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Well, national currencies do get "forked"[1], but this would be like if they did extremely narrow forks to fix problems of someone's own stupidity, and only the stupidity of the most important people.

Like, imagine if twenty members of congress kept their life savings in cash in uninsured briefcases and surprise, those briefcases were stolen. And they responded by passing emergency legislation invalidating the specific serial numbers stolen, and requiring every merchant and bank to screen for those serial numbers (and not those from any other e.g. bank robbery).

I would consider that kind of action to be very delegitimizing to the currency.

[1] I would consider it to be analogous to a fork when they e.g. deprecate an old design or migrate to the Euro.
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For the vast majority of car buyers who are not buying electric cars, the world looks pretty much the same as it does today.
This seems like a solvable problem: signed browser run-time caching.
Keeping your stuff in the car. Kinda nice not to have to unload/load for every ride.
Yes, if you can handle forks as long as you can detect them, centralized consensus is a decent solution with much lower costs that PoW.

This is essentially how CT-logs work, where we consider it sufficient to detect a falsely-issued certificate, even though we cannot prevent such issuance.
And the Chrome Web Store.
There are other space launch companies and other electric car companies. The time was ripe for both. SpaceX and (less clearly) Tesla have just been executing best and earlier than others.

Every car company is working on electrics, and they have been for quite a while. The limitations were battery technology and cost, and battery technology with laptops and cell phones made electric cars practical.

NASA was talking about fostering commercial space launch companies before SpaceX was founded, and the two of them have been in close cooperation (other commercial companies too of course). If SpaceX didn't exist, that strong partnership would have existed with a different company but would likely look similar.

There's a tendency to think that the world would be different without "revolutionary" people or companies, but usually what ends up happening is just being at the right place at the right time. Excellence is required to succeed, but take one specific revolutionary out of the picture and another would have taken their place.

Einstein is a great example of this. A brilliant man, no doubt, but he is famous for discovering things which were ripe for discovery. The pieces were all in place waiting for someone to put them together. Doing so, and before anyone else, was an accomplishment, but he wasn't unique in his ability to make things happen, he was just first. Like a marathon, somebody always finishes first but there are many others running behind them.
Choosing another node won't involve consensus in the way that consensus is described in distributed networks. You'd handle that ideally by a prior agreement -- eg, "if this node corrupts, it's going to go into arbitration via a trusted third party, who will then decide who will resume operating the network."
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The fare for NYC is incorrect -- $2.50 is the base price and $0.505/mile and $0.50/minute the car is stopped (i.e. in traffic if they're waiting). There's also a $1 surchage between 4-8pm on the weekdays.

http://www.nyc.gov/html/tlc/html/passenger/taxicab_rate.shtm...
Calling D3 a "massive success" is blowing it out of proportion. It got game of the year in 2012. It hasn't lost enough money to be shut down but not quite enough to get the love it needs to be better than release. Path of Exile has been a massive success, in contrast.
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Capsules are cool! I spent several days hanging out with Geoff & co a few months back -- they're exploring really exciting directions. I don't feel like I have anything particularly exciting to add, though.
It depends.

With kratom, as long as you don't escalate your dose, tolerance never seems to develop.

I've been on a weak opioid (prescription!) for over 2 years now. The 'good sensations' left after only a couple of weeks of taking it, but it's still as effective on pain now as it was at the start.
> Over the time, the prototype has grown to be a serious app

This is your problem, not the lack of tests. When you use Ruby or Apache Groovy to prototype something, it needs rewriting in a statically typed language as soon as it starts growing into something you want to be production quality.

Groovy's good for glue code, build scripts, and tests. Don't build actual systems in it.
Tobacco is actually a good example of an inherently dangerous consumer product. It just doesn't make a strong case for "and everyone's just fine with it."
I think it's also interesting that they are developing a car for this purpose alone. No steering wheel, no pedals.

As far as I know there is no other brand that does this.
> Even the fastest computer and the highest-end Internet access can't get you such a huge advantage in performance that it can make the web feel snappy again.

Until you install an adblocker and disable javascript. An enormous amount of modern-web overhead is adtech and user
tracking cancer.

If you don't believe me, install privacy badger/ghostery and ublock origin, visit any popular news/entertainment website, and look at the number of blocked elements/requests as you load a few articles. All of those take time and suck up resources.
Anaheim's population is roughly 350k. Disneyland has 22k employees. Obviously, not all of them live in Anaheim; anecdotally, at one time I knew a handful of Disneyland employees and only one of them lived in the city.

I'm sure Disney corporate, headquartered in nearish-by Burbank, employs some Anaheim residents too, but you're still talking about a small minority of Anaheim's citizens.

It's also not clear why an ordinary Anaheim citizen and employee of Disney would be happy with this arrangement.
Wow, this looks great. Especially when looking at the Intercom pricing, even a single product at $53/month or the suite of 3 products for $155/month. https://www.intercom.com/pricing
A specially-crafted USB device doesn't have to look specially-crafted - a malicious cheap USB charger or cable from Amazon or from your local convenience store could be specially-crafted, too.
I'm just imagining opening the door and getting a 10 second long 2000wpm recording of someone reading the TaC.
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Its a lot of people but how many of them are your customers? How much additional developer time are you going to spend to support them. Are you building a less interesting experience for 98% of your customers in order to support the 2%?

For one party maybe the actual user percentage is 0.2% maybe for another its 20%.

The trade offs are going to differ.
Is that the only problem? Also why make a network of a certain length. Why not farther. Depth and it’s relation to the degree of the estimated polynomial is well undertood. What’s less understood is why not so deep
This. I can attest that graphic tees are not "out of style".
My wireless mouse literally just stopped working when I plugged my phone into the USB 3 port next to it to load an APK onto it...

This explains so much. FFS.
California requires all companies with self-driving cars operating in the state to provide reports about miles driven, cars operated, number of disengagements, etc.

Here's a link: https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/vr/autonomous/disen...
The live demo is already full of trolling sigh. So yep, it's a forum.

Nice and fast though. Good work.
Cracking down on Indian outsourcers is one thing, but if this is true

> The skeptical eye the government is taking to applications has extended to all types of employers, according to immigration lawyers. Many are rethinking their own use of H-1B as a result.

This is absolutely disastrous. I personally know families on H1B from well-known American companies are afraid to leave the country because of this.
Same with the rules, especially for basketball. However, this just made all basketball games interesting to me.

To this day, I really cannot empathize with "having a team." I get that it comes off as neckbeardy or holier than thou, but it just seems like arbitrary tribalism - maybe because I moved around a lot as a kid(from BIG SPORT cities, too! Green Bay to Houston to San Francisco), but I never really understood why people prefer "their team" (other than the obvious, logical reason). Maybe better - I can't empathize.

This isn't for lack of trying - when I grew up my dad and his friends would yell at the TV. That looks fun! They're so excited and engaged, why can't I feel that for a sport? Genuine emotional response to whatever "our team" is doing? I mean it's not like my life is empty without it but I've always wondered why others can feel strongly enough to shout at a TV but I never could. Not for sports, esports, not even when a couple of kids from my class were on ninja warrior.
Interesting.. Looks sleek.. DLang forum [1] is similarly lightweight and it runs as a newsgroup, IIRC. Source code at [2] and previous discussions on HN [3]

[1] http://forum.dlang.org/

[2] https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3592769
"It would reject his application unless Centro proved the position required someone with specialized skills. Clark was surprised. She’d been helping people apply for visas for four years, and this was the first time she’d ever seen such a letter."

Four years, and this is the first time she's seen the government even try to see if the law should be enforced. Really says it all.
These fixes will be backported to longterm kernel versions right?
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Linux, which first appeared in 1991, should have been written in a language that didn't exist until 19 years later?

When will your rewritten-in-Rust version of the kernel be released?
I don't think that's relevant - WebUSB exposes physical USB devices on the local machine to code running inside the browser. It does not allow code running inside the browser to access the host USB stack as if it were a physical device (in order to emulate a USB device, forward one across the web, etc.).
The new nightly is a huge improvement, maybe you should try it.
I remember friends telling me back in 88 [1] about driving round London from one rave to another high on MDMA & LSD. Back then I thought driving on acid was insane. This sounds like driving while the car is on acid! Which is a terrifying thought...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Summer_of_Love
I live in a very liberal city, and even we do not have a holiday for election days.
A billion-dollar one was.
"We can't simply assume that removing those regulations will result in a disaster. "

Yes, we absolutely can. If business can get around it, they will. And then when an earthquake hits, all that housing is destroyed.
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Thank you for your suggestion about using ease-in-out. I'm playing with that and it is more pleasant.
It's not useless. It's great for charging overnight while sleeping, without the hassle of plugging in the cable before you go to sleep.
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And there are professionals who focus on exactly this. I'm sure Threadless employs some, but maybe the wrong ones.
Sure, but Netflix/you/me are not the authorities that get to "punish".
Elon Musk did with Tesla what Steve Jobs did with the iPhone. Musk had long wanted to solve renewable transport, and Jobs had spent his life creating personal computing devices. Their insight was based on observing that the underlying technology required had reached a transformational level. It became feasible to do what they had already dreamed of doing.

Battery powered vehicles and fully featured pocket computers were inevitable due to the progress of technology. Musk and Jobs deserve a lot of credit for being the most responsible for birthing them, and for the revolutionary DNA they imparted.
Weren't mesh wireless networks made to help this issue?

Also 802.11aX is out soon, it will use 2.4/5ghz just with a bit more bandwidth on both, so you may want to just wait for that instead. (edit: looks to be maybe +25% or so more)
This program was abused badly by US and Indian companies and put a number of engineers in subservient position. I will not shed a tear for those companies.

For people, we should have one clear policy and apply it, if they can't come, so be it, but tell them clearly what they can get and what they cannot. And allow some transparency of the income and rates so that it can't be abused as much.
larry mantle on airtalk is actually talking about the LA times & disney conflict right now: https://www.scpr.org/programs/airtalk/

they also talked about the blacklisting on friday as well on filmweek: http://www.scpr.org/programs/filmweek/
I would also urge the LA Times to consider submitting 1 star reviews to various review aggregators (metacritic/rotten tomatoes) due to being unable to view early screenings. I think the critic industry should stand up to this sort of strong arming.

It'd be fitting if the stink of this move clung to their creative productions.
Yeah, when I bunged all the content in, I was concerned it was all too much to parse easily.

I think for V2 I'll split each section into a separate page and present the links in format similar to your example.
Good information, but those are definitely not infographics. They're images jammed full of text.
In the specific case of currency, practical double spends are a real issue.
'Merging' the state after a double spend requires either forcing the double spender to pony-up, or taking back money from those who received it without being aware of any wrongdoing. That is, unless you are fine with people printing their own currency.

This is rather unique to the case of currency though. Specifically, the history of transactions determines which future transactions are possible. Instead a system that only records promises (but doesn't allow transfer of such promises) would work without centralization. If I promise something to 2 different people I remain on the hook for that promise. The fact that I am effectively 'in debt' on the system isn't an issue because the system gives no guarantees on people meeting their promises.
> The answer is "do whatever the humans do, but more efficient", because the same technology has already made humans more efficient.

I don't really buy that. Google Maps regularly gets confused in D.C. due to changes in traffic patterns. And Apple Maps once tried to send me down a highway on-ramp that had been closed for several weeks. They also get confused at the beginning/end of trips ("proceed to the route"). I don't even try to catch Ubers from downtown D.C. anymore because mapping applications can't reliably get drivers to a pickup point without spending several minutes coordinating with the driver over the phone.
Again, with what money? And simply driving away to somewhere else doesn't mean there's going to be a job there that will let you afford an apartment.
Yeah... I've been trying to do this and laughed at by my drivers (when it's them that are taking a long time to make it to the station).

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You can: try FP languages. My personal recommendations (from opposite ends of the FP spectrum) would be Clojure and Haskell. F# is pretty nice too.
> a drug to reset the brain

Ibogaine.

The US classifies all hallucinogens and psychedelics at Schedule I, so obviously no researcher that values their academic career can study the use of psychedelics for the purpose of curing addiction. But anecdotal reports suggest that a heroin addict may be cured of opioid addiction by using kratom to alleviate the physical symptoms of withdrawal, and ibogaine to "reset the brain" to no longer desire heroin.

Politically, people would prefer to believe that rehab centers actually work. Using illegal drugs classified as "the worst, most dangerous drugs in existence" to cure addictions to other illegal drugs with a lesser classification may be perceived as... a bit hypocritical.
There's still a lot of unpicked hanging fruit though.
Difficult to say, but one of the big factor for everyone saying they will stop to make gas cars was the Dieselgate.

The world may have decided to reluctantly drag itself to electric the "Nissan Leaf" way, leaving the rich people brags about their high power ice cars.

Tesla has made electric car looks cool, so sure the bulk of the electrification will come from uncool car like the Leaf or the Bolt, but Tesla made people dream of going electric. Thanks Elon, probably sped up electric adoption by a decade.
I don't really agree with you about all of this. Everyone has their own journey, but we are not so different. We are all just people. I think your view is actually closer to patronizing--well, by definition it takes a view that, while being nice to them, that these people are less equal, which is exactly what patronizing is.

But you are right about that homeless statistic for Americans. I personally can't even believe it is right given what I have seen with my own eyes--and I've been to those countries, and volunteered at homeless shelters in America.
I think maybe the thing to do would be to give away treatment.

You also pick really weird amounts. A casual drinker can kill a fifth in a weekend without really disrupting their life, while they range in price from ~$5 (after taxes!) to $25 (Smirnoff is $14 here).

Almost no one would use 2 ounces of marijuana in a few days and it has a street price in the hundreds of dollars.
Yep, my "docking station" at work consists of a USB3 hub that I plug in to my laptop.

Took me a week before I learned that I need to plug in the Logitech wireless USB thinger directly in to my laptop. Plugging it into the hub made the mouse partially unresponsive.
Was it though? Gmail is just a frontend to a system of services running in a data center. All Gmail does on our computers is display data, accept commands, and relay those commands to a server.
3270 allows user to edit screen contents without interaction with host computer and allows host computer to mark screen regions as user editable or not. Interaction with host mostly consists of sending (text) framebuffer contents back and forth.

SAP's dynpro is abstraction layer on top of that which presents somewhat higher level view of that (forms and fields, not framebuffers and characters) and also allows 3270's behavior to be emulated on normal character-oriented terminals (obviously by ncurses-like software running on host). This abstraction is sufficiently high-level that sapGUI can look like somewhat modern desktop application instead of obvious 3270 emulator. (Windows version of sapGUI allows you to render parts of UI as embedded HTML or ActiveX components, but that capability does not seem to be used that much outside of SAP's development tools)

From programmer's point view it is not that different from web 1.0 application built on semi-modern form handling library (eg. WTForms or whatever your all-in-one webapp framework provides). Probably only difference is that for web frameworks you will have if(form_submitted_and_valid()) somewhere, while in SAP body of that conditional and rest of the controller implementation are always two distinct procedures.
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A shrunk version of Linux can run on 8088 CPUs too.
https://github.com/jbruchon/elks
But the problem here isn't to put this or that OS in place of Minix but rather to get rid of that completely for good. Different licensing also wouldn't help at all: behind those people are the ones who actually write the laws; it would require 10 minutes of their time to make an exception for terrorism or child porn motivated surveillance.
Which is very much not cheap. Not to mention, while you're driving from point A to point B, you're not bringing in income. So where are you gonna get the money for gas and food?
I think most people overlook the intelligence value that GAFAM + Tencent have over nearly every other company on the planet. I don't know of any company out there that doesn't use one or more services from these companies which means you're giving them business intelligence about your activities even if you never talk with one of their BD/CD people.

And make no mistake that business intelligence is absolutely one of the most important things a big company (or nation) can have from a defensibly perspective.

Speaking as a former spy it's a spy agency's dream to have the kind of data on possible competitors and collaborators that these groups have. Individually they can see every threat coming a mile away and then decide to ignore, buy, invest.

This is why I think "this time is different" from a disruption cycle perspective. Never in history have companies had so much intelligence on their competitors and collaborators and actively used it to disrupt themselves - multiple times. Don't get me wrong, companies have always done this, but never at this level of granularity and specificity so quickly.
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I don’t know about video game addiction; I interpreted the parent as simply talking about how—if you have the right kind of brain—it can be relatively easy to end up as a professional {e-sport, poker, chess} player and devote your entire life to high-level competitive play, making money from tournaments, studying or practicing whenever you’re not playing, etc.

This is a fine life for some people, but if you want to do something else with your life, the knowledge that you’d do well in these competitive-play pursuits can feel like a black hole always pulling at you. It’s easy to lose passion for “real work”—doing good in the world, creating stuff, entertaining people; these are all pursuits that have their high points, but aren’t fundamentally structured to match the human reward system. They have moments where you have to struggle through to regain your desire to do them.

Competitive gameplay—probably a lot like competitive athletics—is very “natural” to the human brain. If you’re good at it, it’s hard to resist letting that be your life—and people encourage you to let it!

Imagine being 7’1” and enjoying basketball, but having other passions that are stronger (academic economics, let’s say.) If there’s ever a lull in your love of academia, you’d be tempted to just quit and play basketball, right? That’s not an addiction, per se. But you have to repress it like one all the same.