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The share economy allows people to use their invested capital (vehicle, home, etc) to generate income - the platforms like Airbnb and Uber provide high quality alternatives and came about due to a void in the market.

I have 3 personal anecdotes, you can ignore them if you'd like, but I'm a proponent of the sharing economy.

1. I'm from Austin, Texas where prior to Uber it was impossible to get a ride unless you were directly downtown. I've called cab companies and they no-showed, leaving me stranded in the middle of no where. There isn't enough density for public transit and when Uber and Lyft entered the market, it changed our lives. Prior to the existence of these companies, there was rampant drinking and driving. I went to school here, and every party was essentially binge drinking followed by a harrowing 30 minute drive where everyone on the roads at 2am is a drunk driver.

2. My sister is a teacher, single mother, and low income. She uses Uber on the weekends to make extra income and help support her child. For her, the flexibility of being able to drive whenever for a quick buck is key to closing the gap that Texas politics hasn't quite solved. I'm going to preempt the argument and say I agree that UBI may be the solution more generally to workers needing to rely on their employers.

3. My mother is retired and generates ~1000/month in income from social security payments. She did not plan for retirement, has no savings, and has moved in with my sister to help out. Her day job is managing Airbnb rentals in Austin and she rents out a room in their house for extra income (~700/mo). Her quality of life is much higher than it would be without Airbnb, and her ability to schedule, find and vet potential tenants without Airbnb would be pretty much nil.

I recognize these are not the same 'workers' whom are being pathologically disadvantaged by the rules of these platforms - I think they're the ideal users that product people pin on the whiteboard. I come from a low income background and only see positives, had Uber been around when I was in school I wouldn't have worked for $5.15 washing dishes in a rat infested kitchen, done tech support for wireless hotspots in trailer parks or been a valet on 6th street dealing with intoxicated people. I've had about ~20 low skilled, hourly jobs that essentially dominated my life at the time and I had very little mobility or earning power, having the opportunity to leverage my vehicle and time flexibly would've been enormous.
I think so, too. Let's make it happen! :)
Impressed that you’re going to incorporate Lyrebird!
Yeah the VBA in Excel isn't .NET at all. Which makes it even harder to take something that was VBA in excel and trying to utilize it somewhere else (e.g. a .NET add-in to Excel or using any of the Excel interops via something like C#/VB.NET)
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Quantum computers don't break all encryption. There's no risk of that, fortunately.
I highly recommend reading the light-novel translations of "In Another World With My Smartphone" as well! You can buy them on Amazon Kindle, or you can subscribe to read the pre-prints at http://j-novel.club/.
>The idea of being legally required to provide government-issued identification to a law enforcement official under any circumstances is simply verboten in the US.

As long as you're not within 100 miles of the border inside the "limited civil rights zone". [1]

Personal experience is that border patrol officers feel no need for "probable cause" before pulling you over and searching your vehicle.

[1] https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone
The complete guide to integrate react-navigation and redux (React-Native)
Apache Kafka 1.0 Released Exactly Once – The New Stack
What is the difference between daughter and daughter-in-law
Yes, I too read the judge and appeals judges responses
I’ve used rev.com for a while. They’re quick and accurate.
tread carefully in combination with other software. Trying to install opam for Ocaml completely broke my fish shell config, the bug seems to remain unfixed for two years now.

https://github.com/ocaml/opam/issues/2255

This is one of the reasons I'm reluctant to use fish again, these edge cases just aren't tolerable for everyday work.
Fail-stopped is not fail-safe: autonomous systems and trolley problems
The best explanation I have seen for integrating react-navigation and redux. The author has put a lot of hard work here in this nicely well explained article. Claps.
> You may actually be ahead of other tech companies for once

IBM Research is and always has been an industrial research powerhouse. I doubt you could name a company that has contributed so much to so many different fields over the past few decades (Bell Labs is the universal exception).

From [1]:

"IBM Research's numerous contributions to physical and computer sciences include the Scanning Tunneling Microscope and high temperature superconductivity, both of which were awarded the Nobel Prize. IBM Research was behind the inventions of the SABRE travel reservation system, the technology of laser eye surgery, magnetic storage, the relational database, UPC barcodes and Watson, the question-answering computing system that won a match against human champions on the Jeopardy! television quiz show."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Research
I have no intent whatsoever to avoid "toxic internet effects" or "nationalistic attack". There's room for more love in the world, just as there's room for more hate, the latter is just as useful.

Ironically, your comment shows exactly that you "don't grok", or simply don't enjoy, the kind of sometimes intentionally toxico-aggressive humor I was referring to ;)

Sometime you incite a bit of hate and generate some toxic effects on purpose just 'cause it's... fun. And it's perfectly OK as long as you sincerely 100% lacks any aim/purpose/agenda and make sure nobody gains anything from it (it's OK if everyone loses equally from it :P).

EDIT +: And it helps people chill, relax, and live in peace, kind of like a "hate vaccine"... as long as you're surrounded by people that are not too sensitive to "grok it". I think in general, worldwide, people need some "hate vaccination" to desensitize them a bit and decrease worldwide volatility. We're becoming too edgy and close to the red button if we don't realize there's "good" in any kind of "evil" attitude.
The article appears to be saying that they are offering an actual quantum computer as a service, but as I recall, their previous offering was a simulation of a quantum computing environment. Yet, this same article refers to that thing as if it were a real QC. This makes me skeptical that the thing being offered here is a real quantum computer...Anyone here have any insight into whether this is legitimate?
Things I love about go:

1. Probably the best ecosystem out there.

2. Go routines

3. (Enabled by (2) actually) `defer`

4. That I can add interfaces implementations to structs I don’t own

5. No exceptions.

Actually (5) is one of the few things I don’t like about Haskell.

If Go had ADTs and generics it would easily be my favorite language.

Edit: and of course the channels.

Edit2: yeah, i have no idea why i connected (2) and (3). Had just woken up. No idea what I was thinking.
You’ve just reminded me of a line from one of the Wicca books I read as a teen. The whole coven size <= 13 thing was down to how big teams can get before people tread on each other’s metaphorical feet.
We'll resume growth, at least for some time, largely because it will take longer for everyone to get down below reproductive levels, and for life expectancy to level off.

The first drop basically comes because we have a massive population bulge in the post-war years. The growth the resumes because the drop in population growth worldwide is not yet enough to offset the steady growth in life expectancy in the third world.

But longer term that is likely to end up as another bulge.

In terms of developed countries, most have birth rates below replacement.

Once life expectancy growth worldwide has flattened out enough, and birth rates have declined to e.g. European levels, we can expect the bigger problem to be preventing terminal decline. This map [1] is quite interesting. The blue/light blue parts represents birth rates below replacement. In 2015 France too was below replacement.

About half of the worlds population lived in countries with sub-replacement birth rates as of 2010, and despite the fact that the population growth tilts that towards high population growth countries on a continuous basis, the birth rates of those countries is dropping pretty much across the board, meaning it is likely that the proportion of the worlds population living in sub-replacement countries will actually increase.

E.g. India is expected to drop below replacement this century too, and actually experience population decline (decline lags birth rates, of course, because you need to wait for the generation that's dying off to be larger than the one being born).

So I don't think population growth is a realistic concern when it comes to interstellar exploration. On the contrary.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-replacement_fertility#/med...
Why not just write to an error log? You could even have some button to send it to you or something.
Because the US has a much bigger consumer credit market. Almost every retail chain offers a credit account to customers. Even with the large amount of losses from fraud the banks and credit issuers accrue, they still make bank because of the high interest rates they charge.
I think you commented on the wrong post?
Does the appearance of quantum computers mean that the effectiveness of programming languages becomes secondary and that ease-of-use/expressiveness will be the most valued trait?
Soviet elite? You gotta be fucking kidding me. The reason Sergey's and Larry's parents even came to America was why USSR collapsed - the system started putting spikes on the roads of talented (or presumably talented) people. How many excuses can you make?
Now... If this is true, it is scary indeed :).
because you know damn well 99% of hackers rely on cereal for breakfast.
Fused Video Stabilization on the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL
I imagine you'd be in for some fun times with COM if you want to call that VBA code from a .NET language.
I'd love to see somebody unpack this post, because it's so dense that I can't actually determine if it was written by a human. If it actually coheres, it's bound to be fascinating, but despite intersecting with my background on several points, I'm clearly missing huge chunks of context necessary to actually parse it.
> And yet we really don’t seem to care much.

I do care, a lot. I have decided to avoid Intel (and AMD) hardware like the pest. I will not buy any Core iSpyOnYou or AMD equivalent anymore. I'm an advocate of economic and judicial sanctions from the political level against Intel (and AMD). I tell people around me about the problems and explain how it is an issue of privacy, security, national sovereignty, and market power abuse.

I'm looking for a desktop computer for my day to day use that comes without compromised hardware. The Raspberry Pi 3 works quite well, but doesnt work without non-free software. I successfully installed Debian onto my A20-OLinuXino-MICRO, but the GUI doesn't start. I'm looking for Hardware without Intel Hardware, without non-free software, mainline Linux support and preferable Debian compatible. The OpenPower system by raptor engineering is simply too expensive. I cannot afford it. Any ideas?
You're claiming they are efficiently pricing in a particular risk, pushing up prices to reflect the counterparty risk, but then denying they are efficient enough to price in the other consequences they should be. This is not consistent or at least is very stretched.
It looks quite amazing. Is there any way to provide som sort of log in form, if data is provided by a protected source?

Of course, the user could just enter credentials in cells, but if I want something more secure. Is there any way to integrate an OAuth 2 log in form or similar?
There's also probably a bunch of people from rural areas in your downtown office who think you're crazy. The foreigners probably think the same thing.

I have found this to be true. Two disparate groups reject the narratives that dominate North American media: Male foreigners from arab and poorer countries, and whites from rural North America. The whites don't voice their opinions, because they get viciously attacked; the Arabs and immigrants from poorer areas just laugh at us.
We're doing the same. I feel like punching myself in the face some days.
Can you link said essays (Hitler etc.)? I didn't know this about them.
I can believe it, my stepson is addicted to (what I think) are crappy YouTube channels.

I guess I'm getting old.
Well, it depends on if you're talking early series or late series. Early series, the wizards were college academia taken to absurdist violent extremes, to the point of assassinating each other to try and get tenure slots. Most of that got quietly dropped over time to make them more likeable.
He was talking specifically about the feeling of doing magic, not the feeling of experiencing magic being done. He's interpreting "X feels like magic" as "X feels like being a wizard." Playing a VR game doesn't feel like being a wizard; it just feels like having a spell cast on you.
Startups aren't comparable to cryptocurrencies. There is serious resistance to pre-mining in the cryptocurrency world.
I'd like to learn Cantonese. Mostly so I can understand what the hell my coworkers are saying when they talk to each other.
The real issue is the garbage collector, something that neither C nor Rust have. Automatic memory management (or thoughtful manual memory management) is good. Garbage collection is a problem.
A post earlier this year by Rob Pike, celebrating ten years of Go:

https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2017/09/go-ten-years-and-...
I think people are suprised specifically because they don't read anything written by human hands from the ancient world
If you want Readline in Windows CMD, there's CLink: https://mridgers.github.io/clink/

One of the first things I install on Windows.
Why do you need to worry if the data has been tampered with, the user can only hurt themselves.

If you need access to the users data then you will need to run your own server anyways, so you deal with the trust problem as any other web application does.
The developers made the right choice: ship now rather than take the time to do it properly.

There will eventually be a reckoning when either the bottom falls out of the market or all these ICOs are banned as unregistered secuirities offerings, and like the Silk Road some people will go to jail. It's vitally important to take as much money as possible off suckers before this happens.
Some manufacturers just don't pay more for an LPC or SPI-based TPM, and just use the fTPM one running as an ME applet (my Kaby Lake laptop does this)
I think you're right, but I do like pishpash's solution of converting to currency value at the time of theft and then applying some sort of interest calculation. This divorces the damages of the theft from the hypothetical asset value of milkshakes over time.
Instead of using Octicon, you could use the Unicode characters for circle-i U+24D8, checkmark U+2713, and calendar U+1F4C5.
Even the people whose jobs are being displaced by automation?
I think they were proposing using a distributed ledger to advertise rides / driver / rider state -- not just payments.
It's also why I prefer more "straightforward" libraries such as Tornado or CherryPy.
Just trying to automate myself out of a job :)
yeah that could be interesting, it just requires trust which could be undermined with no recourse. there are also so many on-shore methods for US citizens that it is less worth it.

A non-US citizen could set up a corporation in a zero tax jurisdiction and allow partners to come in and keep diluting their share as long as it remains over 50% .... or a few other stipulations when it got over a certain number of members. but then adding additional property to this gets murky, and the non-US majority beneficiary has claims on the direction of all the property.

If you are functionally able to control it then then US courts will undermine it anyway and levy a big tax bill on you.
I think about this a lot. To control atoms and construct new systems using language and thoughtforms alone seems as close to magic as you can get.
Thanks for the comment! Yeah, VBA in Excel is pretty outdated in many ways, and Excel isn't going anywhere any time soon. I missed having SQL in Excel originally so that's why I started the plugin. I added C# just now, but I really like how C# and Linq fit into Excel, I just love playing around with it.

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And the issue is mostly the garbage collector, not any other language features or compiler optimization improvements. You just can't have GC in a systems language.
> It is estimated that 2048-bit RSA keys could be broken on a quantum computer comprising 4,000
qubits and 100 million gates. Experts speculate that quantum computers of this size may be
available within the next 20-30 years.

https://www.entrust.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/WP_Quantu...

The paper is from 2009, so ~2030 to break 2048-bit RSA seems about right. If they can double the number of qubits every two years, then we should have:

100-qubit by 2020.

200-qubit by 2022

400 qubit by 2024

800 qubit by 2026

1600 qubit by 2028

3200 qubit by 2030

6400 qubit by 2032.

It's also possible the rate of progress will be slightly higher than 2x every 2 years, so doing it a few years sooner than that is not out of the question.

Also, you have to consider that once you get a quantum computer that can break 2048-RSA, you'll be able to break all the encrypted communications you've stored in the past few years, too. So you can't "switch-on" the quantum-resistant crypto in 2031 and think you're all good. You have to do it as soon as possible, especially after practical quantum computers that are capable of scaling in a scheduled way start appearing (which seems to have happened).

Plus, even if Google is super-quick to adopt quantum-resistant crypto, doesn't mean the rest of the internet will be, too. It could take a few more years for that to happen, too.
Nothing specific to whether this claim is legitimate, but lately IBM has a tendency to make bold claims about tech that can't be backed up (e.g. Watson).
Lets say I grant everything you say about the danger to every Alice and Bob that a master key exists. The question is, can policies be enacted and systems put into place that provide a commensurate amount of security for the risk the backdoor key poses? It seems plausible that it can be. But this is the conversation that needs to happen, not the boneheaded claim that its "mathematically impossible" to have a secure system with a backdoor. It's plausible that a system can be "secure" under appropriate definitions while having such a backdoor mechanism. If the analysis shows its not possible in practice, then that's fine as well. But we have to actually do the analysis.
Yes, amateur hour all around - it's almost as though random individuals with limited tech experience are allowed to mess with a production system.

But, this is exciting and fun, and I feel good things will emerge from this eventually.
I have two thoughts.

1. This is a huge improvement over VBA.

2. This is going to make creating unmaintainable mission critical Excel macro based monstrosities even easier.

So a small software improvement may be releasing new terrors into the IT world.
I do feel like I've played plenty of the hard mode where after figuring what the UI currently does, you have to debug the VB6 source, find the right edge case, and make it even edgier based on some semi-sensical business decree.

"How hard would it be to add another checkbox here, when this radio button is both shown but not selected, but only on the third Wednesday of Fall months when the Accounting Winds howl, that when checked pops up this other spreadsheet we need?"
If you charge enough, and have enough year-over-year device turnover, your service—or at least its basic tier—can be subsidized by device purchases. Like Apple's iCloud.
The problem is interoperability with older versions of Excel when that new one is released too...
I don't think the 2 of you are talking about the same thing. Parent was talking about a more generalized paper from the 70s, not a statement from a current IMF head.
Hah! Now you’ve reminded me how they hated my Ken Burns effect but loved the accidental posterisation from the (RLE) image compressor that was only there because of a severe download size limit and (something something possibly NDA so self-censoring just in case).
Good one. Brought back a lot of Wheel of Time memories ... I just wish I had time to re-read the entire series ... never even finished it.
That was a great read. Looking forward to reading that blog's back catalog.
Would we not find archaeological evidence of these technologies? Plastic tends to stick around for a long time.
And as you drill down and enumerate more and more distinct narratives you have enough stuff that basically everyone disagrees with something but nobody says anything because the penalty for disagreeing is too high.
I had a bad water heater in my apartment that kept turning off. It would take me 2 or 3 days to notice that there wasn't any hot water because I could usually get a few hot showers out of it before I noticed a problem.
If I remember correctly, it takes a quantum computer with roughly 2N qubits to break N-bit RSA. So we should be ok until thousand-qubit systems are being developed.

Increasing key lengths is a short-term workaround, but the real solution is post-quantum public key encryption, which is currently an area of active research.