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I think it's incorrect to equate working long hours with passionate pursuits like learning something or working on a side-project. Good motivation, almost always, never let's you burnout in real terms. Hell, I love creating something after work and counterintuitively, it makes me feel happier than stressful. But, I don't count this as work, it's kind of a break for me.

In most cases, the effort put is not in the right direction. Stroking the brush the same way a thousand times will never make you a better painter if it's not accompanied with a study of better techniques and introspection into your mistakes.

I can't deny that sometimes you can have enough motivation to have be 'the right kind of productive' for long hours but working on the same project necessitates a break. The break allows you to work out better approaches, which is not thought out by most managers.

I would be susceptible of any claim that working long hours enabled someone to learn more. I have often encountered them in my career, and it's never the case.
If you're interested then have a read about the development of Chobham and Dorchester armour. There is very little detail out there but fascinating to see how some of the military kit is made and what it can stand up to.
Anecdotally I'm in the same boat. I use Firefox at work on Linux, but at home (on MacOS) Safari works/looks/feels better than Firefox.
I wouldn't be so sure. Electron (libchromiumcontent) is a patchset on top of Chromium and it can be easily broken by upstream changes.
This is what I don't understand, it seems like a sunk cost fallacy. For each diesel sold, the auto makers sell one less gasoline car, the profits should stay the same.
I put off driving until i had money. Pretty simple.
Good article, reminded me of Gawker/ValleyWag in a lot of ways.
Probably true, but that doesn't help anyone.
Greece wanted to have the euro, they weren't forced to.
They also knew from the start that devalueing your currency isn't possible anymore.
Today their debts are in Euro not Drachme, now leaving the Euro doesn't change that fact.
The "Adults" are addicts to. They just relied on different things. Like alcohol instead.
Using Google to analyze its own competitor seems a bit questionable. Though with the difference in usage being what it is, I doubt Google would bother with any funny business.
Companies change. People change. You don't want it written into the license like that and depend on good will. If good will were enough we wouldn't have laws or government.
The "crufty bits of x86" did "match real world patterns" when they were introduced (and neither ARM nor MIPS even existed)... and some still have surprising uses: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8477254

But in general, these more complex instructions are where most of the microarchitectural optimisation happens. The BCD instructions mentioned in the above link were originally implemented in microcode and took dozens of cycles; for example, AAD took 60 cycles on an 8086, but only ~4 on a Skylake (and can be scheduled in parallel with the uops of other instructions) --- despite the little use it has today. A look at instruction timing tables[1] shows that the common idea of little-used instructions receiving no optimisation or even becoming much slower with each new processor generation is mostly false (there are exceptions, like the ill-fated P4.)

[1] http://www.agner.org/optimize/instruction_tables.pdf
> The UK's biggest force - London's Metropolitan Police Service - was among those that refused to share an up-to-date figure.

> But in June it said about 10,000 of its desktop computers were still running XP.

> "Disclosing further information would reveal potential weaknesses and vulnerability," the force's information manager, Paul Mayger, said.

So they're concerned enough about security not to disclose the number of XP machines, but not so concerned as to actually fix the problem.
> To put apps on VMs with a very tight and secure OS underneath

Hmm. Have you bounced off ideas with the Qubes OS team yet? It could be an option for the core OS/microkernel of Qubes OS.
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In my case it was this annoying Google's insistence on telling me what I was actually looking for instead of searching exactly what I wanted, including ignoring "" etc. It became too much hassle, I felt like fighting with windmills, then tried DDG, it did what I told it, results weren't terrible, so now I use it by default and only a few times a week I need to try Google. Maybe for regular folks Google's way is a lifesaver, but for precise search I need it feels like Altavista back when I was a kid.
Just saw the video and... "browser for rebels?" The hipster image histogram rebel, are you planning in integrating Tor or did the marketing guy just had to much coffee that day?

I'm joking (mostly)... love the browser, thank you for your hard work.
I've never heard of the command, so it's not obvious, thanks. However, I'm not sure how to interpret this. All I see is a single line:

btmp begins Fri Sep 1 06:25:05 2017

Does this just mean nothing has happened? I'm not sure what's special about that date; the setup has certainly been running for much longer than that...
Sometimes the best way to avoid conflict is to embrace it, then channel.

I was in a bar once, sitting at the bar enjoying a beer, when the guy to the left of me recognized the guy to the left.

"Hey! Are you X?"

"Sure."

"I'm going to kick your ass!"

I looked at the guy and said "Hell yeah! Why don't you guys go out into the parking lot and get this thing settled?"

He didn't want to do that. Instead he wanted to keep taunting the other guy. The other guy protested his innocence, but I noticed that he always stayed behind me. Every time the one guy taunted, I agreed and suggested they take it outside. I matched his outrage.

After six or seven exhanges, each time the guy escalating his anger and my escalating my agreement, he finally cursed a bit and went over to the pool tables. Never saw him again that night.

I think if I had tried to talk any sense into the him there would have been a fight, but by agreeing with him so much he finally realized all he really wanted to do was express how angry he was with this other dude.
Maybe he was using a scale other than weight/volume?

Though looking at size, an african elephant is 4m tall, while a small mosquito is 2mm. this is a ratio of 2000:1.
> * https://github.com/acquia/lightning

This project is a web development tool and has nothing to do with crypto.

Back to your comments on the state of LN development, I would not call it robust when the current implementation requires every client to monitor the blockchain 24/7 just in case a node attempts to cheat the system, and there is a good chance the cheater will succeed when the settlement layer becomes congested. For now they are very much pie in the sky.
Talking about a worm as if it had goals is a teleological analogy that makes discussing its behavior easier, but I think it is a mistake to take this usage literally. If you do, you must also conclude that a thermostat has a goal, and therefore (by your argument) that there is a something that is what it is like to be a thermostat. I can only see this line of argument as a distraction that will only confuse any attempt to understand consciousness.

The rest of this discussion is hard to follow because it has apparently been edited, but you can't draw a line between applying your argument to animate things, but not inanimate ones, simply by choosing one word over another.
Probably a correlation of lead exposure to anti-vaccines views then. I noticed it's mostly a slightly older generation to my own that are anti-vaccine.

People even older than that remember what its like to not have them.
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> Greece imports a lot -> gets more expensive.
I just want to add: This could also be a good thing, since people in Greece are more likely to spend money on goods produced in Greece. This could help their economy.
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As an Australian, I don't get bad results with DDG.
DDG is definitely behind Google still, although it's come really far in a few years. I agree with most of what you're writing, but personally I'm okay with it not replacing 100% of my searches yet, got to start somewhere and I feel this is an acceptable point to switch at.
Do you have evidence of Coinbase's solvency? Because it seems to me this is all based on blind trust. If there is real evidence, of course that trumps the blind trust issue, but without it, it's generally a good bet that amateurs lack the skills, experience and resources to ensure proper handling of financial transactions.

Real banks are also not trusted blindly; they get audited a lot by central banks and other regulators. And they still mess up and get flamed to hell for it. The chance that amateurs in a completely unregulated field do it better is very unlikely.
IIRC they were already doing a sweep over the UI libraries to make them more Swift-idiomatic, but probably (like you say) while retaining the obj-c interface. They probably could make an extension or aliases to the UI libraries only visible to Swift though, translating down to regular obj-c compatible calls.
obviously FUD to keep poor people poor.
Please don't call this "oversight".

He was (made) aware of the problem and chose to keep the default.
Using DDG with Swedish settings, I think results are ok. Of course, I'm usually seeking english results except when searching for swedish words.
If you publish something under a MIT license very early, can you still apply for a patent after its practically public domain? I'd say no, but IANAL.
> Note how 'counter' is read by 'foo(x:)' during an inout access of the same value

It's not clear to me in your example why reading the value of counter after mutating it is bad; why is this now prohibited?
I don't know if you've been to Greece recently, but, at this point, a one-off bankruptcy looks much preferable to this slow and constant descent into poverty.
Airline employees to or from?
> More medical procedures because of less preventive care

Yes, I hit reply on the wrong box.
The current generation is "coddled", and they should be. I grew up in rural Alaska, in one of the snowiest spots on the globe. If other people had somewhat less hellish school commutes I would consider that civilized. If on the other hand the goal is to expose children to potentially lethal weather conditions, Alaska still exists.
> buying a movie via iTunes, Amazon, etc

Why, precisely, do you think you can't play the video file in a player of your choice? That is literally what DRM is - technical restrictions against using content you have purchased in a manner you desire. They provide the file in an encrypted format that only their own player can decrypt.

When iTunes used DRM for music, only Apple's devices could play music you bought from iTunes, too.
not to mention that sum() or forall() might mean nothing to people who don't speak English, so for them those would just be another set of things to memorize anyway
Where do you get this rise from?

2009 - 10.7%

2013 - 8.4%

2017 - 8-10% (projections)

Only B-W has a ruling Green Party, I'd they they're still mostly at 10% everywhere else.
the vast majority of the politicians responsible for the 'war of drugs' are dead. The ones that continue to perpetuate it are not being held accountable for anything, let alone the WoD. So by continuing to point fingers (at politicians), what is being accomplished?

The only movement that I have seen is at the State level, where the people are literally telling the "authorities" to GTFO and legalizing (or decriminalizing) at the state level. If anything the politicians are reaping the rewards by playing both sides of the issue. Blaming them doesn't work.
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But animals are three-dimensional, so it's better to include three dimensions in the comparison.

We also compare CPUs by die-area, not by their length or height.
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Very impressive, but I'm still disappointed they are mostly copying Unix, rather than trying to improve it. E.g. based on the names, the coreutils are identical.
No they can't. There are reserve requirements which limit the amount of bank deposits (not "money") a bank can create.
genius - thanks for this
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They may have lossless modes but I'd bet money iOS is not using them. The file size would be huge even compared to JPEG.
Ditto, for the past month or two. I'd love to get off of Gmail and Google drive, as well, but that's a longer term project.

Main reason: concerns about tracking and privacy.

Secondarily: politics.

DDG so far has been acceptable. As long as they keep their political opinions to themselves, the honeymoon will continue. My love affair with Google, on the other hand, is over. :(
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It's unlikely Firefox will ever have the built-in features that old-Opera fans want in their browser, so it makes sense to support Vivaldi; it's the only realistic hope of having a decent browsing experience.
You can disable bookmarks showing up in the address field in the settings. Url auto completion could still be better though.
It's not all great for working Germans either. German companies are doing great while inflation-adjusted salaries are flat or decreasing depending on industry - for its high productivity level, Germany has become sort of a low wage country. The current low unemployment rate has a high price.
IMO being anti-nuclear and pro-environment are mutually exclusive positions. Easy way to discern who really wants to reduce carbon emissions and who is just a populist.
Agreed! It's great that the book is published under an open license - my first thought was that it'd be fun to port this to f# - and my second thought was to restructure it a bit, focusing on REST/SPA.

Having read through it, it is indeed nice and concise - but I'm of two minds of the content - is it really good to introduce server side rendering with jquery and ajax - today?

I think, that showing server side rendering is good, for a beginner (how do I go from a form, to db, and back to a simple html table?) - but I'm not sure how useful the "half-way to smart client"-approach of jquery is. I'm almost convinced throwing out most of the server side rendering in favour of returning json and rendering everything client side would be better, than the "in between" approach.

Now you have rendering and interaction spread over server side views and client side javascript - and I'm not sure I like the path it sets up for new developers.

But for someone that "grew up" with the html to html+ajax it made the book very accessible, and manages to show off a remarkably broad and (apparently) useful section of asp.net core to someone not well versed in asp.net core.
Leverage, banks hold the ability to lend a certain sum of money to multiple parties, thereby 'creating' more money.

The amount of money lent vs the amount of parties is the leverage ratio. It's usually managed well, but can get out of hand pretty quickly.

Edit: Forgot to mention reserve amounts. They are crucial.
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This article is gold. I honestly hope the startup bubble bursts soon enough so this kind of crap finishes one and for all. Too much money has been wasted in these "companies" that could've been used for better purposes.
> Can you imagine handing your bank details to these clowns?

On the whole this is an informative and well written explanation of the reaction to Bodega, but I don't think commentary like this is helpful.
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Don't worry, you're not missing out. The article is a bunch of questionable assumptions made from highly dodgy metrics written by the kind of person who calls people a "Solopreneur".

DuckDuckGo, on the other hand, is very very much worth your time, if you aren't familiar with it: https://duckduckgo.com
>Are you seriously suggesting that in 10 years there will no longer any physical currencies? Or is soon 50 years? Or 100 years? Can you give a concrete vision for how that would work?

Physical currency is already less than 10% of currency.

>As I understand it, it's more that it's incredibly unstable, and can be taken over by whomever has the most cpus at any given moment.

Stability decreases as value stored in it increases. You can't bootstrap a global decentralised currency without some growing pains. The thing about bitcoin is that is constantly crashes upwards.

>I'm sure crypto currencies have lots of uses, especially for more cases around the edge (people in countries with dodgy governments etc), but I can't understand what value it provides outside of that.

It prevents fraud from Governments. Instead of allowing them to print money when they want, they can't. It allows for global transactions in minutes, 24 hours a day (every day) for far lower transaction fees. It allows an internet of money.

>or trust a random bitcoin conversion service which is not bound by any regulation

You are mixing up a currency with a payment merchant. There's no reason that Visa wouldn't be able to use Bitcoin and charge you like it currently does.
Note you can access startpage results from DDG with the "!s" bang.

I rarely use region specific DDG, but when I do, I find it ok. With DDG I can manually enable/disable and switch the region, while Google guesses based on my IP - very annoying, given that I frequently use VPNs. (Of course, if you're logged in to Google, you can specify region/language/etc., but if you don't want to be tracked and delete their cookies or use the browser in private/porn/incognito mode, then it'll just assume that you are looking for Dutch things in the Netherlands, because that's where the VPN exit is...)
I'm the author of the project which is pretty clear if you click through to GitHub. We're working on many different integrations right now and the ACS one is an exciting one - feedback / testing helps.
No true Scotsman fallacy at work here.
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Point me to a thing in the past that guarantees that North Korea won't use its nuclear weapons in the future.
So a... duck? ;-)
It could, but for example Greece lacks energy resources and imports a lot of oil and gas. That's not easy to replace and that still would involve imports. The top imports are fuels, machines/computers, pharmaceuticals, electrical equipment, ships, ...
Firefox on Android is vastly superior experience due to one simple thing - extensions. microBlock origin makes web actually usable again on mobile platforms.
>Please read: https://medium.com/@dwalsh.sdlr/using-graphql-why-facebook-n....

That post has text of the patents in question. Please warn if you're linking to text of patents so people don't expose themselves to triple damages.
Nothing stops it, I guess it's just that nobody has bothered to make one yet. It's works exactly as you describe, though, pretty simple.
any plans to port it to mobile phones? If anyone worked on porting a touch-based input drivers I could contribute!
When reading about things like this I'm always wondering if I'm the odd one out or others' perceptions are really off.

Background: I live in Munich, Germany which grew from ~1.3m to 1.5m people in my lifetime. I've never lived in the city center, and never outside. Just in "normal" neighborhoods, as I'd call them. And the same discussion about "brick and mortar book stores" and their downfall and people lamenting their demise and now this same thing. I've only ever had one of those "corner stores" near where I lived and it was basically a small supermarket. You went there in emergencies (shops here are only open from 7:00 to 20:00 at most, mind you) because there wasn't much stuff. I guess a few people went there exclusively but the selection was really limited.

TLDR: How can I live in a big city and still have never have experienced any upside to this? I'm not saying corner stores are bad at all, but I really don't get the fuss.
I think some stupid Chinese govt. bot down voted my comment.
If your network connection drops long running jobs keep running, no setup.

I do most of my work on our university cluster over SSH. I can close/shutdown my laptop at any time (or have my connection drop) and as soon as I SSH back into the server all my editors, shells, running jobs, etc. are exactly how I left them.
they should install some VMS for those specialised applications, this would also have the additional benefit of snapshotting.
Saving some affected banks would've been cheaper than saving Greece. Even if "saving german banks" might have been one of the reason, it wasn't THE reason as you claim.
You say that like other textbooks aren't.
>Not to mention that proof-of-work isn't ecologically sustainable on a larger scale anyway.

Anyone who says this hasn't been to massive datacentres to see what infrastructure it takes to share your cat videos and avocado toast images. If Crypto wipes out a few banks the costs will be completely negated anyway.
Bravo. :)
Did you also install the .Net Core 2.0 SDK?
> The Greek crisis had other origins, and the financial checks/obligations upon joining the Euro are supposed to mitigate against the risk of not being able to devalue a national currency to e.g. boost tourism or exports. Too bad the Greek financial records may have not been completely accurate.

Guess who pushed hard and voiched for greece joining the euro?
Consciousness is clearly a spectrum. Ask anyone who has ever got really drunk, or even woken up slowly.

Trying to ask 'when does a baby become conscious' is like trying to say 'when does a baby become tall'.

I still think consciousness is a real thing, and we definitely don't know what causes it, and maybe it is possible to find out. But I think the answer (if there is one) will come from AI - definitely not philosophers and probably not biologists.
Amazing ending - "Their time has come" !
The only reason I can think of is entirely human: because others are using it.
I suspect (tinfoil hat on) that the whole spiel about "capital controls" and the bitcoin thing are a clever strategy to make people buy up lots of foreign real estate instead of virtual internet coins.
By hit counts, maybe, what about financially? What about employee count?
If you had 1000 coins in 2010 that cost you 100 dollars, you don't think you're already going to sell out? People can only sell their coins once, and then they are distributed to many, many people.
Only in name, though. Not in security.
There's always the bond market - loans, effectively. They could also sell non-transferable ownership; effectively a stock that couldn't be sold on. You get dividends and a say in how the company is run. That would drive stockholders to seek long-term sustainable profits rather than share price spikes, which sounds like a pretty good thing.
You think Bing, Yandex, and especially Baidu are better for your privacy than Google?
Maybe we're just less likely to have musical affinities when it's so easy to access a zillion different artists instead of what happens to be on the radio/in the record store. Could it be that the shirts you see around are for groups you don't know, and you don't recognize them?

It was quite a while (somewhat embarrassed by this) until I realized that abstract mountainous shirt I see around is for Joy Division. Similarly, if I had City of Caterpillar shirt on I'd be surprised if anyone recognized it.

More generally, there's a school of thought that the use of clothing as a signal of membership in a given group is becoming less necessary. One can discover who at their school likes punk through online means whereas before you might need to rely on who's wearing punk stuff.
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