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For skeptics like this, I've had success bringing up the history of paper money and point out how it took ~250yrs for the idea that money was the medium of exchange to take over (1705 with John Law to Nixon taking the US off the gold standard). Initially, paper money wasn't seen as "real" and we didn't even have an idea of what a reserve requirement was let alone how FDIC-like insurance would be REALLY useful for stability. I'm skeptical myself of if cryptocurrencies are really the "next version" of what is money, but a proper historical context lends credibility to taking them seriously.

Paper money initially was -- like cryptocurrencies are today -- inefficient, had interop problems and highly volatile. The main difference is the rate of experimentation/iteration today is so much faster and we have a complex understanding of economics already which we can use as a guide. Also, back then some of the experimentation was being run at national economy scales. Cryptocurrencies are great in that we can experiment with the idea without reaching/requiring a potentially economy-collapsing scale during the early iterations.

I doubt I'll live to see the if they turn out to be the "next version" vs an interesting experiment -- I can't imagine a wholly new definition of what is money taking root in under 2 generation.
Some (all?) products need more than 1-5 years of active development to really become awesome. Every time a company dies, a huge amount of knowledge is lost.
Why does someone need a deeper understanding of intrinsic value if the shallow understanding does reflect a Ponzi-like scheme? Not having a deep understand doesn't negate what exists at a shallow understanding; "it's the colour red," "actually, it's rose coloured."

Edit: And if the Ponzi-like scheme is what the problem is, why isn't then the community solving for that? The easy answer is that then adoption is difficult, because if you have a Ponzi-like scheme it is much easier to attract VC money, likely the money of bad actors more easily, etc. Yes, that hyper-incentive of the Ponzi-like scheme does get people working together, more quickly, whereas having a normal or no incentive (the incentive being the value of a public ledger) then it will grow at an intrinsic pace.
Ubuntu is backed by Canonical Ltd. so it's corp vs. a much bigger corp. Linux as server vs Windows Server might be a more appropriate comparison for this.
I bet the other Howard Marks would be more supportive of bitcoin if he were still with us...
> Bad decision. Very bad decision.

I agree. Immelt is an HBS educated manager. <- Full stop. That's the only thing about him. He has no Silicon Valley experience and worked for the GE his whole life. The only thing I would hire him for is to stabilize the company to finally go public. I bet the VC's plan exactly for that. I would not expect any innovation in Ubers business from now on. Immelt will bring Uber in shape for Wall Street, VCs cash out and then the whole thing can go to hell. As bad as Kalanick was, he was aggressive and hungry for success. Immelt is nothing of that. Bye bye Uber.
I go both up (I know all but 2 of my 16 g-g-grandparents, and 22 of my 32 g-g-g-grandparents) and down (I'm tracking 14+ generations of everyone descended from my 10th great-grandfather).

I'm the kind of person that likes 100% completion in my video games, so the idea of "filling in" all the gaps is satisfying to me. The amount of public records on BMD (birth, marriage, and death—the "holy trinity" of genealogical data points) is staggering in most countries. From census and SSA records in the U.S. to parish records in Scotland, you can find a lot of information.
They could also be multiplexed (MSR $x is address/command, MSR $y is data). Or require a sequence of operations (write this magic sequence of numbers to MSR $z). Or memory-mapped/IO-mapped (with the mapping enabled/disabled by MSR or PCI registers). Or be locked by the BIOS during the boot sequence.

But IMO, it probably can't be disabled at all. The "disabling" would be to change the program it runs to a program which does nothing. So there wouldn't be a "disable IME" bit; there would be bits to either make its memory visible to the main CPU cores, or to read/write to its memory, and it's possible that these bits are accessible only from the IME side, or from SMM.
I'm looking at that area. Currently in Seattle. Can you give me some advantage of round Rock, cedar Park or Austin? My current employers office is near The Domain in North Austin. It looks like I can get a decent house in Austin, but cedar Park and round Rock also look nice.
Sure. But now you're retreating to a rather small set of applications. Ada has nice tooling and supports a pretty large number of platforms. I don't think you'll find many niches where not one of Rust, D, Swift, Ada, Java, Go, or the dozens of other memory safe(r) languages could do the job and only C or C++ are adequate.
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That's why I put it in quotes. However, calling it "some demand" severly understates the significance of this fact. It's not just some demand, it means it's absolutely vital for vast majority of people and businesses in US. Which won't be the case for bc unless it becomes legal tender
Indeed, the cited book that the article is from does have a footnote about every paragraph.

Adapted (with permission) from Rethinking Capitalism: Economics and Policy for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth, edited by Michael Jacobs and Mariana Mazzucato

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1119120950/ref=as_li_tl?
There would be nothing stopping users from hosting their own homeserver, but there would be something preventing them from communicating with all the users still on matrix.org. And all the users still on matrix.org would stay there because the matrix.org homeserver would provide more value to them, by having more users, than a homeserver that can't communicate with most Matrix users.
Sorry but can someone explain why C++ by itself can't be good enough for a web framework? OKCupid wrote one back in the day.

ALSO: Your example is much slower than the same server written in Node.js, haha. Because the language doesn't support evented programming. The language may be fast, but the paradigm of blocking while waiting for I/O is slow!
The US federal government requires every business to accept US currency in all denominations. Thats why when people drop a pile of pennies on the counter, the clerk doesn't tell them to go to hell. That, in and of itself creates legitimacy of green paper rectangles with numbers on them.

The concerning thing about bitcoin, and any cryptocurrency is that by nature, the larger it gets (as in total outstanding coins), the more difficult it is to create more currency through reconciliation. With traditional currencies, it's relatively easy to print money. Printing money is done mainly to keep an agreed upon healthy inflation rate of around 2%. Why this is important is when deflation happens, loans are no longer attractive because it's always better to wait because items increase in value relative to the currency. In other words, why would I borrow $1000 today when that same loan amount would buy $2000 worth of stuff next week. When people stop borrowing, it has nasty economic implications. (Money Multiplier effect and all that).

That's probably a horrible explanation by me, but the short version is crypto, since it's harder to create over time leads to a natural deflation that increases over time.

FWIW: I don't know a whole lot about crypto, but the things mentioned are concerning to me. I mean it might be a good time to follow the herd so to speak, as long as you know there will probably come a time when the herd runs off a cliff.
When the article says: "because for all the multitouch gestures Apple can add, there’s just no beating a good old mouse when it comes to selecting text." I have to wholeheartedly agree.

I am a heavy mouse (and trackpad) user and have been for decades. Editing and refactoring code for me is all about the mouse. The same goes for editing prose, which I also write a significant quantity of.

The two-finger, on-glass "trackpad cursor" trick doesn't work well for me--it never has. It looks like the "ghost caret" is in the right place, but at least half the time, when I lift my fingers the cursor appears a character off in either direction. Verrry frustrating. Also, the two-finger trick requires the on screen keyboard and is clumsy to use if you are using an external keyboard.

About a year ago I gave up on my personal quest to use the iPad as a heavy writing device. It's just not for me. I picked up a bottom-of-the-line 12" Macbook and have never looked back.
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Firstly, the paper clearly explains that a userland (ring 3) process can easily discriminate between instructions that do not exist and instructions that the process lacks the credentials to execute simply because the two cases give rise to different exceptions (undefined and general protection, respectively).

Secondly, one could trivially log "I am going to try this" to a file, go ahead and do it, and if the machine crashes you consult the log and read exactly what was about to be done and evidently caused a hang. You don't necessarily need to write a log entry after doing something, in this case you can deterministically log what you are about to do and make deductions therefrom.
The new WebConfig library looks promising too: https://github.com/WebFreak001/WebConfig
...which we do. Getting into Austin from one of the suburbs is a nightmare during rush hour and still a slow 'stop-and-go' at all other times.
My father said that when he heard a record of Lotte Lenya's, he couldn't believe that German could sound like that. Such German as he then knew, he had learned in the Army and then at an all-male college.
I thought they scrapped the crossfeed fuel idea because it was too complicated?
Not really, if a library is stable and doesn't need any change it's likely that the developer will not bother to recompile it, or even will abandon it, making it unusable (unless you compile a new version yourself). You also need that all your dependencies are updated before you can upgrade yourself. I haven't touched Scala in a while so I don't know if it is still the case but it seems like a serious problem, in the long run it will be the cause of many lost libraries.

In Java you can use an old dusty library from 15 years ago without a problem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd91c5ZwSf0

Excellent talk from last year's HOPE about the vulnerability of medical devices - he even connects to some live
Ancestry.com has the best UI and is the "easiest" to use that I've found. You can use it for free to just build your tree, but you'll feel like a second-class citizen. Their data sources are very good and easy to use, but you pay out the nose for them. (Obligatory note that I very much disagree with how Ancestry.com has set themselves up to collect money off the backs of researchers who often work for free, and will put your inputs behind their paywall.)

So Ancestry.com is a good place for research and for family tree management. I've set up the second half of my stack to generate HTML files, which I keep (publicly) on my personal site.
>> "several million" undocumented instructions.. is that right?

Bear in mind that doesnt really mean that there are several million operations / opcode mnemonics which are undocumented but each distinct instructions.

It is more likely they are "loose" decodings of other instructions, where changing a single bit of the opcode still causes the CPU to decode the same instruction.

Toy example: If I encode my (imaginary ISA) 8bit instruction for "ADD EAX EBX" as 0101_X000 where X is "don't care" then regardless of whether the core gets 0101_0000 or 0101_1000 , it will still execute the ADD instruction.

Now imagine your instructions can be upto 16 bytes long, and you see how loose decoding can lead to a lot of instructions which are undocumented, but that the processor is perfectly happy to execute.
Heh. I was thinking exactly that same thing. RIP Mr Nice!
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This could be a nice acquisition by Jeep/Chrysler since they're lagging behind in EV development due to lack of funds.

It would also help get the taste of the compass & patriot horseshit they've been peddling lately.

That's some beautiful vaporware, I hope they make it.
Why would peer to peer require more bandwidth? More simultaneous connections?
Ok you are right, now that I read what I wrote it could be interpreted that way and it wasn't my intention at all. I know Haskell can be used for real world programming because I own a book called "real world haskell" :) I was abusing the expression to put forward a case in which I believe the mutable thinking comes across as more natural (imo).
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A neighbor's dog was trained to respond to commands in Japanese, though neither of them spoke it. This was in Washington, DC, so I guess that it greatly reduced the chances of the dog responding to somebody else's commands.
Whatever you do, avoid the console version at all costs.

A friend told me about this game, and I thought it would be perfect for my (then) 10 year old. We got it for the PS4, and it was nothing but frustration. The biggest controls were complex and confusing when mapped to the PS4 controller, you couldn't install mods, and the game was buggy, frequently crashing and corrupting saves.

We finally got the PC version (which I run under Wine on FreeBSD), and it works much, much, much better.
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You're not wrong. I make a decent amount of money and I'm still scared to death I won't be able to afford it. But Social Security in this country is not enough to have a good standard of living (doesn't even pay rent in most nursing homes) and might not even be solvent by the time I retire.

Edit: most of the time the younger members of the family end up taking on the burden of supporting the elder members.
I'd never heard of the investor.. I immediately thought "why are people asking him about investments, and didn't he die?"
This sort of analysis, where you look at each country as if it is an independent economy leads to erroneous conclusions. It's like confusing independent and dependent events. A country can't be analyzed as if it is a closed system.

Statements like "inequality is now rising rapidly" are not meaningful from the global perspectives, and lead him to say nonsensical things like there is no explanation for the change in ratios of pay, when the global labor force is the obvious explanation. The repeated attempt to look for other causes is fruitless and just an excuse to list out things he doesn't like.

Statements like "Resources given to the rich" are also somewhat ludicrous, as he implies it is the same mechanism as "give more money to those at the bottom". "Give" is a very deceptive verb to use.

While institutions certainly matter, when he finally gets around to discussing the effects of the global labor force (after ignoring it for most of the piece so he can draw incorrect conclusions), he decries the asymmetric freedom of movement for capital and labor. His presumption is that if one billion Chinese workers had moved to the US then we would have less inequality (because unions would have signed them up and kept wages high by establishing monopolies on labor supply). This idea, that you can build high wage castles and put moats around them that keep the rest of the world poor is sadly among the bad economic ideas popular on the Left these days. The idea that it reduces inequality to have poor immigrants is just silly, as people that come in with little wealth increase measures of inequality. (This is not to admit that inequality is bad, the Great Depressions reduced inequality measures, but just that his own recommendations are ridiculous ways of reducing it)

I also find it interesting that he claims, "there is a growing global consensus that GDP does not provide a good measure of overall economic performance. What matters is whether growth is sustainable, and whether most citizens see their living standards rising year after year." By most measures of living standards, such as economic quantities of goods consumed, amount of living space per person, calories consumed, etc. things have clearly improved. I am curious which measures he is using that have not improved.
Interesting, I wonder why they didn't carry them over to the article.
The first thing I remember is writing a space invaders clone in BASIC on a a 386 25MHz with 4mb of RAM.

It was challenging without internet access, I invented things like the game loop, and tried to compartmentalise the enemy code vs input code,
First version cleared and redrew the screen every frame, then I learnt about blacking out the characters and only drawing the essentials (it was all ASCII based I didn't know how to draw graphics)

Looking back on it, I can see there's a bunch of polling where there should be events, the game loop is full of input code, and lots of global state and gotos

But I was pretty young at the time, about 8 or so - it was the first proper development project I made and the first time I thought "hey, this software stuff is complex!!"

I fondly remember spending hours trying to hold the program state in my head, being so inexperienced at programming I was oscillating between getting distracted by implementation details or thinking too abstract to be useful - I practiced shifting up and down the abstraction layers to try and hold all this complexity (not knowing terminology or really understanding what I was doing) so challenging and fun!
> The evolution of C++ is insanely slow.

The only language today with more independent implementations than C++ is C. Compared to C, C++ evolution is not slow — processes involving so many implementers are inherently not in fast-forward mode.

Most major languages only have a handful of active implementations, if it's not just one implementation. Most don't have specs.
I skimmed it and think it looks good for a beginner and really like that it focuses on pure JS. One thing I didn't see (and, again, I admit I skimmed) was how to structure a JS project/application. I know this is targeted at beginners, but even beginners need to see structure.

If I missed all this in my skim, please forgive.
> state management

Every GUI of any significant complexity I've ever created ended up needing (if not having) an explicit state machine to work reliably.
I know it's a prototype, but I wonder how much thought was put into safety. The simplistic look makes you think there's probably no crumple zones. And there's clearly no driver's airbag, dashboard padding, etc.

Edit: The style seems heavily inspired by the original Ford Bronco. They even support the removable rear top. http://classicfordbroncos.com/builds/
>I'd be willing to bet, the speech recognition is tuned to recognize common vocabulary over proper names. So it is purposely choosing "theatre" instead of "Peter?".

Yeah, I think that's the case: it will usually get "Peter" but maybe 3 times a week it hears "Theatre". The problem is we have multiple bedrooms - so we'd need to come up with unique but common and unambiguous names that also feel natural to each person (which is the hard problem - we have 13 hue lights, 6 smart switches, a nest & a few software defined switches that do things like send commands to the TV to switch to specific apps)... or just add a new device group for each common mispronunciation and call it a day.

The reason I'm so insistent about Alexa understanding more about context is that within a room there are obvious, common vocabulary short names for devices, but coming up with a natural global naming structure within a house is less obvious (we experimented with calling the bedrooms front/middle/back but that phrasing isn't natural)

Basic room contextual information would also make for a really natural configuration UI within the app: you create Rooms, you add your Smart Home Devices (optionally assigning each a name within the room) and your Echo to a room. When matching against a "(Turn|Switch) (on|off) :device" expression, it can first match against room-specific names and then fall back on global names.
I'm not really making assumptions about their use, but more rather commenting on the feeling of the community as a whole. I basis this on my deep involvement and the stats that we have to hand. I know that Elm format is not considered an issue by a large majority of Elm users. In fact, I can only thing of a couple of people who dislike it. So while they might personally use Elm and dislike it, it is not representative of the community -- it's important not to spread FUD, as comments on HN often tend to. The people who are most vocal about elm-format being negative are those who have not actually used it outside of short trials.
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I don't see how Texas is more of a political mess than CA, NY, or NJ.

Also, diversity sometimes looks like places other people love and you don't care for.
> it is a rather closed off development culture without a lot of appreciation for hearing ideas and experiences from others.

I've had the opposite experience. From what I've seen, Elm's development culture requires hearing outside ideas and experiences, to a greater degree than I've seen in any other programming language community.

Many design discussions get blocked on Evan saying "We need to research what's out there more before we can proceed. What do other languages do? Which approaches have people liked and disliked? What are the trade-offs of each approach?"

It slows down development, for sure, but I think it's worth it. :)
I moved from SF to Atlanta three years ago. I figure that Atlanta will always be cheaper because they can just build more Atlanta if they need to, whereas San Francisco is essentially an island.
IMHO his thoughts on bitcoin apply more fully to all the other alt-coins, including (especially?) ethereum. Bitcoin has value because of its popularity and has been used successfully for years on dark web markets and legitimate markets like the Microsoft store. Its value may fluctuate, but it is surely valuable to many people in the world.

On the other hand, most alt-coins (Monero is an exception) are the products of people who want to get rich via scamming.
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Except the demand for one is created by gun point
> Thats why when people drop a pile of pennies on the counter, the clerk doesn't tell them to go to hell.

You actually can do that. It's only "legal tender for all debts", meaning that a restaurant would be required to accept the pennies after providing service, but my local bus line(that takes payment upfront) won't let you on if you try to give them pennies.

https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/faqs/Currency/Pages...

And every ecommerce site out there doesn't allow USD, but only a derivative currency convertible to USD on-demand with complex rules attached.
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