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> Look at the dot-com boom. A lot of people lost a whole lot of paper money, but it brought us a cheap worldwide fiber backbone and companies like Amazon and Google.

If the point the author is trying to make is that Amazon and Google were made possible by the dotcom boom, and that the collapse of the dotcom bubble was part of the price we as a society had to pay to have the services provided these companies, that's a really really bad argument.

Amazon was founded in 1995 and IPO'ed in 1997, before the IPO market got crazy. Google was founded in 1997 and IPO'ed in 2004 when tech stocks were still a punchline. Neither of these companies is an example of any kind of silver lining for your Uncle Bob losing thousand of bucks after buying into a rapidly appreciating security (or currency) whose underlying value he does not understand whatsoever.
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But here's the thing: If you don't suffer, there is no signal that you are doing anything sub-optimal. It's nice to say we're going to give someone a leg up, but 99% of the time the people given that leg up go nowhere! There's a few intelligent people who are stuck in bad situations that can benefit from a helping hand. The rest are a sad commentary on why humanity progresses extremely slowly--they either lack the intelligence or the drive to succeed in life and their lives would be very short if nature were allowed to prevail.

The worst part is that we cater to a least common denominator in our laws and our public policy. Our criminal "justice" system is really just a nanny for those who can't get their act together.

As far as the tippy top of the wealth spectrum goes, they need to be brought back to earth by any means necessary because they have been tinkering with the rest of us in ways that are wholly unacceptable. We aren't their play toys or their plantation slaves.
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It has the appearance of being level-headed and well-reasoned, but I am not so sure that it is. The evidence the author provides is weak--vague assertions about being picked on in school and a self-administered test? That's not a reliable diagnosis, that is self-congratulatory hokum.

I understand that people want to diagnose themselves and that many aspire to some kind of victimhood because it is fashionable, but there's no possible way that our society has that many people with Asperger's or Autism, and certainly not in functioning roles! This whole "on the spectrum" thing is nonsense. Either you are mentally debilitated to the point where you can't get by in regular social interactions, or you are a functioning human being that has the intelligence to improve your social skills if you choose to work on that.

There's a lot of different issues at play. We react negatively to negative stimuli. If you are bullied and have generally negative experiences socially at a young age, you are more likely to be withdrawn. That doesn't mean you have Asperger's--rather, it means that people are assholes!

I have personally had to deal with horrible shit and horrible people in my life. I was withdrawn as a youth. It took me a long time to realize the goodness in life and work around the dipshits who caused me untold problems. To this day, I don't like people, I don't like crowds, I could give a crap about what your problems are. Not Asperger's, though. Married 15 years, raising two kids, been successful in my career. Not Asperger's, and likely neither are you, so stop searching for excuses and just accept the fact that people are mostly crappy to each other as that is the Human Condition.

The guy at Google was right, btw. PC has gone too far. Feminism has brought us to the point of self-destruction. If women want to compete in the workplace, then compete and let's stop all the affirmative action because all it ends up ever being is reverse-discrimination. Given the opportunity, anyone will take a leg up any way they can get it via gaming the system. Feminism and cultural Marxism are just more gamification.
"not because the airlines have figured out some advantage in point to point routes."

Southwest has figured out the advantage. People want point to point and the profits and continued expansion of Southwest will hopefully clue the other airlines onto that fact. I fear the day when Southwest no longer has any competition and decides to convert over to a hub system to save on costs. Using current accounting methods, airlines see huge advantages in using a hub system. If they had to charge all the wasted time the hub system costs its passengers, they might see why Southwest keeps getting bigger and bigger. When looking to fly, I always sort for non-stops only and consider that as the price to fly to my destination (luckily I live in the Bay Area that has airport competition). Only when no non-stop flights exist, do I consider multiple stop flights.
Fair enough. I'm just curious.
787’s pressure and air quality is what makes huge difference from every other aircraft out there.

Also, I can’t imagine flying without QC’s anymore ;)
Definitely. I've gone on and off a number of times as well, and the differences get to be obvious after a while. I really encourage people to experiment with diet. I have no idea what will work for bodies that aren't mine, but the process of experimentation has been great for me.
It depends on how extreme your standard for break with reality is. Most trip reports I've read indicate a break with consensus interpretation of reality, which is consistent with psychosis. I have experienced bipolar psychosis twice, and LSD psychosis ~12 times, and subjectively they are far more similar than not. I'd say they are only barely distinguishable by subtle intangibles. Again, subjectively.
> Both these goals seem to have failed in practice, the latter spectacularly

That will stop being the case once people stop treating all the coins as investment speculations. That won't occur until the bubble pops. After that, with the typical trauma that goes with it due to financial losses, it will become almost impossible to convince people to plow large amounts of money into inflating a given coin (as in the case of so many of the lesser crypto-coins that are seeing musical chair speculation booms).

The speculation on a stray coin to moonshot next, is no different than the speculation on which beanie baby will soar next circa 1998/99. Once the bubble gave way, you could no longer convince anyone that they all should be worth large sums, or that the musical chairs of inflating one beanie baby to the next should continue. It's classic group hysteria and it tends to reverse violently.

Once that occurs, you'll find the exact opposite problem more common: nobody will want to bother wasting any money on nearly any coins, in any regard (whether for transactions or sheer speculation). Group think will shift to nearly all coins as being worthless, as they actually are.
Yet what have any of these startups delivered other than tools for the crypto world? The whole thing seems almost 100% self-referential. It's like a financial MMORPG.

Does the crypto world have anything to offer the real world?

Personally I've only seen one common use case: currency and wire transfer. As the OA correctly points out this use case is being harmed by currency hyper-deflation and fee inflation. Even the black market use case is faltering for these reasons.

Few ICO projects are even usable. Most don't even exist. Of those that are usable I can off the top of my head think of only one that seems to have any utility that doesn't recurse into crypto: Siacoin. Siacoin apparently works but it's not a compelling alternative to Amazon S3 or Backblaze, so its utility is minimal at best.
People aren't investing in cryptocurrency, I don't care what /r/bitcoin has to say about it. People are speculating in hopes of making a lot of money off of a bigger fool.
They're getting close. Qantas is doing Perth to London on a 787-9 starting in March.
He claims the gas price mechanism doesn't help Ethereum because the fee market is driven by supply and demand. Of course it is, but that supply and demand is independent of the ETH price; it will govern the real cost of fees and that will be translated into some amount of ETH depending on the ETH price.

We can see this when network usage drops, or the gas limit increases. Fees drop to low levels in dollar terms, even if the ETH price stays up.

There is one way that the ETH price sets a minimum on gas costs: miners race each other to make blocks, processing transactions causes delay. The more valuable the block reward, the higher the expected cost of that delay, and miners demand compensation for that. But this doesn't seem to be a large effect since gas prices are sometimes quite low. (Full proof of stake would eliminate this race dynamic.)
Sounds like a good idea to me. Seems similar to how GPUs work, which is generally a good path to follow.
> they bill themselves as a magazine devoted to the idea of the nation-state

And, moreover, one particular nation-state. But still, the scholarship you find in American Interest tends to be high quality. I can respect a sincere concern with quality argumentation, even if the reasoning is motivated and even if I don't entirely sympathize with that motivation.

> Also, claiming that communists tried to nurture a middle class is just plain wrong. Communists were, at least according to Communists, trying to abolish class entirely

The second sentence is entirely accurate. However, the article doesn't claim that communists (or capitalists) of the 20th century were trying to nurture "the middle class". Rather, the article (carefully) claims:

"virtually all states—whether capitalist or communist, industrialized or developmental, great power or post-colonial—aimed to legitimate themselves by serving the interests of middle classes whose size they sought to expand... Both capitalist and communist accumulation strategies were based on the nurturing of industrial laborers".

I think the article's characterization is fair, in-so-far as you can say anything at all about such a broad group of political projects as "all capitalists and also all communists"! WRT your first sentence specifically, the communist project did aim to "nurture" industrial laborers; the purported means was abolishing class, of course, but all the same.
Would this even do any harm if it's just once a year? I mean... apart from possible long-term addiction.
Is it possible to save money pumping gas when it's colder outside?
The best book I've found for self-study is the two-volume set by Thomas Egenes (Introduction to Sanskrit). It's very gently paced, though, so you need to have the motivation to stick through till the end (about 400 pages in Part 1 and about 450 in Part 2).

Other alternatives are to contact a local chapter of the volunteer organization Samskrita Bharati if there's one (or watch these videos produced by them: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLudSN7Po9muLeRM6545s6...), or to try http://www.learnsanskrit.org/ for something online. See more book reviews at https://sanskritstudio.wordpress.com/book-reviews/

If you say what your reasons are for learning Sanskrit, there may be other suggestions….
Your answer made me go read into fat metabolism, to see if your claim of "pumping your circulatory system full of sludge" was true, and I found this was the specific biochemical assembly that carries metabolized triglycerides through the blood stream. Enjoy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chylomicron
Isn't it a bit late for this eulogy?
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We're hiring in multiple offices (notably DC, Dallas, Austin, and Portland) across technology, sales, and customer success. My particular team supports sales and business operations, and I need a:

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I use them:

In car for long drives

In office

In bed when someone snores next to me

In bed when street outside is loud

On a boat when motoring

On every flight
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I don't have to imagine, I just have to wait.
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You might be surprised. Our body's have a circadian rhythm that regulate hunger. After a couple weeks of IF your body stops expecting food in the morning. When I ate breakfast, I was ravenous by 10am, now that I fast I don't start thinking about food until noon.

Even if it doesn't work for you, it's easy enough to try for a couple weeks.
When you have a dictatorship next door that has already invaded at least one other country recently being prepared is a pretty good strategy.
It still does the exact same thing as it did 10 years ago. Whether or not it is seen as OR is AI is a different topic. Anything that becomes more widely understood seems mundane and less sexy than when it is an emerging field.
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That would not have been my choice of words but it was the original posters', I'd prefer the term 'prepared'.
>Oslo wasn't a hub connecting dozens of european cities

You're explaining more facts which we can all agree on. Yes Oslo can also act as a mini "hub".

My comment was about language and the evolution of how "point-to-point" is used to also describe 2nd-tier "hub" traffic. For some reason, "point-to-point" gained currency to also describe traffic outside of superhubs even if the majority of passengers are not native residents of the 2nd-tier airports. In this way, it can be a misleading term based on actual passenger demographics but it's the term that's already in wide use.

To add to the relativism, to a rich guy with his own jet or fractional ownership NetJets, none of the commercial airlines are actually "point-to-point" because they don't fly to the tiny executive airport that's 2 miles from his office.

So let's say we banish "point-to-point" and rewrite A380 headlines as "Airbus A380 lost because of the rise of non-superhub to non-superhub traffic". Does that materially change anything about the incorrect market assumptions that Airbus made?
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The equivalent in grep is '--line-buffered'.
There's a term for the objective measures of quality: kwalitee. It's kinda like quality, but quality is hard to define let alone measure, so kwalitee is good enough for some purposes. https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Cheesecake https://qa.perl.org/phalanx/kwalitee.html
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If you visit the original goatse domain, you will find exactly that. "Meme creation on the blockchain", it says.
Definitely. I meant that in the usage that I described (as a way to join complete sentences) you generally only see one per sentence.
> In Perl [...] pragmas are language level

No, actually. The syntax that people use to invoke the pragma ("use strict [arg]...") is not a pragma at the language level, it's just the syntax for importing symbols from modules. For example,

use strict ('vars', 'refs');

expands to

BEGIN { require 'strict'; strict->import('vars', 'refs'); }

because that's how the "use" statement is defined. `BEGIN{...}` cause the statements in the block to be executed as soon as the BEGIN block has been fully parsed [1]. `require 'strict'` loads the module `strict.pm` from the library path (the source code is on CPAN at [2], if you're interested), then its `import()` method is called with two string arguments. The implementation of that method is:

sub import {
shift;
$^H |= @_ ? &bits : all_bits | all_explicit_bits;
}

There's a lot of weird Perl syntax in there, but the gist is that it modifies the $^H variable. And THAT is the actual pragma which is defined by the language. [3] The module strict.pm is just a wrapper around $^H to make things a bit more user-friendly.

I know that's sorta kinda off-topic, but since we're talking about language design, I figured I'd contribute this small anecdote that illustrates really well how the more recent parts of Perl are designed: a ton of metaprogramming on top of relatively small changes to the core language. If you want another example, have a look at how object-oriented programming was tacked on to Perl as a tiny afterthought, yet the way it interacts with all the other parts of the language makes hugely powerful OOP frameworks like Moose possible. (OTOH, that approach also makes the language pretty messy, but it always gets the job done for me, at many scales.)

[1] Usually, execution only begins when the entire file has been parsed, but this code needs to run earlier because it changes the parser's behavior.

[2] https://metacpan.org/source/SHAY/perl-5.26.1/lib/strict.pm

[3] Notably, $^H behaves differently from other variables: Every assignment to it is scoped only to the current block, whereas regular variables need to be shadowed explicitly. This is particularly useful to temporarily lift a strictness requirement for a single statement, similar to how `unsafe` is used in Rust:

use strict;
...
my $function_name = 'implementation_' . ($x + 2 * $y);
$function_name(); //error: cannot call string value
{
no strict 'refs'; //"no" is like "use", but in reverse (calls the module's unimport() instead of import())
$function_name(); //works: calls the function with the name stored in the variable
}
From the article:

Each of the new parts is a quad-core design using HyperThreading, with Intel’s HD 630 GT2 graphics as the traditional ‘integrated’ low power graphics (iGPU) for video playback and QuickSync. This is connected via eight PCIe 3.0 lanes to the ‘package’ graphics (pGPU) chip, the Radeon RX Vega M, leaving 8 PCIe 3.0 lanes from the CPU to use for other functionality (GPU, FPGA, RAID controller, Thunderbolt 3, 10 Gigabit Ethernet).

So Intel isn't throwing in the towel on the iGPU, they're just augmenting it with a discrete GPU in an all-in-one package for system builders.
I think there numbers are large because of two things:

1. People are not aware that there are so many services already. It's not enough to google for "website monitoring" to get the entire picture.

2. Entrepreneurs think that such service is a piece of cake to implement and to maintain. But the first 50 customers verify that wrong assumption.

Plus, with that numerous competition, led by a few giants (like Pingdom with 700,000+ customers), it's very hard to get noticed.
Probably a lot more for the general topic and very little for the very specific topic. As one would expect.
it's the same thing, but lens shape is not dictated by the frame. you're likely to find pictures of rimless glasses with small lenses because small lenses are popular now, but you can choose any shape you want.
Yes, article is from July when Apple discontinued the iPod Nano and iPod Shuffle.

Wired (I think) sometimes pulls out old stories and puts them on their homepage along with the news, poster might not realized.

Side note, I still have one of those iPod Shuffles around somewhere. Great little device to clip on your running shorts, but it had the weirdest cable. They mapped 4 USB pins onto a TRRS connector and synced it through the headphone jack.
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That's superb as well, but a completely different time period. More than a decade of GUI and web development happened between those two.
Naw, the struggle was already there. Yankee just backed a side. Which wasn't doesn't make it OK but you can't blame every problem in the world on the CIA. The CIA simply isn't that efficient.
I think this is confusing simple (as in simplex) with facile.

Simplicity implies a small set of features; it's a property of design.

Facility implies ease of use; it's a property of operation.

Go unambiguously favors simplicity, at the expense of facility. This is why we're given raw CSP primitives (sharp edges included, e.g.: goroutine leaks) instead of a full-fledged actor model.
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The world feels wildly futuristic? Can you explain? I was born in 1966. Computer games and the special effects in movies look better, but to claim the world looks wildly futuristic is an exaggeration.
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I believe Russian paranoia in Finland is justified. And recalling how Fins cozied up to the Nazis, I guess it's pretty much same for the Russians.
That’s a pretty big gap
I am not saying these crypto startups are doing anything useful ! 90% + of them aren't. Which is why their increasing hiring power is getting to be a problem.
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You don't generally hold onto Bitcoin when you take it as payment, you sell it immediately, so no, Microsoft was not "investing" in Bitcoin by taking it as a payment for their products and they're not shorting Bitcoin either.

The volatility is what makes it untenable as payment, as you can't sell it fast enough to ensure that you get the same exchange rate you gave to the customer.
Imagine the world a hundred years from now, where almost everything is presented as augmented reality, and where someone who doesn't have permanently augmented vision is seen as an outsider, much like the Amish today.

Think about nothing being sold with a color or pattern anymore, because you can just customize it to whatever you want in your AR view. Think about products not having any sort of printed imagery, because it's pointless when animated digital overlay overrides it anyway.

Think about being one of those outsiders who sees an entire world where everything you interact with is black and white and you can't hold but the lowest job, because you are literally blind to 99.9% of "reality". Think about not being able to live a middle class life without augmenting your vision.
A380's engines are the same size as the early-90s 777 engines, and smaller than both the GE90 and the new GE9X. They didn't have to do anything tricky for them.

You may be thinking of the new Pratt & Whitney PW1000G, which will be on the A320neo, which has a geared turbofan for that reason.
Probably true as far consumer attitude goes. But in the long run it's healthier to have many small players. I think the fact that Google, Facebook and Apple are so dominant is already killing a lot of innovation.
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not much, he died in 2009

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Landin
> That wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that Oslo is Norwegien Airlines' hub, would it?

No, Norwegian does not have a hub. Check out https://www.aftenposten.no/okonomi/i/b0pGl/Norwegian-apner-n... for a list of destinations served from the US, and it will include Oslo, Copenhagen, Stockholm, London, Paris, Rome, Barcelona, and more. And those are the larger cities, this summer they also fly direct from US to Belfast, Bergen, Dublin, Edinburgh and more, using the 737 MAX.