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I'm just tired. I'm tired of fighting all these pro-tech and pro-freedom fights going back decades, to the Clipper chip and the CDA. I'm tired of trying to figure out if the hyperbole (this time it's CRITICAL you act!) is deserved, whether the issue is that serious, and whether we're really on the right side of the issue in the first place.

I'm tired of trying to figure out if contacting my (Democrat) lawmaker will make a difference if they've already signaled opposition anyway. I'm tired of wondering if an angry tweet to a Chairman who clearly doesn't have my best interests at heart anyway will make a damn bit of difference. And anyway, somebody's twitter bot army is already doing the opposite of what I'm doing, times a million, and the FCC comments stuffing is doing far more than I would ever choose to do (legally, morally, and ethically).

More generally, with regards to this atrocious administration, I know the entire point is to just go after everyone who opposes 'them' in the most craven, cynical, and childish manner possible, to wear 'them' down and rub 'their' face in it for daring to suggest they're terrible people, but all of this internet freedom stuff vastly predates most of the people in power.

I read just the other day that, if enacted, this will almost certainly be declared unconstitutional in the courts anyway, so what's the point?

I'm just tired.
Quoting /u/hansoku-make from the /r/linux thread [1]:

This is beyond childish from both sides.

It started when Kees Cook (who recently became a target of one of Linus' rants that was posted here a lot) gave a talk at the Linux Security Summit and pointed out the superiority of their work over something like Grsecurity and how it's much better audited. He tried to emphasize his point by 'disclosing' what he thought was a 0-day in grsec code, apparently without talking to them first.

Brad and his ego, who unsurprisingly respond in the same childish way now drops a more severe 0-day on fucking Twitter to prove him wrong.

You know, this time, I thought Linus' rant was the other way around: I tend to disagree with his technical stance but he was right with the personal attacks. A lot of these people are immature up to a level where the carry out their fights on the back of users.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/7ez9zc/apparently_li...
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They'd still produce documents in proprietary software, which is one of the reasons they migrated the first time.

A government should not set itself up in a way that requires software from a specific vendor to interact with it.
So Kirchturmpolitik (based on Wikipedia's linked German article).
Yes, it's called Etherdelta.io
Even if they could take a charge in 1 min, how would one transfer that much energy that quickly safely?
Revenue.

Super Mario Run is a 220mb app, and it was downloaded 40 million times in 4 days. That's 8.8 petabytes of data transferred, for one app in 4 days.

A lot of apps don't go the in-app-purchase route, they rely on advertising, and if using e.g. Google's ad network, Apple gets just the $99/year to host who knows how many millions of downloads of the app.

No one claimed Apple doesn't make money on the App Store, but to claim that it's some massive profit machine for Apple is ignoring the reality of what it costs to host all the apps Apple makes just $99/year from.
Why did we start farming?
She might have ended up liking the job enough to stay, just as the employer might have liked her enough to keep her. That's the extent of the obligation between employer and employee -- so called "employment at will." Companies have fought vigorously to maintain this arrangement.
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I'm sure a lot of people will feel the same way as you and I completely respect that. I made this app above all else to learn as much Android as I could after graduating. I tried to expand on a simple concept to make something I thought was cool and really had a lot of fun doing it, but I know this isn't everyone's thing.
Please don't bother with obvious promotional abuse like this. It just gets accounts and sites banned and irritates the community.
Between calling the influence of Aristotle a "fetish" and your clearly biased source saying "Islamic philosophy is a misnomer," I'm done.
By the time you've been diagnosed, its possibly already too late.

I bought a Kinesis Advantage2 (and foot pedal) earlier this year and after a few months of using it, I wish I'd got one years ago. I feel much less typing strain.
at no point in this article is a value proposition actually defined. "Open Source Money" is a nice soundbite, but unless you can define what that actually means and how it will benefit mankind, it's as useful as "facebook for cats". I'm in the anti-cryptocurrency camp (despite having read the satoshi paper and comfortably understanding the algorithms behind bitcoin) because I've seen it morph into the exact thing it was meant to oppose - financial speculation and paper-shuffling by rich investors purely for the sake of profit. It's somewhat ironically hilarious that ICOs are now a thing given the anti-corporate/anti-banking message of the bitcoin genesis block.

Right now I see no value to cryptocurrencies besides black market transactions and hacking around with financial instruments in a very closed system. I'm open to the idea that I'm missing the whole point, but I've not yet seen a compelling argument for that.
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Ethereum has a different blockchain design and ledger security properties than Bitcoin, an archival node is not required for a similar level of security (and is quite extraneous).

From Vitalik, on the link you shared:

> That chart is highly misleading. 300 GB is the size of a full archive node, which stores the history, present state and all historical states. The state itself is only ~1-2 GB and the history is ~10 GB. A pruned node would still store the full state and history, and so would be able to recompute any historical state if you really needed it, but it would only consume around 20 GB. If you only care about present state, you can go much lower.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/6zcoja/10_gb_in_2...

More interesting details in this subthread: https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/6zcoja/10_gb_in_2...
For future commenters: the parent response originally did not say “I'm glad this guy's against Nazis, but he picked a very infantile way to show it.”

And instead said something along the lines of “picked a way to showcase his virtue” without the comment on business owners.
You're correct that the battle lines are not cleanly left vs right. Rather it's corporations vs labor, capital vs democracy. Same as it's ever been.
Users should not be fiddling with the parts of the environment that change between Windows and Linux. Users should not be sticking USB sticks, setting up printers and so on. They should run the programs they are supposed to run in order to work.
Not only that, but channels are internally implemented with mutexes anyway, so a naive mutexes+callbacks implementation wouldn't be any faster.
My dream would be to have a house in a tropical country with a nice big garden and inside the house have a nice office. Inside the office I would work part-time for clients, part-time for myself (on games). Or perhaps only for myself, if my own projects would provide me enough income. Additionally, the garden would be used as a farm. I would divide my time between farming groceries and fruits and work on some apps or games. I would also like to have plenty of time to spend with my girlfriend and daughter. Do enjoyable things together often, because you never really know when you will die (or your significant other, or your children) - so you really have to try to make most of the little time you have in this life.

As a software developer it's probably easier to achieve your dreams in life compared to many other professions. When living in a country like The Netherlands you can get decent pay as a freelancer and safe money for future dreams.

I've already made the first step to achieve my ideal work/life balance. I am building a house in a tropical country right now. Currently the garden is small, but I am sure in the future I can buy some land from neighbours that will serve as a nice farm. Since the standards of life are lower in this tropical country (average income around 500 EUR / month), it means I can work less if I find a decent paying online job and hopefully can find better work/life balance, while still earning plenty of money for good hospital care (if needed) or pension.

Most people are not able to make these kinds of choices. Being a software developer is really a luxury. Because you _can_ really have more freedom if you choose to.
This bit is an aside but it's interesting to me: "Earlier this year, with Galois, we completed a proof of our implementation of AES_CTR_DRBG, and formally verified that our code in s2n is equivalent to the written specification." That's amazing! I think it may be the first bit of provably correct code that I'm likely to actually use in practice.
I've always felt that interviewing is a pretty high intensity activity. At least the ones I've been in, which are a parade 5-6 of interviewers asking you to do problems at a whiteboard in hour intervals. At the end of those days, I'm physically and mentally exhausted, and often hungry, as they tend to make me talk right through lunch. I really dread interviews like this.
Plus, wouldnt the cost be nearly the same if they were on older windows/office and just looking to upgrade to latest?
> So you want to protect your free choice...by taking way the free choice of others to organize

Yes. They want to do it to me, so why wouldn't I do it to them? That just puts me at a disadvantage for following rules that my opponents refuse to follow.

But "taking away their right to organize" is a bit of a stretch.

They should be able to "organize", in the colloquial sense of lobbying, talking to other people, expressing their opinion, and negotiating in groups, all they want in support of their cause.

Freedom of association, as defined in the first amendment of US Constitution, applies to them too.

And in turn, I will "organize" AGAINST their cause, as is also MY right.

Disagreeing with someone, and organizing against them, is not the same as taking away THEIR right to "organize".

And yes, you can be fired, if you refuse to pay the union required fee. That's the same thing as being forced to join. Go get your money from people who chose, of their own free will, to join.
I am not sure if your short summary is correct either.

Isn't Windows is the reason why they want to tranformation from Linux to Windows?

The original documents say something else. The original document mentions 89 million EUR. If the translation is half correct:

https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?act=url&...

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr...
...the mechanism behind the ICOs is a solid one...

Only if you ignore the very large risk of SEC enforcement, given that most ICOs are securities. (and claiming that ICO investments are 'donations', like some have tried, isn't going to cut it!)
I removed all the graphical changes for performance reasons on older boxes. People thought it was Windows 2000 as you said.
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I too spent 10+ years as a professional software developer before I decided I just didn't want to do it any longer. I still love "hobby coding", as the author calls it, but production/professional software development is entirely different.

Luckily, I stumbled into a job in the "solutions" genre: i.e. solutions architect, solutions consultant, pre-sales engineer, technical account manager, etc. There are subtle differences between these jobs, but they all require a fairly high level of technical knowledge, but also require soft skills and business acumen. I found this was the sweet spot for me. I'm able to stay close to technology without the immense pressure of professional software development. Plus, I get to learn more about the big picture, business operations, my clients needs, grow my network, etc.

I still hobby code in the evenings, out of pure enjoyment, and the knowledge I gain helps me do my day job better. It's the perfect situation. If you're over professional software development, try a "solutions" gig.
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I assume your building owner doesn't want you to install a new fibre? saying will sell you a 1gbit service for $1600pcm in midtown. How much are you willing to pay and for what?
Which coins with high transaction levels do you mean?

I'm not aware of other fully-public blockchains that have comparably high levels, though maybe I'm missing something. With permissioned chains it's much easier to reach high throughput.

The so-called mixer has been debunked here before. It actually looks like exchanges, and the temporary addresses they generate for deposits. That does mean that a large portion of transactions are with exchanges, but that shouldn't surprise anyone, and would be the same on Bitcoin.
> Most people have way more taxing jobs than IT. I've been in construction for 3 years, and that work is no joke.

There's some discussion of this above, but I think it's interesting that the alternative to software development is seemingly always construction, or delivering food, or being a waiter.

Wouldn't the more apt comparison be something like law? Or medicine?

Or has software development truly reached blue-collar status and we're essentially plumbers/electricians?

I'm not accusing you of anything specifically, just using your comment to ponder.
It's not a developers dream if that developer loathes Javascript, like I do. Even Typescript just feels like lipstick on a pig.
Dentistry is far from easy on the body and mind - high suicide rates, high toll on the body. Many if not most older dentists have some kind of physical ailment related to their job.
Pixels for computers are approximately square, so you can simply derive it from the native resolution of the panel.

[1]: https://m.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1400%3A1050
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Went to try it and couldn't write at least 300 characters so I filled with line breaks thinking it would be removed when displayed. Sorry if I made the front page a bit messy!
> It's somewhat ironically hilarious that ICOs are now a thing given the anti-corporate/anti-banking message of the bitcoin genesis block

It takes longer to build anti-corporate infrastructure than it takes to run a token sale. I don't think you can really say much of anything about the longterm impact of blockchain by looking at this year's class of ICOs, give it another twenty or thirty years.
In the book "A Small Matter of Programming"[0] (1993), Bonnie A. Nardi makes the case that there are really only two successful end user programming systems - spreadsheets and CAD.

I think that's just as true today, at least as far as business software goes.

0 - https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/small-matter-programming
That's easy to say for a file picker on desktop OSs, but what happens when you need to layout a page on all 3 desktop plus Android and iOS?

Do you need to design 5 designs that include 5 different buttons, 5 ways of navigating through the app, 5 different sets of icons, 5 different styles of animation, etc...

Hell even with a file picker, what happens when you use it on a platform that doesn't really have the concept of "files" like iOS or up to recently Android (at least in what is normally exposed to the user)

Roll in various versions of each OS and you are up to needing 10+ ways of doing most things. How are you supposed to create anything even remotely complicated?
Until a material percentage of non-speculative transactions are done via bitcoin, it's not money. Who in their right mind would spend a bitcoin today when it could jump in value by 25% in a week? It's purely a speculative vehicle right now, and won't stop until it stabilizes in price where people can trust it.
Right to work laws are an intrusion on the free market intended to subvert unions. I'm okay with regulations on the market as long as there's a good reason, but what exactly is the compelling public interest there in blocking this one type of employment contract clause?

Like, employers can require you to do all kinds of things in a contract: wear certain types of clothes, tell you when and where to show up for work, how much you're paid, etc. We regulate some things like health and safety codes because the regulations themselves are clearly in the best interest of the workforce, but who do right-to-work laws ultimately serve?
95% of People on this planet are not affected by the SEC. (they live outside of the US)
TLDR of this "strategy":

"Hey guys. We should have a law against being an asshole."

"Nah, people seem pretty nice."

"I'll show you, fuckface!"
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Online versions still pale in comparison to the desktop client. I'm sure people in accounting would be upset by a forced transition from desktop Excel.
The only net change is that there are fewer Nazis claiming Cloudflare supports them...
TravisCI generally tests the end result of a PR, not all intermediate states.

I have a continuous integration tool for bcache in place, but it's more geared on end states-- compiling/checkpatch/test sequence.
Clever! I just installed it, and I like how this works so far. The store has 2 options for disabling ads. You can buy three of the first for a dollar which deplete each time your star explodes, or you can permanently disable ads for $2.50. I like this "choose your strategy" approach: you can buy incentives to get up in the morning, or just pay to have the ad-free experience.
As it's XGiving, I lack time to respond in full, but again, compelled to reply to this:

>> At least with national socialism you have a chance to get out.
> Not if you're born the wrong way.

This is demonstrably untrue. A good historical example would be the Madagascar Plan, in which Germany was willing to fund the relocation of their "undesirables", but was prevented from doing so by the Allies:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar_Plan

Prior to even this, Nazi Germany absolutely did give their "undesirables" ample opportunity to flee, which led to a major humanitarian crisis (about which the Allies did nothing):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89vian_Conference

The larger point here is that: yes, National Socialism is a certain grade of evil, but as an ideology that offers the chance for their targeted groups to get out, it is significantly and substantially less evil than an ideology that kills/tortures/enslaves ON SIGHT and not only offers no chance of escape, but actively prevents it, as is the case of nearly every implementation of Communism the world has seen thus far.

So, if you are a member of a targeted group, if given a choice between two evils:

1. An evil which hates you but at least gives you the chance to make a life somewhere else.

and

2. An evil which prevents you from leaving and shoots, starves, or enslaves you on sight.

I don't think there is any objective argument to me made that option 1 is somehow worse. Option 2 is objectively more evil.

Perhaps after USXGiving I will have more time to respond to your other points. Cheers!
The decline of Labor is directly correlated to the current glut of labor, accelerated by the anti-labor rhetoric and aggression:

* salary fixing
* wage theft
* shift of tax burden from capital to labor
* raiding pensions, defunding retirement plans
* denying collective bargaining
* tying healthcare insurance to employment
* etc, etc
So if it passes there will be a court case right? Because if not, I'm taking to the streets.
It's a WIP. It's coming, stay tuned... (yo may subscribe to get noticed).
Presumably no-one will want to strike after Brexit, due to all the Red, White and Blueness.

I dunno, maybe they think May will declare herself dictator for life and ban organised labour or something?
How do you verify 3-SAT? Just plug in the values and check if it evaluates to TRUE? I assume the idea is to pay people to solve NP-hard problems via TX's, which is a kinda neat idea imo.
pgconf.eu it wasn't recorded. HighLoad++ it was, but I think not published yet.
Will it go into effect while the court battle is going on? Or will it be put on hold until a decision is reached?
This is wrong. bitshares and steem both handle more tx’s than ethereum.
PHP doesn't import anything this way though, it just makes the code aware of namespaces. The actual import is done with spl_autoload_register .
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"Stamping out widgets" is the classic industrial equivalent, and the idea certainly dates back to the first craftspeople.

For instance, when their whole work is considered, nurses are essential, but their work can be similarly reduced to shuffling things around.
Prince responded to Slashdot here https://tech.slashdot.org/story/17/11/23/149208/cloudflare-m...

In a statement to Slashdot, Mr. Prince said:
Probably the easiest thing would be to slow down requests from the FCC's IP ranges. Or put up an interstitial whenever someone from those IPs visits a site behind us. I think it's less likely we'd do it across the board ourselves, more likely we'd implement it as an option our customers could opt in to. Basically taking this a step further.
What do you do that you charge 200 eur/hr?
Since you won't comment civilly and substantively like we've asked, we've banned the account.
No clue about Go, but how can it take more memory then Javascript on Node? This is hard to believe.
I can personally speak to this because during the times I was working long hours, I was avoiding some other aspects of a personal life and was using programming/work as an escape. This paints some of my perspective on seeing coworkers who are working these types of hours. I am unsure whether they are passionate or are avoiding other things.
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BitShares and Steem, for example : http://blocktivity.info/
I think Microsoft must have a very powerful lobby tackling this potential "end of an era" event.

With more companies moving analytics from Excel to Python, other data science tools, cloud or not... And governments adopting ODF as document standards.
Not to mention the free beer.
And transaction value is a very different thing from the number of transactions. In this case, that exchange system has been estimated to be doing about 10% of the total number of transactions, not 68%
My main concern with node is how fast everything moves. Try to maintain a project that started with es5, then migrated to es6 (but some legacy code is still es5), then added some es2017 and now is adding slowly typescript to the monster, and all of this in just 3 years!

Things become a mess in no time, tooling changes constantly, and maintaining legacy code while developing new parts with current best practices helps you build a Frankenstein in no time.

(and don't even mention about coffee, or it'll make me start ranting about the move from coffee to es6 and now TS!)
Blame the Retail Apocalypse on hedge funds and financialization, not Amazon
I've always found it suspicious that they essentially ended up with their own Distro.
> That means less than 7% voted against it, and the remainder never had an opportunity to vote at all.

I mean, most employer policies never get any kind of vote from any subset of the employees, so I'm not sure why I should be so outraged about this one in particular when it seems to be usually to workers' benefit.