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> Net Neutrality allows the government to control the internet.

Well... Net Neutrality allows the government to prohibit certain actions on the internet. That's a form of control, true, but it's a long way from "control the internet". (See the Great Firewall of China, or worse, North Korea for what "controlling the internet" can really mean.)

Governments - even free governments - always prohibit a subset of actions. We have freedom of speech, for example, but not freedom to falsely advertise.

> We all agree that ISP monopolies are a problem, and that's what should be tackled. It's much better to give monopolies competition that to force them to be fair.

Here I will agree with you.
In theory segwit and offchain settlement layers (namely Lightning) can/will speed things up/reduce fees without raising the block limit. FWIW I think that they should have done both.
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Does Chrome fare any better?
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As we learn more about cryptocurrencies, more evolved altcoins will emerge, with much more sophisticated economics.

As it is, none of the developers of cryptocurrencies really understand economics and the majority of them believe in heterodox economic ideas that are probably wrong.

But currently people are just trying to get rich. At this point in time I'm more bullish about GNU Taler. It is not a cryptocurrency but it shares some of the objectives.
heck, they could even tell by sniffing wifi traffic
The problem I see with that analogy is that Obamacare has been actively undermined at every step by the Tepublican party.

Nothing like that is happening to Bitcoin.

I think this was all inevitable. How could you make a new currency and not expect all the people who take advantage of monetary systems to move in? I’m not sure it’s preventable.
Carbs clogging arteries? That's not what I said.

Low carb diet lowered my weight by 25 lbs, made my GERD disappear, no more taking omeprazol 'for the rest of my life', my gallbladder stopped acting up, and I have more energy as if I was 10 years younger.
This was enough to convince me that I'm not going back to eating carbs as I did before.
I think that is what they mean with the ?_escaped_fragment_= URLs: they defined a way to map the #! URLs to URLs that could be sent to the server to get a prerendered page. But I may have guessed wrong, I don't really know.
That is far from the defining trait of lisp. Probably brought about because it was easy to pass around functions in lisp. However, i find lisp is at its most powerful when you understand some of the imperative abstractions that are available to you.
I'm mostly looking for something like "excel for ANN"
Banks can't print money either, and this isn't some "ackshually it's the Mint" thing: banks have the power to create debt. But this isn't special, because you and I also have the power to create debt. What makes a bank special is that debt is its business (so most of its operation concerns the management of debt), and much of its debt can be called on demand, and so we call banks' debts to us demand deposits.

Fractional reserve is just a particular kind of regulation placed on banks' creation of debt, and it usually isn't the most important one. The practical limit of banks is that they have to be able to extinguish their debts (which we call withdrawal), including being able to transfer them to other banks in exchange for cash (which we call clearing), at the whim of the creditors (you and me).

The problems with banks are the problems with debt generally, but that's much trickier than some glib remarks about monetary policy.
The first railway mania (England 1830s).

The pricing of the railways was completely insane compared to any reasonable business projections. Everyone was saying that there was a financial bubble (they were well aware of the Dutch tulip mania) as more railways were built with ever more insane valuations, all designed to be repackaged into shares to be sold onto the next fool.

Punchline: because the trains had to stop to pick up coal and water along the way, the railway operators discovered that most of their business wasn't coming from end-to-end journeys between big locations (which was what the railways were built to do), but instead from people getting on and off at stops along the way. With this sudden extra source of income, the railways returned quite a healthy return to their investors.
I feel like it's a parable about lofty libertarian ideals -- everything's peachy until there's large sums of money involved. Bitcoin is fixable but now there's a financial incentive for never fixing it.
Proof engineer is a thing. It's just that there are only a handful of them :)
Problem relative to what other system. As far as systems that exist, Democratic capitalism with a social safety net has produced less starvation per capita than any other socioeconomic system that has actually existed. Most stories of people attempting to implement a hand-wavey utopia have results where the human dead measure in millions. At this point theoretical Utopia's meet the standard of extraordinary claims, and consequently they require extraordinary evidence. How does this alternate system of yours work? Can people read what they want to read? Can people work where they want to work? Do companies get revenues based on how successful their products are? If all three of those things are true your premise is basically violated as far as I can tell. I don't like breaking any of those 3 things as I see the first 2 as fundamental rights and the third as the main successful way to reward creating actual value for real humans.
It's now up to twice what the benefit would have been in lost Patrons.
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Isn't there already music playing? You're not in a quiet scenario anymore.
This is a very Silicon Valley / US bubble mindset. Telsa/GM/Nissan have made much contribution but your are missing the major factor driving the EV industry forward which is government industrial policy.

The real reason is EU and China have announced their intention of banning ICE vehicles around 2030 with China having very aggressive EV marketshare goals starting next year. Companies that do not meet EV sale goals will have to buy credits from others that do just like a carbon emission market. This is causing all major automakers to not be complacent and invest heavily in EVs.
Why not? :D

More seriously, because LAMP stacks are ubiquitous, well understood and well supported by vendors. Also, the output of this code is trivial to use or replicate in most other languages - in fact, I've got some fragments of C source lying around for a similar system, that was intended for a command-line tool that would interoperate with a distant ancestor of Lockbox.

That concern for future interop possibilities is the main reason it stores secrets in JSON - which is one reason, along with abysmal character encoding practices by many developers, that the key and ciphertext is all ASCII-safe. A 30% bump in output size is more than offset by never having to care what transport those strings are moving through.
What a delightful discovery, this playlist selection vertical.

Going down that rabbit hole, I discovered some gems:

[1] Restaurant music emerges from the background - http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20170807/ENTERTAINMENT/...

[2] Who Picks The Music You Hear At The Mall? - https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2012/11/28/165947927/...

[3] Gap In-Store Playlists 1992 to 2006: The Monthly Playlists at Gap - https://gapinstoreplaylists.blogspot.com
Electrical Engineer is also a licensed profession.
That's exactly my point. That's the main issue here. This is a short coming of cash, so why are we trying to replicate it? A truly decentralized system can exist that ties value to an individual instead preventing these things.
Do you like Python? Python is basically simplified Lisp. Common Lisp is Python plus first-class lexical closures (rather than second-class) plus true multithreading plus a real compiler so it runs much faster.

Plus parentheses rather than indentation to delimit expressions; parentheses are much more versatile once you get used to them.
I have no idea where you get all that. I've done a few reports on bugzilla, bugs in firefox on ArchLinux (so linux, and not a standardized setup). They've all been answered, and most have been fixed.

Sometimes, I've been told the setup I was using wasn't supported, but they'd accept a patch if I was willing to invest some effort in it. I did once, and the patch was indeed accepted.

Obviously, Mozilla cannot support every obscure platform, but then again neither does Chrome. I don't think your expectation match reality if you think that's the case.
When the "atoms" of your language are causing whatever problem you're solving to be difficult to express, then it may be wise to introduce new "atoms" to make the idea easier to express.

The new atoms are supposed to communicate intent faster and more concisely, and decrease the burden of understanding what's going on. That's the role of an abstraction, especially syntactic abstractions.
And it never adapted? I would have thought after a while the outside pressure and inside the camera would equalize.
Cash basis is accepted for the purposes of taxes, but my understanding is that it's not acceptable for legally-mandated reporting. That is, cash basis is not among the generally accepted accounting principles.
If one wants to start from zero experience of Neural Networks, but expertise in application development process, what resources would you recommend to start learning?
I thought the same thing, then I realized there was a significant selection bias: I was only looking at events where half the hypothesis (DDG fails & Google succeeds) is true. For example, how does DDG perform when Google fails?
See the problem is, how can you trust the claim of coins being stolen to begin with? A common scenario would be I buy something with the coins and then I decide to claim they were stolen thus making the coins useless.
Switched to SoundHound a long time ago and have found it equally as good as Shazam. I have every song I "discover" automatically added to a Spotify playlist so I can check it out later.
IANAL
but actually the "software" - patent "system" in european has been under changes since around ~2000 which means that there would not have been any problem in releasing his code...
(https://www.epo.org/law-practice/legal-texts/html/epc/2016/e...) (basically they are not de jure, but they would have a hard time to actually enforce this, if it is trivially).

actually the lawyer did make a strange assumption..

well there would still be a problem if he ever want to travel outside the eu where somebody could actually claim the infrigdement.

(Edit: in germany where I live there were patent processes about that matter in ~2000 and the federal court ruled in favor of the patent, however after/at the end of 2000 they basically always rejected them.)
As I mentioned, a short coming of trying to REPLICATE cash.
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Responding to problems with this article as they appear:

1. Coinbase buckling is a failure of a web application grappling with unprecedented load. Not with bitcoin.

2. The dark web mostly uses Monero, which would not exist without Bitcoin coming along first. Also the notion of a $65 fee on a $250 tx is ridiculous, not to mention a 24 hour wait time.

3. The existence of exchanges and dark web websites that allow you to convert fiat to bitcoin and facilitate trades (middlemen as the authors calls them) is a failure of Bitcoin? Building a centralized exchange/facilitator will ALWAYS come before a decentralized alternative because decentralized apps are hard.

4. Applications that provide immeasurable convenience at the cost of a little privacy and security are an inevitable step in the road towards a better system. This is the equivalent of RMS bemoaning the existence of Ubuntu because it uses a few propriety programs, when whatever free distro he recommends is straight out of 1992

5. "retains none of the exciting features"? Rapidly increasing prices does not remove the most innovative features (smart contracts, off-chain transactions, etc) of the crypto world. It accelerates them if anything by providing the capital to finance their development

Feel free to attack Bitcoin for its shortcomings, but don't act like things could have easily gone differently. Bitcoin still has tremendous potential for privacy, security, and everyday use --- if you get past the clickbait headlines.
That's my point, why are we attempting to replicate a broken system but digitally?
objc_msgSend accepts a variable number of arguments, and it needs to forward those to the method implementation. This is not possible to do in pure C.
Couldn't one implement these functions with ordinary analog circuits?
I would submit that we already have an example of self-play being used as part of a strategy to learn chess: chess problems.

Something like "Here's a board position. It looks utterly hopeless but the problem says "Black to mate in 7 moves". How can you get there from here without relying on White making any beginner's mistakes?" is pretty much self-play.
> Perhaps it would be prudent to demonstrate similar care when addressing the government organization that cares very much about licensing engineers.

I disagree.

In this scenario, the state has redefined the meaning of "engineer" in a way that is very detrimental.

A Medical Doctor or physician implies with his or her title, authority to practice.

The word "engineer" does not carry this implication, nor should it.

When I tell people that I am a "Software Engineer", I am expressing years of self-education, nuanced understanding, etc. This title is not misconstrued as having a degree or license, of which I have neither. If I want to claim to have a degree, I will be explicit about it.

Calling myself an "engineer" is a very useful way to express the complicated body of knowledge that I possess. If the word suddenly implies credentials, of which I do not possess, I am suddenly considered a fraud.

TL;DR You can consider me a fraud by redefining what an "engineer" is, but that doesn't make me one, so please don't redefine engineer. That does not help discourse.
I think quite the opposite that they do not care for their users and blatantly disregard user feedback and users. From experience after having repeatedly told that I'm not significant/worthy enough for a variety of reasons for not using windows, not using gnome, not using pulseaudio, working with older people who have a hard time dealing with computers, having a use for disabling javascript, disabling spying telemetry and profiling, wanting to be able to install unsigned extension, being a power user, etc.

Each time I've been denied from mozilla it was justified by the fact that I was part of a niche segment of the user base and as such was not as good as a member of the large segment of the user base, in other words not really an actual user.

I may need help to see how it is a "do good" company, it does not seem very different from another company, it takes hundred millions of dollars out of advertising money coming from surveillance capitalism and one of the worst offender on privacy issues, tries to push their own agenda devised in a vacuum, deprives its users of freedom of choice, make its success on the work of volunteers but does not give them credit or respect, has marketing saying something but does not deliver.
This is hardly "doing good" and seems quite in line with what to expect from a regular company.
I haven't seen memory or cpu problems, short of ~200 tabs open on a ~8 year old computer.
> When you speak of "collective labor action", though, I presume (perhaps wrongly) that you're talking about unionization.

This was the assumption I took as well in my original reply. Sure, the work of OSS is kind of a socialist/collectivist arrangement. However, at any significant scale, I feel like that's going to break down if taken too far.

Look no further than one of the biggest OSS projects on the planet: Linux. It's run dictatorship-style by a not always personable technocrat. Take that away, and it's probably a disaster.

To return to the original point: if it indeed referred(action) to unionization, then I'm pretty comfortable in saying my reaction is not "knee-jerk", it's wholly informed and justified.

I've had many friends/family/acquaintances work under the union framework. You don't want that model anywhere near software development, or IT in general.

This is an entirely plausible scenario:

Your team needs to deploy a critical bugfix to prod, except, see, per the union agreement, only Frank is allowed to do software deploys. As it turns out, Frank's on vacation this week. Tough shit. You push through and do it anyway, Frank files a grievance, your company gets fined/taken to court etc...

Even worse, maybe Frank is an incompetent waste bag who breaks everything he touches. Problem is, he's union, and he's been here ten years. You do 10x the output of Frank, and generally have to clean up his messes. Did I mention he makes more than you too? Union...
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Call it whatever you want. The days of proof-of-work are numbered, I can guarantee you that.
What I don’t understand about the Leaf though - it’s about €13k more expensive than my car when it was new 2y ago (Kia Ceed SW), which even has more extras than the basic Leaf. If the 40kwh battery costs about 8k now, and the rest of the car is cheaper to build - where does the remaining 5k go? Nissan’s pockets? Or is this owed to lower unit production?
That's a pretty broad generalization. Many of us work very hard to make Bitcoin usable for day-to-day transactions.
My brain was several seconds into feeling good that I’ve never paid to go on a whale watching boat...

Perhaps someone should write an article about the shady side of aquatic cetacean observing trips.

The headline just needed quotes around “whales”.
It would be nice if they supported u2f token
5 years ago I was in the same boat. Now I'm in love with Go .. funny how things turn out ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I wonder what if there really is a significant difference between streaming a song in a store vis-a-vis placing it in a TV ad.

That said, of the two playlist selection companies that I have only just read about, the charge for streaming in-store is between $34 to $199 per location per month.

[1] Soundtrack Your Brand, a ‘Spotify for B2B’ nabs $22M for expansion - https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/17/soundtrack-your-brand-a-sp...

[2] Restaurant music emerges from the background - http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20170807/ENTERTAINMENT/...
The CUDA compiler would have to emit something loadable by Nouveau. The tools around CUDA have several hooks into the drive, especially for performance tracing.
Bitcoin was actually built under the assumption that you couldn't trust anyone else. You store your own money with your own private key.
Hybrids lose so many benefits of a pure EV vehicle.
EV drivetrains are much simpler. No complicated transmission or ICE. Easier to produce, scale, and maintain.
Hybrids require all the complexity of both systems, and the weight.
What I realized over the course of the year was that data was just a vehicle to justify gut feelings, opinions, and reports from "trusted" external vendors. It was more politics and about gaining visibility than it ever was about the validity of a model.
> sheer benevolence of the hospital employees.

and willingness to push back against intense economic pressure from management.
Huh? I did my commute with a guy who worked for an automated trading shop when I worked in London in 1994 and he talked constantly about what sounded just like machine learning.
By the 2060s, we will be pursuing carbon fission - not to generate energy, but to make more lithium.
> take the absolute highest resolution images you can buy, and take 100 of the best mathematicians and using only maps you won't even be able to guess within 20%...

Why is that?
> Rate of speed is irrelevant.

Rate of speed is relevant for two reasons. First, there is a posted speed limit. Second, kinetic energy is proportional to the square of velocity. All else being equal, an accident at 90mph is going to be far more dangerous than one at 60mph.

> If you are not actively passing a vehicle, you have zero reason to be in the left lane.

The scenario under discussion was all lanes of traffic driving steadily at the limit. In such a scenario, you have zero reason to need to pass anyone. Surely you must agree that all lanes driving the limit is better than forcing everyone in the left lane to move over so that a few people can drive in excess of the limit? Having all lanes utilized at the limit is clearly the most efficient way to generate the most traffic throughput.

> Nevermind they are the most dangerous person on the road as people blow by them in the right lane rightfully pissed off.

Wait, so you're saying it should be acceptable to blow past someone who's already doing 8 over the limit? What are you thinking of, 15 or 20 over the limit? That's ridiculous, you have no "right" to be be rightfully pissed off because you can't drive 20 over the limit!
It would be quite a joy if there were a way to curate/aggregate in-store music playlists and then serve them such that visitors could search by store.
I mentioned urgent cares. There are none open 24/7 near me, and that seems to be pretty common. I don't live in some remote area.
This is simply false. The amount of lithium in a battery is about 400 g/kWh

http://www.meridian-int-res.com/Projects/How_Much_Lithium_Pe...

Putting a 100 kWh battery in a car would then require 40 kg of lithium, and with 2bn cars (projection for mid-21st century) you're looking at 80 million tonnes of lithium. The ocean contains about 240 billion tonnes of lithium, 3000x requirements, and extracting lithium from seawater costs about $30/kg:

http://gas2.org/2008/10/13/lithium-counterpoint-no-shortage-...

so the total value of that lithium comes to less than $2.4T. While not a small figure, this is miniscule compared to the global oil industry, which brings in more than that per year:

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

and that's using some of the most pessimistic numbers for lithium costs and requirements that I can find. The actual operation of the global lithium market will probably bring the total cost well below $1T, and seawater extraction will probably never be necessary:

https://gigaom.com/2010/03/10/will-seawater-stave-off-a-lith...

Lithium absolutely will not, ever, be in any way comparable to oil in terms of price, environmental damage, or political impact. Lithium Chicken-Littling is not helpful to anyone.
Here's how your comment made sense to me even though I had read the article and understood that it's not talking about literal "whales":
You mention few customers bringing in the major share of the revenue, and that's exactly what the article linked is about.
The same as any other job, like mine as a Site Reliability Engineer? A resume, a degree that can be validated, experience and knowledge that demonstrate competence, references, reputation, etc. Why does the state need to be the official signer-off on who can do a certain job?
Read the whole sentence I wrote. "Yet another shorting coming of trying to replicate cash." The problem isn't the blockchain. The block chain is all good and well. The problem is the anonymity associated with the transactions. There has to be a balance between anonymity and security of transactions.