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>If you cannot implement people's political preferences in your contract language, then your contract language will not be used for anything of substantive governmental or political importance unless you have the guns needed to impose your crypto-dictatorship.

Can you elaborate on this? I don't understand the reasoning behind this. Why do smart contracts have to implement political ideologies in order to have a substantive impact on the world? Why can't they have an impact by raising the cost of legal enforcement of over-reaching tax mandates and regulatory restrictions, and of mass-surveillance, and thus shifting the balance of power between the individual and the state, toward the individual?
Why not mpv?
Portland, LA, and Boulder all have the problems you listed...

Also the idea that Boulder has some kind of culture that the Bay Area doesn't is laughable. Disregarding that only 100,000 people live there, I've never seen a place more homogenously populated by "rich boring white people" in my entire life. It's like an entire city of the stuff that pops up when neighborhoods gentrify.
That's why you group five I's into a V?
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Keep in mind that the biggest supporters of crypto-currencies tend to have a libertarian or anarchist bent. To them this is a feature.
If you have a project looking for contributors, this question might be a good place :)
In the chart, this is how the fund has compared to an S&P index over the past 5 years:

* 2013 - 5% over
* 2014 - 15% under (and negative overall)
* 2015 - 30% over
* 2016 - 10% over
* 2017 - About even

One exceptionally strong year, and pretty uneven otherwise. Hardly proof that these biology-derived algorithms are the secret to market-beating returns.
Boo, he basically got lucky twice, once on Brexit and once on Trump's election; he'll raise a bunch of money for his fund, lose much of it and be out of business in a few years when his model fails because luck isn't a strategy.
It's fine to use that to say what is and isn't worth attention. It's not fine to use that as an argument to convince others. You have much better arguments: poor methods, insufficient evidence, lack of controls, etc. and none of those rely on personality.
Have you paid no attention to that happened in the past century? The sprawl and traffic and unsustainable scaling?

Why should cities not be allowed to change and have their density spread? The heart of a city is its density and population mass. It didn't become the perfect amount of population when the current residents arrived, never to be changed again. A city that does not change is dead.
From the chart in the article:

Year Market Algae
2013 +16% +22%
2014 +14% -2%
2015 +2% +33%
2016 +12% +22%
2017* +9% +10%

*Til June
These days whenever I'm asked to print, sign, and scan a form I now just use OSX Preview to insert my digital signature, save it, and send it back. (I have no idea if there are legal issues with this but nobody's ever complained to me that this isn't okay.)

I still hate when I'm asked to do this but it's vastly more convenient than actually printing and scanning a form.
Factories are not the same as office buildings.

If a factory closes down, you are stuck with a specialized building that can't really be used for anything else.

If a company in an office building closes down, you can pretty easily replace it with either a different company, OR with simply more residential housing stock.
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> As the genome project produced reams of data, Lun saw an opportunity to break ground in computational biology and in 2006 joined the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, a crossroads for scientists and hedge fund managers. There Lun met senior computational biologist Nick Patterson, a former cryptographer who had spent a decade at Renaissance Technologies making mathematical models. Another Lun colleague, genomic researcher Jade Vinson, left Broad for the same pioneering quant hedge fund for 10 years.

Well he is certainly surrounded by some impressive people.

I think at this point in the search for alpha, wall street has employed applied mathematicians, physicists, code breakers, engineers, economists, chemists, computer scientists, sociologists, and now computational biologists.

Each one of them brought some new/novel mathematical techniques to the field. Do Medieval Historians learn any specialized math?

Maybe he can beat the market reliably but he's only managing $20 million. The big question every quant fund asks is can this strategy provide alpha at a salable level of investment.

A 3 year track record is plenty long enough to prove out a system and provide a track record. It's a troubling sign that there is only $20 million in his fund if.
When there's too many cooks in the kitchen, we all benefit when there is less people trying to cook.
I guess I'm a bit skeptical. The article doesn't address how the fund managed to lose 2% in a year when holding an S&P 500 index fund would've gotten a 10+% return, and in general we just need more data before we can conclusively say that this has an edge on the market.

I also did not understand why cells specifically provide such good insights for markets, as compared to any other complex natural system (like weather or ecological systems).
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Importantly, he'll make plenty in fees in the meantime!
Why? Has he written any code lately?

Honest question, because from the outside he seems like an absolute grognard whose computing habits are so far removed from those of everyone else that he is incapable of relating to how the modern world does its computing.

Perhaps if he wants a good git interface in emacs, RMS should sling some code instead of giving the same entry-level ethics talk ad nauseam.
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5 must-use mobile gestures and how to prototype them
Please understand that browser integration is the Achilles' Heel of password managers. While you get the convenience of autofill, you're also bringing access to your password database into the browser's attack surface. Bugs in the browser sandbox or improper extension implementations can allow rogue sites to get the goods. There have been multiple instances of major password manager extensions leaking secrets just in the last year.

Copying and pasting may be annoying, but it's much safer, especially if you use a program that will autoclear your clipboard for you (KeePass 2 does this after 12 seconds by default).
At one point those contracts were subjectively valuable to the parties involved. The assumptions under which they were made turned out to be false, and now they're valueless. The point is that the labor expended to put them into existence does not make them inherently valuable.
The original post said "healthy" relationships.
Good god, if you don't care about the project enough to not sign a piece of paper and scan it, just don't contribute to it. FSF has programmers and lawyers alike that are also working to further computing freedom, I don't believe they are imposing this paperwork for messing around.
So you're sayin no Bernie or Bust movement existed? Because there was a petition w/ at least 100k signatures of people who were #BernieOrBust.. do you think 100K votes mattered at all in the last election cycle? Do you think many people who were pro-bernie and never vote for clinton might be closet Bernie or Bust, or vote Trump, or Jill Stein?

I'm guessing for every outspoken Bernie/Bust person there were 2-3 more people who voted 3rd party or abstained...as a result...

It was an ugly primary, and if you don't think the DNC cheated then you haven't watched any of the news... DNC chair was fired because of it, CNN anchor got in hot water for GIVING CLinton the questions to the debate before hand... that's not conspiracy because it's fact...
I can't tell if this suggesting he uses models that were made to predict algae growth or if he is using algae/bio/genetic inspired optimization algorithms. But either way he is certainly not "using" algae.
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> the agreements we did have included that we don't disclose their names.

That's just one sided. They can steal your ideas (because they didn't signed the relevant NDA), and you can't even name the bastards if they do?

I have zero experience in this stuff, but it looks like in this situation, one should either refuse to sign this sort of non-disparagement clause, or have them sign the relevant NDA.
This also works in places like gas stations (try to visit the same ones), grocery stores if you go 1+ times a week, and sometimes coffee shops and fast food joints, especially in smaller towns.

It takes a little longer, but a popular walking path can grant good results as well. Basically anything routine where you are likely to run into the same folks over and over.
There are plenty of alternative tools for Ethereum, including alternative languages.

I was merely pointing out that nobody is being stopped from improving the situation, if it was as bad as some portrait it.
All those places are sick to death of Californians moving in and fucking things up.
I don't think something like that exists; the closest I've seen to anything like that is pantheon-terminal prompting you about pasting when a command is sudo
I've used Linux on the desktop since about 1999. It's not "great"; it has a lot of problems. But it is indeed better (IMO) than the alternatives, which are MacOSX (proprietary, tied to limited and expensive hardware), and Windows (a complete horror show, esp. now with Win10--spyware, ads, a ridiculously horrible UI when you click "start", and of course the total lack of decent utilities and shell and the horrifically bad-to-nonexistent package management you mention).

The main problems with desktop Linux as I see it are 1) crappy DEs (namely Gnome3, the most popular and pushed hard by Red Hat) and fragmentation in the DE space, video driver problems, and power-management problems (particularly on laptops, esp. with suspend/resume). My laptop also has a lot of trouble going from docked (w/ dual monitors) to undocked and back. This stuff actually works pretty well on Windows, but on Linux it's a real PITA and frequently requires reboots IME, and that's on a not-new Dell business laptop that's generally well-supported.
it is not as secure
Just from eyeballing the chart it looks like they made a few million more than the index, over those five years, which pays for 3ish engineers if they're taking half the performance over index and no management fees.
Here's the important part of the article:

There are skeptics, too. Emanuel Derman, who was among the first physicists to work on Wall Street, doubts that biologists possess secret sauce for investing. Derman rose to lead the quant risk strategies group in his 17 years at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. He found that as physicists applied their expertise of the laws of motion, atoms and mathematics to investing, their models didn’t work nearly as well as they did in a lab.

Newton’s law of gravity hasn’t changed for eons, Derman said, but human behavior in markets changes all the time, wreaking havoc on even the best models made by scientists.

“I’ve developed a lot of skepticism about anyone bringing their expertise from one field to another,” said Derman, author of the book “Models.Behaving.Badly” and a Columbia University professor of financial engineering. “They say stocks are like atoms, or like genes. But stocks are not atoms or genes. There is a resemblance, but ultimately they are very different.”
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Overextending... to only control billions of dollars in some of the most valuable companies in the world. What a bad position to be in.
Lyft is building a self-driving car, opens Palo Alto office
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The hardest part about switching from Gmail is simply the time it takes to migrate all your accounts over to the new address.

Some providers offer a switching service though.

My three email providers don't (Kolab, Posteo, Autistici) but the few hours I spent changing my email addresses everywhere was worth it.

Gmail really doesn't offer anything you'll miss once you make the switch.
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When cable companies and local channels have disputes--the local channel will err messages about their cable company, and sometimes will actually remove themselves from the company's channel lineup until issues are resolved. This would be no different... Or they could just have a horrible nag screen between every page load... you're using comcast they suck, contact them and tell them they suck and we'll remove this nag when net neutrality is re-instated
Talk about calling out the competition (Free-forever Helpdesk)
Was disappointed because title is misleading; I had hoped the fund was using actual Algae (i.e. computation in biological medium) to produce market decisions. Instead it is just biologists that are creating algos with their existing machine-learning knowledge. Apparently deep-learning and algae are the same thing.
I did. LA is 1000x better. I don't miss anything about SF, except Golden Gate Park :)
Emacs already has front-ends to different version control systems. See the VC package.
9 months more like it! I moved back to Florida for that sweet, sweet vitamin D.
I use Msys2 on Windows which then lets me install GPG and Pass from its package manager.
The article is pretty hyped and low on actual details. From what I can figure out, he used the same models that he used to predict stuff about Algae to predict the market.

No information about what these models are is given. But it seems more "I created a system which can predict cell changes and stock market movements" than "I used Algae to predict the stock market".
If the city allowed Apple or whoever to build a whole bunch of skyscrapers in the middle of Soma SF, then I can assure you that the companies would Love to do that.

I agree. Density should be the focuses. And zoning laws should be changed so BOTH companies and residential apartment companies are allowed to build more densely.
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I'd agree, and the article basically says the same thing--the language is too expressive, and therefore hard to analyze. I don't know that much about the Ether devs, but I'd expect it just didn't occur to them--even among PL folks, knowledge & experience with something like coq is somewhat rare unless you went to the right undergrad or grad school. Especially if you weren't keeping up with the latest research in the last ~5-10 years or so.

Something like Coq with a few primitives to represent interacting with the Ether network, and an optimizing, verified cross compiler would have been a perfect fit for this sort of thing, in my opinion. It's a shame that they didn't go that route, the extra dev time to get it right probably wouldn't have been equivalent to 200+ dev-years of cost (~31 million).
Menlo Park and Palo Alto, sure. But MTV, Sunnyvale and San Jose are still pretty cheap. (relatively)
> However some interfaces easily require like 50 different function parameters

These interfaces are poorly designed; as in natural language, you almost never need more than a subject, direct object, and one or two indirect objects, any of which may themselves be compound entities.

A call with more than about four parameters has usually decomposed at least one thing that should be composite in the argument list.
By design, they enshrine the rights of the individual participant to freely interact in a free market, by preventing the majority from creating any rules to limit access to the platform. So they don't have the same need to adapt as an interventionist government, that imposes itself on the economy through majority dictate, does.

In the case of Ethereum, the Turing Completeness also makes it so that each contract is like a government in and of itself, which any party is free to design to meet their own preferences.
I agree with this. Over the past five to six years I have taken my aging parents to many physician appointments. In the past two years I have seen time spent with physicians expand from five to seven minutes to thirty to thirty five minutes. Less physical exams and more typing, typing and typing.

As a result when you need an appointment what you hear is that nothing is available for three to five days. Numerous times I was unable to get my Dad in for over a week when he needed to be seen. Sometimes progress is not progress for everyone.
I've removed the ones I don't use.

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Why is that a problem?

For every millionaire that is price waring over NEW Apartments is one less millionaire that is gentrifying and kicking out a family living in the mission.
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This is probably true. It's just been my experience that it is extremely hard to get managers to evaluate performance and reliably go through the long drawn out process of letting people know they are under performing, and then removing them.
I've used both Overleaf and Sharelatex for my senior work and this move is worrying. I started with Overleaf but had to migrate over to Sharelatex due to the raw size of my file, which overleaf limits (at least in their free tier). Note that i'm not talking about data storage per user account, but a maximum document size. I hope the new platform adopts Sharelatex's file size limit.
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If your doc is typing away and looking at the screen, it shows lack of preparation. He or she should have reviewed those records ahead of the appointment. Nothing wrong with those records being electronic.
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Same but vlc for videos
> I don't understand the reasoning behind this.

> Why do smart contracts have to implement political ideologies in order to have a substantive impact on the world?

They don't. The can -- and almost certainly will -- remain primarily a speculative investment vehicle for technophile speculators and occasional currency for black markets. Maybe, even probably, crypto-currencies will turn out to be useful technological tool for some non-speculative businesses as well.

However, you claimed:

>>> Societies have gradually grown more unfair as the political system has strained under their growing complexity... This opens the door to manipulation by demagogues and special interests

I'm simply responding to that claim.

> Why can't they have an impact by raising the cost of legal enforcement of over-reaching tax mandates and regulatory restrictions

Because -- believe it or not -- some people actually approve of some or all of those mandates and regulations.

This idea that regulation and taxation is an objective negative result of a broken process is impressive self-delusion.

Not everyone shares you political preferences or beliefs. Your political beliefs are not objective moral truth.

So. Why in god's name would people who disagree with you agree to use a system that actively undermines their genuine political preferences?
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I agree, I don't believe this would pass a test for statistical significance (of outperforming the market indices).

Unless there is a way to break this data down much more finely (by 6-day window, by individual asset) in which case it's possible there's a high p-value but low-power effect. Even so, if there are more than 100 experimental firms, a single one with p-value .01 isn't evidence enough to jumping to big conclusions.
Don't know if anyone combined Jira and Trello before but it sounds promising.
Anyone else noticed 2 spaces after a period and 1 space after a comma in the writings? I've always done the same, but for some reason 1 space after a period is correct.
I have but one humble wish: when I want to start the calculator app I open the Dash and type "calc". However for some reason LibreOffice Calc has higher priority than the Calculator app, so I always have to select it specifically (instead of just pressing Enter) - even though I might have never used the LibreOffice Calc on this computer. Can you make the LibreOffice Calc app lower priority in the Dash please. Thank you.
Indie Hackers http://indiehackers.com is my current favorite

The Startup Chat https://thestartupchat.com/ is a close second.

Startup School by Seth Godin was a limited 15 episode production of a event he did, this is also really good.
It's still API data that may be sensitive.
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