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We obviously have very different perspectives on this, but a few thoughts:

> Odds of getting into that situation are a million to one, against.

It's a thought experiment. Within the thought experiment, it already happened, and the chances are 100%. "This is an unlikely scenario for me find myself in" probably shouldn't affect your decision-making. You can argue that it's not a worthwhile thought experiment because it's unlikely, but it doesn't sound like that's what you're arguing.

> Odds of your information helping to find said baby are a million to one, against

It's unclear if you're saying it's a lost cause or if the direction the kidnapper went wouldn't be useful, but according to https://www.parents.com/kids/safety/stranger-safety/child-ab..., 80% of children are found alive in nonfamily abductions reported to NCMEC, so my impression is that information soon after a kidnapping has much higher than a one in a million chance of helping.

Alternatively, you could adjust the thought experiment to be "At what probability of saving the baby's life should I give an answer?". "Never talk to the police under any circumstances" (the quote from the video that people seem to be defending literally) means you say nothing even if your chance of saving the baby's life is 100%.

> Not in the "the state is right and absolutely moral" way you seem to be stuck in.

I didn't say that, I didn't imply it, and I don't believe it. This is both a straw man argument and a false dichotomy.

You seem to be putting a very high amount of weight on the fact that the person trying to stop the kidnapping is a police officer. I would try to help regardless of who it is. You really should not be using theory about the role of the state to decide whether or not to help a human being trying to save the life of another human being in an urgent situation.
I love how he says people should make dumb mistakes and then in the next sentence actively disqualified people he disagrees with from having the same privilege under the guise of “well you can’t allo hate speech.”

It’s so typical.
What do you mean by ordering? This is easy to miss in the linked "spec" (I did too at first) but there is a sentence:

"Object members must be sorted by ascending lexicographic order of their keys."
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> But first, let me put some warning out here: Dear Devuan friends, while I honor your work, I also have to be very honest with you: in theory, you should not have done this. Looking at creating Devuan, which means splitting of Debian, economically, you caused approximately infinite cost.

I thought the same at first but after trying to maintain a Debian installation without systemd, I was convinced otherwise. The "infinite cost" was not caused by Devuan developers but by Debian developers.

I felt the Debian transition to systemd was handled very badly and was rushed in order to get Jessie out of the door. Debian still provides the sysvinit-core package as if it were a supported init system however if you use it you'll find the operating system has many quirks and many things are broken. Before Jessie was released, I commented on one bug report related to a hard dependency on systemd for NetworkManager. Instead of fixing the regression, the package maintainer gave the excuse that they don't have the resources and would need more maintainers. I sympathise with the package maintainer but this is the sort of thing that led to this mess. I remember there being a lot of hostility in that period from Debian developers towards those who did not wish to use systemd.

Based on my experience, I think the right decision was made to "fork" Debian to create Devuan. It's a shame that they had to do this. I still hold hope that maybe one day all of the work put into Devuan can be reintegrated into Debian and it can return to be the "Universal Operating System" that they still claim to be.
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Somewhat off-topic, but I had a need recently for a simple serialization format that satisfied the following:

* Support for undef/null
* Support for binary data
* Support for UTF8 strings
* Universally-recognized canonical form for hashing
* Trivial to construct on the fly from SQLite triggers

Of all of the formats I looked at nothing matched. So I created Bifcode [https://metacpan.org/pod/Bifcode]. It is a bit of a mix between Netstrings, Bencode and JSON. It is not really human readable, but it is extremely simple and robust, easy to generate and parse, and therefore relatively secure.

I'm not promoting it for any particular use case, and I only have a Perl implementation. Posting here as I think some of the audience in this thread may find it useful.
Question: did you every try to start a system with > 60TB storage attached with systemd?
You guys sound like you're 20.

You think things in the world are so "obviously" black and white.

Comcast making shitty business decisions is not burning Jews in ovens. And the fact your not immediately laughed out of the room when you make such comparisons is the real sad reflection of society in this thread.
Summaries of topics are a planned feature we hope to add in the future. We also hope to add user made 'notes' on each of the resources so anyone can see what other people think of the resource or link before visiting it.

And we agree that the branching of one topic to another can be done in a better way. We hope to add features for users to be able to not only add resources but also create new 'nodes' and create and add new topics.
For my part, I'm quite happy with the not-Comcast I have at home, compared to the Comcast at my coworking space.

The nominal speed is 1/10 as much, but the actual difference in actual experience is much smaller, because the not-Comcast provider does a much better job of actually delivering on the speeds they claim to be selling me. It's really only a noticeable difference when I want to do something like download an OS install image. Which happens infrequently enough that, for me, going with Comcast would have worked out to something on the order of getting that image an hour faster for $200 per time I do it.

More importantly, not-Comcast stays up. The coworking space's Internet service is maddeningly intermittent.
Having been introduced to cryptocurrencies the technical route, I'd never really been exposed to the brand of hype in these Andreas Antonopoulos videos before. I guess I've never watched a televangelist either, but I imagine this would be the equivalent.

This piece of bullshit in particular stood out to me:

> Where were you when libor was fixed? Where were you when gold markets were fixed? When high-frequency traders used front-running...

It's odd that he uses these examples to support the "trustless" blockchain architecture, because blockchain does nothing to improve any of these. The opposite is true: it makes it far easier to manipulate markets because all transactions are anonymous, censorship-proof, and it's impossible to recover funds from bad actors.

Not having to trust a central authority for the ledger does nothing to prevent collusion or frontrunning in markets. From what I've seen, cryptocurrency markets are constantly being manipulated in ways that are both unethical and illegal.

> Bitcoin vs Ethereum is like Sharks vs Lions...

He claims that Bitcoin specializes in ways that Ethereum does not, but this isn't true: effectively, Bitcoin is a subset of Ethereum. He claims that Ethereum "scales 10x worse" than Bitcoin, but I don't know where he got that number from: the reality is more nuanced, but by any practical measure, Ethereum is already better-equipped to scale and the protocol is actively evolving (as opposed to Bitcoin's, which is immutable as long as its community remains as toxic as it currently does).

If he means the size of the full blockchain, in practice Ethereum implements compression techniques that make it much more compact--the Bitcoin blockchain is currently at about 100gb, while the uncompressed "archival" version of Ethereum is at 300gb but the standard compressed version only requires about 15gb.

In terms of transaction throughput, Bitcoin has a stupid hard limit of 1mb per 10mins of data, and so Ethereum far outscales it in that regard. If you hear the term "lightning network" as a counterargument, you can ignore it: the lightning network doesn't yet exist, and when it does, it will have several practical problems, including that it requires onchain scaling to work[1].

[1] http://cowpig.github.io/bitcoin/cryptocurrency/2017/06/24/Se...
Thank you for sharing this. It was interesting and a bit sad.
How do they not have a way of alerting drivers, that directions during this time of wildfires, may be counterintuitive and provide them with a map showing them where the wildfires are and where they may spread?

Like everything, they will learn from it , and hopefully implement some disaster protocol directions in the future.
> Protobuffers can handle that with a lot less muss and fuss than JSON can.

Are you speaking from personal experience? FWIW it doesn't match mine.
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Why Always Electron?
By July 2019,Bitcoin will require more electricity than the entire US now uses
Early humans migrated out of Africa much earlier than we thought
I'm not sure if this is relevant but that background is causing me motion sickness and disabling js removes all of the information. I can't read it very easily when I really want to...
Diferentiating your company with an "exclusive brand experience" has led to another kind of race to the bottom. More and more brands are trying to be the most "iconic", "relevant", "fresh", "sexy". The commoditization of these concepts is everywhere. They get so diluted and commericalized in the barely veiled desperation for relevancy that now I avoid such "experiences" whenever I realize I'm being "engaged with". I might buy your overpriced tshirt on its own merits, just don't try to tell me I'm changing the world by wearing it. Such a concept has a very precise, limited application that gets unsustainably depleted when used by a bunch of clothing companies. It's the marketing version of strip mining.
I'll go ahead and plug my project (which just hit 100 stars on GitHub): https://github.com/brndnmtthws/optimal-buy-gdax

It's a tool for buying from GDAX, which if used correctly will result in close to 0 in fees paid to Coinbase/GDAX (it's the same entity).
>If a Williams student spray-painted “Corporate Deathburgers” on a local building today

The biggest difference between today and when I went to college (a decade or so after the author) is now the kid would get thrown in jail, convicted and stuck with probation and a permanent record. Very difficult things to get out from under and in many states, follow you for life.

I understand the problem with the digital stuff as well, that is similar, if not just as bad as a permanent record.
> ISPs can put equipment in the BT exchanges and get a raw connection, or can pay for "backhaul" to a set of central locations.

It's worth noting this involves two different layers of regulatory separation.

Most ISPs don't run their own LLU operation. They buy access from one of BT Wholesale or TalkTalk Wholesale (who are technically LLUers and both, in turn, use the last-mile network run by Openreach). As you say, the prices which both of the BT Group companies are allowed to charge are regulated and published and companies can "innovate" at quality of service or features offered.

The relevant part here is that the US has never AFAIK had the same wholesale access model. With that, an upstart ISP could have the same coverage as Verizon/Comcast/etc but have the option of not doing these scummy things and/or being as network-neutral as they pleased, within the limits of their business model, without having to spend boatloads of money building a network to access those customers.
LLU, on the other hand, requires way more investment so it's not surprising that it never really took off in the US where DSL always seemed like the poor relation compared to the cable networks.
Reminds me http://programmer.97things.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/Write_...
The work Esperanto is doing take the vector concept to a mind boggling extreme:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-b4QOzMyfU

I want to write code for their chip!
So what’s the rationale for poor performance even when plugged in?
For the first time in history people can decide which characteristics they desire in their money.

People look at bitcoin and see money that can be sent anywhere without needing approval from anyone. They can store their money themselves. They can program their money. They know the supply of their money can’t discretely change underneath them.

Some people are opting to change their dollars to btc. Some are opting to hedge a small amount into this new system in case recent monetary experiments explode. Some people are speculating (as they do in forex markets today).

Just because more people want to explore this brave new world doesn’t mean it’s a bubble.
> How can an organisation that executes this badly become this big ? I mean, I know the answer is "government" and government making them a monopoly, but still. WTF.

Because "National Security".
I guess the title is misleading... It should be "The Best Books of 2017 according to finance people and CEOs"
This looks good. Are there any plans in the future to build this out more?
I've been doing freelance/contract work since 2004. My advice would be to start by doing hourly contract work through agencies/recruiting firms. It's not glamorous, but it initially saves you from having to worry about sales and collecting the money, perhaps the two most stressful parts of freelancing. You'll get a check every two weeks and develop contacts in different organizations. Find an accountant that specializes in professional services and set yourself up as an LLC and do the work with a corp-to-corp arrangement. Once you get comfortable and have some reliable clients you can cut out the middlemen.
I still don't understand your objection to GSO's opportunistic trading.
Triggers and credit events were provisions agreed on by both parties - it's a bespoke CDS after all - the only unintended consequence would be for future CPs to read the annexes to what they are trading, can't say it will be bad.
I read a comment on here I believe where someone surmised this is an effect of the anti-bully movement that happened about 10 years ago. Now we not only have bullies (in the traditional term) but we have mobs of people who are eager to bully a perceived bully and have zero tolerance for anything other than their subscribed world view.

The antidote is the same it's been since before the internet: don't put much value in what people think about you.
Actually I feel almost any component in general sadly. I had to replace the front camera assembly as well and after trying almost four different parts from multiple vendors and none match the quality of the original.

Another thing I learned is that Apple would replace the entire display and front assembly (front camera, earpiece, speaker, brightness sensor, proximity sensor) for only ~ $150. However, due to the third party battery they couldn’t work on it anymore.
Wow, you unlocked some painful memories of buying an expansion card and spending a frustratingly long time wondering whether I’d ever get it working. There are many things I get nostalgic for about old computers, but this isn’t one of them. Thank you for the reminder—this is an awesome metaphor.
You're wrong. There isn't a JSON specification anywhere that says numerics are IEEE 754 doubles. The RFC mentions "good interoperability" can be achieved by using doubles, but does not say this MUST or even SHOULD be supported.
I didn't care about merging and tagging.

For me the main feature was distributed nature. SVN is OK on a gigabit corporate LAN with dedicated people to manage & maintain the servers + network. Anything less than that, and it becomes slow and unreliable.
recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15642116
Your cars battery is cooled instead of being abused as a heat sink, is nearly never emptied, and uses a battery chemistry that doesn't degrade when fully charged.

Smartphone battery degradation is indeed a consequence of design choices, but I think those choices are reasonable. I prefer battery power and processor power now over long term battery life, as long as the battery is replaceable.
A side comment about the nausea-inducing motion background. The Bloomberg story credits shown at the bottom include: "Design and development: James Singleton"

When you go to James' website showing off his portfolio[1], you see the websites he creates have busy motion and pulsating colors. Apparently, there are lots of media buyers that like that and keep paying for his services. (E.g. a previous Bloomberg feature with the disembodied head of Elon Musk bouncing around and a flashing "CLICK TO ENTER".[2])

It's definitely a different design aesthetic from Mike Bostock (d3.js) of The New York Times.

[1] http://jamespants.com/

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/features/elon-musk-goals/
There’s a lot to dislike about the UK government, but the way they regulated the ISP market is perfect. We have one of the most competitive ISP markets in the world.

In my time in the US several years ago I was horrified at the cost and quality of internet (and mobile) service compared to the UK.

Any strong libertarian ideals I once had were crushed by the reality of things like this. (Healthcare too but that’s another discussion).
Is it possible to import vitamins?
Lots of poor and blue collar working class people do 12 hour work days (for example truckers or workers in construction). And these are the people that are usually described here as "primitive" consumers who only eat fast food and buy cheap prepared food in plastic containers.
Voltage is applied, current is drawn. It’s basic physics. You’ll fry a phone by connecting a charger that operates at a higher voltage level, but it’s perfectly harmless use a charger with a higher amperage rating
Chimps are sometimes observed to be violent and murderous, either for territorial[1] or hierarchical[2] reasons.

I'm not of the belief that religion is necessarily what made murder taboo, but self-reflective consciousness and sophisticated ethical systems (especially development of an understanding of the mutual self-interest of the "golden rule"[3]) would seem to be key factors.

[1] https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/06/100621-scie...

[2] https://www.newscientist.com/article/2119677-chimps-beat-up-...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Rule
If they’d just make it bigger they’d solve a lot of things for both of us.
> No, the problem is that Apple can do whatever the f* they want

Industrial wide problem based on consumers voting with their money.

Samsung and the rest of Android is also following the same thing. No replaceable battery and no head phone jack.
Normal people, as in average earners, are unlikely to pay any tax at all. They tend to use spread betting or stay below their £11,300 CGT allowance.
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> 3) Frequently have to update the world at once

I’ve never worked in a monorepo, so may be wrong, but this point presumes a dependency on “latest” at all times. I’d assume the components in the mono repo still release versions to the various package management systems (maven, pypi, npm, etc), allowing dependencies to be more stable.

Has that not been the common experience by those that have worked in them? I see a lot of merits of having to update everything at once (less code rot, hopefully) but it does seem to have drawbacks (many have commented on these as well).
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You can become an academic, monk or makerspace operator if you enjoy research and teaching. You can also just take a break to recharge, eg. personally I find bicycle touring to be great. You could find something creative that you enjoy and just work on that until you find a way to channel it in to income, for example through sales or teaching. You could also consider channeling your frustrations in corporate profit allocation to creating new approaches to transparent management practices.
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Alas indeed. :(
Poor name. The web is already decentralized.
IIRC, Bitbucket Enterprise has pretty decent global search. GitHub Enterprise doesn't seem to have much of any cross-repo tooling, which is one of my least favorite things about it.

Global refactoring seems a lot less necessary if you have clean separation among your processes. Maybe this is me coming from a more microservices perspective, but I'm inclined to say that needing to do a refactor that cuts across several different functional areas is a sign that things are becoming hopelessly snarled together.
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It’s done in a deviously clever way, though. It’s not “planned obsolescence” if it’s “performance scaling for battery life optimization” combined with “you can always buy a new battery.”
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Apparently the internet is too important to let Americans have it unfiltered. Let's face it - there are people who don't want to let us access the net directly, even though its importance for the public is incalculable.
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Flexbox is actually complementary to CSS grids: you use it to controller vertical/horizontal spacing within a cell.
> What is the behaviour of a decoder that can't handle numeric types of that size?

Is this actually relevant? It sounds like an implementation detail to me and it seems to boil down to using arbitrary size bigint. If you can't handle a bigint because it's too big for your machine, it sounds like a problem with the system, not parser.
Could you mention a genuine use case for variadic generics that's not “working around the stupidity of not reusing tuple types for so-called ‘n-ary’ procedures”?
Probably because the fox is guarding the henhouse now.
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Not necessarily. Comcast derives from your work in order to exploit it for commercial purposes. Archive does not. A significant difference.
That being said, you may find it worthwhile to work with an endocrinologist who stays abreast of this kind of research.
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A classic way it's phrased is "is a gun manufacturer responsible for murder?" It's an age old debate with a lot of people arguing either side.