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>instead of the ecosystem of cryptocurrencies we actually have, which is more like Hayek's proposal for competing privately-issued currencies.

That's interesting, it's the first time I hear about this concept. I just barely skimmed a few articles about the concept but I'm not sure how this would solve the problems in TFA. In particular deflation: if I need to invest in a currency why would I even elect to use an inflationary one? What would be the incentive?

Also a currency is only as good as the things it can buy, if you end up having to convert your WhateverCoin to BTC or ETH before spending, does it change anything? You could use special-purpose crypto currencies to replace frequent-flier miles, starbucks credit and other privately owned "currencies", but what would be the point of that?

>As a payment system I think cryptocurrency is vastly better; the more I use my hardware wallet, the more I'm horrified by legacy systems that work by giving vendors the ability to withdraw as much as they want. It's a fundamentally insecure system, made sort of workable by layers of hacky mitigations.

Is it a problem in practice? If a vendor overcharges me I complain to my bank, the charge is reverted and then the bank takes care of dealing with the misbehaving party. If anything it's the opposite that's usually the problem in practice, people using chargeback fraudulently.

Meanwhile in the crypto world if your wallet is compromised or if you get scammed you're on your own.

Bitcoin is great for buying drugs but for legit purchases Visa is a whole lot more convenient. It's quicker, easier and offers much stronger guarantees. From the vendor's point of view it's less great but as TFA points out "Sellers bear costs from reversibility, but those are offset by increased buyer confidence." No citation though, unfortunately.

That's one of the weaknesses of crypto IMO, it's all about "trustless" transactions, except that when you actually use your currency to buy something outside of the blockchain at some point you have to trust somebody (or somebodies) to actually provide the goods or services you're purchasing. All the systems that try to work around that so far seem to simply reinvent the banking system with extra steps (trusted 3rd parties etc...).
Anytime a vehicle gets rear-ended, fault belongs with the rear-ending vehicle’s driver for either failing to maintain safe following distance or failing to pay adequate attention to conditions in front.

And rolling a stop is not following the rules of the road, it is a dangerous violation.
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It's very easy to get passive income. Just buy high dividend mutual funds.

100k in the market should net you 4-12k per year.
I suppose it would be weirder if the gamma rays arrived first.
I make a few hundred per year from my e-book, which took about half a year of on and off work to finish and is now partially out of date (tip: don’t write books about front end software development).

My current side project is more ambitious and has a lot of potential but it’s probably not going to work as passive income...
I can guess the responses. Exercising, learning something, saving money.
Another way of looking at this: "What will we do if the price of bitcoin hits $1,000,000?"

That would be the point at which a satoshi, the smallest possible unit of bitcoin or 0.00000001 bitcoins, would be worth a penny. And so there would be a reasonable argument to increase the maximum subdivision level. And so that could and likely would happen with minimal fanfare - certainly less than the recent split received.

With a theoretically infinitely divisible currency the amount of currency in circulation is not really relevant. And this issue, as small as it is, only becomes one at price points that will not be reached anytime in the foreseeable future, if ever.
Google hasn't been perfect, but they have had, and continue to improve, ways of addressing the update problem. If you are a first tier OEM you have the clout to make your chip vendors update their BSPs and support them for a decent length of time, and you have the resources to update your customers' phones. If you are a lower tier OEM, you should have gone with Android One, and shipped a more up-to-date Android in the first place and dumped the update problem on Google.
>> the more I use my hardware wallet, the more I'm horrified by legacy systems that work by giving vendors the ability to withdraw as much as they want

While this is still the case for online transactions, in-person payments with chip cards and contactless methods like contactless EMV, apple pay and android pay do not allow this.
> ... which is why a certain class of programs is most elegantly described in brainfuck?

Possibly, though for sure those aren't programs you'd usually want to write.

The key phrase of my comment was "essential complexity". You can pile up extra complexity that's not helping anything, but assuming you got rid of it, all you can do to make things easier is to shift the remaining complexity around the problem space.
What a bad title! It could also have been "100% iphones are vulnerable".
Thanks, didn't know that :)
There are, but they're completely overwhelmed and have enormous waiting lists. There's also large issues with basically every attempt to construct housing being blocked, because no one wants it near their house
Printing money would indeed no longer be an option for governments.

But their main source of income are taxes. And why would taxes change?

>and if the government comes to your door and says "give me 10 bitcoins [...]", you're going to do your best to vote those people out

Why would that be different with 10 bitcoins than with 10 thousand dollars?
This is purely my opinion but after working in the Ruby world for a few years I've concluded that DSLs are harmful as all hell.

A DSL is almost never as well-implemented as a "real" language, ala Ruby/Java/Haskell/whatever. This is to be expected, as orders of magnitude more engineering time are placed in those "real" languages.

Specifically, DSLs tend to be very leaky abstractions. I always find myself needing to look at what's happening in the bowels of the library providing the DSL anyway; a DSL essentially just adds another level of indirection.

Particularly for beginners, but also for more experienced coders, it can be difficult to tell where the language and its core libraries end and the DSL begins. If your DSL "foo" seamlessly adds the command "bar" to language "baz" and it's not working for me, where do I look for information? In "foo" or "baz?" The obvious example here is Ruby on Rails.

Some may say that Rails is a poor example of a DSL. While that may be, it raises the question: are there better examples out there?

Given that the goal of a DSL is to blend into the underlying language, I'm not sure how any implementation would avoid those pifalls. To me, the best case scenario is that DSLs generally save a moderate amount of typing in exchange for a considerable amount of cognitive overhead.
Well in this case it was timeseries data, so technically supported (we "upsert", and timestamp is simply a part of the composite key).

It occurred when the clock on the hardware got messed up :(
That's a lot of dough! How many people still use it?
My wife got our safety net liquid assets into decent yielding savings accounts[1]. We’re also keeping some liquidity on-hand for some home renovation projects. That plus dividends on small non-401k holdings and we’ll pocket about $2k this year in a truly passive fashion.

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I was talking to my friend who works in a Big Oil co in their research division about this the other day. I'm no fan of Oil and Gas, but breakthroughs in drilling and exploring Oil and Minerals are really important for the future of humanity. Taking a super long term view, this stuff would be very useful once we begin to mine asteroids, other planets and stuff.
Getting professional help for everything. Speaking, singing, powerlifting, acting, etc. I enjoy learning on my own but having a good coach can accelerate my progress and catch bad habits.
This is so true. Anyone who wants to see the ideas behind Haskell and It's style of languages succeed should be doing everything they can to support elm. You can't find and easier, more straightforward introduction to the concepts and style of programming than it.

Yes purists will complain about the bells and whistles it does have, and that's exactly the point.

You can learn elm and be productive in it in after a single weekend. And it's error messages should be the industry standard for language messages in any language. It's incredible how simple and accurate they are. It will change your view of what a compiler is capable of.

Not to mention it's not a far leap for people already doing web coding.
Does that mean if you spend enough money with Facebook they'll send a Facebook rep to work in your office that also has security clearance? New feature! even better than 2016's version.
Imo comes down two truths for me:

- it's easy to push the wrong people down the funnel

- use quantitive observation to train your qualified decisions
In Australia, stop means stop. If it’s safe for you to roll through, there will be a GIVEWAY sign. But if you roll through a STOP you’re an absolute fool who’s risking the lives of yourself and others. We don’t have four-way stop signs. We have roundabouts, or give one street priority and the other STOP signs in cross-streets.

I recently passed my California driving test, and I’ve observed that the placement of STOP signs here does not correlate with safety in the same way as Australia and lots of people roll through them.

I think self-driving cars would do a lot better in Australia.
> How he managed to survive is astonishing. Finding his knife, assessing the situation, and acting before being pulled under while injured almost defies my imagination. Riveting read.

Did this happen to you or someone else? You switch from first to third person without explanation. "Riveting read" seems like a weird conclusion.
> I'm not sure other industries do handle it better.

They don't. The factory I used to work at routinely fires competent, productive engineers because they need scapegoats for management failures. The bigger the failure, the bigger the scapegoat, so sometimes it goes all the way up to director level, but that's only once every few years. Realizing that all it would take to lose my livelihood would be for me to be in the wrong place at the wrong time was one of the big reasons I left.
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Interesting. However, I would consider some income stream as passive if it there is a net positive gain without as much effort as my main job (maybe upto 10%, ~4 hrs per week). By that measure, even the income from investments can be counted as passive and hence it is not impractical to reach a point where I am earning half as much as I make in total from passive sources. (Not that I do, just a hypothetical situation).
I think that "passive income" is a misnomer, or at least, not very useful. I find it more helpful to think in hourly rates, since you're always putting in time for something.

If you spend 100 hours setting up a website, and over the next 5 years you never touch it and you make some money, some would consider that "passive". But really, you put in 100 hours, and made $x from it.

I think people are really looking for high ratio of money to time spent, not something that is truly "passive".
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Microsoft has patched Windows against the KRACK Wi-Fi vulnerability
I wonder if the gravitation waves stretches the Space-time in such a way that it takes 2 seconds longer for the photons of GRB to travel "on top of it" and reach earth.
My S&P 500 index fund has gone up a lot this year. So good stuff there :)
The ~30 meters vertical separation between planes lead to a nice round system for measuring everything in feet, or a cumbersome one in meters.

Aviation also measure speed in knots, and distances in nautical miles. But those don't have good reasons to be kept.
The C components are just a few emscripten compiled curve25519-donna and ed25519 functions for elliptic curve routines. It comes directly from the web library without any alteration. Honestly I was surprised at how well it works and the performance isn't too shabby. I did several investigations of replacing it with libsodium and others but the the emscripten builds have been pretty reliable for us..
Severe WiFi security flaw puts millions of devices at risk
Why should Monsanto's work be illegal? What would be the result of change vs. no change in legality?
I've done this.
> I’m sorry

Good, I’m glad we agree that you insufficiently argued that people backed into a corner aren’t responsible for their actions.
And then you get held in jail indefinitely.

And they sold your shoes.
Sounds like it's "legacy" or "heritage" supported, which is not a good place to be. Yeah, it still manages to work, and it's available for use because it costs Intel effectively nothing to leave an installer up on the web for download, but there's no real "support".

That's not a piece of software I'd want to tie my code to.
There is an interesting tangent to this story that I think would answer some of the written rules of the road versus custom. By and large, do the people designing robot cars like to drive? Do they like getting out on the road and driving around?
There are many places indoors where I can get a WiFi signal but no cellular service.
Many moons ago, OKC had a sort of clever & irreverent blog for stuff like this. It was a great read. There were some classics like "never pay for online dating[1]" and "The case for older women."[2] The first made a convincing case that the cheesy business model (see below for irony) of most dating sites doomed them to suckness. The second made a hilariously quantified (and also convincing) appeal for changing your age preference settings, while actually talking through real social norms and culture.

They managed to deal with touchy dating sterotypes, race, sex. Reading it, you could tell that they were genuinely smart (as opposed to just sophisticated) in their data/analytical mindset. You also got a feel for how the author thinks and where that mindset translates into making OKC.

Anyway, this reads like a linkedin article. Safe, vanilla company blog post. Big contrast. I wonder if the OKC guys writing that old blog 10 years ago new how unique their position was.

[1] Got taken down after they got bought by the target of the post. Accessible here: http://static.izs.me/why-you-should-never-pay-for-online-dat...

[2]https://theblog.okcupid.com/the-case-for-an-older-woman-99d8...
ah yeah, the good ol' 100k i have lying around should finally have some use for me!
It's called a Pittsburgh Left?! When I first came to the US to Boston it drove me crazy, to me it was the epitome of uncivilized American driving "how dare you cut in front of me without my permission!"
But it makes sense at the right kind of intersection, and of course I adopted it because otherwise I'd be the odd one holding up the traffic making people frustrated.
Applying project management tools to manage everything in my life.

For example: getting a mortgage or paying taxes are relatively complex processes with alot of moving parts: tasks, documents, deadlines, etc.

You make a Kanban and divide it up into tasks and a pipeline and notes for each tasks status.

Trello is what I use but there's other tools as well.

Holy crap it makes your life easier.
Spending less and saving more.
> the importance in optimizing the system, and the use of other technologies.

If folks knew how to get the most out of their databases, 90% of them wouldn't even need the other systems and the complexity of the system as a whole would be reduced.
It's true that the same population pressures associated with headhunting and ritualistic warfare tend to also result in hunter-gatherer tribes developing some form of horticulture as a less-easily-depleted food source, but that supports rather than detracts from my observation of the necessity of adopting extreme measures for population control to ensure the long term sustainability of pure hunter-gathering as a way of life for the masses

Either way, if one is to draw the distinction between city states with monocrop agriculture and the "the forager/garden-farm way of life" the poster I was originally replying to did, the Jivarons and arguably even the Dayak Iban belong more to the latter than the former. And ultimately it was the former intensive agricultural form of social organization which proved more ecologically sustainable in the long term without artificially keeping population densities down, and the latter hunter/forager form of organization that is suspected of wiping out most of the world's large mammals to hasten the transition to agriculture in many parts of the world.
They are decided with a political idea in mind, consider that the design speed for interstate highways in the US is 75 MPH
For me, it was using version control on my code.

I was up late finishing a large programming assignment for class, when inexplicably at 3 am, my code stopped compiling with a super generic error message.

Turns out I had somehow added a random character at the top line, but it took me the next 1-2 hours being dumbfounded, confused, over-tired and frustrated before I found the problem.

It would have been a 60 second fix with a simple diff against the repo version.

After that day, I learned how to use svn and always start every project (no matter how small) inside some type of version control system.
WPA2 hacked
WTH was a sailboat mast doing in front of the runway? Was the pilot performing a short approach?
Making a throwaway for this.

My annual pre-tax income from work is about $2,500,000.

My annual passive pre-tax income is about $1,200,000. This is 100% derived from investment returns from an exit I had a few years ago from a startup I was with.

I spend about $400,000/year (after tax) of that.

Here's the kicker: Nothing makes you feel more poor than being worth about $40m in cash while you hang out with billionaires and live in NYC or SF.
> 3. Everything you care about _should_ be going over TLS, which mitigates all effects of this attack.

This is probably the biggest misconception.

Many, many websites and APIs don't have HSTS enabled to force all connections to use TLS.

The author demonstrates using sslstrip to downgrade the connection of match.com to steal credentials.

How many people watch the green "secure" indicator in the URL bar to ensure it doesn't change mid-session?

How many thousands of apps don't even have such an indicator to observe?

How many millions of phones and APs will never get patched?

This is a severe vulnerability.
Could have easily happened at Albert Whitted across the bay in St Pete, also. Usually just hear about planes running off the runway and into the water.
Then you would not have an economy.
It's the most "beautiful", and It's the most "pure" are probably reasons 99 and 100 on a list of priorities when choosing why a beginner should learn a language. Those reSons are reasons for people instilling why others want then to learn that language, not why it's the best for them to learn.
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Passive implies less-than-full-time work, not "no work". It also usually requires a ton of unpaid work invested up-front (hence why most people never try it), and after it's established it should mostly just run on autopilot. There's obviously an ongoing maintenance requirement, as any system has. Often people outsource parts like customer support to further automate things.

Ideally the product is something you enjoy working on though, so the end result would be that

1. you have an income

2. you enjoy the work that you do have to do

3. you have a lot more spare time
which begs the question, will self driving cars be coded to break the law, specifically speed limits. How do we accommodate that into regulations governing their use. We have a hard law that states, speed limit. Yet "everyone" knows otherwise.

I am curious how we sort this out. Will roads become stricter with cars self enforcing the limits? How do self driving cars know who is next at a four way stop?
I love space gremlin! Great app.
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Q: How do you know someone deleted their facebook account?

A: They'll tell you all about it.
That is indeed an incredible amount of dumb luck: hit the mountain with his legs, and there wasn't anything to hit directly after he tumbled. A few milliseconds' timing difference, and either clear pass or dead on impact.
France, specifically, has one of the highest rates of traffic fatalities in Europe. Roughly 3500 people die every year on their roads. If those cultural norms resulted in safer traffic, I'd be all for giving them precedence - they don't, though. So now you have to weigh the value of cultural norms around driving style vs. people's lives.
Curious; why XIXth century instead of 19th century?
How can you state that it probably hasn't been exploited in the wild with any degree of confidence? It's possible that the same flaw was found and exploited years ago by black hat hackers and/or state security services. We have no way to know whether this actually happened, or even estimate the probability.
That's just the tip of the iceberg of their crimes against humanity and animals. They've sickened a lot more people than that.
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You are just delaying the problem, not actually fixing it and who forks and when? Unless you change the way crypto currencies are made and allow for unlimited creation of new money, it cannot work as a general purpose currency.
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It's a great tool, but don't just apply advice blindly. It's guidance, not "this is the right thing to do", and some of the advice can harm as much much as help, because no one has size fits all (though I will found it to provide a excellent suggestions in general).

Use it, look at the suggestions, and use that as an excellent springboard for reading up on what and why, and see how it could apply to your database.
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So how do we know if a particular sequence is from aggregate effects, sounds like "we don't" [in a rigorous scientific manner] from your answer?

As a layman, the story I've seen up to now is roughly "these sequences are the same, therefore there is a common ancestry"; but this information shows that argument doesn't work on a wide scale across species in this simplistic form -- so either the basis of common ancestry being inferred from similar DNA is not scientific (or is falsified) or we have results that show whence the particular sequences came from (ie there's a more nuanced result)?

In short that answer is unsatisfyingly vague.
K&R was written for programmers, so it's completely unsurprising you would have trouble reading it while learning to program.

Working your way through it after taking CS50 is actually a fantastic idea.
Accepting that I was an introvert. I remember the exact moment: I was traveling, had just settled down with a good book at a hostel, and then heard some folks heading to the bar. I remember thinking "gosh, I should be social," and then "nah, I'd rather be here."

Self acceptance of that was a big change for me.