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There is no money on the platform.

Steem blockchain produce constant amount of STEEM tokens everyday (1 STEEM per block every 3s).

Those tokens are distributed among all users according to votes of all users.

We all know, that it is not so easy to write a post/comment which will receive tons of upvotes.

So if you will spend 3 hours writing awesome blogpost, and after a week (voting period) you will endup having 3 STEEM tokens... question is, would you give away those tokens for free? Probably not for free...

Also, there are people on the platform, which like to gather STEEM tokens. Why? Because if you have more STEEM tokens you have greater influence on the platform, your posts will have greater visibility, and you have more to say about who will receive more tokens next time.

Price of STEEM tokens are determined by free market on bitcoin and concurrencies exchanges: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/steem/#markets

On exchanges people which do not care about influence on Steem sell tokens to people, which want to have influence on the platform.

It is a free market in purest form.

Don't believe? You don't have to. There is no need for trust on Steem. Eferything is open source: github.com/steemit/

Everything is transparent (blockchain explorers):
- https://steemdb.com/
- https://steemd.com/
- https://steemstats.com/
I'm a great fan of my daily walk. So not saying this is necessarily wrong.

But there's no theory! e.g. mental health isn't understood, so whether exercise is of lasting benefit in that department is unclear. Consider that people pay good money to sit for a week or more to try to elevate their well-being. Consider that athletes have their fair share of mental health issues, and that even top athletes live less than 3 years longer than average. (Which seems like a small difference.)

Consider that people who move about constantly will eventually drop dead of heart failure:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_Plague_of_1518

Examples such as this are perhaps misleading edge cases. But theory would give some insight into why they are misleading. At present we are blind.
Unfortunately, these "ideas" for the problems are low quality. Problem 2: "use derivatives". How the heck that helps if F does not have to be continuous, let alone differentiable.
In this context it's probably wise to use "proof" carefully, otherwise it's easy to confuse with its mathematical usage. Maybe "Homotopy type theory is also a sign of the relationship between computation, logic and topology" is a better way to express what you were trying to say :)
I write a custom editor in the language that I need to edit in. But seriously, Emacs. I never have to work in languages that don't already have the leg work done in creating linters, syntax highlighting etc.
Here's another take on the topic:

http://blog.rongarret.info/2014/10/parallel-universes-and-ar...

The TL;DR:

"The punch line is this: the statement that we can't time-travel into the past is exactly the same as the statement that we can only remember the past. It is not the case that one causes the other, it is that the two things are logically equivalent. Your perception of "traveling through time" emerges from your mental states and not the other way around. You feel like you are "traveling forward through time" because your mental states have this natural order to them. You can remember the past and not the future because whatever you remember is your past. The laws of quantum mechanics (and entanglement in particular) insure that what any given instance of you remembers appears to be a continuous and coherent sequence that behaves according to regularities that we call the laws of physics. But in fact you do not travel through time, because at root there is no you, and there is no time. There is only the wavefunction, from which both you and time emerge as an approximation."
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The plaintiff's lawyers say that Google has won five out of six similar lawsuits on procedural grounds so looks like pretty common.

As for reputation, why would a behemoth like Google care if they squash a little guy (or two, or a dozen)? Even if they go on a PR offensive they still won't be able to outmatch or shout over Google. At most people like the HN audience will find out and then... proceed to do nothing because Google's products are either ubiquitous (like search) or first-in-class (because they are free, like email).
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Well, I feel like there's some public outcry already. Source: this thread :)
I don't man... have they ever driven one of my Chryslers?

I joke but after (being under) four or five Chryslers, everyone in my family treats it like a four-letter-word and will never buy one again.
This situation slightly reminds me of the interview process at some tech companies.

This is exactly the same as the whiteboarding algorithms questions. They all have a simple answer which is obvious if you have been recently cramming for your CS finals. But you are unlikely to remember them in sufficient detail if you are over a certain age, because no real actual working programmer needs to know that stuff by heart, it's either been abstracted into libraries or you just reach for a book when you need one. A perfectly plausible way to do ageism, right under the noses of any regulators.
I was expecting Sedgewick to be in the list---I've never seen Dasgupta---since it's one of the most commonly seen, at least on the cubicle bookshelves I've browsed. It seems as canonical as any.
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Probably because you don't have to have different css styles for many of the options like image size, font size, language, color. Though these can be achieved with css.

One use case I see is for native mobile apps to generate the avatars as an initial profile image during the signup.
Criticism of the SAT and other standardized tests ranges from the reasonable to the ridiculous. If your high school doesn't teach geometry, you're going to have a hard time. A lot of troubled schools can be several years behind the standard progression. Less reasonable is criticism like inner city kids being unable to answer "alice has two yachts, bobby has three yachts, how many yachts do alice and bobby have?" because they've never seen a yacht.
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Google « obesity cancer », you’ll find many. It’s just that I thought it was common knowledge by now..
The article makes numerous assertions that school/work do not cater to the ways women learn/work best. I was on the edge of my seat expecting the author to hint at the ways women do learn/work best, but it never arrived. Was I just not reading closely enough?

Edit: I wasn't reading closely enough.

So my next question is, what would it take to have more women teaching CS and software development?
Reminds me of the white australia policy. You were given tests in european languages that the immigration officer chose. It was primarily meant to keep out the chinese and japanese, but also used to keep out southern/eastern europeans and of course jews.

A famous example was of Egon Kisch who was fluent in many european languages and kept passing the dictation tests in many european language. So they finally gave him a test in scottish gaelic and he failed. He was able to sue the government and win the right to stay in australia eventually.

"Jewish political activist Egon Kisch from Czechoslovakia, who was exiled from Germany for opposing Nazism, arrived in Australia in 1934. The Government of Joseph Lyons went to extraordinary lengths to exclude Kisch, including using the dictation test. Kisch was fluent in a number of European languages, and after completing passages in several languages, he finally failed when he was tested in Scottish Gaelic."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Restriction_Act_19...
Actual bumpers are not a safety issue. Car companies simply make more money by selling body panels at high markup after every minor accident.
> would making would be politicians pass some form of unbiased well-designed test on the constitution, political system, financial principles, ethics, etc. have a positive effect on their performance?

Who would be the authority that either makes these test questions, or monitors that they are unbiased?
I think Buffet said something to the effect of "be fearful when others are greedy, but be greedy when others are fearful".

Having lots of dry powder in a downturn is a very good place to be for a professional investor. That said, most folks are not professional investors, so buy and hold is relatively simple strategy that performs fairly well for non-professionals.
Your post doesn't shed a new light on anything. At best, that's the equivalent of a big firm going through deep "technical due diligence" with a startup's technology under the guide of a merger. Then, they tell the startup they are not interested and implement the same tech in-house using a "clean room".
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the modern tech version of this is 'culture fit' but it starts even before you get an interview, identical resumes with anglo vs. foreign last names have been studied with unfortunately predictable results.

We're hard-wired to be tribal and much more comfortable around our own kind, very difficult problem.
Sorting is about relative distance anyway. “Am I closer than you to negative infinity?” Why does having absolute perception matter? (Indeed, all but radix sort use comparison-based strategies. There’s some notion of a “less than” operation being used to make decisions.)

Viridis is useful for scientific plots where scale perception is important in making a good conclusion. I don’t think demonstrating sorting requires the same perception.
That is why I rephrased the quote.
Well, depression is a positive feedback loop where a negative mental state leads to actions that amplify that state. To break the loop, something has to change.
I donated to the Mouse program[0] she mentioned in the article, it looks like a pretty good idea.

[0] https://mouse.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15417756
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Yeah, that would have been great.
Because like smoking it’s obviously unnatural to eat like crap and sit on the computer/couch/car all day. If not obvious then not surprising. Obesity is the epitome and result ohf an unhealthy lifestyle of no exercise and eating junk food.
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I call affirmative action policies lowering the bar. If you are intentionally seeking people based on criteria like race or gender, then you are less likely to find the best candidates, unless you believe those are relevant criteria.
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I thought that unitarity was also preserved in quantum mechanics, which is linked to the law of preservation of information , which induces reversibility. This was the central question about black holes destroying information being a problem, which gives rise to the problem of black hole firewalls. If information is truly destroyed, then quantum mechanics has a deep flaw
vs. a San Francisco Soylent breakfast
Yeah, at this rate they might only be the twentieth most popular brand by 2020! The horror!

This really counts as collapse to you? How many companies would kill to be that widely recognized?
The link between saturated fats and disease is dubious at best. Here’s[1] a meta-analysis with 350,000 subjects that failed to show a link between saturated fat, coronary heart disease, stroke and cardiovascular disease. Many meta-analyses[2] fail to show a correlation, and many remain unpublished.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2824152/

[2] http://www.bmj.com/content/351/bmj.h3978
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tl;dw: They bring you enough food for four people, even if you’re alone.
Everyone involved was Jewish though (or, at least, they were all Israelites).
Oh wow the cat avatars are SO INCREDIBLY CUTE
Where does the "less reasonable" criticism you use as an example occur? I don't believe I've ever heard such a criticism in this context.
> Rather, I was frustrated because the course consisted of lone work on exercises that seemed to have little application to the real world

From my personal experience, exactly such courses have proven to have the most long-term value to me.
That is a very pessimistic view on the current state of LN. There are three independent open-source LN implementations [1, 2, 3] out there that are being worked on and already implement basic functionality. All three contribute to an document, called Basics Of The Lightning Network (BOLT) [4], which forms an open standard for LN.

I wouldn't call it vaporware. Yes, there are unsurprisingly open questions. But nothing which can't be solved.

1: https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd
2: https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair
3: https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning
4: https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lightning-rfc
There are many signs that testosterone levels today are considerably lower than they have been in the past[1].

[1] http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/18/modern-life-rough-o...
Obesity is obviously unnatural and unhealthy and I still don't see how it is obviously linked to cancer.
It's still possible to set non-square video modes on many PCs. But, it's extremely rare for anyone to make that their default intentionally.
> How the heck that helps

If you look at the solution, you'll see how the idea of a derivative helps in that problem.
bullshit. I just tried ball-walking in socks and I was totally able to do it with bad posture.
Yeah, having spent a bit of time in Photoshop, for that particular problem I think the solution is an average of shape centre-of-mass and bounding rectangle centre.
An adblocker is more like taking a marker and crossing out the ads in your own personal copy of a magazine with the marker. Modification for personal use is not copyright violation.

If I publish a website -- telling the users that we do not bother them with ads -- and another company then injects ads into that page, it not only violates the copyright, but it causes damage to my website's reputation, because most users aren't knowledgeable enough about the Web to understand that the ads are not put there by the publisher. It's probably even worse for websites that allow members to pay to have ads removed.
Yes, you weren't paying attention :)

She mentioned it a few times - girls like colaborative learning, not lone-wolf learning, and she also put a link in - https://ncgsblog.org/2016/09/12/how-girls-learn-best/
Rather the opposite, in fact, which is kind of hilarious to me.

> Intake of total fat and each type of fat was associated with lower risk of total mortality...
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> I generally go to Knuth when I'm really stuck--not just how to do something but sometimes how to frame the problem so it can be solved.

If I may ask, what do you work in that requires reading heavy algorithms stuff? (sounds like an interesting job!)
The yacht criticism is usually in the analogy section, where the meaning of the word is critical.
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> The ’80s were also the era of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, the rise of the archetype of the lone, antisocial hacker in a garage spending all-nighters building machines that were at many times ambiguous and without a clear path to success. Without going into too much more detail because this essay is already longer than it needs to be, this can be seen as the linchpin in which computer science took a hard turn toward learning and work environments that either pushed many women away entirely or resulted in them feeling like misfit puzzle pieces when they did take on coding.

I would appreciate if someone clarified the argument that the author is making above, because as it reads, she's implying that women don't excel when tasked with individual work involving "ambigious and unclear paths to success". That certainly isn't how she meant it to be interpreted, right?
My dad was a mechanical engineer in USSR who got his education in late 70s. The discrimination was worse in some areas. Moscow - forget about it. My dad got his degree in Minsk, and had many jews from other "states" move there just so they can get into college.

That is why there are somany known Soviet mathematicians with Jewish names. They still had paths to persue higher education, just not in Moscow and other desirable areas.
Not a (master) theorem per se, but how about the classification of finite groups?
I'm an idiot in this area.

Why would you decode utf8?
The article is by John Baez who has an awesome blog
https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com

He has some really inspiring stuff there like the topology of mosaics in Alhambra
Happy palemoon user here, can recommend. Combined with pentadactyl it's pretty cool browser. I use chrome from youtube and twitch though.
I actually would not agree. There is a common set of knowledge that one is expected to know, even if it isn't actively used daily. During the interview process, it was clear that many of the companies asked similar questions. It was possible to prepare for.

However, the two companies I referenced asked questions that were close to impossible to prepare for. These were also not whiteboarding questions (both did have separate whiteboarding sessions which were fair)
So it's basically a lot of olives, chilis, and cheese? I had much more of choice in quality hotels in China in buffet style.
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Yes, I would assume a dozen-line server or client function could generate the CSS needed given a full name. Break it apart, keep the first letter(s), modulo the color and size, etc.
> I’ve certainly used both of them a lot, but I simply haven’t read all of them because I use them more as reference texts.

If I may ask, what is your line of work? If it requires reading heavy algorithms stuff, it is probably an interesting job!
Deflationary assets can be good investments but are terrible mediums of exchange. The Fed has an inflation target and not a deflation target for a reason. Or did I miss the sarcasm here?
I use touchscreen a fair bit on my laptop, and miss it when I'm working on my work macbook.

Mainly when I'm just wandering about the internet it's often more convenient to poke the screen than to move a cursor.

At a previous job when I had an X1 Carbon touchscreen it was so much easier to be sat with someone, going over code or looking at an issue and be able to both poke and drag on the screen with out having to mouse or touchpad share.

I found doing presentations much more natural when I could use the screen instead of a mouse or touchpad.
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"In all, 42,000 Ephraimites were killed at that time."

Reminds me of the old joke which I can't remember enough details of to preserve the humor, where a dumb FBI agent is given the task of hunting communists, and his boss gives him a test which he humorously misunderstands, and at the end of the week he proudly reports "I've already killed several thousand communists sir. And you sent me here just in time, the communists were really entrenched, I haven't found a single loyal american." Sorry I botched it.

But anyway, this is a fascinating archaeological record of a classic bias, where you assume your test was 100% accurate because the opposite would be horrifying...
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1 gram per serving.

Most of their packages contain multiple servings. Even the smaller packages that you usually see on the shelf are 3 servings, at least in the US.
Thanks for the share :)
Looks very nifty. Is this being developed for Windows only?
Morning routine: check email, check list of open PRs that I should review, respond to comments on my pending PRs, if any, and merge my own approved PRs.

Reviewing work by dev A: change looks good, but what is this condition for, given this other condition elsewhere? what does the alternative really mean? ask a couple of questions, request elaboration on a comment because we both know why it's there since we talked about it but the maintenance team won't have that context. Review responses to Qs in A's older PRs; looks great, approve.

PR from dev B: oh god, why write a two-line wrapper for a standard POSIX function and try to make a Linux-based app look like this is running on Windows? Check comments, oh god they all say "tbd". Request that new identifiers include some vowels, like regular English words; point out team's coding standard we all agreed to at the beginning of the project. Review responses to comments on B's older PRs; ah yes, he refuses to make any improvements and adds comments full of typos; hah, B also introduced the same typo in a previously correctly named variable; insist on improvements.

PR from dev C: that's weird, I don't get how that would work, let's compile it. Right, it doesn't even compile. Hmmm, two new classes, without comments, what are those for? right, they're imported but not actually used anywhere. What problem is this PR solving? no idea, everything is named aThing, ThingStorage, and FutureUse. Review responses on Cs older PRs; hmmm, no actual responses, just saying "will change in another PR". Wince, shrug, write a note to escalate to team lead at the end of the week, again.
Capitalism is a an extremely old game design, an MMO created to solve the complex barter chain problem. One of the game's many exploits is that sociopaths (and anyone they train through reward to override their sense of empathy) have an unfair advantage.

The key to the exploit is at the heart of the core gameplay mechanic, which is that every transaction in capitalism is a codec that decimates the complex history and state of the values and liabilities of a good or service down to a single number- the price.

So hiding the abuses of others is one of the many exploits you can hide in the compression artifacts of this global codec. The key workarounds for the exploits in scalar money commerce come in the form of laws, regulations, and investigative journalism. These are all extremely high-latency, low-reliability workarounds.

Scalar money commerce was invented as a low-tech, distributed hack to solve the complex barter chain problem. It worked, but it always had issues, and it didn't scale well.

We need to evolve beyond this primitive system of commerce that decimates everything to a single number at each transaction to one that journals state with long vectors of information tracking millions of dimensions of value and liability, and that uses more sophisticated game design and graph algorithms to solve complex barter chain problems.
I did get and take an offer at a solid tech company. On Glassdoor, there were some impossible questions listed. I was referred to that company and I didn't get asked an impossible question. I attributed that to being lucky, but perhaps I lucked out in getting an abbreviated interview.
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and many remain unpublished.

Citation?
There was a quota, like in the US in the 1930s. In the USSR, about 2% of population was Jews, so university was allowed to admit 2% Jews every year. But because of culture of education and desire to avoid conscription to Red Army[1] and non-uniform population density, it was very difficult for Jews to get admitted in the good universities in Moscow and Leningrad (the two largest cities with most prestigious universities).

1 - The Soviet military was bad for everyone, but Jews tended to get hurt more. Students accepted by a university would not be conscripted and would be listed as reserve officers, having never spent time in uniform