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I'm starting to get fed up by the open-ended trust models used by most forum software on the internet.

slashdot started in 1997. phpBB was started in 2000. 4chan accidentally in 2003. reddit was put together in 2005. HN was created in 2007.

I think 2007-2010 was a tipping point where people started to collectively get smarter and more sophisticated on the Web. I'm not saying everyone was dumb before that, but that... you needed to be more cynical and you couldn't just depend on something's ridiculousness to know whether it was fake or not.

4chan maintained a troll mentality that made it obvious some things were real and some were not, and many people there there knows not to believe everything they see - maybe not a 51% majority, but just enough that the integrity of an awareness culture is maintained.

HN got started around the tipping point I just described, which might explain why it's lasted a while.

But all the others... they're based on old ideas, old notions of trust. The culture is based on openness and contemporaneously broken interpretations of the idea of freedom of speech - so anybody gets on there and declaratively makes their point, and everyone believes them like it's tort law and utterly official.

Maybe that's why reddit gets blamed for being a hivemind.

Not quite sure if I'm talking hot air through ten hats here, but I'm just mad there isn't an IQ test to be casually involved in tech because EVERYONE has such crippling levels of "oh no I don't understand this so I'll just believe this thing here and won't fact-check it for myself". At least on reddit this seems to be the case.

Yes, that's really harsh, but I see it as the facts of the situation. If I'm wrong please do let me know.
And to add onto your point there's a lot of nuance in terms of what it means to be against illegal immigration. Some people define it very harshly (toss out everyone that's an immigrant), some people define it as providing avenues for hard-working undocumented immigrants to become US citizens even if they are illegal.

So when you come out against illegal immigration, your stance can run the gamut of not racist at all to incredibly racist. It just turns out that most of the time the statistics simply don't line up for illegal immigrants committing more crime, stealing jobs and so forth. Which then makes the argument not about fact, but about feeling. Which then tends to be more inclined towards racism.
>Was this press club disclosure ultimately discredited?

I haven't seen anything to discredit the message from the witnesses in the video, but the guy who organised the Disclosure Project (Steven Greer) is really convinced that ET are here.
I've mostly studied USA elections and legislatures. So am ill-equipped to compare, contrast. But being very political, and having run for office and done some policy work, I can comment on our elections.

Over simplistically:

#1 - Our FPTP elections leads to two major parties.

#2 - Our gerrymandered districts (local, state, congressional) has led to increased partisanship. As noted elsewhere, because contests are won during the low-turnout primaries where the motivated base participates.

#3 - Ever increasing campaign costs has led to concentrated influence (power law distribution of attention). Who ever controls the contributions controls the agenda.

#4 - We have city, district, county, state, federal elections. The party system starts at the bottom. Memories are long and defections are never forgiven (eg Nader & Green Party).

Having now done it... Everyone should run for office, at least once. Because most commentary, complaining isn't even wrong.

My goal, always, is to empower, enfranchise people. The various reforms I support increase voter choice and participation. At every level by various (sometimes non-intuitive) means.
ok then I suggest you go back and write a clearly usable definition before trying to apply that definition to "net neutrality." or else make up a new term

it's hard enough to get the public to understand this concept without also waffling over the meaning in the tech community.
Rather inconvenient for bigger stacks.

Might be popular with the ladies, though.
Anonymous data is not the same thing. There's no reason to jump to regulation of data without a legal trail.
> The sentiment they are trying to get across is that they want someone who won't let problems lie and who will proactively execute on fixes without waiting for permission or being assigned the work by a tech lead or manager.

And I assume they schedule time for such activities? Or do they expect you to do it on your own time? Or do they expect you to do that in addition to what you're already being paid for? Will they reward you for your effort or will you just kick off a round of bullshit on why you made an unnecessary and un-requested for change?

Everyone wants their devs to take ownership, but very few create the right business structure to make it possible.
IAM is also super hard to configure.

I would like to see more sense of responsibility from AWS for these leaks rather than blaming the users.

It’s bad usability.
> want to copy the code? Oh...
I'm not overly surprised that Google have added so many buildings in such a short time... This IS the same company that re-encoded the whole YouTube corpus (which while small at the time was still a considerable about of content) in a weekend to improve the user experience (SD -> HD launch).
100,000,000 * 21,000,000

If bitcoin became the "world's currency" or whatever, you'd be using it at the satoshi level. Of course, at some point people would need a unit smaller than a satoshi.
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Meh, this is essentially a consensus argument which falls flat because gold’s value is ultimately based on consensus.
GOP net neutrality bill would allow paid fast lanes and preempt state laws
Glad all of this stuff is happening before I move to the U.S.
>Bitcoin community has changed tone.

> It used to be "this is the currency of the future, down with cash/Visa!"

> but now you hear "Bitcoin is not a currency, it's a store of value".
And for the services that I paid for that lost my data?
> People in unstable countries may have trouble safeguarding gold stockpiles, as well.

Hence Bitcoin. cf. Zimbabwe
If that threat became apparent the protocol would probably just hard-fork to post-Quantum Cryptography.
Definitely agree. I saw virtually no comparison to what the US does / would do nor how America handles similar cases, etc. America was mentioned zero times in the article (0) and United States was mentioned twice in the article (2) and that was only to mention background information about the victim and her family, nothing to do with health care, mental illness, violence, or anything else to do with the editorial.
> I strongly suspect that he does, in fact, know that.

His proposals imply that he does not in fact realize that zero-day attacks occur. Negligence is one thing, but having state of the art security systems and still being punished for a breach is another thing. A state sponsored group with enough time and money can repeatedly infiltrate a system. A tax certainly wont solve the problem
Mt. Gox CEO admitted to operating a Willy Bot this summer.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/mt-gox-trial-update-karpeles-...
Wow. What sort of data do they send?
The fact that you can buy a similar amount of gold now for the same price as 2007 would indicate that it is currently at a better entry point. That this reasoning must be explained underlines a flaw in current investment sentiment. A 10-year horizon also is too short. A 100- or 500-year horizon is more typical for gold investment.
> GDP per capital is a terrible measure of average wealth.

Suggest you google "average" and "median".
So was buying a bunch of bitcoin in 2013. It's a bet only a few people could (should have) made.
> I believe it is important to separate the people from their ideas

Okay, why were the Nazis evil then? Why weren't they good people who just had awful awful ideas?

Why is it wrong to judge people for the ideas they express and the actions they take?
Former US Rep Henry Waxman explains in his book The Waxman Report how Congress used to work, where coalitions were often formed around issues, interests.

There are many other accounts, giving different perspectives, of course. The Politics of Attention and Unorthodox Lawmaking come to mind.
So tomorrow if you hire couple of engineers to build a gaming app, are you saying you will fine if those engineers launch the app by themselves?
Another consensus argument. There is more of a consensus around bitcoin than other cryptos and you can’t “invent” consensus either.
Unfortunately not distinct enough to base your whole argument upon...

My theory is if one can demonstrate how the distinction between "monetary capital" and "physical capital" doesn't cause other parts of the economy theory to become false then the underlying argument is probably false.

And one can safely assume that anyone who quotes Schumpeter is probably wrong.
The point isn't what the law is, the point is what some people would have it be.
I agree with your assessment about "Deep Work" but I still recommend folks to read it, just to reiterate what you probably already know. I think it helps us remind ourselves to focus on our life, when there are so many distractions.
It tastes exactly the same as non-iodized salt and has no downsides. Yes you should be eating it.
One day this will be true for Bitcoin, once it reaches a stable value.
Why not the Irony Sign?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_punctuation
I've worked for a few companies that handled clients' private information for financial purposes. There is a standard that you must observe if you work with payment cards, PCI-DSS. It is complicated and costly to implement in full, so some of the firms I worked for didn't - and instead avoided handling sensitive data that was subject to the strongest of protections specified by PCI-DSS. That meant, for example, never directly handling transactions and bouncing them off to PayPal instead. These were still successful companies, that kept growing while I was working for them.

One company I worked for sold software for card transactions and so needed to get the highest level of certification. They did and they worked very hard to achieve this, which is why they were (and I believe, still are) highly respected in the business. They also did great financially and had big contracts with huge clients.

There's also companies that specialise in that sort of thing- they help others get their PCI-DSS on. For a fee- but it's cheaper than doing it yourself, or paying the price of running wild with peoples' card data.

There are many more options than "ignore the standard" and "drown under it" is what I'm trying to say.
Isn't the trick with Switzerland that citizens have a LOT more benefits than non-citizens, but a lot of the overall population (25%) is non-citizen? (California, the most foreign-heavy US state, is about half that, IIRC, and the US overall around 7%.) I'd be wondering about potential gaps hidden in there.

Healthcare, though, is interesting in Switzerland for other reasons. Switzerland is a generally wealthy country that generally spends a lot on health care in a rather private manner, similar to the US in many ways. But the US system is a mess of corruption, bloated government and corporate programs, and inefficiencies. Switzerland is what a sensible free-market attempt to remake the US insurance markets might look like, instead of the "healthy people just shouldn't have to buy insurance" nonsense dogma of the current American right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Switzerland

"The whole healthcare system is geared toward the general goals of keeping the system competitive across cantonal lines, promoting general public health and reducing costs while encouraging individual responsibility."

They seem to get the same best parts of the US system (short wait times (if you choose the right places here), up-to-date treatment options, flexibility of making your own financial priority choices around different procedures, without a bunch of our downsides.
I ran a small home/experimental aquaponics system for over a year, fed the fish, primarily, free worms out of my vermicomposters.
How much of a pain was it to install OS X?
Not really.

If you ask your Shaman to produce a poison and send it to every gold miner in the world and as a result no new gold will be mined, you still won't dig up much by simply putting shovel in your backyard. You would have to go to the last crust level they been at and start to dig from there, which makes it incredible expensive and complicated.

Meanwhile, if for any reason, including breaking a Bitcoin blockchain by state-sponsored actor (or someone powerful enough; or simply forcing ISPs to ban traffic on mining ports now that NN is gone), when miners stop or move to something else, you can pick up from where they left off of and alone mine one bitcoin a minute on your mediocre laptop.

Whether someone will pick up these coins from you at $15k per pop, that's a different story.
What is IOTA? A cryptocurrency with an alternative to the blockchain
Do you want a democratic vote to make these choices?

Do you want the Senate as a whole to vote on these issues?

How about a congressional subcommittee?

Do you want a largely unsupervised undemocratic bureaucracy to just make these choices by fiat?

Hmm, well to me it seems like the that last option is the worst of the bunch. And that's what we get when we don't regulate at all - unsupervised, undemocratic, corporate bureaucracies making decisions that critically affect our lives. I don't need a perfect regulator, I just need a regulator because even in your worst case scenario for a regulator you've only tied what I already live under. To your net neutrality argument, your argument is essentially that instead of having a regulatory body in charge of net neutrality who then rescinded it, we should never have had that government body at all - to me that's just unconvincing, at least I got some years of net neutrality this way, better than none at all.

The list of problems goes on. What is the legal bases for these effect and how do you punish people who don't follow the rules? How about the US not controlling the internet and if the US goes away from global standards it could massively hurt the US as a industry standard.

Why do you need every detail of a plan to see if something is good? You want us to quote from law journals for you? Why don't you just admit you don't like the idea - don't pretend that if only we could lay out a plan you'd be for it, your disagreement isn't in implementation it's in foundation.
According to my endocrinologist, about 15% of women in most western countries are Iodine deficient, and about 10% of men. The difference is mostly because women tend to dislike seafood.

In Australia the situation is a lot worse, she said, because our soils are so depleted. No just of Iodine but many other nutrients.
and lower rankings organically and for ppc get a low quality score on your add and it can really hurt your AdWords account
Prickly Pear is a source of N-Acetyl Cysteine (NAC), an amino acid that helps the immune system function - it is the same amino acid abundant in chicken broth & the secret to it's efficacy as a remedy for colds/flu.
They say they split the audio in "80-dimensional audio spectrogram with frames computed every 12.5 milliseconds". The picture from the post supports that.

For 24 hours that would be 7 mil frames of 80 values ~= 500 mil data points, or 2 GB of raw data (assuming floats)
Not thin; light. Phone makers make phones lighter so that people can hold them up longer before their hands get tired. A battery is massy, however dense it is, whatever the shape. You can only add so much battery before your phone gets too heavy to comfortably hold. (Unlike, say, an external camera lens, which increases volume but not really mass.)

Thinness is just a side-effect of lightness, because the alternative—a “hollow” unevenly-dense phone—would be awkward and unbalanced in the hand. You make a phone lighter, keep the screen size the same, repack it to an even density to keep its center of gravity the same... oops, it’s thinner now.
If you're a bank, if someone opens an account in my name, it should be your problem, not mine. If you're going to tie something to my identity, you need to require more proof of identity than information that is practically public knowledge (social security numbers, addresses, former addresses, etc.).
How a Crossword Puzzle Nearly Spelled the End for D-Day
Yes, we should, and if you live in Canada or the US, you probably do. If your diet is mostly fast food, you may not get enough, because fast food contains lots of salt that isn't iodized. I did a little reading about it for a blog post I wrote a while ago, and learned about something called the "Goiter Belt" in the USA.

http://rocketships.ca/blog/vitamins-and-anarchy/
What is a Cruciverbalist?
I currently use ThuderBird but I'm very sad about the lack of some basic features (grouping email chains?).

I wish someone would make an open source replacement to Mailspring's sync engine. I'd switch to that as soon as available. I just don't like the thought of someone having hidden code touching my email.

https://github.com/Foundry376/Mailspring
You're off by a factor of 20. The current hash rate is 17.5 million terahashes per second. Ant Antminer S9 goes for $2800 and produces 13.5 terahashes per second. In order to get to 51%, you'd need a $2 billion dollar investment.
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>Toxicology: In 2012, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) 7 notes that while most foods have lead levels that have steadily decreased, among 734 food categories consumed in Europe and analyzed (145 000 analyzes in total), 87 still have lead levels of concern. Iodized salt is one of these 87 foods, it would be source - for an average consumer - 2.4% of daily intake of lead. The EASA report does not make assumptions about the origin of this toxic and undesirable contaminant, a source of lead poisoning.
Giving Thanks to TDD
I went to one of those great midwest schools (though you missed it). But, I left as soon as I graduated.

Since then I've lived on the east and the west coast (in popular, expensive cities), and nearly all of my classmates are no different. Places they go other than those two coasts? Other well known places... The Texas Triangle, Colorado, Chicago, Florida...

It's exciting and fun to think that the "next Silicon Valley" will pop up in one of those midwest cities that has been in decline since the mid-20th century... But the truth is, if there is going to be a "new Silicon Valley", it will be in a boring, popular (probably expensive) place... I'd sooner bet on the Texas Triangle...
Good reason would be broken or lost blockchain, then all these letters and digits are only worth a thumbdrive you stored them on.

I know it is hard to imagine because generally bitcoin is new technology, but also because of that - its not that it is impossible.

Meanwhile gold is gold; a physical object with very high temperature of vaporization.
I used to run home aquaponics for several years, and it was a very healthy environment for the fish and the plants. If anyones interested, here's a short clip of my Perch from a few years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ojePlSxkjs
The best solution is to separate men and women in the work place. That way nobody is going to harass anyone and nobody will be able to falsely accuse anyone.
I'm not sure how "prescient" not accepting the first settlement offer is.

Also I'm not sure how "prescient" their seeing the potential of bitcoin was. They were literally sitting on a beach in Ibiza when a stranger approached them and told them about investing in bitcoin.

This same stranger fom the beach them puts them in the touch with the Bitinstant folks. When the brother meet Charlie Shrem and Erik Voorhes from Bitinstant they observe how much those two believe in the potential of bitcoin. See:

https://qz.com/405950/ibiza-the-hamptons-downtown-manhattan-...
That's the risk you take in software in general. What stopped Instagram from copying Snapchat? Nothing. Micrsoft used to snuff out competitors in the office suite space all the time. MSN copied AIM. IE copied Netscape. It happens. You either work with founders you can trust or you don't.
You are using rare, worst-case events to, in effect, excuse the currently abysmal state of security. When we have reached the point where zero-days account for almost all the remaining successful attacks, we can revisit the question.
Yeah it's not just the temperature per se which wouldn't be so bad if you were out in a forest someplace. But the garbage, all the people, etc. that make a dense city pretty unpleasant when the mercury creeps up.
A python ABM framework is Slapp https://github.com/terna/SLAPP/ or if you want sometghng java based (with support for maven, a gui and also eclipse plugin) you can try JAS-mine http://www.jas-mine.net/ , please don't hesitate to contact me if you want to chat about Agent Based Mideling or complexity or network analysis.
> Pretending marriage equality was always on deck when Leno et al. were working on domestic partnership is the spin here

I'm not sure what you mean by “on deck”. If you mean tactically attainable, yes, there was a wide view even among advocates and allies that it was not. DP was a tactical advance, on that there was broad consensus (though, ironically, the anti-embourgeoisement radicals you point to support this weren't part of it, as they generally viewed marriage as an archaic social institution not to be sought or imitated, but to be eliminated.)

But your claim wasn't about what was viewed as politically pragmatic, but about DP status being seen by advocates and allies generally as “just and sufficient”, rather than unjust and insufficient because it was separate, but at least better than the status quo ante because it was—to the extent possible for the state alone—formally equal.

> and Obama was strategically lying when he too endorsed civil unions but rejected marriage equality

Disagreeing with a movements aspirations isn't a lie. Now, whether Obama was a secret supporter tactically lying to placate opponents, a moderate opponent of the goals of the movement telling the truth, or a stronger opponent telling tscticsl lies to get support of the movement while not alienating it's opponents is...well, completely irrelevant to whether the movement itself saw civil unions as “jist and sufficient” rather than merely a lesser injustice than the status quo ante.

> Either the advocates of the previous decade's reform were not telling the truth [...] or they meant what they said at the time.

You are conflating LGBTQ advocates with the politicians who were (or, in Obama's case, were not) involved in reforms. Those may be overlapping groups, but they aren't the same groups.

Now, if all you meant to say was that you identified with the narrow, political establishment group that endorsed civil unions as the end goal rather than the mainstream of LGBTQ advocates and allies at the time who openly called for marriage equality as the goal but accepted formally equal unions as a tactical advance, that's defensible. But it's not at all defensible to claim that the movement saw civil unions as “just and sufficient”, that was overtly never the case, whatever a handful of politicians trying to balance between the movement and conflicting groups might have said (and, who knows, might have even believed it when they said it.)
Is there some sort of advantage to consuming aluminum, cadmium and neptunium? One causes Alzheimer's, one is a battery, and the third is radioactive.
Its true, I'm more used to C like syntax, but I have no issues with Lisp, Python or MLs. I think Ruby reminds me of Basic, and I similarly just can't enjoy myself when using Basic syntax.

I understand a lot of people enjoy it, not trying to blame it, its me I'm sure, not Ruby. That said, I've seen a few languages like Elixir and Crystal come up and they use "Ruby like syntax" as a selling point. So I'm trying to understand, what does everyone who likes the syntax find so great about it?