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I agree that most recreational drugs should be legalized, even if I would never take them. Some would require a few tests to check how much you can safely take, along with education about safe use and so on. This would include a few prescription drugs - such as "study drugs" - that are taken recreationally. Some things might require limits on frequency of purchase to limit side effects. I think this does help for not only addiction, but to help folks not freaking overdose or get a different drug than promised. They should have the same purity and strength standards as something like alcohol or prescription drugs.

A few prescription drugs could easily be considered safe for the public to use, some of which might require a pharmacist's advice. This would include things like birth control pills, 400 or 800mg ibuprofen, erectile dysfunction pills, and things I have never really considered.

But I disagree with most prescription drugs being sold without a doctor's orders. Some drugs are outright dangerous to overuse - antibiotics, for example. Some (most) drugs are really helpful to the right patient, but they need some medical oversight. Lithium, a psychiatric drug, needs to be monitored through blood tests to make sure the dose is within the therapeutic range. Some antifungal pills (as well as a range of other medicines) can cause liver damage. Sleeping pills have their own risks, as do prescription cough syrups. And so on. These aren't things folks are taking in their spare time for the fun of it. I think the actual solution is to make sure folks can afford their doctor's visits and medicines as well as having a comprehensive protections to make sure folks can take care of their health, including paid sick days (more for parents, since they are responsible for other's health as well and can't exactly leave the 7-year-old at home).
I think that the cryptocurrency/blockchain space is the next big thing in the world on-par with the internet. But it still has a long way to go. In the late 90s you could say "X on the internet" and get tons of investment. Now it's the same but with "X on the blockchain". We are going through growing pains now, and there definitely needs to be some regulation introduced to curb the many scams. My personal hope though is that the regulators work, not to try to stop this industry, but rather to shape it. I mean, why do I need to make $1M/year in order to prove to the US government that I'm worthy of investing into a startup. This is why ICOs are such a big thing right now for westerners, it circumvents that (and internationally, it allows people that would have otherwise not had any route to do such a thing). But there definitely needs to be some regulation behind that, because it's ridiculously easy to make a sleek marketing page that says "buy now and the price will go up later"... and people will buy into it.

Also, this quote:

> using cryptocurrency networks are cheaper to send money overseas than Western Union. No, it probably is not

Uhh, maybe not in some narrow cases (especially as pointed out in the source, for people that need to use cash agents or are unbankable), but for many people I know including myself, it is significantly cheaper to use bitcoin rather than Western Union (source: I receive my salary in bitcoin based on spot price tied to USD)

(disclaimer: co-founder of a blockchain project)
Fuel and depreciation are only destroyed wealth if there is no lost opportunity by not purchasing them, and that entertainment alone is not a sufficiently worthy value.

Presuming so would also argue that the majority of human endeavor is also waste; everything from entertaining TV shows to having small animals as pets to music lessons to trips to private space flight to works of fiction.
> The end result is something that tries to be bland, uninteresting, and inoffensive.

"Happiness" is none of those things, and scored 85 on RT.

> It is safer to invest in the next mediocre superhero movie that most people will be fine with than an innovative middle budget drama that might have a harder time finding an audience. That is what is hurting the movie industry.

That, I completely agree with.
So, it's gold? I don't know if I've ever seen someone buy a Starbucks with a Kruggerand.

Gold is hoarded and traded much like bitcoin, from what I've seen.
That reminds me of when Dogbert created the "brown ring of quality" company logo.

http://dilbert.com/strip/1996-06-11

The ironic thing is that Lucent later adopted almost the same shape as their real company logo!

http://www.famouslogos.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/lucent...
So we can conclude that this user's RHR is 80bpm or more, since there have been no measurements for 12 minutes? Seems high.

https://twitter.com/sainiankur/status/911347017959518208
In the US anyway, that would be illegal. Dollars must be accepted for all debts, public and private.
Sounds like you are referring to the gold standard. A few things:

1. The dollar itself was created two centuries before the US left the gold standard. "Created" being the operative word. Created by Congress because America needed its own national currency.

2. Anyone who dug some gold up in their backyard was creating money when we were on the gold standard.

3. In 1862 paper money became legal tender in the USA without any guaranteed convertibility to any metal; that remained the situation until 1879. I.e. the government simply created money.

4. On January 31, 1934, the US dollar was devalued from $20.67 per gold ounce to $34. In other words money was created by an act of Congress.

Or to sum all that up for you: at a minimum Congress has always had the power to create money. All the metallic standards ever conceived of have been arbitrarily decided and governments have always had the ability to change the standard at will to create more money.
I remember reading "fornicates" as well when I read the book. While I'm not able to find a direct online source to the quote, I did stumble upon this old HN thread where multiple people quote the same thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=680645 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=680633 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=681167
If you had traded BTC cross border at the wrong time last week, you could have lost 5-15% in value based on the prevailing market price during the time it took the transfer to settle and the coins to move onto an exchange and sell.

BTC is in practice a speculative security. Not a currency.
hahah xD This is actually really funny
You can buy perfectly lawful things at perfectly lawful places. I'd say that is a legitimate use?
Yeah, I'm a full IDE guy too but if I'm editing something that where that wouldn't make sense it's back to emacs with me. IntelliJ also supports emacs bindings. :)
Sounds like a lot more fun than the game "laser eyes" that we used to play when pointers became common in the 90s.
Sure simple is good but a rectangle? Come on.
Apple isn’t asking you to do anything. They’re just describing how to customize the behavior if you want to.
Interesting to me that they're stopping auto-play videos in the same way that Google did. That's a big win, in my book. I hate those damn things.
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You're restating the article's conclusion, in my reading.

Soundbite summary was: it's all been done before and always failed if it lacked proper controls in place.
> There is still no legitimate use of bitcoin beyond niche markets and speculation

You are making me laugh about your ignorance, sorry for my pedantry but... if my company in Argentina receives an international wire transfer from a customer in my HSBC account, it will be less money than if I receive the Bitcoins and exchange it via https://bitex.la/ , and deposit it to the same HSBC account. Both process follow all the tax regulations and are legal.
Now if your goal was simply to circumvent overseas capital transfer limits and legal limitations, that fee might be "worth it."
Not at all. Willful infringement is grounds for triple damages. So "never, ever, ever look at patents unless an attorney asks you to" was the company policy at Microsoft and Apple when I was there, and at several other major tech companies whose policies I happen to have heard of. If you were to mention to a company attorney that you've looked at another entity's patent, there would be a loud screeching noise from the attorney and you'd be scheduled for an immediate refresher course on patent policy.
> Isn't sexual freedom a goal?

For whom? Not for me.
Doesn't that assume a stable population and a consistent economy?
I'm involved, in this space and agree. Though to play devil's advocate, smart contracts (especially since Ethereum is soon adding zk-snarks) also allow for more sophisticated ways to commit crimes. But yes, I definitely think that smart contracts are the next move forward for this space. Dumb money transfer is a really awesome thing, but it's also quite small. Bitcoin does have some smart contract-ish functionality, but it's incredibly difficult to use, and so is for the most part useless outside of niche applications.
I stopped reading half way through because your shitpost twists everything said into a life of privilege and deceit. My dad was a mechanic. His dad worked in a steel mill. His dad worked in a steel mill. His dad escaped the horrors of WW1 in a country we'll never know.

Go ahead and twist everything I say until it either refutes me or supports whatever agenda you want.

You can talk general shit about fraternities but the minority part really bugs me. Our house was more Asian and African American than it was white. Are you saying my house bought minorities for points? Ballsy. We took them because they were good. My best friend was 100% black and going for his PhD.

Instead of lamely forming your argument by copy editing a few words of mine how about coming up with something of your own?
I think there's a real issue about the resources that are brought to bear on information security, and what we need to do to get more traction on it, but focusing people's academic background is a misleading way to try to talk about that.
What does art have to do with democracy? That's pure hubris. Most engineers I know are far more widely read and know more about art and culture than most liberal arts people I know.
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Having popular, high-profile open source projects helps Facebook attract more and better talent in three primary ways:

First, it increases the likelihood that the average programmer already is familiar with the tools they'd use at Facebook. It's useful for them to be able to hire people who already know React, Reason, etc. On occasion, they'll manage to find highly talented developers who either contribute to their projects or build useful related projects, and then they can make those people an offer. Even better, sometimes that's an entire startup they can acquihire.

Second, it increases the prestige of a job at Facebook. Most of the core public functionality of Facebook isn't particularly interesting to me, for example, but the stuff they're doing with OCaml is. The chance of me working there is still essentially nil but it's definitely less nil than it would be if I didn't know about projects like that.

Third, it gives them something really valuable to offer skilled devs -- the ability to become widely known and respected for your contributions to a popular open source project. That's worth a great deal to some people.
Yeah why anyone who values their privacy uses Lenovo beats me. If it’s Chinese, it’s spying on you. Otherwise they wouldn’t be operating in China.
Yeah without a prescription hard to sustain namely the tolerance problem in my experience eg. need more and more not saying indefinitely but say 1 20mg xr for a day versus eventually 3 of them in a day
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There's a bar at Narita past security but just before all of the high-end duty-free stores that I love to sit in because the smokers section, enclosed in a glass cube, is usually empty and they serve 1 litre steins of Kirin for not much more than the price at a Lawsons convenience store. Good way to chill and fill the veins with nicotine before getting on a flight.

Speaking of Kirin, I'd say the Kirin pubs/bars are the nicest places for smokers out there. Some of my favourite times were just sitting there eating various plates of meats (partner is vegetarian so I enjoy it when I can), sipping their excellent ichiban shibori stout and smoking while reading the newspaper, hiding from the stinking hot summer weather. I'd say I like the one in Namba, Osaka the best because it's dank like an old English pub and has cool L-shaped tables fixed to the wall so you can stand around smoking, talking and drinking in small groups. Cozy.
About as much as your IRA, money in your checking account, etc.

AKA, orders of magnitude less than a can of beans.
> Since FB is so "profitable" and such an attractive stock

I can't imagine why profitable is in quotes. It's a wildly profitable company. They're within roughly ten quarters of becoming one of the most profitable companies in history. There has rarely been a cash production machine like their social network monopoly.

They have a better, higher margin business than Google's search monopoly by contrast. They'll catch Google in net income in fiscal 2018, despite being six years younger as a business. The closest comparison in the last ~50 years in tech, would be Microsoft at their peak margin + scale circa 1999/2000 (~40% net income margin).
I'm curious, what prevents them from going back on this for subsequent releases?

I wonder from a more general sense with open source licenses
Anyone who thinks gold is money doesn't know very much about currency
Not typical, but possible with the right team/tech/connections. OP said that the local VC scene asks for 1M+ ARR to invest, which led me to think that revenue was lower.
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Whaaaat? What a perspective. Are you... from China, perhaps? 🇨🇳 Privacy is a wonderful thing. I’m so glad it’s a value people still fight for in the West.
Speaking of bad and boring verticals to explore, any aspect of manufacturing software - CAD, CAM, PLM - please would some Silicon Valley types look into it?
> than the promises of VR. Why escape my life when I can make my lived world better?

I think that's an overly narrow characterisation of VR with unnecessarily pejorative connotations.

For example, perhaps VR will let people interact or collaborate with others in ways AR wouldn't be conducive to?

I'm not saying "VR is better than AR". Different media have different characteristics and uses.
"First things first for younger readers: An audio record generally can be defined as a flat, circular medium with a spiral groove cut into it to modulate an audio signal."

When things like this warrant explanation, I feel old.
The currency being used has no bearing on whether or not the government will find out if you're buying illegal goods. What matters is the ability of the government to discern the nature of the transaction, which has more to do with its ability to co-opt others (e.g., banks) into identifying and reporting such transactions, and (to a rather limited degree) the ability to prove existence of transactions via the payment method (which Bitcoin is actually bad at since it is basically a public ledger of who paid whom, if you can map names to keys).
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It could even be expanded to include inflationary currency in a country where hyperinflation is occurring. People will hold on to USD or some other currency as an investment because it'll be worth significantly more tomorrow than whatever currency the supermarket down the street accepts.

This doesn't really feel the same. You might use USD to store value because you know that it's value isn't going to fluctuate like crazy from month to month or year to year. So if you can afford to feed yourself today, you can still feed yourself tomorrow. You're still spending your money.

No one I know with Bitcoin spends it, with the exception of a novelty purchase of beer. And why would you, in 4 years the value of bitcoin increased over 10 fold. You'd be stupid to ever spend it while this trend continues.
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It's the metadata that's really important. Just copying a file, while faithfully preserving metadata, is actually a feat on HFS+. That is why popular tools such as BackupBouncer (to test the integrity of backups) came to be.
I wonder if they'll put ReasonML under MIT as well. It's a really compelling project, especially considering how it can be combined with React. I suppose if they don't change it, one could just use Elm!
The cite feature is really awsome, and I started using it when I noticed a day or two ago!

No more needing to navigate publisher websites, or searching for an obscure article.

Would be cool to have a way to cite any url directly to EndNote.
xmms2 was there all along!
> Not every drug you take is limited to impacting just you. A good example is antibiotics.

Is there anyone addicted to antibiotics? No? Red herring.
R3 too prz :D
Get Out: 252.4 million USD. Not a blip. Break $100M and they're paying attention.
Yes - before the 3.x branch got stable - the controller would do all sorts of stupid things - like stop recording at all.

At the same time the controller has gotten more stable, we finally bit the bullet and jumped to SSDs for all our installs - I think that helps with long term reliability. I had a hunch that the controller doesn't deal with SATA timeouts while a spinning hard-drive reallocates sectors. But I really have no evidence of such a theory.
What does it matter if they paid for it? I'm ranting more about the rent seeking that has permeated every aspect of our society than saying one oligarch is better than the other.
not a bubble, not a bubble, not a bubble.
Things have really gone sideways with the X, because there's no longer an obvious best. The X is worse than the 8 in important ways, like no Touch ID and no home button. It's better in other ways. Which one wins? I don't know.

I think you're over thinking this—the iPhone X is by far the best phone anyone has ever made. Think of it as the deluxe iPhone 8.

You're assuming Face-ID is a detriment; however, Apple wouldn't have shipped it unless it was as at least as good as Touch-ID. Perhaps you should read something from someone who's used one: https://daringfireball.net/2017/09/iphone_x_event_thoughts_a....

Being a long time Apple observer, both professionally and personally, I call bullshit on this "Steve wouldn't have done this or that" crap.

Things change; Steve was known to change his mind when that was the right thing to do. What Steve did back in 1997 with the 4-product matrix is what Apple needed then, a company that had lost its way. Apple's total revenue then was a little over $7 billion; now $50 billion quarters are routine.

Apple has sold over 1 billion iPhones since 2007; it generates around 66% of its revenue. It clearly makes sense to have different models available for different consumers, not just in the US but globally, where more than half of its revenue comes from.

It wouldn't be possible to keep up this momentum if they only sold the newest and most expensive phones without being accessible to those who who need a device 1/3 or 1/2 of the price of an iPhone X.
Social inclusion is an essential part of life and it's completely closed off from people who are "old" in programming. I don't think I am the only person to note that.
Wow. The HuffPost editor made that error, and the submitter merely repeated it.
You've got a mighty big crystal ball there then.

Sarcasm aside. A major part of the allure of Kubernetes is that it's not a single vendor project. It's unlikely to die if something happens to RedHat. Say someone like Oracle comes along and buys you guys. But that's not the case with OpenShift.

Maybe you're right that things will continue as is and OpenShift will always be better and that RedHat will always maintain it.

But not particularly a risk that I think is worth taking.
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I have one child who rejected admission to UC Berkeley and another who refuses to apply to that school.

Reap the whirlwind.
I think the key point in that blog post is this:

"Core WordPress updates go out to over a quarter of all websites, having them all inherit the patents clause isn’t something I’m comfortable with."

It's one thing to look at the license and guess that it's vanishingly unlikely you'll ever be in an intellectual property fight with FB (and it sounds like the counsel Automattic consulted with came to that conclusion for Automattic).

It's another thing to make that decision for everybody downstream using software that you distribute. Particularly when that's a reaaaally large number of people.

I'm on much less solid ground in speculating about more, but it's often interesting to watch the contents of speech when people are working to assure you of something:

"One nice thing about this apartment is that it's very secure." (That's interesting. Why is it important that this apartment is very secure? Is the neighborhood not so much secure?)

"This guy we're interviewing here is not being interviewed for your position." (That's interesting. Why do I need to know that, manager?)

In the case of this post, between the lines I potentially see something like:

"Hey FB, we don't feel threatened by the license, and you know, he who writes to code makes the rules, like Linus says. You're obviously doing what's right for you, from your point of view, and we're sure you know what's best for you, and if you're doing right by yourself, do you need to even ask if you're doing the right thing?

You do you, bro. And we're sure you won't be mad that we wanna let everybody else be themselves, too."

Not sure it's there, I could be reading more into it than I need to.
OK, fine, Nexus 6P ranked higher than iPhone 6s as well. Here's the link you didn't bother to include: https://www.dxomark.com/Mobiles/Apple-iPhone-6s-review-Solid... "Despite our hopes for the new sensor, the Apple iPhone 6s posts an identical overall score as its predecessor."
>Focus your time and energy on BTC, ETH and an anonymous coin like XMR. Any other offering should be met with skepticism.

To elaborate/explain on this point for those less familiar: those three cryptocurrencies actually are based on real technical innovation, and have developer communities producing more technical innovation. There are many other cryptocurrencies that have zero technical innovation (or completely nonsense innovation) and are merely clones of previous cryptocurrencies with some identifiers tweaked, made purely so investors can pump and dump.

The article in part 5 ("The decline of Maximalism") seems to be criticizing the idea that people would prefer some cryptocurrencies to others, which is completely ridiculous. There are real differences / issues with many.
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Well it looks like it's 25 years old, so they've got that going for them.
Working for 4 years as a videographer for Snowboarder Magazine convinced me there is a lot of truth in this claim made by the title. In action sports, the "head game" is often valued over the physical one and my experiences of both intimate and high-pressure public scenarios is that it's the most important.