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May I shower some humble upvotes sir.

Does Hy work with Pypy ? A jitter lisp would be cool
Unfortunately I am not being sarcastic. I spent many years in executive service in the state government. Several of those years as the state liaison to the federal government. I have never seen anything that was very simple get done in one week.

This is the primary reason I left public service. This move entirely too slowly.
Facebook, Instagram [and any similar VC backed company] are not targeting the 1%. Quite the opposite. Mass human scale adoption is their goal. And once this is achieved then their biz models get very interesting. I do hope there is a significant shift towards social impact ventures. This is where some of the hardest challenges are.
What about Bitcoin Classic and Bitcoin XT?

Also isn't that splitting hairs about requiring the blockchain history? I don't think Matt said that.
>WHERE does it say they we exterminated? As someone that has read a ton I have no idea where this idea started from. Probably some modern non-academic "bible expert."

Deuteronomy commands the Israelites to 7:2-3

>and when the LORD thy God shall deliver them up before thee, and thou shalt smite them; then thou shalt utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them; neither shalt thou make marriages with them: thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son

And 20:16-17

>Howbeit of the cities of these peoples, that the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth but thou shalt utterly destroy them: the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee;

The following book is Joshua which focuses on how Joshua's conquest were a result of his following the commandments so well. Any discrepancy found is because all of this is like the Iliad, fiction loosely based on real events.

Yes, I have read this. It's part of what ended the belief in Christianity I had. Yes, I realize this is how war was carried out basically forever. That is why I reject any set of morales or principles that ever view them as tolerable.
If you're thinking of this event as a split, dividend, or spinoff, then it doesn't make sense. But it's more like a company cloning itself but adopting a different vision/mission, and awarding shares to all existing shareholders.

They could have started fresh like the zillion other cryptocurrencies that have started up since 2009, some of which appear to have real value. You wouldn't look askance at those, at least from a healthy-market perspective. The only difference here is they distributed initial currency fairly perfectly to the best possible audience of Bitcoin fanatics -- without a single spam email!

Cloning a company makes no sense in the physical world. But when it's a purely digital asset, it can be copied very cheaply.

Why isn't this zero-sum? Because it increases the TAM, rather than competing with its doppelganger in a saturated market. Maybe one ends up killing the other, but for now there's room for both.
This assumes that mass genentic engineering will be 100% successful in designing supermen, when it could very well doom a generation of Chinese children to higher risks of autism, infertility, or unseen consequences.

The idea we can control evolution is fairly ridiculous, when we barely even understand it. Most humane people don't want to experiment on generations in the hopes to see that we can.
Probably not what he was referring to, but for someone planning to work for a Western company and live in Thailand, you might consider the Thailand Elite [1] program. It's 500,000 Baht ($14k) which is good for 5 years and allows stays up to 6 months per visit, meaning much more infrequent visa runs. It also comes with black car airport transfers and priority lines through customs, so it makes traveling back and forth to/from the company office a bit more convenient.

$14k is kinda pricy, but if you're pretty sure you'll be spending most of the next 5 years there, $2800/yr is pretty easy to justify when you're earning a Western salary and spending ~$200-300/mo in rent and under $5 for nice meals out (that's in Chiang Mai...if you want beaches or Bangkok add around 50%, which is still pretty cheap.)

Source: I spent a bunch of time in Thailand last year and considered trying to make the move, but the job I ended up finding didn't work with the time zone. However I loved the country and would jump at the chance to work remotely from there.

[1] http://www.thai-elite.com
But before Chavez the economy was considerably more diverse. His policies turned a vulnerability into a ticking time bomb.
people bundle a browser for a tiny icon in your taskbar so 100MB for a runtime in a CLI isn't gonna prevent people from using it
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Haven't you met the people who work up on the roof?
That's less than I was expecting. Did you study any existing library to get up to speed?
That is a true insight into why there is so much bullying (of women, of other men, of people of color, etc) in tech. I can see how that could really be upsetting throughout a life, and how it could engender a kind of constant (justified) anger. But then one would hope we could all realize this and move toward empathy and support the marginalized, each of us having had these experiences ourselves.
> our business model is based upon employers paying to advertise their jobs.

The only question I have is: why would they? I can see the reason why the job seekers would subscribe to your website but I don't see why employers would prefer it to other alternatives. Actually I can see one: to be able to identify which candidates have a criminal record and eliminate them from their pool.

Registering there as an employer can be an act of good will and generosity but that seems a bit awkward to make them pay for it, no?

BTW, you have to have a very solid security from the beginning. A leak of your database would not only threaten your business but negate most of the good you did.
You make an interesting point, though I would guess that determining where the eyeballs are pointing would be the key to assessing attentiveness (sunglasses could be a problem.) I would hope they will use a broad enough training set (and my more cynical self notes that it is Caucasians who display the broadest range of eye color.)

http://cogweb.ucla.edu/ep/Frost_06.html
Does anyone have insight into what the opposing lawyers are trying to get at by asking about the $120M bonus? It feels like they are establishing Levandowski's importance to Waymo maybe? But it isn't clear to me how/if this helps their case.

> I'd like to start by asking you some questions about the bonus that was paid to Anthony Levandowski. He received a bonus that was in excess of $120 million; is that right?

> was there any other occasion where any employee received more than $100 million for what you described as "start-up-like compensation"?

> Sitting here today, can you recall of any other employee who received more than $100 million in what you've described as start-up compensation at Google?
Apparently some tests of the autonomous vehicles took place at one of Larry's ranches, along with possible meetings with Levandowski. I'm not sure why they start with such basic questions, though.
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Mites are not 100% the culprit - but a lot of groups including the US Gov't are still looking into all causes.

My father has been briefed by the USDA more than once on the issue, it's complicated and nation states haven't been ruled out according to the last update he had.

Most likely it's a number of causes.
Sure, by stealing money from the people who have it and giving it to poor people, for a short time you make the lot of the poor better.

Now where there were few jobs there are none, and crime has gone from a big problem to a terrible problem. Soon there will be war.

These are not policies that benefit the poor.
I think i would put the same importance on the well-being of a women and scientific progress.

One shouldn't trump the other.
It really wasn't. It moved from maybe 80% to 90% of exports. They were already in the full throes of Dutch disease when Chavez took power.

Saudi Arabia has failed just as badly at diversifying their economy for pretty much the exact same reason.
The Allied Powers had seemingly learned the lessons of Versailles and didn't try to punish the losers (well, not as much), instead letting them grow. Thus why them not being victorious didn't matter, I guess.
Oh, it's almost certainly a toxic asset.

But have you seen the blog post where Symantec was like "We talked to our customers and they said that Google's being mean"? https://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/symantec-ca-proposal

> Many large organizations have complex, and potentially undocumented and little-known dependencies on their certificate infrastructure. Examples of complex dependencies on Symantec public roots that our customers have shared or we have identified include:

> Embedded devices that are pinned to certificates issued by a Symantec public root to communicate to resources over the Internet or Intranet. Replacing these certificates would result in immediate failures and the need to recode and reimage the firmware for these devices.

> Mobile applications that have pinned certificates. Replacing server certificates would require these applications to be recoded, recompiled and redistributed.

> Critical infrastructure organizations that use certificates issued off of Symantec roots to validate internal and external resources. In many cases, the applications being used are pinned to Symantec certificates.

> Some large organizations use certificates chained to Symantec public roots for nearly all internal applications and communications. Many of these organizations are under regulatory requirements to encrypt even internal communications.

You have lots of customers that have made the stupid decision to hard-code the Symantec public key as indefinitely trustworthy. (Some of them may well have got Symantec to do the consulting for their internal infrastructure.) No matter how stupid the decision is, it's been made, and those customers will pay good money for a cert that's either issued directly from or chains to the Symantec root.

Even if the only thing that DigiCert does with the Symantec private key is to sign their own CA and then destroy it, and they kill the Symantec brand and every piece of Symantec infrastructure, that still brings them tons of customers who literally cannot move to a competitor not in possession of the Symantec private key. I'm not surprised that's worth $1B.
Don't you understand ? Using Paypal anyone can sell from anywhere in the world. Why are you still insisting on Stripe ? "Stripe allows purchases from over 135 countries". I want my product to be sold all over the world. Stripe don't do that. Stripe has a good API than Paypal and it ends there. I ditched Stripe for Paypal and I never looked back, sales from everywhere in the world, rather than customer's emailing me..."It says cannot accept my card"
There are for certain airports. A yellow cab will be cheaper than an Uber in some cases especially when surge pricing is in play.
I wouldn't call your views "left wing", just a bit ignorant of market theory, history, and practice.

I mean, the Dutch Tulip Bubble was driven by derivatives (and in particular, a law change forced by the politically connected that retroactively changed some future contracts into option contracts), so if you're looking for some halcyon age prior to "complex products", bailouts, and people using lobbying to reap outsize profits, you're apparently thinking of the 1500s, if not earlier. :)

Similarly, short selling is integral to markets correctly performing their role of allocating investment. Saying "we should ban this thing required for A to work so we can get back to having A work" is...not a compelling argument.
Lawyers tell their clients this right before they, the client, is deposed. As another commentor here hinted at, when being deposed you are either going to play it safe or lose, there is really no winning. Deposition hiccups are later used, at trial or in settlement negotiations, as leverage against your opponent or to try to discredit them as a witness/simply make them look stupid as a witness. A deponent seldom has anything to gain from waxing poetic about whatever they are being deposed about.

That's the litigation game.

Edit: spelling.
Waymo is not a startup but a subsidiary of Alphabet.
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I probably meant to type 'legitimate' there. Elected or not, the west prefers that Assad not be in power.
Thank you so much for showing me what I am supposed to do with my ETH credits! (Edit: Apparently I came off as astroturfing or something, I don't know why, I wanted to draw attention to the amazing ethers.io thing that is two links deep inside of this post...) This was honestly the first time I saw a great demo of what Ether can do and how it should be used, all within a browser, and also thanks to Coinbase supporting Ethereum, without even reaching for my wallet.

Edit: And the Devcon2 video behind the ethers link! This is the link that keeps on giving!

That was the easiest anyone on the internet ever took my $20. And I feel like you just showed me So Much in so few steps.

I have no idea what I just bought, or if I need to do something so that I can receive a kit? Hope your crowdfunding is successful? It says teaser, so I'm assuming that what I bought was just the ENS name, and the incredible exchange that was absolutely frictionless. I see that I have my own vanity address in there now, and I'm thinking that this is all somehow built on Ethereum ecosystem. In about 60 seconds you just completely restored my confidence that the whole Ethereum thing is absolutely incredible, and gonna take over the world.

(Not to mention I like the looks of your product/DIY thing!)

Man I feel like I'm really far behind the curve on this Ethereum thing, I learned all about Bitcoin but I never took any time to learn about Ethereum, and I feel like that was such a huge mistake. I know that it's contracts, and smart contracts, and by default accounts can't even tell you about transactions at all, until you write more something or other in a contract; and contracts are somehow JavaScript, and that's about as far as my knowledge extends about it.

I really just figured out that I needed to get some when it was worth about $90. But only just now, seeing how slick this Javascript wallet thing is that you just showed me, that you made me figure out how to keep, only now do I feel like I Really Get how much power there is in Ethereum that you don't just get "Batteries Included" like this on Bitcoin.
> That is a true insight into why there is so much bullying (of women, of other men, of people of color, etc) in tech.

I don't see how that follows from the parent comment. What do you mean by this?
Here's another good one, featuring Bill Gates: https://youtu.be/HhdDZk45HDI
In my experience, the hardest part about reading Forth is recognizing when a word doesn't use RPN because of metaprogramming
I don't see how UBI would help? A person living on UBI will probably have the lowest social rank.

The problem probably is a lack of good job positions and a surplus of working force.
Hey, thanks for sharing this. I actually just wrote an article (not yet published) for an organization that helps inmates learn how to code while in prison so they can have some life skills for when they are done serving their time and get out in the real world.

I'm not talking about murderers or pedophiles or people who just probably don't belong in society at all, but when it comes to people with lesser crimes -- people who got greedy, people who were stupid and stole something, or even were involved with drugs (I'm an advocate for decriminalization), people who can be given a second chance and not resort to a life of returning to old habits.

The organization's URL is: https://thelastmile.org/

Another URL I came across: http://jobsthathirefelons.org/

Anyways, hope you don't mind, but I've added your URL to my article as well. I'd rather see productive ex-cons/former felons contribute to our society and not be relegated to a position at a minimum wage job for the rest of their lives, despite having massive amounts of skills and talents that can be used elsewhere.
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How does that relate to the privileged communication stuff? It seems like there's a lot he recalls, but not outside privileged communication, so he says "I don't recall?"
Has anyone ever tried or heard of volunteering/mentoring prisoners to learn skills like coding or electronics?
Every period claims they are better than before. Only future generations can truly determine the actual degrees objectively.
> Page: I think they had a really hard time getting along [Levandowski and another employee], and yet they worked together for a long time. And it was a constant -- yeah, constant management headache to help them get through that.

> Questioner: Do you recall that Anthony Levandowski was put on a personal improvement plan before he left?

> Page: I don't recall that.

> Questioner: Do you recall that Mr. Levandowski wanted to be head of the Project Chauffeur team?

> Page: I mean, that does not surprise me.

> Questioner: Do you recall having conversations with him, where he said to you that he wanted to be head of the team?

> Page: I don't recall, but it wouldn't be surprising, you know. I think he clearly felt things could be done better.
That is a massive jump in a very short period of time.
I get that you can't achieve 100%, but covering your laptop camera while you carry around a cell phone feels more like building a gate without building the fence it goes in. Is achieving 1% worth anything?
He writes books that others do not, even if the ideas are out there. So that is interesting and neat. I guess me makes good money doing that as well.

The quasi-religiousness around singularity ideas is just weird though, I guess it is a form of effective marketing - similar to "fanboys."
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It selects for young men. Looks do not help you much IMO. Being a woman hurts you.
And there's also a small minority of people like me who think that Kurzweil is mostly a crackpot who gave the technological singularity a bad name because of his baseless claims on exponential acceleration of paradigm shifts.
Ooo, I want to layer on the thockin love! When I was fresh out of college in 2006 Tim and his team (then the BIOS team at Google) were the friendliest, geniusyiest, most patient group a new grad could hope for. Thanks for the mentorship Tim! -Shawn
The issue I think is one of accessibility and availablity. If you're poor, and can't afford this, you are literally priced out of the gene pool. There has to be regulation to make sure that the tech is not out of reach of the poor.
Are there any sites that help me estimate how much it would cost me to run a consumer facing site using Amazon’s service (or others)?
Ok so how on earth does the fact that derivatives permitted the tulip Bubble is an argument in favor of derivatives?

It might a question of point of view. Maybe you focus more on tulip frenzy financial opportunities while I focus more on people that have been burned by it...

And yeah if you want to trace it back to 1500 no problem with that, old does not always equal good. It like copyright laws written prior to widespread of computers. Is it right to let them unchanged because they are old while humankind could technically share knowledge and arts at a scale never envisioned just 10 years ago?
You're right about this:

> that's not a behaviour that we should condone, or support

but you're extrapolating from limited data to form this opinion:

> That's all I need to know to see that this is not him just funding projects, but actually about getting power in them.
Anyway, you want string interpolation for the former example anyway:

1> (let ((name "Alice") (place "The Palace"))
`Hello @name, welcome to @place!`)
"Hello Alice, welcome to The Palace!"

string interpolation is compatible with Lisp designs; it is self-contained and so doesn't "disturb" the surrounding syntax with issues of precedence and associativity. The above example is from TXR Lisp which has this built in. For Common Lisp, there is the cl-interpol and other packages, and other dialects have their own solutions.
Especially since "pharma investors" includes people like the pension fund manager who tries to make sure your grandmother keeps getting her retirement check every month.

It's easy to gin up hatred against some mythical Scrooge McDuck character swimming in a money bin. Not so easy when it's that kindly old lady who lives across the street.
Given developers are responsible for CSV, PDF (a complex programming language that renders documents as a side effect), XML, and JSON, I see no particular reason to share your optimism.
md-raid absolutely supports that and synology has for a long time. They call it "SHR". You simply do raid over disk partitions to enable disks of disparate sizes.

The reason ZFS doesn't support it, and absolutely 0 enterprise storage devices support this is because as the disks fill up, you sacrifice both performance and redundancy. Synology won't even support it on their high-end devices for this very reason. They'll only do it on their devices targeted at home use.
More employers on one side and more candidates on the other... working with outreach programs that can transition people sooner and offer realistic hope.

Microsoft, Amazon, other shops that do street mapping/GIS or have field staff might be open to this concept.
My theory is that Kurzweil was behind the acquisition by Google of several robotics company but it turned out disastrous (the guy has a lot of grandiose claims but apparently pretty average skills) and then they were sold back.

If you want to follow singularity candidates, rather put your eyes on Softbank, who has bought Boston Dynamics, Schaft, ARM, and shares of Nvidia.
Hardware always fails. That's why AWS has so many availability zones, regions and services that let you take easy advantage of HA across them.
This is built in to the AWS platform: https://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html
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This is exactly why you should design your services to run in multiple availability zones to mitigate issues like this. We run our most critical services in at least 3 availability zones and we are moving the rest of our services soon as well. While these problems are unfortunate, it is part of relying on Amazon to manage resources.

Always plan for service degradation and look for ways to mitigate against issues like this.
You seem to be assuming that each incident of violent crime is done by a different person.