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In spite of neoliberalism, not because of it.

The country which has done most to raise its citizens out of poverty (China) did the exact opposite of articles 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 of the Washington Consensus.

The Latin American countries which applied it as directed in the 1980s, by contrast, subsequently did very poorly on raising people out of poverty.
This is exactly what trump has planned for America, if anyone deserves this it's the Christian extremists trying to stop abortions.

You will all just sit back in comfort while hate and bigotry eat up the world.
Point is family and friends don't care (Or even subliminally dislike you for it)

But the person has no idea, hence they post oblivious to whether there are real people who actually want to see it.

They post instantly, assume everyone likes it, instant hit achieved. Due to politeness (And the subliminal voting circle) people like back at some stage.

The arguable point is whether the superficial voting circle of Facebook works and makes people happy or it's a drug we get dependent on and just need.
Interesting. A similar concept is applied in microscopy, where multiresolution TIFFs are the norm. Another option to consider would be Deep Zoom. The common denominator is that users are essentially wanting a differently zoomed version of the plane depending on circumstances.
Any chance of a picture of your Monitor setup? - I'd love to see it.
There isn't a voice input in existence that I'd be interested in using while writing code or doing photo/video editing.

Even dictating code to another human who is as fluent as you are in the language of choice is a non-starter, so I don't see any machine based way of doing it catching up soon.
> A more accurate analogy would be that your money vanished from a public locker with combination 0-0-0.

And it's a pleasant world where every time you do that, you get robbed.

> Nobody complains about the shortage of address space provided by 256 bits. This guy was experimenting, and being lazy during his experiments, so at the very least he should have known what to expect after the first loss.

This is totally beside the point.

There's a social cost to constantly having to watch what you do. If you're robbed any time you're on the street, you'll have to spend time learning self defence and you'll have to buy appropriate tools such as locks. You'll also have to teach your friends about this, and you'll need friends. And your attitude to strangers will change.
Not to mention embarassingly ineffective.
Great article.

I recently wrote a tool to help find bugs like this:

https://ericrafaloff.com/introducing-the-solidity-function-p...
I have 3x 4k displays, one of them 30" DCI 4k, one 55" UHD, plus a rMBP and an ultrabook with 3200x1800. I simply can't go back to see pixels again. Once you get used to better, you dislike a downgrade.
Off-chain is, by definition, not Bitcoin. Bitcoin itself is still very limited in throughput, and will remain so until the block size is increased.
The precedence this sets is so scary and shortsighted.

So a gay man ( or even a straight person ) in saudi arabia wanting to find out more about homosexuality will be directed to anti-gay playlist which tells them how evil gays are?

In china, instead of blocking tiannamen square searches, they'll simply redirct it to showing what a great a idea it was?

What about religious countries? Will youtube simply redirect searches for atheism to "anti-atheism" site?

This is the worst form of censorship as it is sneaky and exploitive. As a liberal ( possibly former liberal ), it is shocking to me that the liberals are the ones leading the call for censorship online, in academia and business. It reminds me of Animal Farm/1984. Now that liberals have used the protections free speech to gain a lot of power/mindshare, we are trying to use it to censor everything we find offensive.

Not only is this a horrific form of censorship, it removes any credibility we ever had of criticizing others for their censorship.
Elaborate, or refrain from posting messages like that.
I would like a way to have opera tab stacks style groups but also with functionality to somehow automatically group tabs based on title, url, etc.
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>The app reportedly scans for the MD5 digital signatures of media files in the phone, and matches them to a stored database of offending files classified by the government as illegal "terrorist-related" media.

What a dumb way to scan for "illegal" content, considering the goverment already controls their portion of the internet. So instead of monitoring who is accessing what they decide to compare checksums of files which can be trivially changed which would result in a completely new hash value.

Seems like a very incompetent way of doing this.
I don't think that can be it. Polymorphism doesn't require existential types!
I only recently discovered mpv. Is it possible to make it resume the playback where it was left off?
Not philosophy, but sociology yes.
This is interesting. It goes to show how an autoritarian government can fix some problems in a more effective way. You can remove terrorist propaganda from YouTube, but how do you stop the spread of those videos in private platforms or messaging applications?

And even if the first version of this spying app only checks for md5 sums, which is arguably useless, I'm sure they're working on something more effective.
> What can I do in Haskell that I can't do in Clojure, because of Clojure's dynamic typing?

Also an interesting question, but, again, not equivalent to the one that I asked!	joncampbelldev very specifically said that Clojure gives him more flexibility than Haskell. I'm asking for specific examples, otherwise how else can I improve Haskell or its documentation to be more appealing to fans of dynamic languages?
Yes, but that has really nothing to do with economics.

Globalization is above and beyond all else a result of the Internet, and digital communications, dropping latency to practically 0. No economist predicted, understood or indeed currently understands what that would bring, and what it is doing to our world.

At this point in time, the inability of the economics academy to understand, debate or indeed correct, the multiple feedback loops that are operating to concentrate money into the financial sector, is probably the biggest single threat to capitalism that has ever existed.

At the end of the day, it doesn't matter if power is concentrated through the monetary unit, or through the gun - or indeed the latter as a result of the former - the end is wide scale impoverishment.
> Thought experiment: if block size is unlimited, would it affect security? The answer is obviously yes, so it's not artificial.

Obviously yes? I think you will have to explain it anyway since the block size cap does not affect mining difficulty.
Yeah, sort of. I'd say it's quite likely.

The thing about how engineering and the markets work - they are attracted towards local optimas. So I'd expect each iteration to e.g. have cars that are more-less like we know. I'd expect it to have soft drinks; maybe not Coca Cola, but something very similar and recognizable to us, etc.
Not to take away any of Woz's brilliantness, but coding the 6502 in hex was something many of us did every day in the 80's. He's right that branches are a tad tricky, but the number of instructions you usually use are few enough to remember the hex codes(and number of cycles) for along with the various hardware registers(CIAS, VIC-II and SID mostly for me) and bits within those registers.
So what can you use a model for if it doesn't make predictions? Presumably a non-predictive model can't explain things either?

Also, if a model doesn't make predictions how can you compare it to reality to see if it is actually a useful model or not?
I used "Snooze Tab," which kind of could address that: https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/snooze-tabs
And it double-sucks, because here in Italy we have to pay "TV tax", even if you don't have the TV service hooked up. Modern LCD/OLED TVs are perfectly fine for most tasks, except maybe high-end FPS gaming. The colors are good, the refresh rates are decent.
> the US, the most transparent and actually research-based application of economics in the world

An assertion based on what (apart from American exceptionalism)?
There was a time, when The Pirate Bay was alive and well, I could find any book. I used to find obscure books on hydronic heating to watch making.

It was around 2008, and most of us didn't think it was that bad of a crime, or if it was a crime in certain countries.

Those days are gone forever. I wish I copied.

A person could say true transfer of information was best in the past. Crazy? But I kinda understand the frustration of certain creators. Then again, it might have been the best free advertising some authors ever had?
Is this OS specific? It would be good to have more details on the mechanism this app is using. Presumably this can only scan media that is stored outside of apps?
I think this in fact comes from this engineering of language in order to pass some agenda.

You create something that is really not science and call it social "sciences" and then you put inside those stuff like economics and all the shebang.

Of course that some people think those are actually scientific and then, when all the predictions fail not only stop believing the social "sciences" like economics, but in fact start looking at all sciences, even the real ones, as some fake agenda from someone.

In the end it's a double wrong, first because you are telling people that social "sciences" like economics actually predict anything and second because we are destroying the public view of real science.

I think what we need is some outreach program that explains people what the real sciences are in order to regain credibility for science and to get people suspicious of any predictions coming from social "sciences".

Not to say that some social "sciences" are not worthy of research, but we must understand that they are only ad hoc fields of knowledge and that they don't predict anything. For instance like history, a respected area that doesn't need to get some fake validation from calling itself a science.
> so saying that you must use a keyboard seems a little premature

What part of "I for one much prefer a physical keyboard" implies "you must use a keyboard" ? I expressed a personal preference, that's all. I don't expect my preference to change, but sure, anything is technically possible though unlikely.
https://bitcoin.org/en/glossary/simplified-payment-verificat...
I think the problem is that people value themselves in different ways (and often the criteria is skewed to be more favorable for themselves). For example, I tend to extremely highly value people to whom I go for advice/help. These usually end up being people who are extremely smart and have a both wide and deep technical knowledge. They have almost always been programming for a long time and have a huge interest in the field, and have written all kinds of applications in various technologies.

At the same time, you have a lot of developers who started programming in college, read online about how to become a good developer, decided on technologies whey want to work with, read the staple books for that, wrote a bunch of applications in them, read some books on software architecture, on development process, etc, then got a job at a company which uses some of the technologies they are familiar with. Compared to group #1, they have a huge "knowledge debt" that will never disappear because they're focusing on learning things that are the most relevant to their current work. But this knowledge debt doesn't apply to everything that needs to get done at a company.

People from group #2 often consider themselves just as good as group #1 because they believe a huge part of knowledge group #1 has and they don't is irrelevant for the job. And in some ways, they're right. But they're also wrong, because group #1 adds business value by being able to solve the hardest problems and being the guys you go to for help when you get stuck.

At the same time, the people from group #1 often consider themselves much better than group #2. Which again, in a way might be right, but also wrong because group #2 might still do just fine in practice in most situations.

Of course these are not distinct groups, in reality most people are somewhere in between, being better in some areas and weaker in others, and this makes it even harder to compare 2 individuals in such a way that both of them will agree with the result.

Secret salaries allow the management to decide how much business value someone adds without having to explain themselves to 2 people who likely have skewed (each in their own favor) perspectives. It also prevents negative feelings between employees themselves. It is also good for the salaries of those that the company is willing to pay a lot, they don't have to worry about what others will say. It solves the "if I give it to you I have to give it to everyone" problem.

The downsides are that 1) salaries are likely a bit lower overall due to information imbalance and 2) people who are bad at negotiating get unfairly screwed.
It really sounds fake. Even if Elon really believed that to be true, it would be very dumb to say it.
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But all those other solutions will consume orders of magnitude more power, especially the GPU. It's actually impressive what can be achieved on 1W of power.
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> It's not a limit. 250g is the minimum weight at which drones are regulated.

So 250g is the maximum limit for unregulated drones.
> And laughably the grey quote text that is intertwined throughout the article which is as illegible as the contrast that the author suggests of other applications.

I'm glad I wasn't the only one bothered by that, especially after the author has just complained about reduced-contrast offset boxes.
I ended up getting 2 Dell 43" monitors and are very happy with them for coding. I actually have 3, but the 3rd is too much (I never thought I'd see the day).

They aren't perfect, and the "old" version is buggy, so if you want these, get them straight from Dell. Resellers still have the old version that drops connection.

Also, the HDMI is only 30Hz while the DP and mDP are both 60.

Finally, they stretch a few pixels past the border, so you will need to shrink the picture slightly with the video card driver.

If you can deal with all that, they are incredible. Dell has a window manager that allows you to assign a grid and windows will snap to their respective cells once dropped into it.

http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&c...
I can think of so many countermeasures.

- Append a null byte to the end of your files, giving them a unique hash value.

- Disallow internet access to the application.

- Spoof the server using DNS tricks and control what is sent and received.

- Reverse engineer the application to make it look as if it's working while it actually isn't.

- Sandbox the application.

- Use an alternative phone for all of your "sensitive" activities.

- Don't keep "sensitive" information on phones, rather store on an encrypted computer.

- Use an old burner phone.

So not only is the policy utterly disgusting, it's also completely ineffective. A small blessing perhaps.
I suppose it would be easy to carry a secondary, hidden device and only use your primary device for inconspicuous activities?
Wow, those chinese surely are totalitarian in the way they approach surveillance technology aren't they ?

Good thing we have nothing like that. Only just closed hardware with closed or with some parts open complicated software mostly made by a few corporations which tend to and have in fact in past coopoerated with governments without even thinking about their customers.
> I hate the fact that if I voice anything skeptical of this policy someone will call me a terrorist sympathizer.

It's a form of bullying and intimidation in order to take away once voice. It's reminiscent of the red scare and the mccarthy era. If you don't agree with our censorship, you are an commie/terrorist/etc sympathizer.

It's a well-used method of silencing opposition. The catholic church used to do that to silence opposition.. You don't think the earth is the center of the universe? You are a heretic.

> And its not like there's any side of the political spectrum I can vote for. Both Hillary and Trump wanted to censor extremism on Twitter.

This is the problem. Money ultimate dictates who we can vote for. By the time the selection gets whittled down to 2, they are pretty much the same - indebted to the elite and the pretense of "left/right" is just a superficial distraction.
The thing to realize is that right now, there isn't a scaling problem at all. There is one group of people doing everything they can to make sure that the block size limit is not increased, including censoring /r/bitcoin, posting non-stop with irrelevant and misleading information, making and breaking promises, etc. If the block size limit was lifted to 8MB, nothing would happen, everything would function exactly the same.

There is no technical reason for the limitation, no limits of bottlenecks have been reached now that the blocks are full and anyone could see that bitcoin as it stands takes very little CPU power and very little bandwidth to sync with the chain. If you can watch a stream on twitch or youtube, you can sync with bitcoin's chain with lots of bandwidth to spare.
What about GCP and other providers?
That doesn't work for me, probably because I'm on Gnome flashback. I don't like Activities and other quirks of Gnome Shell. Luckily with Ubuntu 16.04 the flashback mode gained back all the functionality of the Gnome 2 desktop.

I googled for the package name of that screen recorder, with no success, but Green Recorder is pretty good.

I also don't seem to have an embedded screen shapshotter (PrntScreen works). I've been using shutter for ages.
Instead, or before, creating a security bounty pay well known security researchers and you will obtain solid results. There is no enough good security people in the world to give attention to so many underpaid bounties. If there are hundreds of millions at stake, couldn't you pay <=1% as a safety measure?
I respectfully completely disagree as do most professional photo/video folks I know. Color grading support on Macs is superb. There's also no commonly used resolutions supported on Windows that I know of that aren't available on Mac, so I'm not sure what you mean by the last part.
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Its their country and their laws, trying to solve the problem of Islamic extremism on their own.

In western countries, you get detained for years in Guantanamo under torture without knowing for sure why you got arrested. Young girls get married as early as 12 to creepy old dudes and there is no need to ask for installing spyware because the phones and communications are already tapped by default.

Anyone criticizing China while permitting their own country to do worse is an hypocrite. Still waiting for the outrage about the mass surveillance from Amazon Echo, Google and others. Only the European Commission is doing something visible against this trend.
All transactions within an exchange are off-chain, right?
Financial analyst. Similarly to shostack, surprisingly technical field at the entry level stage now - you'll have a really hard time if you can't learn (SQL is a must; VBA is very good to have; R is also really useful depending on who you work with). Finance is basically a BI type of role with some longer term forecasting.

Generally speaking - we use our (light) technical skills to analyze data and use it to help provide insight for strategy, both in the short term and long term. We are also the team that builds the longer range operational plans (working with PMs, Ops partners, other orgs etc-).
I've seen urgency used as an excuse for sloppy work so often that I can't ever imagine the speed of development being a good metric.
I'm saying the code generator would be written at the same net lines/second as the undocumented legacy system. I wouldn't count the 20k LOC as written code. The code generator may be a more efficient project, but the rate at which it's built seems to be the same.
How will YouTube decide if my search (as an example) is to learn more about extremism? Maybe I'm a budding political and social thinker who's interested in understanding the deeper driving forces and would like to come up with approaches on how to deal with these threats in ways that are not just "let's just bomb the hell out of all these people and that will solve the problem once and for all." What about journalists who want to report on these propaganda videos in a concise yet coherent manner for the rest of the public to get a better grip of things? What about policy makers who'd like to understand and then take action? What about think tanks and policy research? What about economic and political researchers? What about "good" people who create similar videos for educational purposes (maybe a classroom assignment to analyze and come up with essays)?

I seem to be repeating stuff, but there are a lot of people who can truly help humankind (and non-humans) by accessing these videos. We have to get better at understanding things better before we can claim to have solutions. The dynamics of a year ago may not be the same as what exists now or what may happen a year from now. Censorship is a bad answer if we want to solve issues.

Would even the intelligence agencies be happy with such a move since it makes the wanted people disappear off their radars and use other modes of communication? I believe this is a self-defeating attitude and approach for anyone who desires to look beyond knee jerk reactions and instant conclusions.

The way to deal with damaging propaganda is to create more awareness and education material and put it in front of people, IMO.
For one thing, it had no bootstrapping mechanism to speak of. Most of the early conversations about Ryan Fugger's Ripple started with, "Imagine that X participants are using Ripple and extend credit to each other." But users couldn't test out that scenario and get a feel for the network because it was non-trivial to get X participants together and have them extend credit to one another.

Meanwhile, people were downloading Bitcoin and clicking a button to "Generate Coins." Great, so you've got coins. Now what? Maybe you offer 10,000 of them to anyone on the internet who will call in a pizza order in your area. Somebody does it and your pizza gets delivered. You send them 10,000 of your whacko coins in return. Boom! A working cryptocurrency is born.

You just couldn't achieve that with the early Ripple.

The later Ripple which wasn't written by Ryan Fugger added a cryptocurrency called XRP to this scheme, and apparently spent most of its time arguing that its new cryptocurrency wasn't a cryptocurrency but just spam protection. A sizable portion of this spam protection was divided up among the original investors/author. It was fun to read the comments on that one.