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First, spoilers for the first few chapters below, if you care about such things.

This (neat!) article and the comments here (so far) miss/skip a few details (or my mind is making fake memories again).

1. Regarding the destruction of Earth - IIRC, while the pounding (and subsequent geological and atmospheric responses) the Earth was to receive was an ELE, the real kick in the teeth was the cumulative heat generated as much of a moon's worth of mass burned up in the atmosphere.

2. Regarding whether the moon would just sit there fragmented or mirror the descriptions of the book - IIRC, the moon didn't just break, it was _broken_ (by what is never known). So whatever thing wielding a massive physics bat did that, it can also impart all sorts of momentum. Pretty easy to say that if you can get the end result from SOME starting conditions, that those starting conditions could have been created by the Deus Ex Machina.

I know no orbital physics, but isn't the solar system is a great example of showing how big rocks in orbit become fewer, smaller rocks given enough iterations? So far as I know, asteroids occasionally manage to strike one another (defying the vastness of space by their numbers and persistence) and asteroids can capture smaller bits, but on the whole asteroids are getting smaller, not larger (albeit at a cosmically slow pace).

'Course, I could be wrong. Had an hour long argument with a friend who said that there was no angle that would allow one mass to capture another approaching mass approaching into orbit, while I was relying on my experience of reading of various suspected "captures". After much googling, we decided he was right from a two-body position, but that the Sun ( or other mass) can provide the necessary nudge to turn a swingby into a lasting orbit, so I could be right too.
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I don't use Gonum with a webserver + large calculations so I can't definitively answer. No one has reported problems, but that could be a lack of usage. One thing though is that matrix multiplication (which is a kernel for higher-level operations) is written in a blocked format, and the code can be pre-empted on any of those blocks, so I wouldn't suspect it's a problem.
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It might also be useful for scripts and small CLI utilities where interactive invocation is a lot nicer with short startup times.
yes, inflation has been falling, but that is the second derivative of value, when we say "wages aren't growing" we are talking about the first derivative. Importantly, inflation is still greater than zero, so we should expect wages to not grow, because to a first degree approximation that means labor is still being screwed (albeit modestly slower).
I've heard of people getting small concussions from riding jet skis across choppy water
The full criteria was "decorative articles with mass content of precious metals of 4 ounces and more"
Maybe with better medical tech. Stuff more like from science fiction. Various forms of 'non invasive' medical scanners becoming more common, less expensive, and linked to automated computer diagnosis (flag X for doctor/expert review) is probably the most effective route to such improvements.
Birth of a Nation is a restrained work of art compared to the ceaselessly flowing vitriol of Breitbart and Infowars — and those people have the highest levels of endorsement from Trump.

Steve Bannon’s film career was directly inspired by Leni Riefenstahl, according to his former colleagues. Watching Birth of a Nation in the White House is tame compared to making the propaganda director the chief strategist.
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"People need something to do where they can be of service to others. Not paying off and left to rot."

No, they need fulfillment in their life. Do you think flipping burgers at McDonald's provides that?

UBI allows people to not have to work long hours at shitty jobs. That is something that should be praised, not derided as "theft".
This article indicated Boston University is making progress using PET imaging [1].

[1] http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/i-team/new-brain-scan-leap...
If it survives that long...
I loved Snow Crash (top 5 personal favourite book) and Cryptonomicon (I haven't read Seveneves yet), but I didn't like Anathem that much?

(POSSIBLE SPOILERS FOLLOW)

Especially the sort of quantum-ex-machina "twist" near the end was kind of off-putting to me. Everything so far was very well crafted and researched, but this part was a lot like "yeah multiple universes or something", but I'm not sure if it even works that way, if true.

Also I found the constant back-translating of scientific discoveries and theorems with-a-different-name kind of tedious. I caught a lot of them, but many also not and I kept feeling like I was missing out on some cool references. Even though (IMHO) I have a pretty broad general knowledge of most important scientific/math theorems.

There were some other bits I didn't like but that's personal taste. I loved the humour in Snow Crash (so much better reading than Neuromancer) and the hi-tech thriller action stuff in Cryptonomicon. Anathem seemed kind of slow, building a whole world and such (as I said, matter of taste, I don't get quite as excited about world-building in fiction/fantasy books, unlike many people).
If you'd like to publicize this with the Bitcoin media, please send me the relevant info - might be the quickest way to clear your name actually... caleb(at)blockexplorer(dot)com
Ask HN: Self-employed, RSI, back pain in NY. Any chance of receiving benefits?
I've been dealing with a repetitive stress injury (wrist and arm pain) and back/neck pain for about 4 years now. I'm 27.

For the past year I've owned a SaaS site, so it's mostly passive income. Before that, I freelanced as a programmer. For both of those, I've only been able to work at a computer for about 8 hours a week, and that's still with pain. If I worked less, there would be less pain, and if I worked more (which I did sometimes out of necessity), it would get progressively worse, but I haven't been able to work less because I need to pay rent.

From this page: http://www.alllaw.com/articles/nolo/disability/disability-benefits-self-employed.html I need to show that my work isn't the following:

* provides significant services to the business and brings in $1,090 or more in average monthly income

* is comparable to the work of persons without disability in your community engaged in the same or similar businesses, or

* is worth $1,090 per month in terms of its effect on the business or what it saves you from having to pay an employee to do the work.

Now that I own a business which is bringing in some mostly passive revenue (I answer user emails and send out invoices. I don't need to do much programming anymore), I'm hopeful that I might qualify for some assistance, since I can definitely make the argument that I'm doing less than $1090/mo worth of work now, even though the business earns a little more than that (and is growing).

Does anybody have advice for where I can go for some help? Is SSDI/SSI the right area for me to be looking into, or is there somewhere else I should look? Am I better off focusing my efforts on building the business long-term and finding supplemental income so that I can get by without jumping through all the hoops of government assistance? That's been my thinking for the past couple of years, and my goal in starting this business, but I've decided to look into it again now.

Any guidance is appreciated.
You want the official paper version because it has nomograms in there, and the PDF version may not print accurately for your paper size.
This is what Scott Adams (the Dilbert guy) refers to when he says that our society is split down the middle, watching two different movies on the same screen.

Some see:

"As our newspapers and TV screens overflow with choleric attacks by President Trump on the media..."

While others see:

"As our corporate, left-aligned media powerhouses overflow our news feeds with biased/false statements about President Trump..."

Ultimately, this just goes to show that the media has become a protected class, which -- just in case it isn't evident -- is a bad thing.

The news outlets that Trump attacks are not independent little offices run by scrappy street journalists, but enormous corporate behemoths with clear cut political alignments and agendas, with goals so identical that you literally see the exact same wording in politicized headlines across several major networks. This goes for both the left and the right (though the proportion is lopsided to the left).

The real journalists are the ones being demonized by the media and government alike (that's how you know they're reporting something actually being hidden away from the people), some of whom are living out their lives locked up in embassies.
That link you provided does not work.

A few years ago when I was pissed at Google for a penalization (seriously, when you get penalized, and you are using Google's search on your website, it doesn't work), so I had switched to DuckDuckGo for a while for my search engine. And eventually I went back to just using good ol' PHP & MySQL for search.

Anyways, in a fit of rage, I had come up with a list of alternatives as well to get away from Google. Love-hate relationship with Google since they do provide most of the traffic. So we're on good terms again.. but Google decides your trends.. some months they may send me 200-300 visitors a day, and others up to 600.

http://confessionsoftheprofessions.com/alternatives-using-go...
The opposite condition also exists: I don't understand how some people can be so paranoid about large corporations, and so trusting of government. They are both merely human organizations with large powers, and subject to corruption. We should be wary of both of them.
Right but your sample size is pretty big. Like I’m pretty sure the other factors can be controlled for. Dont take my word for it, these are the general conclusions.
It could be. That's what two people quoted in TFA suggested.
We're talking about the most primitive specisms here which are thought to be the very beginning of multicell life itself.

Predators which hunt at night occured later (another heretic thought).
Are you talking about the linked post regarding inflation ?

because it seems to me satoshi was pretty right, by saying that bitcoins will get rarer and rarer even if miners mine more and more thanks to powerful machines. Rarer bitcoins means prices going down ( what costed 1 bitcoin before probably cost 0.001 bitcoin now), not up ( which is the definition of inflation).
This is asked and answered many times on Quora...take a peak there and you will find plenty of answers.

Here is a similar question for example:
https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-top-10-emerging-technolog...
So at what point does a megacorp, with all of its power and wealth, decide to do something good? Will we ever get to a point where we can we at least try to evolve towards sustainable capitalism?
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There is no "black culture" or "white culture" there are many cultures and thanks to historical reasons people mostly still segregate themselves racially. The culture of inner city black Chicago and the culture of rural black Florida have very little in common. Both are predominately black but you will find that the culture of inner city white Chicago to be closer to the culture of inner city Black Chicago than rural Florida black culture is.
This is something I wanted to read buy td;rl while attempting the article.
On Linux it also adds GTK support.

Too late to edit: I meant GTK3 support. It supported GTK2 just fine even before JDK 9.
Lots of discussion and questions answered by the author on the Rust subreddit the other day https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/718gbh/mrustc_alterna...
I did, and found your arguments wanting. You're conflating local with national behaviors, and conflating high-value goods/services with low.

Take a low-income area and give everyone $1000/mo for no reason (they're not trading any local productivity for it), and rent & other basic costs will immediately rise accordingly. "Move!" you (and I) say - and the limited supply of inexpensive rural housing (matching UBIers' lack of need for jobs) will likewise rise accordingly, as the market of renters just vastly increased. Over time, low-end housing supply may increase, but now you've a market of homes which rather pointedly do not have jobs nearby - you've just created communities of people absolutely dependent on UBI.
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How could this possibly be true given the fact that there have been >1,000 nuclear tests performed, including devices with orders of magnitude higher yield than in Hiroshima?
But when it comes to (I don't have a good term..) unique objects, like houses, or shares in a company, they exist and have an owner. A court can simply declare "you don't own that house any more, this person does". A business doesn't become ownerless forevermore because someone lost a private key.
> I'm curious if other sites/forums/social media accounts had connected the name to the story

That's one of the theories mentioned in TFA.
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So, I would have understood if you said the original AT&T UNIX. I've always heard the term used to cover the entire family. And, I honestly had no clue whether or not the likes of SunOS/HP-UX/etc were compiled with multiple compilers. My understanding was each typically came with their own compiler.
But I am not the consumer of Equifax. I have not paid them, nor asked them to do anything, nor indirectly getting a service from them [0]. The consumer is the bank or whoever paid for the information. So, on your logic being "the burden is on the consumer", why should the burden be on me?

Second, why would the presumption of inaccuracy trump the presumption of accuracy? Who said Equifax is right? Especially since they have a track record of incompetence. As any debate on facts goes, the burden of the proof is on whomever is making a claim. Equifax is claiming something, i.e. that my credit score is X. I'm saying it is not.

I concede you that what you say is probably how the law and the system works right now. And I concede that mine was more like a desire than a real prediction. I know things won't change. But that doesn't change the fact that, after the hack, Equifax and similar are just selling hot air.

[0] If you want my credit score, you ask me for my statements, nor Equifax. If anything, Equifax is damaging me with their inaccurate information.
I guess I don't have a fine tuned sense of what is a spoiler and what is not. If I know I am going to see a movie based on say, an actor I like being in it, I don't want to know anything about the movie ahead of time. Everything is a spoiler. If I start to see a preview of that movie, I'll close my eyes and try not to concentrate on the sound. If I don't know if I want to watch a movie and start reading a review about it to see I should go, I stop reading as soon as I decide I'm going to go and don't finish reading the review. Same sort of situation with books. If the thing you are reading is not meant to be a review to help you decide to go and read/watch, then writing/talking about a work of art without discussing details seems pointless. Why mention the work in the first place. This article is not a book review.
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Neat project. It looks like this was largely written by one person, and I'm fairly in awe at anyone who can take a big project like a compiler this far alone.

Isn't there a bit of cognitive dissonance in believing that Rust as a language is an important idea (i.e. by the additional code safety and code maintainability that it conveys), but then simultaneously making the effort to rewrite the current Rust-implemented compiler in C++?

C++ is fast, but aside from a shared value around performance, it has fairly little in common with the ideas that Rust is built on.
If you have children... ha, but seriously, go around your house and unplug anything not plugged in that isn't charging something. Even if your chargers aren't connected to your phones, you are still consuming electricity. I believe its known as "trinklets".

So plugged in, your devices are consuming something like (don't quote me on this) $.007 per minute or something like that, and then unplugging them, but leaving their cords plugged into the wall is still consuming something like $.003. It all can add up over the month.

This includes any ceiling fans... they may be turned off, but if they are plugged in, it's still consuming resources.
> The 'original sin' is the political over-representation of the nationalist parties

Or you don't know about Spanish election system or you'r just lying. I think is the former.

There is no over-representation of nationalist parties, there is a over-representation of both majority parties, PP and PSOE.

Almost all the provinces have 3 diputates and the third pary doesn't have any representation.
You don't need to suffer a major concussion to get CTE. Linemen for example still suffer from it and it's believed that the tens of thousands of "micro-concussive" events (ball snaps, rush forward, hit defensive lineman) they accrue in a lifetime of playing football add up to be just as bad or worse than suffering multiple major concussions. Tight ends like Hernandez are often used in blocking situations so he could have suffered something similar.
On this scale, unless some new technology has been invented, it would be near impossible to do so. I used to be able to calculate these back in college, but my geology is a bit rusty.
You can use Introspected REST (https://introspected.rest) that allows you to fine-tune and balance between REST and GraphQL. No available libraries at the moment that can help you though so this could be a problem for your use case ;)
The graph you linked to shows a dramatic drop in volume from 09/13@20K to 09/13@2K.
I agree with blockchains that represent something equivalent to money, which would include bitcoins.

The problem is using blockchains to represent shares in a company (for example). Ownership of a company can't be "lost", or "unpaid". Legally, someone owns each share of a company, and a court can declare ownership is moved. At that point, your blockchain doesn't represent reality any more (as declared by a court) and then, what value does it have?
There are a couple of "computer science professors" named in TFA, along with lawyers and a Google employee or two.
Everyone in favor of banning certain speech based on its content should consider this article. When you open the door to banning speech based on content, the government will happily define something speech it does not like as "treason" or "hate speech" or whatever the favored term is.

People "shouting fire in theater" is not protected speech as a way to say that free speech protections are limited with respect to certain content. This phrase comes from Schenck vs United States https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_States that ruled that it was Constitutional to arrest someone for distributing anti-draft fliers. So be very careful what you wish for with regard to limits on free speech, you just might get it.
I'd write desktop apps in Java if AOT was available. I'd much prefer Java with JavaFX/Swing/SWT to C++ with QT for cross platform desktop apps. Maybe we'd see Java used for cross platform desktop apps more, instead of the usual Electron app.
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$101MM in revenue for the past year (fiscal year 2017 ended Jan 31 2017)
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Nacl/Sodium and libtls aren't suitable for small-footprint computing. That's probably why there's so much interest in lightweight ciphers: it's hard to get a lot of real-world attention for a new block cipher design targeting general-purpose computers, but there's no (de facto or de jure) standard lightweight cipher.
Sometimes posts just get lowered off the first page pretty quickly. I've seen it happen to my posts.. either from other people posting, or upvoting posts without yours getting any votes at all will likely push it down.
Unconvincing.

To address just 2 of the issues noted, you can certainly get packages to make well-formatted, but not bland, documents from LaTeX markup. Just because most people use "article" and Computer Modern fonts doesn't mean you have to. And, it's easy to change the LaTeX float placement parameters to make floats "not float away" in most cases.
And for the average investor not on the cusp of retirement, this is irrelevant prognostication.

Buy, hold, wait. No one can tell the future and there's little point in trying.

As an aside, I do wonder if the rise of passive investing has worked to stabilize the market. After all, if you simply buy the market and hold, it takes human emotion out of the equation, which is almost certainly a strong factor in market volatility.
I'd like to see them expose the rat to a fruit or vegetable that's had a certain amount of the pesticide sprayed on it. And then expose another rat to a fruit or vegetable that's had the pesticide sprayed on it but was then washed with water in the sink before eating. I wonder if the results would be very different. And I really hope so since that's how I prepare all my produce.
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Love that the example screenshot has $125k in funds knocking about on coinbase.
Anyone have any idea of the specific mechanics they use to withdraw from the vault? Do several executives meet in a special room at a certain hour, with their keys on paper/usb, and type them into an air-gapped machine one-by-one?

I wonder how they handle a lost key, do they have to move $1 billion+ of Bitcoin to a new wallet each time?
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It doesn't seem like a strawman to me. The money has to come from somewhere or else mass inflation will happen instantaneously. The number of goods and services that exists is finite. Giving people free money which removes their burden of supplying value to others will not only fatally harm the buying power of the dollar but it will actually reduce the number of goods and services available which will have the opposite affect than intended. UBI will fail spectacularly if implemented at any meaningful scale.
A lot of what Hashicorp Vault does is already provided for (in AWS at least) with KMS, Cloudtrail, Parameter Store, and IAM (which can be used in symphony with Ansible Vault).

I have very little experience with GCP and Azure, but it seems like Hashicorp is reinventing the wheel in AWS with Vault.
There's a statistics problem here. Firstly, by Bayes's rule, absence of evidence is evidence of absence: if you didn't find any evidence of harm from piracy when you looked for it, that increases your posterior probability that there isn't any harm from piracy.

Secondly, this isn't just a case of insufficient data for a meaningful answer. This is the most pro-piracy conclusion that could ever come from a study framed as "let's see if there are harmful effects from piracy" — and let's face it, that's the only framing of the study that's going to get funding. The only stronger result possible would be a larger study with the same conclusion.
Half of the population of Texas lives in just 10 cities. A single MIRV can kill most of the people in them.

So no, one rocket won't reduce Texas to a smoking crater, but will have a 50/50 chance of killing you in the explosions and subsequent firestorms.
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