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The USD is probably the most well-behaved fiat currency of the last century, so that’s basically the least interesting example, but:

USD is inflationary. Ceteris paribus, a rational actor would generally prefer to hold something deflationary. The (epsilon-) no-arbitrage argument suggests that the frequently raised “but then no one will ever invest in things” objection doesn’t actually make any sense.

USD is highly controlled (but not by you). This is a technical and legal issue, not a fundamental problem with fiat currencies in general, but it’s impossible to ignore. Bitcoin sidesteps it entirely. What actually drove me to try Bitcoin is when a paperwork error by the state comptroller led to them withdrawing several thousand dollars from my bank account with no warning. I eventually got it back when they realized they made a mistake, but Wells Fargo still charged me “legal fees” and the realization that I really didn’t have control over my money was uncomfortable. With bitcoin I can use my money however I want, whenever I want, and no one else can. No paperwork, no ACH/fed clearing, no delays, no surprise fees, no one stealing money out of my account with impunity. That’s only the tip of the iceberg for how much the legacy financial system sucks, and most of it can’t be fixed with a software upgrade.

Fiat could theoretically work as well as bitcoin in terms of convenience and reliability, but it never does in practice and there’s no way to avoid governments instituting worse policies later on.

I also don’t think most Bitcoin supporters want the government to get rid of USD. It’s about adding choice, not forcing everyone to do something different.
I was curious so...

$ roca-detect /usr/share/ca-certificates/mozilla/
2017-10-16 13:37:50 [30012] INFO ### SUMMARY ####################
2017-10-16 13:37:50 [30012] INFO Records tested: 132
2017-10-16 13:37:50 [30012] INFO .. PEM certs: . . . 148
2017-10-16 13:37:50 [30012] INFO .. DER certs: . . . 0
2017-10-16 13:37:50 [30012] INFO .. RSA key files: . 0
2017-10-16 13:37:50 [30012] INFO .. PGP master keys: 0
2017-10-16 13:37:50 [30012] INFO .. PGP total keys: 0
2017-10-16 13:37:50 [30012] INFO .. SSH keys: . . . 0
2017-10-16 13:37:50 [30012] INFO .. APK keys: . . . 0
2017-10-16 13:37:50 [30012] INFO .. JSON keys: . . . 0
2017-10-16 13:37:50 [30012] INFO .. LDIFF certs: . . 0
2017-10-16 13:37:50 [30012] INFO .. JKS certs: . . . 0
2017-10-16 13:37:50 [30012] INFO No fingerprinted keys found (OK)
2017-10-16 13:37:50 [30012] INFO ################################
You're freaking me out with that scenario
To provide some means for censuring those people who flagrantly disregard the unwritten rules (I know that, formally, that looks nonsensical, but in practice it is not.)
A pretty good introduction would be the three videos linked on https://makerdao.com/ (overview, how dai works, and how MKR works).

The current revision of the white paper should lay out the motivation and mechanics of the system without being too verbose:

https://github.com/makerdao/docs/blob/master/Dai.md

If there's something about it that doesn't make sense to you or seems poorly explained, let me know, or you can join the chat/subreddit to discuss.
I've seen a copy of a few friends already created, even myself. They then friended all of my friends. Fb is pretty quick to delete them once reported
That's a great example. I understand the use case now.

I note this use case can be solved using keyset pagination instead of offset/limit, because the ordering of messages is stable: messages are never inserted in the middle of the list; they are appended at the end. We can attribute a number to each message, and use this message to filter and sort.
The problem is that these aren't phones anymore; they're small computers. They should have support lifetimes that are comparable to desktop computers.
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No, instead of both current houses.
I'm not sure other industries do handle it better.

I would argue that it's a prevalent problem. There has to be a reason, why there are a bunch of studies on success and failure ratios of projects. A lot of them explicitly stating that the top issues are bad communications, lack of priorities etc.

One of the standard PM exams even has frequent exam question about how sources of conflicts in projects in the following order:

schedules, project priorities, resources, technical opinions, administrative procedures, cost and personality

Personality is always last.

Yes, there are exceptions. There always are, but in general lack of experience at the top gets pushed down the chain. Top performers are always the first to be negatively affected though.
So, in other words, the law is wrong. And the is kept as such for purposes of revenue enhancement (illegal taxation)?

I can see a few interesting govt things coming out of "Autos":

1. Revenue from bad laws drops to 0. These vehicles follow the letter of the law. And they have the logs to prove any sort of claim against the former.

2. A false claim is filed (BLM makes about a point about this..) and says driver did X. Is this the person's responsibility, or the company who wrote the AI?
I briefed the original story, and one thing that stood out to me is that the author threw a 'bomb' named collaboration into the mix AFTER firing so-called Rick.

What author fails to understand, is that the problem could have been addressed by collaboration as well.

I caught a 'scrum-master' CTO wanna-be that wrote an article about (omitting my name) how he is happy I was gone because I was hard to manage. This guy showed up and hanged his scrum-master certificate on the wall and promoted a (fresh out of college) junior developer to management because he was there for a year longer than me and proceeded to enable and reward the most idiotic technical decisions I have ever seen while the rest of us was battling scalability problems.

He never talked to me; he was in the room with his new director of engineering (1 year of non-management experience, seriously) trying to come up with a strategy on how to do things and then try to run with it without getting any feedback.

Obviously, I shot them down, and it got to the point where they would come up with this stuff (no communication) and could not provide any details (why will this work? why is it better?).

I simply quit and never looked back at that point, they probably did collaborate a lot more. And by collaboration, I mean circle jerk whatever ideas sound great and force them on junior developers that do not know any better.
Any https traffic is going to be safe from this attack, a VPN would also protect you.
We moved over to GitLab a couple of weeks ago. We're small, so the calculus is a lot different for us. The migration basically consisted of clicking the import button and making sure everybody's remotes were changed over. We switched because we got tired of Atlassian trying to sell us all of their services all the time. The systems that make a big organization run more smoothly are a drag on a small team, and the more we saw of Atlassian's offerings the less we wanted them.
A lot of phone companies are locking their devices from receiving new kernels. Its dumb and I hate it.
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If you are a CTO or manager, please do your developers a favor by not throwing buzzwords at them in 99% of your conversations that you don't even understand. As a consequence of your vague requirements, if a developer chose to implement something that you don't quite agree with, grow a pair and suggest an alternative.
All the various CI systems and scripts with hard-coded SSH-based git access will be hard to change to use HTTPS for just a few hours.
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Same here, bitbucket not accessible - not on login or repo, both are down.
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It's likely weatherproof paper and a grease pencil. We deal with EMS agencies and modern technology is often useless for them in harsh weather. Screens can be difficult to read outdoors and any touch devices are unresponsive in a downpour or very cold weather. Not to mention they often have blood on their hands so contamination is also an issue with any tech. I'm sure the greasy filth of an oil rig doesn't play well with most tech either.
Now that sysadmin guy who told me: "what happens when bitbucket goes down?" when I asked him to move our repos to the cloud, he is smiling. Sometimes it's best to keep stuff in your own servers, if you have any...
Our world needs real leaders to start companies that do make a difference and you might very well be one of them. You've got an incredible skillset as a software engineer and a data scientist - I've a similar background as well and I'm interested to see how we can pit our brains to try and solve problems for the needy. A belief I've held is that education has the ability to transform lives. Maybe this is something you'd be interested in as well?
I think I got it around 500~. There could be a manual component to it?
Medium doesn't have editorial control over what its users post on the site.
All of those cars are not even close to recent except for the NSX. And even the NSX was dead for over a decade before they brought it back! Honda used to have some interesting, fun, simple sports cars... But those days are pretty far behind them at this point.

One low-volume, $150k+ car does not make it seem like they "make interesting cars". They certainly have in the past, but at the moment they really don't from a sports car perspective.
Music to my ears.
Your user page shows you how much karma you need to hit the next level. In your case, you need 172 to downvote comments. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=exikyut
> paperwork error by the state comptroller led to them withdrawing several thousand dollars from my bank account with no warning

It's a good job that the computer you store your bitcoin on never has any security issues.
It's 500 last time I heard, but you don't get a downvote button on every comment.

And there is no downvote button on posts (or if it is, I haven't reached that threshold yet.)
Offtopic, but does anyone know what's going on with the FreeRTOS license? They add a GPL incompatible restriction to benchmarking, but they also use license GPL v2 "or later", which allows the users to remove such restrictions. Do they have a clue about their licensing model?
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Quite expected, as root certs are not generated by a smartcard chip. The paper itself says not much of typical browser TLS is affected.
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Wrong, my devices have already been attacked with a handheld device. The attacker managed to hack my phone through this attack, which means that there is a compromise to kernel available in all Android's from wifi.

They changed multiple parameters and downloaded my banking information as well as account details. Unfortunately for them, I am financially very poor.

NSA and FBI are worthless. They never warn and just leave everyone exposed and vulnerable just to make their career points. Good thing for independent researchers.

Never tell the NSA or FBI about security vulnerabilities. They will just threaten you to shut up. They are extremely nasty, cruel people. Nothing is too low or out of bounds to them to get you to keep quiet. Go direct to company and public.
Great write-up. If your software team has a single point of failure, a linchpin developer that holds everything together, then your team is defective. Regardless of the attributes of this developer, management has failed in letting it come so far.

I have quit jobs for far less severe cases of this. Feeling like you can’t take time off and that the project will fail if you do not save it, is not healthy. If you find yourself in that situation, you need to seriously consider why your team is broken, and if its not your fault, quit. Find a job where you have colleagues that you can rely on to shoulder their part of the work.
Two years past a committed delivery date is a very long time in software terms and is a sign heads need to roll all over the organization.

I think an argument could be made for everyone in Rick’s chain up to and potentially including the CEO should be let go.

> I’d been aware of the project for a while, because it had grown infamous in my organization, but hadn’t been assigned to it.

And especially the blog post writer who knew about the problem for a long time self admittedly and did nothing about it, only to then pat himself on the back for handling the situation poorly when it was finally assigned to him.
Never understood cities split by two states. Born and bred in one. Being on one side of the state or the other tends to complicate simple things. At least they're not independently operating countries, I guess.
Blockchains allow for a distributed, mutable permissioned system that are required(?) for features like "Who is allowed to push to this named repository?".

You can also leave stuff like that out, but then you will end up with a system where everyone can only push to their own forks leaving us with a very splintered distributed system. To compensate we would need a much better system for distributed content discovery than anything I've seen so far.
That is pretty interesting and does model those things in the same data store. But the data store isn't git objects, as far as I can tell...

"Fossil stores its objects in a relational (SQLite) database file"
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I dont think any company needs to fire its employees, not one and not bulk. I think if there is a scenario where some down sizing becomes necessary i am sure it will not happen overnight and it will happen in a phased manner over few months. I think if the employer just calls the employee a month ahead and says "You may be fired." that should set off the chain of event which can take care of both the employee's need and employer's need in a smooth manner. That way it wont have to make a big noise and create any agitation. The employees have been taking great care of themselves like forever in the past and will do so in the future. This little buffer time will just make the scenario from medium complexity to small complexity.

What's your opinion?
Git isn't centralized so there is no need to "move" the code. You can use Bitbucket, GitLab and GitHub all at the same time -- just add multiple remotes, I do this as a part of my normal setup. You can even pull directly between developer machines without the need for any centralized repository. The tricky part is all the tooling around the code (issues, wikis, CI, etc.), but no matter which provider you use for it, they will have downtime.
Civil war of the future: everyone already having GPUs for cryptocoins, the resistance will offer "Freedom Coins" in exchange for lending compute via mesh networks for purpose of guiding DIY drones and missiles.
Given this shows how easily DNA is acquired from an external source; how do we know certain sequences come from common ancestry rather than by other means?
Oh really ? I just googled it up quickly and found this link.

I uploaded a PDF containing the full version here https://framadrop.org/r/Awpt0Pvlax#17V8BZqBeYZgyzW5F0WOXwDop... (will only live for 60 days though).
This doesn't work for me. (Edit: and, it's moot now, because it seems to be coming back up!)

I also have 2fa enabled (it's a private team) and my repo is private... I do seem to reach the repo, and it tells me I'll need an app-specific password to proceed.

Too bad the interface to create one is down.
>There were a lot of failures in the Rick story "on all sides" as POTUS would say.

Nope, there weren't. That's what management is for. Everything that happened, since they didn't attempt any change, is their fault and their only.
> they're small computers.

And they are more expensive than many computers you can buy on the market. 2 years support on a device that can cost $500+ isn't acceptable.
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Bokeh supports streaming data to existing graphs. This lets you define a graph, display it in a browser, and then push updates from your code. This is a lot lighter than doing a full draw in matplotlib, plus works over the web.

Here's an intro blog post from 2013 [0] and a current tutorial [1]. This functionality depends on Bokeh Server, docs here [2]

[0] https://www.anaconda.com/developer-blog/painless-streaming-p...

[1] http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/bokeh/bokeh-notebooks/blo...

[2] https://bokeh.pydata.org/en/latest/docs/user_guide/server.ht...
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So this is the vulnerability that broke the Estonian ID card program (see the technical references and media section). I had a feeling that was related to the Infineon TPM vulnerability; it seemed unlikely that TPMs were the only product affected or that two incredibly similar but unrelated vulns would come along at the same time. (See also https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/10/crypt...)
It is rather self-serving to say that people following the rules are creating danger. If you are driving in such a way that a dangerous (as opposed to merely inconvenient) situation results from someone following the rules, you are not driving with sufficient caution.
Too bad DNS doesn't fall under properly protected against local attacks.
They bicycle lanes are fine, on some of the most-used streets.

It’s the bicyclists that aren’t very good. Just today I saw an idiot without helmet riding no-handed down the middle of Madison street, wearing headphones and looking at his phone. If he gets tagged by a car, it will not automatically be the car drivers fault.
Oh great, now people will start refuting the need for trees.
>I mean, Rick's a dick, no doubt.

"No doubt" a real person is a dick, because of a single-sourced account from those who fired him, which even at that, leaves the question of their own failures wide open?
IMO, the most amazing quote from the original story:

It also had a few thousand lines of new code
to replace about 150,000 lines of incomprehensible
mess.

No one looked at the quality of work after maybe 10,000 lines of code?
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>The issue isn't that the cars are worse drivers than humans. They're obviously going to be much better statistically.

This isn't obvious at all.
If you have one of these services you should probably invest in a backup system. Either a self hosted Gitlab or even just a clone of your repositories on a server or like AWS CodeConnect .
Ditch wifi, go 4G only!
Just checked the page, does Tether really have $437,346,130.08 USD? Site just doesn't look like what you'd expect from something that big, doesn't feel right.
not that your own servers are up 100% all the time. But the reserve in that case you could be smiling at the sysadmin guy while he scrambles for a fix, he is just happy not being at fault and having to fix it ;-)
I didn't really get it? I tried toggling on things in the menu and nothing seemed to happen.
Can you elaborate a bit on how Nix helps you set up your user space?

Do you install software with
"nix-env -i package"
or do you have a declarative way of doing it? If you use nix-env, how is that better than
"brew install package"?

I'm not doubting your setup, I'm just trying to use nix for the same thing and am having a hard time finding the canonical way of doing a declarative user setup.
It's worse than that.

From TFA:

> Egypt’s numbers have more than quadrupled since 1960; Ethiopia is adding roughly 2.5 million new people a year. The basin’s total population is on track to double to 500 million by 2050.

And it's not a political effort that's required to reign that in -- except insofar as within certain countries, politics and religion are so interwoven that it's either impossible, or perhaps merely pointless, to try to separate them.
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Good takeaway.

I believe that's a core part of the training for Navy SEALS.

They push you far past your "breaking point" to realize that it isn't where you thought it was, helping you learn to keep your head about you when in extreme situations.
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Either they tweak the threshold over time, or there are other factors than karma. I'm sure I gained a downvote button well before 1000. I don't think it's particularly useful -- I only use it when I think a comment isn't worth reading at all. I usually upvote people when I think they're wrong, so we can have an interesting discussion.
OpenVPN doesn't require root. You can use your own server or find a trusted commercial provider. I recommend airvpn, https://airvpn.org/?referred_by=287899
Though I recently defended stick-frame homes in a comment, I've yet to encounter a "permanent [wood] structure".
Not advocating for or against the fed or advocating for or against crypto currency but instead attempting to answer your three main questions.

> What do you think the Fed was attempting to do?
The Fed was attempting to save a system from complete collapse.

> it sounds like you are advocating there be no way for an agency of a democratic government to dynamically adjust money supply (or interest rates)

This is the crux of the problem. Modern societies need currency and yet the management of the supply of that currency that is equitable to all participants remains illusive.

> Say north korea suddenly waged total was on US, or a massive natural disaster happens, but the government didnt have huge reserves of money to pay for defense or aid?

The government would use its existing resources, any reserves they put aside for this type of contingency or they could borrow (e.g. bonds) the necessary funds.
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> OpenBSD was notified of the vulnerability on 15 July 2017, before CERT/CC was involved in the coordination. Quite quickly, Theo de Raadt replied and critiqued the tentative disclosure deadline: “In the open source world, if a person writes a diff and has to sit on it for a month, that is very discouraging”. Note that I wrote and included a suggested diff for OpenBSD already, and that at the time the tentative disclosure deadline was around the end of August. As a compromise, I allowed them to silently patch the vulnerability. In hindsight this was a bad decision, since others might rediscover the vulnerability by inspecting their silent patch. To avoid this problem in the future, OpenBSD will now receive vulnerability notifications closer to the end of an embargo.

I'm not convinced it was a bad decision. Why would you want to leave your users vulnerable? It's possible that this has been exploited in the wild.
Use a VPN, a commercial one that actually works, like F-secure Freedome.
Cool, that must be new? Videos I watch have massive variances in volume.
You don't need a Blockchain for that. You just store the public keys of the allowed users on the repository itself.

Giving readable names to repositories is a possible use case, although I'd just use DNS.
I had no idea! Thanks for the pointer. There are more levels?
~200GB + ~100GB of indexes I think.