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Are you me? I started a week earlier than you, my wife 4 weeks later. I was at 235, now at 209. My wife was at 148, now 137, also had less to lose.

Ditto on everything else you stated.
It's not that simple. Exchanges and custodial wallets hold other people's funds, so they are not allowed to decide arbitrarily which chain is "Bitcoin". That would be regulatory suicide.
This characterization misses the bigger picture. Governments know what they are getting when they ask for these loans, and they want it! They are in financial trouble and need to cut spending on education, health, gas and bread subsidies, etc., but politically this is impossible. Their solution: Blame the big bad bank. The government gets what it wants and the bank agrees to play the bad guy.
an aside, for those on either diet: lacto-fermented foods like Kombucha, sauerkraut etc. seem to do me a lot of good.

Perhaps it is just the B-vitamins in the Kombucha but I find that being on keto and having Kombucha once a day is a good combination.
Just some formatting help so that people can read this:

>By running Bisq on their local machines, users form a peer-to-peer network. Offers to buy and sell bitcoin are broadcast to that network, and through the process of offering and accepting these trades via the Bisq UI, a market is established.

>There are no central points of control or failure in the Bisq network. There are no trusted third parties. When two parties agree to trade national currency for bitcoin, the bitcoin to be bought or sold is held in escrow using multisignature transaction capabilities native to the bitcoin protocol.

>Because the national currency portion of any trade must be transferred via traditional means such as a wire transfer, Bisq incorporates first-class support for human arbitration to resolve any errors or disputes.
This sounds like a decentralized LocalBitcoins specifically, not an online exchange.
Haha, I'm fairly confident I am not you, but congrats nonetheless!
I think perhaps you underestimate how hard it is to make a good captcha, that is one that is hard to solve programatically but not too hard to solve for a real person (this second part is often overlooked as easy). I suspect you'll find a lot of the prior techniques work well when applied to someone's hand-rolled version, given that coming up with something unique enough to not have prior work put into solving it (and have enough variation to make learning the entire data-set infeasible) is likely much harder than you think.
Bitcoin is only scarce for late adopters, by design early adopters of BTC software generated thousands of "coins" per week for running a mining-computation node of a normal 2-3GHz CPU.

BTC's network protocol service is not unique, and thus not scarce in the least. I.E. other protocols/network designs/token-ledgers offer the same service as BTC in addition to fixing the vulnerability to BTC's hashing algorithm which has led to the ASIC attacks on the Bitcoin network which just lead to centralization by the hardware producers.
The point was that these were the diets that people could tolerate. A 50g carbs per day diet is not something these people would continue. Both diets were still about 25-30% protein, which is quite a lot.
That's the "definition" of a decentralized bitcoin exchange, not an explanation, which means I already knew all that even before I clicked through the link. a decentralized bitcoin exchange is not a novel concept, anyone would have thought of the concept itself (you just need to take "bitcoin exchange" and think "what if it was decentralized?") and anyone could claim to have solved the problem, but what really matters is execution. None of that is in the video as well as on the website itself, almost feels like they're hiding behind their "white paper" just like a lot of academics write their dissertation in intentionally hard-to-understand manner so they won't get criticized easily.

It also doesn't help they have that immature quote "To change something, build a model that makes the existing model obsolete" as their tagline, which has nothing to do with the hypothetical value they claim to provide.
>> it seems quite a reasonable argument that, while you have a young child, you shouldn't actively go around risking your life -- they're your dependents

> That's an argument for having life insurance; it's not necessarily an argument for not taking risks.

Yeah, because fathers can be replaced with money and children wouldn't feel a thing.
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I really wanted to understand this article. I tried wikipediaing and googling some of the things I didn't really get (Jupiter is a thing... ok and Andromeda.. riiiight). Then I got to the chart "Conceptually, here is how Espresso plugs into the Google networking stack:", which was totally unparseable by me. All the green things look the same, but one of them is the thing this article is about (Espresso, right?), and Google somehow is represented by a vague dark-grey blob... I just don't get it.

Can anybody help? Am I simply not technically competent enough to consume this article yet?
Yeah, the passable diet you will actually follow always trumps the theoretically-excellent process which you can't stick with :)

4-5 years ago I started a trek from 215 down to 155, which took a year using basic calorie-tracking. The best thing about it was that it let me start doing this little comparisons of "which choice will I enjoy more" between different quantities of different substances with the same calorie-budget.

While I backslid a bit over the next few years (170) I still think it went pretty well and it encourages me that I can probably do it again, even as a sedentary computer-guy.
I've lost this much weight via traditional means before, and I will say that keto is very different. Your sleep improves, and overall focus is better.

The weight loss certainly helps. But for me, keto does something different.
> we can't really do experiments on humans because of laws and ethical reasons.

Ethics and laws constrain but do not forbid experimenting on humans. We do experiments on humans all the time, including experiments on how people learn and reason. There are numerous academic journals devoted to these topics.
> But is identity investment in something life-risking really compatible with reasonable parenting?

Every human activity is life-risking (as is inactivity.)
Jim Starkey (founder of NuoDB) is rumoured to have said that any adjective before the word "consistency" is equivalent to the prefix "in" as in "eventual consistency is inconsistency". A bit harsh, and not completely true, but a good warning to a world that increasingly believes eventual consistency is the best way to handle the CAP theorem.
An ERC20 token is a token that conforms to the ERC20 protocol, that's all that ERC20 means.
When people say "Dyson Sphere" they are frequently talking about Dyson Swarms or Dyson Bubbles because a solid "Dyson Shell" is inherently unstable.

Gonna go out on a limb here and suggest that a civilization capable of building a Dyson structure is not entirely unfamiliar with control theory.
The best thing you could probably do now is some weight training. By adding more muscle and increasing your resting metabolism, you're more likely to keep that weight off and feel even more healthy/stronger. Not to mention looking a TON better too.
I seem to remember hearing the same about drivers. Might have been for my country (Germany) specifically, where the minimum age for a license 18. If you get your license at 16, you're still in the upwards swing on risk-taking behaviour, which might drown out all other statistical signals.
"I didn't know what "too much" was until I actually started counting and comparing that to my TDEE."

Winning quote right there.
Money is not the only thing a father needs to be around to provide to his kids, at least not in a desirable case.

And yes, I know many cases are a lot less than desirable.

(When did people start to think money is a good substitute for everything?)
That's a really good question, it's because doing so would create an alt coin that isn't Bitcoin, and this is all about control of Bitcoin.
> The UI is clunky.

The UI was originally designed with one end in mind: "Show me what is broken and take me there as fast as possible".

I and others have given lots of feedback about the strengths and limitations of that orientation, particularly trading off between a job-oriented and resource-version-oriented view of the world.

> There are simple scenarios like deployment rollbacks who are hard to do.

I've had this with the CF resource. The Concourse-y solution would be an undeploy resource.

> For some reason they decided to develop their own container engine which leads to all sorts of trouble and maintenance issue.

The container engine is garden-runc, the actual containerising is the same code as Docker's. What I like a lot less is container orchestration. I have complained about this in a ha-ha-only-serious matter.

Disclosure: I work at Pivotal.
Similarly 29% fat is not low fat. That's pretty much a "normal" diet (i.e. what the mainstream advocates). Also, the low fat diet is 23% protein - over 100 grams for the similarly restricted 1600 calorie diet. Again, that's a mainstream advocated diet. I've seen plenty of diets that advocate never going over 100 grams of protein.

But, my experience with dietary studies (it's a kind of hobby of mine to read them), many have serious methodology or analysis problems. The study they are referencing is this one: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/articles/28027950/ which you will notice is published by Elsevier -- which means I can't read it. The abstract does not fill me with confidence, as it is very light on details.
I've been creating content for a few years, but I've been self employed for a really long time.

The author's comments on Louis CK was very relatable. I've had the same exact thought processes and conclusions.

I haven't hit that point where things start to grow exponentially but I really feel like that's how it goes. Unfortunately it's ultra dangerous in the tech field because creating a course on XYZ will be outdated by the time you "make it" (and to create content like that might be 3-4 months of ~80 hour weeks).

My plan is to keep creating content until something sticks.
> They accept that duty though, so it's the same thing - instead of "is it ok for a soldier to go to war" it's "is it ok to become a soldier".

But if it's not ok to become a soldier if you have kids, that severely limits who can be a soldier. (For example, many soldiers get married and start families during their careers as soldiers. Should they instantly get discharged if that happens? Taken off all possibly dangerous duties?) That doesn't seem like a good idea for society as a whole, since it makes being a soldier a much less attractive career, and any society needs soldiers to defend it.

The argument with cave diving is at least somewhat stronger, since I don't see any pressing need for society as a whole to have a particular number of cave divers, or for cave diving to be an attractive career.
I get the same impression, and not just from Rust. It's pretty common for most new (or newly-popular old) languages. There will always be a certain percentage of programmers who are less out to solve problems than to look or feel better than other programmers around them. What better way to do that than in a language nobody else at your company knows? Nobody to correct your style, or your use of a deprecated idiom. More glory for writing a library that didn't exist yet in that language than for improving one that already did. You get to write the early blog posts and tutorials, maybe even a book, secure yourself a permanent place at the conferences, etc. The Javascript community (like the Ruby community before it) is full of people who came from Java for those kinds of reasons. There's a similar migration path from C/C++ to Go and now Rust. A long time ago, you might have found emigres from Pascal/Modula/Ada to C.

There are many reasons to move from an older language to a newer one. There are good reasons, and there are bad reasons. I think language designers and evangelists generally do a good job of focusing on the good reasons. It's unfortunate when such advocacy tips over into FUD, but I suppose it's inevitable too. Nobody likes to see their investment devalued because their favorite vehicle to fame and glory lost out, even if the alternative really was even better.
>5. The Tangled Web - Written by Michal Zalewski, Director of Security at Google and author of afl-fuzz. This is the book to read alongside The Web Application Hacker's Handbook. Unlike many of the other books listed here it is a practical defensive book, and it's very actionable. Web developers who want to protect their applications without learning enough to become security consultants should start here.

I just finished this book last night, this is an invaluable resource.
Even if they have taken UI cues from elsewhere, I don't think this is a bad one. The search box is in the global context section and it's important to signal that it's going to behave in a non-global way. Having a flexible width text input or making it expand over the 'This Repository' hint (or whatever other context hint is there at the time) would be an easy solve for it being too small.
That's the balancing part, no? Nothing is risk-free, and the implied dichotomy is misleading. You can be a wreckless fool without the dangerous hobbies.

Also implied is that we can even agree what "reasonable parenting" means.
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In what sense? In that some, possibly trivial, risk is involved?
Ever since I got an iPad Pro 12", my requirement for physical copies of technical books has gone down a bit. Often times it's the more convenient option.

I read technical information slower and in shorter blocks of time, so being easy on the eyes like my Kindle isn't a requirement.
Input and output sizes don't have to be fixed. E.g. speech recognition doesn't work with fixed sized inputs. Natural language processing deals with many different length sequences. seq2seq networks are explicitly designed to deal with problems that have variable length inputs and outputs that are also variable in length and different from the input.

How would you sort integers? using neural turing machines: https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.5401

NMTs and other memory network architectures have explicit memory as state (including stacks!), indeed any recurrent neural net has state.

Are NNs Turing complete? Yes! http://binds.cs.umass.edu/papers/1992_Siegelmann_COLT.pdf
> And its hard, really hard to follow a low carb diet.

Really? I do very low-carb precisely because it's so very easy. I have heaps of vegetables and lean-meat and that fills me up and gives me all the energy I need. I almost can't see where I'd fit carbs in now. (I do eat more carbs when I'm doing something particularly arduous though).

> Many products for the breakfast are rich in carbs.

Well you can eat whatever you want for breakfast. You don't need 'breakfast food' in particular. I often have steamed fish for breakfast.

> Practically all products in small stores (such as newsstand)

Well yes, things are going to wrong if you are planning a diet around shopping at a newsstand. I'd say obviously you shouldn't do that no matter what your diet, but I suppose people have different lives to fit diets around - I work from home so it's probably easier for me.
That's a good point, and this might be an example of the selectional restrictions issue

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winograd_Schema_Challenge#Pitf...

or a similar kind of inference that could be considered easier than expected.

I'm not sure exactly what I would consider "knowledge about the world" in this setting. :-)
Keto is interesting because doing it successfully (ie, meeting the requirement of temporary deprivation) necessitates learning a bit about how the body works, how nutrients are processed, and the role of insulin and carbohydrates in how we as animals take in energy. The vigilance it requires in order to be successful, too, is fairly rigid.

I think that just doing keto for a few months can change the way you think about eating, or even change your relationship to food overall. That more mindful approach to nutrition might last longer than the temporary deprivation. It would explain some of the longer-term benefits that people who've [successfully] done keto tend to talk about.
Oddly enough, almond milk contains little almonds.

http://www.motherjones.com/food/2014/07/lay-off-almond-milk-...

Just drink water and eat a mostly plant-based diet.
That's on the list. Her and I are currently training for a half marathon that's happening in a few months so definitely getting my exercise in. Next goal is some body weight stuff at home, been a while.
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Wow. I was just listening to Conversations with Tyler with Jill Lepore[1] this morning. She mentioned this article at the end:

COWEN: Final question. The world of social media, we all know it’s not going away. Maybe it has some problems, but if you were to give a student or a person some piece of advice or intellectual ammunition to carry with them through this world — some book, some essay, some thought — so as to make it marginally better rather than marginally worse, what would that be?

LEPORE: Read this E. B. White essay called “Death of a Pig.”

COWEN: And what does he tell us in “Death of a Pig”?

LEPORE: A pig dies on his . . . He was in Maine. He’s trying to understand what it means when something dies when you didn’t expect it to die and you couldn’t save it, and I just find it a very beautiful essay. But I think something is dying, and we can’t save it, and that’s a good place to start, to figure out how to feel about that.

[1]: https://medium.com/conversations-with-tyler/tyler-cowen-jill...
I really hate the naming trend over the past 10-15 years of using common words for projects.

I can't really search for Espresso, or Jupiter, or Andromeda without additional qualifiers that I may not know yet.
> Anyone who has a real reason to call me would leave a voicemail (or text me these days).

My experience is that this is only mostly true - and of course it's hard to tell exactly what I've missed from calls I didn't pick up except for the few times when I still hear about it later. For me this is the occasional missed social or family event - being easy to reach has it's benefits.
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OMG the best space combat game ever! Wished it ran on modern windows in high res...
Is beer on that diet?
I cant really help because Im not great at explaining things, but for some fundamentals, you need to understand BGP and label switching (MPLS).

The cleverness here is that they effectively turned their routers in label switchers, with the label traffic is sent to determined by backend infra, not the router itself. They still have to run this over BGP of course, as thats how the internet works but it is an interesting approach for optimizing return traffic routes.

Edit: espresso is the name of the stack they use to make the label switch decision, its not a protocol or industry standard
One from about a few weeks ago was: 1-866-978-6618

It's listed online by other people as a scam number. I did report it, and I ought to collect the other numbers as well.
Or easy. When you reduce your options to the beef jerky, or maybe the nuts, you often realize you aren't that hungry and actually are just bored.
> because fathers can be replaced with money and children wouldn't feel a thing.

That's not what I said. What I said was that it's not necessarily an argument for not taking risks. You have to balance the risk against the potential cost. That is perfectly compatible with there being a cost that can't be made good with money. And it's also perfectly compatible with minimizing the cost--yes, you can't replace a father with money, but you can make the impact as bearable as possible by ensuring that money is not a problem.
Yep, every item would be a node. Similar items like bookmarks would be in 1 cluster while blog posts would be in another.

As far as publishing, its mainly for my own personal use, for me to organize my thoughts, bookmarks, aspirations, etc. Im not sure how to integrate that part (what a visitor might see)

I started on this road because I have a lot of notes in a variety of apps/files on different devices and every three months or so, I write them all down on a big whiteboard to see any common threads/themes, and to try and reorganize/prioritize my life. Its very helpful but every time I do it I have re-erase the whiteboard. This is a more permanent tool to replace that need.

However, finding a specific node might be tricky. Maybe something like a search bar up top with a zoom to node function (like google maps). Or a sort by feature? I haven't thought that out yet.

Ill try out your multikanban site and get some feedback to you. My initial impression is that setting up a kanban board is work - work that could be spent doing other things. To use it in the first place is a time investment. I wonder if it could provide intermediary benefits before the long term benefit of getting your work done more efficiently? So for instance, if you were using it to blog somehow, and a kanban board was created just by happenstance, the user could kill two birds with 1 stone! Anyways, Ill give it a go and let you know what I think.
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> Also I call rubbish on your 100% CPU. I have two workers t2.xlarge workers running 22 and 30 containers (like, right NOW) and neither is above 10% CPU (which, actually, I should make those a lot smaller). Don't run workers on a potato and you'll be fine.

I was on CF Buildpacks for a while, which is one of the earliest and more intensive users of Concourse.

Earlier versions of Concourse did stumble upon fairly hairy btrfs bugs that would enthusiastically choke CPUs to death if you had more than about 100 containers on a worker. This was particularly bad if, for any reason, you had a lot of jobs launching at once (I'm looking at you, 6-releases-simultaneously-NodeJS).

I can't remember if it was fixed by a kernel upgrade or whether they ditched btrfs. Either way it got fixed and I haven't seen it since.

Disclosure: I work for Pivotal.
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> Money is not the only thing a father needs to be around to provide to his kids

I didn't say it was. See my response to wfunction.
I hope this is not a Fight Club scenario. What, pray tell, does your fitness regime look like?
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That's basically a "No True Scotsman" argument against innovation and doing better by the environment.
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