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>A drugged out, non-productive population costs a ton

Look at the data from Colorado and other states that have legalized pot, and from Portugal, where they've decriminalized all drugs.

Legalization does not make for a "drugged out, non-productive population".
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Being high is not illegal; Being in possession is
I know nothing about your idea and please don't consider this a comment on that but ...

> Ballpark, good users will visit my Web site solution a few times a week, and from simple arithmetic the company should relatively soon be worth ballpark $1 T.

VCs almost certainly hear this kind of claim multiple times a week and are thoroughly experienced in how frequently this turns out to be true (practically zero) - hence without some kind of demonstration or hook they can anchor themselves to, it's going to go straight in the bin.
I've known many a dealer in my lifetime, and a distant family member who spent some time incarcerated for 'high level' activity, who gives me long tales of how the business works as well.

Dealers don't assault, endanger or attack random customers who just stop buying.

That's totally absurd, and that someone would suggest it - indicates that they are getting their information from Netflix/Hollywood films or something, not reality.

The vast majority of dealers are actually fairly normal people anyhow.
I think OP complains about quality, not consistency.

> So is a single bitcoin worth $500,000, $5,000, $500 or $0? I’m inclined to say $0

> The digital currency’s value depends on it becoming digital gold—or on criminals

This is opinion (aka bu*hit).
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Cars are not necessary in almost all parts of London. Removing them would vastly improve quality of life.
For the other instances you get a specific number of units of processing capacity that you can use 100% of continuously if you like. For the micro instances, you get a base level and build up credits towards bursts, and can not maintain 100% utilization continuously. It's very much different and not the default. To quote Amazon:

> "A CPU Credit provides the performance of a full CPU core for one minute. Traditional Amazon EC2 instance types provide fixed performance, while T2 instances provide a baseline level of CPU performance with the ability to burst above that baseline level. The baseline performance and ability to burst are governed by CPU credits."

A t2.micro allows only 10% of the vCPU baseline performance. Anything above that needs to be "earned" at a rate of 6 credits per hour. The t2.micro can accumulate a maximum of 144 CPU credits (+ the 30 initial credits, that do not renew), each good for 1 minute of 100% use.

So in other words, you can on average only use 100% of the CPU for 6 minutes per hour.
Interesting, is this a U.S. thing? Because I remember reading about attacks on EMV in Europe and they all seemed to boil down to forcing a fallback to magstripe.
You can act weird an be lazy without weed. If you act weird does is the product that make you like that or you that are simply weird? Anyway University is not the correct age/moment to consume any product like this.
OK, let me be clearer then. If PHP itself is just being used as a templating language, where does the demand for multiple templating engines implemented in PHP, and intended for use in PHP projects, with their own non-PHP syntax, such as Twig, come from?
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> Which country are you talking about? This treatment plan for a person with borderlinePD is likely to cause harm.

I'm aware of the harm. But it is the start of therapy programs in several nations, Australia, New Zealand, France, United States of America, among others.

> Do not use brief psychological interventions of less than 3 months.

Precisely, but the therapy with the most proven effectiveness, dialectical behaviour therapy, has little support from the government programs. In fact, CBT has proven to be harmful for those suffering from BPD, but is a requirement when you first begin treating a patient in some of the above nations.

> Drug treatment should not be used specifically for borderline personality disorder

However, it is commonly used to start treatment, and supplement ongoing talk therapy, with the ultimate goal of removing it.

> What Alice probably needs is a long form talking therapy

Which is not available to her.
So, now we can have a submarine exploit delivered via a controller?

Consumers can compete with the military for replacement parts, or will taxpayers fund the militarization of the 360 controllers?

Are these being purchased directly from Microsoft or procured via Gamestop?
Unauthorized copies are less convenient (especially since mainstream playback devices won't play them) and frequently of lower quality.

HD .mkv files can be viewed on virtually any device, including "smart" TVs long forgotten by their manufacturers which do not support Netflix/Roku/whatever apps, open source devices, smartphones, or regular computers. Usually, you just need to plug in a USB drive and press play.

They can also be of arbitrary high quality. And usually higher, not lower than streaming sources which adjust to network conditions.

It's true that the plans at legitimate distributors are currently very inexpensive. A good seedbox will run higher than Spotify and Netflix subscriptions plus a bowl of nachos but neither the quality, nor the choice, or convenience are even close to piracy.
My Dad loves to point out in period films when cars came out after the film was set. He'll love this and I guess I can one-up him now.
Coincidentally, I almost got mowed down yesterday by a girl on a citibike. She made no attempt to slow down and if I hadn't stopped in the crosswalk, she would have hit me. As a native New Yorker, I am weary of cars, buses, and trucks, but I know where they are going to be, generally speaking. Bicyclists are a less predictable variable. They are harder to spot and don't obey any traffic rules to any large degree.

That said, I have observed that if they are a commuter with a helmet on, then they are likely to stop at lights and for pedestrians. If they have no helmet on, or are riding a citibike, then all bets are off and I should be very careful if they are heading my way.
> The Mental Life of Some Machines

Sounds very interesting! My Google skills are failing me, can someone find a pdf?
I don't have a degree and never had an issue finding good work in the tech industry.

I've found there are so many people trying to get into IT that your portfolio counts for more than your qualifications (much like with a photographer).
I welcome it. It will make the flow of fiat into good cryptocurrencies so much easier. Let the better system win. Monopolies are almost never good.
We get the strictly positional numeral system from the Indians. But base 10 was also used by people in various other places and some earlier (Greeks, Minoans, Egyptians, Romans, Semites, Chinese, ...)

The source for most (all?) base ten systems was almost certainly finger counting, though I'm not sure how useful archaeological / linguistic evidence is about this in many cases.
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> although with more battery drain.

Telegram doesn't drain battery at all and doesn't need Google. Not sure what Signal and others do, but of Wire I know that they drain battery as fast as if I had a game running constantly in the background.

Signal I'd use, but it (still) doesn't work on my phone because I've got many Google software firewalled. When reporting this bug years ago it was a WONTFIX. I also heard they removed that dependency months ago and I keep trying every few months, but Signal won't even let me confirm my phone number because it relies on Google so deeply, so I can't use it.

So unfortunately Telegram is still my messenger of choice: high usability, everyone has it, it's not owned by some big corporation and it's not of the USA, and optional encryption (for non-group chats) is better than nothing.
> You have to actually get documents from them
> (or from a court) saying that they have no claim.

Naturally this varies in different jurisdictions, but generally speaking, the burden of proof is on the person making the claim.

If I say that you owe me money, it's not necessary for you to obtain documents (from either me or from a court) stating that you don't owe me money - the onus is on me to _prove_ that you me money.
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It's relatively inefficient and it's hard to see why someone would choose that over wire transfer unless they were doing something illegal. I also don't get why "no banks can reverse the transaction" is touted as a benefit so often; what sane buyer prefers to do online purchases where they have no recourse if they never receive the goods?
> But there is clearly a demand for DRM-free browsers.

There is not a demand for DRM-free browser.

I don't know anyone in the real world that demands a DRM-free browser.
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At the time I lost my interest to assembly, it had pretty high-level contructs like looping, function frames, structs, etc. via macros. Macros of fasm are iirc recursive, so its power is far more than usual assembler. I would put it at 85% on [regular asm .. non-optimized C] scale. You can think of tasm/masm as of lisp with cpp instead of macros.

The use case beyond educational purpose is still unclear to me though. Especially with macros.
Maybe not, but the heroin addicts will no longer have to resort to robberies and other crime in order to fund their addictions, and it will become easier to offer them help and treatment.
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> It is the most populus federated network I have seen.

Yes, same; but that's kind of the point. Mastodon is the best effort I have seen so far; which is why it was disappointing to see it falter shortly after it started to really pick up.

There seem to be a mass exodus from Twitter (at least, among the people I follow), precipitated by Twitter's latest unwelcome UI tweaks. Initially, it seemed really cool -- it was specifically addressing Twitters biggest pain points (longer messages, chronological timeline, saner threading), and was OSS and federated to boot.

However, quickly the veiner started to crumble, with there appearing to be an increasing number of issues, such as undelivered DMs, scrambled threads, dropped mentions. A lot of them seemed specifically related to interactions between federated instances. To make matters worse, the UI seemed to be getting increasingly slower.

Eventually, the combined frustrations, and to some extent perhaps network effects, resulted to gradual return back to Twitter.

This is, admittedly, a skewed view based on the observation of the small slice of Twitter community that I follow, and my own limited experience with the platform (spanning a few weeks).

I am still hoping that Mastodon (or something like it) makes it, but I'm not holding my breath.
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I wonder if Bitcoin is the perfect currency for the globalized world. I need currency to pay taxes to the state I currently live in, but if I'm a global citizen, not planning to be a permanent residence of any specific country, then doing my banking in a currency that can be easily moved, and can't be seized, is very valuable. Is the Fiat alternative keeping CHF in a Swiss bank account?
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"I do not get this, why would you pay 1250$ a month to live in a bunk bed for 12 months when you can find actual rooms with roommates for 1000-1300 in SF in less trendy neighborhoods (Sunset, Richmond, Bernal Heights, ...) ?"

The answer is in the article "Rent was steep for a shared bedroom, but I would get to live in the heart of downtown with some crazy smart engineers."

Given description of living that includes cockroaches in the kitchen, littered trash, glass, disposed needles, and since it "reeked of urine" and since it was impossible to sleep in the night, I suspect crazy smart engineers went anyway somewhere where they can sleep in the night.

I mean seriously, I am full of sympathy for uneducated poor people who had no choice but to live in a bad situation, I am all for social support and such. But at some point, and article seems to reach it, the issue is not just shady housing provider, but young genius willing to buy too much coolaid.
This is interesting, but just because you can do something doesn't mean you should, particularly in JavaScript. As soon as I started working on a large project with a team of devs my coding style began to change dramatically. Simplicity and readability become paramount. Minimize how much a dev needs to understand about the code before they can work on it, and how long it takes them to read it. With the right coding conventions, anyone can start working within seconds just by seeing the names of the functions and variables.

The mental gymnastics required to read these functions and understand how they work is not negligible, it adds up. Especially when the function definition might be in another file from the one you are working on.

If any of my co-workers started actually using these techniques in our code, I would flag it. Usually, if you find yourself in a situation where it is beneficial to use techniques like this, it's a sign that you might be able to refactor your entire approach to make the design simpler.
On the other side of the same scale there was Bill Cunningham.
...Which is the calculated and deliberate result of a long-standing social engineering project.

Or "propaganda" as it's more usually known.
Because they could instead sell it as "an unskimmable card!". Many people I know have had their cards preemptively replaced by their bank because it was used at a store/ATM where other cards were skimmed. Avoiding worries/hassles like that could be a selling point.
You have a lot of opinions about Bitcoin, but no understanding of how it works. It's deflationary by nature, meaning that it doesn't behave like a fixed amount of printed currency. The value of it is backed by tangible work. And it's not anonymous.
As per my other reply: A t2.micro does not allow you to use more than 10% of the vCPU on a sustained basis. Any use over that needs to be earned, and you only earn 6 credits (for one minute each) per hour.
What makes you think people would NOT have consulted paat experience? Given this is space parts, there simply may not have been enough experience.
>In Venezuela they are currently telling people to eat rabbits as Socialism is working out so well for them.

I don't mean to sound like the stereotypical "leftist" by saying that Venezuela isn't a Socialist country, but I'll have to in order to get the simple point accross that Venezuela operates a capitalist economy, protects private property, and the working class as a whole is not in power of any branch of the government; if Socialism is the dictatorship of the proletariat, it simply does not exist in Venezuela. It's very simple when I say that there is no such thing as wage labour within a Socialist economy. Socialism isn't just when the government does stuff; that idea is a false one, so much that it would be wise to call it "vulgar Socialism".

The idea also that Socialism requires the implementation of policies that Venezuela has implemented is farcical, too. By "Socialism" Steinbeck, nor any other Socialist author is referring to price centrols; Oscar Wilde, George Orwell, Steinbeck, Marx, Engels, Chomsky, Bookchin, Bakunin etc. had a very specific idea in mind; there's no need to be intellectually dishonest to advance the idea that Socialism makes you eat rabbits. It doesn't. They didn't eat rabbits in the Paris Commune nor in revolutionary Catalonia, nor to my knowledge Burkina Faso under Sankara.

If you want to read up on the modern advances in Socialist economy, I'd recommend looking at Paul W. Cockshott's Towards a New Socialism; to dismiss it without doing this research reeks of laziness or worse dishonesty. But please don't make assumptions about what Socialism is about while you have clearly failed to do the required research.

Perhaps because the quote by Steinbeck likely wasn't said, have one by Vonnegut instead:

"Socialism is no more an evil word than Christianity. Socialism no more prescribed Joseph Stalin and his secret police and shuttered churches than Christianity prescribed the Spanish Inquisition. Christianity and socialism alike, in fact, prescribe a society dedicated to the proposition that all men, women, and children are created equal and shall not starve."
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I'm my country twice until now, the government remained without money, and started printing like crazy, people's cash economies, were melted, or course people would say, that real estate, gold, stocks, but I'm not talking here about so much money, I'm talking about 6 months living expenses for example, bitcoin would have been a great use for this kind of savings, we don't have stocks here, gold is impossible to buy, and no safe to store, etc. If think about there isn't a lot of difference between gold and bitcoin, the main thing is immutability, gold industrial use is a myth.
Sweden also isn’t as big as America
As I recall it usually drops around 10am PST
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3DSecure is also pretty widely deployed in my neck of Europe (Sweden).

EMV chip transactions and 3DSecure really ought to eliminate the vast majority of "card number stolen" fraud. Too bad it's all so poorly implemented.
> Amazon has free returns

I doubt this is true for anywhere but North America.
And that's great. But it's meaningless when the base-cost per unit of computation capacity is so high that it is in most cases cheaper to have a whole farm of servers running idle elsewhere.
Typically 7pm CET.
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> I do occasionally see motor vehicles breaking traffic laws, but I see an order of magnitude more cyclists breaking the rules.

To add to this anecdata, I see more vehicles breaking the rules than cyclists -but- even if it were 10:1 cyclists:vehicles, one of them is at least a ton of metal at high speed and therefore capable of doing many orders of magnitude more damage.

> this is probably where the negative opinions of cyclists comes from

People are inured to cars and tend to turn a blind eye to their minor indiscretions (perhaps because they happen at a distance - cyclists are less common, out of most people's experience, and much closer - thus more visible indiscretions.)
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You can use Kotlin on Android, which is way closer to Swift than Java 8.

There has been no clamor for Java 8 in the Android community. It is a fine update to Java 7 but Kotlin offers us so much more.

So we asked for Kotlin and that's what we got.
I waa not aware the DoD directly purchases hardware from Microsoft.
The point being when you decriminalize it becomes accessible both to those who "really want" it and those who just would be curious to try it.
There is no formal concept of "economic democracy" - and of course there should be, because without managed wealth redistribution you have plutocracy, not democracy.

In fact the US and UK do have managed wealth redistribution - from working people of all classes to banks, investors, and property owners.
I vouch for it based on my personal experience - I suffered from a serious and untreatable autoimmune disorder (of thyroid, not directly of gut), and the only 'treatment' proposed by doctors was to cut out my thyroid and make me dependant on taking thyroid hormones orally for the rest of my life.

I refused, did some research on my own, and went on keto. My thyroid bloodwork is back to normal and I have no symptoms. And I feel much 'healthier' and more 'energetic' than before all this as well.

I am not proposing keto diet as a magical cure-for-all, but as a possible venue that should be tried before being forced to undergo irreversible surgical procedures for example.

P.S. body does not 'switch' the energy source to fat, it increases the production of ketones as result of interrupted Krebs cycle ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citric_acid_cycle ) because oxaloacetate gets rerouted for use in gluconeogenesis (creating glucose for brain's needs), because there's not enough glucose in diet. This interruption causes the buildup of the main source for Kreb's cycle, acetyl-COA, which is then converted to acetoacetate (a ketone), which is then also partially converted to acetone and beta-hydroxybutyrate (also ketones). Of these, body uses acetoacetate and beta-hydroxybutyrate as fuel. Body is always able to use them, it's just that there's not enough of them to use if you're not on carb-restricted diet, so body defaults to using glucose as fuel.

Like you say, long-term effects of keto are poorly studied, mostly because of two reasons: early keto hype as an effective seizure treatment died out once we got good enough chemical seizure treatments, and there was a lot of money poured into blaming fat intake for negative health effects of increased carb intake from the 50ies (starting with Ancel Keys), and picking up significantly in 70ies.

There are animal studies that demonstrate increased longevity of animals on keto diet, similar to calorie restriction and strict veganism. While the calorie restriction and strict veganism most likely work through lowered intake of methionine (an essential aminoacid which functions as START coding block for protein synthesis, meaning that with lowered methionine intake your body creates protein at lowered rate and renews itself more slowly), keto achieves that through effectively tricking the body to go into 'starvation mode' i.e. the mode of using own fat reserves while the actual fat source is the diet.
I wouldn't say bitcoin holds its value. It is a hot potato, and in my opinion the most rational thing is to trade them immediately away (for other currency, darknet goods) once you hold bitcoin.

Sure, the price has been going up like crazy, and you might hold on to them to go "to the moon". But if it crashes, the value can go to zero - bitcoin has no "intrinsic value" unlike gold, its value is only defined by what you can get for it. In that sense, yes, it definitely has a non-zero value now. But it might crash, be outlawed, etc. tomorrow and you can loose everything.

(Another point is that "value" is notoriously ill-defined. Price? Trade value? Use value? Something else?)
Given it's military, they're very likely already sharing NOW.
Makes want and just may force me to use my phone to pay for gas!!!
Why would the burden of proof be on the person in debt? How do you prove a negative?
This is a paranoid slippery slope.

EME existed for several years already, and was implemented in browsers. Standardization doesn't change much.

And no one except the big movie producers even wants to use DRM. If you don't watch movies on the web, you'll never see DRM.

Firefox is DRM-free by default. It will download Widevine CDM if you start watching Netflix, but you can untick a flag in the settings to completely forbid it from downloading the CDM, if you're afraid of accidentally signing up for Netflix :D
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I feel like the examples given in the article of tools to use and products you could build are real.

Videos and landing pages are only really mentioned once in the introductory paragraphs. The rest is about building sites that people can actually use.
Having dynamic user-hosted CDNs in almost real-time a la IPFS (which are sadly far from real-time) has been proven to work. However, the latency is too big so yeah, so far we've got practically nothing.
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