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Seriously?
The world might be better of without a phase in a young persons life where he/she can discover what there dream/ favorite research topic is. Better to keep the servs in their place less some Edison might push your pampered offspring from predetermined power? You don't have to be pro college and the debts but if this makes sense to you you are just another gilded guild baron holding humanity back.
Had a look at the code, no validation other than on the client. Sidenote, forgot how clean, minimal and expressive Python can be, was a pleasure to quickly grok.
Sure it is, the point is you cant separate discovery between good and bad until after the fact with an opinion. GP thinks morals should guide self censorship of discovery before the discovery, like somehow discovers know repercussions beforehand and should avoid particular avenues because that will somehow stop others who ignored the review board.

It wont happen. Someone will try it. What does saying "dont look here" do?
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I totally agree that pro-rating seems to be by far the best and most obvious solution. So much so that it almost feels like lying by omission when they don't discuss it as a possible solution in their blog post.

I stopped using Patreon a while back when they got hacked and leaked my personal information, but before that I was donating $1 a month to a handful of creators. I feel like that isn't an atypical use case at all - maybe even the most common pledge amount for a lot of creators. And there is absolutely no way I would have been willing to pay a $0.38 fee to pledge $1.
One of the common mistakes I see Australian (and other incoming) startups make is "hiring/setting up a sales person in SF".

It seems like a highly leveraged thing to do. Surely someone in-market, full-time, with sales experience should do 10x.

But you learn so much in the sales process. If you have someone remote, new and purely incentivized on sales you lose much of that information.

Quite often the sales person "fails". The company notches it up to being the wrong person, fires them and tries again. However, more often it's the product, the positioning, so many other things.
> Sure...roughly 11,000 years of history, hundreds of cultures and civilizations; that work?

No, not for me to draw conclusions with extreme certainty as so many others do, especially considering the complexity of the systems involved and the unreliability of the historic record. It's certainly not enough data for an arrogantly overconfident position.

> Can you find a civilization that has lasted with continuous benevolent and competent leadership?

I cannot, hence my usage of the phrase "I believe".

To me, it's an interesting idea to ponder, not a showdown.
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Also, a concern in London, if you look at only the tube map you might think the shortest distance is to take 2 trains since the map isn't to scale, however, it might only be a few minute walk. To try to help they've published a map.

http://content.tfl.gov.uk/walking-tube-map.pdf

Not sure if there is something similar for NYC.
What do you think the future of dissemination looks like? Right now I feel like we are all adrift in a sea of too much information and we cling desperately to targeted pieces of disinformation like life rafts.
How would them issuing tether out of thin air inflate the price of bitcoin?
That depends entirely on the ethics and morals you choose to adopt. There are certainly ethics that allow you to assess the moral worth of an action prior to knowing the result.

For instance, deontologists like Kant would not care about the outcome to determine whether an action is right or wrong. "Act only in accordance with that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it become a universal law"

Utilitarianists such as Mill would seek to maximize utility and would very much factor in the end result.
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> Science should foremost follow a moral and ethical attitude

And who should be the arbiter of what constitutes a “moral and ethical attitude”? You?
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I disagree. There is a section of the article titled "Where is all this cash coming from?" which claims (via a Reddit thread) that it's individuals buying on credit.
From the page:

”... when you click a stop, a simulation is run to calculate the travel time from that stop to every other stop. Using train departure times from the MTA, and the MTA's predicted transfer times within stations, the code counts how many minutes it takes for a simulated passenger departing the selected stop at 8:00 on a weekday would arrive at each stop on the map...”
By trading tether issued out of thin air for BTC.
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Was any of the solar and wind power currently being installed planned even 10 years ago? I doubt it: fossil and nuclear installations planned have been going down for quite a while.
it seams that the brain game is starting,
computer/brain interaction here we go :d
I don't think his point is limited to SF. It seems to be a thing where if you criticize any sufficiently popular view, you get the hammer down much harder than before. The only things that can be criticized are unpopular things, because they are safe to do so.

Like in SF, no one says "oh, you need to show hope in dealing with religion!" That's because among that crowd, religion is beyond the pale and doesn't need to be appeased. There are other things, but there's an awful lot of true groupthink today, and since the culture is so connected, its easier to shout down or tire contrarians.
And even without this, Google has a history of proactively notifying paying customers years in advance of termination of a commercial enterprise service. The Search Appliances are a perfect example -- EOL was announced a couple years ago but support has persisted for existing customers and only next spring will they finally be fully unsupported. Moreover, Google is actively offering migration plans & assistance to move GSA customers to the new Cloud Search service, or even to third party indexers like Elastic.

I get the gist of the OP's complaint, but like you said, that behavior pattern is just not tenable in the kind of operating environment Google Cloud finds itself in these days.

Disclaimer: I work for Google Cloud, but not on any of the aforementioned products.
You're right about the AMT. I misread the bill the first time.

This means the "40%" figure being thrown around is off, it's only a 30% reduction
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It's a Matrix reference.

/woosh
I'm not sure what you mean by end-to-end encryption.

It's a group chat, so it's more likely all messages are processed on server and then relayed to every people in the group. The easiest way to monitoring that kind of chat messages is .... install monitoring software directly on server.

And as far as I know, many (If not all) commonly used domestic chat software in China are monitored by the government.

So, it's a rather common sense in China to NOT chat on some specific topic during some specific period (Or, don't talk about it at all) online.

It's not an end-to-end encryption problem, it is the problem of National security (What ever that means to CCP) v.s. Individual freedom.
Yes, but that's not an auction: one bidder raising over another.

You might be able to do this in a two-at-a-time case, with two lanes of cars. Problem is that the lane behind the car that consistently underbids is being affected by a third party's decision.

It seems that there's a problem with the feedback/response cycle in one-at-a-time pricing systems. The more effective systems approach is to set a scheduled or contingent pricing, perhaps at 10-15 minute increments, minimum. A regular schedule (as with peak / off-peak rail or transit schedules) is another option.

Hence: how does OP propose to run an auction?
About revisitation: is there a tool that saves the contents of every web page as I browse, and creates a searchable archive?

I think there is a much higher probability that webpages I have seen in the past contain relevant information for future searches. It could be used as an offline library, or as an advanced revisitation mechanism.
To the shadowbanned user who replied to me: I looked at your comment history and found

- a comment about "Silicon Valleetards"

- a lot of non-killed comments, mostly (apparently) high quality

- one comment with what looks like casual racism, a handful of comments with extreme condescension towards other users, all killed

- a comment by 'dang saying part of his moderation activity includes personally looking at your comments and manually un-killing the vast majority of them

This seems entirely commendable on the moderators' part, and the only question it raises is how they have so much time. I have had the misfortune of being in multiple communities (a club in college, a job, a programming language, a church) where there was a skilled contributor who provided genuinely valuable and helpful work 80% of the time and hurtful behavior 20% of the time, and the community could never admit to itself that the harm they were causing to other skilled members was causing them to be net negative for the community.

"We will shadowban you and manually review and approve the 80% of your comments that build up the community" is a great approach if you can implement it, and I'm pleasantly surprised the mods think it's sustainable.

Also, in your specific case it seems more like 98% than 80%. I would really encourage you to take 'dang's advice in one of the threads where he responded, and 'sctb's advice in the thread where he banned you - agree to be civil. There's a difference between snark and insult. As someone who used to get a kick out of gratuitous public confrontation (as long as it was online and not in person!) and still needs to consciously suppress the occasional instinct to make technical disagreements personal (and doesn't always succeed), I totally get it. It feels super hypocritical for me to tell you not to do a thing that I do. But I hope this comes off as friendly advice from someone who's been there before, not hypocrisy. The comment that got you shadowbanned genuinely did not contribute to the community, and also genuinely is nowhere near your usual standards, so I'm surprised you're standing by it. (Two concrete suggestions: first, don't be afraid to type the comment you want to write and then close the tab, or submit it and then delete it 5 seconds later once you think better of it. I do that a lot. Second, if you're coming here to blow off steam, think hard about the thing in your life that's building up steam and whether you can get rid of it.)

I hope that, given that this is a thread about the merits of active moderation in online communities, a digression about active moderation in this online community is not too far off-topic.
> Now the police dreams that one look at the gigantic map on the office wall should suffice at any given moment to establish who is related to whom and in what degree of intimacy; and, theoretically, this dream is not unrealizable although its technical execution is bound to be somewhat difficult. If this map really did exist, not even memory would stand in the way of the totalitarian claim to domination; such a map might make it possible to obliterate people without any traces, as if they had never existed at all.

-- Hannah Arendt, "The Origins of Totalitarianism"

But it can't happen here, regardless of where "here" is. And when it does happen, it can't be discussed or resisted, especially when "here" became everywhere.

> We’re going to live in a world unless we do something quickly in which our media consume us and spit in the government’s cup. There will never have been any place like it before and if we let it happen, there will never be any place different from it again.

and

> What will they say when they realize that we lived at the end of a thousand years of struggling for freedom of thought. At the end, when we had almost everything, we gave it away, for convenience, for social networking. Because Mr. Zuckerberg asked us to. Because we couldn’t find a better way to talk to our friends. Because we loved the beautiful pretty things that felt so warm in the hand. Because we didn’t really care about the future of freedom of thought, because we considered that to be someone else’s business. Because we thought it was over. Because we believed we were free. Because we didn’t think there was any struggling left to do. That’s why we gave it all away.

> Is that what we're gonna tell them?

> Free thought requires free media. Free media requires free technology. We require ethical treatment when we go to read, to write, to listen and to watch. Those are the hallmarks of our politics. We need to keep those politics until we die. Because if we don’t, something else will die. Something so precious that many, many of our fathers and mothers gave their life for it. Something so precious, that we understood it to define what it meant to be human; it will die.

-- both by Eben Moglen in "Freedom of thought requires free media"
Small sample size (21) and only one who preferred windows over tabs. Still, may be worth studying more.

I prefer browser tabs after resisting them for about a year. And I still prefer separate terminal windows. So maybe I'm not the best judge.
What's a good book for Quantum Computing? When I took Aaronson's class last semester I got so wrecked by everything, and it just felt like everything was so conflicting from many different resources
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Namedropping philosophers like it's an argument is only relevant in theater. Will n scientists deciding not to look into something prevent it's discovery?
Going from some stations to stations on other lines, it takes more time to get to the transfer station than to several stops farther on the second line. That seems off.

Choose Rockefeller Center then look at the purple line just below it for example.
I think the statement “it doesn’t solve anything” is hyperbole that makes the nuanced argument you’re making (that I don’t disagree with) hard to have. How is a block chain useful at all if it’s current main application “doesn’t solve anything?”

By the way, it does, just not for first world countries which is a pretty ignorant position to have. What if your country’s money is being devalued by morons in government? Or you’re being financially persecuted? Or the banking system is horrible. Or you just want to send back your family money. The problem now is the high fees, but once someone figures that out it solves it in a major way, don’t you think?
Why would anyone want to exchange their Bitcoins that are worth over $10,000 each on Coinbase (and can be converted to real dollars) for some tokens that are backed by nothing?
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Discord is the messaging system that I will gladly move to and pay for if only they agree to implement a few enterprisey features (especially around permissions and video chat).
Except of course for More, you seem to be describing dystopian fiction.
Giant fans to cool a multi thousand kilometer long reef.

The level of stupid here is so high you can't really say anything meaningful about it.
A chilling read. I use WeChat because I have a few friends in China. I am glad I have read this. I have never talked to them about China's internal politics for fear that something like this might exist. Now I know it is worse than I even thought possible. I cannot even tell them this article exists.

I believe (hope?) that this will be the death of social media in the long run, at least in authoritarian states. No one is going to use these forums if it means they or their family members can be put in jail for a joke. This is straight out of 1984, and that can be said with 0 hyperbole. When they start using ML to detect dissidents who speak in coded language, we will truly have a real live thought police. Christ almighty.
> Ever wonder why Coinbase takes about a week to “process” the sell?

I've actually always wondered this. What were to happen if the moment I click Sell, the price is $10K but when it's "processed", the price at that time is $1...would the USD I receive be based at time of click or time of processing?
You seem to be missing the point.

I am not saying that food or dating in Japan is the same as Europe (although I am not sure how you think childbirth works, I can assure you that the core of the childbirth experience is quite the same across humanity).

What I am saying is that when you compare things that are actually comparable - graduation rates, unemployment, drug abuse, illiteracy, child vaccination, etc - Japan is in many cases more clustered with the leading European countries than the US is.

Furthermore, when it comes to things like sexual assault, Japan is far behind.

On this basis, it is completely ridiculous to claim that Japanese people are the “most courteous and honest in the world”, unless your definition of a honorable society includes one where most women get groped on the subway as teenagers.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/03/sexual-ass...
What this article fails to mention is if the subjects need to remain on a restricted diet.

I'm a type II diabetic (my A1C was 8.7 when diagnosed) who is technically "cured" (my A1C ranges between 5.8 and 6.0), but my doctor said to me, "Make no mistake, the minute you go back to eating the way you used to, all the symptoms will return."

I don't take any medication, but I remain on my diet. And I never cheat.

I don't practice calorie restriction, but I follow my doctor's and nutritionist's guidelines: I avoid the four horsemen of the diabetic apocalypse (bread, rice, potatoes, pasta), no desserts, no dried fruit or fruit juice.

I dropped 10 lbs. when I changed my diet (I'm at 150 lbs. now), and I've never really felt the same sense of fullness as I did when I ate carbs. I'm mildly hungry all the time.
Or older people getting into the crypto game because they're hearing their stock advisers tooting their horns.

Some of them have boatloads of assets and will trade a small percentage just to get in the crypto game. No credit required.

My friend I helped buy in isn't disappointed. He doesn't fully get what cryptos are yet (although I explain them every time I talk to him), but he sure likes the returns...so far.

Edit: filly -> fully
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Exactly - the permission structure is the single biggest problem.
This will pretty much kill slack if they can build this in.
> Everything about Bitcoin is driven by emergent consensus.

...which is a fancy word for a speculative bubble.
What I was trying to say is, Block.one(like every blockchain project/currency) has to be very careful in how they market themselves and their blockchain, legally. It's still the wild west in crypto, which makes it prime for government market regulators to target any projects they want to take down. Safest way to play this is to essentially not own up to or promise anything within company legal documents. This is why Block.one does not allow anyone from the USA or China(I believe) to buy into its ICO at this moment. Look into the history of E-gold. That was like a bitcoin network that worked, but was shut down because the government knew who the top 3 people that ran it were.
Maybe not in this particular case, but I know someone about that age who grew up about 30 years ago off of Page Mill in the hills and he said their house was at least 20 times less than they are going for now, but sadly for him, his parents had to sell it when his family moved out of the area. This might have been before even 280 was built IIRC.
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> Namedropping philosophers like it's an argument is only relevant in theater

I'm not namedropping for the sake of namedropping, and I don't know why you'd say philosophers are only relevant in theater.

We're discussing ethics and failing to understand the contributions of philosophy in that context is a major mistake (your reasoning is primarily utilitarianist and I'm not saying that's wrong, just what it is. Utilitarianism is very widely used in modern societies).

We're also debating science. Who do you think developed ideas of scientific processes; what knowledge is and how we attain it?

> Will n scientists deciding not to look into something prevent it's discovery?

If getting to a discovery requires unreasonably horrible actions I hope it'll at least be delayed until such time it can be made without such horrible actions. Many have suffered throughout history in the name of scientific progress.

Plenty of ethics are implemented in science already. That's a good and ever-evolving thing.
The I9-7900 seems like a rather strange CPU to compare a video card. Why not a Intel xeon with 50% more memory bandwidth? Or an AMD Epyc with 100% more bandwidth? Not hard to get 2-3x the cores (in a single socket) and double the bandwidth/cores with a dual socket.

That way you get pretty good memory bandwidth, can directly access much more ram (1TB easy), and you can run a wide variety of codes (not just GPU codes).

Sure the Titan X is great if your code A) doesn't communicate B) fits entirely in system memory and C) runs on CUDA. Of course the real world often intrudes with PCI-e latency and memory limitations.

Not saying GPUs don't have their place, but it's easy to overstate their usefulness.
1. Removing the central party was always key for making a system that could benefit everyone and not create rules that favored the powerful. Your question is phrased such that it’s talking about trustless computing as a whole so it can be applied to things such as creating a true and verifiably secure direct democratic system that everyone can trust and understand given some level of tech knowledge.

2. To establish a system of trust requires physical secuirty, political power, and financial resources that make this kind of computing only possible for the rich and powerful unless it’s already in their interest.

3. Price is an excellent indicator and the fact that we see coins being created means there’s innovation around it, but excluding those I think the best place to look is before there was a financial motive and look at the crypto punk movements and those who’d been trying to do trustless computing since the 90s in order to use technology to make society more fair and democratic.
Not everyone care about animal well being, I certainly don't, to me they are less than human.
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You get close to the price when you click, not exactly but pretty close.
>It seems that bleeding edge changes to Chrome are breaking things

Breaking changes are an expected cost of being on the bleeding edge of something.

The Canary (chrome) website[1] literally opens with the following disclaimer:

Get on the bleeding edge of the web
Google Chrome Canary has the newest of the new Chrome features.
Be forewarned: it's designed for developers and early adopters, and can sometimes break down completely.

Caveat emptor.

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