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In Canada, where the title engineer is a restricted term and thus the universities have common requirements, all engineers are expected to take

- Calculus 1-3

- Linear algebra 1-2 (though condensed into one course)

- Statistics

- Differential Equations (including partial differential equations).

I preferred reading the textbooks over going to class, so I can speak mostly from experience.

- Stewart Calculus

- Linear Algebra - Gilbert Strang

- Paul's online math notes for Differential Equations (PDF is formatted better than the website)

- Discrete Mathematics - Epp

These works are meant to be read in their entirety. Now by reading these, I mean read them, work through the examples youself, and do most of the practice questions at the end of the chapter. I'd also recommend supplementing with Khan academy, which is often better than many university lectures.

It's no small amount of reading, is genuinely difficult, and without difficult exams at the end of semester you may not retain the info. Also, consider the list a foundation for Mathematics in engineering less than something that will improve your work immediately.

That said, totally doable if you move slowly, take the time to understand the material, and be okay with working through using formulas that don't make sense at first.
I should point out that he had an accountant, who almost certainly dealt with most of this, and that as for others in the UK, income tax is taken at source, PAYG. The letters were the adjustment, not the totality of his tax debt. He was an academic, and understood very well the socialized benefits of the tax which propped up the tertiary education system he worked in.
> People who "understand blockchains" don't agree on what exactly distinguishes something as blockchain technology,

Does this assertion come from a person who understands, or doesn't understand blockchain? :)

Because if you don't understand it, I would take your assertion with a grain of salt. And if you think you understand it, but you make this assertion, it means you disagree with many people that understand it... which hints that maybe you don't understand it after all ;)
China doesn't need to. It only needs to threaten Taiwan, Korea, Japan and other US allies in the region. Then they will switch alliances.
This is an interesting point. Everything that we read about reason, treats it as a static problem: The analysis either weighs for or against the decision, or is inconclusive, right now. But we actually reason in time. Allowing ourselves to spend more time with a decision shouldn't change the facts or the logic, but it could improve our reasoning anyway.

I describe myself as a "slowpoke" when it comes to reasoning my way through certain subject matter, notably politics. I am certainly willing to change my opinions, but I might not change them right away based on a single argument. You might have to wait a year, or a decade, for me to decide.
Is the Indian Stripe account same in functionality as the US account? Or is it restricted in some way due to the strict RBI rules in India?
a) I'm not saying one way or the other, I'm saying we don't really have lot of info on what it actually is and does.

b) China is not among the world's most advanced in the series of technical bits necessary for this: stealth, jet aircraft engine, weapons systems, underlying operational capabilities.

c) China hasn't dropped live munitions on an actual target in what, decades? Do they have a single AFB out of their borders? Do they have an operable aircraft carrier? Do they interoperate with dozens of other nations? Have they flown actual stealth missions?

You have to do all of that to get good at it.

I will be a long while.
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The reduction of whitespace in HTML is there to allow you to split text as desired in the source file without adding unintentional newlines/tabs/whatever -- it all just gets collapsed to a single space. (Outside of pre-styled tags at least)
I have a shared hosting provider that lets me use Let's Encrypt certs on any of my domains through CPanel even.

For anyone interested :

http://buyshared.net

I'm only a customer for small niche sites, not associated in any other way, works fine enough for my needs.
Citation on the 60% tax rate?
It was some big oil company, blaming Mozilla for the NotSecure tag near input boxes.
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Thank you, Sharmi. I really appreciate you taking out time to look at the source and point out the issue. I have fixed the canonical url. I also noticed the feed url was wrong too. I have fixed that as well :)
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I agree with you. The timing couldn't be better and I've tried most of the other payment processors but I didn't find them usable at all. Waiting eagerly to get my invite and hope this isn't some crippled version due to RBI regulations.
Yeah sure but you need to understand asymmetric cryptographic to know how secure this data structure is, and how it can prevent attacks from private-key holders and non-private-key holders that claim to be holders.
having a guaranteed severance means you have an employment contract and this may mean you are no longer working "at will". If you are seriously considering accepting the counter you should quickly make sure the offer is real and beyond clawback. Consult an attorney who can advise you on employment contracts and and labor law and such.
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In addition to what others have said, this is almost surely a messaging issue. How you frame the survey and outcome is critical to getting honest feedback. I bet the surveys didn't detail exactly how things would be implemented and how it would be presented to the patrons. Instead, if you frame it as potential solutions that get your favorite creators more money, the response would certainly be positive.
So, umm, what is blockchain really useful for? The basic thing blockchain helps with is: it provides a way to verify the order in which entries are made to a ledger.

Genuine question: What applications/problems it is useful for? Have you seen a good application yet (other than currencies)?

Would love to learn about the positives, from this community.
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radare2 is a disassembler, not a decompiler.

Disassembly is a much easier task than decompilation, since it's a mostly mechanical process. Decompilation requires you to undo the optimizations/transformations the compiler did as it generated the binary, which is much harder.

That said radare2 is still cool, and a GUI (Cutter) is in the works.
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bitcoin's price increase creates inflation because it makes holders wealthy. inflation is not a bad thing when driven by fundamental growth (value creation). bitcoin is not creating value.
I don't think people should view UBI as "giving away free money".

Instead we should look at it from a geologist[1]/geolibertarian[2] perspective: as compensation for appropriation of land and natural resources that rightfully belong to everyone.

UBI should be funded by land and resource taxes, not from income, sales or corporate taxes.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geolibertarianism
Darn it, you stopped ranting.
us economy is big so bitcoin feels like a noise right now. in other countries, it is a real threat. it's going to take some years until us feels the heat, but by then it will be too late.
Ya know, Radia Perlman has decades of experience working on networking protocols, I'm willing to bet she understands blockchain as well as anybody. The statement "I cannot distinguish exactly what makes something blockchain technology" should probably translate as "currently the term 'blockchain' is thrown about so loosely its meaning is obscure."
This is what I told them in the survey. I'm a newbie to the platform, and I understand the value proposition better than the owner?! That's really screwed up, and it will take quite a while before I trust them. I still kind of think creators should take their accounts elsewhere. How can a group of people just not understand their own product so thoroughly? Baffling. Is there any precedent for people so badly confused able to learn which end is up? It really makes me suspect the company and its users just have irreconcilably different ideas about what is going on.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding here. Who is going to run `git merge master`? If it's not you, the maintainer, then you need to trust that the submitter didn't pull any funny business with that command. With rebasing, you can just confirm that there are no merge commits.
Hopefully without restrictions! Fingers crossed!

If it's going to be restricted in some major way, then there won't be any difference between Stripe and say PayPal which makes it a non-starter.

RBI really needs to loosen up a bit, especially when it comes to over-regulation of the Software sector.
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It's more likely they'll further militarize.
It's also quite special as it needs raw socket access (doesn't it work in connect() mode though?), it is on the backlog though as I understand.

Other things that won't work are fuse and VPN's and loading arbitrary kernel drivers (it's surprising how many people don't seem to get that it only implements userland compatibility)
Yeah, this is the real question. I really hope this will have feature parity. At least the basic things like recurring payments in foreign currencies and stuff like that.
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It's obscure, honestly. But most cryptocurrency enthusiasts use the term to mean a blockchain (the data structure) together with a protocol for "consensus" (acceptance of a single instance of that data structure), commonly proof of work / "Nakamoto consensus".
Of interest regarding this might be: https://twitter.com/InstLatX64/status/934093081514831872

> The sad thing is there is no CPUID flag to distinguish good AVX512 from useless AVX512.

You can read the the avx512_2ndFMA bit from the PIROM, according to this Intel datasheet: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/xeon/scal...

Linux doesn't implement reading PIROM over SMBus, but it sure would be nice to expose this flag in /proc/cpuinfo.

In WireGuard we're at the moment just disabling the zmm AVX512F implementation on Skylake-X, falling back to the still-fast-but-not-as-fast AVX512VL implementation that only touches ymm and doesn't downclock as much (following OpenSSL's reasoning on +/- Andy Polyakov's same implementation):

https://git.zx2c4.com/WireGuard/tree/src/crypto/chacha20poly...

I may look into trying to read the PIROM so that I can make a more informed decision. I've tested those Platinum boxes, and indeed it's a lot faster there, even with the [lesser] downclocking, whereas a Gold box didn't perform as well, making the ymm-only implementation necessary.
Are you concerned that the butcher will stop butchering, because he doesn't like his job and would rather live frugally on just UBI without additional income from his job? And his partner would leave him, because the relationship was motivated only by financial dependence and also prefers a frugal UBI-only sustenance? After which progressives would cheer for both these developments and also because meat is unethical, and conservatives would have a case how it would destroy economy.

I don't know, I'm sure there would be some decrease in economic activity from life changes by people who hate their jobs and have reluctant relationships held together by financial dependencies. But these would be probably be more than compensated by the productive impacts on people's lives.
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What are semaphores useful for? That’s the question you are asking really. Bitcoin is a global, non-trusted semaphore/mutex lock system.

A “smart contract” is basically an ordinary payment contract where execution steps are gated by separate semaphore controlled by sunsets of the participant set.

What can you do with that? It’s hard to answer without being so general as to be useless, or without getting too specific such that we lose the big picture.

“Block chain” is about replacing courts and arbitration with a computer network, and replacing contract lawyers with programmers. What makes this possible is the fair, untrusted, equal access semaphore a bitcoin spend provides.
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It would be nice if git kept both versions of the history around. One with work in progress commits, corrections from review, and merges. The other a clean rebased history for usual history browsing.
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I was excited until I realized that HSTS Preload is just a hardcoded list in the Chrome source!? Ugh, that's sort of disappointing :(

Couldn't something like a TXT record also address this, but on a cross-client, scalable fashion? Like how SMTP with SPF or DKIM works right now.

(And yes, I know DNS also has trust problems!)

At the very worst, a central, programmatic source of truth, like DNSBL and company... just like how Google offers their "malware sites" hash table for all to use.
Time to get into crypto and pay them off. I know I’m going to get a ton of downvotes for saying that...
The idea is to make your debt exceed your assets. Can't collect a million from an estate that has zero.
No, “block chain” itself just refers to the hash-chain ordering of transactions. Using asymmetric crypto to verify spend conditions is sorta orthogonal to that.
The https://meanjs.org/docs/0.5.x/ and https://www.meteor.com/ stack are such opinionated (pre-selected modules and defaults) frameworks.
> no one wants crazy, overbearing government regulation; we don't even know who created it.

As an aside, I think it is somewhat likely that Satoshi was a state-sponsored actor or organization.
The point is that you can indicate whether an operation was successful or not by wrapping that value w/ a Success or Failure, rather returning a boolean, status code, and some subset of information about the operation.
Crytek is a useless company that's been looking to make a quick buck by any means possible since they stopped making games for real. You only have to look at their recent development with 'Crycash' for yet another example.

This is just another attempt at keeping cash flow positive, not by making games but by any other means possible. I wouldn't be surprised to see news in a few months or half a year saying Crytek are yet again not paying their employees.
I genuinely don't know why I haven't considered this perspective before seeing as how many colleges treat students as just bodies to stuff their money bags with. Oh, come to our college, take out $60000 in loans for a degree that will never pay that off, but we get to pocket it anyways because we have no decency? Sure thing! And don't forget to donate as an alumnus! I'm not exactly in this situation, but have seen it enough with people who had no business being at certain schools for certain degrees that I can't help but think universities should be held responsible for all this to some extent.
I think YC funds competitors often (not sure how often). For example, Amplitude and Mixpanel are both YC companies.

https://www.quora.com/Would-Y-Combinator-invest-in-a-company...
Care to share your instructions? I’m an adult and I just use the web calculators haha.
I simply love Watsi, you guys are so transparent with your financials. I hope you guys start accepting cryptocurrencies soon.
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It's owned by http://kadet.net/ as I understand, https://github.com/kadet1090/shitcode.net
Stealth works in two ways: absorption and scattering. Absorption works by soaking up some of the RF energy, but is limited. Effectively absorbing the RF is limited by physics, since you can't put a 20 cm thick coating on a plane and expect it to fly.

Scattering works by keeping the RF from being reflected back to the transmitter, which is also the receiver in a monostatic design. If you can stick a receiver into the path of scattered energy, you can theorectically detect it.

However, there are some issues to overcome to make a good multistatic system. Scattering disperses the energy, so it's not like the receivers are getting a particularly strong signal, so you need a big high gain antenna. That's easier for the home team playing defense, but kind of hard for an attacker who has to stay portable. Then you also have to overcome the communication issues. Radar requires precise timing, which is easier when the transmitter and receiver are right next to each other. You can send a precision timing signal over large distances (precision timing is one of the reasons that GPS exists, as well as Europe's, China's, and Russia's versions), but you have to actually take the theory of relativity into account when designing the system- clearly not impossible, it just makes the math a smidgen harder. You also have to control the real estate to put multiple antennas out there. You also have to get your receiver into the path of the scattered energy, so you are SOL if your receiver is on the ground and the stealth plane is scattering all the RF upwards (unless you have antennas in space...).

Multistatic systems are feasible and operational versions already exist. But there are enough tradeoffs that traditional monostatic systems aren't going anywhere. A good defense would use a bistatic system as one of the many layers of surveillance.
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True, but it does make it much harder to do while at school (if enforced passably), which is likely when much of it occurs already.
They also have a monopoly on providing those services to students, so no incentive to keep costs down.
And how is that useful in the absence of pattern matching? If you write:

if foo.is_success():
...
else: # foo.is_failure()
...

Then you're back to branching on booleans. And we haven't even addressed the “lack of exhaustiveness checks” objection.
I also went a long time double-spacing and can't remember when I made the switch. I don't think it was a conscious decision. Wonder what prompted it.
Yes, you are right! Playing with related terms gives better list.
I attended a state-run community/technical college. The cost was something like $6k/year, and the only company that's cared was _one_ Google recruiter who ghosted me when she learned I didn't have a 4-year degree.
RazorPay is India-focused and started a few years ago.
Until they came around, there were few (zero?) payment gateways that fulfilled all the following criteria:

* Clean API

* Support India-focused payment options (netbanking is huge here. And Razorpay also supports digital-wallets)

* Easy to get started fast with less paperwork

For every other payment gateway, you had to go through a papertrail before you could even tryout the sandbox API.

I remember Razorpay (initially atleast) required only PAN and allowed individuals to start accepting payments. This IMHO is huge indie-friendly. And back then, for every payment gateway you had to be a registered company. Not sure if that relaxed rule translated to an uptick in growth.
That is the theory. The practice is that markets crash and people cannot retire anymore. A lot like gambling
They also don't require trusting a single third party processor... which is sort of the whole point. Blockchains are a tool to solve certain classes of problems, not every financial problem, or even most financial problems.
Patreon should use a prepaid wallet for this group. It should continue aggregating for the first.

I'm happy to foot a 50c or so service fee per month. I'm not up for paying 35% service fees! That's outrageous and I'm confident someone else will start the right service and creators will simply move there.
Warm fuzzy feeling, one might contend :)
Do you not consider making game engines and licensing their use to be a legitimate business model?
One item on the roadmap could be considering using https://ico.indiegogo.com/ who have lawyers reviewing compliance and it acts as marketing channel. Like with other crowdfunding the platform helps you concentrate more on the startup itself.
That’s the warm and fuzzy part ?

I read you want to put weight on how the very fact of giving or retracting donations messages an expectation to the creator and creates a kind of defacto commercial relationship.

But honestly I see it the other way round, where creators on patreons have already put something out in the world, and donations come after the fact.

There is an expectation that they go on creating, but if they said “fuck it I can’t do it anymore” I won’t be running after them to ask for my money back; I already got my warm and fuzzy feelings, the deal is closed on my side.
You should check out Berkeley's deep reinforcement learning course[1]. There's lecture videos, slides, and homework assignments, and it's all very up-to-date.

[1] http://rll.berkeley.edu/deeprlcourse/
While I don't think it's completely relevant to this particular topic, here's a cleaner link to the original:

http://www.newsweek.com/clifford-stoll-why-web-wont-be-nirva...
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This would be a slap in the face of some people who went to school and worked odd jobs to pay for tuition.
Not especially?

Look at how the pricing has come down on UE4 and Unity.
If you think you are purchasing something you are badly mistaken.
The creator is not obligated to do anything. And your only recourse is to stop donating to him. There are no refunds.
You can do with your money what you like. There's a word for that : freedom.
> Alarmingly though, nw0lb.com is still available as is nuu0lb.com and it-doesnt-matter-because-that-isnt-the-point.com.

My sides.
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Sorry about your carriage-driving career, but aren’t cars neat?
I wonder how long companies will be able to do stuff like this.

I know Hanlon’s razor but lately I get the feeling that most of the companies try to push shitty stuff on their customers and in case of getting caught with the hand still in the cookie jar they apologize profusely and move on to another one.

I refuse to believe that it was innocent accident. As other commenter pointed out this was discussed for a long time and most likely WAS an educated decision. The only thing that was underestimated here is amount of outrage that followed.
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It's similar for me. I've been a Mac user for decades and use an old iMac as my main computer - msotly for audio work and web development. This machine needs to be replaced rather sooner than later, but I'm having hard time justifying the price/performance ratio of Macs. The configuration I'm looking for will cost me at least €3000.

I'm also using a PC as media center and gaming system and I envy what €3000 will buy me in PC world. More importantly, it'll be a machine I can selectively upgrade at any point, unlike the iMac. I'm just not sure if the price justifies using Windows, which I kind of tolerate, but really am not fond of.
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