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Nobody will believe any such promise anyway. The real solution is continued reduction in the number of arms. Russia and America need to reduce to ~1000 each or less.

There is a belief that any nuclear war will destroy the world, but that isn't true. A global war would be horrific, but civilization would survive. A war with 2-3k nuclear detonations is better than one with 20k.

Particularly, tactical nuclear weapons need to be destroyed. They are more likely to be used because they aren't a holocaust on a rocket like strategic weapons are.
bless the internet archive for having an exception to the DMCA clause!
"the world" a euphemism for humanity. the world would last a lot long after a nuclear war than with continued human abuse.
It gets even more bizarre...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_March
Sure, there are scary and potentially troubling things going on in the world.

If you are waiting for scary things to pass, you'll wait forever.

There will never be a perfect utopian time when the economy is running 100% efficiently, when humanity is in perfect harmony with nature, when there are zero threats of war, etc.

Your argument doesn't address this simple truth: there has never been a better time and place for humanity as now in first-world nations. It isn't perfect -- as you point out there are serious problems to tackle -- and yet, it's never been better.
Thanks a lot for the mention, Benjie!

optimuspaul, I'd be very interested in learning more about your project, as this is something we're looking into as part of our roadmap. Would be great to have a chat in our Slack: https://slack.graph.cool/
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Well yeah, you can use any proof of work, proof of stake system to prevent it. However if you've got one of those, what would you need the proof of burn for?
Although the MBTI is widely criticized/weak, I’ve found it to be quite a lot of fun for having discussions about personality with friends/family.

The MBTI makes strong statements about personalities which inevitably leads to inaccuracies, but it does make for an interesting starting point to talk about the way that people interact.
Early on the OP has in part

> The problem was first identified by Sussman as a part of his PhD research. Sussman (and his supervisor, Marvin Minsky) believed that intelligence requires a list of exceptions or tricks, and developed a modular planning system for "debugging" plans. Most modern planning systems can handle this anomaly, but it is still useful for explaining why planning is non-trivial.

So, planning is "non-trivial"?

Hmm ....

Is that a new, surprising observation?

Okay, let's see:

(1) Suppose for positive integers m and n
we have m workers, n jobs for the workers to do, for each worker a list of what jobs they are able to do and want to assign each worker to one job, a different job for each worker, to get the most workers assigned. So, how might we do that?

(2) Suppose we also have for each pair of a worker and a job how fast that worker can do that job. Now we want to assign the workers to the jobs so that the slowest assignment made is as fast as possible.

For (2), once on a job, as I arrived to work, NASA had just called. They had two satellites, A and B. Each satellite had some number of channels for signals; each signal needed a channel, and each channel could server just one signal. The signals assigned to satellite A were already fixed. The question was how to assign the remaining signals to satellite B.

Here was the problem: For each signal assigned to a channel in B, there would be an angle in the sky between A and B where that assignment would cause signal interference.
So, the question was how to make the assignments to minimize the largest interference angle encountered.

(3) A fly by night small package delivery service has 33 fast airplanes wants to serve 90 US cities. Currently all the planes are in a central US city. The city has packages to be delivered to the 90 cities. All the planes are empty. And we have good estimates of the package loads at each of the 90 US cities to be carried by the planes to the central city.
We have good estimates for the operating capabilities and costs for the planes. We have time windows at each of the cities where the planes must arrive. The question is, which planes should go to which cities to carry all the loads, meet all the limitations and requirements, and minimize the total cost. If we can't guarantee to minimize the total cost to the last fraction of a penny, then get the total down as far as is reasonably possible and also have a lower bound number the total must be greater than or equal to and where the total is for practical terms close to that lower bound.

So, these three are all problems in planning.
Really, compared with the block stacking in the OP, none of the three problems is trivial.
It turns out that there is at least one polynomial algorithm for the first two problems, but no doubt even simple versions of the third problem are in NP-complete.

Lesson: We have long known that planning is non-trivial.
Right. That's why you only need one person to launch an ICBM. Oh wait.
>They're not "lowering their fee".

So a miner will never reduce the cost to include a transaction into their block, even when they aren't getting enough to fill up the block?

>They might stop mining altogether

Maybe, but any market can experience short term irrationality. Maybe it takes them a few hours to stop mining in which they lose money. Or maybe stopping operations costs enough money that the miner won't stop even at a small loss, at least for some amount of time.
I doubt that you doubt it.
BotW was developed for the Wii U. They've been promoting it to fans almost since the console's debut. Releasing it on that system was them living up to their promise. It's just a shame that it turned out to be the console's final major release.
Someone made a nice wrapper for react I've been using with good success.

https://github.com/PaulLeCam/react-leaflet
Could just use one of those hand vacuum cleaners that people use to clean cars. They're good enough to clean my stairs twice a week, at least.
From the wiki:
"Unfortunately, as krogan society became more technologically advanced, so did their weaponry. The end result is that they destroyed their homeworld in a nuclear war ... The krogan were reduced to primitive warring clans struggling to survive a nuclear winter of their own creation, a state that continued until they were discovered by the salarians two thousand years later."
I was talking about for the purposes of the job interview, I though that was obvious. Also you want to look a bit at the companies financials to get a feel for any equity based comp and also if the company looks like its in trouble - eg Carillion in the UK
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5a. I think the NOx and SOx auctioning markets are also a great example of privatization schemes that have been wildly successful (there's basically no acid rain in the US anymore). There's an argument out there that privatization in these two markets has been no better than regulation, I mean but it's almost a silly argument, because in the US regulation had zero buy-in, but privatization was acted on, so it got the job done.
Yes it was, from my reading of the article it was taxed for both profit and to make British-produced salt (ctrl+F Cheshire salt) more price competitive with local salt. There's a quote from 1881 in there:

Then again there is a still more wretched creature, who bears the name of labourer, whose income may be fixed at thirty-five rupees per annum. If he, with his wife and three children, consumes twenty-four seers [49 lb] of salt, he must pay a salt duty of two rupees and seven annas, or in other words 7 ½ per cent income tax.
Fun fact: LibreOffice Online uses Leaflet for tile rendering.
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> However it does not describe well how (server-side!) web-app architecture looks like.

Does it need to?
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There isn't a simple answer. The history of nuclear weapons is littered with near misses. The number is staggering!
If I am to infer a reason for the lack of our destruction I can think of three things that seem invariant from history. 1) we've been really lucky 2) we've been lucky because nuclear weapons are extremely difficult to detonate 3) it would seem that the raw power of nuclear weapons paradoxically has a sobering effect on those who wield them. In that no one who has them seems to actually want to use them this especially goes for those in the command chain responsible for firing them. Not to say at times there haven't been people who would or want to use them, just that nobody yet has.
I'd say that all the NP-complete problems are of this kind and much worse.
Completely felt the same about these kinds of apps previously and likely still do, I've a had a few people recommend them to me and I've dismissed them immediately because to meditate or clear my head I want less electronics, I want to be away from anything remotely related to pixels on a screen.

Since I haven't had much luck on my own, I recently started to use headspace, basically it's just audio of a guy talking for a few minutes. It's helped me quite a bit, I imagine this would work just as well if it were a teacher or friend but I feel few people have to have access to someone who will do that with them every day.

Each lesson gives some tips on how to help not remove thoughts but accept them which I always tried to manually delete thoughts but it always failed and there was too much resistance. I'm adverse to taking any type of anxiety medications so this is a much cheaper and risk-free alternative.

I don't pay for it as that does distract from the point but it's been beneficial (I think). It's likely not science, but it helped create a routine of letting yourself breathe for a bit which in itself is useful.
You didn't get that I was hinting that countries that don't have strict rules about who can call themselves engineers invented the core tech behind computers ditto Ethernet which was US and UK.
Indeed; Emacs is a place that I take with me wherever I go, because it adapts to wherever I put it with little to no configuration on my part. My tools come with me wherever I go, not unlike a travelling caravan.
> I am still here at this job, and I love it a lot. I love the people and the work I do a lot. And my mom is fine. I still am in Germany, I have a wonderful boyfriend and I live in a very cute house. All of this, despite my effort, may have never happened, who knows?

So hard work did pay off...
Yes, obviously you could give the program the goal of "Stack blocks in order A:B:C" but that's not the point of the conundrum here.

Imagine they are 30 different goals all of which need to be aligned in slightly odd ways to achieve the ultimate task. You're having to prioritize pieces in non-linear fashion to slowly build up the base as you're solving individual steps that seem entirely tangential to the overarching goal. You might have to take 4 or 5 steps back sometimes to achieve 1 step forward.

That's the problem here. It's not this simple 3 block solution: that's only used to get you to wrap your head around the simplest possible complexity.
Yep, my bad! Thanks for PostGraphQL, we are using it in production with lots of success :)
> To sum up the reason we have not seen use of weapons to-date is we've been incredibly lucky.

That, imo is the only correct conclusion. Anybody that wants to sell mutually assured destruction as a long term solution is missing the point that in the long term your luck will some day run out. That, besides obvious de-railings of the principle due to a lack of mental stability in leadership.
Do they know any personal information about you from your exchanges so far? If so, be careful because you might be liable if you disclose any vulnerabilities.
How do you get everyone to agree when the barrier to creating yet another crypto currency is so exceptionally low?
Fair point, I was mostly focused on the absurd cost for that specific implementation. What would you suggest as an alternative? A document-oriented database?
Conversations with a very supportive close friend who was finishing school and starting the career that I wanted. That along with reading this site years ago.

After enough conversations I started to realize that I knew this stuff already, that my instincts were right and that I could make a career out of development. I had and sometimes continue to have pretty significant self-esteem issues that held/hold me back.

I was finally motivated out of earning a low wage and taking a big risk on switching careers. So after the first time taking risks and going after the hardest challenge I could find, I've repeated that process and it pays off every time.

I've doubled my income about three times since then, have grown up quite a bit and can finally say that I'm approaching a happy place in my life.
Luckily one day these pesky humans with their own will and intelligence will be removed by Smart Contract that cannot be reverted or appealed. Hurray. :(
You mean a MUA (Mail User Agent) like outlook ?
> A global war would be horrific, but civilization would survive.

Humanity will survive. Civilization will be utterly destroyed for a long time to come.
Does anyone else remember the WinAmp era of music software? There was a time when basically every app for playing music on your computer lived inside a little floating window that you carried with you to all of the other apps you were using at the time.

That really did help me think of my music player as a tool and not a place. Though the little scrolling text could be distracting sometimes, I do occasionally find myself missing that style of interface.
In RAF ready-rooms there used to be photos of Soviet aircraft crews holding-up bottles of Pepsi to their intercepting NATO counterparts.

Now I know why.
I don't understand your point #2. Our president has reassured us that he is a stable genius.
Is http://openlayers.org/ the jQuery of web mapping now ?
> "After going to grayscale, I’m not a different person all of a sudden, but I feel more in control of my phone, which now looks like a tool rather than a toy."

Unfortunately, I do not think by turning the display settings to grayscale will change people's behavior. In order to break an addictive habit there has to be some change.

It may be hard to think about, but what they should be measuring is how much use someone is getting by using there phone. How often do you need to check x website, versus responding to your phone for emails.

It has to be a Catch-22 for the apple's and google's of the world that are dependent on consumers consuming content on the devices while making sure that the consumption remains healthy.

Reminds me of this story (Netflix checks in on Redditor after sudden bout of binge-watching)[https://www.techly.com.au/2017/12/14/netflix-checks-redditor...]
Another option people fail to consider is not pursuing a term sheet from Sequoia in the first place. Go get money from customers, instead.
Everything you said is very possibly true, and could increase road capacity, but these improvements are marginal and dominated by the fact that autonomous cars will cause more people to drive.

Simply put adding another car on the road immediately kills whatever savings may be had by reducing the space between cars and clumsy lane merging.

Right now reasons people don't drive include:

- Parking too expensive

- No license/ability to drive

- Car too expensive to purchase.

Autonomous cars sharing removes all those deterrents, and so this would cause an increase in drivers and cars on the road.
"On the Salt March: The Historiography of Mahatma Gandhi's March to Dandi" by Thomas Weber is very well written, detailed account on both the salt tax and the logistics of the march itself. I read it 4 years ago at a library in Lakshadweep. I still find it hard to imagine, that we lived under these extremely stupid laws made just to maximize British profit and create monopolies by destroying free markets. And, I find it so sad that the first independent government chose to double down on the control on the economy rather than just open it all up.
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Why not use one of the pleorhora of static markdown renderers and serve vanilla HTML if you're the bandwidth constrained?
"Smart luggage" seems like a dumb idea. If I want a battery I'll just buy a battery. I don't see what you gain from having your battery physically attached to your suitcase, aside from the gimmickry. Unfortunately there are a lot of people who love gimmicks and will probably buy it anyway.
there's a lot of engineering, technical, and cultural debt at Nvidia, while I wouldn't be surprised if they came out on top, I also wouldn't be surprised if they didn't.
Do you have any arguments about 2 except the hair color and surname?

Also try not to give me things that cnn has told you you should be outraged about
Exactly.

Your boss isn't doing their job, so "fire" them (get a new one).
Release it, in order to force a fix. If they won't do their due diligence and it's possible to exploit, nothing stops a malicious actor from taking advantage if they discover it. In the case of public disclosure, it forces them to acknowledge and fix the problem.
So, the article seems focused on apps that are claim to treat / address depression.
There is a difference in practicing mindfulness for "general" stress management v/s trying to use meditation / mindfulness to treat psychological illnesses.

A quick google [1,2] suggests there is some research emerging indicating that such apps can work.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030645301...

[2] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10902-014-9589-1 (via the headspace website).

I do not disagree with the central thesis of the article, i.e., the claims that many (most) of these apps make must be validated with clinical trials before they are allowed to make such claims; especially on issues such as depression & anxiety --> in effect, they are targeting the (potentially) desperate people looking for a solution

But I think going from "these claims should be validated" to "none of these apps are useful; its all snakeoil. Take a book and do it on your own" is a bit of a leap.

Meditation & mindfulness are personal experiences. Even the best book or coach that works for others may not work for me.
Calibrating my expectations and systematically trying different approaches (books, coaches, apps) is probably the only way I (or anyone) can find a method that fits one's personality / mindset.
I was more just thinking about how political actions/will/impacts can be simulated as a second resource in an economy much like how we simulate money. Think simulation/exploration/explanation of the idea, not recommendation.

I've developer a few simplistic economic simulations in the past for fun, some of which included land ownership, but I never considered adding each agent having the ability to modify the law of land ownership as part of the simulation. The comment made me think of what would the impact of adding it be, and if there is less validity of models which don't include it.
But if your good blockchain depends on a bad one (i.e. burning real-world resources), how is it ever going to require burning less real-world resources than only having a bad one? If you propose to just burn less, then any attacker is going to attack the weaker chain.
> Going from founding to an IPO takes what, 8-10 years?

probably, but an IPO is not the only event that triggers an equity payout. Getting sold/acquired will also trigger an equity payout, and those are much more common events than an IPO.
It's an almost stock Tegra X1 reference system. The hacks that got access to the system recently started with a Tegra backdoor/debug option Nvidia and Nintendo apparently forgot about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec4NgWRE8ik
>On Saturday, sending that second “false alarm” alert required extraordinary permission, delaying it for 38 minutes.

It was easy to unintentionally send a false alarm, but difficult to intentionally send a correction. Not a great system...
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They also had to robotically click through a dialog box to confirm... it is ABSOLUTELY the operators fault.

Do they run drills every 2 minutes? No, I doubt it, if you're running a drill on an actual attack scenario, how are you not being mindful of what you're doing and just acting robotically?

We train people in the military to act without thinking, but usually they aren't put in a position to use that training until they reflexively perform the correct action reliably in training.

If the UX is new, then they should have had training on it before doing a live drill and it's managements fault. If it isn't, then they fucked up and it's the operators fault.

Humans have agency and they're ultimately responsible. We really want the ultimate authority for whether our missile defense is effective to be whatever UX shop that HEMA/DoD outsource to?
I'm not sure about the idea that a miner could guess -- the point of a cryptographic hash is to make that impractical. We're not talking about CRC32 here. If there was discussion out there about protocols that involve keeping salts private I could be persuaded that it's a valid idea.
I think there is certainly a massive amount of uneducated speculation going on in the crypto currency world, but saying things like "no one cares about decentralization" shows a foolish lack of knowledge about the whole space.

A lot of very smart people care passionately about decentralization and the technology is going to change a lot of things. It seems like from your post history you're going to have to be dragged kicking and screaming into the future.
Which is it CLI or GUI is better for you its not clear and for an experienced developer often CLI is better than GUI a shell to MySQL is better that the abomination that is PHPMYSQL.
> I may have jumped the gun here myself, I tend to get a little overzealous...

I sometimes make the same thing. It's perfectly OK, we are all human. We all have some technology we like to protect as our only child (my soft spot is low-level & high performance tech). The key is to be able to recognize one's reaction and tune it little by little. I had my share in both sides of a flamewar and I'm very well done in that respect. BTW, I didn't feel like you did. I just wanted to say we sometimes overreact, and even if we don't project it to otherside or just to outside, we can learn from the experience.

> If you do, I recommend doing a complete uninstall of it...

I've completely removed every atom related folder from my home folder some time ago. I'll install the latest .deb package and progressively experiement with it. I won't tie anything important to that setup, so it will be an experiment bench for me.

I'm using Eclipse for ~10 years, so I know the effort you put into setting it up. It's always worth it, don't worry. I maintain three eclipse installations (home, office, laptop) and they sync their settings over Oomph. So when I improve something in one, all three benefits :) When you use something for a very long time and set it up to your liking, it feels like home. :)
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We are kind of talking about different things. I'm talking about how at the protocol level the contents of the longest chain do not matter, it is by rule the "consensus blockchain".

It naturally flows from there that as long as you can calculate blocks faster than the network, you can rewrite past transactions, with the speed difference restricting how far back you can rewrite.

There's no need to do it in an instant and doing it in an instant isn't any different than doing it more slowly (other than the amount of hidden hash power revealed).