than the next 8 countries on the list combined.

[0] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-audit-army-idUSKCN10U1...

[1] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/03/the-us-spends-more-on...
Tell that to ex-bitcoin owners when it reached $1, $10, $100, $1000, ....
The fact that they have to actually hire people for the position, and therefore need a decent value proposition?
Another reason for the resistance is the pain of upgrading.

Anything that requires a reboot, for example, is likely to be held off for a long time. When people are at the computer, it's because they want to use it right now. They aren't there to watch it reboot a few times.

It's less painful once you scale past single systems. Insofar as you have distributed systems that tolerate some fraction of their instances disappearing and reappearing, you can roll an upgrade out across the system without users having to notice that it's happened. Where I work we do this very well -- we update and upgrade live production systems for CVEs and feature adjustments quite frequently without systems running on them being any the wiser.

Still remaining is the sheer amount of independent dependency tracks into any given software system. Operating system, multiple language ecosystems, multiple infrastructure systems ... once you include development dependencies and tools -- and you ought to -- the surface area to watch and manage goes up sharply.
In this case nginx is the 'application'. the requests is still going to be expressed as a SQL query, sent to the PG, parsed, compiled, optimized, executed, then the tabular response formatted as the HTTP response. Many more steps compared to a file-on-disk response.

But I second that is an interesting nginx module
Uber customer support staff are certainly very understanding and sympathetic...

> I'm so sorry to hear for any alarm this may have caused

> I'm sorry to hear about such a frustrating experience

> and I can totally understand your frustration here.

> My pleasure to get this sorted out for you. I'm sorry to hear this wasn't the 5-star experience

> I certainly understand your concern

Knock that shit off, please? We all know it's bullshit.
I concur. When I first started taking online coursework in machine learning, I was in almost every unit asking myself, didn't I cover this already in my non-linear optimization class at Uni.?
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Not advocating it, but what if we just confiscated their total wealth? "Eat the rich" and all that.
This article has some info:

https://factordaily.com/buying-a-drone-in-india/
Agree, binvis.io looks great! Just look at http://binvis.io/#/view/examples/elf-Linux-ARMv7-ls.bin
I'd pay more to get rid of cortana, the telemetry, the OS fighting me to do basic things.
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Going down to (relative) German level of military spending would free up around $350b (per year). That could go a long way towards improving various social programs. The other issue is that health care in the US seems ridiculously expensive (with doctors making 20x minimum wage and various insurance companies profiteering from a broken system), so in the end this money would buy less health care than in Germany. The same is true with higher education - it's free in most of Europe, but the conditions aren't nearly as lavish as in the US (so again, the money wouldn't improve the situation as much as it could).
Hell with shareholders! They only care if the next guy is doing better than they are. It is because of shareholders Yahoo became a stagnant piece of Internet relic.

Mayer came in and played catch-up and succeeded.
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The major difference between AMD and Nvidia for mining/hashing and other integer algorithms is that if that algorithm contains a 32 bit 'ROR' (rotate right) then AMD will do that in one tick whereas on an Nvidia card you would need 3 ticks.

That single low level detail meant that AMD destroyed Nvidia when it came to computing hashes quickly because the innermost loops of those algorithms contain a ROR.

Since then the situation has changed, NVidia has improved their performance but bitcoin mining has moved to ASIC almost entirely and for other algorithms AMD still seems to come out ahead of Nvidia.

For deep learning the situation is reversed, there it is almost entirely Nvidia, a major reason is that Nvidia put substantial effort in low level libraries that get the maximum out of their hardware for deep learing applications.
There's also the sociocultural aspect of it. Weak and economically dependent youth -> conservative values, avoidance of confrontation with parent generations. There is no such thing as the rebelious spirit past generation, and this is prominent in millenials.
I'm gonna echo GP

>I haven't seen anyone attack the science. If there's a reasonable refutation out there, I'm all ears.
> a reflection of the male 'visionary' who created a company to reflect a vision of a world where childnren don't exist (too messy!).

I'd love for a quote somewhere from this visionary to reflect this statement. If it doesn't exist then this is misandrous propaganda.
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Hi there!

I'm Stefan, a freelance developer who developed Propi, an app that analyzes text from freelance proposals and offers suggestions for improvement.

The app also has a proofreading option that points out any grammatical error.

The idea came up after talking with tens of freelancers and the same question popped: "How do I write proposals that make clients hire me?"

I couldn't find any app that does that, so I made Propi:

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What do you think about it?
If you compare X vs 1/10,000th X then the emissions from the second option are effectively meaningless.
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To name just a few:

Filestream https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/bl...

File Tables https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/bl...

Remote Blob Storage https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/bl...

BFILE http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/appdev.112/e18294/adlob_...

I'm sure there are more. But rest assured, they do cost, and usually a lot.
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"This is the one policy of the Tories that I supported. There's been a massive transfer of unearned housing wealth to the elderly in recent years"

Nothing close to the size of the transfer from poor & middle class to the very, very rich.

"This is exactly how the old are eating the young."

The wealthy are explicitly trying to create a divide between young and old precisely so that the old can be relied upon to offer no resistance to student loan increases that soak the young while the young can be relied upon to offer no resistance to cuts to pensions and elderly care.

If young people are complicit in this game of divide and conquer they'll ultimately only hurt themselves.
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