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I hadn't heard of that. Rolling Coal. What a terrifically hilarious concept, and terrifying at the same time.
In principle, yes. In practice, it's still at least a few years out in the space they're targeting. At least.
Agreed, but if you don't address the demand problem you can't beat the supply problem. And that's where we are now.
The whole chain needs to be signed, otherwise the exercise would be pretty pointless.
>> They absolutely need to have it called marriage

Yes, because that's equality.

We've tried "separate but equal" before, haven't we? It doesn't work out, and it's used as an excuse for continuing discrimination.

This is not entitlement, it's equal treatment.
TPUs aren't "cheating" though, as they can be used for generalized machine learning models, and not just Go.

Computer graphics is still an impressive achievement even when done on a GPU instead of a CPU.
You sure YouTube does not use it... Even for the Commerical YouTubeTV Service?
Great idea, does what it should and can be extended to cover a lot more. Keep up the great work.

First time looking at it I thought I was on a official Ubuntu site, what a font and color can do to a branding is fascinating.
So, 1. d4 for White, Berlin for Black. I got it
> They decided it's a good idea to use ternary logic instead of binary logic

This is the one main thing that keeps me very, very skeptical regarding IOTA (and the coordinator thing, although that may be resolved someday when traffic increases so they can remove it - at least that's what they say).

It looks a bit like they had this JINN processor developed which appears to be ternary in nature, but it went nowhere, and then they pivoted that into IOTA and stubbornly kept the ternary stuff because that might revive this JINN thing again later on, if IOTA catches on. At least that's how it looks to me from the outside. It's a bit hard to get reliable information about this JINN thing, as the company that apparently developed it, Jinn Labs, is nowhere to be seen publicly, with the excuse of being in "stealth mode". As far as I can see, this entire thing could just as well be vaporware as it could be revolutionary tech developed under strict NDAs.

I'll definitely stay very, very skeptical for now, as it's so hard to get reliable information about IOTA aside from the bling-bling on the surface. I also tried to look at the code of their reference implementation on GitHub a bit recently, since it's mostly Java and I'm mostly a Java dev for a living right now I was interested, but the code quality I can see there is pretty bad overall (like there are almost no comments, most comments you find are actually code that was commented out, formatting seems incoherent, huge amount of bloat code even by Java standards among which it's hard to actually find any real logic), so that excursion also did achieve nothing with regard of alleviating my skepticism.
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Apparently it seems like I was wrong on that for now, according to mjg59[0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15855904
The user agent string contains too much information that sites can misuse in this way. It's time to put a stop to that. Just spoof some string that looks like plain vanilla Chrome and has nothing to do what actual browser and device is used.

Why are Google giving net neutrality opponents ammunition in the current fight by blocking clients they don't like and looking like complete and utter hypocrites about the open web?
> In that time I figure they used the equivalent of about 1000 cpu-years.

Are you using some kind of conversion factor from TPUs to CPUs? If so, what is it? And is it valid to do that?

You could convert the amount of time it took to render an hour's worth of gameplay from 1 GPU-hour to 50 CPU-days (or whatever), but is that really meaningful?
Australia also had reduced number of gun-unrelated deaths. In fact the percent reduction in those cases was larger than the reduction of gun deaths.

So the stricter gun laws can't be considered the sole explanation for fewer deaths.
pip dependencies can be a pain in the ass. It's also remarkably bad about telling you how to satisfy the dependencies.

* Error in line 392

After an hour of searching, the solution is:

"Just install these 100 packages. Package 1-20 need to be compiled from source, because the project requires an old version. And they all have dependencies of their own."
Compute absolutely matters. With tree search, there's a tradeoff between scoring cost and positions evaluated. AlphaZero can evaluate fewer positions because it uses a huge amount of compute to accurately score each position.

It's not just training. Training used 5,000 TPUs.
What matters is whether the component is _fallible_ or not. If a component can fail, its caller has to be able to deal with the failure, even if it deals with the failure by also failing (propagating the failure).

Your example already could fail (on a missing file today, on a network problem tomorrow), so a well-designed API contract (which doesn't unnecessarily expose the _cause_ of the failure) wouldn't have to change. The implementation detail is the cause of the failure, not the fact that it can fail.
It's not just "now". They've been blocking features outside of Chrome for years. Just simple user-agent check to disable something here and there and show an ad.
So that it can just buffer up the recordings and upload it when you turn data on?
Oh wow, that's insane.

I know, I'll poison the air around myself, that'll make those damn liberals crazy!
See you're doing it again. You're only looking at firearm related deaths and not total homicides.
I think bags are quite different: the hassle of reusable bags is really low, they weigh almost nothing, and they have other real advantages over the plastic bags (they don't break).

Many US states have bottle deposits for a similar "nominal" amount per bottle and the majority of people don't do it: when I was a broke college student some friends and I did it for a little while but the math really didn't work out even then.
> it has no bearing on the subsequent widening of the illegal gun pipeline

All guns were legal at one point. Buy backs, fewer sales etc mean fewer legal and illegal guns in circulation (unless you see an increase in illegal smuggling and manufacturing - but obviously that's a problem you need to address first then).
There will always be demand for weapons, legal or illegal. Just like with drugs. If you don't want people to buy illegal drugs or illegal guns, you only need to keep supply so low that prices are too high for most.

The problem for the US is that there are already so many guns, that effective legislation is problematic. For any legislation to be effective you'd first need to lower the amount of guns in society - because as you say otherwise there are too many guns that flow into the "illegal gun pipeline". So it's a chicken and egg problem. The questoin is: is it really an ok solution to say "we can't change regulation to something that would mean less guns in society because we have too many guns"?

> It's interesting to me that a lot progressive, popular armchair analysis of the issue advocates for strict gun laws, and at the same time advocates for loose drug laws

I think progressives mostly argue for looser drug laws for USE, not sale, apart from possibly also legalizing a few drugs. I don't think many progressives argue for lower penalties for drug smuggling, manufacturing and sales.
The big difference between gun ownership and drug use in that context is that gun ownership would be a choice. If you are conservative you might argue that using drugs, being gay etc. is also a choice - but that's the philosophical side of it - I won't go there.
Wanting not to be discriminated against / handled separately != wanting special treatment. It is quite the opposite, in fact. The only people who consider that an entitled position are those who think there is nothing wrong with relegating people to second-class citizen status, even if they refuse to consider it as such.

Heck, it is quite entitled for people to think that they inherently deserve privileges that others are denied simply because "that is how it has always been". Bullheaded traditionalism is the actual cancer.
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That's not the point. The coordinator gets to decide their "blockchain". They don't have mining or another election mechanism.
Which is far more than should be required of users.
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The song "Let's push things forward" [0] by UK band The Streets is a great song that depicts some of the differences between drunk and stoned people. You need to listen to the song rather than just read the lyrics.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%27s_Push_Things_Forward
You are assuming Google wasn't on that level for almost a decade.
I've reviewed the IOTA paper and some docs on it. It seems too good to be true, if it works it's much better (faster, free) than block chain cryptocurrencies with no downsides. I am surprised that no one else has come up with this approach so far, why is that?

The only downside it's not currently decentralized, and requires a "conductor" to run securely, which will be removed in the future, apparently. The other criticisms are at the first implementation (rolling own crypto), which is an error that impacts confidence in the team but not the currency / concept.
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Netflix actually works fine now, and has for a few months.
The best metric is total cost, including the cost of the hardware as well as the electricity. It might be worth prorating the hardware by the amount of time it spends on the task, too, assuming the hardware is general enough for many purposes (like TPUs are), vs say something like EFF's DES cracker which was not.
In the fashion world the standard practice is: "You buy an ad in our magazine, and we can guarantee a placement of your product in one of our editorial stories."
Both, cucumbers and peppers are usually sold open. With the exception of organic produce.

That's so that the cashier is able to make the distinction, since prices for organics are usually higher.

Usually, because there are exceptions, like a three pack of peppers. Fennel also comes often pre-packed. Other veggies usually not.

That's not to say that not a lot more could be done.

What I tried to do with my comment is to pôint out that a tiny fee can really change behavior.
Sorry mate, marriage isn't just religious. It's also societal, and Governmental. Many, many people get married outside of church, and for entirely nonreligious reasons - do you speak out against those as well as much as you do marriage between people of the same sex? What about people of a different religion getting married against your religion's rules?

By the way - last time I looked into this, marriage predates organised religion, and definitely predates Christianity. If your intention is to maintain a Christian country to the detriment of those following other religions or none at all, at least be honest about it.
be it chocolate, coffee, wine, or [heroin]

ensure that those chemicals are available safely and taxed appropriately

While I agree that prohibition has proven time and again to be a terrible thing, I'd also argue that some drugs are so dangerous in small doses that sale should never be sanctioned. Still, I would not argue in favor of strict punishments for sale nor use, especially. Issues of sale should come with punishments similar to improper business practices--tax evasion, fraud, etc--based on the scope and scale of the transactions.

As you point out, people often seek certain substances because at some level they feel it will make things better. The improvement they seek may be proportional to the strength of the substance, meaning those seeking out street drugs are probably also in the most dire straits. From that perspective, punishment seems quite cruel--kicking a person when they're already down.
Desktop is what buys mindshare. A Raspberry Pi is an embedded device, a desktop and a very entry level server all in one and exactly that is the appeal. Where can one buy a dirt cheap, modern MIPS 1U server or a desktop today?
It's hilarious to me that conservatives will talk about political correctness getting "out of hand", while downplaying or ignoring pathologies that result from their own beliefs that have caused, and continue to cause, extraordinary amounts of death, torture, poverty and suffering.

Come back when lynch mobs have literally hanged thousands of people for being politically incorrect. Or when millions of people are being systemically disenfranchised because they're politically incorrect. Or when a US president is about to trigger a nuclear war over "political correctness".
I'm not a big fan of Portugal's drug policy. You can buy drugs and take drugs, but not deal them? So you still have much of the crime associated with distribution.

I'd like to see drug use legalized (not "decriminalized") in the US, and I'd also like to see distribution handled by regulated retailers, so potency and quality are uniform.
No it isn't. YouTube is just blocking on the basis of User Agent and JavaScript fingerprinting.
It's 100% premined, which smells as scammy as Ripple.

It needed to be as there are no miners in the IOTA network.

Additionally, In contrast to conventional ICOs, IOTA had 0% of their ICO reserved for founders. Not a single iota. The founders had to purchase their technology back during the ICO.

Furthermore, there was no allocation for foundation or ecosystem funds. They asked the community to donate for this foundation to exist. They reached 5% of total supply and that is what the foundation runs on. (~140Ti)

I've heard they rolled their own crypto.

Its easily searchable, please inform your self.

it's an "append and forget" blockchain, lol.

Can you please explain the issue with this?
America still has about a 4x homicide rate compared to my examples Finland and Switzerland. This is not much different from the gun violence rates per country (&race) You can even pull out approximately the same graph for homicides(Actually, here you go; https://www.theatlas.com/charts/E1pEnFs7e ). Did you honestly believe a country can have triple the gun violence of every other western country, but at the same time get away with a low homicide rate?
ARM is RISC and very successful.

Actually, ARM is more CISC-y than MIPS, POWER, SPARC, etc. and recent cores break more complex instructions into uops just like x86.

If you consider uops RISC, then just about every architecture is "RISC-like on the inside". RISC is about a simple and restrictive user-facing ISA, not the internal microarchitecture.

In the long term, CISC makes a lot of sense --- it saves on fetch bandwidth and instruction cache to essentially have the CPU "decompress" complex instructions to execute internally, and the core is many times faster than memory.

IMHO "pure RISC" was an academic exercise, and the only reason why early CISCs were easily beaten was because they were sequential/in-order, and memory bandwidth wasn't a bottleneck at the time. With the growing core speeds, memory becoming a bottleneck, and invention of parallel uop decoding/execution, CISC could do more per clock and with less instructions. You can see this trend here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million_instructions_per_secon...

The best ARM core on that list can do 3.5 DMIPS/MHz, and the best MIPS at 2.3 DMIPS/MHz, while the best x86 core is at >10 DMIPS/MHz.
There were the canary contracts, which while they were active (they've been deactivated in mid 2016).

These simply stated whether a chain was good or bad, and they were controlled by the makers of ethereum. I don't know if they were ever used to mark a chain as bad, but they certainly represented centralized control.

I do see your point that most of the time, ethereum functioned using the decentralized protocol, but there was a centralized fallback.
What I find jarring is the asymetry of the effect.

Amazon punishes Google directly as a company: users wanting Google product only have to change the URL in their browser.

Google in return punishes customer having already bought their Amazon device.
If the customer uses a Fire stick for intance, the only alternative to have youtube on the tv is to buy another dongle.

The level of fucking with the end customer is disproportionate.
> The subtangle with the highest weight.

Which is not an acceptable answer, at least from the perspective of an offline node accepting payment. People will exploit it by paying an offline vendor, taking the goods then rushing online to create a doublespend which reverts the transaction.

So offline vendors will never accept it as payment, and the entire feature is useless.
For those complaining about the price, here's some comparisons:

"two Power9 chips, four Volta GPUs accelerators, and 256 GB of memory" =~$65,000

The NVidia DX1 (8 Tesla GPUs, 2 Xeon, so much more GPU, less CPU) is $125,000[1]

Configuring up a SuperMicro GPU server looks to be around $50,000[2]

[1] https://www.engadget.com/2016/04/05/nvidia-dgx-1-deep-learni...

[2] https://www.thinkmate.com/system/superserver-1029gq-txrt
> need to have it called marriage, a word that has had a different religious meaning

I think the biggest sign that this isnt actually true is that marriage exists in countries across many different religions. That to me indicates that although religion has practices for marriage, marriage itself does not belong to religion. Its almost like a super/subset thing.
The Microsoft app cut out advertising and allowed videos to be downloaded in breach of YouTube's music licenses. It wasn't a huge surprise Google blocked it. Still not quite sure what Microsoft were thinking there.
Exactly this! Linus himself wrote that the only reason Linux exists is because a Sun workstation was too expensive.
Putting aside all their misadventures with crypto and other bugs (it's crypto after all), they don't have a functioning currency or network.

The Tangle is an idea that has no theoretical solution yet.

What I did understood is the following: A user that makes a transaction, picks two txs (from the unspent pool) and send his transaction. Then another user picks it with another one and send his. And so on and so forth. But who gets to decide which tree to follow?

This is exactly what mining is for: It is election based on mining capacity (or hash rate burn rate). The one who burns more hash rate gets elected to publish the next blockchain.

Not that mining can't get centralized, it is. But there is a difference: Mining is democratic. The nodes elect based on it. That's not the same with the coordinator in IOTA. It is run by the creator of the cryptocurrency.

Edit: Thinking about it now, is it ever possible to achieve this without "burning" something? (I mean equal consensus election without a non-free criteria). Doesn't this somehow conflict with the physic law of conservation of energy.

Now let me get to the important part: It's a premine. It has a nice façade and polished website. That's all you need to know.

This is going to end in tears for lots of people fomoing right now. (or later if this still ramps up)
I only have a friend's word for this (who works with drug policy), so if you know more please share. Obviously the US drug policy is quite varied, with full legalisation of marijauna in some states. The federal response to the opioid epidemic seems to be harm-reduction based rather than purely punitive. That said, this is internal politics, so what the US says and does on the world stage is not necessarily going to be consistent with this.
"Tighter gun controls" doesn't always lead to "harder access to guns". How strong is the black market in Brazil (for everything, not only guns). How strong it is in the USA? How easy is to access otherwise prohibited goods in general?
None, as it doesn't have one. It uses a different DTL architecture called a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG), known as The Tangle.
What if you combined a bus that gets you to work in 10 minutes and plane that gets you from Paris to Brazil, would it get you from Paris to Brazil in 10 minutes?
> then why picking that name in particular?

The rest of your criticism may be valid, but I would think that this part is obvious:

(1) It's a word.

(2) It's short.

(3) It resembles Google.
The Key difference was MS was an effective Monopoly in their market with something like 90+% of the market share

Amazon is big, but still is only about 36-40% of the e-commerice market share, and far far less of the over all retail Market Share which is still dominated by Wal-Mart
Apple's entire business model is based on locked down systems like the App Store and iTunes and locked OS that void their warrantee when tampered with.

For most of it's life Microsoft has never put such restrictions on their Windows OS.

But I guess they have now realised, when it comes to making money, that Apple model is a much better way to go.
I'm not familiar with the sentiments on the other side of the pond. But what you outline boils down to absolutely no requirements. If your government would also provide students with free/subsidized housing and food, you'd quickly see unsustainable numbers of students.
Amazon are scraping the YouTube website and presenting it in a slightly customised webview.
Worked for payment provider : at one point customers did not trust our checkout page because it was not EV ( it was plain SSL ).

For financial stuff it is apparently expected ( NL ).
Those were the best PS alternatives four years ago. They should mention modern software, too, like https://www.Photopea.com
Also, the part about "Input some learning data" makes me think to Machine Learning rather than Meta Language.

Btw, Prolog and ML might look like distant cousins: e.g. you use recursion and pattern matching in both. But under the hood there are big differences that arise from Prolog's logic programming paradigm: for instance, you can use append(L1, L2, L3) both to concatenate and split a list, depending on the variables you set:

append([1,2], [3,4], X) % ==> X=[1,2,3,4]
append([1,2], Y, [1,2,3,4]) % ==> Y=[3,4]
As someone who literally grew up on HPC (sgi Origin 2000 and 3800’s to be precise), yes, I completely understand.
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(The Echo view tried to use the API and was blocked recently, so switched to the webview, that is also now being blocked.)
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I wonder if loyalty to Bunnings played a part at all in the failure of Masters.

Of course a large part of it was price and selection. But it seemed though that it was mostly a me too type offering and unless there was a drastic reduction in prices ( drastically better range would have been very hard) people were already pretty happy with Bunnings.