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To some extent, even stable currencies suffer from significant manipulation by governments. This is not a tinfoil hat idea, it's generally why non-corrupt central banking helps achieve social stability.

But central banking is a large hammer, and so even in the US there are many uses of currency where Bitcoin shines. Also, over time no central bank has managed to avoid some form of corruption (this is concerning both for fiat and centralization-prone cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin).

But the factors that lead to corrupt central banks are not primarily monetary, they are social/societal, causing those banks to bend to the whims of some interests while ignoring others.

The interesting thing to observe will be how/whether Bitcoin can adapt its broader organizational structure to make it less vulnerable to these forces of "bad" centralization. Also, if trends continue, the risk-takers of today who own Bitcoin may well be the wealthy influencers of tomorrow and may not take kindly to some of the sensible changes.

There are many, many ways in which Bitcoin is far superior to the typical fiat + central bank system, though, most notably its international nature. Even if Bitcoin's ability to avoid problems is only 90% as effective as the most effective fiat systems, that is a tremendous improvement for most of the people living on Earth.
And they will when you adjust for Elon time.

Kidding aside they've been in much worse situations before, it just wasn't nearly as public because it was well before their IPO.
not for smaller apps. I mean, can't imagine running VS Code on it.
"similar diet" .. All of the Amish communities I know produce all of their own food. I never see them as customers in restaurants or buying anything other than basic ingredients in stores.

I'm sure it happens, but it would be extremely difficult to find people who have similar diets as the Amish, as you'd have to grow your own food and butcher your own animals to achieve a similar level of diet.
The entire "diversity" push is artificial and wrong.

I've worked for places that said, "We need to hire x number of women, blacks, and homosexuals." Most people in the meetings were like "yeah, whatever..."

Every time I've worked for some douche bag management team that pulled something like this, it went pear shaped. Hiring people because they are women, black, or homosexual does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to bring in talent. IT is, by nature, a meritocracy. I don't want to work for anyone or any place that does not exist as a meritocracy. People should be judged by the value of their contributions, not by any other criteria.

Before anyone gets started, even if a potential candidate was perfect and was a woman, black (or other), or homosexual compared to a typical American/Canadian IT worker (white male or Asian male/female), I would hire the best fit for the culture at hand. Most IT shops are politically incorrect lairs of gaming lore, cursing, off-colour humour and odd banter, and it needs to stay this way. I dislike forced political correctness and so do most IT people.
The article title is misleading as it implies causality. Per TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/16/apple-vp-of-diversity-and-...):

> Young Smith had been talking with Apple CEO Tim Cook about the next phase of her career and life since about a year ago, according to a source. Over the last few months, Apple has been searching for a successor to replace Young Smith. It’s not quite clear, however, when exactly Young Smith decided she would leave Apple. But based on that timeline, it seems as though Young Smith made up her mind before those comments in Bogotá, Colombia for which she later apologized.
I hope Tesla builds the next gen USPS delivery trucks to replace all of those loud little trucks that sound like a space shuttle launch between each mailbox.
Ive never heard about this. It's very interesting to me.
The statement from Elon Musk at the car's announcement was 'Has anyone here watched Spaceballs? What's faster than Ludicrous? That's right, Plaid!' So in the Roadster, there is a 'Plaid' mode which enables the 0-60 in 1.8s acceleration, accompanied by suitable graphics on the 17" screen ;)
I've been in a similar place recently. It's extremely tricky. I'm slowly making progress and enjoying life a little more.

Instrumental to me in this has been strangely enough, getting sacked from jobs and realizing that work isn't all that important. Yes, it is, but there's a whole lot more to life.
They announced the iPhone months in advance of its availability. Even the iPod was announced three weeks in advance of its availability date.
I wish I could get a programmable e-ink display at a reasonable price, that I could mount on the wall or desk. To show quotes, photos, weather, calendar, anything that is nice to have passively updated in the environment, using low power, and not emitting its own light.
I remember the first time I actually got raw logs of where my ad agency’s impressions were ultimately going. It was just so blindingly obvious that it was all a waste.

I came to the same conclusion you did. You’d have to go several layers up into the client’s org to find anyone with incentive to do anything but tell the most optimistic story they could.

That old agency is still around, surprisingly. My best guess is that whoever is actually holding people accountable for the money spent just has a number in mind that sounds reasonable, and has no expectation of seeing evidence that it’s well spent.
>perjure yourself.

https://www.ped30.com/2017/11/06/tim-cook-has-some-explainin...

It doesn't seem like perjury is such a big deal. Nobody is arresting Tim Cook for perjuring himself in front of Congress. Clapper did it too. Sessions as well. In fact, it has become a regular occurrence. It seems you're nobody until you've lied to Congress.
The original idea of the internet as a highly distributed fault tolerant system that could route around localized failures. I will admit that part of that philosophy emerged when leaving arpanet and trying to get stupid bang email addys and netnews flowing over dialup :-)
I second this question!
Does this support Objective-C++? If not, do you have any plans to implement support for it?
At some point, Microsoft became the new IBM, which was good for Microsoft.

Then Google became the new Microsoft, which was good for Google, forcing Microsoft became the new IBM again, which was bad for Microsoft.

My question, which new version Microsoft will Amazon become? The old new version like the one that replaced IBM, or the new new version like the one that replaced IBM?
What an excellent article. I was very surprised to see the 'specs' difference between the animals, I've never seen either in real life.
Ten years ago I was debating with a friend that GPUs would gradually change into massive general purpose processors. Instead they have remained special purpose and difficult to program.

My thinking was that with a large number of cores of processors that are more general in nature, you could still do great graphics. But you could do many other things as well. There are plenty of problems that are embarrassingly parallel if done right. There are also plenty of applications for adding significant amounts of computational power at the cost of a good graphics card. Computer vision. Speech recognition. Speech synthesis. Photo and video editing filters and processes. Even amazing scream savers.
The way this was approached with paper back in the day was a chronological journal + subject files.

I find that this works for me. I keep the journal in hand-writing form, and subject files digital. This also has the advantage from my perspective of keeping my thought process on an analog medium that is easier to control.
Sitting in the office, undisturbed, for eight hours, coding - sound perfect to me!
>“All it would take would be one terrorist incident in the U.S. funded by bitcoin for the U.S. regulator to much more seriously step in and take action, he said. “That’s a risk, an unquantifiable risk, bitcoin has that another currency doesn’t."

You can't make this up... or maybe I'm not understanding something. So, what's currently funding terrorist attacks?
For a 12 year old maybe. My 5 year old wears one because she want's to walk home from school (requires a 5 mi bus ride in a major metropolitan area). She had crossing the street figured out at about 3 or 4 and seems to be abnormally aware of her surroundings. (Her brother is not, he's just in his own world. Basically a danger to himself and everyone withing 100m of him)

It let's me keep track of her progress and gives here a simple phone that calls mom, dad, and her 4 grand parents. She set the alarm and gets out of bed when it goes off, dresses herself, basically does all the things you'd do with a phone which has very similar attack vectors. This is the kind of thing you'd expect in a world where kids can't call you at work from the home phone.

There's no device that makes or breaks trust, that is a people problem not a technical problem. It sucks that there's not much on the market in the way of good devices. We've removed the camera and do voice only calls when needed. It's a calculated risk and it's probably never to early to start teaching kids how to be aware of security risks in the tech around them. I mean, or we could just wait until they are about 16 and we have all the bugs worked out. Just let them go crazy then.
Ford sells pieces of shit and then tells you you're crazy every time you report a problem -- until a month after your last complaint when there's a company-wide recall.

I am never doing anything that gives them my money again.

Source: [ashamed] owner of Ford for 3+ years.
I'm an Apple diehard, and yeah Siri has a lot of issues. Very few integrations and doesn't work often.
Modern compilers aren't that much better at code golf.

I tried equivalent C code and gcc-7.2 gets me 47 bytes, while clang-6.0 only manages 49 bytes (both with -m32 f.c -Os -fomit-frame-pointer).

I have a feeling that size optimization just isn't really important to (at least open source) compiler writers these days. There are more important things, like actual performance, standards compliance and nice diagnostics.
> Some youtubers are already incorporating podcast ads

I don't see what you mean by saying these are podcast ads?
Haha no defense necessary! Carry on :]
Back in like 1994 I was certain that RoboBoard BBS software was the future of the online world. But no.
It would be sufficient, and probably generates fewer clicks.
Why would they be used to back anything? Why not just use a crypto-currency that isn't clogged by developers trying to make people use their proprietary service?
Interestingly, "the law" in the U.S. generally agrees with you, insofar as it tends to put "reckless disregard" in the same category as malice.
Cool site, but why are they showing ideas with negative (ineffective) results?
I've been thinking of it as more of making it on-demand — it doesn't sound like you lose the underlying distributed nature (e.g. from the description on https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bharry/2017/02/03/scaling-g... it sounds like 'git push ssh://github.com/microsoft/windows.git' would work, although it might take longer to run than it does for you to be fired) but managed clients can choose to operate in a mode where they download everything on-demand rather than immediately.

That seems like a reasonable compromise for a workload which Git is otherwise completely unable to handle.
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It seems inconceivable that you are as well-versed in the details of this incident as you seem to be but unaware that the situation is entirely different than what you're describing.

I could see someone being ignorant of the truth and believing the very surface-level description you give here, but your subsequent comments reveal a willful ignorance on your part.

Censorship of nasty harassers would have been welcome in that case, and describing that nasty harassers as she did was hardly harassment, no matter how it might give one the vapors.
The way it was phrased, it definitely was. And especially as a german I am not comfortable with some of the solutions proposed in this entire thread.
Does anyone with some technical knowledge of batteries and solar panels know whether it would be possible to put solar panels on top of the trailer and charge the battery that way?
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15724324.
Have you noticed how many brick and mortar stores ask for your email or phone number at the register during a purchase? They absolutely can tie offline purchases to online activity with that information (not to mention your credit card).
what YC companies do they hire people to build custom landing pages, I will suggest you purchase a WordPress or HTML template according to your use-case/product.
Thanks, hadn't heard of that yet. It certainly looks pretty lightweight/simple. I'll take a look.
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Are these things really comparable? I am not so sure. My understanding of GVFS is that it is hierarchical, not P2P.
If Amazon listened to those same finance blogs that are chastising Tesla, they wouldn't be where they are today. Wall Street hates companies that invest every cent they make into future growth; they want solid companies like GE and IBM that pay out regular profits to investors, and end up old dinosaurs because they didn't invest in innovation.

The market analysts and financial blogs may hate companies like AMZN and TSLA, but Bezos and Musk will be laughing all the way to the bank because they didn't focus on short-term profits at the cost of long-term innovation.

Remember, every company on this planet has to constantly reinvent itself, or it will be disrupted by someone else. Musk is doing that. Don't listen to the financial blogs and analysts.
Shouldn't Python, et al have more "native" ways to achieve these sorts of performance improvements?
It is interesting to imagine what WebOS would look like now with WebAssembly and the ability to load binaries into a browser interface. At this point, it might have to sit on top of for Android.

No sooner did I type that sentence than I decided to google it, WebOS has been rebranded to LuneOS, which sits on top of Android.

https://pivotce.com/tag/luneos/

Other interesting reads:
http://www.openwebosproject.org/
https://www.cnet.com/news/open-webos-reborn-as-luneos-for-mo...
> Why people want to live forever is beyond me.

I have the same reaction when someone says they only want to live ~80 years. What a terrible outcome when the universe is so massive. There's so much to see, do, try, experience and learn.

There are trillions of galaxies out there and every one of them is different. I could easily happily fill thousands of years just in our solar system.

I'd like to live long enough to explore other solar systems and galaxies and yet the earth by itself is far too large to ever meaningfully explore in a few lifetimes, much less one.

I simply want to see what all is out there. Now, granted, plenty of people consider that a very selfish desire (based on a scarce resources premise) and I'll openly admit to that. It's about as selfish a desire as there can be. I'm ok with that, it's also not a desire that can be actual (not in my lifetime anyway). As such it's equivalent to wanting to be able to fly around like Superman. My desire to learn and experience more will never halt, as such my desire to live an extremely long time will never cease.
A relative is super gung ho for electric buses. The evangelist / champion at an energy company. His vacations are scheduled around various unveiling events, so he can get pics. Kinda reminds me of train enthusiasts.

Any way. Per what cousin tells me, I think short haul urban centric anything is ripe for electric vehicles. Delivery trucks, buses big and small, service vehicles. Maybe even tow trucks (wreckers).
Metaepistemology
There's the question of what humanitarian aid Western nations might be morally obligated to offer to its former colonies. That's one question, with many different opinions.

Then there's the question of how history will view the rest of us for looking the other way while the Kims turned an entire country into a concentration camp.

That's another question entirely. Imagine if we'd left Auschwitz up and running at the end of WWII.
So your concern is the inefficiencies introduced by creators who never claim their cash?

If the tokens were automatically returned to the consumer after a period of, for example, 6 months or so, and redistributed to creators via the usual method, would that alleviate your concerns?
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They laid off "a ton of people" but a small fraction of their workforce, not affecting their burn rate much. Watch out for those financial press headlines, Tesla is one of the most shorted stocks out there.
This still is not their primary purpose. And yes, illegal acts could turn them into an illegal covert listening device, but that would be illegal, wouldn’t it?
Saying she was hired for racial extortion just isn't reasonable.

There are horrible human beings who spend their days raising twitter mobs for personal gain, but there are also serious inequities. Many of them go back all the way to the colonial era. Ms. Smith may well have spent a career working to improve them.
"A 3% detail doesn't have a huge effect on why they aren't commonly used."

At brick and mortars, where they are operating on 5% margins in many cases, a 3% skim off the top is massive.

A 3% arbitrary fee for every electronic payment in north America is really, really quite a huge thing.

It's quite massive form of rent extraction, given that there is no real IP, and the actual cost is almost nothing.

It's one of the biggest and juiciest forms of obvious oligarchy/monopoly that there is.
But you have to get out of the car and remove the roof to use it as a convertible. Then I think I'd stick with a BMW 438i convertible which takes the entire roof down at the push of a button in about 20 seconds. Driving isn't all about acceleration.
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> The far left often misses how multi-dimensional concepts like diversity or privilege are

I think you are confusing the shallow tribal identity groups with weak ideological consciousness on the left with the far left; the complex multidimensional nature of diversity and privilege is pretty much the core of intersectionality, which is a pretty key concept for the left, especially (much of) the far left.

Or you're talking about the narrowly economic faction of the far left that sees non-class identity largely as a distraction from class issues, with diversity as a non-issue, and all privilege and discrimination boiling down to class warfare. But even they don't really miss multidimensionality, they just see the multidimensionality as a multipronged distraction.
It almost seems like all those diversity preachers are the biggest racists scums.
I have overwhelmingly big hopes for postmarketOS [0] and Debian Mobile [1]

[0] https://postmarketos.org/

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/Mobile
Yeah, I like this idea. It's kind of what I was expecting before I visited the page.
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Racial extortion...interesting term, haven't heard that one before.
Why We Built an App to Scope Client Projects
This would've been quite a different world in terms of design and technology.

Eventually some company, Google comes to mind in particular, would have invented a device similar to, but not as well-designed as the iPhone. The development might just not have been that momentous and perhaps technology would have developed in an entirely different direction because of that.

Perhaps - due to a lack of an App Store business model - we even would have had a continuous boom of the web and more open technologies on mobile devices rather than the lull web technologies experienced on mobile devices until fairly recently. Who knows?

BeOS was very much a desktop OS. Like other operating systems such as AmigaOS it performed very well on some stripped-down desktop platforms such as set-top boxes, too (those were all the rage back in the 90s, at least some companies bet the whole farm on that assumption ...). I'm not sure if BeOS would've lent itself to mobile devices as well as NeXTSTEP did.

NeXTSTEP was a forward-looking, POSIX-compatible OS that was ahead of its time.

Most importantly though, Be Inc. didn't have Steve Jobs. They had Jean-Louis Gassée but I somehow doubt he would've had a similar influence on design, technology and the business world.

Someone once quipped that NeXT bought Apple for -$400 million. There's something very true about that statement.
You could just give your kid a phone that it can use to call you when it’s lost.
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Where I work most of my coworkers are Senior Devs and a number of them are around that age range and older. There's like 3 of us who are in our 20's. It depends on companies, and the person applying for the job. Not everyone is "perfect" for your team despite having years of experience, or being fresh out of college. There's also those COBOL job ads I see all the time, they pay a ton for experienced devs and a number of those are not going anywhere.
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Depending on who you talk to I am either unreadable, a jerk, a creep, insanely nice, demanding, nit-picky, angry, obsessive, or one of a myriad other things. I think it's definitely possible to be a well liked jerk.
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One per day? I had someone at one of Vox's regional properties tell me they had to do 12 a day (combination of local and national)!

One per day seems pretty light. TV reporters in medium and small markets are usually required to turn out two a day (one package, one VOSOT). Radio reporters sometimes five or six or more, depending on market size and whether they're unionized.
Apple has a huge ecosystem advantage in the iDevice/Mac demography of the market. I for one am holding out until the HomePod is released. One of the reasons is that it will integrate (far better) with Apple Music, Homekit, etc.

Moreover, I trust Apple enough privacy-wise to put a HomePod in our home, but I would never trust Google and Amazon to not use my data for ads or selling stuff to me.

Finally, it may be room for more competitors here. Windows/Mac and iOS/Android are duopolies because there is an excessive cost to developing/maintaining software for platforms with small popularity. These are basically non-extensible devices (software-wise). So, the most important factor is whether it integrates with the ecosystem that you are in.
not a lawyer, but I've heard elsewhere that this is indeed illegal
I don't understand the comment either.

It's not like terrorist groups are currently un-funded. Cash is still king around illegal activities of all kinds. Why is using bitcoin for illegal activity any different than untraceable cash?
"IT is, by nature, a meritocracy" <- Nice JOKE. I've worked at a number of big IT firms in NYC and they all throw around the meritocracy myth. But the reality of the situation is that your position is determined, to a high degree, on your relationship with higher ups, and that relationship is to large extent determined by shared backgrounds and whether you're a 'cool' person to be around. Even in the interview process, your answers are looked at differently based on who you are - this is all biased guys, let's not kid ourselves here. Sure, I'm not providing hard evidence, but this is what I've seen being on both side of the hiring fence.
> a GPS tracker allows a parent to feel more secure about letting the child out of their sight thus decreasing the "helicoptering"

A GPS tracker is a long-range spying device; it feels oxymoronic to claim you're letting them out of your sight if they're wearing one. If you can't trust your kids to be out of your sight without tracking them, you don't trust them.
Downvoting says your opinion is unpopular. Banning means your opinion is unwelcome.

There is a difference. You are being obtuse.