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I keep meaning to read the book properly, the premise seems very interesting to me.

If I recall correctly they've also written some of a newer book too.

Edit: http://www.cryptovirology.com/ and click on 'new book' has some chapters
> Bitcoin was not designed to be a high-throughput currency. It's a store of value.

That's a straight up falsehood right there. Bitcoin was explicitly designed as a currency, or medium of exchange. It became a store of value (ha!) because it was growing in use as a currency so its value was increasing and more and more people started "investing" in it. But it's volatility and rapid rise in value diminished its value as a currency. Its present value is a collective delusion.
For those of us born 1965 and earlier it evokes https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Poverty
One tragedy of history is the the deeply flawed LBJ trying to eradicate poverty in the US but mired in a brutal war against an impoverished Vietnam.
The metaphor of collective effort against an ill as war — unfortunate as it is — was probably relevant in that for most US adults of the 1960s the signature mass collective effort still in memory was WWII.
Ironically many of the algorithmic bias problems detailed by Cathy O’Neil, Moritz Hardt, and others seem like a technological attack upon the poor (algorithmic bias in policing, sentencing, predatory lending, etc).
I wish the effort described here the best, there is much potential.
Yep, and until the embargo about this is over, we won't know anything with any certainty. This has been one hell of a fun thing to watch from the outside. I run a small test your code service (for all versions of Perl) that could be affected by this so I'm really curious what the whole thing is.
Poverty is a social issue, it has almost nothing to do with tech fundamentally and tech normally only amplifies social beliefs, it rarely fixes them.
I find it weird that a cryptographer was required.

I'm no cryptographer, but I know by rule-of-thumb that AES with a randomly-generated key will do the job just fine.
Does lively's implementation depend a lot on web APIs or is it quite pure JSy?
First time I've even heard of RCS. I see a few news articles from Jan/Feb '17, which brought on some new carriers, but nothing major, and nothing in USA.

Having just switched from iPhone to Pixel 2, I still cannot get over not having iMessage a month in. The third party apps that let you text from your computer are pretty bad.
Getting new technologies to gain traction is not easy - regardless of their technical merit. I do admire the framework designer's P.T. Barnum like showmanship. He's got it down to a science.
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Agreed, don't make SPAs out of sites that work well as traditional websites. Browsers and the internet are fast at serving up html & css these days. Even PHP rendering is pretty damn fast. And it best fits how browsers work for traditional sites.
You say that we have created a system where police officers can kill with impunity and law-abiding citizens have real fear of being killed by police. I agree with you. I'd say that this is pretty much common knowledge at this point. Which means that everyone should know that if you get the police to respond to what they think is a life-or-death situation, a killing by the police is a likely outcome. I.e. given what you describe, the caller should reasonably expect that the police would kill an innocent person based on their false report.

The correct response here is to prosecute the SWATter for murder, and carry out the police reforms you mention. I don't object to the second in any way, I merely object to the diminishment of responsibility for the guy who made the call.
Otto was an acqui-startup right?
I am the architect for a small development shop. Upper management has never in the past year said no to my decisions. I built our dev shop from scratch - environments, procedures, trainings, dev ops, and many of the hires.

I'm very cognizant though if things went south because of major architectural decisions I made - not minor code bugs - or that they didn't give the scaleability, reliability, Security, etc. that was required it would be a major blow to my reputation.

From a more practical standpoint, I'm hiring mostly contractors. Good contractors want to gain skills that will help them on their next gig. It's a lot easier to recruit people when I can tell them we are using the latest, greatest, stable technology (mostly backend work). Also, as a developer, I always "keep my running shoes around my neck". So I balance my decisions on what's the best for the company (highest priority) and what's best for my own career for my next job.
When you consistently let an organization off the hook for bad or sloppy performance "because law enforcement" or "because government" you will consistently get

The stakes are low. Nobody in law enforcement (or government in general) stands to lost their job or have their career ruined if the organization they run ruins someone else's life in error. It's no surprise that they play fast and loose when it comes to anyone who isn't part of their in-group.
Typical for my level of experience in tech industry in NYC.
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No. That's exactly what I'm saying. Most people don't care. Enterprise users do care because ME is useful for them. It's a feature, not a nefarious backdoor that the NSA made Intel include under the cover of darkness. They'll see this as a small problem that should be fixed and will ask Intel to do so. Intel will fix it, most everyone will move on. I don't think ME will take down Intel stock, and neither will this page isolation bug.

Intel's value is 99% engineering + manufacturing ability + customer relations. It would be a poor CEO indeed who'd direct their IT to start buying AMD because of this alone.
Different Otto, this one was a $700 home door lock.
If only we could attract as many spectators, and command the ad budgets ti match.
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The challenge with fintech is regulation and integration.

The tech is easy, meeting compliance and getting other businesses to integrate not so.
There hasn't been a new, shiny JavaScript framework out in a few days. Perhaps Sapper is trying to solve that?
> Those are mostly things that can be explored on earth, no need to build a moonbase to figure that out.

> The opportunity with a space station is to figure out things that can't be explored realistically in other environments.

The best way to explore the things we're going to need to live on other planemos is to live on another planemo. A space station involves solving a bunch of engineering challenges that are different from Earth, some of which are relevant to living on other planemos and many of which are not. A moonbase gives us more of the challenges we care about and less of the ones we don't.

> So it's much more useful what we learn on a space station than what we learn on a moon base. Being in space without access to any resources other than what you already have is a much more important thing to solve and solving that will allow us to reach other planets much easier, cheaper and safer.

Again long-term life on a space station has a bunch of challenges that are just irrelevant. To spread to Mars we'll need a moonbase-like environment on Mars - one that has access to rock and some chemicals, not floating in empty space - and while people will need to go to and from there that's a matter of surviving in space for months rather than years, and frankly seems like something we could already handle. Similarly spreading to the Jovian system and so on.
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Ha - the title is linkbait - the microbes were FROM earth, but they were 'sequenced' in space.
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Is it? That seems like a big broad claim. Again, after things like RowHammer, did anyone actually do anything differently in a way that affected stock prices?
I think it was just an aggregator: https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com
I replied to another comment, but this reality is already here: https://twitter.com/alexhillman/status/947593851715424256
I want to know more
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So when defense lawyers get smart about proving just how weak IP == Identity is? They'll keep doing it as long as it puts perps behind bars.
> There are many products at Target that are simply inferior and more expensive than their alternatives on Amazon.

And there are many products on Amazon that are fake. At least I know what I'm getting at Target, and returns don't involve negotiating for a shipping label and figuring out where there's a package drop-off nearby.

> As a quick example, is Bic still the best manufacturer of the best available pens?

Probably not, but luckily they're not the only brands that Target carries in-store: Paper Mate, Pilot, BIC, NPW, Pentel, Staedtler, Sugar Rush, Uniball, up&up, Write Dudes, and Yoobi are all advertised as pen brands sold by Target.
Standardize what? With a complex medical condition like that every patient is different so it's tough to apply evidence-based medicine practices.

The technology for sharing patient records is gradually being standardized. But that won't help if the doctors don't actually take time for a detailed review of the patient's records.
The whitepaper lays out the current predicament quite well.

> The incentive can also be funded with transaction fees. If the output value of a transaction is
less than its input value, the difference is a transaction fee that is added to the incentive value of
the block containing the transaction. Once a predetermined number of coins have entered
circulation, the incentive can transition entirely to transaction fees and be completely inflation
free.

I think most people who read the paper focus on the early parts, rather than gaming out the implications of the later parts.
It should be “free” with the right architecture, and it should be faster, that’s why I included it for the “perfect” framework list.

However, it’s only a win on first page load on a subsequent visit. So definitely not a priority for an actual implementation.

BTW one easy way to implement this would be to flip the usual model:

1) Have service worker/server as main renderers

2) On navigation do a fetch to service worker and patch the page

So you’re on /main, do fetch to /page2?from=state and get patching instructions.

If you could give the service worker readonly access to DOM without copying this wouldn’t actually be that stupid.

It might be possible some day:

https://github.com/whatwg/dom/issues/270
The devs seem to be mainly working on an updated version without a lot of the legacy code: https://github.com/knockout/tko
> Using the well understood technology of privacy filters for laptops

This is exactly how commercial autostereoscopic displays (such as in the Nintendo 3DS) work [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autostereoscopy#Parallax_barri...
It seems like there's a couple of possible explanations for the continued dominance of bitcoin:

1. It's being mispriced by the market for some reason and will correct over time (i.e. it will lose valuation compared to other cryptos). This seems to have happened some in the past 2 weeks or so, but it's pretty early to see how this will play out.

2. The network effect of already being the biggest is strong enough to offset its "weaknesses" relative to other currencies.

3. The primary value of bitcoin, at least at present and in the short to medium term, is different than crypto enthusiasts believe. There is massive value in being a decentralized, secure, easily transferrable store of relatively large amounts of money, as basically a settlement layer. And there is relatively less value (at the current time) in being a new payment method to buy everything down to a cup of coffee, or powering smart contracts, or other things that crypto enthusiasts get excited about. To the extent that those things become important to the market, usage of Ethereum or other coins will increase. To the extent that privacy becomes important to the market, usage of ZCash or Monero or other coins will increase, etc. But the increases of these others won't necessarily reduce the primary value of Bitcoin itself.

I personally think #3 is true, although long-term factors like the energy consumption of mining may be strong enough to render other currencies significantly better even for this primary use case.
If we replaced JSON with something less "chatty", would that propel us to 2022?
>You know how to unlock Bill Clinton in NBA Jam on Sega Genesis

I read this as a red flag of brogrammer culture that intentionally filters out non-trivial dimensions of diversity. I'll acknowledge that the bullet point is working as intended in this post.
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Generic memory allocator for C++ (part 1)
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Your reference to and unreserved use of the term "ClimateGate" makes me question your agenda here. Wasn't "ClimateGate" determined to be a smear campaign? I'm asking rhetorically as I can see the discussion devolving.
Those issues aren't different, morally, than good old-fashioned racial profiling, or really any other discriminatory use of stereotypes.

If you're cheering for guilt by association to make a comeback just because the evil establishment thinks it's a bad idea, I'm at a loss of words. Any other fundamental freedoms you'd like to abolish because smart people happened to think they are good ideas? Presumption of innocence? Habeas corpus? The 5th amendment? Suffrage?
It is becoming more and more decentralized as time goes on. From May of last year:

https://ripple.com/insights/how-we-are-further-decentralizin...
You shouldn't think of them as earth-shattering announcements. Think of these articles as the highlights reel of the 10-year progress report in some area of physics/math. Most of these are not ideas that will have any revolutionary impact over the next couple of years. But, over the next decade, we expect these ideas to lead to some very fruitful insights.

This is one of the hardest parts of communicating research to the layperson -- it can often come across as deceptively simple. Ten minutes of simplified communication summarizes ten years of blood, sweat and tears by dozens of people.

EDIT: I'm pretty optimistic about the Bootstrap idea in particular; I'm not trying to downplay its importance. But I wanted to convey that the way it'll end up helping might be very different from the leaps anticipated in the article, as it would be for any such article on any area of research.
Generic memory allocator for C++ (part 2)
Page views? There is no other link. Techmeme itself links to the original: they just provide a TL;DR style summary if the original title is brief/click-bait.
We French are not the kings of punctuality. When you have a conference call, people are often minutes (5-10) late.

I hate it and start my calls sharp, even if there is nobody yet. People who join late are on their own to catch up and I make exactly zero efforts to bring them in.

After a few calls almost everyone is there when the call starts.

Some people complained that they cannot switch from one meeting to another instantly, to what I usually reply that they accepted my meeting and that they can arrange with the other one (which probably started late) to finish a few minutes early. I also accommodated them with 5 past the hour starts, which is probably the easiest solution.

This is to say that there is hope for time keeping.