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Doesn't it bother you that when you're late you're wasting other people's time and causing them stress? If you know you can't commit to being on time, why agree to it in the first place? Just tell them you'll be there some time between X and Y.

It might be nice to live on "Kenyan time" but it's not economically or socially efficient. For me, waiting around for someone is wasted time that I would otherwise have spent doing something more productive or pleasurable.

EDIT: One of the skills I associate with being a fully functional adult is the ability to account for traffic problems, their personal life, and so on when they make plans. Obviously, unforeseen events can't be helped, so I'm not annoyed with someone who is late once or twice, but if they're persistently late I'll make a negative judgement about their ability to manage themselves properly.
> PoW comes with huge energy and computation requirements that can make scaling infeasibly difficult.

In what way does the energy requirements of PoW have an effect on scaling?
Great!! What is your model for fogbeam. How will you be profitable or earn money as these tools are open source. May I know?
The upside is creating a better brand for the company. It's a small upside to be honest.
Nice and good luck!

I've started working on a similar service but didn't ship. I'd love to chat (email in profile).
I agree about Reddit being Usenet-like. Unfortunately it's a really horrible version of Usenet, partly thanks to the number of unpleasant people who use it, but also due to the karma system - in theory a way to collectively highlight good posts, but in reality often simply becoming an end in itself (karma whoring, playing to a gallery) and a weapon (people burying legit posts they simply don't like/agree with).

On Usenet you could filter anything you didn't want to see, which is reasonable, but you could not - as on Reddit, or HN - make it more difficult for other people to read it too, which is not reasonable, and simply helps to create a hostile, cliquey, poisonous echo chamber.

Cliques did exist on newsgroups, but they had less tools at their disposal. In fact one of the reasons people left Usenet for inferior moderated web forums is because while they could (quite rightly) control their own experience, they (quite rightly) had no ability to control the group.

Ironically, although Usenet is considered to be dead these days, it's in some ways in better shape than ever.

20 years ago it suffered from its popularity, under attack from spammers and trolls attempting and often succeeding in destroying newsgroups.

These days it probably has more users than it had before the mid 90s internet explosion, whereas spammers and trolls have largely moved on to bigger audiences elsewhere.

It's strange for me to read people talking nostalgically about how the internet was better in the past, about online forums they were a part of 15 years ago, or Reddit or 4chan, and seemingly have no experience or even knowledge of Usenet.

And that something as similar and simple to use as email is ignored by people who rue the loss of old (web) forums.

Unlike web options Usenet is no-nonsense, free, has no admin headaches, no advertising, no Evil Corp owner (or potential sell out to Evil Corp when the community grows enough), it's anonymous, private and allows unrestricted speech (within applicable law, obviously).

All it requires is for people to use it.
Yes exactly, that's the service that is closer to what I want to build, but it is not open source
Yes exactly. My first task is to examine the system and give recommendations on how to improve it.
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> They have a series of formal proofs written by a mathematician to verify the staking algorithm […]

Under what assumptions?

WPA2 was also formally proven secure, but it turned out that the assumptions of the proof didn’t hold in the real world.
On average, people actually do have fewer friends than their friends have (also works for sexual partners).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_paradox
I'm working for the same company for a different product as a developer. I did not estimate anything yet.
Guy is called Emily... my guess is it’s a gal
it's incredibly how much you can spend on take out, drinks and useless knicknack/gadgets. It was easily $300-800 for me before (camera geek).

But made an active choice to cut them out. And it hasn't been a loss for me, instead of take out I make exactly what I want (and no stress now that I have time to cook), instead of drinks out invite friends over and have a drink (cheap) at home, instead of useless things try to realize that you don't actually need them. Also living in a place with public transport helps, but I mostly bike everywhere.
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If the information encoded in the lava lamps is not important for the entropy, why do they even need to be there?

If it just needs to be some image, and it doesn't actually matter if others know what it can see, why not just point the camera at a normal lamp, or an empty room, or the sky?
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> Germany, where the sale happened.

Well, that's not clear. The advertising company "sells" ad space from a server in Jerusalem, but the user logged in from Thailand. Where did the sale occur?

I touched on this earlier. Does Google (for example) have to pay 5% of taxes to London on ad revenue because 1/20 servers
are in England? That incentivizes them to just move their data centers, which further advantages them because only large companies can pack up their toys and go home.

If it's mapped to the physical location of the server, most large companies have enough capital to relocate their servers to a tax haven.

If it's the physical location of the user, how do you determine that with a high degree of certainty? All users have to do is use a VPN that's located in St. Martin, and all your efforts will be in vain.

Also, there is also VAT, sales tax, etc etc.

> Legislators allow these to happen, and the legislators job is make better laws that are not allow to e.g. transfer money into or have direct or indirect relationship with tax heavens.

I would argue that it's this dizzying maze of laws that causes these problem, because I have said before, laws, especially tax laws, are an NP complete system.

Legislators have to pass laws to justify their existence. Now they're passing laws to cover up holes in laws either they or other people passed in a non digitally connected age. The solution is not better laws, but fewer laws.
> For example, if you decided to write a DNS server from scratch would choosing Haskell or Scala (both fine languages) really enable a massive (order of magnitude) improvement over choosing Smalltalk, C, Ada, or Common Lisp?

Well, for a sufficiently low defect rate, I suspect it would take an order of magnitude longer (for normal developers) to achieve it in C, Smalltalk, or most Lisps. Ada perhaps not, but then maybe it would've taken the order of magnitude longer to implement, particularly if you factor in making enough money to buy the development tools first. Then as now, the future is not evenly distributed.

I mean, you're undeniably right on one level: for a small, standalone executable whose main task is bit-banging, where a high defect rate is acceptable, it was possible to bash that out 20 years ago at a similar speed to what you can do in today's languages. But I think that's actually a much smaller niche than it first appears, and not where the focus of our efforts has been because that's not actually what businesses most need.

> What we do benefit from is the availability of libraries, IDE's, and various frameworks. These, I would argue, rather than innate abilities of the modern languages are what enable us to be more productive (assuming that we are).

I think the ability to write long-term-maintainable, general-purpose libraries or frameworks is actually very tightly tied to the languages we use.
1. Spend less time on binance.com

2. Spend more time on a side project I have that solves a real problem and that I've been neglecting

3. Commit new code every day

4. Decide whether dating a current girl should continue or not.

5. Talk to your family members more, especially grandma and sister
I would want the people who understand these things to have an open mind about learning more, from such a discovery, were it to happen - and then I'd like everyone to have access to the technology so we can, like, vacation on Phobos and whatnot.

Seriously though, your point is correct. But, obviously, if there were space-faring UFO's capable of impossible speeds, then there'd have to be something behind it all that we are missing. Maybe we'll get some clues one day.
Just checked your blog. Are you really clear about the person you do want to be?

Are you moving to Denmark? BTW a former colleague of mine moved from UK to Copenhagen and absolutely loves the quality of life there. Funnily enough another colleague just emigrated to Canada!
Thank you, you managed to perfectly describe what I was too tired to when posting this, few hours after midnight!!
> So I guess my question is, why can’t there be a free or low cost, not for profit, accredited bachelors level computer science degree?

I've looked into this topic somewhat, and basically it boils down to dense regulation by governments and an oligopoly on "accreditation" by a few institutions that has risen out of this. However, the costs are not insurmountable to obtain accreditation, but the process itself is rather arduous and not quite as inexpensive as this article (https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2015/10/22/real-costs-a...) leads you to believe, still perhaps 40-60k a year are the costs you would be looking at for accreditation alone, and you haven't even started to pay your faculty or administrators to work with the institution to maintain standards, etc.

However, in order to be accredited you need to meet each and every requirement and suggestion made by these institutions. I have no idea how pliable they would be to alternative plans of learning and anything non-standard - my guess is not very, but I could be mistaken.

> But here in the US it’s going to cost you tens of thousands of dollars at minimum. Does it have to be that way?

It doesn't. There is nothing inherent in the process of "gaining the knowledge and skills of a BA in Computer Science" that needs to costs anywhere near thousands of dollars - except in opportunity costs perhaps. Its just that the US system, through misaligned Government policy, has created an environment in which it is very difficult for an entrepreneur to just come in and "open up a new learning institution", so new and alternative models don't get tried out and aren't allowed to freely compete in order to weed out inefficiences and allow for the best to rise to the top.
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I believe Unity has ultimately changed the way game developers work on Indie titles though. It's undoubtedly had a huge effect on all levels of indie developers due to its ease of use and the fact it handles a hell of a lot of the complexities for you. Similar to how Serverless does too.

But I appreciate the feedback, it was somewhat hastily written as I was preparing for the new year celebrations haha but I will take this feedback onboard for my next articles!
45 km/h e-bikes come with all the requirements that apply to 45 km/h limited scooters: license, plate, insurance, helmet.
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> you can always walk the hell away from them; your laziness doesn't entitle you

Someone said they had a remote, dangerous drive, and all I did was offer a suggestion to help their safety.

When I went backpacking alone in Yellowstone, I carried a PLB. When I sweated buckets working in the engine rooms on ships at sea, we had EPIRBs.

I'm not going to retract my statement about investing in an EPIRB/PLB - a life-saving device.

I don't see how my previous comment indicated any opinion on my part about the proliferation of cellular coverage. Getting angry at me was uncalled-for.
I agree about usenet, but must admit it’s not very accessible to people unfamiliar with it. I think a good web interface would go a long way to helping adoption. Perhaps one exists and I’m just not aware.
I am from this region and have lived in Kenya for a while during childhood. Most people don’t really care about being punctual as life is pretty easy there. There is plenty of resource to go around, even with the rampant corruption. They have this interesting saying that goes:

“haraka haraka haina baraka”

"hurry hurry has no blessing."

All in all, they’re pretty good people, welcoming to all, including racist Europeans who until today continue to plunder the natural resources of the whole region.
That was my thought too. As an apple customer (5+ macs and 10+ i-Devices), I'd feel way better knowing that apple cares about macOS security enough to hire skilled engineers.
"It costs about a millisecond to do a return trip across the JNI boundary" - Do you have a source on this? Seems unlikely since most system calls would be way too slow if this were true?
> even a simple domain blacklist feature would be amazing

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There are all sorts of subsidies and taxes everywhere, so it's hard to determine the true cost of either.
> For example, searching for anything relating to the WA government still turns up information about Washington, even when the country is set to Australia.

This is so annoying; I don't understand what the country toggle is actually for, since it doesn't seem to correct this?
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Do that to me once without proper explanation and excuse, and consider yourself booted off any further dealings.

But then, I'm Scandinavian. Nine o'clock means nine o'clock, not five - or anything - past.
If you want to checkout a PoS system that's been around for longer, https://decred.org has a hybrid PoW / PoS system which seems to get around a bunch of the issues listed here.
Which part?

It's no secret "it’s hard to be totally happy/fulfilled in life if you don’t like what you do for your work." The point is "most people pick their career fairly randomly"; to those people, the rest of the advice he gives in #4 is very helpful.

Napoleon Hill would certainly approve of the suggestion to "aim to be the best in the world at whatever you do professionally"- similar to the philosophy Hill promotes: "Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve regardless of how many times you may have failed in the past". Unless you were born into a billionaire family and never had to consider goals of the people around you, I'm sure you're aware that most people, even in America, unfortunately, don't believe in themselves very much.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2016/09/23/survey...

Even ambitious people tend to set goals way lower than they are capable. A person working all day every day to make a million dollars by retirement could probably make a billion in 10 years if they believed it.
2017 was the year in which I pruned my Facebook friends down from ~350 to 46. It was also the year in which I solidified friendships IRL that started in 1:10 scale truck modelling forums in Canada, the UK and Germany. I still check Facebook daily, but it's now down to once a day when I get up, rather than 100's of times a day. I only check in on Twitter once every couple of weeks or so, when I'm bored. For me this trend seems to be... a trend. One of my plans for this year is to build Clone Trooper armour, which will probably open up new friendships in the cosplayer world.

So I, as a single datapoint, love the trend. It's how I meet people who are absolutely, completely commited to the same things I am.
Nice, thanks for explaining, this makes sense.
My understanding of cryptocurrencies is rather limited, so maybe I'm wrong, but I dont see how this is possible. If you create a "fork" it will either include the transaction or not, how is it possible for them to somehow double the amount of ether they have?
Before I pass judgement, I would want to see what happened to the CPI price after basic income.

The article says that one recipient was able to buy more milk and send his kid to school. Fine, how much does milk cost now and which kid is now unable to go to school because his son is sitting in the seat?

You can have as much money as the government wants, but goods are a limited resource (in the short term). Just printing money to give people more money is not a solution.

Venezuela just hiked minimum wage up to 797,510 BSF a month. That's 79,751 dollars at the official exchange rate (which is 10 to 1). On the black market it's about 6.50. And nothing is available on shelves.
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DDG is also easy to use as a shortcut - `!python import` for example to go straight to Python docs search results. With Google without ! I'd be hunting for the result from that site, because site:... is longer to type, and I probably wouldn't remember the domain anyway.
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Right now, you're already on the decentralized web
You see this in India and Bangladesh too, especially with social events. One of the funny things is the connection between tardindess and cooking. Serving a typical western meal is difficult when inviting a bunch of people for dinner at 8 means people shuffling in from 9-10. But it’s no problem at all with a typical curry.
That assumes that he BI sum will stay unadjusted across years, a very dumb way to do it if true.

As for Venezuela, and similar situations, look towards the exchange rate.
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Can you please list some of them?

The raging debate on renewables is that people intensely dislike subsidies for renewable energy. Other people respond that fossil fuels are also subsidized, without references.

This “conversation” goes on endlessly with two sides basically talking at each other.

Most people understand that coal is dirty, but with oil and natural gas it’s more difficult, for example, to convince people that moving to electric vehicles is a win.
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Using Java for numerical performance seems not a good idea too me to, the Java JITs seem to general for my taste.

Anyway, this is how the Vectorization works in Hotspot:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~vlivanov/talks/2017_Vectorizatio...
Those look like 'pint in a bar' prices, not packaged.

In my experience, the North is a little more expensive in general, but not significantly. Specific things are different, you definitely want to buy diesel in the South, but even that spread is narrowing.

Liquor wise, the both the north and south are at ~$30 for a mass premium bottle of spirits (absolute), and I've seen the same in Germany for ~$14. There's a reason all the Irish come back from holidays with full trunks.
It's a small number of deaths per capita, but quite large per police interaction. So it's possible that the knock-on effects are worse than the injustice. The police would be much less useful if no one ever called them, and why would I call them if there's a significant chance of them killing me or someone else?
JS/WebGL is a very productive platform to develop a 3D engine on compared to alternatives. Only some compile-to-JS languages may be better.
By printing money for BI you effectively redistribute from the top half to the bottom half. This would suck for most people here, including myself. However, I don't think that redistribution from the bottom 99% to the top 1%, as I believe quantitative easing turned out, is much better.
> "I choose to share virtually everything about myself on social media, but my face is the essence of me individually and this is about refusing to give up the last piece of identifiable information that I can control."

That's a really weak and short sighted definition of "the essence of me individually". By this definition, twins are "essentially" the same individual.
Same in Norway and Sweden, which were mysteriously left off the chart in favour of smaller, cheaper countries like Latvia and Cyprus. Additionally, the price of a pint of beer in a pub depends not just on the cost to manufacture and import the beer, but on the price of the pub itself, so it will be higher in places with higher land values.

The article makes a pretty good point about supermarket prices in Northern Ireland being cheaper than in the twenty-six counties, but chooses a bad headline example to illustrate that point.
Correction. No useful cctv footage was apparently available and he was wearing a denim jacket.
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Interesting, you view the list as an amusing take on things to avoid.

I view it as sport to keep me going at the corrupt, horrifically depressing companies I’ve had to work at, and have been unable to escape.
I believe that Facebook Groups are one of the most powerful features of FB, but I agree that the UI is limiting and the admin controls are lacking.

Have you found any online communities with excellent interfaces? Ideally open-source?
This was the year I started to frequent 4chan and derrivate groups on Facebook (birbs for nice frens).

Unfortunately, many of those groups got zucc’d and people who used fake accounts there - bannned from Facebook.

Reddit has gotten a bit likie mainstream Facebook lately - too normal, full of fake news, emotional and full of SJW’s. Not that I am against it, but I come there to be entertained, not informed (this is what HN is for). Also, it’s mobile version push seems to be a new way to declare war against it’s users.

What’s most ironic about real name policy on Facebook is that people are often plain rude, racist, etc using their real names.
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It's because when you read about other people you just read about the "highlights" of their life, and if you also read about many other people, it "feels" like amazing thing happen at the frequency you read about them (i.e. once every 1-5 minutes) rather than at the frequency they actually happen.
Why a consumer should be left in the dark while malicious attackers may discover (or have discovered) the same hack? The consumer should know right away that the system is not secure and take action (like not using it any more until a patch is released). That would be responsible.

If you knew something is dangerous would you let your family/friends in the dark just to give the Company the time to fix it?
As the top voted answer says, proofs are at a very high level compared to programming.

Now imagine writing proofs on a very low level (check Metamath) where you work with wff and rewrite rules. It gets as tricky as programming.
Over at filfre, an article held a quote from one of the game devs from back around the C64 era.

It boiled down to the notion that the gaming industry have a (bad) habit of resetting itself whenever there is a solid change in hardware available. Resulting in years of glitzy but shallow games as devs spend time showing of what they can make the hardware do more than making deeply engaging game.

So it may well be that recent years of lagging Moore's Law payouts have resulted in game devs having to refocus their effort on something other than graphics prowess to get their games to sell.
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