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> UBI is inflationary and discourages people from working. Economists have moved on to better ideas than UBI, like the federal government providing a JG (Job Guarantee) or being an ELR (Employer of Last Resort)

If by "discourages" you actually mean negative incentive to work, that would be awful.

But I suspect you mean it lowers the incentive to work. And that's not necessarily a bad thing.

Productivity per hour keeps increasing. It's okay to let the average workweek get smaller. Minimum wage government labor is likely not the best use of a lot of people's time.
Monzo [1], Starling [2], Atom [3] and Tandem [4] all manage to have HTTPS landing pages. If they can, there isn't any excuse for the more established banks not to as well. Hopefully their mobile apps use HTTPS for everything too?

Apparently 35% of all UK banks have insecure landing pages. [5][6]

[1] https://monzo.com

[2] https://www.starlingbank.com

[3] https://www.atombank.co.uk

[4] https://www.tandem.co.uk

[5] http://blog.softwareverify.com/list-of-uk-banks-that-are-sec...

[6] https://twitter.com/softwareverify/status/940961044633149440
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Yes, not only your landing page should be getting HTTPS; instead all websites should have had HTTPS already, this will gave the users/customers a sign of safety and trust.
(Just kidding here) Unity and Unreal could merge into a company called U2. I wonder though if the FTC would let this unreal unity of game engines happen though
Sorry to digress - but the comment in the first code example:

> # or if you don't like backslash continuation

got me thinking. I've always felt backslash continuation is a Python wart - but using brackets in this way only feels like a minor improvement.

It's nearly always this scenario that makes me want to break a line - i.e. splitting a long chained method call on a "."

Now - starting a line of code with a "." is not valid Python as far as I'm aware and therefore allowing it would not introduce any ambiguity or significantly complicate Python's parsing rules. "If a line begins with whitespace followed by "." then consider it as a continuation of the previous line.

Can anyone comment on whether this is a terrible idea or not?
Plenty of countries have national ID systems, and they are not dictatorships. (But the IDs are easy to get for everyone, and we don't have discussions and "rumors" about fake voters, which is also nice.)

On the other hand, I'm fairly sure China had a civil war that established a communist dictatorship before it had an efficient national ID system.
I never understood why CR choose CryEngine. Yes, it can Single Player games make look beautiful, but when it comes to Multiplayer, it never really could compete with Unreal Engine. Just look how much work RSI has to do, to get the netcode working - and so far, they still are limited to 24 players.

In addition, the requirements of the CryEngine have always been high, the FPS drops and a lot of other performance problems probably have to do a lot with that.

I am not sure if the Unreal Engine would have allowed the detailed modeling of the ships, but to be honest, I can see no advantages of CryEngine compared to Unreal Engine.

If you have any, please let me know, I've been racking my mind over this.
Sure. It takes all kinds to make the world go 'round.

- Some as you say want to be ambitious and giving them UBI for subsistence may unlock that creative energy. Perhaps they'll do great things with their time. On the other hand, it'll remove some pressure to make what they're doing efficient, scalable, and market-oriented, so in my opinion you're much more likely to get people who collect UBI and pursue hobbies, not build world-changing businesses or "unlock their maximum potential." But hey, no problem with that. This happens to be how a few people I know who have been on welfare for years behave.

- Then there are the people who find meaning in what they're doing even if it is menial: for instance working in a rote job which isn't a lot of fun but provides for their family. You eliminate the rote job and put them on UBI and they're probably going to be less happy because they liked the structure that job provided. In the absence of a clear, structured alternative for getting back into the workforce they may just subsist in a less happy state indefinitely on UBI. For these people UBI is worse than temporary, conditional assistance which requires them to at least make a token effort to look for work.

- Then there are the nasty people. The guys who haven't worked a day in years, and when they get some money, they spend it on booze, gambling, start screaming at the TV, start screaming at their wife, maybe beat up their wife or kids for good measure before they pass out and do it again the next time they get some cash. These people are out there and by giving them UBI you've just made it easier for them to be their scumbag selves.

I think my main point here is that people are incredibly diverse in terms of motives and behavior. UBI is the wrong solution precisely because it's universal. To me it's a little insane that anyone would propose a single program and expect it to work nationally or globally for everybody. My bias is that people who think this must live in a bubble or have a romanticized view of the human race.
I had to put Google capture on a site running a forum with about 300 daily visitors. Otherwise number of bots that passed through email confirmation and tried to write comments with ads was 20-30 daily. It removed all bots.
I agree, but:

> Most board and card games fit this description.

Most card games don't, because they are not perfect information games.
I have a similar Skype issue. I have ancient Skype accounts with usernames, and my email address linked, but now use a Microsoft account for Skype with that same email address. Nobody can find and add my current account - whenever they search for my email address, all of my old usernames appear. I always have to add other users instead.

Very frustrating - fortunately I don't use Skype regularly but it's always an exercise when somebody asks for my username.
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> so Crytek must be really desperate

I think the last I heard of them they were almost into bankruptcy-mode, so yeah it does seem like they did this out of desperation. Still short-sighted, though.
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Is it really impossible to adapt Deepmind's approach to, say, poker? I don't see anything fundamentally impossible, but I'm no RL expert.
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In Denmark you just use NFC/Contactless. Hardly anyone ever types in PIN numbers and it is also very quick.

When I was visiting Sweden the terminals did not support NFC or I was just doing something wrong.
If Facebook is guilty of civil rights violations, will California turn blue?
You gave me a much needed laugh. Thank you!
Is there an elsewhere for creators to take their accounts? I give via patreon because it is the only platform I'm aware of that exists that anyone really uses in this way. I give to some creators via their own systems - but as far as a generally accepted mass market solution - I'm interested in hearing about others but don't know them yet.
As I remember, they don't use any deep learning ML. I think their stuff is based on something about funnels.
iOS 11.1.2 kernel exploit and PoC local kernel debugger
> Crytek is a useless company that's been looking to make a quick buck by any means possible [...] This is just another attempt at keeping cash flow positive, not by making games but by any other means possible.

Sounds very much like CIG. Maybe they should merge.
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What was he headbanging about in these last 2 years? Just a linkbait-y title?
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The difference is when the cut increases, but the overall price does not. Buyer still pays $100, but seller only get $80
1. Probably

2. Several Thousand [0]

3. You can't, at least not easily

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic-curve_cryptography#Qu...
That depends on the fund, some track indexes like the CRSP U.S. Total Market, which has almost 100% of the US equity market.
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Even if you take that stance, it’s hard to square it with the fact that Silicon Valley needs more than VCs and startup founders to function.
Girls liked toys that resembled female work: sewing, cooking, babies. Funny thing is, it was women who fought to be allowed into work, not men.

I can play the game too. Meanwhile boys liked thinks that make noise and are "cool" which is usually useless and often nothing but aggressive.
As long as these people are paying extremely high rent (and as a result need assistance in terms of food stamps) it means the trade off is worth it to them. That's what people don't understand about high rent: if you are paying high rent you are agreeing to it. It means it's still worth it to you. If you disagree with the high rent, don't pay it.
"It includes systemd service and systems manager as opposed to System V init system"

I'm off to rewrite/test/fix all ansible and puppet modules so they support FreeBSD. I had hoped AWS was smart enough to stay sober, but no. Too bad, I liked AWS Linux.
UE4 wasn't out when Star Citizen went into early pre-production. A lot of things changed in the licensing model betwen UE3 and UE4.

If they wanted to hit their original launch window they probably would have had to have gone with UE3. And if they had still ended up slipping as bad as they now have they would be on something that was really outdated (though they probably would have announced a switch to UE4).
I guess spending $84 mln is quite different from just buying an iPhone
Not necessarily. Patreon has two payment models - either pay per month, in which case you hope the creator sticks to what they say they'll be doing (and you withdraw your support if they don't and you're not happy about that); or the other option is where you pay when they publish a new piece of content (with a monthly cap). I support a couple on that model. So in that case it is more directly a purchase of some content, even if nothing stops creators from posting it outside of Patreon for anybody to enjoy.

There's also a fair bit of patron-only content from many people - bonus comics, behind the scenes stuff, exclusive videos, requested artwork, whatever.

So yes, you are purchasing arts and entertainment. Just in an unusual model.
> reason why portugal ireland greece spain are suffering worse than it should be is because those countries lost their power to control currency to european bank.

So you're saying there is no way to have a stable economy without control over your currency?
These libraries in languages like python remind me of when Windows 95 was new and a bunch of Win3.1 compatible clones of the win95 task bar appeared.

People are often satisfied by the veneer of something better, because, they were told it was better but don't truly understand why. This is super common in the programming world, I'm afraid.
> refusing to renew professional licenses for people who default on that debt

The crapper of it is, it's not just professional licenses, such as nursing or cosmetic licensing, as if that wasn't bad enough. Some states, like Iowa, South Dakota, and Washington, have laws that permit the state to revoke or decline to issue any license issued by the state, including driving, hunting, fishing, and even camping permits.

Basically, those states say that not only will they wreck your ability to work in the field for which you achieved a degree or license (or maybe you didn't successfully complete whatever program and are now working to pay off that debt that resulted in no positive outcome at all), they'll ruin your ability to go places--outside of cities, public transit is a non-entity--or even just have a little recreation while you figure out how to get out of a hole that just keeps getting deeper.
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You basically need to file a police report about the theft, and the bank will probably know where the money was sent/spent, and the police ideally would investigate and subpoena the records of wherever the money went and presumably discover if it goes back to you somehow. The first liability thing says you cannot have "contributed to its unauthorized use". I mean realistically someone could possibly do it and get away with it, but I mean people could realistically do many types of fraud. Most could realistically probably get away with it. It's more a guarantee to people that if they get hacked somehow other then giving naughty little Johnny/vindictive ex Jane the bank card and pin, they can get their money back.
On the other hand, if Star Citizen is really using an unlicensed instance of CryEngine for Squadron 42, that's a significant breach of contract, and effectively piracy. It seems absurd to avoid Crytek for responding with legal measures.
One reason of bitcoin possibly being more valued would be its cap at 21 million (which AFAIK is not there with Ethereum)
I was quite surprised to see on the photos that the food processing plant looked quite dirty. Don't they have high standards to adhere to ?
According to this paper:

https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0205095

You can implement Shor's algorithm to factor an N-bit number with just 2n+3 qubits. So the 20 qubit processor would be able to factor any 8 bit number (not necessarily faster than a classical computer could, or even a human could, mind you).
The common consensus for the term "blockchain" is not based on the 1991 paper, but on Bitcoin's use of similar technology to make a distributed ledger. The term itself is relatively recent, and was not used until well after Satoshi's paper. For example, Harvard Business Review describes it this way:

"At its most basic, blockchain is a vast, global distributed ledger or database running on millions of devices and open to anyone" [1]

That incorporates at least two concepts that are typically associated with the term "blockchain" that go beyond the basic cryptographic data structure: they are distributed, and they are open. Lots of technologies use a similar data structure; git uses a similar data structure. But when a silicon valley startup comes to you and pitches you on their "hot new blockchain tech" they probably don't mean git.

[1]: https://hbr.org/2016/05/the-impact-of-the-blockchain-goes-be...
The title could have a hint that the paper is about social psychology in particular. Here's my abstract of the abstract:

"Interpersonal expectations relate to social reality primarily because they reflect rather than cause social reality. This is the case not only for teacher expectations, but also for social stereotypes, both as perceptions of groups, and as the bases of expectations regarding individuals. The time is long overdue to replace cherry-picked and unjustified stories emphasizing error, bias, the power of self-fulfilling prophecies, and the inaccuracy of stereotypes, with conclusions that more closely correspond to the full range of empirical findings."

I'm a layman when it comes to this but I'd be very interested in any refutations of this paper.
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Is this like what your talking about https://docs.python.org/3/library/itertools.html#itertools.c... ?
Self play reinforcement learning has been a thing for decades it really isn't new. That's how I wrote my Lines of Acton and Dominion AIs years ago.

(Disclaimer: I had a sign flip bug in the Reinforcement Learning step of the Lines of Action bot that made it worse every generation! After a few thousand iterations it was _really_ bad at playing lines of action)
Sometimes that rent trap is to high. You pay three quarters of your paycheck to just living (even house hunting you still need a place to live). You then have one quarter to spend on food (for 2 people) & electricity, water, and heat (if your rent doesn't cover utilities)& maybe some extra things like hygiene products, bills such as car payments, etc... You have almost no left over to put in for moving.

So I don't disagree with your standpoint in theory, the logistics always muddy the water.
Card games are delayed bounded information games. (With one turn lag to one match lag.)
The incomplete information is strictly bounded.
Sure, but that's not really an interesting or useful observation. You can choose to live in a bad situation and still desire, either personally or at a policy level, to make it better. The alternative, at least in the profiles I've read of people living in RV's along El Camino Real, is to be unemployed in Stockton. People will take their chances with a job.
>It is also difficult to remove data if required by law.

How difficult is it to introduce illegal data into, say, Bitcoin's blockchain?
How do insurance companies stop people from emptying their house and then burning it down? How do brick and mortars prevent people from paying with photocopied money? It is fraud, and it is generally illegal. Huge amounts of money is spent on detecting and deferring fraud attempts.

It's entirely possible to claim your card was skimmed and have your bank refund the money. However, if they then find out that the ATM used to withdraw your entire balance is the same ATM you've used for years, and your face is on the ATMs security camera at the time of withdraw, then you're in for a world of hurt.
> A patron adds $20 to a wallet and pays a low transaction fee.

I wonder if they have problems with anti money laundering regulations? Financial transactions are supposed to clearly indicate the beneficiary. If you're paying into a wallet that gets divvied up later, that's not possible so showing the paper trail of who benefits gets difficult.
That is economically illiterate. If it got to the point where there was not enough people to fill necessary jobs around the city the wages would rise to attract more people. Right now the opposite is happening: there are too many people.
A Doll’s House
A Doll’s House by Ibsen is basically a marriage text. It is a text that questions various issues in relationship and marriage through dialogs, images, plot, resolution, conflict and characters. This paper is a comparative analysis of love and marriages relationship in two sets of couple; between Mrs. Linde and Nils Krogstad and that of Nora and Torvald Helmer.
Nora is married to Trorvald Helmer and has three children. Nora was raised by her father. We get the message that Nora’s’ mother died through the sentence by her father that, “hadn’t any other mother but me” (Act 1). The whole existence of Nora seems to be one that is defined by men and viewed as belonging. The relationship that Nora has with Helmer is one based on the wealth. Nora uses her flirtations and coquettishness to get more money from her husband such as the way she calls Helmer using sweet names “skylark," “sweet little song bird," squirrel."

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Bitcoin is designed to grow at a bounded rate, at the cost of capacity and latency. Another choice would be to eliminate those limitations, at the cost of practical verifiability by all stakeholders. There's not an easy answer for how to achieve all these goals at once.
"The MOT test in the UK checks emissions"

Unfortunately the UK does not have proper emissions checks as part of the MOT.

There is a (subjective) visual check for visible smoke, and a metered exhaust check which again only tests generically for "smoke", ie large particulates.

Unfortunately there is no testing of specific pollutants (NOx, PM2.5, PM10, etc) so many vehicles can pass MOT even if they are way outside allowed emissions levels, have had DPF removed, etc.
If I was $15k in debt and had an interest rate like Apple's, no way would I prioritize paying off that debt. I'd invest the money I have and turn it into more.
With "smart" meters, they will be able to tax more for electricity used to charge cars...
There is LiberaPay. Non-profit org, based in France.
https://en.liberapay.com/
I like the model of having the patron pay the (variable) cc fee, and having either the patron or creator pay the patreon fee.

$patron_charge = $pledges_to_creators + $cc_fee + ($patreon_fee?)

$creator_payout = $pledges_from_patrons - ($patreon_fee?)

My beef is with aboloshing payment batching, which is the only wholesome value proposition of patreon (i.e. strictly creates or spreads wealth). Without that it's just another locked-down social graph.

The goal for this change seemed to be at-cost fee payments with no loss or profit, and to prevent chargebacks from customers who didn't remember/expect a payment total or payment date.

The first goal is acomplished with the patron-pays-cc-fee model, and the second one might be solveable enough with UX tweaks.

Showing how the total is calculated in a big, ledgible table, perhaps after every new pledge, seems like a useful start. Maybe even showing a calendar, granting the ablility to change the monthly charge date, and sending/offering reminders or adding an export-to-calendar button.

Of course those may be overwhelming to users, so maybe KISS and find out what can be improved later.
I doubt most of the paywall group cares about payout speed.

They care about payout guarantees. That's not the same thing.
to commenters here, are you in US/europe/asia/elsewhere? My hypothesis is they gave up on non US long time ago..
I don't believe it. Say you find a place in Lincoln for $500-$600 (which is possible in Lincoln), just by using the difference between old rent and new to cover debt from moving expenses, a mover could pay off $15,000 of debt within one year.
Git is an example of a blockchain without much cryptography, as someone else explained here.

The only cryptography is the SHA1 hash that links commits together, otherwise all cryptography is optional.

And that's totally okay because such repositories are usually run by people who have the authority over it.

A blockchain is a special kind of linked graph that uses cryptography to link each node, otherwise, there are no additional requirements and there are plenty of reasons you might not want anything else.
It's more than that. Money's value depends on everyone's collective attachment to it.
The winners of a game remain so, only as long as a significant number of people are playing.

Ditto with USD, ditto with BTC.

UBI is one way to keep people playing; but I'm extremely wary of this idea. UBI without some sort of communal/anarchist/kibbutz-ian distributed structure binds society in yet another way.

'You're free as long as you do what I want', is not something we as a society should want, yet it is almost universally true. The US wants nations to be 'free' so that they do what it wants; it's only natural that this extends all the way down to the individual.
Cool. I ran into lots of gotchas when I was doing it. Granted there is a much better written spec now. If you hit any snags, feel free to hit me up (email is on github profile which is on HN profile).