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Why Should Anyone Care?

Well, you probably shouldn't care. It is not too long until we will be a decade into this adventure and for all practical purposes there is still zero adoption. We may or may not get a useful mainstream product one day but right now we don't seem to be substantially closer to it than when the Bitcoin genesis block was mined. Sure, tomorrow someone might have this one idea that makes all the pieces snap together but it might as well take another decade or not happen at all. So unless you belong to a small group of speculators, early adopters, or want to invent the killer application yourself, you probably should just care as little as 99 % of all people do.
The line is super blurry. Some inventors seeking capital for their borderline idea may team up with investors that are anything but honest. One unfortunate compromise after another turns a dubious idea into an out-right scam.

Your idea for the next breakthrough technology might be the very thing some parasite "angel investor" is looking for to be the crystal at the core of their next big scam. Watch who you team up with.
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Any support for iOS (Ipad Pro) down the road?
Both PyQt and PySide work quite well for something that "will never be pleasant".
Blockchain? Old! Tired! Now how about blocktrain, huh?
Another great perspective

https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/stories/design-challenge-avoid-ce...

The original Ripple was decentralized in this way. No global consensus was required. What changed that now it has an entire whitepaper on global consensus?
GS is somewhat notorious for this kind of manipulations: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-great-american...
Blogging somehow it works for me I don't know if I have imposter syndrome but to prepare for the future as I'm. Still in college each time I learn something I blog about it or just push it to Github and ask for feedback on the long run you'll see your posts stacking and you'll come to understand that it's not a start to finish kind of deal but a journey a long and tiring journey.
> But support for control-flow typing of my above two examples seems like an easy addition to the TypeScript compiler - if that's what you want.

The first one is not useful and the second one is nonsensical (as there is no guarantee that there's any relation between #constructor and the type of the variable)
Food classification API that has only two responses: Hotdog or Not Hotdog.
A "tram" is also a proven technology that doesn't get investors.

A traffic straddling bus is one of those "so crazy it just might work" ideas that gets funding.
The last refuge of the scoundrel!
Apparently, 1MM people use it weekly.
In a composition of some days, in a perusal of some hours, six hundred years have rolled away, and the duration of a life or reign is contracted to a fleeting moment: the grave is ever beside the throne: the success of a criminal is almost instantly followed by the loss of his prize and our immortal reason survives and disdains the sixty phantoms of kings who have passed before our eyes, and faintly dwell on our remembrance. The observation that, in every age and climate, ambition has prevailed with the same commanding energy, may abate the surprise of a philosopher: but while he condemns the vanity, he may search the motive, of this universal desire to obtain and hold the sceptre of dominion.

...I shall not descant on the vulgar topics of the misery of kings; but I may surely observe, that their condition, of all others, is the most pregnant with fear, and the least susceptible of hope.

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I just don't see Tesla becoming mainstream before traditional manufacturers fill the potential market opportunity. Volvo just announced they will only produce Hybrids in the future. [1] All the major manufacturers have hybrid programs they are bringing to the mass market.

It's not that Tesla will or won't be successful, it's just that as it succeeds, it's changing the ecosystem around it. Traditional manufacturers offerings are becoming more and more attractive.

I think Tesla is appealing to the tech/gadget market right now. For me, everything about Tesla cars and its buying process feels new and fresh. But..

When it comes time to buy my next car I'll probably end up going to traditional car dealerships, looking around, test driving, and picking something through a traditional channel. It's just the path of least resistance and there's a lot more variety.

[1] http://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/money/business/2017/07/05/...
That's really interesting!

I'm not sure whether this is sufficient to convince me to stop using the term "meritocracy" — the term is already ingrained in popular usage, irrespective of its provenance, and quite nice in that the word conveys the idea behind it relatively well, so I'm not sure whether the baggage associated with it is sufficiently toxic to justify dropping it.

As for the idea of meritocracy, at least in the narrow sense of selecting people based on their (potential) skills and abilities, I don't really see any better alternatives. The issues of social stratification, lack of inter-generational mobility, unequal access to education, income inequality and self-satisfaction are very severe, but with the partial exception of the last one, I don't agree that they're exacerbated by meritocracy (and regarding the last one, people will always find a reason to be self-satisfied/self-congratulatory).

The problem of political representatives not actually being representative of the population as a whole is indeed worrying. Perhaps sortition [0] might work (???). (If sortition were shown to be functional and implemented, but "meritocracy" continued to be used everywhere else, then meritocracy would become a terrible misnomer...)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition

As an aside, assuming that the word "meritocracy" was coined in a book satirising the concept, as stated in the article (as well as wikipedia), why did it start being used in a positive sense?
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My instinct is that they are willing to live with showing some comparatively weak recommendations occasionally if that means not adding layers and layers of exceptions on top of their basic recommendation engine. And/or they have projected that the ROI isn't there for building in more sophisticated recommendations.
Horses were banned? Here you just need a horse-drawn carriage license, but good luck getting one.
To generalize on your last point, the only way that blame and responsibility can possibly be conserved quantities is if they're both zero. If a system has 10 failsafes and fails regardless, then all ten of those failsafes have total responsibility for the failure. There is no reason to conserve your outrage.
> So I take a picture of a $100 U.S dollar, send it to your contract app, and I will get quant tokens? Which quant tokens are a cryptocurrency that I can sell on a exchange?

Yes. You take a photo of your any supported banknote and you get the equivalent in quants. We will be working with exchanges to have them listed.

> If this is true, you pretty much built a system were I can duplicate money because all I had to do is take a picture and send it? I didn't physically give you the money, I took a picture and you gave me money, while I kept the original money.

A banknote submitted and processed will no longer be usable on Ellcrys. It is simply a model for fair distribution of the digital currency such that everyone can claim what they are worth (cash) in quants. After the "blood fire" event and the total supply is claimed, no new banknotes will be accepted or processed. The initial value is derived from this conversion process; a banknote processed is considered "burned".

Most digital currencies gain their value from the utility of the platform they are native to. The Quant will be used to pay for resources allocated to contracts and could serve as a payment method for services offered by contracts.

I hope I answered your questions well. Happy to explain further if you need me to.
Well, I feel for any form of censorship, the essence is to disrupt the communication among the people in the society. The goal of this disruption is to prevent a formation of synchronization in the population. It could be carried out on all kinds of communication media and for all their different stages.

A system of censorship could be much easily implemented when one has the visibility over the entire society and the access to all its social resources. Before the age of internet, their focus was on book/newspaper publishing; and in our current age of internet, the focus was on internet as well as book/newspaper publishing.

And in terms of their practical methods, you can just imagine what you would do when you want to disrupt the information flow and when you have the absolute control of every sub-system in a society (i.e. the courts, the police, all the newspapers/websites/tv channels/radio stations, as well as the ability of not needing to worry about your livelihood when you do not work on anything else...)

It's almost an impregnable castle, as long as it does not crumble from inside the ruling system itself...
When it comes to UI toolkits, there's just one rule -- "anything but GTK".
The space dust that coalesced into our solar system and planet eventually (picture it in fast-forward) became us and we "try" to understand stuff, no?
No. It doesn't degrade rapidly. It stays there for weeks unless there's rain. It does smell bad. Hitting a fresh one is a cyclists worst nightmare.

I'm not saying cars are innocent here, but at least they don't poop.
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this looks like equivocation.

the quoted 'at liberty' seems to refer to something like not being restricted by the law of the land.

saying 'at liberty to murder' seems to refer to something like bodily autonomy/physical capability.
> 1) For single income earners, the first ~$100K is exempt or "non-reportable", known as the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion[1].

This is great, until you want to start a business or something similar. Then you enter the 9 circles of IRS hell.
It's back to where it was in June, still almost 2x from where the stock was in December.

I had my entire net worth in Tesla for a while (financial advisors do not recommend this - http://www.marketwatch.com/story/elon-musk-to-the-guy-who-in...), and even I thought the current price was a little bullish for my taste. This price is still high but a little more back-to-reality than toying with $400/share was.
Nice.

It looks like this will only send me notifications for my personal account. Is it possible to get them for the (public/open source) Github organization I created?
I liked the idea a lot, but I found a local place that does it better. http://www.localbaskit.com/
"We are providing compensation as a goodwill gesture."

As a "goodwill" gesture?? This makes it sound like she is lucky they might be providing any sort of compensation at all to her. Seems to me that she is due a full refund, since her son was not able to use the seat that she paid for. I don't think the article reveals the age of the child, as I think that would provide some bearing as to the airline's responsibility to provide full refund or not? Once again, airlines (or is it just United) making boneheaded decisions.
I agree. I think a lot of the 'terms of use' that come with Teslas will be problematic for them, and things like the cost of repair, the strict lack of market competition, and other issues will leave a lot of room for conventional auto manufacturers to step in.

The Model 3 will tell us a lot. If they can ramp up production fast enough, if they can fill orders quickly enough, if they can satisfy the 'ordinary' customer's service expectations, they may take their place in the long run as one of those 'traditional' auto manufacturers long-term.

There's a lot that can be missing or not at scale in the luxury car market that won't fly at the Model 3's price point.
If the manipulation works, was it really manipulation?
Maybe it's manipulation so that insiders can get much richer by buying in as the price drops and ride the inbound wealth if the Model 3 is successful.

GS complaining about a price dropping is always a self-fulfilling prophecy and hopefully, Tesla can very quickly bounce back.
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I did for a few weeks but didn't really enjoy the vegeterian options. They weren't bad, but weren't good either. However when I lived in a large apartment several of my neighbors had them. I also had a vegetarian coworker who enjoyed their service, so YMMV.
Is not the point of sarcasm that no one could possibly misunderstand?

Either commit to the format and get rid of the '/s', or just speak sincerely.
put up with the annoyances that are unavoidable at work.

If that's all it takes to deter you, then I don't have much else to offer I suppose other than those annoyances are everywhere in life.
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The SEC generally thinks so, and punishes those found guilty with hefty legal fines.
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How is this the complete opposite? Tangent at worst :) Labels are labels, it doesn't really matter to me if it's a tech label or something I can't control. If I can't control it, then I don't care about it.
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I'll elaborate: to me, it's akin to this:

In the real world, we pay people money for useful work (a gross oversimplification, but let's keep going).

Imagine a world where it's impossible to print money, and the only way to create money is by drawing dollar bills by hand, which is a very difficult task. Surely, people are being paid for their work here? Well, yes, but if the work is going only into the creation of the tokens, then it's useless. Why would you want an economy that revolves around the value of having wasted computing power on a nonce value? Maybe if we assigned tokens to those who expend computing power on medical research or the like, that's more useful. But Bitcoin is a waste of resources to generate.
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Pretty good summary of the main points for good React-Redux performance. I will say that I'm not a fan of writing `mapState` functions inline in `connect`, as it makes it harder to read them (especially with that parameter destructuring in those examples). But, good post. I frequently see people ask what's wrong with just connecting the top-most component, and you've captured the main reasons why that's bad for perf. And yes, you absolutely should use memoized selectors in your `mapState` functions.

If anyone's interested, I discussed related aspects of good Redux performance in my blog post "Practical Redux, Part 6: Connected Lists, Forms, and Performance" [0], and have a lot of other articles on both React and Redux performance topics in my links list at [1]. Also, my post "Practical Redux, Part 7: Form Change Handling" [2] specifically shows off a React component I built to buffer change events from text inputs to help improve UI performance.

[0] http://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2017/01/practical-redux-par...

[1] https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links/blob/master...

[2] http://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2017/01/practical-redux-par...
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Absolutely, and it should be illegal, with harsh punishments which are actually doled out
No, the point of sarcasm is not to mislead people.
HBR also claims that "Diversity policies rarely make companies fairer, and they feel threatening to white men" https://hbr.org/2016/01/diversity-policies-dont-help-women-o...
> Don't you want the best people, at least in principle?

Maybe not. In many situations you want the best team, and the best team is not necessarily the team that has the most top flight individual contributors.

The best teams I've been on seem stronger than the sum of their individual members, and I've definitely been on teams I rate less highly that had some very strong individual contributors.

Along these lines, I found this article interesting: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-diversity-mak...
Hey you leave the Borg out of this. They're the most inclusive group out there!
I see their packaging littering my building's garbage areas, on its way to landfills.

So much garbage.
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Well, for many types of compute, transaction latency is everything. Every time you cut the difference in half, you cut the latency in half and get twice as many dependent responses. Shrinking the process produces huge improvements.

HBM exists for a good reason. You wouldn't stack dies (and hence reduce available thermal dissipation) if it didn't make a big difference.
Here are two nice blog posts on the state of the art of this "not too hard" problem:
https://maniagnosis.crsr.net/2017/06/AFL-brute-force-search....
https://maniagnosis.crsr.net/2017/06/AFL-bug-in-quicksearch....

Possible? Yes. Too time-consuming and fiddly for the economic realities of 99.9% of all programmers? Yes, that too.
You are so sadly mistaken to think that you can "stay away from social justice sphere". Taking the example of a survey question in the blog post,

> What is your gender?" The multiple-choice options were "Male", "Female", and "Transgender"

What would a "professional and politically neutral as possible" company, in your definition, do in this case? I would think, at the very least, an "Other" field would be a 1000x improvement from a "Transgender" option.

> I would be skeptical that we are getting the full story here

People like you (and the kind of reaction you are describing here) are the reason why more people don't report discrimination and harassment issues.
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Now imagine if we could have ended slavery and found a way to resolve things peacefully without escalating into a brutal war that killed 2% of the population, with massive suffering on both sides.
VoiceOver is built into iOS and Talkback into Androins. These tools are free and already available in your environment of choice! If as a developer you can’t even spend the 5 minutes to turn it on and run your new feature through it then you’re abdicating responsibility to the point that you’re failing at your job.
Just in the event someone out there is looking to work on these types of problems, Amazon's Personalization teams are absolutely hiring.

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If you signal to the market that a stock is overvalued and the market agrees, where's the manipulation?
Sounds likely, given that GS and Elon are tight. They gave him a huge personal line of credit on extremely favorable terms!
The timing is kinda convenient isn't it? They just announced the Model 3 is on sale - this would be a great and convenient time to short against the company stock
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It is not manipulation. The stock is tremendously overvalued and has been basically forever, but that doesn't mean it will go down. Unfortunately "fundamental value" doesn't mean shit in a popularity contest where you have a lot of retail money investing in whatever they happen to like.

Although equities historically are the asset class providing the best return over the long-run, this is why I prefer bonds. With a bond, if your analysis is right, you get paid at maturity. With a stock, you can be right, and it doesn't matter. Stock is only worth what somebody will pay for it, and that can largely be determined by sentiment.
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Because you're the one dismissing user serviceability as an impeding factor to reducing the overall package size?

>And "acceptable compromise" -- acceptable to who?

To me, and anyone else who shares my values.

>Because the current compromise is acceptable to people who buy these laptops with soldered-on RAM.

Seems like you can layer-on any argument you want simply by citing sales. I suppose people think Windows security is the best since they overwhelmingly choose to buy Windows machines over Apple or Linux desktops. But that is a false statement, because not everyone is aware of the intricacies of operating system design or that different options exist, or how they differ etc etc. Extrapolating _just_ from commercial success to use as data in an argument is a fools errand because of the thousands of variables involved in a large diverse group making a purchasing decision.

>Sure, okay, but history is rife with examples of people telling markets to do things better and things not getting better,

Hmm I'm curious.. can you provide a sampling of those incidents that apply to our discussion here?

>and it's helpful to think about why markets haven't gotten to better on their own.

They almost never do. Systems typically evolve to coalesce around a local maxima. All around the world (in democracies anyway), citizens have always installed regulations to make the market serve us, rather than the other way around. For e.g. in the US - child labor, minimum wage, consumer product safety, etc, antitrust laws, etc etc. Before each of those laws got passed, I'm sure people made arguments against it with "well the market has accepted it". (You seem like a decent bloke, so I'm not suggesting that you personally would be against those regulations, just making a general point)
Twitter lets you add alt text to images, no problem there. Just people are lazy...
> "What is your gender?" The multiple-choice options were "Male", "Female", and "Transgender"

I have low expectations for tech companies understanding these kind of issues, but to separate _transgender_ as an option completely misses the point of what "transgender" actually means.
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> just you pay a social price to do so

it's not unheard of for this to go much, much further. doxxing, harassing associates, campaigns to fire people, 'de-platforming', stigmatization etc.

such pursuit of wrongthink produces chilling effects and balkanization.