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Maybe. I don’t know. I can see fiat currencies ending up being completely digital within the next 50 years or so, in a continued effort to combat tax evasion.

But I’m pretty sure central banks (or well, the elected politicians behind them) can’t and won’t give up control of their respective currency, because they use it as a way to adjust and regulate the economy.

If you look at what is happening in the Eurozone with the ECB and the previous discussions about Eurobonds, it's a one approach fits all solution, but it doesn't work for all. What is great for Germany sucks for Greece, and that is because goals are not aligned. If you have, say, one "global" cryptocurrency, then I think there are some inherent flaws to that approach.

And if you go the full currency route, you essentially end up with a digital equivalent of fiat?

Look: honestly, I want to believe, but no one has managed to convince me with proper arguments what would drive it to that outcome. Most people that I've met are just excited because they've turned $10k into $1M (or more) and now think they're the best investors in the world.

So, why would it happen? You need to give me more than its a superior form of money. I'm not saying it's not. I just don't see how we can get there from where we are now.
I'm one of the rosters that does devops for the SaaS products. What's important is to plan ahead any time you will be off so any co-worker can be there when you are not there. It's very strange that all devops guys are out at the same time. In case of a retreat we always look for reliable internet connection and we always bring our computers with us.
It reads like an airport novel.
I downloaded "A Swift Tour" a week or two ago and it was written in Swift 4 (a fact which I found out when I tried to run it in Swift Playgrounds 1.5). When did you try it?
Well the unsupervised ai couldn’t even do basic tasks from the video I saw, so looks like we have a long way to go.
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Not being sarcastic, is there evidence that more diverse teams are better? There seems to be some anecdotal evidence going both ways (i.e. more diverse viewpoints vs team cohesion). I can imagine that there's a balance point as well. You could have one extreme where people are so similar that its basically a one-person team with 8 arms. You could also have a team so diverse they can never agree, have no common language and no shared cultural aspects, or even shared goals. An interesting balancing act really.
The anxiety isn't rooted in simple personal safety. It's caused by the feeling that the state is erratic and unstable, and one can expect negligence and malice from all corners big and small at any time.
The built in ai is scripted whereas they’re trying to teach agents to learn the game from scratch with some sort of reward-based/machine learning approach.
This reminds me how important/relevant it's becoming for people to own their data, instead of giving it up to companies to profit from and eventually sell.

Big issues I see are the vast majority of people just don't want to think about it, and there aren't any good systems in place to empower (the majority of) people to retain their data.
Technically you're right, but there's a real qualitative difference. Each "tick" in a game like StarCraft is on the order of tens of milliseconds. When you send out an army to attack your opponent, it's quite possible that the actual confrontation won't happen until 10,000 ticks in the future.

Also, the dimensionality of the state space in a "continuous" game is orders of magnitude larger. In a game like chess or Go, you may have dozens or hundreds of moves available at each turn, but only a few of them will be "locally optimal". In StarCraft, there are many more degrees of freedom -- attack timing, positioning, formation, banking versus spending resources, and so on. A good AI will need to be able to abstract that huge state space down to something more tractable.
I'd say you have one. If you had one before, you didn't know what really happened when you went `var that = this;` and aired your opinion about how `this` is being stupid. So you got the arrow function, where `this` acts the way you expected before, when you said it was stupid. You can't complain about both.

The scoping of `this` has never really been too hard to understand. I learned it my first week doing JS.
Seems like Netlify is the offspring if CloudFlare and Heroku had a child.

I am using Google Cloud Storage as my origin and CloudFlare for few corporate static sites, and it works fantastic. Get CDN, http/2, free SSL, and cost is literally cents.

Deployment is simple with the gsutil cli:

// regex excludes dotfiles recursively
gsutil rsync -R -x '^\/?(?:\w+\/)*(\.\w+)' directory-to-sync-here gs://bucket-here
The Toronto line failed because it basically only catered to rich business travelers. By only having two stops — downtown and airport — it significantly constrained its TAM just to shave a few minutes off of its travel time.

There is a great write up of why it failed here: http://humantransit.org/2016/03/keys-to-great-airport-transi...
at some point, its a cost equation. top of salary, benefits, inconsistent working hours = potentially unreliable delivery to clients // not complex solutions. custom dev isn't that groundbreaking, its just a game of balancing levers at play. Something always slips, its a fact of the game. This just seems too good to be true (though if it is, happy for them!)
That's precisely what points 1 and 2 do, for a trader.
That is funny Apple's site received a C and I typically consider them image heavy https://gtmetrix.com/reports/apple.com/1IDcUYV1
Save it locally while you can because Netflix's catalog has shrunk by 50% in the last few years (from 2012 to 2016) and they just lost Disney... I think that in the end, they will basically only serve what they produce. http://www.businessinsider.com/netflix-catalog-size-shrinks-...
Why are you attacking James for "regressive thinking" if you respect women and their choices? No-one is denying women autonomy and choice. Quite the contrary: James seems to be the only voice at Google defending their freedom to have group preferences at all.

And if you want to empower women in your own corporate environment you should read his paper carefully, since part of his criticism is that Google's diversity programs are self-defeating: trying to induce women into engineering by lying about the nature of the work rather than changing the corporate culture so it attracts more women in the first place.
disclaimer: I work for netlify.

We do have image optimization built-in but it won't change images' size (in case you link externally - we don't want to move your cheese) or do anything lossy.

So - we have not resized and chosen optimal formats for those images and we are working on doing it right now :)
This is the question I've been asking my iOS dev buddies, with a catch: I want up-to-date resources.
None of them were able to share a link so far.
To be fair, many many authors have posted books of their own aphorisms while still alive. For exmaple Nietzsche, Cioran, de La Rochefoucauld, et al.

See this wikipedia page for a list of all such authors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphorism
Why StarCraft AI?
I actually really like the MAINTAINERS file. Keeps the metadata literally in the repository and doesn't rely on an external system.
Fair point of clarification...I was specifically referring to the ontological and epistemological components of the argument. The perception of many scientists (especially young ones) that their research is inherently independent of them as a researcher is a big problem. These are issues that do not appear at surface or even values levels...they are base level assumptions about knowledge that manifest very subtly.
By that logic, Chrome and Firefox are unstable platforms, with major version updates every 6-8 months.

Probably no one develops with them.
You may find this interesting: http://www.necsi.edu/research/multiscale/infotheory
Maybe this isn't the public perception of tech jobs, but as a software engineer at my current company I collaborate far more than I did in my previous career as a consultant, have more opportunities to be creative, and get an extremely flexible schedule.

Even if you accept that there are biological differences between the sexes, the hypothesis that stereotypically female attributes/desires are not as compatible with tech jobs strikes me as very wrong.
That's exactly the idea. Your bonuses 2015-2020 are invested in the company every year, and you can only cash them out after five years, in 2020-2025. If the company tanks in 2020 your bonuses for 2015-2020 are retroactively zero.
He's not my enemy, I used to be quite a big fan when his content was primarily about libertarianism. I just withdrew my defense of him that put him in the same position as Peterson because I feel that he has begun to court the alt right audience he has acquired. I'm on my phone right now but I'll grab links in a bit.
Yeah. But the comments...wow.
Compromise is useful and this was on point in that regard. A good counterpoint to Wojcicki's response. That said, compromise in this case may not be technically correct and talk of brogrammers won't get much traction with centrists like the original memos author who appears to be a follower of Haidt's line of thinking. Douthat makes a good point about the precariousness of walking this line.
> But since the usual way to reintegrate the sexes is to have them marry one another and raise kids, what Silicon Valley probably needs right now more than either workplace anti-microaggression training or an alt-right underground is a basic friendliness to family, pregnancy and child rearing.

Prediction: this will be viciously misinterpreted on twitter as Douthat calling for women to stay at home and raise babies.
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Smart move, tough to do. Remember that Venture capital is the most expensive capital you will ever raise, it costs you equity, it costs you control, and it costs you opportunity.

Something to consider once you are profitable is that banks are more comfortable extending a line of credit to you, that can be used for those 'unexpected' or 'opportunistic' capital requirements while not incurring a loss of equity now or in the future. Remember, banks make money the old fashion way, they charge interest on what they loan you :-).
Hardest part isn't the language. Swift is among the best languages you can get today. IOS sdk, on the other hand, has become a bit of a mess, due largely to the pace at which the field is moving ( although not as bad as android).

Stanford courses are the best you can find online for free. https://youtu.be/HitSIzPM_6E
> Apple is horrible about bugs and providing feedback.

Yes, they can be a bit tight-lipped. I have found that they're pretty quick on fixing documentation though. They won't tell you that it's resolved, but it's usually updated within a couple of days.

> Doesn't someone at Apple check the examples to make sure they still work?

I'd expect that they do, but some slip through the cracks. Maybe on of the Apple engineers in this thread could weigh in?
I'd use react-native if I were you.

I think you'd pick up Swift pretty easily given your polyglot background, but if you already know javascript and you aren't doing something that screams to be native, RN would be my choice. You'll get to work in a familiar language, and get an Android version with much less work than if you do swift.

Best resource to start a react native app I'd say is this, it was really easy for me: https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/getting-started...

For Swift, here's a page from Apple, but I just plucked it from Google: https://developer.apple.com/swift/blog/?id=16
No, not at all. You can vote anonymously and verify your vote but no one else can map that back to your identity.

As for rubber hose crypanalysis, that is possible now.

Buying votes is already done.
I'm impressed, too. Apart from the fact that it links to the crippled Gizmodo version of the memo (they still have the guts to call it 'full' in the title) instead of the real one https://diversitymemo.com/.

The references make the whole difference.
There's also Linus's personal aversion to how GitHub implements many opinionated workflows.

> I don't do github pull requests.
>
> github throws away all the relevant information, like having even a
> valid email address for the person asking me to pull. The diffstat is
> also deficient and useless.
>
> Git comes with a nice pull-request generation module, but github
> instead decided to replace it with their own totally inferior version.
> As a result, I consider github useless for these kinds of things. It's
> fine for hosting, but the pull requests and the online commit
> editing, are just pure garbage.
>
> I've told github people about my concerns, they didn't think they
> mattered, so I gave up. Feel free to make a bugreport to github.

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56546...
I'm probably the wrong IOT guy to answer, since my setup looks _nothing_ like yours, for reason of exactly what you're saying. (clusterfuck of managing discrete/heterogenous devices)

I've ended up leveraging almost entirely RPI's/arduinos for just about everything, with some amount of homebrew fire-waiting-to-happen mess of soldering on top.

this lets me manage all the pis with a single ansible deployment. I have my own on-prem "discount IFTTT" as well, but if lacking that, some service to that sort would also be critical for message based orchestration.

(functionaly wise; I have the pis managing garage door, plant growing automation, cameras, media devices; halfway through getting some lights set up on one as well.)
I thought maybe this just had a bad UI layout on mobile, but after reviewing on desktop browser, I now know that this useful info was just presented rather poorly.
This is exactly why I am aiming to bootstrap my own lab outside of academia and traditional research positions available private industry.

There's a lot of "BS" in these power structures that keep people from being able to dedicate resources and a proper amount of time to generate quality research.

I'm fairly "green" in my research career, but I've been in the game for a few years now in the Biology/Bioinformatics realm. I've seen and heard stories from plenty of colleagues about how when they first got started and well into their first P.I. positions (and even until this day when they're 10-20 years into their work) where they get abused by their institutions. Aside from "publish or perish" there's also your institution skimming 50-60% of your hard won grant funding to let you "rent" their facilities where you're fighting over shelf space with other P.I.s Absolutely insane.

Seeing this I decided I can bootstrap my own lab for much less and have true autonomy. For example a rough breakdown of my costs for setting up a bio/bioinformatics lab for myself and a few friends:

Land Zoned for Light Industrial and Scientific Research?
about $1000/acre or less in my area. (hint: buy tax liened property)

CO2 incubators? Don't pay $4k-8k new. I can buy refurbed or liquidated lab equipment from the unsustainable institution labs for literally pennies on the dollar. Try $100-200 for this equipment.

High RPM centrifuges? Once again instead of $2k-5k I can spend $300 for a 15k RPM centrifuge. and something like $20 for desktop centrifuges.

PCR machines? Try < $100 each. And I've even gotten "extras" with them in that price range.

Compute power/I.T.? I can get 256 core, 1tb ram blade centers for about $1k. Modern Core i5/Core i7 desktops for $80 each.

By my estimates I can buy the land, build a building(admittedly a very utilitarian one), and equip a new lab for sub $30k. Now my only costs are re-agents(if I'm doing research that requires it), power, and cheap land taxes.
cool. messaged you on twitter.
The most troubling thing about this whole issue for me is the weird fetish about "biology" on both sides of the debate.

As Mr. Hume told us a few hundred years ago, nature simply is, and doesn't tell us what ought to be. As such I have trouble understanding why we are approaching the issue from this angle.

Instead of obsessing about biology, we should care about how we want our workplaces to look. And I would welcome a diverse workplace instead of male or female monoculture. We can shape how our society works, we're not slaves to nature.

I find this discussion funny in the context of say Israel having countless women serve in the army for decades now. Someone must have forgotten to tell them about their biological limitations. Having worked in China for a while, where as a result of the one child policy pretty much everybody is expected to start a fruitful career, women just worked and had children at the same time. Someone must have forgotten to tell them that this is impossible.
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At last a balanced story on the topic. The discussions online on this topic have been mind numbing - quoting out of context, ad hominem attacks, every bad form of arguments listed in PG's essay[1]. Twitter is the worst.

Almost makes me want to build a better debating platform.

[1] - http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
I think a better grim trigger analogy is the market cap of Ethereum surpassing Bitcoin, it proves the digital scarcity of Bitcoin doesn't matter and that opens the possibility of many kings/protocols to be dominant
I agree, but are chemical or biological agents that target livestock or crops actually categorized as chemical or biological weapons under existing conventions? Where do they draw the line?
If you want to call deontological the argument that a tool that exists is better to solve a problem than one that doesn't, then, well, we are at a new level of meta that I really wasn't speaking at earlier.

Yet, social deontology is meaningless¹, and the people using it on political arguments are just using it as a decoy for doing something that they pretty much derive utility from (on my case from being able to eventually settle anything down, on the original comment, from commanding people around and in some cases, by watching them suffer).

1 - There exists a fuzzy kind of "partial" deontology that people often share in practice. Yet, the moment one starts coercing people, it's a symptom that it just isn't there.
I think the East India company were the first western group to copy the Qin exam based merit system [1].

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company
I thought that sounded familiar. Geoffrey West gave a talk there, delivering a much better explanation of his research on socio-biological scaling, growth, and sustainability than thepop sci treatments occasionally posted here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFFVSvAr7Wc
I don't think you'll make it very long if you're trying to cut, polish, and install granite countertops from your sailboat in Micronesia. Blue collar trade businesses aren't conducive to that sort of lifestyle.

There's an inherent advantage to tech work in that it can be done remotely and asynchronously. This gives you the freedom of choosing almost any lifestyle you want.

At least that's what I imagine as the difference between a "lifestyle" and small business.
TPG exists to make TPG money not to lead you to the right cards for your needs. If you want to learn you should learn from a resource that doesn't contain referral links.

TFA is nothing but a marketing piece. The travel blog market is saturated.
Fair point =).

Fortunately, I don't race in UCI events, haha.

My understanding was that the rule is around safety - i.e. they didn't want people pushing the limits at the risk of failure. There's calls for it to be scrapped, now that we know more about the limits of carbon fibre.
Yeah, up-to-date was assumed in my post. I don`t want a post about Objective-C from 2012.

I don`t know if it is against the guidelines to post this kind of links but I found this https://designcode.io/ (I have 0 affiliations with the product) that looks just like what I need. From 0 to app in the newest stack, would probably buy and try it if somebody does not have something better in mind?
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Fantastic storytelling and compelling video -- best of luck with your adventure, subscribed and will be following your journey!
There is a way to develop for UWP with F# - MS' own React Native support + Fable. Write your app in F# using Fable React Native bindings, transpile to JS and deploy to UWP.
Well put! Taking author's basic proposition to its logical conclusion shows that faulting Scala for this is wrong.

Scala has illuminated the author to a pedantic dissonance in academia: in this case, that true asymptotic analyses should be using O(logn) instead of O(1) for random memory access.

Hence why algorithms like Hoare's quicksort are so fast,
they actually are Theta(nlogn) in practice because linear memory access looks like O(1) on modern machines.

(but again pedantically it is probably still O(logn) from gate depth of multiplexing/demultiplexing the architecture's pointer size.)

Edit: Remembering that O((logn)^2) = O(logn), I suppose the author is probably correct.
Allow me to save you some time:

1. Get a multitool
2. Make exercise shorts and swim shorts the same
3. Read book son your phone
4. Make exercise shoes and regular shoes the same
5. Write on mail as scratch paper!
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The goal is to "grow" an AI through reinforcement learning and other techniques that are broadly applicable outside starcraft. The existing rules based systems in the game A) are extremely Starcraft specific and the methods have comparatively limited utility outside video game AI, B) unlikely to be scalable to fairly beat a professional human (which introduces too much variability to capture reliably into rules)
Its pretty easy to use points to book rooms for other people, I was able to gift 4 reservations a few weeks back for an event. All I had to do was write "Gift Reservation for xyz person" in the Request option.
> I asked her why, and she said that if she published the results she would not be likely to ever receive funding from the company again.

Yeah, this is why is absolutely paramount that we should push for all research studies[1] to be disclosed to the public before actually conducting the research. For example, in the medical realm see http://policyaudit.alltrials.net/

[1] Or, rather, not take studies that haven't been pre-disclosed seriously. I have very little hope that this type of policy will become pervasive enough for all types of study, but medical research affects human lives so there's at least a little hope that it will become a government-mandated requirement for drugs that need approval.
The actual XKCD password generator suggests using padding as well.

Using non-alphabet padding symbols (even if they are all the same and as trivial as 111 or !!! at both ends) will improve entropy by a decent amount while being just as easy to remember.

However the password itself is still only 1 aspect of security. There are many cases where there are far easier attack vectors that don't including cracking hashes.
For small/personal sites the pricing model is "Free". I think that tends to work well :)
Thanks, this looks really promising!
I've seen what happens to people who are falsely tagged with certain labels. Id like to discuss politics calmly but when the big words get trotted out I feel the need to defend myself.
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He's calling for a reintegration of the sexes through marriage and children. While I wouldn't put words in his mouth as to "stay at home", he is for sure calling on women to raise babies. His repeated references to women as childbearers in the following paragraph don't help. The author appears to be stating that the solution to sexism is to have women marry the sexists and have their babies.