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> Whatever the speed limit, you should never go 90 km/h in a blind turn if it is too fast to avoid a cyclist.

I suppose it depends on the country, but usually roads mandate minimum speeds (tipically half the max speed) in order to avoid issues like this. Anything lower than the minimum speed should be treated like a static obstacle, so maximum speed should always take into account unexpected hazards.

Given that cyclists cannot tipically maintain the minimum speed required in any country road, they cannot share the road with faster vehicles. It's either curbs or segregated roads. Anything else is plain craziness.
Check out Bill Miller's track record to see what a wild ride he takes his investors on:
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/10/legendary-investor-bill-mill...
but the fact that it causes surprise causes me surprise, even though it shouldn't by the same reasons you exposed.
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Ask HN: What's your cloud storage option?
Hi guys, I'm looking for the best "long-term safe, large (100gb+ but I think 1To is better) and cheap", "easy to use" cloud option which I can also trust. Right now I saw these interesting offers:

dropbox:

- 1To: 99 euros/an

drive:

- 100go : 20 euros/an

- 1To : 100 euros/an

pcloud:

- 500 Go : €47.88 /YEAR

- 2 To : 95.88 /YEAR

- 500 Go : 125 euro / lifetime

- 2 To : 250 / lifetime

Zoolz:

- 2To : 49 dollars / Lifetime (expiring offer in 5 days)

Mega:

- FREE	$0.00	50 GB

- LITE	€4.99/month - €49.99/year	200 GB

- PRO I	€9.99/month - €99.99/year	500 GB

- PRO II	€19.99/month - €199.99/year	2 TB

Amazon:

- 100 Gb: 12 per year

- 1Tb: 60 per year

Which do/would you use and why ? I'm tempted to go with the giants "google/amazon/dropbox" for trust issues rather than the small "zoolz/pcloud" but the small options seems really interesting.
Slowing down an intersections like you describe really ought to be the minimum standard of attentiveness required on the part of drivers, but instead, as you point out, many drivers are far too impatient for that.

Traffic engineering combined with a different legal standard that places greater liability on the driver for exercising due caution would go a long way towards fixing this, and hopefully doing something about the mass carnage on the world's roadways.
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Nope. Wrong. Just because they're at their all-time high doesn't mean they won't continue to go up. Doesn't mean they won't tank tomorrow. And it's naive to think there's more uncertainty in the world today than there was 20, 30, 50 years ago.

Your "more attractive" investment has shown 5000% annual return for 1 year...the "risky" investment has shown 8-10% return ON AVERAGE for over 100 years.
I'm reminded of a time in Chicago when I saw one of a group of three teenagers deliberately and casually drop his trash on the floor of a public bus. Both of his peers looked at him askance and he said, "What? I pay taxes."

The existence of a body charged with cleaning up messes is not an excuse for acting in bad faith. _Nothing_ is an excuse for acting in bad faith.
I hate asking for spoilers but could you explain what the reasoning is?
We've built something like that on neighborhood streets in the US in the name of "traffic calming". Usually, it's a planter or an island with a single tree. We still put up 2-way or 4-way stop signs though because traffic circles make our heads explode. In the end, all it really accomplishes is making it hard to see other vehicles at the intersection.
When I was at McDonalds (mid 1990s) they already has robotic french fry machines - I didn't see it but my understanding (and faulty memory) is frozen fries went in one end, cooked (not boxed) fries came out the others. I remember our managers discussing it and really wanting it for the safety, but they couldn't make the payments (the current fry vat was failing so they already had to pay for the labor and a fryer, but the additional cost of the robot was too high)

Note that I said safety. They were not thinking about labor costs, they were thinking about how it would not splash hot oil on kids. I think it is fair to say that every fast food would accept a 1% loss of profit margin (that 4% to 3% profit margin) just to not have humans interact with burning hot machines.
Indeed. We witnessed ethis with H264, where even the likes of Nokia (before they sold the phone business to Microsoft and later licensed off the brand) leaned in on not having webm be part of the HTML video standard.

This because they had a bunch of devices out there that could do H264 in hardware, but had to do webm in software, and thus playing the latter format would take a greater toll on the battery.

And even if every damn device use a programmable DSP these days, the problem is not solved. Because only the OEM can be expected to provide the firmware needed for new formats.

Effectively the only way to win this would be for GPLv3 or similar to be made law, so that consumer devices are not beholden to OEMs for maintenance.
It doesn't even have to be a complex mathematical equation. Gerrymandering is a particularly acute American problem which isn't present in most other industrial democracies, because in most cases, an independent commission is picked to define district boundaries, and they are mostly guided by common sense and fairness, which seems to work well enough. The problem the U.S. has is to leave this task to people who have an inherent conflict of interest in the outcome of the process.
> With debit cards, you have to give someone your private key (16 digit combo+exp date+security code)

Just because that's how it works now doesn't mean it has to always work that way. There's no reason why the "private key" couldn't be different for each transaction.
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I found it interesting on all the non-game things that Romero's name was on. The DE-ICE installer, the text file viewer that came with the games...

I guess their background in writing tiny random apps for Softdisk explains it.
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I guess "responsibility" implies legal responsibility - I meant something more generic, like capacity or function.
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This looks a great project but can't really see why you'd use it. It's awesome to see which files have been edited the most but what would you do with that information?
I didn’t have a valid state ID for ten years. I had a passport, but why do I need a state ID if I’m not driving?

There are many reasons why people can’t or won’t get state IDs, even if you can’t fathom it. Until we have mandatory federal IDs (which, incidentally, Republicans are usually against because...facism or something), making them required for a civic duty is just dumb and unfair.
You can't duplicate physical gold, but it takes 30 seconds to launch a copy of Bitcoin (Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin Gold and so) or to launch a new altcoin as well. So no, Bitcoin is not a store of value like Gold. This "Bitcoin is digital gold" excuse is what greedy people tell themselves (and others), because Bitcoin didn't work as money (to buy and sell stuff, yeah the original vision of Satoshi).
To me this sounds crazy. The possibilities from "mistyped commands" are essentially infinite.

Instead, test that the container does what it is supposed to do, at least in some minimal way.

Then if it doesn't do what it should do because there's no Python, it won't do what it should do and the test will fail.

One test to catch the infinite number of typing errors.
There's also polarization to throw in the mix. Usually photographers will use a circular polarizer to remove reflections(say from water) while keeping much of the diffuse lighting intact.
Issue: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1741934
I lived in Mauritania for five and half years and on two occasions a friend saw snow flurries in northern areas of the country. It's probably more common than we know.
...And of course under such pressure, your CO2 vessel may come to strongly resemble a bomb. It won’t burn though, so that’s something?
Selective application of the rules is also a tool. In the area where you vote, did you notice a substantial percentage of the voters being poor or ethnic minority? If not, no need to check the ids.
I have a hard time seeing the Dems backers as not trying to concentrate wealth, destroy government, and institute more theocratic and plutocratic society.

The concentration of wealth is just in a different group than those that back the GOP.

The aspects of government targeted for destruction are just different than those targeted by GOP backers.

The Dems' theocracy is that of progressive supremacist dogma than the GOPs' Judeo-Christian dogma.

The plutocratic society pushed and enforced by social constructivists looks nearly identical in oppressiveness to that of the Judeo-Christian puritans.

The progressive supremacists and social constructivists are just as cancerous as the social conservatives, outright neo-nazis, and tea-party libertarians.
> The original point I made -- that Chrome's dev tools can simulate a slow network connection -- got nit-picked by people saying it can't figure out which CDN serves which ad bundle. This is not a useful, relevant or even coherent reply.

Let's say your website is hosted in Jakarta, and serves Indonesian customers. You make it lightweight and fast.

Your competitor hosts its website from Singapore, and is much heavier.

Now Google, from its datacenter in Singapore, wants to test the load times for your website and your competitor's. Sadly, the host you chose doesn't pay for a lot of international traffic on the cable to Singapore, since it primarily serves the Indonesian market. Google tests both sites, and your competitor's, based in Singapore about a mile away from the Google datacenter, loads several times faster, besides being heavier.

Google ranks your competitor higher, and you are pissed off, as your customers load your site faster.

Now another case: you and your competitor host your sites in Singapore. You build a lightweight site, and your competitor's is full of heavy assets, with oversized images, etc. Google tests both of your websites and yours loads faster, and is ranked higher. You're happy.

But your competitor signs up for Akamai and replicates the heavy assets in local servers in all the major ISPs in Indonesia.

Customers in Indonesia search and see both your and your competitor's results. You rank higher and get more clicks, but as your traffic is subject to the congestion on the international cables, your site actually loads far slower than your lower-ranked and heavier competitor. Customers are unhappy.

In all of this, simulating a slow connection on Chrome's dev tools is irrelevant, because you don't know where the bottleneck is!
I know it can be read as "technical understanding" but I mean both technical and financial understanding.

It helps your investment

- if you are able to distinguish good code from bad (technical skill)

- if you understand whether a blockchain (or tangle or whatever) is appropriate for the coin's use case (technical skill)

- if you understand how fiat money works (financial skill)

- how hyped and bubbly markets work (financial skill)

- ...

So it's good to know both and if you do, you arrive at your own opinion / take, regardless of what Dimon, Thiel or Buffet say.
the problem is the problem definition.

signal solves messaging.

but messaging is only a small part of whatsapp success. Whatsapp is a social network site. where you add friends by the bucket, even if you dont't plan on messaging them, and share baby pictures to a circle or family/friends.
I'm not convinced you actually understood my comment. I'm not saying that processing and distribution in the context of capitalism and imperialism are qualitatively different from processing and distribution in pre-capitalist society (although I'd say they are at least quantitatively different, and it would be an interesting discussion to have); I'm saying that it's possible the author intended to say that spices were the first to be subjected to these processes in the context of capitalism and imperialism, rather than the fairly ridiculous claim that spices were the first foods to be subject to the processes of production and distribution as implied by the original wording.
Unfortunately real estate deals like the one described in the article are exactly what a lot of landlords are looking for. They are so attractive because many of these landlords live in expensive big cities where the margins are lower.
A malicious server admin would probably be able to just intercept and stop that. I don't know how they do group encryption, but I imagine they either have a room key (although with forward secrecy that sounds unlikely) or they do 1:M sending. In any case, it sounds that, since the server doesn't have the group chat keys, they could just check for authorization from the admin (ie a signed message verifying that they're the ones adding the user) before adding a new user to the chat.
Well yeah, we had to give that money to the "job creators". Presumably they will be stepping up to rebuild the infrastructure any day now.
Easy karma, perhaps?
This is so clever and effective that I guarantee it will never gain traction.
If you don't like suburbs, you're really going to hate what self driving cars bring. Get ready for sprawl like you've never seen it before.

I, for one, plan on moving further out of the city as soon as my car can drive itself. The dream isn't dying. It hasn't even started yet.
> I see that as more of a failing of the democratic process than people being tribal

Why did the democratic process fail? Because people are being tribal. No one seriouly considered whether there might be other, better, candidates in other parties besides the big two.

Given that we've done absolutely nothing to 'fix' the democratic process, I suspect we'll get to relive this again and again, and again.
"people buying and holding an asset that has gained hundreds of thousands of percentage points since its inception and could very well continue that trend" applied to all kinds of stuff like the beanie baby craze as well. Seeing this behavior is not an evidence of something being long term value store.

If the bitcoin doesn't gain a widespread practical use, it may well be that the long term value it has is, say, $100 / BTC, wiping out 99% of the value, and failing in any purpose as an inflation hedge or censorship-resistant store of value.

Saying that it has value because it's being bought for ever increasing price is the "greater fool" value foundation, i.e. saying that it has value because someone else will value it even more later, which actually works really well (and can earn you a lot of money) until suddenly it doesn't.

Other than that, any long-term valuation will have to be based on actual, practical, specific uses of Bitcoin (for example, but not limited to, as a transactional currency). It's easy to imagine realistic uses of Bitcoin that will justify some value, e.g. $10 or maybe $100 per BTC. However, the scenarios where the use is so massively valuable to justify a long-term market cap that matches a price of $10k or $100k per BTC require BTC to have a massive, very very widespread use - so either it will gain this massive use as a transactional currency (or something else), or the price won't be sustained nearly as high.
I don't get why people even consider using WhatsApp for secure messaging. Everybody knows it's owned by Facebook, and everybody knows how they operate.
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Pointing fingers at "the other guy" helps us not fix ourselves. That way, if we use underhanded tactics "to compete", we can play it off as "it's only fair", because someone else does it as well. If anyone wants true change in the world, that change starts by changing ourselves. every truly great leader has regurgitated this, ad nauseam.
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In the US, owner-occupied flats are called condominiums. And ground rent exists as "condo fees".

In my area, condo fees are often high enough to make buying a condo a strange proposition - you really must want to live in a multi-unit building because mortgage+fees > mortgage for a detached dwelling.
Still not a fan of updating your devices despite of Meltdown and Spectre events?
How is it considered harmful?

This isn't a new issue and afaik no one has lost any money. Coinbase has a backlog. If you want to use Coinbase, you'll have to deal with the backlog. Otherwise, you'll have to deal with their "support".
Many coin founders profit handsomely from their creation, often holding an obscene fraction of coins, or in some cases, gaining ever more through certain gimmicks.
They can afford to heavily market their coin and fund further development, even if of technically questionable nature.
Right. If it was all about the stamp, the Gresham's law wouldn't exist.
And anyone who thinks this is a fair price for a PUT on BTC, please contact me as I will buy unlimited amounts of puts if you're willing to put up 50% as collateral.
It's not too complicated on Ethereum. Here's some sample code, which Raiden devs have told me works much like their system.

http://www.blunderingcode.com/a-lightning-network-in-two-pag...
> I think the volatility input in this equation is way off

I agree. One's ability to price a put on Bitcoin is probably anti-correlated with one's willingness to sell one.
>> > If you oppose both then voting 3rd party is sill more useful than staying home.

> Oh, certainly.

but then you said:

> A vote for a third party would be a waste

So, which is it?
> You vastly underestimate how much content is created for free. Have you heard of Wikipedia?

Oh, yes, been an editor there for the past 10 years.

Now what % of the content on the internet do you think is created and delivered in a completely ad-free paywall-free way?
I’m 25% of the way through it. Over the years I find myself adopting the same perspective as the old man. However, I find the position he puts out is very tautological. Maybe it’s meant to be that way - a made-up dialogue of contrasting viewpoints, just a thought exercise for the reader?
I would think that the chip manufacturers (Intel, AMD, etc) should be reaching out to OS vendors for correct patch implementations.. unless they're committed to selling us shit forever.
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No, they are a digital ledger.

A true digital cash transaction would only need communication between the two parties involved, rather than a working connection to a third entity.
Sure, every team wants to win. But what utility does that observation have? What’s the alternative? To me, what’s important is what happens when a given team has power.
Bill Clinton's predatory sexual escapades spanned decades with Hillary Clinton being totally complicit, as a matter of fact early in her legal career she worked tirelessly to provide legal defense to a vicious pedophile that preyed on elementary schoolgirls.
I'm always impressed by some of the optimisations they find: 0aa403b649 improves readDouble/readFloat in buffers by 200-800% simply by...moving the code to plain javascript binary operations instead of the C++ runtime.
Not always. Privacy Shield is one such way that we can host that information inside the US.
Off Topic... but what are you doing in Breath of the Wild?

I thought that game was 50 hours to beat. Are you going for 100% complete, or is the game more difficult game than I realized?
It would have that effect, obviously. Is this not something you've thought about before?
It happens slowly.

Typically the condo board is in charge of contracting a management company who they give the fees to in order to keep up the place.

Said condo board is typically made up of retirees with the time to do it and they're less sophisticated than the management company.

Over time, the fees go up while the management company skates by doing a little less each year.
> (which has it's own problems - look at unstable governments in Europe based on oddball alliances).

That's not a problem, that's a feature. It ensures the parties need to learn to cooperate and compromise to get things through when voters are not in firm agreement. As a result you get continuity: It's rare to get the kind of drastic shifts that you get in the US when the balance shifts between the Republicans and Democrats, because it is rare for a single party to get an absolute majority, and so alliances shift with voting patterns, and the negotiated compromises tends to have to reflect a wider range of interests or not get passed.

A lot of places this leads to a tradition of broad compromises to ensure lasting reforms that won't just get undone by the next government.

So while the specific governments may not sit as tightly, I'd argue it tends to lead to a lot more stability in government direction.
>You're being distracted by actions of those in power vs. the common mentality of the people voted them in.

That's not 'being distracted,' that's 'paying attention.' The mentality of the people voting for representatives is totally irrelevant when, once in power, those representatives behave extremely differently depending on party affiliation.
Please stop participating in the attempt of some desperate people to relabel bitcoin "bitcoin core"
Some of the Alliance members want to use it for video chat (e.g. Cisco, Google) or live streaming (e.g. Twitch/Amazon, Google) so it'll get done at some point.
Isn't one of the problems of all those picture improvement technologies that they increase input lag?
This solution traces its origins back to the Book of Genesis. Perhaps that would help the case for implementing it in the USA?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divide_and_choose#History