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On every model of Android I've seen you can disable the voice activation feature so that they aren't constantly listening. Some models come with it off by default. I assume the something similar is available on iOS.
I am just curious how the system should work then?
The term's broader than the one you proposed.
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This is wrong. Most countries still have the "middleman". The NHS is the only European system (that I know of) that is completely government operated. Germany, France, Switzerland all leverage private and public health insurance plans.

Furthermore, we can look at our own country (the US) and see how the different European systems play out. The VA (NHS-like) is a poorly run mess. Medicare (like Switzerland) runs decently.
> - Had the company declined, the CEO would have gotten all the blame and been crucified. Can't give blame if you can't also give credit.

He was making 10+ million dollars a year already [1], which he would have been able to keep. The worst that could have happened to him if he was underperforming was being fired. Calling it being crucified is ridiculous hyperbole.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Bertolini
So how would this show up in statistics since 2012? Fewer Errors?
> Another solution is to let you go to school for free and then pay a percent of all your future earnings

In Australia we have a system somewhere between this and a loan.

You go to (heavily subsidized) university, tuition is paid for by the government with an automatic interest free loan.

Once you earn above a particular (somewhat generous) threshold, your employer automatically starts taking a percentage of your income (depends on income) and pays it towards the loan.

There's no interest but the loan amount is indexed against inflation.

I graduated from one of the country's top universities with $24k AUD (~$18k USD) debt to the government and paid it all off early voluntarily. It used to be that voluntary payments got you a 5% bonus but that's gone now.
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> There is definitely an education bubble.

It can't really be a bubble because there are no assets to be bid up in a run away cycle or that can have a sudden collapse. Bloomberg tells you what you need to know in the article but doesn't do it right upfront. The overwhelming majority of this debt is held or guaranteed by the federal government.

A bubble is one way to get malinvestment, but it isn't the only one. Here we have malinvestment but no bubble.
Wasn't Pai appointed by Trump instead of by election?

Didn't most of the voting Americans vote against Trump?

It seems like a better approach to US politics is to be rich.
It's a good exercise, your body will thank you.
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I'd assume because they don't want the liability. Believe it or not most companies take this sort of thing very seriously and don't want to open themselves up to lawsuits.
If you're using smart color-changing schedule-keeping lights then your light switch Must Never Be Turned Off. It's kind of a pain in the ass, really.

Personally I just have like three tablets of various vintages floating around the apartment, all with the light control app on them.
There's been a number of attempts at least, see Ouroboros: https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/889.pdf

I'm still on the fence about the viability of PoS from the perspective that PoW at least means you have a chance of reward from using mining hardware that you probably already own, whereas PoS increases that barrier of adoption.
totally agree. My wife comes from that sort of background. We're both super jealous of her older sister who lives with husband, kids, grandparents, and a couple aunts/uncles/cousins. She is going back to college, never has to cook a meal, and always has someone to watch the kids on a moments notice. By contrast my wife works harder as a stay at home mom and is generally more stressed and depressed here in the states. No amount of effort spent joining groups and arranging playdates even comes close replacing the casual socialization and miscellaneous bits of support that happens naturally in an extended family.
So the workers should be paid less if the companies profits fall?

edit: feel free to join the conversation silent downvoting cowards
> People who are properly motivated and who have what it takes should be able to go to college, but it needs to cost something... just not as much as it does now.

In Spain there is a limited number of open position in different studies. You get an test and people is sorted by their grades. The people with higher grades get to the college they choose. It is not perfect as people in better neighborhoods get better education and can get more easily to college. But at least, it is closer to a meritocracy and costs less money.

> as an excuse to take a 4-year vacation

If you don't pass a minimum of credits the first year, you get kicked out. A lot of people doesn't pass this phase.

There is ways of solving the problems, but you need a government with willingness to do it.
This risk/reward mechanism works only for large, established companies. There is no real responsibility for a startup. If they make a mistake and are caught, they can shut down the company and start a new one with the same staff.
I'm not particularly animated by the issue but I'm also not convinced the compensation has much to do with relative ability and performance. It's based on lucky positioning and risk averse ass covering (the board thinks it is more defensible to pay lots for a star than take a risk paying less).
Medicare cuts->Elderly dying off faster->Voter demographic change. Law of unintended consequences? Possibly. I can see the political winds shifting back hard over the next 3 years.

Enough Puerto Ricans might have moved to Florida already to turn the state blue. Won't know until next elections.
In Australia we have the ability to do a double degree not just a double major.

It usually saves 2 years compared to doing them separately and you get 2 degrees on the final piece of testament.

I found it tremendously useful as my "humanity" was my Physics degree to complement the Comp Sci. Plenty of philosophy in the hard sciences when you learn the history and where we are going.
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Not sure where that's from but that's not true. There are no intentional inefficiencies and you can't mine Ethereum individually.
> Much better, you can tell the app "set a sexy mood" and have all half my lamps turn off

Then you wonder why Barry White recommendations start appearing in Amazon
That's a fair point. But the value in stock comes from profit which comes from...
Most of the conduct reported in the news is not criminal. Often the kind of thing that would open someone up to a lawsuit. And wrong. But not criminal.
Sure, but how much discussion is going on right now of non-criminal sexual misconduct?
I am unsure what you want. But I can clear up your question.

On an electric guitar, and some acoustics, you will see a bar that they.call the whammy bar. This is often a tremolo bar by name. The truth of it is it is a vibratto bar

Vibrato modifies music by changing the pitch.It bends wires.

For reasons unknown, tremolo adjust by moving the volume. The real tremolo is inside your amp or in a pedal.

Where the confusion came from is still unknown. But, your tremolo is probably in an amp or pedal. Vibrato is by the bar they sometimes call a whammy bar.
My understanding is that these high latencies are due to failures in the backing bank's infrastructure. Here's a workaround:
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/tez/AHKZjmtUx...
ROCm looks good, but so did OpenCL and I'm not very convinced that OpenCL is a good platform to build code in. ROCm addresses a lot of my concerns on paper, but there isn't much buzz on ROCm... specifically HCC.

It looks like ROCm builds off of Microsoft's C++ AMP specification (which also looks like a great idea, but that project unfortunately looks dead). So it provides a "unified" C++ source code that can compile down into x86 OR GPU Assembly (GCN in the case of AMD).

Developing OpenCL requires a bit of "copy/paste" going on whenever you start processing data on the GPU vs CPU. Because the OpenCL "world" is completely different from the host language.

It looks all good, but it doesn't seem like anyone has really tested ROCm out. There are some benchmarks over at Phoronix testing out their OpenCL implementation on ROCm (and apparently, the ROCm OpenCL is a different compiler from the older AMD stuff).

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Its kind of hard for me to see where AMD's "focus" is. If I had to bet, it seems like ROCm HCC has the most effort right now. In the past two years, ROCm HCC has seen multiple releases from 1.0 through 1.7, and their Github page indicates a lot of activity. Way more activity than AMD's OpenCL forums for example.

But there's no community forums of ROCm / HCC yet! I think most discussions happen in GitHub issues, which is... a subpar community solution.

AMD has been working on a lot of technologies that seem redundant: Vulkan Compute Shaders, OpenCL Compute, and now ROCm / HCC Compute. In addition, there's Microsoft C++ AMP and Microsoft DirectCompute.

NVidia has done a good job at communicating "CUDA" as the #1 platform of choice on NVidia systems. But I'm not entirely sure which technology AMD is focusing on right now. If I had to guess, they're all in on ROCm / HCC. But clarifications would be nice.

I do realize that AMD is also offering OpenCL support on ROCm. But things like Packed FP16 are better supported on ROCm HCC, and I don't think packed FP16 is supported on ROCm OpenCL yet. This suggests that AMD's #1 effort is HCC, despite the relative silence on the HCC platform.

See this ROCm issue for example:

https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/issues/219
>I can, but I don't want to. Is that unreasonable?

Yes. Consider the amount of movement/exercise the average western person gets, it might even be life threatening.

It's based on the inability to distinguish between useful and marginal technology (especially when the latter also has tons of adverse side effects, such as security and privacy issues).

>As a programmer, having an API for my home has been tons of fun. Controlling some of that API with my voice has been as well.

As part of a hobby it can be OK (hobbies don't have to have utility, and we can even spend resources to have fun doing them). As it's sold (and bought for) to and by the masses, it's beyond useless.
Why doesn't that logic also apply to Amazon promising not to transmit anything unless it hears the trigger word?
No, every node executes the code running on the blockchain. This will be changed with sharding requiring only a percentage of nodes to run the code.
as opposed to paying millions (billions?) for a chunk of carbon?
I think the cool thing about this idea is that "cats" is just one possibility. It can work just as well with nearly anything that requires proof of ownership or uniqueness. Maybe property or mineral rights, or stock and other securities, etc.
How do you feel about Ajit Pai's decision to not postpone the upcoming Net Neutrality vote as many across the nation have called upon him to do?
Really? I'm struggling to come up with any recent report that was not criminal. Maybe I'm paying attention to the wrong things.
Now you have to figure out where to put your light sensor so that it's not affected by the outdoor lights. And then get power / connectivity to it, keep it clean etc etc.
It is kind of sad that writing resource efficient software is considered a special case.
Should main.css be included in the index.html example?

This just confused me for some reason but it's more me focusing on the wrong thing, haha
I use increasing athlete salary as an easy analogy to help ppl understand wealth disparity in this country. Micheal Jordan once made $4 million dollars in the prime of his career. Today Steph Curry can sign a $200 million deal in 2017 because that amount is nothing to his owner. Russell Westbrook signed a $200 million NBA extension to go with his $200 million sneaker endorsement this summer. Sounds crazy if you've been following sports. Their salaries aren't out of control though, it just seems that way because our wages are stagnant due to having none of the leverage athletes have via unions/skillset. Athlete salary has grown in proportion to the wealth they help generate, most of our salaries have not.
why would they need money? Why would they need to trade with anyone? It is not like North Korea is infinitely small and the earth infinitely big. The earth is a small globe, and NK is a region of that globe, one which almost certainly can be an autarky.
Lightning Network unfortunately depended on transaction malleability being fixed. This was, I believe, fixed by segwit. So it's only been a possibility since August - and the Lightning Network Daemon has been under heavy development. It can now run on the Bitcoin network itself, but is not yet in a state where it works "automagically", nor would many people depend on the code being relatively bug-free yet.
In France the health insurance companies are non-profit. I'm guessing that insurance CEOs in other countries don't get $500 million bonuses so I'm thinking there must be some sort of regulation controlling profit levels and pay.
>Yeah but you can say that about any modern convenience.

If only we've had enough intelligence discover sensible limits to things, instead of doing everything just because we can.
Disturbing, especially given the difficulty (almost impossibility) of detection.
Our town dump has a computers/electronics area that I've been tempted to pick through (and have seen multiple people harvesting).
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Sure I will, do you own what you call digital tulips or are you being a wise ass? I'll let the price do most of the talking, your clueless doubts makes me want to buy more. Even without the price factor, I'm interested in sending digital assets that cost real money through the web globally with javascript apis with no third party (paypal or stripe) limits to worry about, sorry if you are not interested in this up-and-coming space.
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Pretty much all of it?
> Why can't you just stand up and, you know, flick the light switch?

Why do you need a television remote? Why can't you just stand up and, you know, change the channel on your TV?

You're just drawing some arbitrary line in the sand and passing moral judgement on everyone on the other side. My guess is that in 30 years, having every light in your house controlled by a physical switch will be as quaint as TVs with rotary channel dials.
If available flash just AOSP or lineages without GApps. Even nexus4 runs smooth. If you need browser add Firefox focus from fdroid.
It is funny, but does a disservice to the major improvements in voice recognition. The one thing that most people don't complain about is the voice recognition of Alexa, Ok Google, Siri or Cortana.
By analogy to driverless cars, it'd make sense to avoid letting your car out on public roads; but it wouldn't make sense to avoid building a prototype and running it around a test track. A real thing lends itself to iteration much better than an on-paper idea does.
Think you meant 9,000 per employee in this case.
Did you mean to submit https://theoutline.com/post/2563/how-brands-secretly-buy-the... (discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15853235)?
> 3. Censorship. This I think will start slow but is the biggest medium and long term threat.

We already have that under NN (the Daily Stormer incident a few months back).
Shorting Tether is pretty strange, since if it works as designed it will essentially never increase in value, there's no risk on that end. And if it's a fraud that collapses, the short pays off big.

Can somebody explain how that effect would get priced into the market? I can't think of another commodity like that.
But quality of life is much higher for the software engineer, so assuming it's just as easy to be both, pay would need to be much higher for the plumber to incentivize people to do it.
Yeah, well I remember when I had to punch drivers in via the front panel before I could even use my keyboard.
Truly the jugaad solution!!!
I moved to India 2 years back, and surprisingly, in daily life it looks so much advanced here! Here we order groceries, food, medicines, everything online, and you think of a way of payment, and it's there. "Paytm" changed the way of digital payments forever in stores (even roadside sellers and stalls). In US I used Google Wallet to pay in stores through my phone, but with paytm it's even easier. You scan vendor's barcode, type the amount, and click 'Send'. That's all. Then came UPI, which removed another layer of uploading money beforehand. Going cashless has become a breeze.
I'm an Ubuntu user and not much of a gamer (besides the rare splurge on a steam for linux game) so I tend to be perfectly happy with last-year's tech.

I used to stay very up to date with system specs and prices, but I can't be bothered anymore. Now I'll generally rely upon "Build Guides", Reddit, and PC Part Picker.

I built my current desktop about 5 years ago, but the parts inside are about 1-3 years old. To start, I'll generally look up Build Guides from the previous year, or a couple "Budget Build"s from this year, enter all the parts into PC Part Picker and then mix and match until I find something that can handle what I need for under $600.

And then every year or so, I'll fire up the previous year's build guides or present year's "budget build" and see if there's anything worth upgrading to without spending too much.

Building your own can be a pain, but the annoyance is short-lived, and it's a hell of a lot less expensive. Just as well, I like to know what's in the box, so I can upgrade / tweak it as needed. As my needs change and I find I need my system to handle disk writes more efficiently, or need more memory, or if it's too loud, I can take care of all of that myself with a bit of googling and a couple hundred bucks.
I talked with the CenturyLink tech who hooked up my fiber and he mentioned they had just wired up some 40 gigabit appliances. This was in Utah. They are all over.
That’s just slightly more transparent income tax.
> CEOs interests are aligned perfectly in this situation: increase shareholder value.

That is wrong. The CEO's risk is asymmetric. Huge upside with limited downside, which encourages reckless risk taking. It is also shorter term (until his grants vest), encouraging short term profit over long term value.

> I don't quite grok the idea that employees with no ownership stake in the company are somehow owed a share of the capital gain when they've got no capital of their own at risk.

Is the CEO not an employee? Why would he be owed a share of the capital gain, and other workers not?
If you get the big decisions correct, then your company can survive many incorrect small decisions.

If you get the big decisions incorrect, then your company will not survive even if all the small decisions are correct.
Go with sqlite DB using net/http, httprouter, and gorm. The goal is maintainability and easy deployment over scalability.
No worries, mate. I won't.
Ethereum hashing algorithm is optimized to be ASIC resistant, in other words you can mine it with GPU and CPU, a more accessible kind of hardware (in fact home hardware).

That's not an inefficiency, it's if anything more efficient with GPU.

The transaction problem applies to both, regardless of the mining algorithm.
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Which device? For example copperheados or any AOSP or lineageos without gapps runs fast even in nexus 4. Do not install PlayServices. I am on my 1generation moto G.
I would gladly sell you a 256-bit number–that is actually the password to my swiss bank account–for 100k USD. For all you know, there might be a lot of gold in it.
What about some sort of state-funded guidance counselor that is required before you sign the paperwork to go to college? Or heck maybe force the colleges to pay for it.
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Sounds like a task that had better have a good software-only fallback, because not many people are going to have a light sensor. And if the software-only implementation works well enough, why would they buy one?
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We use Gin-Gonic with sqlx for our REST API. We also use Gorilla for Websockets.
I don't begrudge athletes high salaries - they are in the entertainment industry and they are part of the product, like actors/directors. It's only in the last few decades that they got close to their actual value due to collective bargaining or that they got (in some sports) the ability to move from team to team of their own free will. Most athletes don't end up ridiculously wealthy and in contact sports will have short careers, additionally boxers and football players with longish careers will have a much lower quality of life after retirement from sport due to TBI/injuries. The only problem I have with pro sports is the collegiate scam in the US where colleges reap all the benefits and student athletes can't earn money.
Proof: https://twitter.com/AGSchneiderman/status/938104469375594496
OK, thanks. That's a great explanation. Now it's clear why everyone hates this. Fuck.
> Why didn't Obama appoint someone from the green party?

Because aside from the law governing appointments, there is also the Senate confirmation process, and such a violation of both the spirit of the law and the established informal norms would both be unlikely to survive that process, and complicate other matters before the Senate, which was blocking more routine nominees.
Their capacity keeps growing so the savings would be over the same amount of computing, but overall the total amount of computing they do keeps going up as shows move from being shot in 4K to 8K, and they acquire more and more shows to broadcast.
A better alternative is to have no comments at all (not joking). If the 'activation energy' of replying is higher, more thought will go into the reply.
In that case Ethereum shouldn't exist at all. Solidity and the EVM itself are a good example of that philosophy. If they weren't gonna move fast they should have waited until they had a better story for static analysis and model checking of smart contracts.
I agree with what you said at the beginning of your comment, and what I think you're getting at is something like panpsychism [1], where consciousness is an inherent property in the universe, as opposed to an emergent view where at some point there is no consciousness in a given system and once it becomes complex enough consciousness emerges or develops.

I don't necessarily have an argument for either of them right now. But you asked me "why believe in the line at all?" -- I'm not making an argument for what consciousness is, I'm only claiming that the current state of the art algorithms we have developed and AI we currently build have nothing to do with topics like self-awareness, consciousness, theory of mind, etc. One day we'll get there I'm sure.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panpsychism
It's like subclassing, but it has to be called something else to be cool. Objects are so last-cen.
Exactly - you articulated what I was trying to say better than I did.
In all seriousness, this is a good stress test for the network.
But the CEO doesn't make all the decisions. Like I said, the comparison doesn't really work. Aetna isn't one CEO and 50,000 labourers, it has an entire corporate chain of command.
Would it be so terrible to end sactions against North Korea? Trade should rise the middle class North Koreans up, and the last thing a wealthy middle class wants is war. A well fed and housed middle class seems the best insurance against war possible.
And the only reason those thousands of people are able to support the enterprise is because of the top level executives making sure the business stays on track