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I have a hard time arguing the ethics of animal research knowing I ate a cheeseburger yesterday and didn't finish it. An animal died to be thrown away.

Without animal research I probably would have never been born, having been wiped out by some plague centuries ago.
Of course having type system doesn't free you from the need to write tests, and yet, you need to have less test cases, and there are much less possibilities of allowing silly errors like typos etc.
Adding generics to Java and C after several years, shows how successfully the "wait and see" actually works, versus languages that have supported them from the get go.

CLU was designed in 1975 and ML in 1973, several languages with support for some kind of generics have been born and died since then.

So in 42 years, there wasn't a single generic implementation that could fit Go's design goals, other than not having generics at all?!
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The third option is to acquire a US competitor, let them sell your product into the US market, and make sure they have the same executive decision making power as the team in Australia
"If I had a store, though, I would count someone walking past one way and then they other as two potential visits."

Correct. But if someone walks past really slowly, would you count that as multiple visits, because they appear in multiple frames?

'<SNIP> is quite a good proxy for "number of people present all day"'

The term to which I objected was 'Foot Traffic'. Whether something is a good proxy for <something other than foot traffic> is irrelevant.
Elite (on the school BBC Micros, we'd start the cassette load before going to lunch and play 30mn before afternoon classes), Frontier, EV (I was lucky enough to have a friend whose dad had Macs), EV Nova (ported to windows)... There's a long line of these awesome games.

I tried Endless-Skies, not bad but maybe a bit too sandboxy for me, if that makes sense? I thought Nova hit the right balance (except for the alien faction being completely overpowered, both for cargo and combat)
I am glad it is posted on "1. april". But still...
wildcard certificates is really only thing missing in their offering. It definitely makes sense for them to also disrupt and offer a quality, more-efficient alternative here.

It's an extension of their offering rather than a new product.
Didn't know IRC supported Audio nowadays...
Am I the only one who read it as "time travel", and thought it'd be some map of how it used to be?
Published on: April 1, 2017

But still. Scary
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> its origins in the gaming community

Anyone know how they gained traction in the gaming community? Their wikipedia entry [0] says they had a game development studio which developed games that were not successful, then they start developing Discord and successfully launch on reddit. How did they promote on reddit given reddit's aversion to self promotion? Maybe ads? Would love to learn more about their early days.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discord_(software)
> the Web went from 46% encrypted page loads to 67% according to statistics from Mozilla - a gain of 21% in a single year

No no no... That's a gain of 50% (give or take) or 21 percentage points; not a gain of 21%.
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I read this and it seems to make a lot of good points..However, I'm not sure if the fact that I'm reading this at 2am instead of studying for my Spanish and Discrete Math exams validates or discredits the argument. I plan to review it again in a week when I can think straight.
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Remember: unless they meet an objective, other people are just _in the way_ of your productivity metrics. (/s)
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This is insane - is there any "expert" speculation out there on when this will all collapse? Before or after the new year...?
Probably because they got a certificate before their own certificates were widely accepted?
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Historically, UB was _platform defined behaviour_, not ignored behaviour.
To the moon, boys. To the moon.
if we all knew that everyone would pull out earlier and it would collapse sooner.
>No one is going to use these forums if it means they or their family members can be put in jail for a joke.

Nah, they will. The convenience factor far outweighs the risk for most people. Everyone thinks "well, they must've done something stupid", and if not that, "well, that was just one strange occurrence. It won't happen to me."
What in gods name does the milkman have to do with the death penalty? The USA also has capital punishment, doesn't mean you can't leave your laptop at the café in some posh suburb.
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The interesting thing here is what lifestyle is causing it/cures it.

In Denmark we call diabetes "sugar disease". I read a pamphlet from the The Diabetes Foundation where it said that it was 'a lifestyle disease' and made no connection with sugar or carbs. Rather, I got the impression it was still about reducing your weight, which has usually been a battle against fat contents. I asked my doctor about these statements and the connection with sugar, only to have him say "well, some studies make a connection but nothing official".

Which brings me back to the article. The point is the connection is becoming more clear: High carb diet (e.g. sugar) seems to trigger Type 2.

It's not news, but science is not about news - it's about rigorous testing to confirm our theory.
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The modern day equivalent of The Tulip Mania where one specific type of tulip could be traded for a house? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
It seems like the bitcoin craze also attracts significant traction for underwhelming journalism.
It seems that they might also be de-aggregating pledges - which means not only will you be paying the 2.9% + 35c on each pledge, you'll also get N charges on your card rather than one. There was also some other hint that pledges would continue to be charged on the day you signed up rather than the 1st - just to make a triple whammy of idiocy.
Same story every time. At 1$ it was a bubble, at 30$ it was a bubble, at 100$, at 1000$, etc. I wonder what needs to happen for the "bubble" people to say - alright, this is not a bubble anymore, I was wrong. Or it will always be a bubble for them?
Rule #1 of cryptocurrencies, trust nobody.
Keep calling it a bubble and it becomes a bubble. This whole thing is entirely psychological. How can we be sure journalists aren't somehow shorting bitcoin on the side while writing these articles? They have a huge influence on the collective unconsciousness.
There never was a Tulip Mania https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/there-never-was-real-...
Too bad the Internet in large parts of those cities belong to the last century.
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Not necessarily. In the US we now have Signal and other secure messaging apps. Why can't those emerge elsewhere?
Of course not, but it depends if you consider that you're paying the creator, and that the platform is just an intermediate, or if you're paying the platform for a service and they pay the creator with their revenue. If they're just an intermediate and I want to pledge 1$ to the creator, I expect that he will receive 1$, and if not, I want to know how much I need to give in order that he does.

And you're wrong about NGOs, usually they do provide how your money will be used, what is the amount of money that will go for their internal costs, and what will be used really for charity.
I wouldn't absolutely not give to a charity that would not provide me those details.
uh, why?

shouldn't it get less again?
if i use ~8 certs for different servers, i could just get a wildcard for my domain and be done with it...?
"as bubble fears mount"... seriously? I'm pretty sure bitcoin always felt like a bubble even when it was trading at less than a dollar.
that's rule number 3.

1. HODL
2. BUY DIP
If someone gives you an exact date, how would you know if they are telling the truth? Nobody knows the future.

It can all collapse to $1K in a month or keep going to $50K. And if someone actually knew, they would stand to make huge money and would keep their mouth shut.
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Who cares? In the grand scheme of things, does it really matter that this bubble pops?

I know there are some people out there who'll have invested everything they have in BTC, which will suck for them. However, I'd wager for most people it's still just a fun way to make some spare cash, given that it's actually really difficult to use cryptos on much IRL.

We've got a bit more work to do before cryptos start being useful mainstream money, rather than just a volatile investment opportunity. The underlying ideas in blockchain are brilliant, genius even. Journalists should focus more on the interesting potential of this technology, and less on how much 1BTC costs today.
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It is pretty pathetic to go to any coworking space in an Australian major city and realise that people there are just playing the 'startup game'. These people will typically spend a few months playing the game, burning a bit of their severance package until finding another permanent job.
If you create deflationary currency you get bubles again and again.
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>on when this will all collapse?

2 hours ago
i guess if the value stabilize and people use it as a real currency, then people will stop saying bubble, but now even Steam has stopped accepting BTC
May We know how you get the idea of this app? Was you aware of Little Snitch at the time of making and how you thought about to overcome the competition etc and what was in your mind while creating this?

I some time feel scare of competition. I am happy customer of Radio Silence :)
No one should be exempt from taxation, period.
Thailand, for sure.
The broader problem is that expressing changes as percentages is often intrinsically ambiguous. I'm not sure that the way you're choosing to signal the difference is widely appreciated or understood.
And this works with traditional currencies as well :)
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Adding generics is being considered and might be happening.
In the meantime you could write an Experience report[0]?

[0]https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/ExperienceReports
Why are you calculating the gain out of 46% and not out of 100%?

It clearly doesn't talk about the gain of a percent of a percentage.
Just curious: what is some cool stuff happening in Brisbane these days? I grew up there but I moved away to find more interesting work a long time ago. It would be nice to hear about interesting things happen there nowadays.
Maybe so, but insane or not, how far would he have gotten with his plans if even a fraction of those around him could shoot back?
I think mainly by offering for free a better/easier voice calling system than Skype/Ventrillo/Teamspeak.
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OK, Now it's a bubble.
> But they missed the BIG OBVIOUS solution: charge a pro-rated "first month" pledge

The problem there is for creators who post high-value content - Jimmy McThief can sign up on the 29th, pay a fraction of the subscription tier, snarf all the content on the 30th, then unsubscribe.

Patreon could offer a "only allow patrons access to [certain content] after a full monthly payment has been taken" option but that would be the simple solution...
[anecdotal] In our little fighting game community, our tech-savvy guys got tired of trying to add features to the IRC channel, so when they heard of Discord they just convinced everyone to switch to that. It's easier for Facebook-followers to follow a link to Discord than ask them to download an IRC client -> open #server -> open #channel
They're fueling the speculation because they are probably invested as well.

And now that options contracts are taking off for bitcoin, the folks with put contracts are banking on a crash.
Very true. I hope one day we can have a better premium media market than we have currently so that businesses feel less pressured to appeal to everyone. I don't think you could pay me to sit through a Transformers movie but I would have paid $25 to see the Hateful Eight in theaters.
A recent September 2017 blog[1] estimated electricity mining costs to be ~$19k. (I don't know if bitcoin community has adjusted the hashing difficulty since September 2017 to maintain the 10-minute block rate.)

Are there realistic scenarios where the sustained value of bitcoin exceeds the mining costs?

What was the mining cost of 1 BTC in May 2010 when the famous request for 2 pizzas[2] for 10000 bitcoins was made?

[1] https://grisha.org/blog/2017/09/28/electricity-cost-of-1-bit...

[2] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=137.0
Fair enough, my C knowledge is a little behind the curve.
Oh yeah but it sharply dropped right ? 14,927.78
-11.45%
Bitcoin is a massive ponzi-scheme and it will crash imminently. Or, you know, it isn't and it won't.

It's really interesting to me to follow on the side-lines of crypto as the price it's exchanging at moves up. In the last week I've had non-techies mention how they were buying Bitcoin (ostensibly to make fast, easy money).

What intrigues me most is that amid the hysteria, a lot of posters on reddit and elsewhere seem to be of the belief that everyone can get rich on Bitcoin - and that if everyone buys in the price won't crash. Moreso, most of the people I'm seeing discuss it don't seem to have any knowledge of similar financial events from the past (e.g. the dotcom bubble, tulip mania).

I'm not going to begrudge anyone that's made money from Bitcoin, nor am I going to judge anyone else for putting money in at this stage (anecdotally, the chatter I'm hearing in work from non-techies points to an ample supply of greater fools), but I think it should raise alarm bells that financial literacy is so low in the general populace that in most cases people are making these decisions with so little information to hand of what they're buying (I think it's fair to believe at this point that most of the buyers at this level aren't familiar with what the blockchain is as a concept - they just see rising valuations).
At first I thought it might be so that you could still access their website for support if you had an issue with their CA.

However it seems that https://community.letsencrypt.org/ which would seem a good place to get help is actually using one of their certificates so maybe it's just historical. The certificate dates back to 2015 and expires in next February, maybe they'll replace it by one of their own then.
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Do you mean futures? Where are options being offered?
Yes. I expect that's it. I think the jaw tensing may be a side-effect of how I get that to happen.
Jimmy Wales of Letsencrypt? Is that you? :-D
Growth in number of sites secured, not in number of certs issued.
Bitcoin journalism sucks because if a journalist knew enough about Bitcoin to write well about it, they'd be qualified for a better job than being a journalist writing about Bitcoin.
These two statements are arguments for different discussions:

> I don't see how generics are needed to deal with "complex business logic".

Here, we're talking about what user (developer who chooses between Go and Java) needs or wants. User doesn't care about costs behind the product.

However, instead of proving this statement, you jump to a different perspective whatsoever:

> But, as they have clearly laid out, this is not a trivial undertaking. There hasn't yet been an implementation concept presented, which fits into the Go framework with its design goals.

And here you're estimating things from the cost perspective; and it quite logically follows that it's not rational for Go developers to dive into generics at the moment. Just keep it mind that this decision means that Go stays unappealing to users like me.
You can sort of estimate it. It comes down to cash flow - if people are trying to invest more cash into bitcoin than they are taking out it'll go up. When people are trying to cash out more than is going in it will fall. At the moment there are a huge number of people seeing the headlines and thinking I should get in on this who have not yet so there's a while to go. The closet to this I can recall was the dot com bubble and I'd say this feels like 98 or 99 so I'd give it a year or two. BTC $100k here we come!
> massive ponzi-scheme

Existing investors are making profit through financial transactions, so it's not a Ponzi.

A Ponzi requires newcomers to contribute funds to the scheme without any exchange of assets.
Well, on the other hand I find the findings very conclusive, but the 'study' is from 2010 and I haven't noticed any major changes in the tab pattern as it ist presented to us as users.

So if there would be a larger study, we should think first about which actions we would take depending on the result as we got already some sound assumptions.
Perhaps.

If a morality fails in the forest and nobody has language to describe it… is morality the equivalent of “sound is a pressure wave”, or the equivalent of “sounds is an auditory experience”?

Moral codes have changed wildly over the years (and by place in any year). Slavery was “fine”, until it wasn’t. The death penalty is a thing in some places today, but seen as repugnant in others. Shellfish were forbidden, until someone had a vision of god berating them for turning it down. Bestiality was legal in half of Europe twenty years ago, but not today. Weed and gay marriage were unbelievable twenty years ago, but are increasingly acceptable today.

I’m vegetarian (trying to be vegan) just in case animals have that hard to describe thing commonly called consciousness or self-awareness or personhood, but I don’t have enough certainty to condemn anyone who thinks I’m being silly by worrying about that. Heck, I don’t even have a concrete definition of the thing I worry animals might have in order to test against.

What is morality? Really?
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For those unaware of the recent news (briefly mentioned in this article) which is driving the prices crazy the past couple of weeks, it's because the two biggest derivate exchanges form Chicago are launching Bitcoin Futures soon. CBOE launching this Sunday on Dec 10th 6pm EST. CME launching on the 18th [1].

10th would be a very interesting day for traders. I am no expert at all but from what I can tell, this will make it easier for big institutions to short the Bitcoin (all transactions happening off the blockchain though). There are specualtions that prices are going up just before the launch and might take a dive with the shorting after. BUT if there's anything that've learned trading BTC on the side: anything can happen, it's got a mind of its own :)

Either way, I think this is good news for the long run as it legitimizes BTC (There are rumors of Nasdaq and other exchanges globally getting in soon as well next year). If you thought 2017 was fun, wait till you see what 2018 has in store for cryptos.

[1] - https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/04/cboe-announces-it-will-launc...
> If you want generics, go use Java/Kotlin/something else. I don't see anyone complaining about the lack of generics in C or brainfuck, what makes golang special?

Because it's painful to see a language that would be just perfect for a LOT of things with just ONE extra feature - but without this feature that is a requirement, we have to chose alternatives that have irritating downsides.
Is there any data on the average transaction size when converting between BTC and USD? The price might be $17k per coin, but if people are transacting in $100 amounts for fractions of coins, that's kind of sustainable whether the BTC price is $1 or $100,000.
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For certain monkeys, those "few monkeys" are family. Just like your family. You wouldn't want your family stabbed to advance a species you couldn't care less about.
The difficulty of mining adjusts every 2 weeks so that data is certainly outdated.
Bitcoin isn't a currency, it's a commodity (akin to digital gold). It can't be naturally deflationary and used to facilitate day-to-day trade because, by design (and with all else being equal), you're better holding on to the bitcoin than spending it.

Fiat currencies are the opposite - inflation encourages spending because the money slowly trends towards being worthless if you don't spend or invest.
"Fees"

I see the margin lending rates on some exchanges right now being 0.003% daily. This is for coins that move 10% a day.

Probably fair to assume fees aren't what the traders lose sleep over.
Unlike with e.g. prices, the sum total of all web traffic provides a natural ceiling, so new/old (multiplicative) and new/total (additive) are both defensible.