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Having worked many years ago at There, a now defunct-in-all-but-name Second Life competitor: you're absolutely right. We could let people buy "Therebucks," but it would have been illegal for us to let them convert Therebucks back to cash.

WRT Patreon, I'm 99% sure that this is the reason they didn't propose something like a "balance card" where patrons just give them $X and both pledges and fees get deducted from that -- since that money's being held and then paid to someone else, it could end up being too close to a "money transmission service." (I'd thought there was a non-zero chance that this was a motivating factor in this change to start with, actually; coming so soon after a huge investment round sure makes it seem like there was a condition to that investment that spurred this change. Christie Koehler wrote a good post about that on her blog, although I don't have the link handy.)
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Semis are incredibly damaging to roads, they cause 1,400x more wear than cars! [1]

It seems that with current battery technology, electric semis' average weight is going to increase drastically, even if they remain within the allowable GVW limit. For example, a Model S weighs more than a Honda Pilot, due to the 1,200lb battery [2]! . Without the diesel tax, we're going to have to figure out another way to pay for road usage.

Right now semis are heavily subsidized by everyone else (They're certainly not paying 1,400x more in fuel tax). And I suppose it would be unfair to continue to subsidize diesel, and not electric. However, as our infrastructure decays we're going to have to figure this out.

[1] https://www.lrrb.org/pdf/201432.pdf
[2] http://www.roperld.com/science/teslamodels.htm
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>It creeps me out when organizations of individuals employ someone to communicate their organization's intentions and policy updates in a clear manner.
You know you're citing articles that are almost a year old?

Please also provide evidence that "all of the early buyers are selling".
I think what it's arguing against is the idea that pink is what attracts women. Women are interested in the robots etc and the pink & flowers are a side effect of including women, not a cause.
Yes... thanks... updated.
A network is the sum of its users. Today's internet is, if not dystopian, at least a fairly adult place.
That's an interesting statement. I've never thought of it that way. In essence, Chinese miners are exporting subsidized Chinese energy (via mined coins) for foreign currencies. Sounds very much the M.O of Chinese trade practices (not meant to be overly negative, I'm just saying).
not quite. let me point several things out:

- bitmoji takes a long time and a lot of mental effort to set up. i have no idea what my face shape is and had to ask my ex-gf whether my eyes are green or brown.

- with bitmoji you cannot add other people to your emoji because even if you DO go through mental effort and time to create yourself, you won't do a bunch of other people. and often you really want this – e.g. i want to send an image of YOU as Captain Obvious if the situation calls for it, not of ME.

- over time this will get better and better in terms of quality, while Bitmoji will not.

- bitmoji has no market share in any other language than English, and little market share in non-snapchat messengers.
No it was worse back then. From 1995 My Uncle saw my 12 year old male cousin was on AOL and he got messages from men. My cousin just kept deleting them. My Uncle pretended to be a 14 year old girl and it was bad and he reported it to the FBI after AOL did nothing about the situation.

Long story short the FBI worked with my Uncle within a week and they arrested 13 predators in one night. My Uncle was on Nightline and every major TV national network that year.

EVEN Longer story Steve Case (Founder of AOL) banned my Uncle for life from AOL. Steve Case is scum.

Here is a Senate Bill with the story in Congressional Records.

"On-line services are an easy way for pedophiles to meet children anonymously, noted Dyanne Greer, a senior lawyer with the National Center for the Prosecution of Child Abuse.
``Many cases are not reported, so I'm not sure anybody is really aware how much this is going on,'' she said.
A Post probe uncovered these on-line horror stories:
Westchester computer expert George Telesha pretended to be a 14-year-old girl on America Online and was quickly besieged by perverts sending dirty pictures.

https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/1995/1/18/sena...

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Just post them--the idea is the easy part.
SQLite was late to the party. The first code for SQLite was laid down in 2000, years after MySQL was already well-established in the LAMP stack.

Also, SQLite is embedded, not client/server. That means that the application needs to run on the same machine that holds the data. And because there is no server to coordinate access, concurrency is necessarily limited.

On the other hand, SQLite arrived just in time to get picked by smart phones, and is consequently the most-deployed database software in the world. There are far more instances of SQLite running today than there are MySQL instances.
This is a nonsense clickbait title with no evidence to back it up.
Yes, but it's not that simple. Funders don't want to be seen as trying to decide where their researchers publish. They can stipulate Open Access (and many do! [1] [2] [3]), but then authors continue to want to publish in the journals with high scores because it helps those careers, so those journals/publishers charge egregious fees to publish there (instead of subscription fees), which are once again paid from public money and raise the barrier to publish research, e.g. for universities in developing countries.

[1] https://www.gatesfoundation.org/How-We-Work/General-Informat...

[2] https://wellcome.ac.uk/funding/managing-grant/open-access-po...

[3] https://ec.europa.eu/research/openscience/index.cfm?pg=opena...
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It was only a correction because they were talking about it before the winter season was over, they knew by the end of March 2016 that the correction should be made. We shouldn't be even talking about it in December 2017. They can easily say lowest 3 years on record but they choose not to. WHY?
Could make it available only for employees over a certain tenure at the company (to prevent a get hired, get paid scenario) and also make pay outs tied to length of time outside of those enterprises (i.e. 25% immediately, and another 25% for each of three years after you quit).

Could offer incentives for people to convince their co-workers to quit en-masse (i.e., bonus payouts for getting many employees to quit an once)...
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so you jumped shipt after what? A couple months? A year? It's only been around 3 years and you say you haven't been there for years...

I guess you got a nice payday, but I wouldn't exactly call this story motivational.
> What? There is consensus on the public blockchain every few seconds + block depth. It's called Nakamoto consensus, so yes blockchain 'solves' the problem.

It's a name used for Bitcoin's protocol. It doesn't mean it's consensus.

How does the established value by this "consensus" protocol look like? And why
do you consider it established, when other participants can have a totally
different view of the list of documents in the protocol, or your view can
change completely with next message? How is it an agreed value? And at what
point should we look at the views of two different participants to see the
same value?

And how does it relate to Lamport's original publication about the consensus
problem?
I wish I had saved the URL, but when the 787 was being tested, the flight test team had a public-facing website that gave a lot of very interesting information about the test protocols and how they were being run.

Imagine a flight team basically waiting with bags packed, for the right atmospheric conditions to appear anywhere in the world to fly there and go through a set of test cases.
Yeah read the yellow paper. It's all about connecting data to models and beyond. It's next level stuff. It's been posted a lot in the groups I'm a part of and people are saying it's part of some crazy automated future of AI and robots.
Don't forget it's now 2.9% of $1.37 instead of $1.00. Reducing their piece by another 1 or 2 cents depending on how Stripe rounds
Well CenturyLink already bought Level3 few months back.

http://news.centurylink.com/2017-11-01-CenturyLink-completes...
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This is both pretty impressive and pretty scary. Impressive to detect new malware with such a low N. This massively changes the economics of creating malware. Scary now that pretty much any file that flags as suspicious locally can be sent to the cloud for further inspection. That would seem a no go for many corporate clients?
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> #1 ... Compare that with 5.8 Billion ounces of gold in the world, or 1,885 paintings by Picasso and you realize this supply is not so limited after all.

Bogus, gold can be decomposed further than ounces. This item is foolish/ignorant.

> #2 ... It’s decentralized, but it is also incredibly inefficient, slow, and prone to fraud. Out of a few thousand startups using blockchain technology out there, perhaps one or two make any sense product-wise. ... More importantly, bitcoins are built on top of blockchains. But you can create blockchains without anything to do with bitcoins.

This argument has a shred of merit. Yes, there is lots of way overblown ideas about how bitcoin can change our world. Banks are not going away. But the download-every-email-ever analogy underscores just how invalid it is to consider email as an example case.

> Myth #3: Bitcoins are secure

Agreed, they are not easy to secure. But here's the interesting bit: they can be secured well by companies who have expertise. "oh but that's not decentralized" you say. True, but the tiers that have appeared are valuable and solve problems. Bitcoin could be considered a uniform infrastructure for financial services.

> Myth #4: ... world’s best tool for evading capital controls. Also known as money laundering.

IMO it's immaterial that it can be used for laundering. Controls and regulation at the legitimate exchanges are appropriate.

> Myth #5: Bitcoin has intrinsic value ... it’s a function of demand. ... People do not buy bitcoins for some intrinsic value.

It's not universally the case. But I will concede that it is a very large part of the demand. Ergo, its exchange rate could tumble significantly. But if it did, would it stop being useful? No. Would it lose all its value? No. Would it lose any utility? IMO no.
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That seems more like security by obscurity - as soon as somebody realises you are doing that, they can visit your site with headless Chrome and break it easily.
Like Tesla's "fully automated" hand-crafted Model 3 line?

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I was specifically looking for religious related answers. Reason being, I think a lot of management decisions are made based on religious relationships inside the office (e.g. I go to church with this person so I'll support their projects more). I've asked dozens of people in leadership positions what book they recommend. Some of my favorites I've gotten Maxwell Leadership, and The Bible, and I was surprised to hear Arnold's Bodyshaping for Women made a huge difference in one person's life and approach to physical health. I will continue to ask people this throughout Linkedin and Facebook.
I'm not disagreeing with you that there is so much room for improvement in ease of use.

But tools help. It took like an hour to tweak an existing helm chart to get it running in my personal kubernetes cluster.

All the reverse proxy stuff is handled by the nginx-ingress-controller I use. external-dns set up all the DNS rules for me in Route53. kube-lego did all the LetsEncrypt ACME shenanigans.

Used to try to run these all using docker on a single VM, and do some manual nginx configging to route to them. This is much easier. Took awhile to learn, but get to benefit from those efficiencies for years.

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It's not that publishers do little (there's a lot that you don't usually see, but it's not the peer review), just that not all of it is that necessary, and that it still pales in comparison to the prices they charge.
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We use our cast iron pan almost daily and I fully agree the key is using enough fat. Generally after scraping out any solids I give it a quick rinse with soap and water, place it back on the burner at a low heat for a minute to drive off any remaining water. Every few days I might give it a light wiping with coconut oil.
The people in Venezuela and Zimbabwe that are now using crypto as an opportunity not to starve now that their fiat currency is worth less than toilet paper disagree.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/venezuelans-bitco...

edit: Rather than downvote - could you please explain why you think crypto is not beneficial to the billions of people worldwide currently excluded from the financial system?
A related endeavor is James Simons' Flatiron Institute.

They're creating bespoke algorithms for academics in the fields of computational biology, computational astronomy, and computational quantum physics -- replacing current practice of passing down old, duct taped Fortran code from professors to grad students.

There was an interesting profile in the New Yorker a few days ago: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/12/18/jim-simons-the...
Nice to know somebody has (maybe?, yet again?) found the secret to seasoning cast iron pans. I'm beyond trying to use cast-iron cookware now, thankfully.

I threw out most of a second complete set of cast iron cookware. I kept a Dutch oven, fantasizing that I'll someday carry it afield for camping. But I probably won't.

Instead its heavy burden, like that of most cast iron cookware, will be passed to the unlucky fool who inherits it. I have no doubt that in whatever future time that occurs, there will be people posting articles like this anew on the internet, encouraging the use of one of the most cantankerous and frustrating iron-age technologies that ever existed.

Once upon a time I might have, as the article suggests, paid $17 for 50 cents' worth of flaxseed oil in order to perform yet another tedious failed organometallic chemistry experiment.

But instead I'll save my money for a new T-fal frying pan, which works flawlessly, perfectly, year in and year out, without seasoning and without a hitch. If Armageddon comes and there are no more T-fals, then I will cook with sticks and stones before I attempt cast iron cooking again.
Same with a webcomic creator I know. He basically stated "I do this as a side-job and have a steady income, please move your pledges for me to the creators you support that depend on Patreon for their income."

Wonder if he's still leaving.
I'm scratching my head wondering why they didn't just take the obvious route of offering an optional 'also pay the processing fees' option like paypal does. Phrased in a way that lets the patron know that their supported creators are getting a larger cut as a result. They might have been pleasantly surprised by how many people will go for that as long as it's voluntary and the fees are reasonable.
> the proposed fee patron fee structure of 2.9% + $0.35

The problem was that was per pledge. So if, like me, you support a couple dozen creators at $1-$3 each, you would expect to pay 24 x $.35. But all those payments are charged in one transaction. So they are only paying $.30. It isn't 5c per transaction they were planning to skim, but $8.
Their big blog post actually explained (IMO) fairly well the logic behind their decision. Patreon works differently from many subscription models which have you on a monthly basis pinned to the date you started. If you start Netflix on the 15th, you'll be billed on the 15th each month. Meanwhile if you start a Patreon pledge on the 15th there's the issue of whether you're charged on the 15th for the first month or on the 1st of the next month. And if the latter, what about pledges that unlock additional rewards, can those people cancel before their first actual payment?

Essentially they have a lot of complicated problems to solve, they just picked a solution that introduced a whole lot of new problems for the very people who provide the life blood for the service.
To not expect bias for someone only talking about her own experiences (and not comparing herself to others) sounds like you're trying to be criticize for criticisms's sake.

It's the onus of FT to contextualize Ms. Fowler's comments, if that's what you're getting at, but then again, it is FT not People magazine (take it for what it's worth).
So the chairman is using sec.gov as his personal blog? That doesn’t seem right...
Clickbait title. The candidate thanked the interviewer for honest feedback that would help him improve himself in the future.
if you mean about the word "emoji" it is more to pick up traffic from people searching for emoji keyboards and the like.

if you mean in general, right now we are focused on building a great, highly engaging product that people enjoy. and once that is there and at large scale, we'll start thinking about other applications.

impossible to do anything in life well without obsessive focus...
You should suggest the alternative response for the less imaginative of us, because what else could they do in response? It just comes across as snarky for people to hate the changes and dismiss them again when they rollback the policy everyone hated.

This is an unprofitable startup here, so I don't think they can start giving out money to everyone who lost support.

Businesses make mistakes, and I'd think it would be a positive when they listen to their users.
> Children given unsupervised access to the internet is ridiculous.

Why?

> People freak out if a predator lives int heir neighborhood but they let their child be accessible to millions of predators via their phone or table.

Well advise the kids of the dangers. I and most of my friends had unsupervised internet access. We are all doing fine.

> This is why kids initial exposure to porn is 8 in the US and 10 when kids are getting addicted.

Every kid is getting "addicted"?

> I still remember working with children and teens and found out, through the police and parents, that a few of the kids 11 to 15 were using their webcams to get people to buy them stuff online. This was in the late 90s.

And guess what? 99.99% of 90s kids didn't use webcams.

> My job as a parent is to help them become awesome adult selves and learning not to be addicted to anything from drugs, alcohol, laziness or phones is part of being a parent.

No offense, but your kids aren't prepared for the real world. What will they do now that they are adults with no parental supervision. Also, no parent with 5 kids is "responsible".
50% of my Patreon money comes from $1 pledges. Many (if not all) of those pledges are from people who are giving $1 to multiple creators.

I post most of the stuff I make online for free, with no ads. All those $1s add together to make a sustainable wage for me.

It's the Long Tail in action. It's pretty nice.
> This has led Apple, along with other Silicon Valley firms, to keep foreign cash offshore as it is the financially prudent thing to do for shareholders.

The kept the cash offshore with the belief that they would eventually be able to bring it back without paying taxes. They started a multi-year political lobbying campaign to change the tax system. And it worked. If our political system was not up for sale they would have eventually had to bring the cash home and pay their damn taxes.
Yes.

Also IMHO...

Critical thinking (it's a real philosophical discipline with textbooks and etc.) should be taught in every school.

Recognizing fallacies and bad claims is frankly much more useful to me everyday than almost everything else I learned.
Right, but that doesn't sound like (an analog of) the proposal under discussion which would be "anyone, so long as they pay the uniform rate, gets the hospital treatment during brownouts".
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Obviously - they've so far managed to stave off threats to their subscription business model, and managed to make good money off of the open access movement (through charging publishing fees for opening up articles).

That said, they do definitely feel the pressure as well, given their moving in the direction of a research analytics company rather than a publisher.
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> see e.g. Song Han's Deep Compression paper

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You can go creative (though, I'm not lawyer, nor accountant):
have a minimum payment limit: 5$, for instance; if pledge is $1, then ask to pre-pay 5 units in advance (and be transparent why this has to be this way).