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If you want to get a sense of where I live, Google for the intersection of Lake and Austin streets in Chicago.
Problem is now the outrageous cost to own a lighthouse.
Sadly it can't in all countries (bought it in UK and discovered Fire TV controls was only enabled for the US because... who knows).
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Who decides the profiles?
We need a better voting system than we do now. I strongly believe we'll see much better representation when we can vote outside the two party system without throwing away a vote.
So, what's the likelihood that the incoming freshmen at Franklin and Marshall (a) had trouble with "cats/cat's/cats'" and (b) hadn't written any papers in high school?
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You're exactly right. the metaphor is strained through repeated, unsubstantiated invocations of "ritual, ritual ritual."

Yet only one activity is given: exercising together. The span of rituals doesn't apply to life changes such as birth, puberty, pair-bonding, death, etc. The span of shared values doesn't reach morality, communication, family life, money habits, ecological stance, etc. It's only about time and money for a fitter body.

As far as promoting capitalism? Also strained. yes, you pay to take the class, just as one pays for any activity. That is certainly consumerist, yet consumerist is not always capitalist. There are no activities promoting usury, group ownership, abdication of responsibility through legal entities, or even markets which are features of capitalist society. And these are the features of capitalism we ought to be critiquing. These are its harmful facets. Paying to take part in an activity isn't leading us to feudalism, lifetime indebtedness, massive inequality in quality of life. It's a distraction and underestimation to indict exercise classes when there are real robber barons out there.

As far as "mimics the form of religious services?" I don't see the invocation, offering, the sermon, the reading of traditional literature. Sure there is special clothing and music, but like you say, same with square dancing and, hell, almost any human social activity.

> "often subtly discourages people who are overweight [...] from attending.

Seriously? The entire marketing propganda can be summarized as "get fit!" which implies the consumer is overweight.

I think the author is struggling between making observations and reading too much into things that aren't there without spending enough time in the everyday.
Sounds sort of like the lack of Youtube on Windows Phone.
> physiological responses (sweating, increased heartrate, nervousness), consistency under questioning, etc.

Is this what Canadian border guards are supposed to be doing? I hate dealing with them, and therefore minimize my border crossings. I just want to pour money into the Canadian economy as a tourist from time to time, and actual Canadian cops (RCMP) are much less aggressive than their US counterparts, but the border crossing is almost always unnecessarily miserable.
A wifi lawnmower is literally investment--it is the purchase of what in a business sense would be plant assets. Capital. The up-front expenditure of cash to generate value, in the form of saved time, later.

Getting used to the idea of home automation as investment, as opposed to just business automation is something that older folks are going to have to come to grips with. But, like, I have Hue lights at home, I have to be on my wifi network to control them (Hue Pro, not the Philips app, because I like my presets)--say I bought one of these and saved a couple minutes a day just doing that, what's that worth to me? Can I put a dollar amount on it? What's the ROI?

(I got one for Christmas, so I guess we'll see.)

But this is also why we as software developers are valued: our time creates capital in a way that many (most) other professions do not.
The gold analogy makes me so nervous. Gold has specific and permanent properties (eg, high density, an entry in the periodic table :P). Many detractors of gold claim those properties are not valuable, but it still has them and is specific and unique.

Bitcoin has mathematical properties that can be 100% cloned. The only thing that makes bitcoin unique from some random bitcoin clone is that it has the backing of a big mining networks.

I firmly believe that whatever value bitcoin has is tied to the size of the mining network, and by extension to the energy burned to transact bitcoins. This simply isn't close to being permanent in the same way gold is. It could potentially work like a social thing, and go the way of, eg, MySpace. I don't see how that can hold its value for a generation; the risk of current prices being a blip is still very high.
"Victims should research before they're taken advantage of" isn't a very moral argument.

I prefer to think of Bitcoin as a pyramid scheme, if we look at the definition of that:

"A pyramid scheme is a business model that recruits members via a promise of payments or services for enrolling others into the scheme, rather than supplying investments or sale of products or services."

That's all Bitcoin has become, you buy in, then spend your time convincing others to do the same to increase your investment. If a technical flaw is found in Bitcoin the whole thing will collapse like a house of cards (or just collapse from the weight of ever increasing transaction fees).
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It is also a powerful force for forcing cooperation between political parties, which trade preference deals.

This is a powerful force for centrism, an important feature of stable democracies - compare australia’s Relatively centrist governmnents and political parties (despite what the stagnation we see at present) VS the vast and expanding gulf between us parties
It's lead, not ebola.

Although that degree of caution is more or less warranted when dealing with lead solder in paste form, I have to admit. That crap gets everywhere.
You're right that there are many ways to profile, but race and religion have been historically pervasive profiling techniques.

It does seem more fair to simply put everyone through the same process. If you're annoyed at why you (an innocent) have to be subjected to such stringent and time consuming security, that's how innocents who fit "the profile" might feel as well.
First, keep solving problems. Mathematical brainteasers got me started problem solving when I was in grade school. I really like Martin Gardner's books[1] and those by Robert Smullyan[2]. These kinds of problems develop the flexibility of thought that helps find creative solutions.

Actual, specific approaches to tackling tough problems are taught by the famous Hungarian mathematician George Polya in his classic book How to Solve It [3].

Discrete Mathematics is a field that covers a number of areas, but especially in counting problems (from combinatorics) and graph theory there are a number of results that are not hard to grasp but lead to beautiful solutions for real problems. There are many powerful theorems and principles in discrete math that will unlock seemingly impossible problems. Unfortunately, the books for this subject are mostly written for math majors that are interested not only the application of these results but how to prove them and consequently the books may not appeal to everyone. Perhaps something like Schaum's Outline of Discrete Mathematics would suitably cover the way to apply some of the important theorems without bogging down in the proofs.

Finally, I think there is value in doing small interesting programming projects. Two older books, available used, with interesting projects are Etudes for Programmers by Wetherell [5] and Software Tools in Pascal by Kernighan and Plauger [6]. Etudes has my favorite exercise for trying out new programming languages, building an interpreter for the simple TRAC programming language; Software Tools has a number of programs in Pascal that do interesting things, try implementing the programs in your programming language--they cover a range of difficulties and the book has a nice discussion for each that explains why the programs are structured the way they are.

A more advanced book, Structure and Interpretation of Programming Languages, available as a downloadable pdf [7] is a classic book for those wanting to become better programmers.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Martin-Gardner/e/B000AP8X8G/ref=sr_tc...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Raymond-M.-Smullyan/e/B000AQ1NF0/ref=...

[3] https://www.amazon.com/How-Solve-Mathematical-Princeton-Scie...

[4] https://www.amazon.com/Schaums-Outline-Discrete-Mathematics-...

[5] https://www.amazon.com/Etudes-Programmers-Charles-Wetherell/...

[6] https://www.amazon.com/Software-Tools-Pascal-Brian-Kernighan...

[7] http://web.mit.edu/alexmv/6.037/sicp.pdf
Ah, one of the remaining only ways "doing the right thing" ever gets done in the States these days.

Why can countries like South Korea, Taiwan or Japan provide public services like roads, internet infrastructure, police and healthcare at an incredibly small fraction of the cost that is lightyeaes ahead in quality and competency (for the 99%)?
His math for what it takes to roll dice once doesn't make any sense. If you can live off $15k a year, than can't he just work one year for $30k and roll the dice? It seems unnecessary to ever take the other jobs after his first year of working.
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That chart shows her popularity dropping starting around 2010 and her unfavorability going up big time in 2015. All before the election.
In the dot-com bubble, people invested in companies that had websites, but for some reason, they thought they were investing in domain names ending in ".com".

In the crypto bubble, people are investing in Bitcoin, Ether, etc., but they think they're investing in cryptography.

</sarcasm>
You mean a pump-and-dump scheme. A Ponzi scheme is centralized to a money-manager, with the rest of the investors remaining unaware of the scheme’s nature; a pump-and-dump scheme, meanwhile, is a distributed action by anybody and everybody who can see what’s going on and wants to join in on bilking some greater fools.

Ponzi schemes are a charade behind a curtain; pump-and-dump schemes are out in the open, but illegible unless you’re looking with a cynical eye to find them.
More precisely, everyone here is highly skeptical, so this is nothing unusual. Everyone here should be quite well aware of all the trouble that has cycled around Bitcoin, such as DD4BC, etc. That's common with something new, but it's not unmerited either. It's an easy trap, and it's best to understand the risks before moving in.

That's not to say Bitcoin doesn't have some usefulness on the fringes of the economy. It's like untraceable gambling. We already have that everywhere and society continues to function.
You think someone could possibly keep this up for 10+ years?
on the contrary, I think he is a braggart who has a tendency to show off his alpha nerd credentials.
So, is this a good replacement for Picasa on windows?

In my case, mainly for viewing and editing Canon raw format photos?
Someone always makes a statement like this in every thread about bitcoin, without any evidence or reasoning to back it up. The benefits and unique aspects of cryptocurrencies have been enumerated ad infinitum, and to continue to claim that it's all a scam at this point is analogous to claiming the internet was just a scam in 1999, after it was obvious to many people that it was not. This labeling is only evidence of abject ignorance.
Wow. The writer of this article like many other articles I read about Bitcoin in these days does not seem to care about all illegal activities happening on top of Bitcoin, and just talking about it as one of the killer apps.

Am I the only one who watches all this Bitcoin drama with a sad face if not a broken heart where people are killed, hurt, or get frauded? I had and have zero belief that this stuff will work but on top of that I am really disappointed how it evolved from a geek project to a big wave of distruption if not a distraction.

Anyway, do crypto currency communities have any plans about preventing illegal activities that hurt real people?
A level of trust from past actions and comparing each, the branching out of Amazon and Bezoz with media, grocery stores, tech with AWS, and more is scary as well as how many industries they have killed / absorbed. I realize Google is doing this a bit as well, but it feels much less sinister. A friend of mine walked past a brick and mortar Amazon bookstore, which is really surreal to me. Amazon's work culture philosophy also doesn't inspire confidence. Amazon Key seems far more invasive too, and the way they attempt to integrate into your life doesn't inspire trust.

Google already owns my browser, my mail, Google Drive / Sheets, the best single sign-in, etc.

I understand the arguments for distributing your data - this is coming from someone who's given up on that privacy front sadly. If that doesn't apply to you, I can see why Amazon could make more sense for some products. For me, I more ascribe to giving my entire life to 1-2 that I trust and attempting to hold them accountable / influence their policies.

Google is faaaaaaar from perfect, but in sum it seems like the much better option for giving my life to.
Someone bought 10M Ripple earlier today, what do they know that we don’t?
Isn't it different though?

Publishing YouTube app on Windows Phone requires Google to put extra effort into developing an app for a completely new platform which I assume requires lot of engineering effort.

Selling Chromecast on Amazon probably does not cost Amazon any extra engineering effort. So, I do not believe that the two situations are equivalent.
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Now why would that be? Must have been something. Not sure what it was. Maybe you can remind me. It was repeated over and over and over, endlessly. You'd think I'd be able to remember it. I'll think of it eventually.
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I'm sorry, but it doesn't demystify things for me.

I'm still stuck at the 'I don't get it' phase, despite looking at Docker, and more recently Kubernetes, several times over the years, mainly because everyone around me evangelizes it so much.

Unfortunately, I don't even understand how to describe where I'm at with it. For instance, if I look at a WordPress[1], I'm lost. What's the platform? What user does it run on, I see that it is mostly only supported by Apache, but what if I wanted nginx? What if I don't want it to run on Alpine, but Ubuntu 17? etc, etc? Even comments like this:

"This image does not provide any additional PHP extensions or other libraries, even if they are required by popular plugins. There are an infinite number of possible plugins, and they potentially require any extension PHP supports. Including every PHP extension that exists would dramatically increase the image size."

Everywhere I look I always see the answer: "Well, just build your own".... but it's at that point I always give up, because I consistently fail to see the benefit of this rabbit-hole.
This is especially an issue when security updates on WordPress, the webserver, or OS can change so quickly that it seems pointless to even want to make an image.

Clearly, there's something I'm missing.

Can anyone explain it to me like a 5 year old, who knows how to set up and maintain his own server?
(I typically run through a cheat sheet of things to do).

I also fail to see the benefits of spinning up an image for development purposes, when I already use VirtualBox and Snapshots for said purpose.

(I'm sorry If I seem dense, and seem trollish...but I just don't see it, and the article didn't do a thing for me)

https://hub.docker.com/_/wordpress/
Even if what you're saying is true (I don't buy it for all forms of renewable energy, at least), it kinda doesn't matter: I'd rather pay more for electricity than die on an uninhabitable planet.

The cost of renewables will certainly go down as scale increases; there's no evidence that there's anything special about renewables that would cause them to behave contrary to expectation there. Will fully-renewable energy generation ever be cheaper than the mess we had in the mid 1900s? Maybe, with technology that doesn't already exist, but otherwise maybe not. But that's ok. Paying more for power is better than destroying the planet and being dead.
I'm addressing the very, very common phenomenon of post-Soviets, Indians, and East Asians coming here to a country superior to their own in almost every measure and talking smack about how dumb we all are here, with little basis in fact. They should lose the chip on their shoulder, realize they come from flawed countries and flawed cultures, and see the relative superiority of the one they elected to emigrate to. After all, I'm not the emigrant being snide in a foreign land. I've lived overseas extensively and was always respectful and learned a lot. These newcomers should learn to salute Old Glory and cheer or they should go home.

Good luck going to China (where the other fellow apparently ethnically originates) and talking about how dumb they all are online and how much smarter westerners are. They have an insane and violent sense of chauvinism. I merely hope to instill a sane level of chauvinism in Americans who read disparaging foreigners.
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I would say that blockchain is more that just an immutable ledger. It is a distributed, decentralized immutable ledger.

The former (just an immutable ledger) is either relatively trivial, i.e. a linked chain of hashed content, or not really required. After all the entire commercial world runs and is regulated successfully on the immutable ledger that is their accounting system.

At issue is that a "distributed, decentralized" immutable ledger has little application. The problems it was design to solve (like preventing double spend) just don't apply to most systems, no matter how hard we would like them to.
What do you mean without any reasoning? I gave a very precise argument on why and how I think they are similar. Why don’t you try to debunk my argument instead of a generic reply?
I think he/she can and did.

I used Adobe Photoshop on a 60 MHz Power Macintosh in 1996 and was quite productive with it.

The word "software" is a mass or uncountable noun. It has no plural form. Thus "a modern software" is grammatically incorrect.
This is probably not an arms race ad companies want to play. Someone who has an adblocker installed is unlikely to be respective to ads, and by installing an adblocker they currently are opting out of from the ad vendors metrics. which is better than adblock vendors trying to feign ads loading or "interest" in the ads, such as addons like https://adnauseam.io

So its debatable even they would win the ad arms race, but they would also lose credibility in their own metrics as the easiest solution will be to start fooling ad companies that their ads are loading.
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Table's height increases infinitely on repaint if the table element that is specified "margin-top" any integer value, and is child of the parent element that is specified "display: grid;".

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I've already posted on bugzilla immediately...
So you haven't explicitly stated this, but I'm reading into your comment that the early bitcoin investors made a lot of money ergo it is a good investment. That argument isn't sensible, and if you are making it I caution you to stop.

We can all point to examples where:

1) something was valued low,

2) then it was valued high, made the people who bought it low rich

3) crashed and lost the people who bought it high a lot of money

Mine is Isaac Newton's bankruptcy because he has some name recognition.

And further we can all point to examples where people did something stupid, got lucky and benefited from it. Hacker News is a reasonable place to ask, because it is a good crowd to assess bitcoin's technical aspects.
We also have a real word example. The Soviet Union awarded medals to women who bore and raised large families: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Heroine
It might be more constructive to answer the criticisms rather than attacking those raising them.

You seem to be placing a lot of your own emotional baggage onto other people's concerns. Most people talking about Bitcoin and similar just aren't that vested into it (either literally or figuratively). For example this:

> since bitcoin was $1 and missed out on the rise. So now they are actively rooting for it and all cryptos to fail, and ignore the benefits of the blockchain.

The fact you perceive anyone critical of Bitcoin and similar blockchain currencies as jealous is very much deflecting your own baggage.
Nice double standard there. You're allowed to make claims without presenting evidence, but when someone else does, you attack them for not providing sources?

A quick google for "unsubsidized wind power profitability" turned up a bunch of interesting things, though I didn't delve too deeply into any of them.
Cryptocurrency has many positive values that are not replicated by any other financial instrument when taken together as a whole:

* No middle man

* Nearly instant transfer at low cost

* Non-geographically bound

* Non-governmentally bound

* Potentially untraceable depending on how you use it

* Incorruptible

* Uncensorable

* No central point of failure

* Transparent and open (as in source and freedom)

* Programmable and automatable

* It is the first system to solve the byzantine generals problem.

My point though is that anyone who has been paying at least even slight attention would know that there is a purpose and value to the design of and usage of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies and to claim otherwise is an embarrassing display of ignorance.
Even that won't cause any real regulation. If anything the legal battles will just drag on for years before they're eventually settled out of court for almost nothing.
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