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> If we could run the economy on blockchain, why not?

Because we can't. Given that there are trade imbalances between countries (and assuming we want the economy to actually continue to run, as opposed to transfer all the wealth in the world to first one country, then one person, and then stop alltogether)

That means trade imbalances must be forgiven. Our current system does that through credit creation and crashes (bankruptcies). Bitcoin simply ignores the problem. Therefore bitcoin economic model is designed to transfer all the wealth to the rich and stop.
The “naturally” part is interesting...we manipulate money supply partly to hit target inflation rate. Would there be a way to use the ongoing transactions on a blockchain itself to calculate an inflation metric, and then naturally increase or decrease the money supply to keep it around 2-3% or whatever?
I've been doing this for over 15 years with an invoicing app I have and I've got to know a lot users pretty well over that time.

My app is simple and easy to use, and I've made "Training Videos" for just about everything you can do with, and I've had years to work out any bugs that have popped up, so I don't get a lot of calls anymore. But every call is a chance to learn something and improve the app and I pay very close attention to those who call.

My approach is that it's never the user's fault, and I tell them that. I work click by click with them to show them how to do something and I tell them if something doesn't work it's my fault and I will fix it. And I also ask them how they think it should work.

Before I made my first app back in the `90s I read a book Apple put out called something like "Apple Human Interface Guidelines". At first glance I thought it was a waste of money, but since I'd spent it I decided to read it all.

It explained some of the history of the Apple GUI and how and why things were designed the way they were, which was basically on things people were familiar with, like "Radio Buttons" and "Checkboxes", etc.

By the time I was done I realized the genius in the approach. I'm still impressed with it. My goal has been to make web apps that the user doesn't have to learn anything to use. That it all works like they expect it should. After 15+ years I've got pretty close now. I rarely get any calls or emails.

Kind of feel like the "Maytag Man" now.
The "Scale" in your name ScaleAPI seems somewhat disingenuous given the fact that you're company seems to be based purely on using humans to do things.
Anything that has PPS and is compatible with GPSD will work..
I wish my employer had an Engineer 3 position. I'm on track to be promoted out of Engineer 2, which will make me "senior" with two years of experience on a single team. It seems farcical. It seems unlikely that I'd hold up to any other company's expectations for "senior." I'm not wild about obfuscating my title, and I'd guess that a prospective employer isn't wild about hiring someone into a lower level.
Bitcoin would have to drop 85% in value from where it is now to only have doubled in value over the past year. I'll take 100% yearly value growth any day of the week.
I haven't looked into Filecoin, but (in general) the topology of the block-chain is terrible for file storage (off the top of my head: the block-chain itself ends up being massive and the blocks end up being of variable-size).
You're right about most compilers having a build system MSVC being probably the biggest.

Modern C++ when combined with Qt makes rapid iteration very doable. In my opinion Qt should be the standard c++ model.
Thank you. That is a good explanation and is indeed what I meant.
I find turning on my Antilag is a good solution to tail-gaters. Nothing like shooting fire at the car behind under deceleration to give you a bit of room.
the blockchain depends on a third party running it
I suppose a better phrase is, "I haven't had an interest in Clojure apart from the language itself, and dealing with the JVM and toolchain is something I find frustrating enough that I have chosen not to dive into Clojure yet."

My limited experience with the Java toolchain is that it's unnecessarily difficult to use outside of an IDE (classpaths, etc.), and using Clojure on top of it is even more difficult.

My experience is that most people who create tools for the Java ecosystem are quite content with having a bulky mess of tools, and consider IDEs (and nothing else) to be the gold-standard.

It's just something that I'd rather not contend with, even though Clojure (and Clojurescript, which suffers from the same problems) as a language sounds quite nice.
How about you tell me how and why and let me know if you think the same is true for Bitcoin et al, how you'd compare them?
And I can only imagine shareholders and capital encouraging this deception instead of admonishing it. We must build mechanisms to correct this behavior.
clrs has plenty on it.
I agree with SomeStupidPoint that at the current speeds it blows away both ACH and wire transfers if you need the transfer to happen pretty quickly but don't want to pay usurious fees.

Every major blockchain is trying to shard or find other solutions to increase scalability of confirmations. Most coins have it on the 2018 roadmap to deliver lots of these improvements which will bring the transaction times way down. If some coins stay slow, then others will be used instead for situations where you need to compete with the speed of a wire transfer.
> there is no reason beyond speculation to own a POW coin.

The incentives of a pow coin align with the users, not the owners, so there's no reason any user would prefer to use another incentive structure.

> There is a reason, independent of speculation, to own a POS coin.

It is not trustless. You are reliant upon the owners not re-writing the consensus rules to your detriment.
May have more to do with the pace of the industry your serving and maturity of the software. In a niche that doesn't change much it's probably easier to get dialed in to what most customers want and need.
LLVM and rustc are pretty fickle with what they'll autovectorize. The idea of faster is to make things which are impossible to autovectorize easy to write as SIMD.

A few examples I'm targeting for the next point release are matrix determinants, cross products, byte-aligned encoding (like https://github.com/AdamNiederer/base100/blob/master/src/lib....), and reductive operations like strcmp. AFAIK none of that can be autovectorized at all.
I have to say: as much as I probably agree with every critic of this… The damn thing is called FACEbook, so it would almost be wrong for them not to do this!

(I don't know a mark for whatever this is, it's not sarcasm or irony, something about tragic comedy fate…)
I was thinking earlier that maybe YouTube CC-licensed audio with manually entered subtitles might be a good source?

Though, most videos of decent length would only contain say three or four speakers, which is most definitely sub-optimal.

https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=EgYYAigBMAE%253D&search_q...
Its on the 2018 roadmap for pretty much every (non-ICO-pump-and-dump) coin.
Windows 10's 'Timeline' continuity tool arrives soon for Insiders
The most common commercial plane in America is the Boeing 737 [1]. It seats 100 to 200 passengers [2].

Delta officers and first captains make $320 and $200 thousand, respectively, and fly about 1,000 hours a year [3]. So 520 per hour, between the two of them.

A main-cabin ticket to New York from San Jose, California about 2 months out costs $146. (Its SJC to MSP leg happens to be on a 737.) Flight time is about 6 hours.

Assuming 175 (one-class 737-800 configuration) paying passengers we have about $25,000 in revenues. The captain and first officer’s pay is roughly 12% of that. That’s a lot.

[1] http://www.fi-aeroweb.com/US-Commercial-Aircraft-Fleet.html

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737

[3] http://onemileatatime.boardingarea.com/2016/12/01/delta-pilo...
"Whether a car is being controlled by computer or human being shouldn't matter at all."

There is human-equivalent software? That's astonishing. Where can I find it? Does it run on ARM?

Edit: Bummer. I called Denso, they were adamant that their human-level code v3.11 is a trade secret.

"A car with a human in it deserves more protection"

We agree. _please_ explain how to accomplish that.

Remember, KE is relative, therefore velocity and mass limits for the pre-programmed machine are not relevant.

Clearly my empty pre-programmed human carrying drone should enjoy the same lanes as a loaded 777. Lets set aside the distraction about remote control which totally ignores the "skin in the physics game" which transportation of life requires.
That is arguably one of Satoshi's biggest victories.

By removing himself from the picture Bitcoin stands alone, controlled by the masses - which is exactly how it ought be. If instead Al Gore created Bitcoin, it will be intrinsically tied with his name as some sort of central person which is contrary to the entire idea. The reason I think this is particularly important is because decentralization is generally going to be seen as intuitively impossible to laymen.

And the possibility of a person is always greater than the reality. Fischer is still the greatest chess champion to ever live in the minds of many, even though he only played in one world championship - and against a champion who was on his way out in any case. Him disappearing after a meteoric rise paradoxically cemented his legacy. Satoshi is a much more meaningful creator than John Doe could ever be.
Indeed. When one thinks of "identity theft victims", one doesn't think of a bank.

But it is the bank, it should be! When a bank is robbed, its clients aren't the victims. The bank is. The clients aren't giving money to the bank for nothing in return; what they get in return is assurance of safety and availability (otherwise, that would be a loan, not a deposit). Spinning the failure to deliver on that obligation as the client's problem is indeed great PR work.
I (mis?)interpreted the GP comment to mean a service that makes it easy to charge for the phone support they provide.
Ok, sure there's a fertility decline...and?

There are too many people using too many resources on our small finite planet. Is good, no?
They don't look low to me.
If by pre-pay you mean pay the full retail price, then you can do so without any SSN.
The description is hard to parse, but I agree it doesn't seem focused on solving a problem or creating value for users. Rather to build an audience or page views for <something>.
It's also advisable to omit vowels entirely to avoid generating offensive words.
This is why Crowdflower has the option to only show data to people who have signed a non-disclosure agreement. You don't just show private data to everyone on the Internet...
KYC doesn't require a photo, does it?
My experience with doing phone support for applications is that it is excellent if well-augmented, and absolute garbage otherwise.

Due to a variety of factors, my previous employer provided about 50-50 phone and email support, often with phone as the first point of contact. That worked because phone calls came in with proper context (essentially providing information about who is calling and information about their account status) and I had tools to guide callers when something wasn't extremely basic: most applications are primarily visually- or textually-rich environments, and verbal descriptions require a high degree shared context on both sides (e.g. you are a competent CCNA contacting Cisco TAC, and both parties share a common verbal language to describe non-verbal tools). Absent that, screen-sharing capability is critical, as otherwise phone support is endless dead air of "I'm looking at things you can't see while you describe things I can't see and have no context for, let's both black box everything and pray for telepathy." My current employer doesn't provide that, so phone support devolves into a push button for customers to say, "this issue is urgent!" while support says "probably, but we can't send you screenshots over the phone, so please go away while we write a response that actually provides useful information--you can remain on the phone if you want, but it's going to just be dead air or us talking you down from panic mode while not actually doing anything to address the problem."
Or self-host it and never send out any data. (I'm offering a self-hosted solution for OCR)
Did you actually read the article? This is more than for just global shopping.
oh so it is off-chain then? haven't really seen a product like that. Must be the same as leaving your coins in an exchange and converting to fiat when you spend?
I can’t say I’m thrilled with using Crashlytics in my own iOS apps, but I’m not aware of any better options when it comes to crash tracking. A handful of crashes come in through Apple’s opt in crash report sharing but when compared to the data I’m getting from Crashlytics, it’s clear that a lot of info is missing. If I relied only on manually submitted bug reports and what Apple is telling me, I never would’ve come to know about many of the bugs I’ve fixed. Better testing could’ve caught some of them, but many just won’t surface in any other place except out in the wild.

Is increased privacy worth decreased stability? I won’t claim to know the answer to that question, but I suspect it’s more murky than some think, especially when you have paid customers who expect a throughly solid product for their money.
> Personally I still love Racket and think that is the LISP of the future.

I agree. It seems quite likely that the next "hundred-year language" will either be racket itself, or live in racket's ecosystem. That, or something like red[0]

[0](http://www.red-lang.org/)
The article doesn't point this out, but in GANs, the parameters actually move on a continuous range. In other words, they don't just have several of your pictures, they've got all sorts of movies :

A movie where your face starts out "neutral" and becomes angry. A movie where you start out angry, go to surprised and end happy. And so on.

Excellent progress, I must say.
How is Facebook legally able to solicit child pornography? Because it sounds like that's what they're doing.
"They trust me, the dumb fucks." - Mark Zuckerberg
>This also makes C++ more difficult to teach. The first hours of a C++ class are rarely rewarding as the students must learn how to set up a small project before writing any code. And then, a lot more time is required before their work can result in any visual outcome.

Install a c++ compiler, create main.cpp, `g++ main.cpp`

What am I missing?
Now, at 40, but I still wanna work as it's hella fun,

Same mistakes as anyone, namely not saving enough and being too emotional about financial decisions.
I get it. You don't understand the application of decentralization and consensus in bitcoin, and how its application separates it from all other alts. Bitcoin is the only real crypto-currency, because it is the only one to have achieved actual decentralization, and therefore is a working implementation of the previously thought unsolvable solution to the Byzantine Generals Problem.

Doesn't mean other people don't understand this though, and that number increases every day.
>alternate hypertext reality that is only text based

Except the text is aligned vertically and the terminal scrolls horizontally.

You've just logged into... the Twilight Zone.
The last time I checked Youtube's terms of service prohibit you from making use of the rights granted by the creative commons licenses on the content.
I don't think you read the BLS page correctly. The 126k figure is for a subset of pilots. Read the next sentence to see what the rest make. The page also doesn't give a figure for the proportion of airline pilots, only "pilots, copilot'slls, and flight engineers". I also said "major airline" to specifically make the apology with "big 5 software companies".
It has nothing to do with a central bank and identity theft can be solved easily. The first thing that needs to happen is your credit profile is in a default frozen state. The second is that identity theft is treated properly as bank fraud. Poof, identity theft is nearly eradicated overnight.
Another commenter replied to your first point and I hold their sentiment.

Regarding your second point, there is a spectrum here between "recreating authentic experience" and closer to "making something that isn't real" for likes. An extreme example is that I live in a hipster neighborhood with a bunch of European inspired architecture (in the midwestern USA). I once saw two people hold up their small puppy they had on a leash up to autumn leaves in a plant in order to take a picture, around shoulder level with outstretched arms. The dog was clearly in distress, but they continued for one or two times while the dog was whimpering and trying to get down.

The dog was not "experiencing the autumn leaves." Instead, I'm guessing this was closer to "I've seen these sorts of posts in ig, and it's popular, so I'm going to try to recreate it for likes." Why else would someone do that?

So that's an extreme towards GP's point while you seem to be on a spectrum towards another area where it's more like amplification over manufacture.
but if you are one of the owners, how can owners rewrite the rules to your detriment? or, why would they? whether you own $10k worth of coins, or $10 million, in the case of POS, the incentives are aligned and the coin owners earn transaction fees. In the POW case, what underpins the value of the coin?
Thanks for the plug, we love happy customers.

btw: We no longer use MTurk, we have our own crowd now.
IMO yes. Although SBSA and SBBR target the servers, already smaller gear (think vCPE, set top box and IoT gateway chips) are adopting the specs as well, and I anticipate adoption everywhere except devices where a) cost is everything b) power and perf need to be squeezed out even at the cost of maintainability. At some point following the everything-needs-its-own-BSP mentality for embedded SoCs will start hurting the bottom line, because there will be plenty of competitors willing to make more “normal”-looking gear.
And for people who wanted it to settle immediately or treat it like cash, they could make a direct transfer, , and have it clear on the order of minutes.

Can you please elaborate on this a bit more. What is direct transfer and how is it different from bitcoin /ethereum payments. From what I understand, they are the same.
That's why bitcoin is such a disruptive invention. It solves what was previously the unsolvable Byzantine Generals Problem. Before that invention, a cryptographically secure decentralized store of value was not possible. Now it is. That's why it is such a disruption.
The atmosphere and oceans are nearly destroyed and this is what we choose to discuss? Irrelevant.
I recently thought about the idea of holding "office hours" of sorts, which would help with the context switching I've seen mentioned.

Has anyone been able to monetize phone support as an upsell?
As one example, Rackspace doesn’t (they upstream from pool) for all their data centers.

Source: recently asked them this.
From a quality standpoint Apple is a shadow of its former self. For me a large number of the more recent features in macOS and iOS don’t work reliably. Things like handoff, text message forwarding, enabling tethering from the Mac, etc. are 50/50. These kind of things used to be Apples bread and butter. Taking ideas like these and making them “just work”. And now the security regression are creeping in. I would love to see them get back to very simple product lines and a more minimalist approach to software features.
gold is actually used to do things, outside of jewelry its used in various industrial applications (for example, the computer you are using right now). so there is a floor to the value of gold, because its a real commodity. there is no floor to a digital currency with little real world adoption/use.
When a newspaper prints '{statement}, according to {source}' there's a reason: they don't independently verify those facts. They're printing it in the hope that it's useful, and giving you their source as a cop out or, if you're being charitable, so that you can decide whether you want to believe it or not.

The statement "In 2012, USPS was paid only 94 cents on average for each piece of Chinese ePacket mail, according to a February report from the Postal Service’s inspector general’s office." is probably 100% accurate, in the same sense that "Rahim is the best dad ever, according to his son" is true, could be 100% accurate. You could stand by either statement. And both could be accurate. But it doesn't mean they're not misleading (in that the fact being discussed might not be true).

If you look for it, you'll see similar patterns scattered all over newspapers. One of the most common examples: '{company} reported 4th quarter earnings of {amount}'. There's a reason they don't simply say ''{company} earned {amount} in Q4'.
They cant, for multiple reasons. But even if you believe what you said, all workers dont unionize. Thats an empirical fact.

So while they dont all unionize, still some workers eat others.
Yes, through tmux config.

https://gist.github.com/sijad/771426b3995eb05faeb6d78926645e...

Found in https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/issues/146

Alacritty might get mouse modifiers to use its own text selection (better for a remote session), but that's good enough for me.

I use, for extra vim niceness:

setw -g mode-keys vi
bind-key -T copy-mode-vi 'v' send -X begin-selection
bind-key -T copy-mode-vi 'y' send -X copy-pipe-and-cancel "reattach-to-user-namespace pbcopy"
bind-key -T copy-mode-vi MouseDragEnd1Pane send-keys -X copy-pipe-and-cancel "reattach-to-user-namespace pbcopy"
Separating bitcoin from blockchain is separating it from its incentive structure, which is the very thing that makes it a disruptive invention. It's almost like they're trying to unmake the invention.
The pilots in argentina is a remarkably powerful union. I single it out because im argentinian
Hmmm, you can turn off like notifications though. I did that long ago for instagram and facebook.
No, this is for speech recognition only.
The entire global economy? Maybe you should narrow your market focus a little. NTPD and or GPSD support anything with NMEA and PPS. You should be able to satisfy a large range of users with any ublox 6, 7 or 8T.
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