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Please, give randomness some time to act out.

I hope no one thinks that we have 100.00000% reliable processes to avoid a nuclear war, taking both positive and negative human factors into account.

Eventually the current setup will fail us if we don't develop into a more civilized society where pointing armed nukes at each other is not needed.
> does anyone else think that articles like this are fueled self interested parties who don't have a stake in crypto?

Journalists aren’t supposed to have a stake in the subject they cover. That’s the point. Not having a stake in cryptocurrency is “disinterested,” not “self-interested.”
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This.

Surprisingly enough, a human is much more likely to find oneself alive in a world in which humanity was not nearly made extinct by nuclear war.

Exponentially so, if we assume, reasonably, that even if humans survived (technically) a nuclear war, their descendants would take 100s of thousands of years or longer to recover to pre apocalypse levels, vs. non nuclear war realities where the population simply keeps increasing exponentially, leading exponentially many more humans to find themselves existing in that "timeline."
That is brilliant. Plus, sometimes these open source projects are just a script that does something useful. Side projects rarely scale linearly.
I had the same problem a few months back with my machine. I had to manually install a couple updates, which fixed the issue. Search for "windows 7 won't update" via Bing or Google. I'm sorry I can't be more specific....
I very much doubt that.
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Maybe not to the price, but certainly to the movement. A majority of users don't care about decentralization. Ethereum proved that.

The only thing most people want from cryptocurrencies is more USD than they put in.

Editted to better represent reality.
It's pretty handy for connecting with other companies, especially as a startup. I was there this year, helping out with someone else's booth, and I'd say the primary value was the number of manufacturing / marketing / partnership contacts that were able to be made by having a booth.

I'm not sure how many people we talked to will end up being buyers, but I'm pretty sure that we met people who will help the company succeed.

As a side note, I found the startup area so much more interesting than the main halls. Who cares about seeing a TV that's slightly larger than your last one, when you can learn about a treadmill that's thin and light enough to tuck between the couch and the wall, or a pet food feeder that detects which pet to feed based on their vet microchips?
I find it weird people keep saying they lose the ego-based view of the world after taking psychedelics, it has had the complete opposite effecf on me. I know the experience is very personal but I have never read about experiences similar to mine. I become very ego-centric and just think about how I can get the most out of the world.

I do think it has affected me positively overall. I find it easier to work through tough times in order to reach what I want these days.
As always, the key factors are set and setting, i.e., how you are feeling mentally in terms of your comfort zone and confidence that things will go well, and the environment in which you have the experience, especially the kinds of people you surround yourself with.

Meaningful experiences can be had even on quite low doses so I encourage everyone to at least do some research in good faith. One good place to start is Erowid.
> Re your PS, there will still be an old and new consensus blockchain no matter how fast you calculate the replacement.

Yes, of course. In fact, at any point in time there are always multiple blockchains, one for every miner burning energy to add a new block.

However, only the longest blockchain (with the greatest proof-of-work) is valid. As soon as there's a longer valid blockchain, the miners discard their individual work-in-progress blockchains and switch to the one with the most proof-of-work.

That longest blockchain is the Bitcoin blockchain. That is the blockchain one would have to modify to alter the transaction history in the Bitcoin network without forking.

FWIW, I don't think we disagree; I feel like we've been talking about slightly different things until just now.
So it wasn't totally implausible to think they could deliver a jump jet in exchange for enough points. :)
> "Open" has been a way to describe how money is not necessary except when you need it but never do if you have rich parents or are catering to old school investors

I do not understand this.
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Two weeks after earning a PhD in medical research, I was driving down the highway and saw a terrible accident right in front of me. I pulled over and attended to an unconscious man in a crushed vehicle. Myself and several other good Samaritans tried to resuscitate him, but failed.

It was fathers day. I would later find out he was about 40 with two kids. Way too young.

For a time I blamed myself for not being a "real doctor", and I developed PTSD and alcoholism. Years later however, what emerged from that pain was a medical research nonprofit that applies genomics and digital health to hopefully extend the most lives. It's my only passion, really.

Sometimes we create the most amazing things by responding to terrible tragedies. It has taken me 4 years to see the silver lining in that scenario.
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I am not quite sure how to use the app :(
It's not entirely true they didn't put out any Zelda games for the WiiU, just not any "flagship titles that were WiiU exclusives." They rereleased The Wind Waker and Twilight Princess. Hyrule Warriors was a WiiU Zelda title but it wasn't a flagship action RPG title, it was a hack and slash.

(I also believe that Breath of the Wild was originally developed for the WiiU)
It seems I'm heading in similar direction as author of the post. I switched from Gnome to i3 (I don't even have display manager installed), from Nautilius to ranger and then to [lf](https://github.com/gokcehan/lf). I use a lot of CLI tools like weechat. I'v been using Emacs for few months but now I prefer Kakoune - it's easier to customize. My [website](https://www.teddydd.me/) is pure html+css brutalism without single line of JavaScript...

I just feel tired of huge, complicated software that requires big time investment to customize. I want things to be simple and modular. My setup is not beautiful, might have fewer features than full DE, but it's ergonomic and I understand what all my configs do.
I agree. Also, most development happens with ambiguous requirements and wants that can never be translated/interpreted correctly by machine (yet?)

Also, most work is some form of addition to an existing code base that simply cannot be re-written every time.
Is it that easy? If the USA declares 'no first use' do I believe it? How much more than UK, Russia, China, ... Israel, Pakistan, North Korea?

In fact, only America has ever actually used a nuclear bomb in a real war. On the balancing side, they've had a series of de-escalating disarmament treaties with the former USSR, so could be argued to be heading in the more peaceful direction than counties further down my list.

In the game Civilization I know that Gandhi will always, left to his own devices, eventually nuke me, because of a historical in-game joke. The real world is a lot less predictable.
Brings to mind this old but good article from A List Apart: https://alistapart.com/article/neveruseawarning

(Not to suggest that could or should be the solution in this particular case — obviously undo doesn’t seem like the right fit once the alert has gone out).
No the goal is not to dilute early employees so their shares are worthless. You’re mixing up symptoms with cause.
I've worked and had roles where I had a non-existent manager.

If it is really really that bad, it's a much better outcome to leave amicably versus fighting to fix the issue. Remember that software is a very small industry we all work together in.

There's no candid way to fix your manager's behavior if they are non-existent, or completely detached from their team. Especially if your manager's manager does not care or know.
Probably breaking up with my 5yr girlfriend at ~26
I changed my name when I married (am male). I haven't had any problems or repercussions changing names, professionally or personally.

Some reasons why I changed name:

1. My kids and I now share all surnames.

2. I had no relation to any parts of the family that shared my previous last name.

3. It felt a teeny weeny bit progressive being the male who changed.

Not everything is black and white and needs to focus on business needs... :) Accounts were easily renamed (except Skype, bluh) and no one has asked me for any of my papers or research. Just add them to your profile as you would before you changed name.
Just pick one from this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Kim_Jong-il%27s_titles
Give All The Myriad Ways by Larry Niven a read - https://archive.org/stream/Galaxy_v27n03_1968-10#page/n31/mo... . Its not a world (or multiworlds) I would want to live in.
IMO, post to the Full Disclosure mailing list[1]. I'd do it anonymously if worried about legal action, but sign the message with a new PGP key. That way I can claim the discovery later if that becomes advisable.

[1] http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/
It's not forced but where it's culturally common it's often the default presumption.

My wife didn't change her name but that meant she has a different surname to our children. That can cause minor annoyances in airports, for example. It's not a big deal, and it's fairly predictable, but it's a thing.
And economics can easily account for that. Instead of saying the cost needed to product some number of blocks changes over time by 0, you instead say it changes over time by f(t). You then subtract f(t) (or add, depending upon how you treat the sign) from any actual decrease in cost to mine, and then apply the same logic.

Say the cost to mine falls by x (cheaper energy or some others amount), and x < f(t). x - f(t) < 0. The decrease in cost is less than 0, meaning the cost effectively increased since it didn't decrease by the amount needed due to the built in difficulty increase.

Normal economics works this same way due to scarcity, though the default change in cost into the future is far less sure of a thing. Take mining gold. Given that gold is mined from the cheapest to mine spots first, the more gold you mined, the more the cost of mining the same amount of gold. Maybe a new mine filled with easier to mine gold is found, maybe a current mine runs out of gold much sooner than expected, but it works in a similar manner.
the appeal of the switch is portability, if you need a powerful gaming laptop to run it it's defeating the purpose, but for posterity it's a good project to keep an eye on.
The problem with the "simple" solution of "just add more supply" is that supply creation is physically restrained by real world factors. It's not lines on a chart like in econ 101 class.

New development is constrained by available trades, construction times, design time, and city review time. Already the City of Vancouver has increased development application fees in order to hire more persons to review development applications faster.

In my neighbourhood there is a high rise under construction that is still not completed but already one year over due. The development industry is continuously stating that more supply is required, but they can't even finish building their own buildings.
And: 3) Clean my house automatically every day or so.
You don't advocate drugs, but everyone should take mushrooms?

That's advocating drugs!
> For example a large attack by India towards Pakistan

That's 8th on the list in the movie Wargames :)

https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/24ujzq/for_fans_of_...
It's interesting to think about this question by asking a similar question. If you live in a house full of people, why hasn't anyone killed anyone else yet?

It's a gruesome question, but the point is that even though people living together will certainly have arguments, someone who is sane will never seriously consider killing someone else.

Ultimately nations usually act as if they are scaled up people, which makes sense because they are run by people.

Full scale nuclear war represents the probability of complete and total annihilation for all parties involved. At this scale of destruction, war becomes an existential crisis for nations themselves, which is intolerable to a nation itself - no longer just a nation's citizens - which, from a nation's perspective, are expendable.

This may seem callous, but we need to recognize that organisms of different scales have different sets of concerns and priorities from one another. Just as we often don't think twice about doing something that would cause cells in our bodies to die, like binge drinking on the weekend - which from our cells' perspective would amount to a holocaust - nations have historically not thought twice about going to war when such war represented a minimal existential threat, even if a few thousand soldiers would have to die.

Nuclear war represents total destruction of nations in a way that traditional modes of warfare fought, say, between 17th century European powers did not, as this earlier warfare - while bloody and terrible for the individual soldier - would usually at worst (from a national perspective) lead to the loss of a few territories, which is tolerable.
Ahhhh! Thanks for the correction.
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> don't hesitate to join our Discord and talk to bunnei

Is that you bunnie? Or someone from Boston who was inspired by bunnie?

(bunnie = https://www.bunniestudios.com/ reverse engineer too, graduate from MIT)
I think the lottery analogy is a good one. I look at success as winning a lottery. Hard work doesn't guarantee a win, but it does buy more tickets. Likewise, all of the various privileges you may be born into (right nationality, race, gender, etc.) are basically a batch of tickets handed to you for free.
The main social problem comes when you have kids: if partners have different names, the kids will have names that don't match one of the partners, or will need a hyphenated-combination of the two.

The ramifications of this will depend on how common it is for women to not change their names in your particular locale: if it's uncommon, there will be some confusion when people expect children and parents' names to match, as well as people wondering about whether the child is actually your stepchild, etc. Of course, those judgmental/insensitive reactions are inappropriate, but they do happen.
Living in the Bay area, I found the story of the filling in of the San Francisco Bay to be interesting. It used to be that you could not own part of the bay, but you could fill part of it in and own the new land. And many did. Had nothing been done to stop that, it would have been filled in by now.

There's a documentary about it.

http://savingthebay.org/

I believe strongly in private property and think if you can use it to solve such a problem, you should. But not all problems can be solved that way. Regulation stopped the filling in of the Bay, which, if allowed to continue, would have been an enormous loss. It was certainly the only solution people could see at the time. And I can't envision an alternative that would work.

Other problems, like overfishing, can be solved with property. The right to harvest a particular population at a particular time (and that can be bought and sold) creates an incentive not to overfish.

But not all types of ownership make sense. A resource owned by many people, all competing to extract all they can before the other owners do is itself just like a tragedy of the commons. Water rights often work this way. Better for these folks to have shares in a corporation that owns the resource. Better for them and better for the long term use of the resource. Even public ownership would be better than a privately owned tragedy of the commons.
Thanks! Very insightful
I thought people are being paid for the value they provide. Being in a technical role is not just fun and games. There is a lot of responsibility and stress too. I would argue that good technical people provide more value than some middle manager so they should get paid accordingly.
I see this as a very positive direction for back-end persistence services. There are similar projects underway for .Net and SQL Server. Also, there are compatible front-end libraries that follow suit. What I find most compelling is to finally be reunited with the RAD (Rapid Application Development) approaches that we had 30 years ago.
> I still find it amazing that Stanislav Petrov was fired from his job...

If he were promoted he might have spoken about the faulty system to the wrong pointy haired boss.

This is speculation, but Russian Christians have a strong sense of sacrifice, and sacrificing your career for saving the world may seem appropriate somehow.
I bought my Switch after playing BotW via CEMU.

I have a WiiU, but trying out BotW at 1600p was intriguing.
It's a nice time to remember there are many types of meditation, and to know your goal of meditating, which can range from being more calm or peaceful, to enlightenment or connection with God. In terms of types of meditations, some are more active and dynamic. One of the easiest and most blissful is kirtan, which is chanting in a group, usually with some instruments/music. It can be helpful to perform a more active meditation first in order to settle the mind, after which a still meditation can be more fruitful.
'land ownership' is a totally artificial construct. We can create (and have created) private ownership models that work extraordinarily well. For example, NOx and SOx emissions permits in the US are issued as simple, auctioned tokens. That is a propertization model.

Generally, the simpler these models are, the better, because complicating matters generally creates opportunities for bizzare arbitrage. By contrast, the proposed CO2 cap and trade (in the US) has so many well-intentioned loopholes with credits and the like that it will almost certainly cause unintended consequences like where an Indian manufacturer created and then sequestered a high-greenhouse-potential gas, resulting in a net emissions of CO2 (as well as a pointless use of resources).
Rowing for 3 years and rowing coaching for 2 years after that.

Turned a skinny geek into a less skinny geek with a girlfriend.

The skill of rowing is very well suited to geeks.

The confidence I generated from rowing stayed with me, for decades now.

Doesn't mean I'm that confident, but pretty much all the confidence I do have comes from that intense period.
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In the game series "Mass Effect" there is a race called the Krogans which destroy themselves in nuclear war at about 1950s era technology levels, leaving their world completely destroyed and in nuclear winter.

When you come across them in the game it's been many generations since that event and they still havent recovered and only get into space because other aliens come by and "lift them up".

Would not be surprised if this is the fate of humanity as well
"no first use" is begging the enemy to attack first.
My chaotic good character says release it! Or at least write a blog post about it, how it is exploitable etc. but either don't give the information about company or preferably say who it is, proof that this can be done but don't give any information how to do it. When it will get to general public the company should realise that they're pants are on fire.

My solution is not the politically correct way of doing it but I think that people who don't care about security should be punished
It's more common in the emulation scene. The two emulators that Retron5 infringes on have licenses roughly based on MIT/BSD, but with no-commercial-use clauses added.

https://github.com/snes9xgit/snes9x/blob/master/docs/snes9x-...

https://github.com/ekeeke/Genesis-Plus-GX/blob/master/LICENS...
The conclusion of this article is almost breathtakingly naive. I was assigned to HQ US Air Forces Europe during the Able Archer exercise in November 1983, which triggered mobilization of Soviet nuclear forces. I've been thinking about that experience for most of my life. Here are a few points from long reflection.

1.) Any system that continuously depends on single individuals to make the right decision to avoid catastrophe is defective by design. In the Able Archer case our boss Leonard Perroots made an instinctive decision to stand down that prevented the escalation from going further. [0]

2.) The US and Russia had disciplined command and control systems plus relatively stable political leadership. That won't always be the case; in the case of the US it's arguably not the case now.

3.) During most of the Cold War there were two main actors with nuclear weapons. There are now at least 9. [1] If instability in the US breaks trust in the nuclear umbrella I would expect that number to increase rapidly. Even the US/NK standoff is a multi-polar problem, something that seems to have escaped most US-based commentators.

To sum up the reason we have not seen use of weapons to-date is we've been incredibly lucky. Given the known miscalculations in the incidents to date that's unlikely to last.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/10/us/leonard-perroots-dead....

[1] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/the-nine-co...
Storing millions of tiny files in any filesystem is a terrible choice.
Unfortunately organic doesn't guarantee humane treatment of animals.
Blog it! Vendors uniformly crave +ve blog coverage, and fear -ve coverage. If you put together a blog post full of vendor and product names and tech detail on the vulnerabilities, designed for high PageRank, you'll soon have their attention. You'll probably tire very quickly of them begging you to remove or edit the post. The PR saying "no such thing as negative publicity" doesn't apply in our industry sector!
Ah, yes, this is using Code Quotations to generate code into OpenCL. Useful, but unfortunately, not something that is likely to work on .NET Core for a number of reasons today.
Could you elaborate a little?
This is possible, but probably represents a drastic misunderstanding of MWI/QM. I’d you’re thinking I. Terms of branches from quantum superpositions, then it would be a certainty, but a certainty among u counted multitudes. If you’re thinking Quantum Suicide... just no. Nuclear war does not fulfill the requirements of that gedanken.
This is a very interesting topic to me, so much so I wrote a small sci-fi novella called Assiyah Rising that addresses this very topic. It's set in the modern day, but it contains historical flashbacks to Vasili Arkhipov and Stanislav Petrov, two men who prevented large scale nuclear wars. Disturbingly, those were just two instances in a long list of near nuclear disasters that happened during the short period of time we have had nuclear weapons.

If anyone is interested, you can get the book on Amazon for a buck or you can download for free on Smashwords. It should be a quick and easy read.

https://www.amazon.com/Assiyah-Rising-Part-T-H-Ansz-ebook/dp...

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/759765
> Ultimately nations usually act as if they are scaled up people, which makes sense because they are run by people.

This is such a breathtakingly incorrect statement - as in, completely wrong - that I can’t imagine for the life of me why you believe it. All evidence is that no, countries (and companies) do not behave like their constituent parts, and attempting to (lazily) hang your metaphor on “well let’s just talk about how individuals act” is entirely wrong and pointless.