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>What average person has a need for blockchain?

What average person had a need for internet in 1994 ? People don't used and don't use Internet as it, average joe use internet because of the applications running on it.

Pretty much the same things with blockchain tech

>I seriously don't get the comparison.

A blockchain is a public distributed database, internet was a decentralized public network

The trustlessness linked to the use of public blockchain is a major novelty in the tech world.
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Because many things that are pleasurable or satisfying to do for yourself are not so much when you scale them. That’s why people get paid to do them now.
Like in Asimovs books, we’ll probably have decay without work (with robots automating it all). Humans will just do busy work.
I kind of want to see the listing that this guy bought it from, If only to test my own bullshit meter.
It seems like pretty basic info to me. There should be some estimate out there somewhere, especially given the billions of dollars spent each year on studying cancer. A quick search didn't lead to anything promising though.
What people want, say they want, and how they act are separate things. For example, no one has ever said "I want to spend hundreds of dollars on a pointless mobile game", yet that is what a lot of people end up doing. Conversely, people have plenty of problems that they are not willing to spend (enough) money on solving, at least not until it is socially common to do so.

However, I think you're on to something here -- something like a reversed kickstarter; anyone could post something they would want to have and how much they would spend on it, more people could join the campaign and creators could get to work on solving it. Probably people already tried it, but off the top of my head I can think of about 10 reasons why it won't work...
Part of that may result from the fact that, when it's done properly, the fact that it contravenes no expectations makes it easy to overlook. Like the first rule of systems administration - when you do your job right, nobody notices; it's only when you screw something up that anyone remembers you exist.
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I'm replying here to a different comment of yours, which has been flagged for some reason.

> Do you have any good source of what these problems are?

A quick list:

* Bad verification support. Serious verification takes at least as much effort as the implementation. Improving that is a hard problem, and you won't know if you've improved it unless you have experience with real-world designs.

* Bad support for sequential code. Contrary to what is taught at college, there is a lot of sequentialism in non-trivial designs (except if you design a CPU, but hardly anybody does that). Basically every protocol is sequential. Even most of the smaller external devices, like ADCs or DACs, typically have a sequential interface. VHDL and Verilog require you to explicitly code a state machine, which is needlessly verbose and error-prone.

* Lack of transparency. If the route tool can't meet timing, you have to be able to map the tool's report of the critical path to your high-level design, or you'll have a big problem at the most inconvenient time.

* Lack of a convenient VHDL/Verilog interface. If you can't easily instantiate VHDL/Verilog IP cores, your language will be an academic exercise, at most.
People are always skeptical of new technology. And not entirely without reason. It's not always clear what the advantages are (early versions of new things sometimes are not actually better than the old thing), or what the cost will be: progress doesn't come for free. In the early days of the Internet, part of the problem was that most people just didn't have a way to access it until there were commercial ISPs, and the Web made it relatively easy to find and share stuff. And of course, new things often come with a lot of hype, that may take a long time to really pan out.

And nowadays we sometimes use the phrase 'the killer appp--the function that clicks with the new technology that drives adoption.

So, if you really want people to get people interested in blockchain, find a way to use it to distribute porn.
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Manager Tools (book and website) describes it as two parts.

1. Get results

2. Retain staff

I haven’t read a better description than that.
You can get a Samsonite piece of luggage for less than half that amount, though. And it's decent quality - definitely not the kind of cheap stuff that falls apart.
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this is not secure at all, because of the accessibility all captchas have to have an audio version and that is a peace of cake for a half decent speech to text bot!
The two different clipboards are fantastic! Select then middle click is one of the things I miss most on Windows, and it's really convenient that that preserves the copy-paste clipboard.
Firstly, I am fine with you collapsing my comment. The following is just an addition to why I think it is somewhat relevant:

The author claims that there are social constructs in place at wikipedia that lead to a bad working environment for contributors. There is not evidence provided to support this, but there is this offhand sexist and racist comment that gives insight into the way in which this author processes information around him/her. I find this a relevant bit of information for evaluating the merit of the article.

What if you have an article with the title "SpaceX doomed to fail" "SpaceX could never succeed, their goals are unrealistic and they haven't done enough research.... The earth (which is flat by the way)..."

Attacking the author on his flat earth believes would be a no go according to that policy, but it does provide information about the value of the author as a credible source.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16175512

Other submissions of the same story from different sources, which might be useful in evaluating some of the comments on that page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16180146

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16177381

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16176665

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16176430
Warp is pretty good, but it doesn't support websockets.
That's a reason for ''some'' services not being done, not all services not being done.
Never an excuse, but a real psychological "thing":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect
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Unit tests vs. integration tests, why the opposition?
It's not terribly controversial that anarchocapitalism is a bad idea. It's also an entirely different proposition from the one you previously advanced.
Is it?

Who could qualify this?

I mean, you found a company, talk to the right people and get rich.

If you just happen to find the wrong people, you won't get rich.

Sure, you could say the sales people were skilled and found these people, but how often is this really true and how often do you just luck out by finding the right number on some obscure website?
I've been calling amazon prime a "hiding of the poor" to my friends and family. Hide the laborers in a far off insanely demanding warehouse, you just get the goods.

(I don't have prime, I don't use prime, and I don't want this to be our future.)
Not all states are employment at-will. Also, even if you fire somebody for "any" reason ,if you don't document the process carefully, you expose yourself to legal action. There are a whole bunch of concerted protected activities that your employer can't fire you for.
For a website all about UX, the site is almost impossible to use (at least on mobile), both from an intuitiveness perspective and from a technical one.

I am entirely unsure what I’m supposed to click on, if what I’m seeing is an animation or a loading progress bar, the back button gave me a blank, black page, and everything on the site would be better if it were simply static html without all this JavaScript garbage that serves exactly zero functional purpose.
How about Electrolux (AEG, Rosenlew, etc.), Liebherr, Gorenje/Asko/Upo, Festivo, Smeg, Hotpoint? If you want to avoid Asian products, we can buy American too.. e.g. Whirlpool.
Yes, that's standard and it's called overrounding. If the odds were to sum to 100% then the bookmaker would make no profit. Betting exchanges such Betfair have books closer to 100%.
If everyone did what they wanted to do all of the time, the world would simply cease to function.
This is precisely why DOSBox took a significant performance hit when going from x86 to amd64 back in the day.
Very cool, but no law about not using dark grey fonts on black..?
> find a way to use it to distribute porn.

Or a way to use it to distribute drugs

Oh wait
Is enough of a reason that journalists should dump Skype
The newer parallel port modes require handshaking from the device.
With revenue in the billions that doesn't represent a significant cost (Say 1% on the higher side).

I'm pretty convinced the market for CEOs in general is broken, but it's also the case that largely eliminating CEO compensation wouldn't move prices much in any business.
Here's a quick ELI5 style question: what are the implications of Meltdown mitigations on microkernel architectures (vs monolithic designs)?
FreeBSD/arm64 now has official binary packages for 12-CURRENT. RPi3 runs in 64-bit mode with all 4 cores. For the most part, everything is good. But the vc4 KMS driver is not ported yet, so no GPU accelerated desktop for now.
I find it encouraging the private sector is filling the gap. Musk's vision is clear if you assemble all the pieces his companies have built on Mars: solar and battery power, tunnel boring for both shelter, water, and air (which could imply return fuel he can do O2+H2).

Solar might not be the most efficient for Mars, but he can bring tons of it without messing with nuclear politics and PR. Note also the Boring Company TBM diameter is less than the BFS. Don't be surprised if a TBM one of the first payloads.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Mars_transportation_inf...

https://www.boringcompany.com/faq/
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Why give up on performance?

IA-64 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IA-64#Architecture) already exists, with its explicitly parallel instruction set, which leaves branch prediction and speculative execution up to the software. So you can still get many of the performance benefits, but it's under control of the software, giving a lot more flexibility for being able to mitigate or eliminate these kinds of issues.

I think that it was probably introduced ahead of its time, and targeted at the wrong markets, but it's kind of sad that with the Spectre vulnerabilities, we don't have any way of comprehensively addressing it in software without jumping through a lot of hoops and applying microcode updates.
I deeply believe that a good set of simple processors (cpu, gpu, apu) could lead to a vastly simpler software layer.

Lots of issues are down to market competition, lies and spec distortion; also double driver games (see the pre vulkan era).
Right, which is why in the article I linked, I describe a system that stores only the hash of the debtor's personal data on chain. A lender with the preimage can still use that to prove its case.

For stronger privacy we'd need ring signatures or zksnarks, so a person can't be identified by the flow of payments, but those technologies exist on various blockchains already.
This is like the web variant of Vulcan/Metal/etc, isn't it? Lower level API than GL.
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16140054
In front of virtue the immortal gods have put sweat.

…And it is by working that a man becomes more philos than other men to the immortals and to mortals. They all hate the idle.

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Yeah I actually considered that while writing my original comment, it's true that even on a low-end smartphone nowadays browsing certain websites is extremely frustrating. That being said is it really reasonable that the modern web requires multi GHz CPUs, GB of RAM and allowing a turing-complete scripting language everywhere to be able to browse most websites? Is it reasonable that the web is so complex now that effectively nobody but a few giant companies can invest the time and resource to write and maintain the millions of lines of code of a modern browser?
Probably is, but it wouldn't surprise me at all if parts of the press just didn't think the FTC rules applied to them. (I know they had to have sharp words with quite a few publications about actually following their rules on affiliate links, and that's a lot more publicly visible and easy to prove than the stuff alleged here.)
Gnumeric includes a tool named ssconvert that does this sort of thing from the command line, very handy. Gnumeric doesn't have the mindshare of Libreoffice but you may find this simplifies your workflow so I thought I'd mention.

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Yeah, I agree with you there, but it seems to me that power and politics are a fact of life, like the air that we breathe or food that we eat. Maybe we can clean up the air or cook nicer things, but they will always be there.
Can you explain your workflow here? Do you cross compile to w32 on Linux and run the resulting exe on wine? In what ways is development faster?
It's not that simple. If the worst effect was some unnecessary secondary screening, it would be a no-brainer.

But first of all you need to account for the negative effects of a false positive, and they are much worse than that. They include anything from stress and psychological effects, cost and risks of all the additional screening, to the much worse issue that you also need to account for the fact that for some cancers in some instances it will be hard enough to determine if the growth is malignant in the sense that some proportion of cancerous growth will never pose a threat to the patient, but once diagnosed there tends to be a strong pressure to treat. As a result too frequent screening will save some, but will also result in a large amount of unnecessary chemo, radiation therapy and/or surgeries - all of which come with risks in addition to the pain and discomfort.

Then you need to account for frequency of testing. A 1% false positive rate per test looks distinctly worse if the test is repeated every year for a 10-20 year timespan, for example.

Then you'll also want to account for how much it improves outcomes. If the cancers it detects are ones that would generally be detected in time anyway, and/or have low mortality, and where treatment outcomes are good, the incremental improvement would not necessarily be big enough to justify the negatives.

For breast cancer, for example, there has in recent years been a push to reduce large scale routine mammogram screening because it's not clear if it does more good than harm for many groups of patients (in large part because it leads to overtreatment). This article goes into some of the issues related to that in some detail (and presents both proponents and detractors of large scale screening):

http://www.healthbeatblog.com/2009/04/mammography-screening-...
Yeah, I immediately thought of Hexels too, which already has had a community and lots of artwork done with it for a few years.

I'd suggest having a few examples of artwork and screenshots in this landing page, it's very dry for an art creation tool.
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You forget that "then a leader with higher P is expected to have a lower Q." is conditional on "being a leader".
This is Berkson's paradox.
Don't fuck with scrolling that should be a rule.
Sure, I’ll grant that, but what of jobs that aren’t automatable, but are essential? If this is a serious proposition then we can’t handwave it away.
Take a program that doesn't work, like this one: https://play.rust-lang.org/?gist=2c7b672c6a211e3ab2f3995e37d...

> error[E0384]: cannot assign twice to immutable variable `x`

That E0384 is a link in the browser. Click it and you go to https://doc.rust-lang.org/error-index.html#E0384 which has a longer version of this error.

On the command line, you can run `rustc --explain E0384` and it'll print out the same text to the terminal.
And what's worrysome for Amazon is that in this case it is just a small step to go a bit further: If you don't care too much whether the item is junk, you can just buy it on AliExpress. Most likely it will be cheaper than Amazon and at least you know that you have opted for the "cheap and often junk" route.
Thanks again. These are all interesting data points. There are certainly a lot of similarities between what you're describing and what we were envisaging setting up. The lack of increased revenue when SEPA was available is particularly worrying, as we know in our case that from time to time we get requests from customers who don't use credit cards, and we were hoping SEPA might be a more accessible alternative for that part of our market.
I feel that's more a symptom of people doing work they loathe. When there's intrinsic motivation for doing work, people are productive for the overwhelming majority of the time spent working, and breaks magically evaporate.
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It's being introduced for the same reason it was on desktop, increased performance, more GPU features, avoidance of poor driver implementation, and more optimal usage of the underlying hardware.

See https://gpuweb.github.io/admin/cg-charter.html
Most people aren’t working on such a site. I think such a footnote would be dangerous since too many people would then assume that they are, in fact, Facebook.

I mean, even site of huge companies are not necessarily the Facebook of anything, since that’s just not the use case. I would, for example, argue that this law applies perfectly and without any qualifications to Apple’s website which might see a lot of traffic, but it’s not exactly a site users spend most of their times on. (I would also argue that the website people actually do spend most time on exists in a certain context where the outside world will have some influence on how and how efficiently it is perceived and used. Obviously the website people do spend the most time on has a role in forming that context, but so does the web as a whole and every single site.)

Oh, and I do think Facebook is very aware of that fact, but you still have to see that they are always wrestling with the status quo, i.e. for them the law takes the form of “Users spend most of their time on other sites or on the old variant of your site. This means that users prefer your site to work the same way as all the other sites they already know or your site as it was.“

It’s not exactly easy for them, even if they get to be expectation-defining and their power is not absolute. The stakes are high.
CIA director at that time.
Perhaps the first derivative of net wealth is a better metric?
You used to be able to buy Lemote Yeeloong notebooks, which in addition to having Loongsong processors had completely free software BIOS, making them one of the only RMS approved pieces of hardware. But I'm not seeing those readily available any longer.
Actually I think there are SEO ways to link but also to tell search engines that you're not endorsing the link, probably called no refer or something.
What is end to end testing and is there a smarter way to automate it?
You always have a choice. It's up to you if stay in the same place or if you accept your "fate" (which isn't fixed) and just complain and cry about it.

I suggest reading "Man's search for meaning".
> because of anonymity, they couldn't go back

Is this so? I thought the original researchers would be able to follow-up if they had accounted for it in their consent forms. In other words, they surely have identifying patient information, and even though an outside team couldn't screen the same cohort, that original team could find those 7 patients and ask again in 2 years.
It sounds like you're determined and self motivated, you're off to a great start! Nice work on getting downloads with your Android apps!

Since you seem to have a lot of front end and app knowledge, personally I might suggest getting more familiar with back-end as a service technologies like Firebase, etc. You could then create apps/web-apps that scale without knowing loads of back-end architecture practices.

To get a good spot in a next company, practice explaining your accomplishments to date succinctly, meet people, apply to multiple companies and get multiple offers lined up.
Sure; it's not counting human capital, or basically the net present value of future income streams available to someone.

In this respect, having debt is a positive sign, because banks evaluate loans based on expected ability to repay, i.e. future income streams.
That doesn't explain why the anyone who is not in the tech world should care about it.
I don't buy it, either. But my original comment was speculating about GM's perspective, not mine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_tunnel

>The idea does not necessarily imply that there is no objective truth; rather that our access to it is mediated through our senses, experience, conditioning, prior beliefs, and other non-objective factors. The implied individual world each person occupies is said to be their reality tunnel.
Using Noscript or an equivalent can be very enlightening. IME many major sites do work without JS. My guess is for accessibility.
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> Jinja2

If I would guess;
Apple's WebGPU is just one of 3 proposals (from Mozilla, Google and Apple) of what the WebGL successor will look like. WebGPU is (more or less) a mapping of the Metal 3D API to the web, but the final standard API will have to be a common subset of Vulkan, D3D12 and Metal with a common shading language.

The WebGL programming model has a lot of shortcoming from a modern point of view, see here: http://floooh.github.io/2016/08/13/webgl-next.html (you can mostly ignore my criticism of adopting Vulkan for the web, the Mozilla proposal (called Obsidian) is pretty close to Vulkan, and doesn't look as bad as I feared when I wrote that blog post).
Watch the credits roll some time. Actors are a tiny part of making a movie.
easy

who said easy? change is difficult. life is hard and then you die, so you might as well go down fighting.
As I understand it, the ARM IP license that allows companies to customise the actual cores is very expensive, still requires the resulting customisations to comply with the ARM specification, and relatively few companies have the resources to do so.
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> you’re a programmer, you might think that the fiddliness of programming is a special feature of programming, but really it’s that everything is fiddly, but you only notice the fiddliness when you’re new, and in programming you do new things more often.

I disagree. With physical objects there is elbow grease; a reality mistake on the level of a typo is minor compared to a programming typo which is as good as having no program written at all.
You can't choose 15 hour work weeks over a 45 year career, but you can choose to work 45 hour weeks over a 15 year career and retire. It's doable, but it helps if you adopt a 1950s-esque lifestyle and standard of living.
First derivative of wealth would be income or spending. I think it's better to go the other way: consider the integral of cash flows over time (i.e. net present value). It would still be pretty uncertain.