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> we'll also do interviews that are one-on-ones with engineers on actual issues that they're facing.

Be careful with this approach. If you're not paying candidates for their interview time, you're not allowed to use their work. Big companies go to great lengths to demonstrate that the entire interview is for the purpose of a hiring decision and nothing more. This is to limit liability. Your approach is very dangerous for your company and if an unhired candidate's idea shows up in your product, even if you arrived at that result independent of the interview, the candidate has a strong case against you in a lawsuit.

If you're doing interviews like this, be sure you've discussed all the nuances with your company's lawyers.
True. But Uber/Lyft is significantly cheaper in SF. So that doesn't really matter in this specific case.
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If anyone is wondering what greater harm comes from the advertising industry than just showing obnoxious images, it's this.

Consumers becoming so brain washed, so accepting of the advertising status quo that they actually defend it even though everything about it is against their personal interests.

> I don’t understand the entitlement

There is no entitlement, it's a right. I am exercising my right as the operator of this PC to connect to content providers and display their content however the fuck I want within the confines of the law. The law doesn't give them any right to extract revenue from me if I choose to opt out. If they have a problem with that, they have the right try to block me within the confines of the law. And I have the right to bypass that block within the confines of the law.

Let me put it another way. Your sentiment is way more pliant and ethical than the sentiment of the guys who run the ad industry. Your job history, drinking habits, sex habits, food preferences, mental health, personal aspirations, etc - all of this stuff is up for sale to anyone in the advertising circles. The only thing missing is your credit card number and name/address so it's not 'technically' PIA even though correlating all of it back to you is trivial and everyone knows it. I thought I was paranoid about ads, and then I landed a job in the ad industry and realized my worst paranoia was only the tip of the iceberg in terms of what actually goes on.

Don't defend the guys who are fucking you, stand up for your rights.
Why the hostility?

I think it’s more like 2.5 to 3 times cheaper than 3 to 4, but it’s pretty easy to find.

A$1400: https://www.lightinthebox.com/xiaomi-laptop-15-6-inch-intel-....

Vs

A$3500: https://www.apple.com/au/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro?product=MP... (with weaker CPU and GPU)
How does litening work if it takes a transaction to open and a transaction to close, and the median fees are increasing with time?
For something as large scale as that coke scheme bitcoin could always implement clawbacks via consensus.
Not totally related, but imagine an online banking website with 3rd party scripts.
Everybody is on their mobile phone now. Internet is pretty much free. People are not socializing as much. I grew up here and summers are pretty bland now. Others are simply too broke to commit crime.
"wealthy residents in high tax states"

This to me is one of the biggest problems talking about taxation and wealth in the US. $50k is nothing you can really live off in most (by population) parts of California. $100k would make you well-off elsewhere but makes you poor in the Bay Area. While I'm generally for some degree of wealth redistribution, I'm afraid this will hit many people who aren't actually wealthy, but just scraping by.
I use an ad-blocker and have since 2011. To get around broken/hidden content, I just copy/paste the link into Terminal after $lynx. Works almost every time.
Except people post solutions/tools to diagnose & fix the problem in that link, because it is a significantly more open platform.
I don't see what those two comparisons have to do with each other. That's like saying "The marketing department spend $10m on new ads last quarter. Meanwhile, the development team released a new feature in one sprint."
Median fee is a good metric, it avoids the over-paying txns and the miner-accelerated txns.
So i now have two choices: mentally blacklist these websites and when I forget, actively make sure to click every stupid ad possible.
Fees are skyrocketing in Satoshi: what used to be 1 sat/Byte is now 1000 sat/Byte.
Given that banner ads are a major malware vector, I'll disable my ad-blocker when sites take responsibility and reimburse me for the time and money spent repairing computers affected by the malware they inevitably end up serving.
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How does this have anything to do with tech?
Its difficult to say. Having low usage would make most reasonable coins cheap and quick; but does not give us any information of how they would behave at scale.

In the case of bitcoin cash in particular; it would probably still be fine at bitcoin scale. This is because its main difference is removing an artificial limit within Bitcoin. As this limit was set without an empirical basis (and bitcoin showed no signs of degradation as it approached the limit), you would probably be able to scale the block size up some without causing problems.

How much you can scale is still at question. Here [0] is a talk about this very question. Using a small testnet (~6 miner nodes and 12 clients) they were able to achieve 500tx/s with a 1GB block with relativly minor optimizations of the standard Bitcoin implementation (the final bottle neck here is propagation delay reaching 10 minutes). This is, in my opinion, an upper bound on what the Bitcoin protocol can handle.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDF8bOEqXt4&t=4079
A captcha for unrecognized incoming callers...brilliant.
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Oh, awesome. I didn't realize that browsers had client-side support for playback speed control these days.
I'd be happy to install an extension that blocks all sites/content that consider viewing ads a prerequisite for accessing their content.

I run an ad/analytic blocker, and I will never turn it off. I also understand that content creation and hosting costs money. If you're not a company that I already give money to (bank, insurance, other meat space service) then I accept the ad-for-content relationship and choose not to view the content.

The biggest problems are that I can't scale randomly adding domains to a host file, and it's difficult to know the intent of content creators/owners regarding ads.

It would be nice to have a signal, maybe a html tag in the header or something to state the intent regarding ads. I would set my browser/an extension to honor it and block access to content instead of accepting ads.
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I've found Policy Control [0] to generally be a better choice than completely disabling JavaScript. Way fewer sites break with my defaults: disabling third-party resources and requests prevent most ads and trackers.
Does causing community tensions, new user confusion, forked market cap and diversion of resources worth creating this short term fix?

The BCH camp could have contributed their resources to helping Core come up with a long term solution. Any fork that doesn't offer real groundbreaking advances is just a distraction and should be shunned. Forks that are simple recompilations of the original Bitcoin with simple config changes to the blocksize and/or algo are power/greed plays.
Aside from slashdot, various Usenet newsgroups and mailing lists. May not seem obvious but AOL had a number of moderated discussion areas, as did CI$ and Fidonet. Not sure if any of those are archived.

If you're looking for finance (valuations and business models) discussions I'd look into Yahoo Finance and other day trading boards of the era.

A lot of the trade publications vaporized in the resulting implosion, including their archives. Industry Standard was the best business of technology magazine, maybe Wired but it was more fanboi. Internet World wasn't too bad but started imploding early (maybe 1999).
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0 fee txns don't cause high fees. They are dropped from the mempool as needed.
Boring itself is highly optimized - the oil industry likes their holes long, stable and cheap. So the tech is there. It is the other stuff that bogs down a project.
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Why isn’t it a solution?

It’s not true that every site does this, but yes, most are funded by the model that relies on your information being sold and used to build a profile of you.

If you don’t support that model why buy into the system? After all, the content minus ads was still written and designed to drive ad revenue. Any conflict of interest between driving ad revenue and conveying information (ie. uninformative clickbait) in the content is still affecting the end result even if you never see the ads.

Why not compile a list of sites that don’t track you and offer paid services that can provide what you’re looking for?

Will you be limited? Very! Will you be feeding the system you apparently have deep seated qualms about? No! And if it means that much to you, I think you should be very happy.

If the system is broken enough that enough people go that route, companies will chase the money. If users are willing to pay enough to cover the real, un-intrusive-ad-tracking-subsidized cost of content, companies will jump for joy at not having to deal with ad networks and pay people to optimize for ads and just take your money directly.
Insurance policies are almost always over some term (even when you pay monthly, it's usually just installment payments on a total premium for a fixed term). During the term the insurance company takes the risk that they have a bad year and pay out more than they take in. But nothing in the policies precludes them from raising the premium the next year when it comes time to renew.
If anybody listened to your advice then search engines, stack overflow, web forums, news agencies, and Reddit would simply disappear.
Please explain its relevance.
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The doctor comparison is more apt than you may realize, as there are very many specialties and lots of different paths to get there. Especially with the residency match program no doctor can say for certain which program he or she will get accepted to or where he or she will practice.
When NFL players can be diagnosed while they're still playing, or even identify how much their Tau proteins increase after a big hit, that will have a big impact. It seems like it's still easy enough to not think about dying early when getting concussed.
All this talk about personal safety... there were so many homeless people in SF that clearly had an untreated psychiatric condition. How safe do you think it is for them? Everyone goes on about shit on the streets like it's a normal 'poor person' thing to do. It isn't.
I wonder if there will be a point that machine learning algorithms can hack better than humans? Already they can play certain games and find solutions that seem alien to us. Perhaps this is already occuring?
But that won't scale because the public won't have time to study every case that occurs. Maybe instead we could have specific people whose job it is to analyze cases and make judgements. And maybe each case could be assigned a few people to study it and help the judge decide...
It's not impressive. However, it shows that I don't need to abstain from modern uses of my device.

The first ancestor of this comment chain is saying, that they were locked-in partly because they couldn't move media out. This contradicts you.
The Amiga's Blitter actually has line [1] and polygon fill [2] modes. Obviously this does require code to be rewritten to take advantage of the extra hardware. On a CPU > 68000 the tradeooff between CPu and blitter is different [3]

[1] http://amigadev.elowar.com/read/ADCD_2.1/Hardware_Manual_gui...

[2] http://amigadev.elowar.com/read/ADCD_2.1/Hardware_Manual_gui...

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> Loading ads of screen doesn't bother me.

congratulations!

- you now have 70 new tracking cookies
- a degraded battery
- have exceeded your bandwidth allotment
- probably some malware payload that exfiltrated your contacts via a 0-day XSS
- almost certainly slower UI/scrolling performance

> Also, I'm not sure where the irony is here.

the irony of degrading people's experience [via popups, countdowns, etc] who refuse to load slow and annoying ads.
So instead of stopping this shady software tactics, by slowing down devices by software means - they continue doing so???

WTF. They have been caught with iOS7 and iOS11 both massively slowed down certain devices. They just have to stop doing this, it's not legal.
This isn't entirely true. There is still a fixed max block size; it is just that some bytes are counted as "bigger" than others. In particular, the maximum block weight is currently 4MB. However, most bytes count as if they were 4 bytes; which returns us to an effective blocksize of 1MB. However, bytes that are part of SegWit's witness area only count as 1 byte.

This leaves a hard upper bound of 4MB block size, with a "typical" size of ~2.3MB if everyone uses SegWit.
56k is soooo old, we have broadband already.
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This is why I'm so happy about the California top-two primaries - they've created competitive elections in a dominant-party state. But they were only created through a ballot initiative over the objections of the legislature.
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I'm a huge pixelbook fan as well. Haven't tried termux, but have been a long time crouton user and it works great on the pixelbook as well.

I have a hardware/software integration gripe though(edge case maybe): when the pixelbook is suspended whilst connected to external displays, if I leave it alone for 30-45m the displays will no longer function on wake up. Have to unplug displays, open pixelbook lid(so it wakes, no response to external keyboard), then reconnect the displays. It's probably not a common use case, but I reported it to google anyhow. No gripes other than that.
While I think it's awesome D can do that (and am a bit jealous the languages I use regularly don't have any real sort of constexpr) what does that _really_ provide?

It would seem the startup cost of building a regexp engine would really only matter for, say, command-line programs (i.e., short-lived, run-once programs). For a web application the overhead would be negligible.

Again, don't get me wrong, but it just seems to be more of a "neat!" thing than a "we _need_ this for reasons X, Y, and Z."
A combination of software engineering and domain expertise makes for a really effective engineer.

As an example - if you work as an software engineer in finance learn about a few particular financial products at the same level or better than your users, get a masters in finance, applied math, accounting and whatnot. This has the added benefit of staying relevant in the market when you age, as software engineering becomes increasingly commoditized.
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It may or may not. I'm admittedly not an economist, and even if I were, I'm not remotely informed on California tax policy.

That said, it's confounding to me that eliminating the mortgage deduction, and eliminating SALT deductions were considered progressive ideals, right up until the Republicans implemented it. I don't know if it's people preferring policy ideals that sound good on paper, or if they're being applied to some richer population than the one whomever happens to be in, or if this is just the result of tribal echoing, but what we're left with isn't pretty.
_net_books usually have small disks too and rely on connectivity -- hence the name.
I find that ad blocking is a must for older relatives, and I think anyone managing technological access for the elderly ought to also be installing ad block.

Advertisers love to scare old people in every way, and then peddling them scam solutions and pills.
Sitting in a cafe in Shibuya, Tokyo ( at the moment ), I would say there's a "oneness" to everything they do. Inconveniencing others is the height of moral crimes you can do here ( see your family being fined for your suicide [1] ). I think this permeates their culture to the point where they're more efficient so that they do not affect others, i.e. how on time trains are in Japan [2]. Of course, this is speculative, but it certainly does not feel like a, "I'll get mine, before you get yours culture" here.

[1] - https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/families-fined-for-su...

[2] - http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42009839
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4Chan’s ads are purchased mostly by users of the site and generally end up pointing back at other boards on 4Chan itself, accompanied by some site relevant image. For a long time there were also occasionally ads for J-List (an importer and seller of Japanese drinks, foods, toys etc.) which was a direct purchaser of ad space from the site itself.

Having users pay for ads instead of third parties keeps it quite neat and generally quite safe, but I don’t think 4Chan itself is profitable.
Yes, off hours it's one of the few places people can defecate in almost private (thanks to its side walls).
Subscription to ads would mean a lot of waste in the budget. Very few advertisers would go for that over CPC/CPA pricing
>But the onus of correcting the problem lies in the hands of BOTH adblocker developers AND the online ads industry (including publishers, exchanges, and advertisers.)

Disagree.

Adblock developers should block ads.

Advertising-surveillance companies should die.

Website owners should personally vet AND HOST ads on their sites.

It's all very simple in my opinion.

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Why do you think adblocking is such a "problem" for some? Because almost all ads are hosted on third party servers.

I know a couple small blogs that host image ads on the side of the page and it's not blocked in any default ABP lists.

The "adbros" brought this upon themselves. This war on our minds is so pervasive they got fanboys on most major tech forums always defending them. These people are either in the industry themselves or suffering from the Battered Wife Syndrome:

"If only adblock developers weren't so mean... maybe these adbros would stop pushing malware and spying on us".

Also "gorhill" is an asshole.
I've noticed recently that every Google news links to major publications are 70 percent ads 30 percent content. (That is a rough guess) but my point is, the web has increasingly aggressive and largely pointless ads. I will aggressively block them, or click them to ruin metrics one ad at a time
Why not show a graphic of the iPhone X on an angle with its side button being pushed?

Seems like a much better idea than introducing this new UX. You can show both if you want to teach users the new UX.
I could totally be wrong, but I'm pretty sure I read that Bulletproofs only reduce transaction size by about 40%. While that's still a nice decrease, it won't get the project to the scalability that it needs. It may buy them a years worth of time at the pace the transactions are growing before they'll need a better solution.
I thought it was just me. But to see so many people disappointed with the decline in quality of macOS and accompanying products is somewhat comforting—at least from the potential standpoint that Apple may make some response.

I've been a die-hard Apple user since moving from Windows in 2009. I'm even powered by MobileMe from the days where you paid for your sync. Nothing has changed much since then.

I find myself watching things like the Essentials Phone and Google's secretive desktop operating system for some escape from the Apple ecosystem. I love the hardware. I love the support. But the symphony of hardware and software working together as one isn't as special as it used to be.

The desktop apps are inconsistent and distant to their iOS cousins. The experiences in the apps seems hinged on a time long past. Newer "features" in the operating system feel tacked on—not working effectively. I know they don't want to merge iOS and macOS—but I feel they have a better grasp on what's going on behind iOS than Mac. Perhaps it's time to put Mac out of its misery and bring iOS a little bit of Mac—terminal, filesystem and more.
Excellent question. I'd love to see specifics for areas with very high rents, densely populated areas, etc.
What is an Ethereum developer? Do you mean those with some experience including Solidity in the mix to write smart contracts for third parties?

Solidity is a small language and outputs are typically small due to gas limitations, so I doubt companies will be recruiting for it as primary, they'd be looking for smart developers with a lot of exposure to blockchain like technologies and multiple languages and years of experience in order to write safe performant Solidity where required. I'd be concerned about hiring someone calling themselves a Solidity developer unless he/she was working on the VM, then again I don't rate any people that identify themselves by a particular language or worse a framework or the junior/senior title 'Senior ASP.Net MVC C# Frontend developer' - yuck.

I also doubt Ethereum will win out, network got thrashed by cryptokitties, and apparently in some really perfect circumstances can handle a whooping 25 transactions a second, here's to dethrowning visa and unbanking the poor. Even anti-immutable Vitalik Buterin is having his doubts - see his twitter.
this comment is somewhat tangental but from what I have seen the tech does not necessarily determine the value of a crypto. things like network effect and marketing seem to make a larger difference at least at first. do any end users care about the tech stack of myspace vs facebook? it will be interesting to see if technical merits win out over the long term in the cyptocurrency space because it was originally largely comprised of tech people.
I’d argue you’re pretty much just ignoring my larger points and nitpicking very specific excerpts and ignoring the context of them to make a point that’s not entirely new in the thread then appealing to emotion with what was supposed to be jarring commentary but just comes across as ranting. I mean you spent something like 70% if your commenting trying to dissect half of a sentence in my comment.

And, I don’t appreciate being called brainwashed... this is barely a step above ranting about sheeple.

You points about my profile I guess are supposed to be alarming but are not news to me. I’m fine with all of that being for sale. Correlating it back to a person is trivial... until you try and do it at scale and evaluate the risk vs reward. Risk is very very high and gets exponentially higher at scale, and reward is almost nonexistent until you do it at scale. And are guards that add enough friction to make it not worthwhile often.

Sure there are cracks in the system, but seeing as I can’t pay what the content I consume is worth, I accept the risk gladly.
My 3G slowed to a crawl with an update. Made me switch to Android for a few phone till I realized Apple's software was way better.
Not sure how long it's been supported. At least 2 years! For me it was surprisingly easy actually. I just copied the files over to the SD card, inserted it, and ran Firmware Upgrade from the camera menu. It worked great and I love the intervalometer and other neat features.

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anyone who is going to replace the battery will not get a iphone so thats a 700-1000$ opportunity loss to apple