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People are acting exactly like people that participate in pyramid schemes. Denied, saying it is fake, searching for stupid reasons. That is just pathetic and horrible for the future of cryptocurrency.

Things like this will happen and need to be discussed. It appears that the ban will be for the trade of fiat for Bitcoin. Everything else, including p2p trade, will be allowed. So, the price of Bitcoin will fall a little more, but, eventually, they will find ways to get crypto currency.

Maybe a new coin, maybe more regulations or maybe people2people trades will be the future. There are already several great products emerging that do not need exchanges to trade crypto like 0x, Kyber.Network and even Ethertrade.
> Around iPhone 5 Apple started to put up additional $100 USD to ALL iPhone price in HK, as a way to combat the black market trading,

This post is informative, but can I suggest that we not adopt the "black market" nomenclature for cases where people buy hardware in one location, and then re-sell it?

Companies like Apple may brand this a "black market", but that implies that companies have a right to perform perfect price discrimination across the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination

I suggest we reserve the phrase "black market" for cases where contraband is being exchanged, or for cases where items were obtained through crime (e.g. the sale of stolen goods).
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Well, testifying would put a big hitch in his political career I bet.
Given the general crappiness of the CA industry, my first instinct is to say they willfully said "yeah we support it" without actually doing it first, knowing that it wasn't actually done.
No problem. I was just providing another description of their behavior.

There usually isn't anything notable about a business approximating a rational economic actor.
It needs to be if you want to make a meaningful comparison. If you search for the lifecycle emissions of coal you'll find this accounted for. That search will also give you non-zero values for things like nuclear and wind, which is also useful. (Although a bit hard to say for sure, since in a hypothetical world powered exclusively by nuclear or wind, the values would be lower.)
From your comment, you appear to have no personal experience with Senior House. Your comment thus comes across as incredibly misinformed and naive. Senior House was not a place where people pretend they are changing the world as the article made emphatically clear. Many of the world's greatest technologists were taught and inspired at Senior House to pursue their life's work. This has absolutely nothing to do with Hillary Clinton despite the tired attempt to frame everything as Trump vs. Clinton. You are minimizing the loss of a truly creative and ingenious community in an attempt to advance the same old political argument.
We didn't point out tires as the revolutionary new Telsa addition to the stack. Wires and magnets are irrelevant. Batteries and cars are the items Telsa claims to revolutionize.
What's wrong with asking someone to clarify their claim?
If most people are only concerned about React, then they aren't paying attention.
Wouldn't it be better as a PDF so that it can be selected? But somehow still retain the color / formatting.
I see, thanks for teaching me a new word.

> pretty poorly regarded these days.

Why is that ? Because it is a touchy subject ? That I can certainly understand
This is part of the reason why Donald Knuth stopped sending out his reward checks and instead sends a certificate from the fictional Bank of San Serriffe. People were posting pictures of their reward checks, because getting one is pretty cool, which resulted in his account number being published.
Generally, nepotism refers to giving jobs or special treatment to people in your family. This is a good tactic but it requires having somebody else in your family working at a company that you are interested. This might not be possible.

You are referring to networking. This is very important and can definitely help you land a job.
You only verify a small subset of the paper ballots. You randomly sample to verify the electronic records.
Your comment conflates CLAs and copyright transfers.
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unfortunately he handed me a 1099 at the end of the year, right after he admitted he fucked me over. i had no choice but to accept it to file my taxes so i just basically was given a huge pay cut, and he didnt technically embezzle - he stole from me, not the IRS
UK offshore wind costs halve to £57.50 per megawatt hour
I'll have to give it a try in sport mode this afternoon and see how much better it is. "Near immediate" sounds an awful lot like "near pregnant" though.
The culture was not perpetuating success or safety for the students within the dorm.
2.3% greater aptitude for mathematics? Better spot the other races 50 points on the SAT.
You're technically correct, but I fail to see how being exposed to the fluctuations on a fraction of disposable income is a bad thing.
> It feels like the sort of line that sounds pithy as long as you don't worry about accuracy.

Exactly!

And unrelated: I always think of Rob Pike when I hear the word pithy [0] :D

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFejpH_tAHM
I'm sorry, but that statement is very likely incorrect. 15kya was very soon after the last glacial maximum (24-18kya) and sea levels weren't significantly affected by then. The receding of the ice sheets started at cca 18kya, but was going slowly at first and only accelerated after 15kya.

Most of middle east cultures draw the myth from Mesopotamian cultures, whose flood myth most likely refers to the flooding of the Persian gulf (which Eufrat and Tigris drain to currently, but used to be a fertile lowland with multiple rivers) cca 8kya.

https://www.livescience.com/10340-lost-civilization-existed-...

Considering the map in this article, with abundance of rivers across the whole Persian gulf plain, I would suggest that the myth of exile from Eden is also related to it - after the flooding and subsequent move of people upriver between the Eufrat and Tigris there was a need to create irrigation channels to keep the agricultural production up at necessary levels. Creating and maintaining these channels is hard, back-breaking work, and it might have inspired the famous 'By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food' line.
As soon as you get into batteries, aren't you still treading into non-eco friendly waters? I suppose this is more about self-sufficiency, but you're still relying on rare metals that come from questionable sources and are excavated by the same old diesel power.
Take a nerd class in high school. Go to nerd university.
Ironic, especially because the FBI is one of the primary law enforcement agencies investigating corruption [1] [2] [3]. It is almost like its a big organization that can't be summed up by a single statement.

[1] http://www.postandcourier.com/politics/fbi-investigating-sou...

[2] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/08/14/fb...

[3] http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/crime/article715...
HN has 10-20% fanboys, so I don't mind. I actually preferred Apple because it used to have a decent DAC so I did not carry a music player with me my phone was just fine.
Homophily is the term used to describe this phenomenon of groups forming on the basis of some kind of affinity (in the broadest sense): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homophily
Wow, that's very bad.

Created an issue for this to prevent anyone else using it.

Let's see how the author will respond.

https://github.com/yue/help/issues/4
> It is possible to make things sufficiently mixed up that the entire consent-absent aggregation system falls apart. Prohibiting them from using social security numbers and otherwise not providing any alternative unique primary key would go a long way toward that end.

Not really. Log onto Spokeo, look yourself up, and see how many errors there are -- but at the same time, how the data is "close enough" to be useful. All compiled without a single identifier like SSNs.
> you lose the cascading advantage

while at the same time you maintain the cascading disadvantages. You can't prevent CSS from cascading unless all your styles are inline, or you've OOCSSed your project so thoroughly that you've used classes to recreate inline styles.
Oh this is a neat idea, thanks! I may have to try this too.
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Very interesting! I'm not sure I agree with your reasoning for the mitochondrial mutation point:

> * Mitochondrial DNA is passed by mothers only and so undergoes very little mutation

It's true that mothers pass on mitochondrial DNA but this doesn't necessarily require the absence of mitochondrial DNA mutations. I would imagine the lower rates of DNA mutation are due to the importance of the mitochondrial genome for generating a cell's energy.
The shared interest groups most people are involved in in their regular lives are far too small to make any extrapolation to the larger population.

Also, for many human traits (i.e height), the intra-population variation is much greater than the inter-population variance, especially when controlling for the effect of environment.

We have a tendency to anchor our biases on the extreme examples of any population when we form our biases, often through mediums like elite/pro sports which select those at the extremes.
This means that you can have any model with an electric or a hybrid powertrain. If it helps you to grasp it, consider the current situation: you can have most of their cars with a a petrol engine (several variants), or a diesel (several variants) – in the future that list will include either hybrid or EV versions, or both, for all models.
Probably PhD work for me, too. It's a slightly different experience in the UK, I think, but did afford me quite a bit of autonomy. Has been hard to match since.

(I get the impression that the trend has been gradually towards more structure and less autonomy in "doctoral programs" -- from my point of view, that's sad).

PS. did you follow Akin's Laws?
> look up when the next bus is coming

That's ridiculous argument against offline use - bus schedules are small enough data that we print them out and carry them in our pockets.

Sure, if the bus company socks, it might be nice to know about changes due to roadwork, real-time updates (ie look up the next bus via it's gps location and speed) - but doing off-line route planning would be a great feature...
>All tech companies eventually get disrupted.

Why do you believe this?
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Your attitude about this is reasonable, but you're extrapolating to a position that is harder to defend.

Your agreement with your nephew is defensible and enforceable. You fund his education, he provides you with his grades. That makes sense.

But that agreement is between you and your nephew, not you and your nephew's school. So much is that the case that at some state schools (I know it's at least true at Illinois, where we just sent our son), they won't allow students to sign FERPA consent forms for release of grades on days when parents are likely to be present.
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Very few things are directly deductible from federal income tax. Most deductions are from the taxable income.

So if you pay X in state income taxes, you'd deduct X from your overall federally taxed income. You end up only saving your federal tax rate times X, not X in federal taxes. So if you're taxed at 13% state and 35% federally, you'd pay 13% to the state. Then you'd still pay (barring other deductions) your federal taxes on 87% of your income.

Federal taxes don't work as a bare percentage, though. You pay a lower percentage on everything up to some number, then progressively higher percentages on brackets of your income up to your maximum tax rate. https://taxfoundation.org/2017-tax-brackets/
Because it ignores the fact that sometimes people make up bullshit for power or control and other people believe it because they were illiterate commoners from thousands of years ago.
Use Guiard's principles when designing your next application in virtual reality
My experience is short people mostly get ignored in an otherwise tall group.
I drive a Leaf daily. Owned a petrol family sedan for 8 years before that and drive all kind of ICE medium-to-premium class rentals (stick and auto) on trips. You get to pay through the nose before a petrol vehicle begins to compare to an entry level electric in driving experience.
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Except with gas turbine plants, I guess. But those are more for peak demands than base supply.
What you're describing is called Swoon Theory [1]. Romans knew how to kill people. Really.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swoon_hypothesis
Had a psychotic episode 3 years into engineering program. Moved back home and worked overnights at 7-Eleven. Spent all of the money on drugs + booze. Had no plans to change, didn't care because of the drugs + meds.

Quit the job and became more or less NEET. Rock bottom was when I interviewed at a coffee chain - the manager asked me "Where do you see yourself in five years?". I literally could not answer and that scared me. Went home and put my phone through the wall - I was so frustrated with myself that I turned down the slam-dunk barista job.

A friend called me up and gave me the opportunity that changed my life. He offered me a dev job at a small startup - I didn't have any work history or portfolio so he could only offer me minimum wage but I could work remotely.

Because of that job I was able to save up enough money to leave home & re-enroll in school, this time in the CS program. Finished the program in 2 years with straight As. Worked at a few startups and now I am consulting with friends and loving life.

I still struggle with addiction and mental illness but I'm in a much better place. I was lucky to have someone reach out to me when I was at my worst.
Framingham, MA is old school New England. I wouldn't be surprised if 75+% of the participants are of direct English/Anglo-Saxon descent, even though the article describes it as "European" descent.
The problem that you have described (relation between pieces of HTML, JS and CSS code) is solved by using components/widgets (for example: using BEM).

I think the problem is that developers do not understand that CSS should be treated like other languages, and developers should organize it rather than let anyone write it as they wish. You don't write your server code in a single file without functions, using global variables and introducing side effects, you don't let a trainee edit important code without reviews, why do you do it with CSS?

I remember reading that Github had something around 9000 CSS rules on a single page. Github developers are talented, but somehow they didn't pay proper attention to CSS code too.

CSS code should be split into components, should be easy to analyze, and should be written so that minor edit of one widget won't break something else on another page.

> In fact the seperation causes so much mental overhead, that we need interactive browser dev tools just to be able to find what styles are applied to what element.

That means CSS is not well organized.
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I think you're vastly underestimating how much money Amazon makes.

So Amazon currently hires 120,000 people at $12/hr for 10 weeks for a total cost of somewhere near $576M. This counts as COGS and is included in their gross margin. If we just multiply that figure by (52 / 10) and subtract out the $576M, we can see that it would decrease their annual Gross Margin by $2.5B. Add on an additional 30% of the combined $3B in salary expense since I doubt the temp workers get benefits, and you'd be looking at a total of ~$3.4 billion.

So in 2016, this would've changed their gross income from $47.7 (35% GM) billion to $44.3 billion (32.5% GM).
If you're not already familiar with his work, you should know that Hanno Böck is a machine, and someone worth following. If there's some mistake you can make with the web PKI that is so stupid nobody would ever bother to check for it, rest assured that Hanno will eventually check.
A Watt is an SI unit defined as 1 joule/second, and is used for measure rate of energy usage/generation. So this system generates up to 100 joules/second, and can output up to 150 joules/second (until the stored energy is consumed).
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Forget it, this module is "flawless".. relatively to a majority of module you can find in codebases. It's tiny, has less than 5 global vars, a few private functions and a few public ones. 100 LoC.

A few years ago I checked out the most used wordpress plugin for social network buttons, it was 4, if not 8 I lost track, pages of imperative loops over god knows how many mutable globals and 3 level deep adhoc dicts.
That's awesome, I'm a solo dev too and I didn't know that about react native.

Definitely want to try it on a project at some point.
it's broken. why do people post broken shit.

you're all idiots.
It seems like the less code users have access to, the less control they will have over their computers. Example: it might become harder to block tracking and ads, turning the open WWW into something more like mobile phone apps (which are terrible for the freedom of end users).
I think the point here is that what these guys are remembered for is only partly about solving specific problems, but also creating a synthesis of all the pieces into a coherent system, because it's that complete model that allows understanding and further progress.
I was reminded of this again over the weekend when listening to this story on the radio: http://www.npr.org/2017/09/10/549489252/emperor-x-we-are-muc...

"Like many musicians, Matheny went years with minimal health insurance, or none at all. In Germany, with no insurance, he wound up in debt of about €30,000 — roughly $35,000. That's what Matheny calculated he would have owed in the U.S. if he did have insurance."
Also, most will beep annoyingly once the sun goes down.
I built this to generate PNGs to drop into a Keynote presentation, so PDFs don't quite work for my use case.

It seems like it should be pretty easy to print a PDF from Puppeteer though – they expose a #pdf method.

https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer/blob/master/docs/a...
You'll find that it will cause the car to hold gears almost up to redline, which isn't great in traffic or when cruising. Whenever I drive an automatic, I ALWAYS use the paddle shifters and put the gearbox into manual mode so I have complete control over gearing.
I guess he invaded his own privacy, by agreeing that he would arrange for his grades to be sent to me by the school.

Also, while your straw man was amusing, it's also mostly wrong. The rules regarding PHI disclosure from covered entities to spouses is fairly complex -- not to mention non-spouses. You might be interested in this link:

https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/faq/488/does-hip...
I view it as unhealthy to squeeze every ounce of productivity that we possibly can. What about taking time to unplug and enjoy the life you've created for yourself, instead of just counting the minutes until you're working again?

I accomplish a shitload of stuff and I don't microdose (I don't even drink coffee). I think of the American work culture as having a horrible sickness where a person's worth is measured only by their output. We are supposed to be constantly producing, never stopping to think if we're even producing the right things.

Sure, maybe some people want to be working all the time. More power to them. However my guess is a lot of people are sucked into it because of the culture and naturally would like a little more free time to themselves.
I was always surprised by the tendency of anthropologists to assign hard evolutionary 'milepoints' based on the very limited set of archeological data. Most egregious example is 'behavioral modernity' theory which claims that homo sapiens developed language, culture and art only relatively recently (30kya) because that's how old the currently oldest archeological finds of culture/art expression are. This doesn't stand up even to the simplest application of Occam's razor.
Nod. And given rare, that could well be a reasonable standard of care. Sh*t happens. What I found disturbing was the absence, at least in this reporting, of any "but the unfortunate part of all this is...", or "we're now striving to rescue what we can". Just, "omg, excellent curios!", with seemingly no recognition of loss.
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The article doesn't touch on that the "great man" phenomenon also has a lot to do with the intersection of the person and their time in history. The atom bomb and the atomic age cemented Einstein, Bohr, etc. as "great men" along with a lot of other physicists of the time.

It is not only about who could do X, but also when they did it in a historical context.

Of course sometimes it really is merely a matter of propaganda, or being the first widely publicized person to do X.

I mean people have been doing this since the myth of Prometheus :-)
While I should look up a chart, I'm not able to at the moment, but I'd point out that computerization should have added a large constant factor to labor productivity starting in the 90s, you'd expect wages to rise proportionally if that's the case (and for the jobs displaced to be replaced with high wage jobs too).

I can point out banking deregulation, airline deregulation, oil extraction deregulation.... it hasn't been a uniform march in a single direction, but there has been significant deregulation in core industries. One might point out that the construction industry is now safer, as in fewer people die per building. It's not really possible to justify any deaths for construction in reasonable circumstances.

The question is has a doubling of wages kept pace with the increase in wealth in those countries? I suspect 2x is far below the wealth that was produced. It would be helpful to discuss a particular example.