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>A system where anyone can rent out their CPU time will result in less centralization than we see with current cloud providers.

This is an aspirational wish but not reality at the moment. Nobody including BOINC or any other decentralized grid computing endeavor has proven that economically. For your cause & effect of "less centralization" to happen, homeowners cpu would have be cost competitive with cloud services. Selling "idle" time on home cpus isn't cost effective. Most realistic computation workloads also require large datasets (diskspace) in addition to cpu cycles. People don't pay only for the Amazon cpu clock cycles; it's also S3 data storage and network bandwidth.

Likewise, Filecoin's whitepaper for decentralized disk storage is also aspirational and economically unproven at this time.

>A system where anyone can mine productively will result in less centralization than we see with current cryptocurrencies.

Probably not. The "mine productively" in your solution has 2 components: (1) the useful computation and (2) the cryptocurrency computation.

For a thought experiment, let's assume you invent the 95% useful computation algorithm that you targeted. The 5% computation will still be have to be done on hardware where different entities can spend vastly different amounts of money. (Pay more for more powerful computers or pay less for watts of energy because China computer is near hydroelectric dam, etc.)

The 95% of useful computation (say brute force protein folding or DNA cancer analysis) can be an absolute gain for society. However, the 5% computation's "productive value" is _relative_ to all other participants mining that cryptocurrency. Since others can work through that 5% computation much more efficiently (both in pure hardware cycles and/or energy efficiency), the 5% crypto work on the homeowner's laptop loses value in relation to everybody else. Whatever crypto coins the laptop successfully mines, others have mined even more coins rendering the laptop coins to be worth less because of the relative time & energy it took on that modest laptop cpu.

The 95%/5% ratio that's resistant to ASICs does not stop the inevitable trends towards centralization into major entities holding disproportionate power and/or coins in the system. The 5% "non-useful" computation can still be optimized by people spending more money than others. Since spending is not decentralized, the resulting rewards from the 5% computation will also not be decentralized.
After taking a few 3000+ mile roadtrips, I'm done taking roadtrips. If I can't get there in a single day's drive, I'm flying, see you when you get there. Running the miles on the Model 3, it has more than enough to be my only car. If you don't do roadtrips, which are vacation-day intensive anyway, it's an interesting experiment to run the numbers if an electric works for you. Of course some hater will, till the end of time, find a scenario where it doesn't work. But I think if most people really think about it, they'll see how well the current range of a car like the Model 3 will fit their needs. It does for me and can't wait to get mine.
Crazy story.

There is an electrical issue which cannot be fixed easily because it is now out of warranty. I get continuously mildly shocked most times i touch the keyboard. I still use it at home with a docked setup (external keyboard, mouse), but it is a total no-no when on-the-go. Docked, it is great -- can even connect three monitors (2 via DP and 1 via HDMI).

The electrical issue started as a mild annoyance manifesting as a slight tickle in the fingers and some vibration, but when using for many hours, my pinky started getting paralyzed and would stay that way until the weekends when I didnt use the laptop. At first I though it was my pillow, sleep posture, or something. Only later did I realize it was long term mild electrocution adding up...

I tried all the electrical re-baselines at the apple store but the next set of fixes were so expensive might as well buy a Razer, which I did...
You’re mixing up information and preferences.
It may be close... my only point of reference is I recently shipped an older 50 lb Mac Pro from Oregon to the Midwest (I forget where, exactly) and that was $42.00, with insurance, through USPS Priority Mail. I paid online which gives you a discount, but shipping rectangular boxes is cheap.
You're missing the point. Everyone just holds the currency because they treat it as an investment. In other words, they are speculating.

People invested, in both the financial and emotional sense, tell others to hold because that drives the price up more. The subculture's vernacular even includes "HODL", a joking way to tell someone to keep doing their part to drive prices up.

It's painfully obvious what people are doing.
But then they'd spoil!
If they ever add support for AMD GPU in this ML lib, I will seriously consider buying the next-gen Mac Pro.
What exactly do you mean by lifestyle?

I am in Sydney now and yes, if I was already wealthy and lived near the beach and had lots of free time I would have an amazing lifestyle.

But if you are a busy professional, you just won't have the time to really enjoy all of this unless you just don't care about your career much and clock out at 5 on the dot.

My weekdays are an absolute blur. I lose one weekend day to chores / errands. So I have one day to actually enjoy my surroundings and I need the weather to co-operate that day too.

I agree though Adelaide is under utilized. It could be such a great place if it had a strong economy. Unfortunately it's hampered by lack of vision. I also think Darwin has been a complete lost opportunity. They should lease the whole place to the Singaporean government and see what happens ;)
Even if manufacturers behave nicely, there is still the possibility that the devices are eventually somehow compromised by bad actors and used nefariously.

For example, the CIA developed and deployed a program to use the built-in microphone on Samsung "smart" TVs to spy on targets, even when it looks like it's off: https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/7/14841556/wikileaks-cia-hac...
Rust Playground can now output in WebAssembly
Without hard proof, but having watched the last decade of environmental tech developments wit interest, I agree with you pretty much completely. None of those policies would exist if there was no hope of the success of the commercial technology within those timeframes. It would be like legislating nuclear fusion power generation. Nobody else did much of anything until Tesla began succeeding, and more importantly prepped the consumer market for EV demand.
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It's the Privacy v. Convenience trade off. The conveniences are promoted, the privacy implications shrugged off, and in the end you pay someone money to invade your home 24 hours a day.

It's a simple but scary formula that doesn't make me optimistic for the future.
For a celebrated economist, Krugman has a poor grasp of certain facets of economics. It's probably a subconscious way of rectifying his political views, which many of us are guilty of.

In this case, he does not understand how Bitcoin can be a store of value, because it is not backed by a government. How come gold or any other commodity has value? Value it what the market decides, not the government. He obviously did not understand the intrinsic value the technology provides, which previous media of exchange do not provide, such as immutability and full control of funds. He is happy to pass judgment without understanding the technology.
Currying is essentially a trick to turn n-ary functions to unary functions so you can compose them. It also enables the creation of specific functions from generic ones by supplying arguments. Also, as functions can have functions as arguments it is the ultimate dependency injection pattern, if you’re familiar with the oop lingo.
Virtual Kubelet,  Kubernetes kubelet with a pluggable back end
A letter from Coinbase
just got this:
I actually don't think Clojure is a good hobby language; it has specific opinions that are there to help you make good design decisions in large scale systems, but in small projects they just get in the way.
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This should be required reading, along with a test, before anyone is allowed to buy/"invest" in them.
What a waste of power.
Did I miss something? I see no mention of white space in this article.
Maybe we should call it anarcho-markets?
I have once heard a beautiful song in a local swimming pool. I've shazamed and googled it just to find the only place it was available from being Audiosparx - a site I've never heard about before that time, seeming kind of an "audio clip-art" store, titled as "commercial music for video, TV, film and media".
Bitcoin Theft: Common Threats, Hacks, and Scams
You want the BMW i3 with range extender, the gasoline engine only attaches to a generator.
This is a great insight and I completely agree about the two class system that capitalism creates. I think capitalist vs commodity is a much more clear framing of my perception of our system than millionaire vs billionaire.

Do you think it is a reality of capitalism that there be these two classes? Certainly capitalists must exist in capitalism but is it possible for us all to be capitalists? I see no reason why not. Can one be both a capitalist and a commodity?
It can be idiomatic in Javascript if you choose a functional style.

I think Javascript has become a kitchen-sink language. It is, as you say, a language that affords many styles. If you pick a sub-set of the language that is functional you can see that currying is quite idiomatic in that context.

That being said I think library support is a necessity when choosing a more functional approach in Javascript as the "core" experience in JS caters to an imperative, C-derived language (as per many of the examples). If you work with Ramda you can get most of what you need today to make working with currying, and it's compositional capabilities, pleasant.

Consider R.curryN:

const add = R.curryN(2, (a, b) => a + b)

You can now call this:

add(1)(2)
add(1)
add(1, 2)

And you have options in terms of order of parameters:

const sillyAdd2 = add(R.__, 2) // a silly example
sillyAdd2(3) // => 5

And if you want even more flexibility there is Fantasyland[0] and Sanctuary[1] among others.

Javascript is fertile ground, in my experience, for getting developers to experiment with and adopt functional programming paradigms.

[0] https://github.com/fantasyland/fantasy-land

[1] https://github.com/sanctuary-js/sanctuary
> The downside there is that you're then forced to build your application as a completely separate service and static site.

That is not true, you just call what you need from the JS framework and you can still use the old HAML in the other areas.
I miss Professor Dewar a lot. Best college professor I've had.
What was your ultimate salary?
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Formal proof of behavior is hard and probably specious.

There cannot be a formally logical explication of code for even "common sense problems", like, say, how to safely drive a car. It doesn't exist because it's probably impossible but it's at least not feasible. Instead we use sampling of real world data to train models to solve this problem. This is the story of Data over Logic.
I read it again, and that's not what I'm seeing.
So you theorize that all airlines will implement completely random fees for baggage so no one has any idea what a flight will really cost...

It seems that at best there will be a small amount of information asymmetry and that should the randomness of bag prices get too bad, someone will be incentivized by the market to publish bag prices.

At worst, it will lead to something like GasBuddy where consumers input what flight they took and how much the bag cost.

The idea that the market for airlines will completely break down because there is no regulation on bag fees seems a little... far fetched.
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My Tesla is my only car. It's doing pretty good.

I can totally believe that it wouldn't work for you, but I'm not you.
A parent comment says it's due to variable number of arguments.

I thought it was about speed, heh.
I think I have an explanation, but I'm not sure, so I would appreciate criticism.

OP = person who posted pastebin

E = person who's been stealing and laundering funds

The key observation is that some people "create private keys from just about anything using Sha256 (i.e. Sha256(password/phrase)). This, of course, is NOT a recommended way of obtaining a private key since if YOU can think of the word/phrase, someone else can too"

Maybe E noticed this in 2014 just like OP did. Then she decided to try to make a lookup table. First she hashed everything in a natural language dictionary. Then to try to make her hash lookup table a bit bigger, extended it to any string of a given length like a transaction id, wallet public key, etc that appeared in the blockchain. This is somewhat similar to a standard cryptanalysis technique - where you try using everything in RAM as a key to see if it's the LUKS key - but using these particular inputs is admittedly ad hoc.

However, the next textbook step to attempting a lookup table is to do rainbow tables - which E started to do, but then gave up after a few iterations since the space was too large, and apparently this was enough, to have found the private keys for a significant number of other people's wallets.

Once the E had that, it's trivial to write a script that performs onward transfers to other accounts controlled she controls and steal money. It also makes sense to transfer the funds through several wallets as a laundry. It's strange that the transfers occur precisely along the links in the rainbow table (a rainbow table is really a forest of linked lists) - very strange. It's possible E just got lazy, since this is one of the easiest ways to write the script that decides where to send the money, once she controlled all these sha256-chains (chains in the rainbow table sense) already. Of course, that laundry's not good enough, since OP has now discovered it and made all of us curious to identify E.
You don't need a cash flow statement to show revenue. And if the cash flow statement is prepared using the indirect method (start with net profit, and adjust non-cash items) it may not even show revenue at all.
"Representatives" in the U.S. government no longer represent the citizens at all — they represent the lobbyists that pay for their votes.

Logically, this behavior should result in the representatives being voted out of office.

However, the two party system combined with the unbelievably high cost of running for office makes it nearly impossible for representatives who don't fall in line with the status quo to receive the campaign financing necessary to be elected.

It's a rotten system and won't go away until campaign finance laws are reformed.
http://hivergent.com/you-shouldnt-invest-in-ripple-and-not-b...
Google buys Sunnyvale buildings, land from NetApp as property purchases widen
My theory is that this paper was written either by the Israelis or the Iranians. Just a hunch. Any takers?

Anyone think a single person could be behind it? I personally dont think so...
If you get a Model 3 with the option, you're prepared for autonomous driving. Stretching out an 03 another 10 years will be a trying affair. It'll be a 24 year old car. Just buy one when you feel it needs to be replaced, which I'd assume should be soon. Be glad that there is an option out there that covers you, at least on the autonomous driving front. Tesla will enable it as soon as the legal situation it is sorted out. We're past the days of worrying about getting the battery chemistry good-enough too.

I'd say you actually stretched that car out just the right amount of time to reap the benefits, perfect timing. I'm holding onto my '07 till I get my own Model 3, so I'm in a similar boat.
Absolving one’s self of responsibility won’t fix anything.
As a concrete example, consider the government effort to shift ethanol-to-be-mixed-with-gasoline from food-based sources to non-food sources like switchgrass. No one figured out how to efficiently turn switchgrass into ethanol, so it failed. And that was despite a huge economic incentive.

In contrast, the government effort to promote electric cars, solar energy, and wind energy appear to be really paying off.
There’s a whole book on it - ‘why administrative law is unlawful’
It’s hard to be certain that there would be more bugs. But there certainly would be other bugs. In most cases it makes more sense to patch bugs in the current system.
Wouldn’t the companies offering flight searches have a strong incentive to include this information? I’ve been burned a few times after booking a flight that did not disclose the hefty additional fees.
Do you know how a fridge works? How about an airplane? How about how to make steel? How to sew a shirt? How to drill and process oil to make gasoline? Every level of the internet stack? How to program hardware drivers? How to farm everything you eat?

Do you see how stupid what you are saying is yet?
Rails is a very mature set of DSL tools. There is nothing even close to the level of integration, richness, community, and documentation that Rails offers.

Ruby by itself is a powerful reason to develop with Rails.
This is an interesting way to frame things. An "Alexa holdout". This implies that the person who does not want an Alexa is some strange outlier. That everyone else is already doing it, and if you don't want to do it, you're weird, and what's your deal? We need to write a whole newspaper article about this weird person who doesn't want Alexa.
I think J.W. Hampton was rightly decided, but that the “intelligible principle” formulation led later New Deal-era courts astray. The framers might have envisioned Congress delegating the authority to adjust import duties, but I don’t think they envisioned executive agencies fashioning entire codes of law in specific areas, including creating crimes. I agree that the Supreme Court gets to say what the law means, but also agree with Scalia that stare decisis is a matter of policy, not dictate, and the Court could revisit the issue and decide to actually enforce separation of powers.
Sorry I missed this response, thanks for the tip about ihiji, looks interesting!

> working out the protocols for those systems [...] It was a major royal pain.

I can only imagine; I wrote an Extron GlobalViewer client module for Crestron controllers back in the day. At least Extron was willing to share the protocol, but it was absolute junk and a nightmare to implement.

These walled systems are used everywhere in universities, government and other places where the bill lands with the taxpayer. Not only for the equipment, but also for the specialized training required to learn their broken tools.

Hopefully someone will build an innovative solution on commodity hardware like RPi...
Obviously OP was exaggerating. If you are unwilling to see past the literal content to the meaning, then you certainly won't see what the rest of us see.
The bug reports you linked elsewhere are not bug reports--note that I make a distinction between bug reports and feature implementation requests. For feature implementation requests, demanding that developers drop everything to implement features is absolutely not constructive (and yes, that does happen). Even for bug reports, shouting at increasingly shrill intervals is not constructive. I'll admit that I did it once when I was younger, and when I was finally pissed off enough to try to fix it myself... I found out that it was far more complex than I had thought.
I did read the rest of the comment. So I am asking if someone is either making this up or if not it's important to shame Apple for its secrecy. That's my view on responsible disclosure; either ack someone's hard work or let every bug free in the wild. What's the point when your work isn't being acked?
The best approach is to let that Webpack handle SCSS/JS but still you can create most of the site with old good HAML.
I'd argue that we should read the White Paper for any of these technologies before investing in them in their infancy :)
Bitocin has been in the works since the 80's. There have been many papers trying to get to the point we are at now so you can say that bitcoin is just version 1.0. Other teams and people (cypherpunks) have been working on this for a while.
Ethereum (which definitely has its own fair share of issues) recently hit its all time high in daily transactions, which incidentally is more transactions than all other existing decentralized blockchains put together--a set containing Bitcoin.
Sorry, which of those things do you think is not worth learning?
It is also important to understand in technical terms what a 'peer' is in bitcoin. A peer is a node, which is a client that validates all transactions and blocks in the blockchain. It is this understanding which forces people to respect the resource requirements of nodes, because any reduction in nodes is a reduction in peers. Any increase in resources requirements must be carefully planned and implemented to ensure the security of the network is maintained.
The original goal was to have transaction fees cover network processing costs, but anyone who does the math can quickly see that the number of transactions allowed by the current block size is an issue, and prevents bitcoin from scaling to visa/mastercard levels of usage.

The reason why this flaw was accepted back then was because "space is cheap", and "we can always make the blocks bigger later".

Basically, it was a known issue all along, and the plan all along was to evolve as needed. It was never intended to be a perfect solution from the get-go.

The problem now, is that people are actively preventing bitcoin from evolving.
I would be much happier if Apple didn't "force" me to update my iPad with a pop up message every day. It was running smooth like butter, even with an older version of iOS.
Some premium credit cards come with annual fees and benefits. $100 a year for the ability to use a censorship resistant, semi-anonymous payment system doesn't sound like a bad deal.
Er, okay. My literal point is that the airlines have been regulated quite a few times into more transparent or consumer-friendly practices.

There's probably lower hanging fruit out there at this point. Ever shop at Kohl's? Their pricing practices are pretty shady.
I meant as subscriptions.
I almost never forget things I repeat to other people. So my technique is to bore the hell of out of people whenever I want to fix something in my mind.
In my case it was off by 24 miles. That's the furthest off I've ever seen a Geolocation API be. The best are within a couple of hundred feet.
“Satoshi Nakamoto”…

Samsung and Toshiba together makes —- Satoshi

Nakamichi and Motorola together makes —- Nakamoto

Seen this one before on reddit somewhere.
Sure it is: you can just download and run the script they have on their site: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/technomancy/leiningen/stab...

or for windows: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/technomancy/leiningen/stab...
>Many were newbies in the language, and some were newbies to programming.

I wouldn't join this project, no matter what the language is.

Imagine it's a popular languae. Javascript or C code, for example. There are no true namespacing / packages and modules facilities in JS or C. It would be even worse than the theoretical nightmare you think Lisp would be. (Lisp has extensive namespacing facilities; code can be contained within modules that don't clash.)

If it was Java, you will see wrongly applied Design Patterns, leading to over-complicated, hard to mantain code.

No, thanks. I wouldn't accept no matter the languages.

Newbies to programming should be educated and trained, not incorporated directly into an important project.
Sorry, I don't understand what this has to do with the comment you're replying to. Could you explain?
That's changing the subject.

I'm really not interested in where you are taking it, sorry.