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> So how do you order plugins relative to other plugins you don't have control over?

Let the user decide, like this?

[external plugin 1]
some options = do stuff
[internal plugin A]
; etc.
[external plugin 2]
[external plugin 3]
[internal plugin B]

where all of these plugins are the same type (e.g. pre-build, post-compile). If that's too verbose, then plugin bundles & the Filter bundle are the way to go:

[external plugin 1]
some options = do stuff
[internal plugin A]
; etc.
[@Filter/@Basic]
-without = external plugin 1
[internal plugin B]

If you have a strong need for your plugin to run after one but before another, and they're all in the same step, then maybe they should be separated into two steps.
This is only complex now. It used to be this complex to get GCC up off the ground. Now we just apt-get or yum install it. In time this will be the status quo for this and then you will just be able to type "make test" and it'll fart out the right binary.
> benefit of low-latency

you achieve the benefit by loosening consistency, i.e. the local ai will have to react to local events before those are acknowledged by the server to see any gain, and the server might come to different opinions because it sees a different state of the game considering multiple clients who are constantly out of sync.

That leads to warping. A rocket, to take an example of an extremely simple entity, might fly a few meters on your screen only to explode right in front of your face because the server sent a message that the flight path was blocked by an online enemy that your client didn't predict.
There is literally no argument in the whole article to support the title's conclusion.
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In some really abstract way: that makes sense!

But the problems of a widespread long term power outage sound like something a centralized preparation could cope with at least as effectively, if not more so; partially because it can simply be prevented appropriate preparations, and partially because even when a blackout cannot be prevented you almost certainly can ensure that recovery is relatively trivial (as compared to "rebuild transformers"). Both mitigation strategies simply aren't available to hyper-local prepper style preparations. Not to mention the fact that the population (even in the low-density US of A) is probably much higher than a prepper-tech based society can ever hope to sustain. I.e: mass prepping would likely replace famine and other catastrophes with immediate civil war, followed by famine and other catastrophes.

In abstract: Decentralization offers a remedy because it is distributed; however, the best way to make a system (more) distributed may still be via a coordinated (i.e. centralized) approach.
Not sure why I'm getting down voted. Here's a link to the marketing material where a dark-skinned guy is wearing a hat, scarf, and grows a beard: https://www.apple.com/iphone-x/#face-id
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Paul Graham is running out of ideas these days. (Partly joking).

This goes on to my same discovery: Life itself is a constant process of incremental trial and error builds-up. Over a few billions years, you get something out of it (human being playing snapchat)

If you keep counting from 0 to an infinitely large number, at some numbers you'll "discover": Windows 7, Windows 7 Korean Language, Microsoft Office, OSX, and every other game that human designed and developed. Plus a bunch of other software from alternate realities that compile on our machines. Cool.

The process the human are doing is not much different (albeit one can argue that it is much more efficient than stupidly counting) "Everything" is already there. The new Audi A4? It was already "possible".

If there is one thing that will change the future, it is our discovery of the link between "abstract" and "real" concepts. They share some important points that I'd not be surprised that "real" and "abstract" are the same thing/continuum. Like space and time.
If you have a limited supply of currency in a growing economy, it's inherently deflationary. So far I haven't seen proposals for cryptocurrencies that can grow as a function of the underlying economy. Maybe there are some.
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I have a hunch that this is a parody of the DAO token theft.

Don't have the technical knowledge, nor do I care to put in the hours to figure it all out.
It's easy to fall for that liberal meme, but you (and they) are wrong. Pickety explains it in his book.

In Europe, most wealth is inherited, and power in concentrated in family dynasties.
I find it ironical that people who take up pitch forks and accuse others of being a hazard to the health and growth of a project would, in lieu of having their demands met, do one of the worst actions possible against what they were "protecting": splitting the code base and the community with a fork.
Aren't "modes" in UI a recognized bad practice? See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_(computer_interface)#Mode... or read Jef Raskin writings.

How can a modal interface be "better" than a modeless one?
>A single AAA battery did the job for a full week in my Rio MP3 Player. I don't care about fancy color screen, video camera? come on, wifi? useless

Well, you might find yourself in the extreme minority on this.

It's not like non-color-screen, non wi-fi full-week-lasting mp3 players don't exist -- there are tons of such models.

It's just that the market has spoken, and most prefer to be able to also stream, plays apps, etc on their multi-purpose device than get one such.

>There was no improvement on the MP3 player, only the storage, but on crap Apple storage, you don't have choice to throw away a device that have slow memory 8GB? when you can buy a SD card?

Well, obviously companies like Apple don't cater to some small niche of music aficionados. Most people don't care for juggling cards and having different parts of their record collection on different SD cards or whatever -- they did it with CDs and such on 1999 out of necessity. Heck, most people will just stream today and be done with it.

Also not sure how "slow memory" means anything in the context of an mp3 player. Ever had problem reading mp3s from the memory quickly enough?
Yeah, that's a neat case in point (and illustrates nicely that there are cases where async is super-valueable!).
IMO network bandwidth and latency is a bigger problem than storage. Right now, I can stream [1] HD movies from my homeserver to wherever my notebook is right now, because the upstream at home is wide enough (6 megabits per sec). But that application only works because it has quite predictable bandwidth requirements and can cope with latency quite well. Many other applications would be horribly slow if every file access had a second-long roundtrip.

[1] via sshfs
> regard the "how to escalate?" issue: The company still struggles with corner cases like this

This is not a corner case. Being able to appeal and escalate that appeal are the only possible way to have any semblance of due process.
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>Right wing academics at predominantly state-funded academic institutions have obviously promoted a particular economic worldview for the past century and a half because they want to be made redundant, not because they believe in them? I'm not convinced everybody who doesn't agree with your views on the economy is only in it for the money

I didn't say they were only in it for the money, but the marginal utility of a career as an economist is higher if you have "the right views", and, over time, people have a tendency to shape their views around what grants them money and career progression. This is pretty typical.

>That says a lot about how effective they are

No, it says that that is not part of their agenda. They have never spoken out on it. Only one of the think tanks they fund holds this view.

Their core agenda appears to revolve (among other things) around deregulation. At this, they have been very successful.

>The front page on their website carries articles about elite financial networks running the world

Yeah, elites like trashing one another. Whodathunkit?

>Obviously this is all part of the conspiracy to promote mainstream economics and the interests of the rich.

I suppose billionaires funding an elaborate game of misdirection over wealth inequality could qualify as that, yes. It's curious that you'd characterize this as the left asserting themselves.

>As for Marx, it's lucky that literally no economist has ever written anything complimentary about him

Non sequitur?

>Obviously state university economics departments are full of professors who would sacrifice their beliefs for fast career progression and high salaries

You tend to exit the profession and do something else if your beliefs are too discordant (like my friends did).
Eventually, they'll be hunting each other. Until the population drops back to the subsistence level. But of course, international aid would kick in, well before it got to that. One hopes, anyway.
This is a retelling of the Parity Multi-Sig Wallet hack, from the hackers perspective:

https://blog.zeppelin.solutions/on-the-parity-wallet-multisi...

We're talking about 40mn USD here so I doubt that this account was written by the original hacker.
> Ethiopian famine of the early 80s, possibly the first and most shocking western TV news coverage of a famine

You are presumably too young to remember Biafra. The television coverage then was pretty shocking. The very name of the state became a British slang adjective for very thin; see https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Biafran
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It's been fairly apparent to me that science doesn't really counter religious belief. I've been following the Closer To Truth series on Youtube for a while and although I find the atheist positions given much more convincing, the religious side always has some way out of a killing blow.

However what that series never seems to really tackle head on, and which I would have expected to be a much more powerful argument, is that although religious philosophers and theologians can always come up with some justification for believing in a universal creator, they never seem to come up with any argument as to what that creator is like. If the universe was created by god, what is that god like and why should I be a Christian rather than a Muslim, or Hindu, or Budhist? If Christian, why a Catholic, say, rather than a Methodist, or Calvinist, etc.

Science, or at least rational philosophy, can strip away much of the cultural detritus of religion. Ultimately though until it can answer why the universe exists, not just how, it can't land a fatal blow.

So to me the argument of science versus religion is kind of secondary. The real question is can't religious people see that they're just projecting arbitrary cultural baggage they happen to have been born into, that keeps changing generation by generation anyway, on a philosophical emperor that inherently has no clothes?
As the other open source video editing software were so bad, and Blender had a so good reputation, I tried to use it to edit my family videos. But the interface were so weird for a casual user that I quit. This was one of the reasons that I came back to Windows after decades.
The only way cryptocurrency would be a straightjacket on the economy is if there were only one cryptocurrency. Actually there are hundreds, and it's trivial to make more. Rather than a digital gold standard, we have a system of competing privately-issued currencies, which Hayek advocated in his book The Denationalization of Money.
Linguistic change keeps pace with social change. If Jane Austin jumped two hundred years in a time machine, she would notice the change in language. In her day (and social class) marriage is permanent and adultery and divorce mostly absent due to heavy social penalties. Also, no premarital sex, no unwed mothers.

Surveying today's social scene, she would notice that we have totally abolished marriage as she understood it. She would also notice that we were sentimental about words. We reused the word marriage for the very different social institution that replaced marriage, rather confusing ourselves about the extent of the change.

Well, no. We are not in fact sentimental about words. Jumping 200 years in a time machine creates the cognitive illusion of a year when things changed. Jane expects to be told that we abolished marriage in 1917 and held a competition for a new word for the new world. Why did "marriage" win?

But there was never a single year when the world changed. All the changes were small enough that it never made sense to coin a new word. Yes, we can see now how temporary our sexual pair bonds are. If there have been a single year when it happened, we would have coined a new noun("tempriage" instead of "marriage") and a new verb ("to tempry" instead of "to marry").

If we had new words, linguistic change would reveal social change instead of concealing it. We would have a very different take on "progressive" versus "traditionalist". The progressive position approves of homosexual tempriage. The traditional position rejects homosexual tempriage.

At this point we spot that "traditional" need scare quotes around it. There is no traditional position on tempriage. Tempriage is thoroughly new. Some 21st century people want to shape the new social institution one way. Others disagree.

We have no authentic traditionalists. Jacob Rees-Mogg thinks he is arguing that against gay marriage, because marriage has traditionally been between a man and a woman. In fact his is arguing against gay tempriage, on the basis of an unspoken and tenuous analogy between tempriage and marriage.

I don't know what to make of all this. I would love to understand the world around me, especially social change, but it is so confusing. Not only are social changes very large, but we try to understand them through a rhetoric of tradition versus progress, without understanding that our "traditions" are new-minted.
Wasn't able to respond to you earlier

Thanks for the tip, I wasn't even considering bandwidth. I think when I first was setting up EC2 I got a "bad batch" if that's a thing, I should say instance. I couldn't figure out why the TTFB was varying from 3-5 seconds I tried so many things eventually I had to switch and since I didn't have elastic IP I think, I switched servers (regions) to whatever I was assigned on restart and it was instant/correct like in the 10s/100s ms range.
Anyway I'll keep an eye on that, don't have users yet but something to keep in mind, thankfully not really serving media mostly text.
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Aka the Amish, or even Mennonites. I spend a good deal of time in close proximity to these communities and they seem to mix old world / close-to-earth living (horse and buggy etc.) with new world-tech (solar/wind electricity generation). Each community has their own "rules" but it seems to be close to what you're describing (maybe minus all the religious stuff) I do see them at Wal-Mart ... so there's that.
> I'm disagreeing with you, not ignoring.

You sounds like you think I agree with you when you don't explain your position & say we agree. Saying 'economics is the same as <new subject>' is not a compelling argument without some justification behind it.

> That doesn't mean a lack of certainty in some facets make economics not valuable.

I'm specifically talking about the perfect free market model. I've always been talking about it. I put it to you that: this model is useless, and not comparable to the equivalent simple models in physics.

> Economics are no different.

They are different: it involves predicting the behaviour of a population of humans who are making high-level decision which affect their or others lives.
I think what he is trying to say is, that developers will be useless dead weight in this kind of post apocalyptic scenario. Everybody will be out of there normal day jobs, but a lot of people can contribute to survival with their skillset.
Doctors, mechanics, farmers, caretakers, hand labor, etc. will be in high demand. Office people & developers, not so much.
I have not reviewed that JSR, so I have no comment on the merits of its implementation.

However, it's worth pointing out that MOST tech concepts people regard as "modern" today are actually re-treads of 1970's ideas.
Out of curiosity...is this a man or a woman?

EDIT: What's with the oversensitivity here? Is there anything wrong in asking a person's sex? What if it's for studying inclination towards certain decision making criteria? Geez folks, not every question is sinister. If you don't want to answer it, just move on. No one is being attacked here.
> the required amount of necessities ready to go

What is the required amount? And where where would you go?
I think "Repeating close variations on your usual theme unlocks far more value than you'd expect given minimal novelty value" is a surprising result. I utterly buy it.

The advice I give which has produced the single biggest deltas in outcomes is "Charge more." It is so simple that I could literally print it on T-shirts and wear it to any event which discusses pricing. People know it is my catchphrase and sometimes I get knowing laughter when I say it...

... and then a few minutes later they've agreed to try charging more, despite having an accurate model which suggests "Hah, I bet when we ask Patrick about our new pricing he is going to ask us what it is, think about it for less than five seconds, and then suggest charging more." They knew what I'd say before I even got in the room, but even the tiniest marginal connection to their own pricing grid / customers / data pushes them to actually try it.
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> People stop breeding when they're prosperous enough to be comfortable and educated enough to defer gratification.

And when is that going to be something that's true for the entire global population ? It would require us to get rid of some massive issues regarding inequality and that is never going to happen.
Which is why you never ever use the "log in with Google/Facebook" buttons.
he is claiming to be the multi-sig exploit hacker:

https://etherscan.io/tx/0xff261a49c61861884d0509dac46ed67577...

he is probably role playing because i doubt whoever did this would put themselves at risk by claiming they did it publicly
>I won't argue this point by point besides saying that those are each overblown concerns

Overblown concerns that all made the Google Glass a total non-starter failure.

>The broader point here, and this makes the point, is that Apple should be taking on any and all major challenges to keep it as a breakthrough trailblazing company.

Nope. Apple should focus on carefully selected markets that keep it as a consumer favorite, best experience, record-profitable company.

Trailblazing breakthroughs in various random "major challenges" can be left to those without commercial concerns, like Google Labs who mostly makes up for money spend in positive press PR for its non-marketable "innovations".
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Science, and, with one or two exceptions, scientists themselves, have no issue with religion except when it tries to suppress science.
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I'd phrase it this way. If you're nervous and fumble interviews, don't stop going. Go to more interviews instead. After a while you'll be so used to it that your body stops reacting that way.
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Murder is unlawful killing. Neither of those are professional murderers, by default. Some have murdered, but that's not usually why we hire them.
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Is anyone willing to share the resources they strongly recommend after use in their childhood and/or with their own children? The recent discussion of children's author Sandra Boynton inspired this attempt to broaden the discussion to any similarly excellent tools. I am most specifically interested in recommendations related to learning foreign languages.

I have personally used and strongly recommend:

· Baby Signing Time http://store.signingtime.com/baby-signing-time DVD

· The Best of the Laurie Berkner Band https://amzn.com/dp/B003SJVM5M as a music CD for the car.

· Lola's Alphabet Train https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lolas-alphabet-train-free-learn-to-read/id428422381?mt=8

· KidsTV123 https://www.youtube.com/user/KidsTV123

· Word Party https://www.netflix.com/title/80063705

Based on a strong personal recommendation of a relative, I am looking forward to soon using:

· Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons https://amzn.com/dp/0671631985
This might be true for FPS and other genres where reflex and speed are the most important factors. However most competitive strategy games will definitely benefit from strong intelligent AIs. For example in Age of Empires, the problem isn't that the AI is too strong (they're not - with enough practice anyone can beat the hardest AI). The problem is that they don't play like a human would, and are exploitable with certain strategies which even a beginner player wouldn't fall for.
Maybe a warning not to invest in moronic products?

Maybe a warning to VC companies that their partners should not be imbecile lemmings?
While it was an unpopular opinion, that was what Cloudflare's Mathew Prince has been saying all along. When do you draw the line? How do you define xxxxx. I read in US, Police can take away your cash / processions if you are suspected of XXXX.I guess similar mentality is happening.

HDD is Cheap, SoC is Cheap, We are only lacking the software to have a Personal Cloud where your Photo, Video, Email, or other Files are Stored on BOTH the cloud AND your Home Mini Server. I paid a small fees to have the data on cloud for being accessible and as backup. I was rather hoping Apple could do that with Time Capsule. Since OSX Server already caches your iCloud Files. But I guess most company are too deep rooted into this recurring "Subscription" model they dont actually want you to own anything.
Interesting - from the comments here, it sounds like she is really well known in the US, but I haven't come across her work in the UK at all.

You would think this type of work would travel well.
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Integration with a contract system like Clojure Spec is one of the best features still missing in current type systems. Having that would get best of the both worlds and allow better interaction with untyped code. Racket has this currently.

I like Typescript. But wish it had exact types like Flow. This leads to not being able to type a simple Algebraic Data Type with complete precision.

I think the reasoning given on the github page for not having exact types(involving how it plays with intersection types and union types) has a bug. One can assign T & U to T even when T is exact(exactness of T ensures U wont introduce extra properties), and assigning T to T | U should be fine when U is exact(For a user to determine if a T|U value is T or U, they will have to check whether a property in T exists, not U).

But this is a very small issue.
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Wait until you lose your gmail that you've used for everything for the last 10 years as a collateral damage.

You can't really maintain a local copy of a "control of @gmail.com" domain to be able for people to continue sending you messages.
If anything, our environment is more likely to survive than our species.