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> Ironically, it is faith that gives fiat currency (e.g. US Dollar, Euro, etc.) its value as well. There isn’t any actual intrinsic value to fiat currency (i.e. no gold backing) either. Fiat currency actually derives its value from the faith that other parties will accept that currency in the future

More specifically the faith in fiat money derives from the fact that the you can pay your tax bill with it (and exclusively; US govt only acccept USD, Norwegian govt only accept NOK). If you're paid in bitcoin or any other currency/asset you'd have to liquidate it to USD or equivalent to be able to pay your taxes for that transaction. So I don't think it's a fair to compare with fiat money. Crypto as an asset storage like gold seems to me like a better comparison, both in theory and practice.
I would love to see more Bold Disrupting Entrepreneurs trying to disrupt the way that San Francisco treats poor and homeless people.
Plus it's amazingly fast and is packed with SQL features. For such a small lib, it's a miracle. And the way the author talks about it (he is not from a DB background) it so funny.
Permanent suspension makes it clear that it is the same thing as time-limited suspension except for being unbound in time. It makes relationships between different consequences clear, at the expense of being a less natural term for the individual state in isolation.
Which was ridiculously as well, just like the cookie thing.

"- Microsoft deliberately and for no technical reason made IE a dependency of several unrelated Windows features"

So?

But they did not forbid other browsers to run. People who wanted, could choose all the time.

And even if they would have forbidden it, I still think regulation is stupid, because it still keeps the status quo of Microsoft OS Desktop dominance.
(Luckily it doesn't matter much anymore) because when you regulate the worst things away, the base is still bad, but people have less incentive to change the platform for the better ...
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Is this an incremental rollout?
That was a relief. As I read the article I had this ratcheting tension as I kept expecting the next sentence to be about some irrationally overblown response from the admin.
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For those who might be looking for similar online titling tools, there's also dotSUB (https://dotsub.com/view/). You can use the same timings to translate into other languages. Just FYI [edited to lower snark]
That applies to currencies too. I can "put money" into USD (from AUD) which actually does generate X for Y (for example, it creates more purchasing power for all importers in the USA).
Totally wild guess, but possibly faculty kid of somebody who worked at a university with a major EE/CS department, many of which had NeXT workstations at the time. NeXT workstations were really expensive and showed up in all sorts of places like astronomy departments. Same general environment and reason why Berners-Lee's workstation at CERN was NeXT.
Interesting tech. First reviews we have about Magic Leap One is that it has the same draw backs as Microsoft's Hololens. They both lack real world field of view and are limited by the design. We covered the Hololens use at the LA Auto Show which is now in place at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. https://latechnews.org/mixed-reality-hololens-experience/
Can you me more about the "targeted destruction" of this operating system by Microsoft? I worked there at the time and don't remember anything like that.
There's a problem here: one of the goals of taxation is to encourage certain behaviors (like creating new employing in a low-employment region, or saving for retirement) and discourage others (like smoking).

You remove this important policy tool, offering no other tool to replace it.
Week 50 in Information Security, 2017
For those Canadians out there, I've had a decent experience with: https://www.quadrigacx.com, and I believe it's the biggest CAD exchange.
When you move to a new part of the document you will see "Caching" briefly whilst Texpad prepares itself, then as you say, it will be incremental typesets from then on.

What you are suggesting should work well, if you have troubles with that in the beta please get in touch with us at support at vallettaventures dot com with the document and we'll take a look.
You can just move to Madagascar and close the ports.
Give the size of most ODT files and the power of current computers, incremental updates are completely irrelevant. Regenerating the entire file takes a blink.

But the current format benefit from the XML ecosystem (validation, transformation, namespacing, nesting, semantic markup) that is very handy for a document.

Plus, being text based is a very good selling point if you want your format to last: event in 30 years if you don't have the spec, you can peak in the zip and see what's up.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/dpwa7w/i-played-the-boys-...
I don't remember exact details, but I do vaguely recall that only some small subset of PC video cards supported the necessary output (I used a Matrox of some sort; they also made video cards for the UNIX workstation market at the time, and I guess the features just carried over to the PC cards), and it needed a pretty expensive custom cable that cost me more than the monitor to hook it up. It was a long time ago, but I stuck with that monitor well past the point where flat panel LCD monitors were popular and affordable because it was such a beautiful, bright, clear, picture. It was huge, too, for the time. I think it was 24", but I may be misremembering...maybe 21". 4:3 displays are just a lot more surface area for the same diagonal inches.

I ended up putting it out by the road on large garbage pickup day, after failing to find someone who wanted it (even for free). I got tired of lugging it from house to house. A couple of houses and apartments with stairs were enough to convince me that it was time to go LCD. But, it was a fun problem getting it to work.
Yeah, I'm no Assange fan, but his situation exposed clear issues with the capricious way verification was (or wasn't) handed out.
Not really. In orbit, you can transfer your fuel slowly, gently, and the receiving tank doesn't have to be under pressure. During launch, you need the receiving tanks to be at 50-100 PSI for the rocket to work, which probably means the fuel being pumped at a pressure that is much higher.
I don't think there ever is a discontinuity. It just slowly ramps up, such that the only ones who notice are the ones who just woke up from comas. Every line in the sand is crossed slowly, with shuffling feet, so the line is wiped out as it is approached. Watershed events that are a clear trigger or threshold are rare. Mostly, it just gets worse slowly enough that no one ever hits their limit and breaks.

That's how we got to 2017 from 1967, after all--one hour after another, without pause, for 50 years. And then one day, you think "WTF just happened? How did everything get so incredibly awesome and yet also completely awful at the same time?"

If you think, "Gee, I should have done Y way back when X happened," then you should probably be doing Y now, even long after X happened.

I think about how it must feel for ordinary people when important history is happening around them, and if they would have even noticed at the time. It probably feels a lot like a fish feels after biting down on the bait. Everything is fine and normal, then boom, something grabbed me and is pulling me and now the water is gone and some blobby hairy thing has its appendages stuck into my gills and I flop and squirm and flop some more and the water is still gone and everything's going dim and my mouth hurts and the blobby thing is cutting my belly open with its shiny claw and now I can't feel my body and a gull just ate my eye and is tugging at my guts and I can't even flop any more. And I... And it was all so fast... I want to go back...

At what point is it acceptable for the fish to start fighting? It has to start while it is still in the water, while it still can fight. But it doesn't yet know that it should. What do you do if the event that makes it perfectly clear that you should have been doing something all along is also the event that makes it impossible for you to do it? What if the event that would have retroactively justified your behavior never happens?
I'm still not sure what you meant by Keynesian, but that is a nice link to a very thorough discussion about bitcoin from 2011. Supply, Demand, What is Money, and What is Valuable are all unresolved questions even in 2017. The need for money fundamentally stems from needing a way to trade dissimilar goods (like hens for milk). Nations making money is a whole separate issue that has delayed the progress of mankind for millenia
I think OP is saying that he/she wants to use WordPress because everyone else is seemingly doing it for blogging, regardless of his/her actual needs.
You should really read about the MS case, to understand in how many levels Apple isn't "doing the same thing".
The reason D isn't popular is simple and not a fault of the language itself. It's one of marketting.

- Go is backed by Google.

- Rust is backed by Mozilla.

- C# is backed my Microsoft.

- D is backed by... D users... and the two language architects.

A few schools use it. A few companies use it.(::cough::This little company called Facebook::Cough::)

The other is target market. D appeals to a new, or more advanced kind of programmer. A new niche or category. A programmer that doesn't get produced at most colleges, or demanded by most companies. And if they're not produced or demanded, that category isn't going to fill up with programmers. Nobody would have used Java if schools across the nation didn't tell kids that "Java was cool" and the JVM wasn't something to be afraid of.

There are categories of programmers. No one can say that a LISP programmer is quite like a C programmer.

- C programmers want "nicer assembler." C.

- C++ programmers don't want a GC. (Though D is working toward a GC-less standard lib.)

- Python/Java/C# programmers are (more likely to be) afraid of systems languages that can segfault like crazy if you don't know what you're doing.

D appeals to programmers who aren't afraid of the entire stack. They write, understand or at least appreciate assembler and caches, while also dabble in high-level templates and functional programming.

I can absolutely say I've grown as a programmer after looking through D features and going, "Why don't I know how that works?"

The guys behind D are brilliant, and professional. Watch any of their talks. Andrei Alexandrescu works for Facebook and still writes plenty of C++. He also wrote THE quintessential "Modern C++ Design" book on template meta-programming. And Walter Bright has been writing compilers for decades.

This is not a toy language.

Here's plenty of benchmarks showing D as fast as (and sometimes beating) C/C++ _and_ having low memory usage.

https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks

Meanwhile, the benchmark is misleading. Because not only is generally as fast as C/C++, but it's way more productive to write in.

But back to adoption. It's simple. 1) No corporate backers pushing it, 2) A language for advanced/multi-talented programmers is either scary or "unnecessary" to single-talented programmers.

Most C programmers are afraid of, or think templates are unnecessary. Most C++ programmers are afraid of a garbage collector (even if it's a completely deterministic one that only fires off during specific allocation points).

As a mostly C++ programmer, I was apprehensive of D's GC. But the more I read, the more confident I've been, and, I've had zero actual problems with it. I'm pushing 130 FPS on my netbook just fine, and because D isn't a toy language, I can easily move to static pools and have zero GC allocations.
Most MCUs these days have sleep/stop/wakeup functionality. Basically, they can consume astonishingly small amounts of power while waiting on a trigger - usually on a GPIO pin - to wake it back up.

Some MCUs also include a built-in realtime clock peripheral, often with options for running it off a separate backup power supply such as a coin cell. Those RTC peripherals can often serve the same 'wakeup' functionality without even using an external pin. So the device can setup its RTC, set an alarm for a week in the future, and then go into a very low-power sleep mode.

For example, the STM32F030 or 031 would work, although their 32-bit 48MHz cores would be overkill for this application. But they are ultra-low-power ARM Cortex-M0+ which includes an onboard RealTime Clock peripheral and consumes like 5uA in deep sleep. I think TI's MSP432 lines are even more power efficient, but I don't know much about those chips.
Serious question.

How does buying and holding Bitcoin promote a decentralized economy?
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I mostly read, but ignore them. I have a hard enough time getting back to friends and family. I do feel a little guilty about it and feel I should be more proactive about it sometimes.
"Since phones get replaced anyways let's make it so phones MUST be replaced."

Not a fan of this logic.
Wouldn’t this be an ICO?
I can still play back in my head the picture of those 5 engines roaring to life. Followed by the magic word "Liftoff!"
The corporate cuts are permanent. Only the individual ones expire
Yes, we are reworking the website for 1.8's release, that is going to be altered. You are correct, it is a discount when bought together.

Connect is for realtime collaboration. You and your collaborators can use Connect from within Texpad so that you have a single document between you.

There is no facility in the iOS App Store for us to sell codes, or for us to find out who has purchased via the iOS App Store, therefore it is an entirely separate product to that which is sold via our website.
My argument is that if Gates was "terrified of what a Unix with a decent UI might do to upend Windows" then NeXTStep must have been more terrifying than BeOS.

In the 1990s I worked in places where NeXT machines were in frequent use, including as the main desktop machine for a number of people. We also had NexT machines available for making presentations.

There was never anything like that for BeOS. And FWIW, I was a registered BeOS developer.

Remember too that Apple's A/UX was also a "Unix with a decent UI".
It's not like how apps get made is part of Apple's product marketing, if anything it's their developer outreach.

My money is on this being a developer focused update to fix the CocoaTouch/AppKit dichotomy, which will make it easier to develop a Mac version of your software alongside the iOS, watchOS, and tvOS versions. Spinning it as "combined iPhone and Mac apps" sounds like a misunderstanding on the reporter's part.

iOS has gotten a really large developer following with a ton of great apps. Not a lot of that has spilled back to the Mac side of things, but if the basic toolkit were compatible it would be easier for iOS devs to make the jump.
That's interesting. I've been using Playstation Vue since April and didn't even know it had a concurrent stream limit. I watch on my phone, laptop, Apple TV, and/or PS4.

PS Vue uses MLBAM's streaming infrastructure, which if I'm not mistaken is pretty highly regarded for its quality and stability.
> 2017: Who's Michael Dell?

He's a guy worth $23.5B (says Google today).

Dell may not be very exciting, but Michael Dell is doing fine.
I don't know but it seems every little tchotchke and hanger-on in her life seems to be coming out of the woodwork
increasing corporate taxes incentivices companies to increase wages or capital expenditures. This is why wages were highest and R&D was highest when the taxes were highest.
Switzerland has those silent cars. If you make just a bit too much noise, passengers will happily come and stop you. Great environment to work or read!
Regulations like EU GDPR require such provenance - you can subcontract if you wish, but you're still liable if your subcontractor fails in some way.
Does anyone know how they keep it NOT moving when doing a static fire of something like this?
Would there be a way to download the generated subtitles as a srt as well?
Those who bought bitcoin for considerably less years ago aren't going to lose as much real money as those buying in right now while it's high.
I used to go to a bar that had a 30 minute jethro tull song on the jukebox. It was internet connected and I could pay for songs from home. They eventually unplugged the thing.
I have tried it in person; and it was overall disappointing. This was some time last year so maybe they've improved in the mean time but the AR overlays weren't particularly compelling and the FOV was terrible.

I also felt the tracking was mildly worse than Vive; although that is more anecdotal.
Yes, this sort of feature would always be gated by a preference option. Some will like it, some won't.

Right now in Texpad if you place the cursor in a command for a math symbol for a few seconds, a popover will show that symbol.
> I don't understand why this entire field seems so focused on gaming, and not productivity.

Literally half - if not more - of the site is showing non-game applications.
I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit.
I'm not sure people will feel "fleeced" since most people (~80%) are getting a tax cut - https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/business/tax-bi...
I think what the article is saying is that 5% that own 95% didn't buy in at inflated prices. Those who own just 5% of bitcoins likely bought high, so they will be in the red on a crash. Those with more coinage tend to have bought low and will still be in the black if the market crashes.

E.g. the Winklevoss twins bought 120,000 bitcoins at $10. If the market crashes to $1,010 from today's $16-17,000, they'll still be in the black by $120MM. Sure, on paper they'll have lost a billion dollars, but they're still not hurting.
Because I am curious about the perspective and experience of another person.
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>but they can afford "access fees" and fast lanes.

Yes. They just pass it on to their users. When Comcast started charging then to remove the bottleneck a few years ago, it was followed by a price increase. Netflix is not even waiting this time. Streaming prices go up again in early January.
Is this different than advertising in a magazine that has a specific reader demographic? Or would that get a company in trouble too, if a the court rules that the intent was to exclude a given group?
I treat my LinkedIn connections like my Facebook friends list in the sense that I delete people that reduce the quality of the service for me. In LinkedIn's case, I will initially connect to avoid the InMail charges to talk to them. However, if nothing happens because of the communication, I will remove them.
Most people reading this (outside of VC kajillionaires) are not your enemy. But it does go to show how messed up things are. We recently saw a financial planner. Compared to most people we know personally (in a variety of non-tech industries), we are doing really well with tech salary. But compared to retirement projections, we are actually only treading water. We might be able to retire a little early, but only if things don't take a major downturn.

It underscored just how whacked things are. The next twenty years will change society. What now seems like a personal responsibility (for everyone to save for retirement) will fail so thoroughly that it will become a massive societal problem. I know so many people who pat themselves on the back for "being responsible" by putting a few hundred bucks into their Roth during tax season. It's dumbfounding how insufficient that is.

Students and people with service income think that tech people have it made. In reality we're probably more like the middle managers of the early 80's, earning one notch above the blue collar union folks. We don't really know if we'll make it to retirement before ageism or a crashing market will make our savings irrelevant.
I did google it, there was nothing of import, and that's why I asked the question.
While C++ standardisation hay have gathered momentum, it still has enormous inertia (c.f static if, modules, ranges, attributes that were proposed for C++ that either failed to get in or are nowhere near as useful. I can't make do without any of those). The agility of D by by comparison is one of its greatest strengths.
My Sonos is logged into Spotify with my own creds. So if I'm driving around using Spotify and my wife fires up the Sonos with my creds saved to it, it stops playing in my car.

She's got her own account on our family plan, but she's not going to change the username/password to hers every time she uses the Sonos (and me do the reverse).

I suppose I could generate a "dummy" family member account used just for the Sonos, but then it wouldn't have my playlists....
You’re not wrong, but it’s also true that at various times the written word and advances in its production and distribution were seen much the same way. Any new technology which represents a massive improvement in communication is going to radically change society in unpredictable ways. Needless to say, rapid and irreversible change is monstrous to live through especially if you’ve historically enjoyed the advantages of a previous system.
I remember thinking it was a terrible decision at the time too. It's hard to even imagine how different the world would look today if they'd gone for BeOS; I think Apple would almost certainly have died or been acquired, and we'd all probably still be using a mix of feature phones and whatever craziness Blackberry was up to.

(BeOS was really sweet though! So damn snappy. Even on way way way more powerful hardware today, macOS is still not generally snappy. It's a shame.)
Which would be subject to all the problems with the Verification checkmark...
I agree. I figured the SD/HD analogy would be easy to explain and relatable.

For awhile I was demoing VR projects to non-techies (VPs, CEOs, and others). The most interesting response was when they took the headset off and they had forgotten what room they were in. Everyone's favorite demo was Tilt Brush because it showed off interactivity the most--not the ones with fancy graphics. It's hard to express those ideas without demoing it. As an aside; the demoing experience for VR is miserable. There's a very long line, people are required to set up and explain the demo and clean the equipment, and there's a learning curve and short time allotted for each demo. You can't just set up 5 unattended kiosks and let people figure it out.
Is the Falcon one of their recycled rockets. SpaceX launched the Bulgarian satellite using a recycled rocket and is using recycled rocket more and more but I can't find any information on Falcon as to whether it's a recycled rocket or not.
https://latechnews.org/spacex-launches-bulgariasat-1-recycle...
IMHO The weird 16:9 aspect ratio really screwed us for usability. A 19" 4:3 monitor has the same height as a 23" 16:9 monitor. However I remember 1280x1024 being commonly available on games and on Windows by the time Windows 98 came out and earlier in games.

My brother had a 486 that I think I could run the game Mechwarrior 2 by Sierra at 1280x1024. The refresh rate went down to 60hz but it was doable and we didn't have a top of the line system even at the time (mid-late 90's). Here's a 1024x768 screenshot:

https://r.mprd.se/media/images/94067-Mech_Warrior_2_Mercenar...
"if the banks got sued for big money and lost every time they lied to credit agencies about debts you did not default on" is pretty much the situation in most (all?) of EU; if you dispute the claim, then the debt can't be reported to anyone else unless they can prove that it was you, and no, "they knew your magic number and your mother's maiden name" doesn't count as evidence.

Coincidentally, we don't have the same types of mass identity theft issues that USA has.
E.g. - this comment, via a Bluetooth keyboard on my iPad mini 2 :-)

Missing is the ability to use a mouse to supplement touch, which I could do on my Android tablet before it died.