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As a long term Ingress player i am not surprised by this _at all_. Niantics management has proven itself again and again and again as being completely incompetent at everything they do. (They even to manage to ban their own official event photographer after he had GPS problems while traveling to Paris).

I used to be angry at them for ruining Ingress (one of the best games ever made) but nowadays I am just amazed at the level of sheer incompetence.

They managed to learn _nothing_ from 4 years of Ingress and I think now it's time that the whole upper management is fired so that the company can start fresh.
As a related side note, I sent a support request to Vultr twice in the last week and both times I got a response within 5 minutes. All follow up responses for both those tickets were also within a few minutes.

Their uptime has been rock solid and performance consistently great for the 2 years I've been with them.

I dare say most projects (even moderately big ones) would do just fine without the mega cloud.
Although I mention it in the comment, drugs aren't my primary concern. What about for example: child porn, forced prostitution, contract killings, etc. These things all existed before crypto-markets, it just seems like crypto-markets make life so much easier for these types of things (if they are as effective as advertised). Sure, we can police the "meat space" part of these transactions, but at what cost?
Yeah, but it’s Chicago. A massive city, not a town.
Better to set everything to use UTC

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/time#UTC_in_Windows
There are definitely companies have the kind of wifi infrastructure you are talking about who offer rentals to the people who organize these kinds of events. Here is an example of one[0].

Wifi is often deployed at large events (PAX East for example) and it is more then feasible if the company is willing to pay the money for another company to do it.

However, their server infrastructure is another question entirely. In today's age, making scale-able network services with very little downtime is not something that requires a dedicated networking team and hundreds of millions of dollars. I can't imagine they have very many good excuses to why they continue to allow this to happen other than that they don't value investment into their infrastructure enough (despite being a company completely dependent on the internet)

The problems that they are experiencing are ones that have caused problems and had solutions created for them for years. The just seem to be unwilling to properly invest in the solutions to fix them, which are cheaper than ever (considering the complexity of the issues in the grand scheme of things).

[0] https://tradeshowinternet.com/solutions/event-organizers
Believe me, you don't want to do that. One of the side effects of my sinus trouble is that I "hear" my heartbeat (not just throbbing), and it took me years to learn how to tune it out and not have it feed a feedback loop that led to some very stressful moments (140bpm resting).
Yes, one way to get a job at a VC firm is to either be a successful entrepreneur, or have domain expertise that the firm needs. These include: (1) technical expertise - do you know a relevant technology inside and out (e.g. for biotech - do you have a PhD or MD)? can you vet potential investments? (2) finance - have you worked in investment banking before? helped raise money? structured deals? (3) do you have an outstanding network that you can source deals from? can you make sure the firm knows all the up and coming start-ups?

VC jobs are tough to get, even at the associate level (entry level). Typically firms are looking for some domain expertise they need. It can vary a lot. Background that include finance or consulting can be helpful, but aren't guaranteed to get you in the door.

At the higher (leadership) end of the VC job spectrum, it often comes down to "can you raise money?". Do you already have a track record of success?
I was wondering why the existing legislation was not discussed more as it sounds as bad as the proposed extension.

So there is an existing Office of Antiboycott Compliance linked by this article:
https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/enforcement/oac

While it sounds like that office is focused on companies, it does clearly say in the who is covered section that it applies to individuals.
Lol, knowing the route means you can do the job.
Not many people are impressed with this silly shit to have it done to them?

You know, I don't often say this, but the general populace was right on this one.
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"Hacking your body" the way this article describes seems more pathological than anything.

It's like people who fetishize about getting amputated.
Thanks for the explanation. I've got a working theory: most people, even managers, even lauded ones, don't know much about "textbook" management. They mostly manage how they were managed, some picking up a few things here or there.

It's recursive.

I've worked in businesses, started and scaled my own, and have also been a teacher (k-12). We all go to school for at least 13 years and internalize what "teaching" is. Most teachers' classrooms end up looking like ones they experienced even if the "textbook" lays out massively different ideas. It's the same problem as management.*

We all also work, and internalize some conception of "management." Thus, most manage they way they were managed.

Throughout my career I've worked with over a hundred different organizations. I can read about many more in the news and case studies. I see very little in practice that aligns with hardly any of the big ideas in management that I've learned from the likes of Drucker and Deming.

*It has not gone unnoticed that education is our first experience with management. Often it has Taylorist, Theory X, command and control roots. In contrast, the great teachers I see have a lot in common with great managers and management theory (see Drucker, Deming).
I think that the really really bad stuff here is e.g. Human trafficking, chemical weapons, assassination services, etc...not even any drugs, and as you've pointed out, people harming other people. How do you police that here, or don't you?
I used a live-cd and the whole point of those is that you can try an OS without that OS changing your system. Localtime should be the default configuration and not something the user has to figure out after getting fucked by it.

edit: Or at least give a big warning when changing your users PC clock!!!
Huh.

Just the storage alone must have cost him $60k or so at the current HDD and NAS prices.

To be honest, if i was that rich i would have done the same, being from the wrong place and generation for the modern "storing stuff online" fashion.
They have to go back in the line.
Google is already using google glass in some manufacturing environments.
Microsoft already released hololens, although for now mainly for devs.
magic leap hopefully is coming next year and accordingly to the rumours should be quite a big leap.
If I was to bet I'd bet on it being a single exceptional individual who managed to keep it secret than a group of people keeping it secret.

Anything beyond a single person massively increases the probability of a leak.
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Absolutely. It's well established that drugs aren't a problem. I mean, it's only the leading death cause of young Americans. Nothing to see here folks.
Niantic organized a lot of big Ingress events for the last 3 years so they _must_ have known about these problems but somehow they still managed to fuck it up.
No, actually. I don't think I've experienced that at all. The biggest problem I have is that it's actually a docking station setup, and when I pull the laptop out, and have to scale back down Chrome's zoom from 130%, and change PuTTY's font. I may have googled and turned off that in the beginning, but I definitely didn't need a registry hack, at least for Windows 10.
Yeah, I was referring to polymorphism as we have in OO, where old code can call new code.
I didn't even know "closed polymorphism" was a thing (is it equivalent to algebraic types?).
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Well let's do the math

125 kHz 2 bits/cycle = 250 bits /sec

A 2^40 bit string has 1099511627776 combinations, and would require 1099511627776 40 = 43980465111040 bits to besent to try all of them. That would take 43980465111040/250 seconds or about 5575 years

And that's under ideal "spherical object in a vacuum" conditions.

So yeah your right, unless they get lucky.
Well let's do the math

125 kHz 2 bits/cycle = 250 bits /sec

A 2^40 bit string has 1099511627776 combinations, and would require 1099511627776 40 = 43980465111040 bits to besent to try all of them. That would take 43980465111040/250 seconds or about 5575 years

So yeah your right, unless they get lucky.
Not only in Japan but also in Germany and the US
I don't measure velocity in the scrum team I coach. And people's skills are not interchangeable but we do want most of the team member to be able to perform the easy stuff. A front end developer is not interchangeable with a backend developer. Having a task card about thinking through a design is always welcome. We use standup to have face to face conversations.
While I'm not exactly bilingual, I would like to teach my children (when I have them) multiple languages, just because I think that the potential for learning (and especially for learning languages) is at its maximum during childhood.

However, I'm not quite sure what the best languages would be. I want to give them some exposure to a broad spectrum of languages. I know that the best way to learn a language is to actually use it. In this light, I'm wondering what the best balance between casually exposing them to a huge number of languages and learning them just one extra language really well would be.
I think the best explanation is that you missed rest of the chapters! :)
Stadiums have issues with this too. I was at Marlins Park for the All-Star series. During the Home Run Derby I had press access, which had special Wifi credentials on a completely separate network.

It was down for the entire game. A lot of hotspots popped up in the press area.

The during the actual All-Star game I tried the regular stadium Wifi. It was down for most of the game.

T-Mobile was up for most of the game, so I was still able to publish photos and read people's reactions. A good thing as T-Mo was the main sponsor for the games.
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> basically the _lingua franca_ of the Western world. [emphasis mine]

You're not wrong, but for some reason I always find it hilarious to refer to English as the language of the Franks.
The game uses google's protobuf protocol which makes communication more efficient and the game updates (I can only tell from <= 0.35 analysis) all 10-30 seconds like loading pokemon spawns and map entities of the current map area.

The most expensive data in 0.35 was:

- Pokemon models (They were dynamically loaded but cached then)

- Pokestop images (Server sends image url and client searches for a chached version)

- Syncing the player state with the client (Inventory, rewards, egg states..)

- Updating the map (Future pokemon spawns, pokestops/gyms in view..)

If a player is idle and doesn't move, just keeps farming a single pokestop and battles sometimes, then it should be relatively low cost since the game doesn't use a realtime communication (It's actually HTTPS based lol).
Just mentally filter out every reference to the 80's and enjoy it for the VR story that it is.

Also, it has one of the worst opening chapters of any book I've every read. Skip the first chapter (or skim it), and then continue - it's a good story.

Minus the opening chapter, and the 80's references it's actually a fun book.
I actually came across your repo a few days ago!

I haven't tried it yet. I remember seeing that comment from Chris Lamb but I'm left wondering what the blockers are to getting 3.6 in backports. I messed around with another python3.6 deb (don't remember from where) and there were too many issues with it; namely with venvs.
Oh. I looked into it a bit, looks like that's something "Aesop Story Builder" does. Not sure if they have settings that you can control through their interface. If they do, it looks like the relevant option might be called "arrowKeys".
Funny how the biggest provider and consummer of those three things are governments, but you probably have no issue with watching billions of dollars be taxed and forced into bombs.
Isn't wanting to explore novel sensations and experiences pretty normal?
I haven't actually measured anything, I know when it first came out there was some concern about people possibly hitting bandwidth caps. I think part of the issue may be overhead - it's regularly communicating back to the servers with current location, and getting back a list of coordinates for stops within a certain distance (with a bit of other data), coordinates and other data for Pokemon spawns, etc. It's also using Google Maps data to draw a map of the terrain including roads, water and building outlines, so all of that is also something that changes as you move around. Finally, people are also supposed to "spin" Pokestops and gyms, each of which also has a photo of the piece of artwork, etc. that the stop is located at. Along with the map data, those photos are not preloaded in the app so they have to be downloaded at least once. I don't know how much caching of those images is done - hopefully some, but if they're doing little or no caching then that's yet another chunk of data to pull down.

Looking at the screen and a map, it looks like the game renders an outline for every structure within 600-650 meters of me, so for an area with a lot of structures that could be a fair amount of downloaded data depending on how good their caching is. If their download process isn't good at handling missing data or transmission errors, it could also be pretty vulnerable to problems on a congested network.
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This just, kind of blows my mind. What is management if not people? I mean Drucker's very definition of management is the idea of organizing a group of people to drive towards a common aim where you learn how to make each individuals' strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.

Deming was adamant that psychology had to be a pillar of management. Why? Because people!

I'm curious then, who were the authorities/what were the theories (if any I guess) that were used for your management degree?

- Also, why am I talking about Drucker and Deming? Because if I drew a family tree, I could trace at least some aspect of nearly any management idea today back to them (lots of amalgams out there these days). There is one big caveat though, lots of management practices today have neo-Taylorism embedded into them that most people are unaware of.
and a second ago I wondered why I as a wandows user even read this thread :)
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To call a credit card transaction a full instant confirmation is disingenuous at best.

It is fundamentally different from a Bitcoin transaction - it checks the user has the funds in seconds. I assume you're referring to refund/chargeback policies, that is a policy, not a technical limitation. CCs will be replaced, but I suspect not by bitcoin.

I agree in theory for most of the technical points on speed there are possible mitigations, but do think the design simply goes in the wrong direction in ways which are fundamentally flawed (e.g. POW, anonymous transactions, tokens for coins). It has some of the worst attributes of cash IMO.

But whoever wins will be the most organized, and the ones who makes the best, most stable, and most reliable code.

I find it far more likely if Bitcoin actually becomes mainstream that it would suffer collapse or hostile takeover as there is no backing authority, and lots of interested parties who stand to make a lot of money from manipulating the price of both transactions and the currency. I just don't believe the meritocratic tech utopia you paint here is close to reality - why would the best win? The bitcoin space is full of frauds and cartels already, even when it is not in widespread use.

My main problem with Bitcoin however is that it's a solution to a problem we just don't have.

Using transaction ledgers without users holding private keys is a feature. Central authority and reversible transactions is a feature (even if the store doesn't allow reversing, an authority should be able to add balancing transactions to reverse). Trusted and public identity of partners is a feature. Confidence in a currency backed by tangible goods is a feature.

The tech is interesting and something tangential may well develop from it (like verified public contracts, or public bets, or notarised transactions or similar), but I don't really want pseudo-anonymous monetary transactions with anonymous partners, or to possess a hoard of tokens someone can steal, based on an extremely volatile currency vulnerable to cornering. What I do need is fast verified transactions with known accountable partners on a stable currency, with the possibility of disputing payments and reversing fraud, which is what we already have with FPS, debit cards, or credit cards.

It's a solution in need of a problem.
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> mixed stable/testing system

Unfortunately the deb from testing has some pretty serious compatibility issues when pulled into a stable system :(

> Why even ask such question?

Because I'm curious. Because it'd be useful. Because I haven't used any other Debian than Jessie. Because I like asking questions. Pick one?
> “A child who is learning two languages will have a smaller vocabulary in each than a child who is only learning one; there are only so many hours in the day, and you’re either hearing English or Spanish,” Dr. Hoff said.

That is rubbish. It depends on how the child is exposed to the various languages and how much exposure they get. My daughter speaks 3 languages at home (one to each adult). We were told exactly this that she would be behind language wise, but we made sure that she was read stories in each of the languages, and had good exposure. She has just started at a bilingual school, and her monolingual English teacher has told us that she is far ahead of the rest of her class language wise.

Yes, this may be an outlier, but every family that I know that has bilingual or more children and who expose the children to enough of each language have children that are ahead of the norm in each of those languages.

If however you simply split the time that you would give in language related activities or conversation between multiple languages, then of course the child will be behind in each one, as you've only exposed them to half the language in each. This is true up to about 7 years old, and non-existent after that anyway.
People have always altered their bodies for improvement. Cutting off parts of their penises (circumcision), perforating their skin for earrings and piercings, shooting lasers at their skin to destroy their organs that produce hairs, etc.
In what way would that be useful?
Twilio seems to be leaning a little bit in the directions of solutions #1 and #2: https://www.twilio.com/showcase

But they are also going further all-in on the developer-first market with things like their serverless offering: https://www.twilio.com/blog/2017/05/introducing-twilio-funct...

I'd be interested in the author's thoughts on Twilio's strategy in context of AWS (which I think the author would agree has crossed the chasm).
Some countries have true bilingual culture, where being a bilingual is a necessary part of life and not something to achieve. Meaning that it's not uncommon to see a group of people discussing something in two languages like it's a single language and not bothering to switch to other peoples language, because everyone automatically assumes that everyone else understand them in either one.
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My parents are Chinese but I grew up in Canada. Consequently, I am fully fluent in English, but my Chinese is quite poor by comparison. I am "okay" by your standard, in that I can converse comfortably on day-to-day topics with native speakers, but my vocabulary falls apart with complex subjects. I am indeed fairly self-conscious of my "child-like" use of Chinese; on a recent visit, I was shocked that I could not read a 3-year-old cousin's picture book completely without stumbling on words. I have since redoubled my efforts to learn the written language :)

I did Saturday school, cultural programs, and got involved with the community. Consequently, I do feel closer to my Chinese heritage than most people of a similar "CBC" background. However, there is just so much cultural background that I will never see or experience, and that saddens me somewhat.

There's always a compromise. Had I been more fully immersed in Chinese, I can fully expect that my English would not be so good - and for my academic work, that would be a detriment. So, perhaps I should be happier, as you say, that I ended up maximizing my English skill.
As a counterpoint, I worked there for 6 years until 2013, and I saw it happen a few times at the SLU campus.
But, aren't illegal transactions at least possible under Open Bazaar? Any drug dealer could set up a store on here without any problems?
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The thing that always fascinates me is how people constantly bring up the long lifespan of nuclear waste, while ignoring the essentially infinite lifespan of many forms of toxic chemical pollution.

Tell people that the mercury that comes out of a coal plant will outlast the Earth itself, and you get a shrug. Tell them that nuclear waste will remain dangerous for 10,000 years and suddenly it's a Big Problem that needs Extraordinary Measures in order to Safeguard Future Civilizations.
Much better in what way?

I have had reason to become somewhat familiar with what happens to the body when organs are transplanted with natural organs from other people and when metal pins are used to repair damaged parts and so forth. None of it is anywhere near as good as keeping your own parts functional and healthy to begin with. It all comes with serious complications, and I think people vastly underestimate just how bad it really is. I think it is far worse than people think.
I've done the TV as a monitor thing, and the value is good, but the picture will be nowhere near as nice as a real monitor. Color reproduction is usually really inaccurate and even when you turn all the sharpening and post-processing off that they will let you, you still have an inferior picture.

That said, for gaming they are a solid choice and $500 is obviously a whole lot cheaper.
They are LG panels ultimately. There were some Samsung panels previously but since 2015 they have all been LG.
#2 definitely seems to be where I'm falling in right now.. it's not that things don't work.. its just minor bugs that I'm catching.
Nothing. It's basically, like, a decently told story, nothing special about it, and it resonated with some people who, I think, like to 'get the reference'.
He is right though. Couple that with the dwindling supply of food in developing countries, and there is a huge problem coming our way.
I don't know if I realized such a thing existed. I've seen a few print-on-demand machines in libraries, so I guess I should have guessed, but I have never seen such a thing before.
Ah, didn't realize the original question was limited to comments on dynamic typing. Regardless, that's a clever article, and an interesting tradeoff.