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WHOLLY! Thank you very much. I'll be going through and every one of those. Though judging from the popularity of this thread, probably likely other startups will have the same images as me :)
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Halite Team member here. Happy to answer any questions on Halite 2.

Halite 2 is an evolution of Halite 1. This year, the theme is space and you mine planets using ships to produce more ships that you can use to conquer the map. Since the launch on October 23rd , we have around 1000 bots from 54 countries playing Halite 2 using a number of languages including Rust, Go, Java, C++, C#, JavaScript and more. This year we are also providing GPU enabled instances for players to run their games.
> Also, while I can't find a definition for obscenity

not even the supreme court can define obscenity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it
> There are already companies that allow you to pay federal taxes with Bitcoin (by converting them to USD for you)

That's immaterial, in the same way that you can sell non-currency assets to get dollars to pay federal taxes is.

As long as the taxes are denominated and collected exclusively in dollars (and as long as that's the norm for civil damages, as well), the supply of dollars will affect the economy in the usual way, whether or not for most transactions people directly use things that are not US dollars.
Putin outlaws the use of VPNs throughout Russia
This thread worried me. I hope he's fine.
Telephones were once seen a threat, until they realized that intercepting telephone calls is far easier than intercepting letters

How many people can send /receive such letters? You would have to be INSANE to put anything in writing, just as John Gotti didn't send memos on Gambino Family stationary. Merely complaining about brown veggies or lack of veggies would get you locked up for spreading dangerous propaganda.

The internet on the other hand...can spread those ideas in an instant. Not to mention planning

But most people were born into the regime eventually, they had no clue about alternatives. In fact they feared the alternatives. Dangerous ideas were nipped in the bud and entire families sent to each country's version of Siberia.

They didn't need to intercept much: Just as most US citizens in a "decent" neighborhood would report a shooting, quite a few would report even their family members for saying dangerous things. Then, a nice chunk were officially part of "KGB" network, informers. Maybe 10% of the population...
Didn't really chose. After checking, perl5 is installed on my laptop. I'll admit I'm too newbie to know the differences between versions 5 and 6 :)
I've found that it's usually obvious when someone is gaming my interview. Their answers are too correct, and too smoothly given. Those candidates are very quickly rejected and the recruiting agency basically told to scram.
Are you sure? One of their examples includes code like this:

produce 1
fiber sleep 100ms

suggesting that at least they're aware of its usefulness. In any case, it's pretty easy to simulate that with a bit of mutable private state.
Except these laws already apply to every other form of media and they aren't being used to silence whistleblowers or political opposition.

The sky is not falling.
Akaros looks pretty interesting- the M:N aspect is certainly where I think we need to go.
Or perhaps those who put more effort into staying fit tend to do better at it in the long run?

It's not just the exercise, but the willpower to keep working at it. Exercise is just 1 manifestation of that mindset.
For quite a while now, I've fantasized about creating an object-oriented toy OS with an OO shell and something akin to Classic Mac OS's resource forks. As much information as possible would be stored as OO data structures in alternate file streams with native tooling to query them.

It would need to be based on Illumos and not Linux, though... IIRC, the only existing open-source filesystem that supports anything akin to a resource fork is ZFS, and the Linux kernel doesn't have the syscalls readily access it (ZFS implements extended attributes as forks, but the kernel has really tight limitations on what can be done with xattrs, much tighter than what ZFS can do).

It's just a fantasy, though, and not something I have the skills or the time to do.
I'm genuinely curious how a person can eat very little, and still balloon up to 300 lbs. To keep it off, they have to work out 2 hours every single day? It just seems... insane?

I wonder what kind of evolutionary adaptation that is...
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Why don't we just flag this article too along with all the others, if it's too unpleasant to think about?
Am I the only one who can't seem to view these properly on stable Firefox?
Has someone every heard of translations.com?
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I think It was mainly inspired by prezi and impress.js. I did several presentations using prezi. But that was after I decided to build something that uses circles as the main shape in the layout. I don’t know precisely why my initial fixation with circular shapes :). Maybe the fact that I perceive that many UI libraries and frameworks tend to use square layouts. I totally agree with that because I think is the most efficient way to organize a big amount of content and it is very flexible as well. Having that in mind I thought that maybe there were enough room for another point of view. Even if this idea doesn’t fit for all cases and uses, it would fit on other scenarios.
Finally the zooming navigation was a way for me to resolve the idea of using a 100% circular layout.
I'm commenting on these things right now because I still didn't buy a laptop and need one soon/now.

There's no ryzen based laptop atm (regional limits might apply).

One Asus gaming laptop that is basically a desktop that you can carry around, with effort, and that has no battery life to speak of. Not available here.

Two Lenovo laptops (Thinkpad A series and Ideapad), both seem restricted in terms of CPU (aka not the 2700), don't come with the latest GPU or memory (single channel or unknown or limited to 8 GB). None of these is available.

The HP x360. Fancy, limited to 8 GB as it seems. Also doesn't come with the latest APU (only announced for 2500U). Not available yet.

The Acer Swift 3. Limited to 8 GB as far as I can tell. Aaaand not available.

Bottom line: You cannot get a laptop with either the mobile chips or the monster gaming thing now. They exist somewhere, but not here. Most of the announced devices have crippling limitations (memory) and are - for me, someone who deeply sympathizes with AMD - basically DOA. Which probably reinforces the manufacturer's opinion that they should just create Intel based products...?

I want one. I can't get any of these. All of these are kinda bad / quite limited / would be a "I want them for the AMD label, although they suck in some ways" decision.
Which timezones are you considering for remote?
It's possible to have a different opinion on things without being a victim of "Dunning-Kruger".
I prefer 'Scientists latest understanding is' to 'Now we know why'
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Thanks! I didn't realize who Greg was either, so I was missing the 2 pieces of context necessary for the post to make any sense.
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I'm moderator on a large latin-america delphi forum (http://www.clubdelphi.com).

So, contrary to most uninformed people or some guys that were "forced" to use Delphi for a bit and haven't learned the language at all (something I could relate: I will totally hate to be forced to use C or C++), I can give a reason why Delphi is out.

Delphi is amazing. Is the only RAD language left in the world. It compile fast. Is as powerfull as C/C++, +/- minor stuff and this or that library. Is loved and is one of the few where you have fun working on it.

You must understand that Delphi is part of the pascal family. And if you are into that, you like it. So, from our side, the C/C++ are the "irrationals" ones that decide to work with slower compiles, mess of errors, insane templates, irrational behaviours and massive complexity.

Is the love of the community what have keep Delphi were is it, far more used that most people could imagine (above clojure, rust, vb and many others).

Why is disliked? Because Delphi is the most mismanaged language ever. Since Delphi 3 Borland take a route that put Delphi from be the #1 to be in a corner:

https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Borland-fail?share=1

Borland lost its way when executive management decided to change the company to pursue a different market.
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In the height of the enterprise transformation, I asked Del Yocam, one of many interim CEOs after Kahn, "Are you saying you want to trade a million loyal $100 customers for a hundred $1 million customers?" Yocam replied without hesitation "Absolutely."

Also, the owners rarely have pay attention to the clamor of the community, like focus on stability and bug fixes. To get bug fixes, you MUST buy the next version. And the IDE cost a lot of money (only recently a free version return!).

This kill Delphi for a large segment of the population. So, is more a reject of the direction than the language itself.
It's not really acting upon bargaining power. If you look at almost every instance of nominal rigidity around, you will see it is caused by some kind of government intervention. On labor, it is mostly illegal or really hard to reduce salaries, even on deflation. That would force companies into firing people instead of just correcting their salaries.

I am not convinced it is a good reason for inflation. It is the reason for inflation. It does exist. It does cause a lot of problems (as in bankrupting even rich countries) when inflation is gone.

Yet I do think it is self inflicted in that a society can organize in a way that where it doesn't exist. I also have no idea it this way would be better or worse than our current ways.
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Your final aside, "good encryption using a key much shorter than the plaintext," is something I hadn't really thought much about and seems like a reasonable way to go directly from a one time pad to the ciphertext.

As you say, there doesn't seem to be a way to guess the key length from the ciphertext. Ignoring side channel attacks for the moment, it does seem like the one time pad could encrypt the entire message simply by using some clever way of "extending" the key.
Sears is still around too, but just barely. These companies that have been passed by innovation/disruption can exist in zombie form for a long time until they finally die. See: Tower Records [+]

[+] http://www.npr.org/2009/12/29/121975854/2006-and-the-death-o...
> And, to be honest, I wouldn't hire this person

So... you wouldn't hire a person who came in prepared and performed well according to your metrics and standards? Or you have no metrics or standards, and just throw the chicken bones to make a decision for each candidate? Or, I guess a third option might be that you do not tell the candidate anything about your interview process before they come in, all but guaranteeing that they cannot do any meaningful preparation?

I'm having trouble seeing why a candidate working hard to prepare for an interview could be considered a negative signal, which seems to be what you're saying. Correct me if I'm wrong, by all means.
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The funeral could cost more than the lessons...
TA has a glaring conflict of interest here. They can't represent the interests of both the travel businesses and the travelers at the same time: the commission will win every time.
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> Do they actually use the DOM, or just draw everything themselves?

The DOM is fast — what's slow are toolkits or poorly structured code which issues many redundant or poorly timed updates which forces the browser engine to do unnecessary updates.
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It's multi-tenant, but interaction is nearly identical to interacting with a dedicated kafka cluster -- i.e. you can use any regular kafka client library.

Check out docs[1] and launch blog post[2]. Happy to answer any questions here or through email (contact info in profile).

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[2]: https://blog.heroku.com/kafka-on-heroku-new-plans
Racket's RaSH is heading there.

I have to say I have been using BASH, SED and AWK less. They are great tools but in the end it is getting easier and easier to get things done with a Macro in Racket for me.
Bitcoin is currently inflationary. 1,800 newly generated bitcoins (about $11,700,00) are added to the supply roughly every 24 hours.
Well if dead people can come up with insightful comments, then great. These are comments, not votes. Once all the possible ideas have been presented, there is no point in further comments.

In the end only actual politics matters. If you want to do a petition then do a partition. If you want to complain then target a politician.
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> The office of President wasn't created until 1990, and there was only one person to hold that office.

I was being general (and going throughout USSR's history, not just after 1990). There were all kinds of titles and offices and committees, with a central official that the public could see: Chairman, General Secretary, First Secretary, etc.

"President", from the outside perspective [we are not in the Soviet Union], is good enough for the description against the argument that was being made (of a Stalin type "dictatorship").

If you have to nitpick on the word, your argument will never end...

> The dictators (such as they were) were usually the General Secretaries of the Communist Party (including the three that were Premiers). Like most real dictatorships, rather than theoretical ones, there was a lot of power within the upper bureaucracy and shifting practical, if not consistent legal, checks on the power of the leader (particularly, the Politburo was powerful), and like most 20th century and later dictatorshios there was also a lot of political theater behind which the actions of the dictatorship were cloaked to give a veneer of legitimacy.

And after all that said, no one can still name just 1 / like they name Stalin?

The answer is "its an etheric dictatorship that could be this or that or anything I want it to be to for the arguments sake"?

> Communism is broader than Marxism; as well as things like anarchocommunism, it also includes Leninism, which while it claims to be Marxism rejects several key components of Marxism.

Which is all similar to the various radioactive Plutonium isotopes. None of which you are going to want to ingest. Because if you do, its only a matter of time before you die.
Good idea! I'll add a description in a bit.
I wouldn't say life expectancy is the best statistic, though. Not all poor people necessarily make bad decisions, but people who make bad decisions over the course of their lives undoubtedly are more likely to be poor. When our top killers are direct results of obesity, it's hard to argue better wealth redistribution would result in fewer cheeseburgers eaten or cigarettes smoked.

Your opiod and suicide statistics are similarly correlative with no indication of being causal.

That's not to say it isn't a valid case against my statement you quoted, but I think it's missing the original context. I was responding to someone claiming we're likely to see an uprising if wealth inequality continues. That poorer people tend to make worse decisions that ultimately result in poorer outcomes does suggest a lower quality of life, but not that can be fairly blamed on richer people.
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