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> And while the importance can discussed all those cultural innovations were built upon western (white) accomplishments

Western accomplishments, which mostly happened from the Reinassance onwards, became possible when:

1) Paper was introduced in Europe. Before that, printing a book would require "parchments" made out of sheep or goat skin. It would take in average 300 goats to print a bible.

2) The Church was influenced by philosophers such as Saint Thomas Aquinas and became more tolerant of science. Before that it would be considered blasphemy, apostasy or witchcraft.

3) A vast number of volumes of philosophical and scientific literature books was translated into Latin.

4) The introduction of better numerals and algebra.

Who is specifically responsible for that?

1) The Islamic Caliphate of Cordoba, in what today would be modern Spain. Specifically the Toledo School of Translators.

2) Refugees from fallen Constantinople carrying literature with them.

So, in short, the European Reinassance, the process that started the "white achievements" you mention, could not be possible if it wasn't because of the contributions of the Islamic civilization.

The follow up reaction to this is usually: if these guys were so advanced, what happened to them? Two things: Spanish Reconquista, and a massive invasion by the Mongol empire which razed all their cities, agriculture, irrigation, infrastructure, and killed all the scholars.

Knowledge is an uninterrupted chain of teachers and students and a missing generation is enough to kill it.
I asked for the "functional semantics" which is a term you seem to have made up. I haven't heard anyone in the Haskell community or the programming languages community use this terminology. The reason I asked for it is that you seem to believe that it's the only semantics that functional programmers care about. You're wrong about that and this is what makes me think you really don't understand Haskell well enough to be critiquing it.

I'm all in favour of you promoting technologies and approches that you think are beneficial. What I would ask you to stop doing (again) is critiquing Haskell without really understanding it.
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I actually prefer having dual monitors over one big monitor. I dedicate certain tasks to certain monitors, and that divide helps me quickly find what I need.

It's also nice to have the physical separation for some reason I can't really describe. My brother has a similar setup to the one in the article, and I just never really liked using it.

Just personal preference I'm sure.

(I also fear my eyesight might be too bad to have a big monitor in 4k, with things being rather small text)

For my setup, I prefer having (bright) IPS monitors. Not too large, I'm fine with my 24" 1080p monitors.
And throw an `inline` in there just to be more likely to end up with something macro-like.
That's why at night I keep my keys in a metalic pouch that blocks all signals. I've tried and the car doesn't recognize the key even if I hold the pouch right next to the sensor, so it must be doing a good job. I'd highly recommend doing that if you have a keyless entry system installed in your car.

Edit: This specific one if anyone is interested in protecting themselves:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01HETGX00/ref=oh_aui_se...
I'm not sure on the exact details, but I believe those are full nodes. I believe there are also light nodes that are only a few gb in size when you sync them (e.g. a lot of the historical less relevant data is truncated).

I'm assuming those full nodes will eventually be intended to be run in data centers.
Which in turn upsets another set of people. There isn't, AFAIK, a non-offensive designation for this area.
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Features:

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Companies have at least as much interest to do research as they have to do any other charitable activity. The private sector does plenty of charity.

Not sure the government should be involved. Not because basic research ain't great---in an ideal world we'd all get ponies from the government---but because budgets are finite and there are other opportunities some of them with more definite benefits.

(Like eg funding education, especially early education. Or perhaps just taxing less, etc.)

One interesting thing to note is that in our world the American and British military funded some of the first computers. A clear example of government funded research. But---if the government wouldn't have paid for inventing computers for the militaries, IBM came up with computers only a few years later. (And in the counterfactual with less government expenditures, the private sector might have had more funds left over to build computers earlier?)
so the cold war nearly saved the planet, imagine the planet being mostly radioactive, wildlife would thrive.
I've thought about this a lot.
If we're going after the most affected, it's going to be inner city youths. They have a lesser chance of making it through a 4 year, because their support structure isn't there because of historical injustices.
K-12's can change their curriculum to focus more on tech for a specific type of application, instead of just "build an app, write node, learn python" generics. Especially if they can turn out talented students before HS graduation.
>Microcontrollers
>Auto Engine Management Systems
>Civil Infrastructure
>Utility Infrastructure
I know these are by and large not the 'sexy' pie in the sky stuff most 'hot' investors chase, but these are upper-middle class jobs that there is less competition in, and are actually vitally important, meaning they will be around longer than SNAP inc. I think with intensive focus, the people who are placed in these programs, their kids will be completing CS 4 years and competing for 'creative applications in the valley', but the foundations need to be built up first.
Not sure if there are in your area, you can check on the FFDN site, which is like a meta association : https://www.ffdn.org/en/members-fdn-federation

The most famous is FDN (http://www.fdn.fr/) which is covering the whole territory, and in the Paris area you have Franciliens.net (http://www.franciliens.net/).
Iron Man 3 is one such movie. There is a rather out of place China only product placement scene for some drink, a scene where Iron Man is seen visiting china on TV and a final scene where Tony goes to China to have a Chinese doctor (played by a famous Chinese movie star) help operate on him to remove the shrapnel from his chest.

All the scenes can be found of Youtube.
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If the receiver is accurate enough(we're talking nanosecond precision) then you can absolutely tell if the key is 1m or 10m away, so a relay wouldn't help at all.
Police could be exempted from using the technique (just like they have special gun-carrying status in e.g. EU countries).

Regarding the other points (companies and organized crime loving this), you can also look at other countries where guns are illegal. Practice shows there are less fatal incidents there.
I tried 24"/1200p, 27"/1440p, 27"/4K/150% scaling, 32"/4K/125% scaling, and now settled on 43"/4K/0 scaling.

The DPI looks like 1080 on a 21" years ago again, but the real estate is enomorous and I certainly don't mind it. Sure pictures/movies on 40" is not as pixel rich as a 32" 4K or 27" 4K, but you'd have to mount multiple to match the real estate of a 43" monitor.

It's true though the scaling makes text larger but not reducing DPI as the picture looks much better on a 27"/32" than the 43". But without scaling, my aging eyes can handle anything greater than 110 PPI. https://www.sven.de/dpi/
Mmmh, I am not a specialist and I don't know the numbers, but it seems to me that fundamental research is not less active than it used to be.

Physics made a lot of progress in materials (nano tech, weird polymers, and so on), in building batteries, in finding the higgs boson and gravitational waves, and I'm sure plenty of other fields.

Medical research has advanced a lot with the invention of CRISPR.

CS has grown a lot in AI and quantum computing...
100% of them afaik
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Such a great news!

I'm looking forward DOM integration with wasm, and potentially a way to compile from scala native to wasm.
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Right on the spot for me. Having my tasks divided between monitors (and always knowing which monitor to look at for program x) is great. I feel like it helps my workflow a lot :-)
Yep. I've had a situation where I was driving on the motorway and suddenly my car decided that my key was no longer in the car(which obviously was still in my pocket) - and a warning was shown on the dash, but the car continued running. Imagine if it shut down while doing 70mph on the motorway!
Honestly this is now the way I see Ikea staff. Benign and friendly, encouraging you to spend your money during the day, malign and evil after the store closes, hell bent on murdering you. It's probably what makes those Swedish meatballs taste so good. :D
I think charity improves their public image more than fundamental research, that will be known only by specialists. Moreover, they have large tax incentives for charitable activities (not sure if they have for research too)

For the military computers, they had a clear interest in doing so, and the military keeps most of their research hidden, so I think it's not really comparable to public research
we could move rhinos and elephants there, it would guarantee being free of poaching.
Ethereum is quite good though, up there with IPFS and BitTorrent in terms of innovation.

But I get your point - imagine a world where we were all paid competitive wages to work on OSS instead of high-ROI investments.
I can see the webpage
The standard of super-resolution algos is impressive. I wonder if anyone has tried up-ressing the sound and audio of pirate videos by training models on Cam vs Blu-ray
This article implies a positive corelation between technology, research and employment, which is unsubstantiated. Employment rate is a function of politics.
Yeah its up now. Hiccup over.
If you don't want the anonymity benefits, you can change the hops from 3 to 1 (from the client) to improve latency.
High protein intake shouldn't be a recommended keto diet, because the body will use gluconeogenesis to process protein into glucose, so you'll never be on ketoses, and therefor suffer from all side effects mentioned by you. It should be a diet high on fats.
The actual explanation is rather more boring: almost all butter in France is sold to supermarkets, who negotiate prices once a year. If world market prices are higher, dairy products sell elsewhere instead and French supermarkets run dry.

https://www.economist.com/news/europe/21730877-forget-about-...
I think it's relatively easy to set up a charity to do your basic research for you, and reap the tax benefits? (I'm not an American, and I assume you are talking about American tax system? Other countries are different.)

Universities are notorious for spinning their basic research into good PR (and often overblown press releases), even if it would only be interesting to specialists normally.

I think companies like Google (and earlier IBM) reap a lot of more specialised PR from their basic research: it helps with hiring to be seen as a cool company at the forefront of technology.
I don't see Ethereum as a 150 Billion $ currency, it's more like beta software or an experiment. The learnings made now could shape the future of tech, so it should be easy to make changes to.
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Same with economics; when someone says in the comments for a rant piece that homo economicus is a core concept of all modern economics because that's what they learned in that one 101 class they took... Grr...
...which makes sense because true exponentials cannot exist in physical reality; what looks exponential is the beginning of a sigmoid or bell curve. So the question becomes what the limiting factors are and when they will kick in, thus ending the exponential growth.
Actually, I have a hook on the openvpn server (on docker), that talks to the DNS server when a new device connects to it. The DNS and reverse DNS is automatically added.

I use the 11.0.0.0/16 zone. It's not a good practice at all, but in this case it's very useful (doesn't conflict with any network map, only routed inside my devices, which only talk to each other).

But I would love to take a look at it if you share it ;-)
It's cryptocurrency. Someone is leading the crypto part (also: smart contracts etc. etc.). You could even argue that traditional currencies to have a leader - those maintaining the fiat.
That's not actually true.
> The private sector does plenty of charity

Plenty? How would you quantify that? Certainly in the scientific area it's a tiny part of total funding.

> in the counterfactual with less government expenditures

In this counterfactual the Axis would have outspent the Allies and perhaps won the war.
One of these could be the article you are referring to.

[0] https://www.thenation.com/article/why-the-us-really-bombed-h...

[1] http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/05/30/the-bomb-didnt-beat-japa...
From this link (http://chinafilminsider.com/foreign-films-in-china-how-does-...), I can tell that China import at least 34 foreign movies per year.
>Satoshi easily could have chosen a linear algorithm anticipating additional work input with more users, instead he designed a system to exploit late adopters.

Are you suggesting he provides a bigger reward for work as time goes on, thereby providing more currency later in the piece?

That would be counter-intuitive to the idea of bitcoin as a fixed store of wealth (strong libertarian influence, anti-bank ethos being kinda the cornerstone of the origins of bitcoin).

His plan was that the transaction fees would be what sustains the miners due to bitcoin being worth a lot once the block reward was low. The deflationary nature was not "manipulative" in the way you are implying, it was done in order to slowly wind down the reward and currency generation so eventually the transaction fees were the purpose for mining.

>The aspect of Bitcoins having a limited supply is mostly ineffective, as all the features of Bitcoin are now available in other service networks which are including more advanced features and better ASIC resistant algos.

Whether or not this is true is neither here nor there, the effectiveness is non consequential when it comes to the intent. He was not attempting to exploit late adopters.
OpenVPN listening TCP and UDP on various ports. I was always able to get through.
So whenever you visit a country then you spend several months reading up on all their local laws? Do they even have an official English version, or do you hire a translator? Here's a question for you, what's the Chinese law regarding the use of a VPN/proxy? Does the law differ based on when/where you used the VPN and what it was used for?

The sexual relationships is relevant because foreigners in China have a reputation of sleeping with a lot of girls, and this leads to a lot of resentment from many of the Chinese. If they at the airport can so easily see when/where a foreigner stayed at an AirBNB, then you have to wonder what other info these people, as well as the embassy people approving VISAs, can see. They do not need to give a reason for denying entry, so it seems it's only a matter of time before they're provided with even more private info that will most definitely be used against foreigners.
There’s also the latency between the input coming over HDMI and actual rendering on screen. Some of the cheaper TVs are in the 70-150ms range, and you will notice that when your mouse keeps moving after your hand stops.
If it makes you feel better, most companies in every industry have similar biases.
Developers of course know this as git.

Well, except for the history rewriting "feature".
What's the incentive to participate honestly in Proof of Stake if there is no reward?

Leaving aside the question whether PoS even works at all https://download.wpsoftware.net/bitcoin/pos.pdf
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Non-recursive in this context means functions that aren’t computationally equivalent to those computable by recursive functions only [1]. This is equivalent to Turing completeness. It’s the second & third meaning in your link.

A “non-recursive function” would be more powerful than that; or, conversely, it would be a function which cannot be computed using a Turing machine. Alternatively, these are also know as super-recursive functions [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computable_function
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-recursive_algorithm
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To avoid controversy, take the counterfactual were spending changes after the surrender.

Also I'm talking about basic research funded by the government with no concrete short-term plan for its use. Applied research and development for identified military needs is a different beast. (And might or might not be good, but it's a different argument.)
The downside is getting tagged every few hours by some dance promoter. In London there are numerous (3-4 at least) events for every night of the week, just for a single dance style, and all the promoters want my attention.
The normal background radiation to Chernobyl is like comparing a middle european summer with the danakil desert.
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Wow... so not only could it correlate someone's identity with their race and possibly religion, and anything else that could be gleaned from existing social media and added to a proprietary "loss prevention" database, it would also be able to debit arbitrarily from someone's account without any intervention.

And from the point of view of the customer, it would be the most convenient thing ever.

That seems to blatantly exploitative on so many levels, with so much potential for abuse, that I have to assume someone will implement it within a decade. Probably Amazon.
This is pretty nice work, but isn't it a summary of 2016 work?

ImageNet 2017 has happen since then[1] (small incremental progress), but lots of progress in things like super resolution.

[1] http://image-net.org/challenges/LSVRC/2017/results
You can - I happen to have a Mercedes, so I know as a fact that you can just double-click the lock button on the key to disable the contactless feature completely - the car can then be only unlocked with a physical button press on the fob.

I keep my key in a metalic pouch every night as a countermeasure, works just as well.

However, there's one concern with it - if a thief tries to steal your car using the relay attack and fails, will they break in and try to steal the physical key(which might lead to confrontation and people getting hurt). It's a risk either way.
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Not really. They mostly built a second parallel system for aws and moved to using it several years after launch. Yes they used knowledge that existed in house but it was a totally separate project and mini company
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We have a saying here in Spain: from swine, even the gait.

Yes, they only have two hinds each, but front legs are sold too (paletilla), papada (jowl), morro (snout), manitas (hoof), lengua (tongue), oreja (ears), various embutidos (cold meat) made traditionally stuffing meat and fat inside pork intestines (like chorizo, salchichón...)

And of course everything else that's traditionally edible anywhere in the world (loin, ribs, etc.) EDIT: except muslim countries of course.
I had a similar problem looking for a copy of Time this past July. (I was really just looking for something to read.)

I wonder if it's different for Time's "Person of the Year" issue? I'm not sure where I'd find Time or Sports Illustrated this week; but, in February, the Sport's Illustrated Swimsuit Issue is everywhere.
I was following your point of view until you said "That is the problem with these ICOs vs. using Proof of Work to fairly distribute the currency".

First, PoW can't be said to fairly distribute the currency but rather to secure the currency against double spend attacks. If it is a fair method or not is another discussion where many models are possible.

On the other hand there are questions about who develops the currency and how the team is funded. In this case Ethereum, Zcash and others propose this model which is valid. Bitcoin development is not progressing from thin air and it is not funded by the PoW mechanism anyway so the consensus method and the development work are different problems.
Especially now.
If it looks like a bubble and behaves like a bubble, it's a bubble.
No value is created at the rate BTC is rising.
Besides, crypto currency in general is plagued with major problems, from security, to scalability.. it's not worth $500/BTC.
>Ethereum produces tangible value for it's users

Yes. I agree.

The potential capital efficiency for for these services is vastly greater than credit cards. You are trying to undersell the potential in distributed computing platform and smart contract technology if you defend
the current cost structure.

The promise of these technologies is to reduce cost of financial transactions almost without limit.

Lets look into the future of efficient and revolutionary transaction and smart contact technology.

If billion people do 10 transactions per day (alternatively 10 billion 1 transactions per day) with cost $0.01 per transaction, the cost of this service would be only $10 million per day or 3.65 billion a year. Remove the operating costs in competitive markets and the profit margins will be extremely low.

The beauty of efficient established markets is that profits will be driven down. Artificial scarcity created by different coin protocols is temporary phenomenon. It dies when the hype dies.
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Stop hand-refactoring and learn your automated refactoring tools
In the UK if you have a tracker fitted the police will absolutely go and check it out immediately after reporting, they are pretty efficient at it. What the thieves started doing though is they take the car to a car park several miles out and let it sit there for a week, without spoiling the thief's position - if the car is still there after a week it's good to take. A lot of tracker-fitted cars are recovered this way, they are usually found just sitting in parking lots, not in some dodgy garages.
Of course the workplace will be "white-dominant" if the majority is white. Not that many blacks in Ireland (1.5%) for the question to even matter.

That wasn't the question, it was whether race bias plays any large role in hirings as in the US, which in UK, Canada, nordic countries etc it doesn't, as it doesn't in the societies in general.

Can't speak for South Africa, Australia or NZ, far enough from Western Europe to be what I meant.
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