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In Lisp, if you created something like JSX, your IDE or text editor would still be unlikely to understand it, as it'd be a very complicated reader macro. It doesn't magically solve all macro problems.

Doing it the Lispy way, though, you'd likely use sexprs directly, with maybe some normal macros, so you wouldn't have HTML-like syntax but would have something that worked nicely in your editor.
The original parent posited that we have multiple identities, as in: multiple sets of attributes, each of which uniquely identify us within a certain context.

> Let's assume we define "identity" to mean "any set of attributes of Alice", so widening it essentially as far as possible. Then "is a human", being an attribute of Alice, would become an identity of Alice.

> That doesn't make much sense, does it?

If Alice is the last surviving human being in the universe, it does.

If Alice isn't the last surviving human being in the universe, than the premise of "is a human" as an identity is already nonsensical (because it no longer identifies), hence also any conclusions you derive from that premise are also nonsensical.

> In order to check that you are the person on a picture I have of you, all I need is the picture, no need to have a replica of you.

You haven't checked that it's me, you've checked that it is someone who looks like me.

Within any given context, that may or may not be treated as my identity. Hence, we're back at multiple identities, each in their own context.

> In order to check that you are in the possession of a private key, all I need is the corresponding public key, not the private key.

Which says nothing about identity, only about possession. Whether this possession is taken to be sufficient proof of identity again depends on the context.

> Also, if it were the case that identity verification were in fact impossible ... what would be your point then? You don't like the (hypothetical) fact that it is impossible, therefore it is possible?

Do you believe this hypothetical example to be true? If not, what's your point?
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There's plenty of people who does revolutionary work after their 30s.

Look at current nobel prize winners in physics for example. Many of them weren't young when they did their most important work. I read an article about this some time ago, but I wasn't able to find it at the moment.
I guess there's another side to this story: Some people got their bitcoins stolen.

Also all this wealth is purely speculative. If everybody converted their bitcoins to fiat currency now the exchange rate would collapse quickly.
I switched the other way, as JSX fixed the main problem I've had for years using "hyperscript" (or DOM builders, as we used to say). Its comma-free syntax sugar for function calls, element lists and attribute objects makes it so much easier to write and maintain.
It's literally only "popular" as a buzzword.

Functionally it's basically BitTorrent with magnet links.

Also, it's not actually finished or production quality yet.
What if I didn't buy AMD?
What if I didn't buy SPY?
What if I didn't buy NVDA?
What if I didn't buy Ethereum?
I've seen this suggested in many reddit or other websites threads. Also in college classes yes.

Used it to implement ICMP echo heh.
Gotta get that Karma. It's kind of like a coin!
According to wikipedia they are the pixel's manufacturer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_(smartphone)
This was on HN yesterday, and according to that thread the only ebook option was a DRMed PDF.

I'll buy this book in a heartbeat if either of those two acronyms goes away. Ideologically the DRM should go, but practically I'd rather the PDF would go.
Any links? I'd be interested to know more.
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I'm sure the SEC will get a copy of all emails, meeting schedules and chats of that time. If there was any phone call, meeting or email between one of these guys and someone with knowledge of the matter, it will be very hard for them to argue that they didn't know. Even if they weren't told details, they could've seen that the others were obviously dealing with something very serious.
The usual macros in Lisp get all of the code as data, making rearrangement of the tree fairly trivial. For syntax changes, you'd use reader macros, which essentially involve writing a parser for all the parts that aren't Lisp. Once that's done, which is non-trivial, you would again have a tree to rearrange as you saw fit.

However, you'd be very unlikely to make something as syntactically heavy as JSX in Lisp. Lisp ethos is to keep the syntax as simple as possible, so it stays out of the way.
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The hype is full of survivorship bias.

* What if you lost it in Mt. Gox?

* What if you lost it in another of the roughly-monthly hacks of exchanges?

* What if you lost it on an accidentally thrown-away hard drive?

* What if you lost it to your own error?

* What if you lost it on one of the many scams the crypto space is absolutely suffused with?

For some reason these are never mentioned by people saying "but if you'd bought in 2011".

Look at all these coins you also didn't "invest" in! http://deadcoins.com/

Cryptos are gambling. Good luck if you won! But it's still not a sensible thing to recommend to others.
Here you got me interested in this post hoping it would use JSX to introduce Pragma's and Macro's, turns out it just reiterates what JSX compiles down to...
Assuming the timestamps are not forged, this only shows that the paper was uploaded November 2000. It might have been older. So we need a second source.

Second source: The citations. The paper cites: "Mogul, [...] Pulse-per-second API for Unix-like operating systems [...] March 2000 [...]"

So the paper is not older than November 2000 and not younger than March 2000.
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> If everybody converted their bitcoins to fiat currency now the exchange rate would collapse quickly.

You can say the same about literally any asset or currency. If everyone sells, and no one is buying, then yes, the value drops to 0.
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Honest question from a European: how would this work if I moved to the US? Would I simply not get a loan because I don't have a credit score? Do I apply at private companies and give them all my loan history?

Here in my country the government (or some agency) keeps track of what loans you have, and when a new company wants to issue you a loan you access the API with information like "2 years, €50 each month" and then the program responds with 'approved' or 'not approved'.

Giving all of these private companies all this data seems counter to American values of independance etc...
ICO lunacy aside, did they break the funding record by virtue of holding a month-long ICO? How much has ETH gone up in the meantime? Do you value their funds at the start price, the day they got each coin, or the end of the sale?
As long as there are greater fools, there's a lot of money to be made with Bitcoin. Just don't be the last fool.
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Motivation, ambition, and comfort with uncertainty are definitely huge factors in a successful career. STEM people are experts in their field, and they have a mountain of seemingly magical knowledge, but respect for their "genius" ignores these more universal and often more desirable attributes.

I friends with an incredibly intelligent patent lawyer who quit her job to become an FBI agent. I know another really smart guy who took a huge pay cut from his big-tech job to be a reporter for the Wall Street Journal. They didn't quit their technical fields because it was too hard, they could easily handle the STEM jobs when they were thrown at them.

I look at them now and see an even greater level of professionalism than they had in their previous positions, and that comes with a greater respect. Many STEM jobs often get that self-respect, and probably also FBI agents ans WSJ reporters, wish the same could be said about many other positions.
I lost it in Mt. Gox, and this website made me very sad.
The only things I've truly succeeded at were simple: I didn't have a choice but to succeed.

I guess it's on par with this article, you can't lose focus when you have your back against the abyss. It's your real focus.
Agree, indeed barriers to entry in computing generally is getting lower and lower all the time. The issue is that computers are so good now that the need to 'play around with them' is getting less and less. But for those of us that remember peeking and poking memory addresses and programming by trial and error can recognise how good we have it today.
> for people who refuse garlic for religious reasons

I've never heard of this. What religions ban garlic? (and pity for them, I love it!)
Did they had to release the incident now by law, or did they choose the week so that the Irma weekend can blow over this?
lol.

FDA is the golden standard for medical testing for around the world (I worked for the FDA and that quote I'll quote one of the employee that stated it). After animal testing there are 4 phases of clinical testing.

You sound like all those libertarians that think free market is gonna some how reduce toxicity and dangerous drug from flooding the market.

That's some crazy pipe dream you got there.

These testing is also base on science and more importantly statistic (survival analysis and such). It is stupid as hell to just ignore it. Statistic is every where in lives and have increase the quality of our life including reliability and quantifying on what is statistic significant or not (random chance).

You are a perfect example of why I'm sick of debating libertarian and just straight up call it out.

Free Market is another excuse for ignorant. Whether it is ignorance of how the FDA and drug works to how the economy work (let's back everythign by the gold standard!).
You can use many ID cards online with the chip in the card. This means you need to have access to the physical card and the PIN. Much safer than just having a number and it will be hard to steal 50 million physical ID cards.

Many banks use video chats to open accounts where you have to present the card via video. This can be even safer as you need the physical card and someone who looks like the person on the ID card. Since calls are recorded, I can imagine fraudsters are hesitant to use this process.
That's actually the biggest issue with Bitcoin. And what I meant with "dabble with the tech".

There is just no way to securely create a secret key.

Because the algorithm is so complex, you have to trust somebody else's software to create the key. How do you know that software is neither malicious nor buggy?
People will only buy Filecoin because very well known VC firms are already backing it. And that creates trust somehow? I wonder how much it will hurt the reputations of these firms.
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> In fact, Roman cuisine wasn’t at all like Italian food. It was all about contrasting sweet with salty and sour foods (they liked to eat fishgut sauce, garum, with melon).

It's true that it wasn't at all like Italian food, but this is a particularly bad example:

1. garum kinda lives on as colatura di alici, though the former was fermented, and the latter isn't [1]

2. Italian cuisine still contrast melon with salty food, just prosciutto, not fish

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colatura_di_Alici
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It's an amazing aromatic addition to potato curry. Just a tiny drop (1/4 teaspoon) adds a subtle dimension to a large pot of potatoes. It's almost like a flavour enhancer.

A word of warning: It is very potent. I store mine in a pot wrapped in two sealed plastic bags which is in turn put in a sealed jar. My spices cupboard still reeks of it the moment I open it.
You say that Zig has no macros, just like FORTRAN, but that isn't a language property at all. Technically, C has no macros, but most people use the C preprocessor. I've seen people preprocess with sed scripts, perl scripts, tr, python scripts, and m4. FORTRAN too was often preprocessed.

So we'll take your Zig and shove it through a preprocessor or several. I've seen code get preprocessed 3 times during builds, but I'm sure that isn't a record.

If a language designer fails to provide a suitable well-matched and effective preprocessor, we'll add something nasty. Oh well. Stuff has to get done.
I'll give another example. My medical practice tried to do GPG encryption in a shared DropBox folder. Within the first week, someone decrypted half the files into the same shared folder...

It was all just a test with non-critical data, but the test was a total failure. And that didn't even get into key-related issues.
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Genuine curiosity here. What's wrong with making an experiment, and when the results clearly contradict your initial assumptions (so much that the opposite is confirmed) then publishing the found results?
You don't need one central register with intimate data of citizens. You can keep registers local to avoid widespread data breaches. It's still possible to verify the authenticity (e.g. for police) by requesting from the local register (electronically) but no one has access to all data at once.

At the same time, the system can be designed to only store the data necessary. Don't think it's necessary to store more information than for SSID.
Yes, via C++/CX and when C++/WinRT gets ready by the end of the year, it will eventually replace C++/CX.

Also note that Blend has first class support for C++/CX projects.

https://moderncpp.com/2017/08/25/cppwinrt-2017/

Of course most developers using C++ with UWP is Microsoft itself, for stuff like XAML engine and the new Visual UI composition engine, and game devs.

XAML is also the official replacement for MFC.

As I mentioned in some other thread today, there is hardly any pure C++ application nowadays on Windows, they are mostly a mix of .NET and C++.
I completely agree, the guys going to top universities worked hard in school and got good grades. They were high achieving children. They're good at exams. They were probably also relatively smart, and probably also somewhat privileged.

Now, to what extent that translates to "being good at the job you're trying to fill" - that's the interesting question. It'll generally be relative to the biases of the people doing the interviewing and their personal experiences.
We haven't had free markets for a very, very long time. Consequently, your claim of free markets unavoidably producing negative outcomes lacks evidence.

This is basically a "no true Scotsman" argument. What is a "free market"?

I didn't say we don't need any regulation, but I will say that government-imposed regulation isn't needed.

Non-authority-imposed regulation isn't 'regulation' in any real sense.

A truly free market can and will fill that same need in ways that are much more efficient than any government could hope to do through force.*

All evidence we have seen suggests that an absence of government regulation leads to collusion, anticompetitive practices, races-to-the-bottom, and consumer rights violations. On the other hand, removing regulation can allow more innovative approaches to the market. Point is – it's a case of fine-tuning the balance to make sure that participants in a market have equal power. "Throw is all away and start again" is a seductive and ultimately silly argument.
> A temporary suspension of the legal person status?

That's a start. A stronger limitation of their usual freedoms could also be modeled on the Voting Rights Act's preclearance[1] requirements. The corporation has the burden of proving to an independent regulatory panel that a proposed change will not have the effect of recreating the problem.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965#Prec...
> low-margin, decent quality phones in a large quantity

That's been interesting to HTC to now. Doesn't mean they can't make a premium phone to showcase Google's tech, but just that their flagship attempts haven't moved the needle compared to the incumbents (and more than likely fair to say the Pixel hasn't either).

And, well... HTC was the contract manufacturer for the Pixel... so there's that.
The rumours of it's death are greatly exaggerated.

Environmental catastrophe is the only likely trigger I can see. Without that, capitalism will adapt and survive - of course with the inevitable pendulum shifts between it's more authoritarian and more benign forms.

A final thought - are people using the term in a clearly defined way or is it just a label for "that bad stuff" from the left and "freeeedom" from the right?
You ask for their ID card or passport. If you want credit history, you ask for their last year tax sheet.
Sounds like what Bitcoin Cash has been trying to do.
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That has to be a big chicken and egg problem.
There seems to be an assumption here (which I've seen in many other places) that ordinary people are somehow missing this trick, are failing to grasp this. I think everybody knows this - more or less explicitly perhaps. The fact is we might talk about becoming rich, but most of us don't really want to - not in a real way. Not to become worth "millions" in our sixties like this guy's mentor.

People want to live rich, varied, exciting lives: Now. Sure, getting rich or being rich would help...but if it means living in a way that is controlled, patient and strategic for 30 years...well then no they don't really want that.
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If you feel ashamed of this, ask yourself: would you advise a trying-to-lose-weight person to keep a plate of cookies on their desk?
You'll probably change your grooming habits, hairstyle, and similar to be attractive to who you want to be.

The bot didn't just go for fixed features.
In Germany, this is how identification works to some degree. You have an ID card number but this changes with every card. There is a permanent tax number but this isn't used for anything but tax purposes.

In the end, identification can be done by name, birth date and place of birth. You'll find these requirements on many official forms. This is fairly unique and ties to birth certificates which can be obtained with this information. Even if all databases were erased, this data could restore registers (as birth certificates have a paper copy).
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> What do you make of the claim that based on 5 photos they achieved a 90% success rate?

I'm reminded of Gerd Gigerenzer's book "Reckoning with risk". It's about medical testing, so forgive the language used:

> A condition exists. There is a test for that condition. The test is good, but not perfect. If someone has the condition there is a 90% chance they'll return positive. If someone does not have the condition there is a 1% chance they'll return positive. About 1% of the population have the condition. Bob has the test, and it comes back positive. What's the probability Bob has the condition?

Most people, even doctors who give these types of tests, get this wrong. The answer is about 50%, but most people put it much higher at 99% or 90%.

I think the Guardian reporting is irresponsible because the general public do not understand percentages, and any reporter using percentages is misleading (albeit inadvertantly) the public.

Here's a link to the book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Reckoning-Risk-Learning-Live-Uncert...
I agree that it is a good mindset.
But i think the advice to spend a little time each day on something consistently is more important. That allows you to improve several things concurrently.
Sounds interesting, but I don't really get where the money is coming from.
I don't see any paid plans for Datajoy.
I would guess that op is referring to "conformist" as the religious group in question..
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Extraordinary_claims_require_e...
Not sure I agree. Entry into computing is definitely getting easier, but it's decelerating due to a number of factors, namely the slow death of Moore's law and the huge amount of data you need to crunch to create useful solution. Tech is improving, but it feels like we're falling off the exponential into something more linear.

As computer performance improvements decelerate, we're starting to see more specialization into particular tech verticals. This specialization makes it harder for people to break into.

For example, it used to be that if you wanted to crunch more data in Excel, you'd just wait six months for the better intel chip. It was faster and easier to do that than write custom software. Now the new chips are only marginally better than the last, and we need to rely on distributed systems linking dozens or hundreds of computers.

A 10 year old kid in the 1990s could easily create and launch a website from scratch, which was the state of the art medium at the time. It will be far more difficult for a 10 year old in the 2010s to grab terabytes of data and process it easily.
> For common names and large cities, probably not.

Would be interesting to see statistics for that. It wouldn't be New York in this case, but for example Brooklyn or Queens. Even for the most popular name combinations, the number of people with the same name born on one day in one administrative area will be extremely low. Esp if you require middle names to be included.
A big problem with trying to do draw conclusions about groups' typical physiological features from research using dating profiles is that there's a selection bias in which users will and won't post clear facial shots from neutral angles suited to processing by this algorithm (for a variety of reasons varying from perceived beauty norms of gay subcultures to social acceptance within their ethnic group) and that might well dominate any actual difference between the average physiology of gay and straight men.
Yes!

One thing I never get tired of is taking stuff apart. I can rarely reassemble them, alas, but such is life. I see it as doing my part to ease recycling of electronics. In fact, I let my then 2-yo daughter help me take the family color laser printer apart last year. Great fun, great fun.

Now, a couple of things one can do as a curious adult is buying a simple embedded system such as Atmel-based arduino, TI MSP430 Launchpad, or STM8-based devboard, for just a couple of dollars. Set up a toolchain and a LED blinker project, programming in C (asm is a little bit _too_ low level to start with, while Arduino is a little bit too high).