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It worked against SOPA/PIPA, although granted that was legislation up for a vote, not the policy of a commission. At the very least it might give some of the politicians a moment of pause to know they're seriously pissing off other powerful moneyed interests, and it would certainly increase public awareness and perhaps make more people care. If you talk about how YouTube might be throttled without Net Neutrality, people will definitely care.
Because it is a debt. In the U.S. all debts, public or private, may be paid in "cash" with Federal Reserve Notes (fiat currency).

You'd need to have your contract signed and agreed upon prior to rendering services or goods.
I'm not sure I understand any of this. The person asking is trying to understand the difference (and required effort) between Khan Academy and what's linked on the page - basically 'Maths textbooks for curious undergraduates'. That's a good and sensible question and whatever you think the answer to it is, it surely isn't (as suggested by the person responding) 40 years of ferocious training in the Arctic with Doc Savage.
Quick figures: 13% more productive, 50% better retention, and $2,000 more profit per employee.
I think embedding a scripting language can be very useful for allowing users of your software to write extensions/plugins. Usually they are stored on the file system, if the user wants to manage their custom extensions another with Git or something else then they are free to do so. You could also include a package manager (like Sublime Text).
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I believe you're off by 2 orders of magnitude for Visa's seen-peak and about 1 order off for their network's designed max peak. Unless you've got sources more recent than https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Scalability uses; maybe you're confusing the number with the network handling all transactions world-wide which Visa doesn't do?

100 GB blocks is politically unrealistic in the foreseeable future but technologically not really, especially because network and storage continue to get better and cheaper even if CPUs are stalling. Nodes don't need to store the full chain, and 10 years of that size of block would only be about 50 PB. Gigabit networks are only becoming more and more common, a 1 Gb connection will let you get 75 GB over 10 minutes (and using the math from the wiki you only need 0.76 Gbps to handle 200k tps). Also not every node needs to see every transaction, the effective bandwidth can be much lower, just like the effective storage.

And as the wiki points out, PayPal has a much lower TPS than Visa or others but is still widely used as a direct consumer-to-merchant or friend-to-friend payment system. In addition, the better straw argument against Bitcoin as a payment system has always been "who is going to wait 10 minutes on average, sometimes much longer, especially if you want the gold-standard 6 confirms, to buy a stupid pack of gum?"
I would much prefer to live in a low-tech low-density rural society than live in a Rhode Island-sized Manhattan.

Probably somewhere in between those extremes is more prudent.
I'm not talking about explicit transaction fees, I'm just talking about the energy use of the system on a per-transaction basis. Looking at the absolute energy consumed by Bitcoin isn't enough by itself, because you also need to account for how big Bitcoin is.

Pricing in externalities will absolutely stop people from wasting power pointlessly. People will only use power if the benefit is greater than the cost. This includes "waste" if the effort of stopping that waste is greater than the cost of the waste, but if externalities are priced in appropriately then that means there's actually a net benefit to that. It's only a problem if the cost to the world is higher but the person paying the bill doesn't see that.

In terms of bitcoin, if the electricity to mine one costs X on the miner's power bill, and that bitcoin can be sold for 2X, then the miner will keep on doing it even if the total cost of that electricity including damage to the planet and other such things is 3X. If you price in the externalities so that the power bill actually says 3X, then the miner will stop. You don't actually need to use the extra money to counteract the externalities.
Next you'll be telling us they have a legal obligation to maximise shareholder value!
Well, like I said to the other guy, I don't know how you account for the fact that he gets engagement from other people if he hides the posts from his mom then.
I mean, I don't think your point is wrong but I would hardly call cities, at least good ones, terrible for humanity or killing creativity.
I don't know, just last week I was having issues pairing my iPhone 7 to my friend's new Jeep and ended up giving up. I usually just keep bluetooth turned off on my phone and don't buy bluetooth devices since I find it's often more frustrating than not.
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Made a post on FB encouraging, again, my friends to message the FCC. I also checked the FCC website's comment list[1]. Strangely I didn't find my comment, so I submitted a new one. Anyone else have this problem?

Also, does anyone know the engine that the anti-net neutrality users are using? I see copy pasted comments that are anti, so I figure there are similar programs on that side of the isle.

[1]https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/
LG's WebOS is surprisingly solid. I was all set to use my TV as a monitor and plug in my Roku for the "smart" bits, but I abandoned that idea shortly after I turned it on for the first time.
Scala/Akka is a lot faster than Erlang, but it also lacks per-actor GC, which means that latency is going to be higher in a Scala/Akka system. Also, the per-actor heaps in Beam means there's no risk of two Erlang actors having a reference to the same memory, whereas that's easy to do in Scala/Akka.
No, it is not a hybrid. But it uses brake energy regeneration to charge car's battery when you are not accelerating. The effect is not as pronounced as on EV cars, but enough to not use brakes often in normal traffic. In the context of the GP statement, it does reduce some brake pads wear.
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Tuples are also used in Python to express an immutable list (sorry for imprecise wording there) of values.

I haven't worked enough in a Lisp to encounter this problem. Rather, my issue is just that I really dislike the syntax and find Lisp code difficult to read.
Yes, that is the definition of legal tender:

(n) coins or banknotes that must be accepted if offered in payment of a debt.

Debt != barter

A potential workaround would be if the menu's prices were not in dollars, but instead in credit card points or some such nonsense, but even this is probably arguable.
Allowing novel software ideas to be patented ensures common software ideas will be. The incentives are for expanding patent coverage, it's a fallible system of people and it's why we are in this mess.
> In the UK I get the impression you can trundle along at any speed

the regulation is that peds must not delay on crossings.

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2400/part/I/crosshea...

> 19. No pedestrian shall remain on the carriageway within the limits of a crossing longer than is necessary for that pedestrian to pass over the crossing with reasonable despatch.

(I'm not sure this is latest version)
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I registered at dateplanet.nl which seems to be a typical dating web-site and purchased the membership and additional features. I have noticed that a lot of "persons" who send me messages seems like bots. They basically asked me to send a photo and this action is not free, one has to pay for it. Finally I started to ask "persons" in the chat if they are robots. Suddenly my account has been blocked with a reason "Negative publish texts on the dating website.". The support does not respond my emails. It seems to be pure fraud. I was wondering if there is a way to get my money back at least..I recently paid 50 euros to be able to send pictures and the blocked shortly after that.
> Many remain skeptical of deduplication, which hogs expensive RAM in the best-case scenario. And I do mean expensive: Pretty much every ZFS FAQ flatly declares that ECC RAM is a must-have and 8 GB is the bare minimum. In my own experience with FreeNAS, 32 GB is a nice amount for an active small ZFS server, and this costs $200-$300 even at today’s prices.

I use nas4free with much less ram…
Thanks for your prompt feedback, I will share this information and I hope it contributes something to to your situation. I'm Irish and have always had a lot of respect for the Gorkha people because their historical situation is easy to identify with. I definitely encourage you to write up a short article of your own on this since you have first-hand experience, perhaps for submission tomorrow or friday (around this same time of day or a little earlier for best exposure).

This seems like a textbook case of a problem that should be easily soluble by technical means but which is blocked by other factors. It's strange and unfortunate that Firechat doesn't work on desktop (allowing easy spread by USB keys), and also (AFAIK) that it's not practical to pper up to install it.

I have no idea about how to build a data-on-voice app (which would have the same bootstrapping problems as firechat), but if you have a printer and want to do some organizing you could establish phone trees with some friends, and then get people to travel by bus to your neighborhood, install firechat, and begin (slowly) lighting up the dark zone, maybe?

http://www.intermountainpro.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/P...

Please do submit an article on this. I think it's an important example of a collective action problem of the sort that people int he west have partly forgotten how to deal with.
kind of a US centric view of blockchain.
Zebra or horrible in terms of accident statistics. (Roughly an extra 2-3 serious per year more than traffic lights) Multiple Zebras crossing/Junctions can not be co-ordinated for either pedestrians or traffic. There are only a very few situations were Zebras are better.

Also drivers can get very aggressive with a slow moving pedestrian at a Zebra.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebra_crossing
You should still at least list that this is a project from Expo. A tagline like: "From your friends at Expo" would be sufficient. It is important to note this as you include Expo as a compatibility platform on this site when other React native registries, https://js.coach/react-native & https://github.com/jondot/awesome-react-native, do not. Just be honest about why you are doing that.
It used to be "usable for most purposes" at some point already, before those scary data corruption bugs were discovered.

https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php?title=RAID56&diff=30...
One of the reasons why I'm super hesitant of learning Rust is the attitude and emotional based opinions of the community. I picked up Python due to my work and I love it and I'd never think I would before trying it. But I also never in my travels seen Python people advertise it negative with "<somelang> SUCKS! FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE! GIT GUD AND USE PYTHONN!" about ANY widespread or niche language but instead they just keep positively gushing over Python: "how clear", "how succinct", "formatted by significant whitespace", "readable", "simple", "pythonic", "wide array of modules available", etc.

When someone in one message both recommends Rust and says that it's absolutely impossible to ever write correct programs in C or C++ that are more than few lines long what am I supposed to take away from that? Rust itself uses C++ written LLVM, is it unreliable too then? Seriously... And implicitly, anyone liking C or C++ is an idiot and a bad programmer.
I haven't done anything with my sites or apps, but I called both of my senators (Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst) to encourage them to support Net Neutrality. I'm also going to write a letter to the editor of my local newspaper, since word on the street says Congress-people pay a great deal of attention to newspapers.
> The general consensus is that normal GA tracking alone does not meet the standards to trigger either the EU or the stricter Dutch cookie notification requirements since they are using first-party cookies not tied to PII and don't follow you across sites

I don't know about following you across sites, but "PII" is a US legal term, so I highly doubt it's a determiner in applying EU law. GA may not collect PII under US law, but it does fall into EU data protection compliance.

The problem in the EU is the system of enforcement. EU directives require member states to legislate individually, and to enforce their own legislation individually. If that enforcement is deficient, the case can be taken to the ECJ on an individual basis (at possibly significant cost). This doesn't work. Which has motivated the creation of GDPR[0], but unfortunately this doesn't come into play until 2018

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GDPR
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> To state the obvious, this proposal is antithetical to the concept of network neutrality.

the culture employs special circumstances when the situation exceeds the moral capacity of contact.

or to put it differently, sometimes outside forces are so strong that you either let your ethics... be flexible for while or just disappear in the annals of history.

whether OP's particular action would be effective is a different question - bing, ddg or baidu would gladly jump at the opportunity if this wasn't coordinated.
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I wonder how they're gonna deal with abuse. What's stopping an idiot from flooding every single light with requests and making them slower than default, disrupting the entire traffic?

Why couldn't it be a physical button on the traffic light itself instead of an app? Seems easier to use and would limit abuse to a single location at a time.
This is a great point. It allows ISPs to pick the winners when they get the power to shape traffic; if you think governments picking winners and losers is bad, a monopoly doing the same should raise similar hackles.

Charging by the GB is one of the fairest schemes because if it was about usage (i.e. the non-stop-Youtube-watching-bogeyman), then charging by the GB would let them get a fair share.
While I believe there was probably fraud involved, they could have been using the volume licensed version released in 2016 or the beta (2015) of MS Office.

Piracy of both is rampant in Asia.
Great example! OsRng will use that system call, if it is available.
Nice.

What's the maximum?

What's the current standard?
> Small businesses make up:

> 98 percent of firms exporting goods,

> 33 percent of exporting value.

In other words, 2 percent of firms exporting goods (the part that is not
"small businesses") make the remaining 67 percent of exporting value.
Ah just in case I just redirected my most visited website to https://www.battleforthenet.com/ , not too much but still might make someone from the USA to act upon it.
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I'm not sure what the "Mozilla Legal" process is, but this thread[0] from 2012 seems to be a recurring source of authority on decision-making around this, from my reading of Bugzilla.

This is what tofumatt was referring to when closing this Github thread.

[0] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/mozilla.governance/9IQ...
Groups and Events.
if you limited how much storage a user could contribute to make it profitable but force it to be decentralized. you would need identity.
I'll stick with GPFS, thanks.
Use a puffin crossing. http://www.driving-school-beckenham.co.uk/pedestriancrossing...
Classic "implementation is imperfect so lets do nothing instead".

Makes as little sense here as it ever does.
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Not really. Simulate a garbage cell connection and try buying things online. AMP+PWA are a fairy compelling experience.
I changed the wording of my post, but generally, the Tor Browser uses NoScript to block Google Analytics anywhere to improve security, and this page circumvents that, allowing Google Analytics to be loaded. This provides significantly more tracking information than if no GA script was ever loaded.

Additionally, that page has special access to allow installing addons, or removing them, and the Google Analytics script might be able to abuse that to install an addon that leaks your data.
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Vulkan is not just about performance - it increases reliability. If you have ever attempted the hopelessly frustrating task of trying to manage GPU memory from an OpenGl application in a consistent manner, then you will have felt the pain caused by the vagueness of spec/variety of opengl driver differences.

From a product point of view, you don't need to sacrifice perf for the ability to run on more hardware types.
This is only difficult with ZFS if you care about performance. If you are a typical home file server user, you can add vdevs in a rather ad-hoc fashion as they fill and it works pretty well.

There is a huge performance penalty of course, as all the majority of new data will reside on the latest vdevs - but it generally works.

I do agree this is one of the largest drawbacks of ZFS, but very few filesystems get it right.
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2. Do you think this feature will harm the up/down voting system?(someone with a more followers have more chance to get up-voted)
That is indeed cool, I used to rely on my bash history to find my old ifconfigs for common networks I liked. It's lower power though. Due to lack of polling.

I guess there are advantages to the wpa_supplicant way of doing things too. But you have the option on openbsd too at least.
> How is L2ARC not "true hybrid"?

L2ARC in my understanding is only for reads, whereas ZIL is the write ahead log. Ideally, ZFS would "combine" the two into a MRU "write through cache" such that data is written to the SSD first, then asynchronously written to the disk after (ZIL does this already) but then, when the data is read back, it's read back from the SSD.
This is a nice concept. It seems like making coding more social and I am excited to see people making interesting things with collaboration.

Right now we can assemble blocks sequentially. It would be awesome if those can also be arranged conditionally (by some programming language- a programming language to arrange blocks of code,eh).
Hmmmmm. I'd guess that if your ego is well and truly dead, it wouldn't matter whether it worked out, and you wouldn't bother "appreciating" what you've done. That sounds a lot like ego to me. You would just do, without regard for any of that.
Indeed. With prior threats I seem to remember Google having some sort of front-page search page link to the issue. Perhaps I'm not remembering correctly? Why no Google search page love?

I was at least expecting what is currently at https://duckduckgo.com/
Traditional "slow" IrDA is essentially HDLC over UART with packed based protocol stack over that, that among other things can emulate dumb reliable duplex pipe (TCP-like) that is usually exposed as virtual serial port, bluetooth is similar, with significantly larger set of "other things". Other relation to serial port is that it is usual interface between the HCI and host system (using fairly highlevel protocol). In the lower layers it is frame based protocol that has no relation to serial ports.
Therin lie dragons

That's how you start thinking it's okay to drop napalm and nuclear bombs on cities since "it'll end the war faster"
To be fair to Vulkan, it was designed to be used by somebody who knew what they were doing, under the philosophy that since developers were using all sorts of hacks to get efficient inner loops in the rendering pipeline anyway, you might as well make the API explicit about those optimization mechanisms.

In that vein, OpenGL or DirectX is probably a better starting option specifically because it abstracts more of the sausage-making in a way that is conceptually cleaner, especially for beginners. It won't take long to get to a point where you'll appreciate Vulkan, but it's a shallower learning curve that is still conceptually sound.
Author here! Our goal in this article wasn't to build another package manager (we've got our hands already full with Yarn :), but rather to give JavaScript developers some insight as to what's going on under the hood every time they install their dependencies.

We hope it will contribute to demystify package managers, and give people plenty of ideas to improve their favorite ones - Yarn is a community project, and we're always happy to see new contributors step in!
I'm already using it. It's cool.
> but what if they just banned the US president's account for TOS or something

Because the US Government has terrifying amounts of power and can be very spiteful.

Their ability to easily intimidate corporations has been demonstrated time and time again. See: NSA v tech, Qwest, broad anti-trust powers (which have nothing to do with monopoly and everything to do with subjective definitions), SEC, FTC, FCC, national security powers, executive orders, and the list goes for days.
I'm currently far down the database rabbit-hole and have to ask: What's so great about Cassandra that you can't get with CouchDB or other AP (yeah, I know...) databases?
Sounds like an opportunity: deeper recommendations
To be fair, pybind11 is not an ETHZ codebase ;). (original author here)
That doesn't convert C to Rust. It compiles C into Rust as a target language, bugs and all. Raw pointers in C become raw pointers in Rust.
I'd be interested for sure. When PG used to post more often I had a little bookmark to his comments to see if there was anything interesting he had remarked on recently.
I'm sure at least as much effort will be placed, as that of automation in cars :)
I have to wonder if Netflix did this because a lot of their original or exclusive content seems to debut to mediocre star ratings. When the new system says "x% match" I assume that value is derived more from genre match or search relevance than whether I'll actually like it or not.
Great point, thanks for the clarification.
Oh I've definitely found it unreliable elsewhere, especially in the cheaper Android handsets I used to get.
> that in the case of one major chip vendor, is not coded using source control(!),

In this day and age it's absolutely insane to not have revision control.
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Siloing, schmiloing. If the user has installed an extension that blocks Google Analytics, and you disable that extension, you're clearly ignoring the user's privacy choices.
I expected it to be FB posts formatted HN style.
I similarly had that happen with some GamerGate stuff. Watched a video just to see if I could wrap my head around it, went "Nope!" and went on with my life, and the next thing I knew YouTube was desperately trying to send me down the alt-right rabbit hole.
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(foo a b c)

You made me. :-)
Super Dachshund looks like a pretty solid game. I would probably play such a game. It'd probably hold up, even today, as a cool pixelated retro game.
That covers standalone pedestrians crossing, junctions is TSRGD. But same principal pedestrians must reasonably cross, but Green -> Only Go if the way ahead is clear..