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> Business is by far the most powerful driving factor in shaping a super power.

If by business you mean "imposing onerous terms on other people, up to and including literal slavery," I'd agree. The unfairness of the terms is what makes the superpower. Without the unfairness, then balance can be maintained. Superpowers do business on their terms, not anyone else's.

It takes national pride to consistently do the work to maintain a competitive advantage. You see the same thing in business with trying to maintain an edge. It's not something you can do using your normal effort. You have to work smart and hard.

> America and N. Korea aren't business partners

America and N. Korea could be business partners. The only thing that keeps this from happening is American obstinacy. North Korea would happily do business with the US. In fact, the whole reason for North Korea's nuclear brinkmanship is precisely because we have slapped onerous sanctions on them and refuse to allow anyone else but China to trade with them. There are dozens of nuclear-capable nations out there, more popping up by the decade. We don't treat Pakistan like we do N. Korea. Opening up the spigots of American and global trade will turn North Korea into South Korea in just a few decades. But we're instead applying containment strategies to them like they killed our dog or something. North Korea doesn't really need to be contained. They're just not powerful enough.

China does. This is what we should be doing with China, perhaps in addition to North Korea, but not in spite of. We should be pushing back much more rigorously in the South China Sea, keeping our relations with small nations in China's periphery open instead of stagnating, pushing hard for our trade agenda instead of allowing China's to take lead.

But we're not even doing those basic steps.

Look I'm not even offering a moral argument here. I've been using 'should' in the "balls should roll downhill." We should be doing it, not we ought to be. What I'm saying is that this is how foreign policy is done. Has been done, for a thousand years. I'm not saying we ought to be starting an arms race with China. I'm saying that by all rights, by all historical analyses, China looks like a rival, not like a partner. But we're not treating her like one, and just allowing her to accede to the world stage completely unchallenged.

Good thing? Bad thing? That's up to history to decide. What's not is the fact that this is completely unprecedented.
This are two different eco systems. What works for touchscreen does not work for Desktop and vice versa. I don't want even one app from the phone/tablet on my Desktop. This only gets messed up. The good thing about macOS is that Apple stick to it and does not mess it up like Microsoft with their confusion about touch and non touch apps.
Did you notice that the only visible book is 'Snow Crash' From Stephenson ? Some hidden message ?
> As result, there's many services like uber — but uber themselves is banned, because while the German government was willing to ignore the commercial drivers license requirement, they couldn't ignore the insurance requirements that Uber refused to fulfill.

The German government had nothing to do with it. The lawsuits were brought by Uber's competitors under §3a of the Unfair Competition Act [1], which prohibits violating laws in order to gain a competitive advantage. They have standing under §8 (3), item 1, of the same law. The courts had no choice but to rule in their favor; it was pretty much as open and shut as a civil case can be.

[1] https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_uwg/englisch_uwg...
> Thanks suckers for giving me your warm wallet.....time to fake a hack and shut down this sucker.

Anyone who appreciates the properties of bitcoin is using a cold wallet. The cold wallets available on the market today are quite robust and easy to use. I'd recommend trezor.

> My $20 request to get on the blockchain STILL isn't done after 5 weeks

Here's a recent transaction I made using Segwit just today.
Confirmed within 30min: https://blockchain.info/tx/308da302ef589872809f61282154263a4...

> Oh no my Xcoin crashed 50% today

Bitcoiners are well aware we're still in the price discovery phase. Volatility is understandable.

> I lost so much money because of this stupid coin....if only someone can save me from the scammers....

I don't expect anyone to bail me out. Unlike everyone with a 401k and an index fund.

> In javascript!! secure it is.

You're talking about Ethereum now. Bitcoin isn't programmed in Javascript.

> It costs me $500 to send $500......sob

Again, my segwit transaction from earlier today shows how much FUD and misinformation you're spewing: https://blockchain.info/tx/308da302ef589872809f61282154263a4...
We may only have hours left to watch elected representation completely ignore the welfare of the electorate again, but we probably still have months left to choose who exactly it is that we will be shoving up against the wall when the revolution comes. At this point, when they obviously don't fear losing their office, they need to fear something else.

If you can't bring yourself to do physical violence, you can maybe plan out some property crimes. Keying cars and slashing tires is a traditional method of expressing anger against specific individuals, and those types of crimes are infrequently investigated, and even more rarely solved--at least when the insignificant people are the victims. When the catalytic converter was stolen off the bottom of my car, I never even saw a cop; I had to fill out the report myself, and the police apparently never actually did anything about it. Why should they, after all? They aren't working for us. Why not give them something to do for their real bosses?

Watching C-SPAN last night, the shouting and chanting did nothing. There was no effect at all. The sergeant-at-arms will restore order in the gallery, and we will continue to pretend that those people don't matter. The sit-ins have done nothing. The communications campaigns had no effect. More of the same will yield more of the same. Try something different.
Not sure what you are saying with the comparison to Webkit. As Webkit only became what it is because someone actually took Apple to task over the Khtml (K as in KDE, used to power their Konqueror browser) engine license.

And even then the first response from Apple was a plain source dump with zero documentation on the changes they have made, that made it basically impossible to roll the changes back into Khtml.

Would not surprise me that this was one of the reasons Apple went to work purging GPL licensed code from their offerings.
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Applications written in COBOL, RPG, etc. will be around forever because they offer older coders job security. Ever work at a company run on one of these systems? Through overstatement of risk and cost, these applications persevere. Trying to retire one is like laying siege to a fortress.

RPG is a pretty cool language though, I never knew it was directly related to punch cards. Fascinating.
This is a false dichotomy which is enabling to the surveillance state.
> The Federal Reserve doesn't even publish the amount of M3 money anymore:

except they do. See below.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MABMM301USA657S

I am not anti-crypto. I think in the future most transactions would move there. But the state of the current crypto's won't get us there. If you close your eyes for a min and just think about the .com bust that is exactly what is happening here. I know of companies during that time that had nothing to do with IT and they would just announce that they are investing in IT and there stocks would triple. Read below for similar crypto news.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-18/fintech-m...
Bitcoin is an energy arbitrage
Serious applications will always be native.
Windows 10. I hope Apple treads this path very carefully.
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The ads still have to satisfy the Acceptable Ads criteria and they only have to pay when they exceed a certain volume (as in everyone besides the big players doesn't have to pay a cent). There is an opt-out checkbox in the settings.
"If you want to add a site or category, open a pull request."

So you cannot add a site or category via the app? Odd. I don't believe most "management types" will be submitting any pull requests just to add a site either.
You are assuming his intent without asking, and you are calling that intellectually lazy. What?

You do not pay taxes with bitcoin because the government does not accept it. Simple as that. Not lazy, just fact.
There are many languages that do this. In addition to those already mentioned, there is also Nim. https://nim-lang.org
Sounds like you're intentionally trying to be disagreeable. You don't like the features Bitcoin provides. That's fine, don't use it. Plenty of other people do like them. That's what gives Bitcoin its value.
The point I am making is that they are not doing this to freeze out competitors. They have already won. They don't have any meaningful competition to worry about. The threat is ad blocking and alternative browsers.

That doesn't change the anticompetitive nature of their behavior but it does explain the motivation.
They will probably refresh everything except this part.
> QoS does not stand for Quality of Service. It stands for Quantity of Service.

Fuck you. You aren't even trying to have a reasonable conversation, are you?

You're welcome to attempt to argue that there's an unavoidable equivalence between QoS as everybody defines it and the other concept you're trying to equate it to, but you have to actually make that argument, not just declare the definition of QoS to have changed because you don't like what it means. QoS still stands for Quality of Service.

> But hey, yes, NN is telling me I should at best use RED to do QoS as everything else requires lookng at protocol and destination

You can use CoDel without violating any principles of net neutrality. You can even use FQ-CoDel without violating the principles of net neutrality, because it only looks at port numbers to determine which packets are related to each other; each port is subjected to the same set of rules and no port is preferred over another. Net neutrality doesn't require you to ignore the past 20+ years of research into QoS.

It may help your political cause to regard QoS as being strictly a zero-sum game, but that doesn't make it true.

> There's not a single network that can provide this kind of capacity even at 10Mbit/sec, not to mention at 50Mbit/sec or 150Mbit/sec or Gigabit/sec.

> The only way to deal with this is PNIs between those that originate massive amounts of traffic and the networks that consume massive amounts of traffic.

The technical requirements of having large, reasonably direct links between big producers and big consumers does not say anything about whether Netflix has to negotiate with Comcast and Verizon directly, or whether they can outsource those concerns to Level 3. That's purely in the domain of business shenanigans.
NY Times is Carlos Slim(e). There is no news outlet that is objective anymore--none. Maybe there never was. "News" is just propaganda for whoever owns them now.
Shut the water off. There won't be enough cooling for the servers.

Maybe shoot a hole in the bottom of a big, oil-filled transformer at the nearest power substation.
If you're not a resident of California, you can still "vote" by sending campaign contributions to her opponents.

I figure [without much supporting evidence or data] that one vote equals $50, so you can "vote" as much as you want, quite cheaply.
I find Google Maps a PITA to use since the last big revamp of its interface a couple of years ago. It became slow, unreliable (tiles never loading, UI element never loading, freezes) and unpractical (moving routes points became horrible, I started failing half of the time to drag the route, removing points also often causes extra points of interest or route points to be added: a nightmare).

It used to be very good with the previous user interface. Now I use my national map provider (when I do not need Streetview) or Openstreetmap (when I do not need aerial pictures or Streetview).
And for routing, I may use some cycling map, or Google maps when I hope I won't have to move any point (starting and ending point specified by address, and no change of route).
The 'Show HN' is mostly for asking for feedback on a product, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15931558
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Well, I hope they can learn from Microsoft's total failure to do this.

To be honest, I don't see a persuasive argument. In order for this to be worth the extra development time the company needs to have a big marketshare on both platforms - MS failed because they had zero footprint on mobile, and I think Apple will fail because they have a relatively small footprint on desktop. As a third party developer, is it really worth your time to make a native macOS app when the web is already very capable? In some cases I'm sure it will, but in the vast majority of cases you're going to need to make a web version anyway (for the huge number of Windows desktops out there), so a native macOS app just wouldn't be worth it.
An Overview of FPGAs and the Future of Parallelized Computation in the Cloud
Snapchat Spectacles failed, yet they nailed one thing that Magic Leap didn't - design.
None of it matters. Watch Binney talk about it--they have us all by the nuts.
If I, or virtually the vast majority of people who aren't among the ~0,01% richest in the world, didn't have to work one day in my life in order to sustain myself I could also focus on the Olympics.

Ergo; in the context we discuss, that's less of an achievement for rich American kids than for poor people.

Therefore not a good delimiter.

And certainly not inspiring. The circumstances for the vast majority of people on earth are different. To start with, their financial circumstances.
No developer will be forced to use this, it will be for enterprise developers and low volume specialists. Pricing will stay the same.

And ARM ain’t coming to MacOS anytime soon. The costs are far higher than benefits.
So AR is essentially a transitional technology until we have better computers?

e: so I realize AR might be around for a while in things other than Goggles (like phones where resources are limited), but for fully goggled in people I assume VR > AR in nearly every way.
That's because Python has a nice Monty Python vibe. Honestly if people in my CS dorm were watching Monty Python in the common areas 24/7 it would be pretty nice
You can do this in the oculus and its.... okay. The resolution is garbage, though.
I’d compare it to how ISPs are in the US. Most people believe ISPs have local monopolies which is why Comcast sucks. But we can’t simply change services because laws restrict ability for new ISPs to be started. Same issue with taxis. There are limited options and the medallion model limits the competition and new options from being created to compete.
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That's one hell of a post hoc justification to justify the unethical and illegal behavior of the 1% to capture even more of the economic pie.
The issue is who they are trying to charge. Supply and demand is great...when it is between the right parties.

To keep things simple, imagine an ISP with only one plan: 1 TB of data/month at 100 Mb/second for $50/month.

Note that at 100 Mb/second it would only take 22 hours to use all your allotted data for the month. Because of this they do not have to build their network out to where it can handle everyone doing 100 Mb/second all the time. In fact, building it out to where it could do 100 Mb/second all the time would be prohibitively expensive.

So they just build their network out to where most of the time, most people get their 100 Mb/second, but during some peak times there may be congestion and things may slow down.

Imagine now that it is during one of those congested times. I am trying to watch a video lecture at a free MOOC. You are trying to watch, say, Netflix. Bob is trying to download a video game he just bought. Alice is trying to do a major OS and XCode update on her Mac.

You, me, Bob, and Alice all bought the same service from our ISP at the same price, so it seems pretty reasonable to expect that we would be treated the same. We should share the effects of congestion equally.

If the ISP wants to bring supply and demand into this, they could offer service level agreements for an extra cost. You pay a certain amount per month and they guarantee, say, 90% of rated speed even during congestion. I think this would be allowed under net neutrality.

What they want to do with paid prioritization, though, so go to the MOOC I'm trying to use, Netflix, the place where Bob got the video game, and Apple and say "Hey...if you pay us $X per month, when our network is congested we will prioritize the traffic for our customers of yours".

There are two bad things with this:

1. Suppose that Netflix buys paid prioritization, and nobody else does. That means that during times of congestion you get good service, and the service for the rest of us gets even worse. Even though we are paying our ISP for the exact same service, you are now getting preferential treatment because a company that has no relationship with the ISP other than they and the ISP have some common customers was able to pay to give you preferential service and degrade ours.

2. It may discourage the ISP from building out more network capacity as demand grows. They may instead focus on getting paid prioritization agreements from the most popular internet services. That could mean that those who use smaller services that even if they wanted to could not afford to make prioritization deals with every ISP, might be doomed to perpetual terrible performance, as the ISPs only need to build out their networks enough to provide good service to those who use services that have paid prioritization deals with the ISP.

Essentially ISPs want to reverse their role. Right now, their role is to sell to us (the end users) access to the internet. They want to turn that around, and make their role be to sell the internet access to us. And they still want to charge us while doing that...basically they want to be the pimps of the net, with us as the prostitutes and the websites as the johns.
How Armenia’s startups are steadily getting on the European tech radar
The point is that taxi is not seen as a pure business. It is seen as a part of infrastructure. Elderly or disabled people should have a reliable way of transport. The goal of the regulation is that taxi companies don't only did lucrative rides (from the airport to träfe fair) but also less lucrative rides (from one's Appartment to the doctor few blocks down) and provide enough (realtively cheap) capacity even at uncommon times (4am or such)
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If he manages to land his Roadster on Mars (intact - which is probably the hardest part), how many stars will it get on a NHTSA crash test ?
Not sure about the above infographic but Pinterest actually has some really good social media marketing infographics https://www.pinterest.com/explore/social-media-marketing/
Configuration management is an antipattern
Why say anything at all if that was the case?
Sure it was sugar-coated but I thought this was obvious from the beginning?
Hmm I'm confused in that case. Did the Fed start publishing it again? The link I provided is to the official Federal Reserve website clearly stating they are discontinuing the publication of M3.
Correct, but the federal government offered to reduce the requirements for running this service for all competitors on the market, according to Dobrindt.
How do you access this feedback option? Google maps has been showing my address in the incorrect place for the past few months and I have no idea how to let them know. All I've found is "add a missing place".
It'll just be rewritten in five or ten years or whenever the other team is in power. I'm not sure why anyone gets worked up about this stuff anymore.
The gist of it is Debian patches everything to bring software into alignment with Debian philosophy. They back port bugfixes, correct weird path usage, and generally make the software play nicely with the distro.

Some developers are bothered by this patching and insist any patched version of the software is no longer the original software, so they make life difficult for the distro by going after marks and art.
$1,887,500,000 should have been enough!

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/magic-leap
The boat has been under construction for decades. The FISA courts were set up in 1978 (that's the Democrat Carter, and I believe that it was Democratic Congress at the time, too), but even that was only a response, trying to rein in the national surveillance apparatus that was already running wild. Reagan upped it a notch with Exec Order 12333, GWB obviously built on top of that, and Obama went hog-wild with it. There's plenty of blame to drown both parties.
>I am trying to be part of a collective movement toward as much privacy as possible so that those who do need to protect themselves can have access to the tools they need and won't stick out when they use them. A sort of herd immunity.

by creating a standard you are effectively creating an easy way and/or justification to automate against that standard. I think your logic is sound, but consider the big picture. The more people do things in a certain way, the higher the incentive to investigate that way.
Why re-render the world when it's already there?
80% of mTurk workers are American, thus the problem. Amazon shut off new signups for international users in 2012, so those who would actually benefit from the platform's lesser pay can't even work there.
$12 fee? That's terrible.
The tesla sadly lacks the ability to do a propulsive landing on mars, they'd need a sky crane like Curiosity had - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Science_Laboratory#Sky_cr...
> I'm having a hard time understanding why you would think this.

Why I would think what?

>Is the suggestion here that people who are morally sincere can't be bad (whatever their moral views may be)?

No, the suggestion is that morality and ethics are complex cognitive, spiritual, religious, and cultural structures that don't boil down to some silly binary regarding ones stance on one issue.

The point is, saying someone is "bad" on the basis of their view on any one single topic is ridiculous, especially when there is a wide range of opinion on the matter. It's essentialism at its absolute worst. The link I provided shows that 98% of Nigerians have negative views towards homosexuality - do you really think that 98% of Nigerians are bad people? Of course not - there are nuances to these issues.

My greater point is that what I'll call "liberal religiosity" - this idea that if you break in any way from the standard liberal dogma, you are cast as a heretic and judged a "bad" person, like all these supposedly "bad" people in the Midwest who probably go to church every Sunday, help their neighbors out, act decently towards one-another, etc.

>Or is it that you just don't view homophobia as a genuine moral failing?

I'm a live and let live kind of guy.
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Coinbase software does not do basic market unlock?! Is it another company that did not get anyone from Island or InstaNet or Brut?
Postman is a monster. It's a pain to use. Classic example of feature overload. Also, they don't have an automatic release channel on Linux. It keeps bugging you to update to latest release and then sends you to page to download a tarball which you have to extract and replace existing install with. Just provide a snap package already.

I was using Insomnia quite happily until it became really resource hungry and CPU started to spike because of it. May be I should give it another try.
They could be doing it to make up shortfalls in their own BTC holdings relative holdings promised to customers, either in actual quantity, or in price actually acquired vs. price paid by the customer.