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I miss the 90s internet.

Mostly HTML, what little java or flash there was was usually trash video games sites.

You'd search (Lycos!) for content and what you got was raw data from crazies all over the world. Not the curated "don't hurt yourself" BS hits you get in the first 100 !g results. Or 100 sites trying to sell you trash.

The 90s internet was many the best of an otherwise weak decade! (and Seinfeld, of course)

EDIT: And the content was avilable with 28k to 56k modem. Today I can't even check my email (why not??? grrr) with that.
I scrolled through the site and am still not quite sure I'm understanding what this is about or how it feasibly works... I guess that's what I get with modern hip web design marketing BS based on "feelings".
If it's been 7 months, that should be plenty of time to replace the money. If the money was too much to replace in that period of time, I'm not sure how I can believe it was of an amount that could be accidentally spent in this way.

If I had an extra $1,000 in my account, I might accidentally spend it, but I could replace it eventually. If I had an extra $50,000 in my account, that would be much harder to replace, but I'm not sure how I could with a straight face say I spent it accidentally.
I have a personal list of domains I consider useless. Accidentally visiting one was annoying enough to me that I made an FF extension to hide any links to those sites on every page of the internet. I've been wishing uBlock Origin had this feature built in, I haven't found a way to do this if they do. They advertise as a general-purpose blocker and I think this falls under that category. I know I could add any domain I want and it will prevent the page from loading but that still leaves me vulnerable to the click-bait titles and wasting time clicking.
Unless we are all terribly mistaken about Woodshed Agencies' goals. Maybe they have been really successful because we aren't looking their goals in the correct light? Is it to operate smoothly by ruining and preventing all public relations moving forward?
That's not what I'm referring to. I'm talking about things like misclassifying updates as "important" or "critical" rather than "optional" to get them installed onto more systems, which makes people stop trusting that distinction.
> I think you need to consider the second order effects. If we create a world where people have the power to destroy others with a mere accusation, that will change how people behave. It will create an atmosphere of vindictiveness, fear, and distrust.

But Obama didn't propose that accusations alone should be able to get someone expelled. He proposed applying the same preponderance standard that applies, and works just fine, in civil litigation.

> Having to deal with people who have wronged you, but who you can't prove have wronged you, is just an unfortunate reality of the world.

First, that's not true. We have both formal and informal ways of dealing with people who have wronged you, who you can't have convicted. For example, you can get a restraining order in Maryland using the same "preponderance of the evidence" standard Obama proposed for Title IX proceedings. You can sue someone for fraud or breach of contract for screwing you on a business deal, under the same preponderance standard. You can also use informal social mechanisms. Entrepreneurs live and die by their reputations, for example.

Second, this begs the question. I pointed out that in the case of both false negatives and false positives, someone is denied the opportunity to pursue their education or their employment. My thesis is that we should not treat one of those bad outcomes as being better than the other. Your response boils down to "false positives are really bad, but false negatives are just something you have to deal with." But why?

> Give people incentives to do bad things, and they will do them.

Incentives are created in both directions. How many careers do you allow Harvey Weinstein to wreck in order to avoid erroneously wrecking the career of a film producer who is innocent? That's the calculus you refuse to grapple with.
As it does for me. I’m writing this from my phone (using my phone’s data plan) and apparently someone else downloaded a couple of movies yesterday from this very IP. It wasn’t me, that’s for sure.
This one? http://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html
As a happy Put.io customer, no you don't.
Nothing showed for me, I opened up dev tools to see if some requests were failing and ... wow the page makes a LOT of requests to mc.yandex.ru
If you get a book, you aren't required to read it in any certain way.
^-- This, a thousand times this. The ad revenue model is what's destroying the internet; creating walled gardens and attention feedback loops, furthering the commoditization of people, simply because, if you leave, they won't be able to serve you ads. I would argue that the only morally acceptable thing to do is to block ads, not the other way 'round.

It's pure garbage, and the sooner it dies the better.
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We're discussing innovation versus invention.

You're sure that wasn't adblock? ABP is from 2006, and installing it wasn't easier or harder than adblock.

As for iPhone, that innovated the touchscreen, specifically it was the first (US-)mainstream application of a mobile device using a capacitive touchscreen. I wonder if we should also claim it innovated the removal of the user replaceable battery or the 3.5 mm jacket.

Furthermore, popularity isn't a good measurement of quality but that goes without saying.
Nadia Eghbal from Github also has a great guide:

Lemonade Stand: A handy guide to financial support for open source
https://github.com/nayafia/lemonade-stand
Seeing as they are creating their own currency, it looks like they ARE one of those countries who care about taking back their sovereignty.

Or at least, they care in the area of having their own currency.

This is not all or nothing.

It is perfectly possible that they are fine with some regulations and want to take back control in other areas, as they seem to be doing here.
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I signed up with opencollective some weeks ago and yesterday got my first backer: https://opencollective.com/property_web_builder . Only $2 a month but it still cheered me up.
Fingers crossed it gains some momentum over the coming months. It is a good concept well implemented.
The owner posted that content in a publicly accessible location. If the content is so valuable that nobody should be able to access it without paying for it, we have ways of achieving that. Publish it as a book, put it behind a paywall, etc.
I have been using open street map in one of my projects and am considering dropping it.

I had the fun experience last week to discover that this was one of the cities in north Texas.

https://i.imgur.com/BkBcuzN.png

The "Boy's Bathroom Tascosa Drive In" Residents are hopefully not going to look at my app any time soon. I am now a bit concerned about the quality in the states as a whole.
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I don't subscribe to this at all. I think that the better explanation is that the people who are negotiating with the EU are, almost to a man, convinced EU-philes (for want of a better word). And so they favour the EU position in the negociations, instead of just implementing the will of the people.
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Unless they are saying that the light is generated through a digital micromirror device: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_micromirror_device
Agree. BTC is now a speculative tool similar to gold. If you want something that is more like a currency then bitcoin cash is better. The fees are like one penny.

Also I don't think the deflationary is an issue because of how fast crypto can change hands. For example, I go to buy a t-shirt for $10 and I pay the merchant $10 equivalent in bitcoin cash. The transaction confirms in 10 minutes or less and the merchant can send the crypto to an exchange to immediately convert it to fiat or any other crypto of their choice. Also most likely in the future, merchants will use some sort of centralized payment processor so when the buyer pays and the transaction confirms the seller immediately gets fiat cash instead of crypto, assuming they want fiat of course.

So the whole idea that crypto doesn't work as a currency is mostly a moot point IMO. Most people are thinking about that issue from a macroeconomic perspective as in if one crypto was used as the official currency. The days of that is coming to an end IMO. The future is going to be multiple cryptocurrencies competing with traditional fiats. The payment processors of the future will be able to process hundreds of different medium of exchanges through their point of sale system. A merchant has nothing to lose by accepting 100 different medium of exchanges if the other medium of exchanges are simply be converted to whatever the merchant's ideal store of value is.

Then it simply comes down to individual merchants and consumers deciding what medium of exchange to use and that is good for everyone. More freedoms is better. I think we can all agree on that.
I can imagine one scenario where Woodshed was in dire financial straits and calculated that the brand damage resulting from keeping the game developer's money was worth it.
I am not aware of an extension doing this. I wrote some elisp for doing this a few years back.
> In addition to relocating to where energy is the least expensive, Bitcoin creates incentive for miners to lower the local cost of energy: invest in renewable energy.

We have lots of direct and effective subsides for nonrenewable energy in the United States. And some for renewables, as well. For example [1] average effective tax rate over all money making companies: 26%

"Coal & Related Energy": 0.69%

"Oil/Gas (integrated)": 8.01%

"Power": 29.22%

"Green and Renewable Energy": 26.42%

[1] "Tax Rates by Sector (US)" (January 2017) http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/datafile/...
Any source of heat can also be used as a source for cooling. My Alma-Matter (Oregon Tech) heats and cools its entire campus with hot geothermal wells.
All supercomputing is now done with armies of chickens. It was a great saying when Cray said it, but the future was not what he imagined.
If we cut down all these pesky trees we'll be able to enjoy the beautiful flowers of the forest. Where does that leave the forest though? The net has a problem with noise, not space.
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It has it's plusses and minuses. The plusses are that everything is isolated and the data doesn't get too big. It becomes problematic when you need to access multiple clients at the same time (and you probably will at some point). Deployment is harder since you have to do it more. Keeping schema versioning straight is also a pain. Data isolation is inherent in single tenant though.
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Hit the nail on the head.

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2017/11/blue-origin-2020-deb...

^ this was a tremendously good article about Blue Origin. I can't recommend it enough. If you can read closely, you can see the tiny little business-sense decisions that are obviously learned from SpaceX's experience. They go even further, with a lot of things that look like what BFR should have been but isn't shaping up to be. Consider the plans for rapid manufacture of the (disposable) 2nd stage. I would love 2nd stage reusability, but we might just not be there yet. Blue Origin could close the loop enough by manufacturing them right next to where they're flown at low cost.

The large first-stage core seems to be the ticket too. The piping between 3 cores starts to sound enough like the Shuttle experience. Reuse of a single first stage core is going great. No need to rock the boat, just continue to improve refurbishment processes.

Also keep in mind that Bezos is like scary ruthless. I've read several books, and it really comes through in the conflict Amazon had earlier on with similar book sellers. No one took him seriously enough, because they didn't understand what kind of businessman he is. He is out to crush. Now, he has virtually unlimited resources and is targeting his life-long dream.

Spending a year on pursuing the wrong size-class and the wrong second stage technology is likely to leave you a bug on his windshield.
Sure. Are you willing to promote alternative models? Do you currently do so, such as paying subscriptions for news?
What problem specifically are you referring to?
expanding...

- call it Automated, Permissioned Grassroots Campaigning
- Users permit designated Orgs to post on their behalf on social media and other online forums
- Users guide priorities & tone of posts
- ML for content generation
- Aided by collaborative computer-human workflow
I guess I'm ok with a virtual screen taking up most of the view. Of course it would be better if it didn't. But I'd still pay for one where I could pretty much only look at one screen at a time, with enough space around the edges to see if there was another screen to look at. And to avoid eye strain I'd need to not have to focus a few inches away.

So if I could focus like it was 6 feet away but it was big enough it took up most of the screen from that distance, and it had a 1080p resolution, that would be good enough. And then I'd buy the upgrades when they came around :) The rough math I was doing in my head was that anything that wasn't 1:1 would need probably 4 pixels for every one virtual pixel. So 4K would about do it.

I pick 1080p because most laptops today still have that resolution, and several laptops that I still use have less resolution than that and are still usable.
Not that I disagree with the specifics here, but I think there's a happy medium to find. Individual boxed offices for every employee is not efficient use of space most of time. While it's popular to kvetch about open plan offices now, when the pendulum swings back there's plenty to complain about the isolation and dead air of a private room (most are no bigger than closets).

Personally, I think the move towards working from home is tremendous. Perhaps it is a failure of office, but maybe that's okay. Offices are something of a hold-over from the days of the Empire State Building and insurance companies with 10,000 employees processing hand written forms. Maybe open plan offices with the expectation that most folks wont spend all their time there is a better default?
Exactly. I have nothing against adwalls or paywall, i might even pay to read the article if the quality is here (hello wsj). But i choose what's going onto my browser/computer. Someone remember this time when Forbes put an anti-adblock wall, then distributed malware-infested ads to some of its users? This is the reason why i use noscript: i don't trust all third party websites.
You just launch a bunch of small payloads at the same time. As long as you have enough customers then the cost per payload could indeed be lower.
Let's stop arguing with headlines that the writer didn't write (2014)
Could you elaborate on what you mean by Keynesian in 2017?
I fully support using older (simpler) interfaces to avoid distraction but I am afraid I have to inform you that green phosphor screens are quite a strain on the eyesight.
If you have no response, it's acceptable to write "We are deeply concerned about this situation regarding our former client, and will prepare a more comprehensive response to be publicized later".
As the author, yes I didn't really discuss that. But on the other hand, I would argue I wasn't trying to gloss over it either!

In my case, I took my fish tank which previously existed and turned it into something more -- at the same time, I also dramatically reduced my upkeep time because of the lack of water changes.
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Correct. And the UIKit equivalent on macOS is called AppKit
1) The VPN's IP will be used by more than one person. (i.e a pool)

2) use a VPN that has a reputation for not keeping logs and turning people over.

https://thatoneprivacysite.net/vpn-comparison-chart/
Oh, thanks for this update! I had only known about the situation before the Court ruling.
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> You're spoiled and you have no real worries, so you create a boogie man that you fight because it gives life meaning.

You don't know shit about me, about my worries and about what give my life meaning so gtfo.
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> If we follow your point then the difficulty adds some degree of inflation to the price.

I think it's the opposite, difficulty is used to control inflation. Though we could both be talking about different things -- monetary inflation vs price inflation.

> This means today's bitcoin is more valuable than tomorrow's bitcoin.

Yep, all things being equal every time they mine a block every coin becomes that much less valuable due to the increase in supply.
Founding engineer or Founder/CTO?
I don't understand what you are saying. Can I go to the bathroom during the commercial break while watching a football game? Do I have to scroll to the bottom of a page if I look at a headline?

No, of course I don't. If you demand a particular behavior from a reader, then enforce it. Otherwise, don't complain if it's ignored.
I recall a 4kx4k vector system from HP in the 80's that was when HP was "you have to ask" you cant afford it :-)
I don't think this is true.

I think if Musk had to wager he'd bet that this launch is not completely successful. It still makes sense to fly it though. You hope to learn enough to make the second or third attempt a success.
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it is just shocking that they did the trial run of the nuclear reactor in Beijing where there are over 20 million people. on the other hand, they were actually allowed to carry out such trial run close to where those most powerful live.

to figure out what other crazy stuff is happening in Beijing, did a quick search and it turns out that there are dozens of experimental nuclear reactors in Beijing, with the first one built in 1964 in Beijing. Tsinghua alone operates many of them.

crazy
I can't imagine such a work situation appealing to anybody other than extreme penny-pinchers, or maybe fresh grads, straight out of colleges. This sounds exactly like trying to get work done in a university library or study hall. If you've never known anything better, or you're the kind of person that needs that social stimuli, I can imagine you might think it was normal enough; I couldn't do it then; I'd work alone in my room or buried in the stacks. And now? Forget about it.
There are download stats for dmd, the reference compiler[1]. Anyone doing production work is probably using gdc or ldc though so that's not the whole picture.

They have an orgs using D page: https://dlang.org/orgs-using-d.html

If you look at the various language rankings (taken with a mountain of salt) D is still fairly low overall. Definitely one of the higher languages without a corporate/industry backer though.

1. http://erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png
I only know about FB.
1) I pay for free sites/services I routinely use (wikipedia, FSF)

2) They put content up for free on their sites. I put a regulator on the instructions my CPU runs. They're free to detect the ad blocker and block access.

3) copyright is BS.
Tulips are a dumb analogy. There, I said it.

Tulips come from seeds and are ornamental, once they are dead they can no longer be traded for value. There is no limit to the world-wide supply of tulips, and there is no such thing as distributed international observation and participation in tulips.

To further my antagonist response, the Smithsonian Mag recently did a report explaining that Tulip Mania was also not really a Tulip Mania and that reports were highly exaggerated; an author of a recent book on that time claims that there really is no lesson to learn from Tulip Mania, as tempting as the comparison may be.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/there-never-was-real-...
A 1-ounce gold coin issued by the US Mint is legal tender to the tune of $50. It says so right on the coin.

If you want to pay your taxes using gold coins, go right ahead. They will gladly accept it.
In the US, if you link a bank account to Coinbase then you don't even have to submit an ID. So the barrier to entry is significantly lowered compared to other exchanges.
My current CRT monitor was made in 1997 and is 1600x1200@70Hz. They existed, but were expensive. FYI, due to CRT blanking times, the dot-clock for my VGA monitor is actually slightly higher than what single-channel DVI can manage. I had to use a graphics card with a VGA port until good DP/VGA adapters became available in the past few years.
It's really an open question which one is the "real" Bitcoin and merits having "Bitcoin" in the name.

It's like saying that the People's Front of Judea is fraudulent because they don't really represent Judeans like the Judean People's Front.
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At least these ones do, you will find a few well known names.

https://dlang.org/orgs-using-d.html

However the development is mostly community driven, there is no big sponsor around, like other more widespread languages.
Sure but bitcoin's weakness to pumping is what makes it a bad currency. Is that weakness going to a feature of all cryptocurrencies? I'd say any currency which is deflationary and has anonymous transactions will be vulnerable to pump and dumps.
Yes, I do. But I don't even consider that necessary for the "survival" of the net.

There was an internet before google/fb established the current status quo for revenue, and there will be one after. Maybe (hopefully) with less attention grabbing, utter garbage.
Shoulder pain will be an issue for people using it all day long. I know I can't lift my hand up to the screen hundereds of times per day.
When a government doesn't care about their citizens because there's "too many of them" you get stuff like this (http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/23/asia/china-organ-harvesting/in...). So, of course they are going to be more willing to ignore basic human rights to achieve their goals. I'm not saying the US is innocent either, privatized prisons targeting African and Latin Americans to benefit shareholders of those private companies is legalized genocide (how many fatherless black children growing up in the ghetto are equipped to adjust to mainstream society)?

There is a lot of misinformation regarding the Fukushima disaster if you dig around and the long term effect on the population near that region is not being addressed and being covered up. Their exposure to the radiation will not show immediately as in most nuclear disasters but at a delayed rate after it takes a toll on their bodies. This type of silence is typical of the Japanese where they will hide mistakes for as long as it's tolerated (ex. Kobe Steel etc).

I don't think it's safe to look at Fukushima and say "oh only 100 ppl died its safe" to justify proliferation of nuclear reactors because the damages are not limited to those loss of life. Germany understands this and lot of European countries are moving away from Nuclear power altogether.