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> Your statement, from my understanding, is saying "if people cash out, everything will crash"

I never wrote that. I've been quite specific:

> BTC may be toilet paper tomorrow, or maybe not; and this is how lotteries work.

The difference between wealth and "paper wealth", in this interpretation, is simply in the volatility of the assets.

BTC is extremely volatile both in the short and long terms, therefore being rich can't be disassociated from the cash out.

Association is the concept I'm stressing. With lowly volatile assets, one can be reasonably confident the value of the assets, so cashing out can be reasonably ignored, but with highly volatile ones, one can't, so it's all about the moment of the conversion.

Lottery has probably been a wrong term - probably gambling is better, but the concept still stands.
I was thinking along the lines of in-app ID verification when I wrote that, seems you are too, but it occurs to me that you have to go to a building in order to register to vote as it stands today. That piece could still exist, with alternatives like the one you suggest being made available as they are vetted.

Public libraries, schools, courthouses, post offices could all be access points that would let folks without devices participate. With the right setup, UX for both voting on things and for choosing delegates should be not much more complicated than what a ballot looks like today, and yes, someone should be available to help those who are having trouble with it.

You mentioned that the system is waiting for a good use case, and I agree. That’s what makes it very attractive to start at the state level despite the difficulty: people can have a bigger, more tangible impact than what you would get at city scale. I wonder if the best way to get started at that level is by creating a new political party whose candidates are constrained in their votes (but not in any legislation they propose) by how their constituents are responding. Recognizing that elected reps will have their own opinions and should be free to voice them, but bringing in the delegative structure beneath them as a binding principle of the party. It seems like it would help with mindshare/awareness if it was a widespread phenomenon instead of one random city councilman’s platform.
>because it means there would be lasting consequences for prioritizing permissionless innovation over solid engineering practices coupled with defense in depth.

Awful, just awful! How could anyone make money with software if I had to engineer it properly? Why do such cruel people exist who force me to do this?

Truly only a villain would.

To be more serious, I hope that developments like this will finally hammer the point home for the "quick'n'dirty" developer crowd, especially node.js ecosystems seems to be prone to this.
I tried to return a game I bought on playstation network and Sony flat out refused because I had played it (how else would I have known it wasn't good? If reviews etc had helped, I wouldn't have bought it to begin with). They told me to direct any further complaints about it to their legal department. I didn't bother.
Sandwiches shouldn't be a large meal. But they should be nutritious and filling enough to feel satiated without feeling like you need to sleep it off.
My take is different and I don’t think there is one way to live either.

I take my dad’s words: spend the money and time well, and enjoy your life.

So save enough every month and get a good meal either alone or treat your family to a good brunch/dinner. Plan a trip at least once a year. Go to movies or do something healthy you have never done before. Buy new clothes. Whatever

But have a budget. Spebd 100% is IMO a bad advice. When you need the money you have none.

I also do not recommend invest in stock market unless you are buying one of those low-price stocks that will go up crazy.

Instead I would save up enough money, buy a house. Owning a land or an apartment will do you far better in the long run. Buy some gold when you have spare. Also invest in your life insurance; Usually you pay about 20-30 years then you get money just like social security (and some you can cash all with a big bonus).

I have been through tough time. If it weren’t for the medical leave $$ my employer provides through insurance, I would be forced to sell my house at age 26 right now in NYC.

Think in the long term: professional developmebt is great but do not let career be the only thing be your long term prospect. Putting 100% without saving is a big risk you really want to avoid.

Sometimes I have the urge to tell people why I think they should stop coding after work. But hey, if that makes them happy (I get it might be a hobby) great. But please do not fall into “this is norm”. I went to a lot of conferences and hackathons; great but don’t really satisify me as much as enjoy an outdoor view. Going to a new city for a talk is good for as long as you really have the chance to experience that city. Otherwise I’d wait for video to come out (and I feel bad so nany conferences do not organize publish conference videos).

In the end, what is good for saving a million dollar when you are sick and tired all the time?
Right, its one of my biggest frustration with my university experience. Why am I paying you large sums of money for instruction that feels like it equates to a list of practice problems.
Facebook exists because it works for a section of the population. I do not like it. I do not use it. If someone likes it, I let them use it. I throw in a word of caution regarding privacy concerns etc. I, however, do not expect them to honor my views.
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There were even some acts of environmental terrorism at the time, so it was probably an idea ripped from the headlines.
Interesting that you mentioned HDR because I had assumed it wasn't a feature (seems like most TVs that have it mention it in the title). Is it now a standard feature for HD TV?

(I haven't bought a TV since...ever, no that I think about it)
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Note that Guardian is successful, because of "supporters" and not >subscribers<. It's different than WSJ, where they lock the content, until you pay. The Guardian way looks more like the Wikipedia one.
The Bikinians sued, and there are some reparation payments.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_testing_at_Bikini_Atol...
How do you lock in a price and not lock in the supply. You can make anybody agree to any price but if they don’t deliver the goods you haven’t negotiated anything.

During the ‘06-07 fuel price spike some airlines locked in a price and were able to keep decent fares. Others didn’t and added all sorts of surcharges. I couldn’t imagine them hedging fuel prices and not getting it delivered.
I'm sure economies of scale factor in - not just for components but for other costs as well, e.g. will engineering and tooling be split across 10k, 100k, 1m or more units?
My guess is that Apple's lawyers are busy enough without worrying about individuals violating their EULA without harming their business (e.g. by selling the Hackintoshes). As long as you're not Psystar I think you'll be fine.
I don't understand, what is?
Is anyone else looking for an inexpensive, 13-inch, read-only e-ink tablet for reading pdfs? If this exists can someone point me in the right direction? I feel like I can't be the only one who's been looking for this.
It might be helpful to link to the cluster feature of node in the github readme. It might help orient people by removing a dependency on their memory...or previous exposure.
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I get ~3-4m accesses to my block list per day, and about €5-€10 every 3 months!
Two things on your website - (1) the roadmap page is a dead link. And (2) I believe on the front page there's a typo. Instead of compansions it should be companions.
But where is the science? It looks like shooting in the dark and out of frustration coming up with more stories and pretending that what? progress?
At least it makes for good sci-fi like Peter Watts'.
Ring fencing a percentage for specific authors sounds like a good idea but in practice you end up giving a portion of editorial control to wealthy donors. This is not good for any independent news media.
Conventional and fire bombing were just as bad, they only took longer.
I used monitor 27" and it's large with me, how about 40"
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I remember KindleDX since you can get A4 (or US Letter) w/o zooming in/out.

But... DX is phased out and has no replacement.
Also most eReaders are slow - due display. There is no needs for something super-fast but there is needs to be energy efficient. And mine Kindle Touch (ver. 5 i think) battery lasts few weeks (between 2-3).
Can you explain it little bit further? Which kind of services are we are talking about here?
The quality of bread is everything. Portuguese buns are the best, put them in the oven to crisp them off at 350 for 10 minutes. You get the light fluffy inside and a nice crispy outside. One thing Americans aren't great at is your definition of "crusty" bread. Crusty is supposed to mean that when you bite into it, the outer crust crunches before you get to the soft fluffy bread inside. If it doesn't crunch like chips (crisps) crunch, it's not crusty, it's just bread.
Yeah this seems like a no-brainer for anyone who has had a laptop in front of them during a meeting or a lecture.
> ...you'll probably starve to death

You shouldn't let fear rule your life and turn you into slaves for evil men.

They are helpless without us. Sure they can hire scabs, but chances are those scabs won't know how to do the job.
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The title here on HN is somewhat better than the original on Newsweek, which replaces "wanted to plan" with "planned". But I object to both.

The linked memo [1] consists of a table estimating the cost for the US to secretly acquire MIGs. Stop and go read it, it's only a cover form, a table estimating the cost to get some MIGs, and a failed attempt at redacting the 3rd page, which describes the effort. The final paragraph reads:

> There is a possibility that such aircraft could be used in a deception operation designed to confuse enemy planes in the air, to launch a surprise attack against enemy installations or in a prevocation operation in which a Soviet aircraft would appear to attack U.S. or friendly installations in order to provide an excuse for U.S. intervention. If the planes were to be used in such covert operations, it would seem preferable to manufacture them in the United States.

Emphasis added. But note that the documents do not describe the mental status of the authors, they're just listing facts. Any guesses by journalists as to what the actors behind the documents were thinking or what they desired to do are only guesses.

The US government is a very, very large organization, that asks a lot of questions and produces a lot of documents. You can also expect that someone, somewhere was also tasked to answer the question "how hard would it be for the Soviet Union to procure US aircraft and launch a false flag attack against themselves, and what can/should we do to mitigate this risk." Within the Soviet government, someone else investigated what it would cost to procure some F-86 and F-4 aircraft, and what it would cost the US to get MIGs, and what they could/should do to mitigate this risk.

I would argue that it would be irresponsible of both governments to not ask these questions. I would also agree that false flag operations and indeed war itself are reprehensible, and would hope that the decision-makers, armed with this information, would still make the right choice. But given the lives, dollars, and issues at stake, and the comparably tiny cost of answering the question, it would be irresponsible not to check.

[1]: https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-3...
if you're really going to go that route you might as well legalize violent crimes too, after all, it's just us listening to our time-to-reproduce/time-to-fight signals

everywhere in society we are expected to overcome and be responsible for our base urges
I had one professor in college who told us that when she was in undergrad, she would take pages of notes every lecture and then literally throw them in the garbage on her way out of the lecture hall. She just discovered through trial and error that this was the most effective way for her to learn the material. And she did well enough to become a professor at a top-20 institution.

Conversely, I never took notes in her class (or any other), and that didn't stop me from doing well.

The moral of the story is, people are different and find what works for yourself. There are a lot of oddball strategies out there that some people swear by, and I bet it really works for them, but you don't need to try them yourself unless you're unsatisfied with the effectiveness of your current approach.
I'd say "took into account the possibility of as a factor in the usefulness of something they didn't actually make" if we're splitting words here.

I mean, the hypothetical considerations of the advantages of continuous offshore nuclear deterrents over land-based ICBMs are considerably more detailed and ugly in their implications, but I'd still consider a headline arguing "$NuclearPower planned to exterminate every man woman and child living in $RivalState after watching millions of its own citizens die" to be rather misrepresenting the intent of such documents.
It happens with core computer science topics as well. The misconceptions around Big O notation, for example, are astonishing. O(f(n)) is the set of functions that asymptotically grow at most as fast as f(n). It's not limited to measuring running time in the RAM model, or somehow captures the variable n, or anything like that. You can use it to measure memory use, or communication volume, or anything else you like. It can be defined in multiple variables, like number of nodes and edges, or input size and approximation factor, or whatever else you might need. And all of n², n²+n log(n), √n log(n), 42, and 1/n are in O(n²) because O isn't Θ, ffs.</rant>
I live in Australia where by default, you don't have to pay for university right away (you have to pay the government back slowly once you start earning above a certain salary). As a result it's common for people to do double degrees over a long time, and universities usually don't care how long it takes you to do them.

I went down the opposite path than that described in this post - into electrical engineering and math, and 5 years down the line I feel like have no practical skills (there's an emphasis on theory and the fundamentals), and feel that I'm wasting my twenties being stressed out, abusing caffeine, and pulling all nighters every week.

I've been working hard on academics since I was 16 (I'm 22 now) this blog post reads like a fantasy of mine.
Very helpful post.

I decided to learn Alloy inspired by the excellent OCW course by its author Prof. Daniel Jackson, "Elements of Software Construction" 2008 [1], where it is introduced in the very interesting OO lecture.

My plan is to learn some logic first though, specially relational logic, from Stanforfd's "Introduction to Logic" [2], which I am enjoying.

There is also an Alloy book, with many examples like OO design and state machine based messaging protocols.

[1] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...

[2] http://intrologic.stanford.edu/lessons/lessons.html
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Happily.

The first ISPs were small BBSes operated by single SysOps, scattered across all the towns in America. There were a few corporate exceptions like CompuServ but the majority of the original consumer internet was completely owned and controlled by regular people with a passion for the technology.
Yes, the algorithm may be correct, but garbage in, garbage out still applies, bcause of biases.
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> This, in essence, moved the sense of their product from quality content to clickable content

The same problem exists with paid subscribers / buyers. Just compare the circulation numbers of British tabloids to those of high quality British newspapers (which don't really exist anymore. Even the Independent and (to a lesser extent) the Guardian have moved toward pandering to their audience.)
I would love such a device too.
I think that could be done with anonymous tokens, like PrivacyPass.
Ironically I wasn't saying that Subway is good at all. I'm saying that in my experience, they're the only ones that are merely tolerable. Pretty much like my impression of tea down there. You guys are horrendous at both. I bring my own tea and cup with me when I come down there now because trying to get you guys to make tea during road trips is ridiculous. It's horrible trying to find anywhere that will make a cup that I can bear. When I find myself thinking "A Tims, a Tims, my Kingdom for a Tim Hortons," you know it's bad.
is the metaphorical putting fingers in ears and going "La-la-lala!".

Hardly - the NYT et al is yet to grasp the nettle and just admit that Hillary was a bad candidate. No Russians, no sexism, no conspiracies necessary.
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what social safety net? Bill Clinton's welfare reforms put a limit on the welfare you can receive and you do not get a pass for gambling away your house...or day trading it away either
Finimize subscriber here, love it, keep up the good work :)

PS, would love beta access, email sent.
I wholeheartedly agree.

It is my personal belief that anyone who dedicates their lives to war-making is separated from the criminal classes only by a very, very thin line: the piece of paper authorising their use of deadly force against other humans, granted them by their government, and ultimately by us, the citizens.

The most honourable roles our societies have to offer are sadly under-acknowledged: teachers, nurses, doctors, builder of roads, takers of trash.

All of these are an echelon above the warrior, in my opinion.
I'm not sure if this is the point you were making, but divisibility doesn't make something less scarce, any more than being able to cut a gold brick into nuggets means gold isn't scarce. A single Bitcoin remains exactly as scarce regardless of how it is divided.
Yes, I think von Neumann made this claim somewhere already that AI is a moving target, because once some task is automated it doesn't seem intelligent anymore.
There's been a change 2 years ago with the end of quotas [1]

Also, I'm absolutely not trying to spread lies about the topic, just pointing out that there's no good reason for France to be facing a shortage of butter given our dairy-production capacity (and those of our European neighbours).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_quota
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Very true and unfortunately all to frequently ignored.
'Etudes for Programmers' itself remains an interesting read and entertaining problem set. And not a single one is about implementing a Red-Black tree from memory.
I was curious, so I looked up the SICP review you mentioned: https://www.amazon.com/review/R403HR4VL71K8
I really don't have a position on C++; I don't use it, and don't really want to make supportive or limiting statements.

I have used other memory safe languages, and I find their guarantees qualitatively different from Rust. I would say of them "you will not fall victim to memory unsafety unless there is a bug in the language or in the standard library" with no mention of other dependencies. The standard library is then fairly thoroughly audited.

By comparison, you have e.g. the `memmap` crate, which I like and use, written by serious people known to you, where `unsafe` is used in construction of the memory map. It is then on the user to ensure that there are no concurrent writes to the backing file for the lifetime of the map, at the risk of (as I understand it) UB. Would you describe such a program as "safe"? Or at least, can you understand why I might not? If a concurrent modification happens, is the bug to be found in the `unsafe { MmapMut::map_mut(&file)? }` block, or perhaps farther away where you safely open and modify the file before dropping the map?

I'm sorry if this comes off as quibbling; I do actually care about getting these things right, as I want to rely on them and do more interesting things (e.g. de-abomonate mapped memory).
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If you really were all-web, you would just use Chrome OS. As you said, though, you're actually a user of liquid haskell, latex, and rustc. In other words, either a computing hobbyist and/or developer.
Just to expound on your hypothesis (from another OOP TDD-ish proponent):

Google defines Cyclomatic Complexity as "a software metric... [that] is a quantitative measure of the number of linearly independent paths through a program's source code."

It seems to me that swapping out a dependency, abstracting it, and then feeding multiple variants of the same dependency to some code would greatly increase the number of linearly independent paths through the code. These kinds of refactorings/improvements also tend to greatly increase maintainability, clarity, flexibility, and your programs featureset...

By way of example: taking some DB insert code and updating it write to a simplified interface and then injecting components to handle writing to the DB, a local file for testing, AWS S3, and such... A well-factored, clean, reusable, persistence ignorant solution will have a higher cyclomatic complexity than a hard-coded, raw, INSERT. I know which one I want to maintain, though ;)
The younger generation probably gets it, but it doesn't sound as attractive as 1000% return of investment within a relatively short period that a lot of people who own bitcoin (and thus depend on new people buying it) are trying to promote.
This is a class full of engineers from Stanford, many of whom are going to be making $100k+ straight out of college. Yet 92% aren't going to be responsible for any student loans.

Wealthy parents? Incredible student aid from Stanford's endowment? Both? Either way, I have a feeling this is one of the biggest advantages they will have in achieving a secure financial future.
What happens to a defective unit? Is it disassembled with the base components put back in the assembly line? Or is it just sent to the landfill? I suppose OP was assuming defective units are just trashed.
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LOL at the downvotes, I guess the truth hurts XD
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Inexpensive? No. But you're basically describing Sony's DPT-RP1:

https://www.sony.com/electronics/digital-paper-notepads/dpt-...

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/4/10/15242238/s...

It's $700. Also, it can take input from a stylus to annotate the documents on it. But otherwise it's what you want. I, too, wish there were cheaper options for this purpose - even if it was a thick, heavy monitor with a stand and built-in 120V power supply rather than a tablet (though I suppose the power characteristics of e-ink displays mean that the economics will typically prefer the tablet form-factor). Reading is just a lot more pleasant on an e-ink display.
Just they often happen to be a few billionaires that use the media platforms to push their agendas to get beefy returns.

I'm not saying all, but as a general trend.