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This is so wrong that I don't know where to start.

First of all, people tend to forget that government is not made of angels. It is made of humans, who are susceptible to the same flaws as the rest of us: greed, hunger for power, etc. Therefore we should try to limit the power government has over us to only basic necessities.

Second of all, historically, human societies functioned quite well with multiple competing currencies on the same area, some of them private, some state-governed. It might have been pain in the ass if some customers wanted to pay in French coins and others in Belgian ones, but that pain was eased by the fact that they were made of gold or silver, so to compare their worth it was enough to compare weight.

Lastly, control of currency allows goverment to increase it's spending beyond reasonable levels with debt. Which of course happens at the expense of citizens. This is the sole reason government enforces it's monopoly on currency.

Cryptocurrencies are unique oportunity to take control over the currency from governments and put it back in people's hands, exactly how God intended it to be :) We shouldn't give up that control to easily.

In the end money is just a commodity, same as bread, so we should let the market decide which currency to use, without any monopolies, state-owned or other.
I will say those people are wrong, and they're only able to think that because they live in stable societies under rule of law, and have time to criticize somewhat abstract issues like this.

Now don't get me wrong - I'm not saying the present balance of power between individual and the state is perfectly placed. But thinking about ditching states altogether is, presently, a pretty dumb idea, that only signals a lack of awareness of how the society works.
For completeness: Sara Golemon started porting Facebook's old PHP5 implementation of XHP to PHP7 - you can find it here: https://github.com/phplang/xhp + https://github.com/phplang/xhp-lib
"Really? You're suggesting I cut people out of my life who want to communicate via Facebook over other mediums? Pretty harsh."

True. But I think Facebook's usefulness is outweighed by its disadvantages. It's an ever-watching anxiety machine: look at this latest atrocious news story, react to the asinine post an acquaintance has made about their life, respond to this event, post more because you haven't in a little while, watch this video about somebody having a life better than yours (or somebody having a horrible time, which may also happen to you, so watch out!), share your contact information for others so we may increase the webbing to keep you in our walled garden!

It's a need machine. It's the worst enabler-friend. It's not in a symbiotic relationship with you; it's parasitic. And IMO Facebook doesn't improve ones life; it merely facilitates using Facebook more and more often to do things that otherwise we either wouldn't do or wouldn't consider a real hassle.
You'd also need to ban drug advertisements.
A little, but people using these tip sites are generally in an awkward spot. They make content that lots of people enjoy but it's not valuable enough that people would directly pay for it. The opportunity costs of actually paying quickly eclipse the value of the content so people choose to do without. It's the same situation with a lot of paid apps.
There are often negative consequences for society when someone becomes a drug addict. There are the costs to society at the macro level. And, of course, there's the devastation suffered by families.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intervention_(TV_series)
> Respectfully, I see your complaint as conflating or combining several orthogonal issues. Addressing your sight-impaired grandmother's needs is a matter of accessibility; user-centric responsive design considerations relate more to CSS than JS.

That's exactly what I'm saying. JavaScript isn't the only part of the problem: HTML and CSS are also components of the problem.

Your distinction between applications and documents is an insightful one. Perhaps one way to describe the problem is that HTML and CSS contain elements of "application" rather than "document". If we think of a document as being purely semantic and layout/style as being elements of an application's rendering, then it becomes clear that only a fraction of HTML is actually document-relevant. CSS and the rest of HTML is application.
Another big issue is that Coca-Cola is an addiction in Mexico, The government knows it, Coca-Cola Inc. knows it but it seems that our people don't seem to care, taxes had been imposed on sugar watered beverages but nothing change, actually, the consumption went up (I don't have the numbers right now), so, as long as we still have this idea that this kind of beverages are "ok" we are still empowering companies like this to do as they please with this resources.

I'm not very fond of the Mexican government, and believe me, if companies approach them they will be willing to sell even the air we breathe. But we have to put our part to stop empowering this multi-nationals to do as they please.
If businesscards, party flyers, and other pieces of paper exist, why do dollar bills have value?
So much for the boycott http://edition.cnn.com/2017/04/11/asia/united-passenger-drag...
Their point is that the closing a road once doesn't just make all the pollution not happen, it time-shifts some of it to other days when people are driving again.

I expect there are some people who do make other arrangements and take a bus, so it's a net gain, but there are also those who take their car on Monday since they couldn't on Sunday.

EDIT: I looked up how RideLondon works, map at the end of this PDF shows road closures https://d1ffaecguugkl4.cloudfront.net/ridelondon/live/upload...

So it's not even time-shifting necessarily. People can drive around that and just move the pollution from one street to the next. But yes, the pollution measurements on one of the closed roads would look better that day.
It’s important to remember, here, that secondary market trading and investing is a zero-sum game for the participants. For a given market participant to outperform, some other market participant has to underperform. Obviously, for a market participant with a given level of skill, the ease at which that participant will outperform will be a function of the quantity of unskilled participants that are there for the skilled participant to exploit. To the extent that the prevalence of indexing preferentially reduces that quantity, it makes outperformance more difficult.

That is a myth that refuses to die.

Market makers and liquidity providers enter into neutral trades so it doesn't matter which way the market goes..they make money from the spread and churn. Just because you made $40k from being long Google doesn't mean some schmuck lost $40k.

Eventually, indexing comes around to disrupt the industry. Of the 500,000 individuals that were previously managing funds, 499,500 go out of business, with their customers choosing the passive option instead. The remaining 500–which are the absolute cream of the crop–continue to compete with each other for profit, setting prices for the overall market.

Indexing has been around for a long time now, but active mgmt has had a terrible time and is actually getting worse in recent years, against the author's thesis that passive investing is supposed to create a small pool of 'superstars'.
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There is a lot here to discuss and only so much time and space.

>That's monetarism, not Keynesianism -- the main message of Keynes is for the government to manage aggregate demand via its fiscal policy and budget. Though I grant you that for whatever reason, there's substantial overlap when it comes to what individuals believe.

You are right to say that Keynesians and Keynes himself emphasized fiscal policy, but afaik the traditional monetarist view is actually not to engage in discretionary monetary policy at all. Managing AD was Keynes' whole big deal in his General Theory. Before him the groupthink in academic economics was all circled around labor supply and labor price being out of equillibrium with the market.

Then Friedman came along to establish monerarism. He wanted monetary policy along the lines of a k percent rule, and not to try to manage AD (discretionary MP). So no, it's not monerarist, it is in dact Keynesian.

>And you do need an institution that acts as a firewall to prevent temporary liquidity issues from turning into full insolvencies via self-fulfilling prophecy (aka bank runs).

Economists take this as gospel, but I have never seen evidence of this. I have seen evidence it is not true. I'm with Friedman, fractional reserve banking doesn't create value, just inflation and risk.

>Strawman. Nobody relevant actually claims that.
What many claimed was that QE would increase lending in the real economy, which would obviously boost the economy (because more real economy lending = more spending = more demand = more economic activity). That hasn't really happened, and I hope economists learned the lesson.

We really disagree here. I even think your comment is strangely tautological, don't you think? You said there is no one who thinks the Fed is trying a game of pulling on some levers and creating more value in the economy, but then you went on to describe the Keynesian argument for how the Fed pulls some levers to magically create value (by stimulating AD).

The argument for QE and fiscal policy is the same Keynesian one: by creating easy money, they basically create more AD, which puts to work unemployed, unused resources. So Keynesians argue, those unused resources are now put to work.

But what work are they doing? Is it useful work? Are banks just going to hoard cash, and why flood so much easy money into the banks, anyways?

I think it's really more simple than that. The Fed is just Wall St's nice insurance policy, and economists are just clever priests who justify the actions of the ruling plutocratic class.
Work on a websocket mud engine continues in my off hours: https://rockmud.herokuapp.com/

I'm also working on a SaaS for anonymous reviews and correspondence.
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An important cautionary tale indeed: don't be a sucker. #protip
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I am working on https://bestfoodnearme.com a better way to decide what eat. Its an idea that is scratching my own itch
> Obviously you can't just outright buy everyone, but they seem to be increasingly abusive towards technologies and teams that aren't on board with their interests and ideology.

I 'm not sure where you're coming from or going with this. Do you have an example to illustrate? What are you considering collaborators and non-collaborators?
For linear algebra basics, I also especially recommend 3Blue1Brown's youtube channel and his "Essence of" series:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjBOesZCoqc&list=PLZHQObOWTQ...

I've never seen the material presented more clearly - it's completely visual and focused on building intuition first.
This could not be more wrong and it's discouraging to see it on the front page of HN -- index investing exerts a normalizing pressure on the prices of assets, which is rarely supported by the underlying values of the companies.

This is unlikely to be a popular opinion amongst passive investors, but day traders and market makers are responsible for making economies for efficient and providing price discovery (if they make profits) by reducing the spread and reducing volatility. Traders who lose money have the opposite effect -- they make assets more volatile by pushing up tops and pushing down bottoms.

Active long term value investors also contribute to positive price discovery and reduce volatility (if they make money) for the same reasons, but on a different time scale.
It's going to be more than an annoyance in some case, but IMO, anything that has processor and access to the internet already needs to budget for ongoing updates to make sure it is secure.
It's still pretty sad that so many roundtrips are necessary...

One could imagine a merged DNS and TCP syn packet, which goes to a DNS server who converts it to a TCP packet, and gets forwarded to the origin server.
> I'm not sure a classic tech death from a disruptor is possible

Well, FB's brand itself is super toxic these days, so you could probably build something on the whole "we're not FB" premise
I don't really "get" poetry. I consider myself to be reasonably intelligent and well-read, but I've just had a hard time wrapping my head around poetry as a medium.

That said, I do enjoy Robert Frost (cliche, I know). The only poem I can recite in totality is "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allen Poe, and part of why I really liked that one is that it tells a short story, and a vivid one at that.

Beyond that, I'm not sure. I'd be interested in a "Understanding Poetry's Awesomeness for Dummies" course, though...
If BTC has any value at all, then all other cryptocurrencies have at least some minimum value solely as a possible redundacy or replacement in case of emergency.

That's not the whole story though, some of these other cryptos also serve as a testbed for new concepts & improvements, differ in particular ways to better suit a specific purpose, target different markets, have different core values or are alltogether alternate technical implementations.

Each one of those nuances adds some deegree of value. As with any stock or other economic asset, their price today is not necessarily reflecting the value it has for practical use today, but rather the possibility that it will become necessary or more dominant in the future.
I've lived and worked in many countries, I know why sovereign currencies exist.

I don't understand your point. I can understand we will have multiple crypto currencies, but if there are unlimited number of currencies, why would any of them have any value?
"Otherwise their wealth will dwindle over time and others will have a shot"

Wealth is not a zero sum game, it's the opposite. Wealth creates more wealth for the society around us.
Disagree! Tulip references are still a buy for the forseeable future.
vendros - mind blown
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> Could someone explain why Patreon needs to raise funding? I thought a service built with the express concept of collecting money (and a very popular service at that) wouldn't need external funding.

I don't know the details of Patreon, but profitable companies raise money all the time. Patreon is presumably a startup, and has growth in mind. It is likely that they want to grow faster than their current cash flow would allow - in fact, they may need to do this in order to survive in the long term. A more in-depth description of this from pg: http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html
Violence is the most direct way to apply power, but not the only one. "Monopoly on violence" sounds cute, but it's not the precise and only thing the state is supposed to have. What good is a state so disconnected from money that it can't even fund its violence-applying apparatus?

Also: control over money doesn't imply control over markets. As evidenced by pretty much all western countries.
Get a better DNS server... 4.2.2.2 or 8.8.8.8 are good choices.
The meager wages for full stack and backend developer are correct for where I live (Vancouver, CA) except the lowest tier is not low enough. It would be nice to see the raw data too so I can run my own stats on them. Give this calculator a public API
People can sell their shares of the ETF, and as you say, stocks can get excluded from an index.
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The standard double bubble provides the least-perimeter way to enclose 2 areas
Fellow INTP here. The conflation of introvert and shy is a continual source of frustration. Even my immediate family was dismissive when I casually mentioned I’m pretty deeply introverted.
Tyke is a macOS menu bar application I made because I really needed it
It seems unfortunate that photos shared from iOS will be subject to an extra step of lossy compression in order to go to JPG.
Just wondering - when is it not a good thing for the state to be able to enforce their rules, then? You said "almost always." Specifically referring to money since the topic of conversation is Bitcoin.
I don't have an opinion about what's happening in the US and Europe.
What's an AI winter?
What do people here use to store and source-control secrets/almost-secrets and make them available to (pick n) terraform/ansible/salt/chef/...?

I've heard a lot of good things of Hashicorp Vault (https://www.vaultproject.io) but been hesitant to go with it.
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I'm so sorry that someone created a free tool to explore an interesting and unique data set using basic summary statistics. Shame you had to waste your time looking at that kind of garbage.

Of course you make good points about salary. But this is just using data from the SO jobs board. What do you expect?
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That's not the right way to look at it.

People invest in an IPO in the first place because of the promise of liquidity down the line.

If investors were told that they couldn't freely buy or sell shares after the first time it is sold, the IPO is going to do far worse.

The ability to trade the stock around directly helps the company by making the IPO more successful.

That's not even considering that the company could issue secondary offerings.
People want gold not because it took energy to mine, but because other people also want gold. Gold is like any other currency system, except that the process that controls supply is basically stochastic (and there is a small industrial demand for the commodity itself, but this is negligible).
I have used indeed.com/salary just to get a ballpark idea
In fact, the opposite is true. Most of the people who are open to Bitcoin live in third-world countries (including myself) and have a natural distrust for government.

Also, saying some people "are wrong" is not an argument.
it looks like guile's readline came in 97, with tab completion added in 98
One does not try to "remember" those. One uses a password manager, it does the remembering, and you only have to remember the one long password that unlocks the manager.
Myself, not really given the context in the article. If I was shown this without context it would be pretty confusing. Using : would be better as or would suggest clock which is base 12 plus base 60...
Letters are clearer still if given the base identifier - commonly subscript number.

The suggested notation would make for interesting puzzles.
I've this - https://www.adafruit.com/product/495

Google showed me this - https://www.tokyoflash.com/en/watches/
According to this I'm making about 15% under the 50th percentile. Time to go ask for a raise?
That info isn't usually posted on job boards.
Yes that is how Citrine and Roberts are used today in parliamentary systems I have been doing this for years for formal conferences.

The procedure is similar to they way git is used for code though with a greater or lesser amount of automation - in the old days you had multiple documents and you physically cut and pasted them together to produce the final document
I am deeply convinced the killer application of static types is polymorphism. Types create ways of organizing your code that are simply not available for dynamic languages.

Unless, of course, you get out of your way writing dispatchers, as is usual in Python. But those are long, repetitive, bug-prone and can not really be made generic.
Cite this please.
I really don't understand the capital flight argument. The Chinese economy has seen overwhelming growth in the past 10 years. If you are searching for yield, it's in China.
It also depends on the buffer size.

Some routers might only buffer 1 millisecond of line-rate data or less. If that's the case, that initial congestion window of 10 could overflow the buffer, causing loss and a much more costly double-round-trip to resend.
It means that you encode some of your logic as types which can be statically checked. Ergo your logic can be statically checked.
>if Apple falls the same way MS did

Are we thinking of the same MS?
This "calculator" really makes me appreciate the higher salaries in NYC compared to other places. Yes, the cost of living is higher, but if you are willing to commute 30ish minutes a day from outside of Manhattan, you can avoid a lot of the cost.
When the doctor prescribes Coca Cola to heal you and your family, Coca Cola is no longer just a refreshing but unhealthy treat.

Now it's medicine. Now it's essential for life itself.

So you drink it at breakfast to fortify you for the day ahead. You feed gallons of it to your kids because you love them and want them to be healthy.
" I'm really getting the feeling that my friendships have been hacked (and tainted) for someone else's profit."

Your comment makes me remember the concept of commodification.

I didn't think before about this in this way, but it seems that Facebook (and relates services) could be though as the commodification of our friendships.
Maybe we're all thinking about this in a way that's too constrained?

The theoretical dream of cyberspace, back in the 60-80's, before "the web" (as we know it) was that merely being "online" automatically put you in a global community: a place where distance no longer mattered, and where _all_ text is part of one giant hypertext. This was roughly the idea as described by Ted Nelson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Nelson).

I think there's a way for this theoretical concept to be realized without dependence on exploitative commerce-oriented websites, and perhaps, without dependence on websites period. Unfortunately, I have no idea what that will be like in reality.
Elliptic Curve Cryptography is the only standard I believe in :P
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I was thinking about the cases when the rules are needlessly oppressive. Governments aren't perfect. But they're better than the state of nature.
Yep - where he goes into insulting more-or-less everyone who has criticized him and the project
Truly the Chieftain's Toy.
I mined up a fair amount in 2009/2010, then lost them all my after computer got fried in a power surge.

If lightning had struck a few houses over, would I have cashed out or held? I suspect I would have cashed out most of them around $1k. Why did you hold?
Can confirm the 15K pay bump. I just did it.
Always-on VPN is possible on non-Supervised devices? Would appreciate a pointer to the relevant XML tags. Is it selectable, e.g. can you have multiple VPN profiles and then toggle (in Settings) which profile is Always-On?
Yeah lockin has huge advantages for the company.
I do not believe they will do this. The US has 20 trillion in debt right now. If you notch the interest rate up just a little bit, you will create chaos in the financial markets.
I wonder if this type of approach could pick up on patterns in "random" password generators.
How was there not a lawsuit against him for what he did to the thirteen year old?
> I get the feeling we'll see Navy personnel bidding on "vintage" Xbox controller auctions on eBay

Replace Ebay with flea market and this is how in the second half of 199x some spare parts for Soviet/Russian space station "Mir" (and for some other space projects, well into beginning of 200x) were procured. With USSR falling and economy tanking/changing/"privatized in all senses and at all scales" many typical sources for space parts just disappeared and/or stopped working.