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Good point and I agree that beetoken and all the other Airbnb on blockchain are vaporware so far but this is just a regular web app airbnb clone that happens to offer payment in crypto. Hardly anything innovative and a feature that airbnb could add in a week (in fact I've heard payment in crypto in airbnb is something that may be coming soon).
Is it me or does this look more like those "Cloud VPS" type of services other companies offer. If you use 5x more than your initial plan in a month, does it just scale up automatically or do you have to contact support to upgrade first?
Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuTkgi7scKo
I wouldn't know about Chrome. But I do know I've never had a problem with malware extensions. And I know I edit mine. So I know Firefox is no longer the browser to use.

I get that Mozilla's response is, "Don't let the door hit you." But it can't pretend to still be for power users.
Oof. The first few minutes of the first video is kinda hard to watch. They seem to make a big deal about where she is from. There is an obvious reaction when she says she's married to a Turk. The guy on the right threatens to leave.

This all before she starts singing.

I know the video is from 2008, but is everything OK over there in Bulgaria?
The first time I saw this song on YouTube, it was a very different version. Same music, but different video, in black and white and more of a large scale dance number, not like the schoolroom theme from the video in this article.

Here is a mix that starts with the color schoolroom version, and then at 3:30 cuts to the older version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G96luhHhxnI

I wonder if anyone has a link to that old black and white version? I don't seem to find it any more and would be curious to see it again. Thanks!
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Unfortunately a lot of these don't work anymore in Firefox in newer versions. No idea why. (alt-b for example)
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Also recent phones have glonass and galileo support right? (So you don't rely just on gps).
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I read about it first in The Intelligent Investor By Graham, but it's nice to get a more in depth description of this anecdote.

One of my friends once asked me how the growth in cryptocurrency value i an unsustainable bubble when so many smart and math proficient people believe in it. This is a handy bit of Newton trivia to make the point that the intelligent investor is not necessarily the one with the best math proficiency but the one who understands and abuses market folly. When everyone goes right look if there's anything of value people might've missed to the left.
I was expecting "l'8 di gennaio"...
That chart shows a little under 10x from beginning to peak. Many people compare cryptocurrencies to the South Sea company, however, many of the different cryptocurrencies have gone 15-30x within the last year.

A lot of the hype in the media seems to be gone (or is now "doom and gloom"), so it will be interesting to see whether or not today's values can be sustained without a high rate of people continously buying in.
> Because any extension or sufficiently capable malware on your system can change about:config values, meaning that if Mozilla ever makes a mistake in the extension approval process and lets a malicious extension slip through, or you get such malware on your PC, then that extension/malware would be able to flip that config bit and open the flood gates for all malicious extensions.

If such a malicious extension or other malware got installed, it could already do anything another malicious unsigned extension could, so I don't see how having this setting weakens security under the assumption that there's already malicious code running.

If we assume a system is compromised, it may as well install other malware as normal binaries instead of a Firefox extension.
Datomic uses distributed storage, writes are coordinated by a single instance (transactor). Reads don't block writers and immutability allows to query consistent snapshots. Does that address your concern?
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No, retire. :-)
The software is less restrictive than the last version.
Only 15 points after 22 hours... For Linux desktop users (well, the technical ones) this story should be interesting news. Looks like nobody bothers to get excited anymore after so many years of hopes and disappointments.
Got me through the last crunch of my dissertation. One weekend with italo disco and liters of Earl Grey tea.
They slap a 'but you can pay in BTC' to it and call it revolutionary.

No, it won't be revolutionary when AirBnB starts accepting cryptocurrency. In fact, it'll fold immediately.
In my experience live.com was an easy fix.

But gmail was not. Even as a business user with support.

Gmail rejects me as an ugly spammer at the gate when using IPv6 but not when using IPv4.

My IP addresses are not listed in any public blacklists.

And the Borg hivemind is not able to tell me why. Gmail support is friendly but have no knowledge of their filter nor an escalation path.

The amusing part is they reject me as a bulk sender. But when I register into their bulk mailer program my volume is too low.

This is with strict SPF, DKIM, DMARC and registered with dnswl.org.
Because markets move quicker than they did in the 18th century. These bubbles have progressively grown and collapsed quicker and quicker with the introduction of railways, telegraphs, phones, improvements in printing presses, radio, television and finally the Internet. The pattern is still the same.

You can look at Railway Mania, the Oil boom of the mid 1800s, the Florida property boom, the airline boom of the early 20th century and the Dot Com boom of the late 90s for reference if you want and you can see that they become progressively quicker.
> It's a bit like Amway

Nailed it.
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I wonder if it's improvised or scripted. At least the choir part must be scripted, but the rest of the song seems like an awfully long sequence of arbitrary nonsense to memorise.

It's not impossible though. When I was 5 years old, I used to listen to one particular record by Victor Jara about three times a day. I didn't know a word of Spanish, but I could recite something resembling those lyrics from start to finish.

After learning a bit of Spanish decades later, I listened to that record again. Imagine my utter confusion when the words I thought I had remembered turned out to be not words but arbitrary sequences of sounds unrelated to word boundaries :)
I simply assume that the article is written for people who already know what an index is.
This made me think about how text generated from a hidden markov model can look like real sentences but is usually just gibberish.
It doesn't count in France neither.
1. Most bubbles are not global but geographically restricted in some way; crypto is global.

2. There is some value to Blockchain technology, so the value is not $0.

3. When comparing, given all of these assets had a starting value of effectively $0 at launch, you should probably look at them from an angel investment PoV. Peter Thiel got similar returns when investing in Facebook.

I'm not saying crypto is (entirely) comparable to Facebook in value (it might, it might not -- too early), but that's how I think the gains could make sense. It's valued like an internet startup, and then some.

4. The global market is still tiny? The entire crypto space is $550bn in market cap. Facebook is $552bn in market cap.

Valuations have probably gotten ahead of themselves and a lot of the smaller coins will die eventually, but it's still a blip in the grand scheme of things.

5. There is too much capital in the world. Too much cheap debt. Too much free money. This will fuel the mania. You could have put $2m in the stock market in 2008-2009, and if you used leverage in a smart way, could have ended up with $75-100m.
It's more safe to own a billion dollars worth of land then to have a billion dollar at the bank. And definitely more safe then having a billion worth of crypto currency. The more interesting question though is how they got the money.
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Mozilla has released a v0.1.0 American Englisch model, check the releases GitHub page of Deep Speech.
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Over here in Eastern Europe it kind of did rule, along with French music. I mean, as a kid of the ‘80s I knew lots and lots of Italian and French singers (and actors), while I had only heard about Michael Jackson, Madonna, Elvis and The Beatles from the Anglo-Saxon countries. France and Italy had many steps ahead in terms of “soft power” and “mass culture dominance” in the ‘70s and the ‘80s, but they somehow have failed to capitalize on it and we are all now under US cultural dominance, with some British undertones (not that there’s anything wrong with that, just stating the facts). There are some “return of these repressed” French and Italian cultural presences here and there in nowadays mainstream mass culture (with Tarantino and his love for Italian movies of that era being the best example) but otherwise we’re living in a mono-cultural world, of which this article is a prime example (they had to explain to its readers who Celentano is, for instance).
Along the same vein, there's a skit done entirely using fake english: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt4Dfa4fOEY
There are lots of ways to make star wars holograms that are much more accessible than this. With our new depth sensors and some other really stupid tricks you can achieve that. There's a reason Apple is hiring like crazy for AR designers. We are pretty closer to in that future.

If you're looking for the bleeding edge of what's here now, RED[1] the camera company is putting out a hologram cell phone probably like next month I guess with a hologram display from a company literally called leia[2].

[1]https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/9/8/16272838/re...

[2]http://www.leiadisplay.com/
You mean dichotomy, and the war is pretty much over everything supports python3 now.
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The software is more restrictive than it was several versions ago.

I’ll also refer to AviD's rule of security: Security at the expense of usability comes at the expense of security.
Also known colloqually as the "stuck-up-prude fallacy", "bloody-internet-atheists fallacy" and most famously the "you're-not-wrong-walter-you're-just-an-asshole fallacy".
Hopefully this story reaches desks of non-IT executives who see security as pure cost. I've got a friend in a port and the day Maersk got hit, it was pandemonium - employees were told to go to local electronics shops and get laptops just to get basic computing and connectivity.
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Judging by the descriptions, these VirtualBox bugs are all in the device emulation, host-to-guest communications framework and so on, so they would apply equally whether the VM was using virtualization hardware or instruction emulation. This isn't unique to VirtualBox's track record -- the 'attack surface' for a VM is almost entirely in the device models, where software bugs allow VM escapes. The hardware virtualization is much less likely to cause problems: CPU bugs are rare compared to software bugs. In fact I think a pure-emulation setup would be worse off, because there's a lot more potentially buggy software doing the emulation that the guest can try to exploit. If you don't see those in a CVE list it's because nobody's bothering to try to exploit whatever emulator you're using, or because the emulator doesn't promise guest isolation and doesn't track bugs as CVEs. Comparison of raw CVE counts is tricky and risks apples-to-oranges problems.
There is no particular reason to expect that qemu has any greater security that vbox. All of these systems have a significant amount of very critical code; I particularly sceptical of the hardware emulation part.

AWS recently started moving from a custom Xen to a custom KVM, but it doesn't seem it was for security reasons. Xen certainly is heavily used by public cloud providers.
Without reading the comments, guess the original song here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOjxmR6mXBY

edit: for context, the whole album is a mashup of 'perceived' Asian motifs mashed together to create a recognisable but fake aesthetic.
Texting and callung are very different, sync vs. async.
The military leave system doesn't discount weekends. So 30 days is closer to 4 weeks. You also can't chain together a weekend at the start or end of your leave. You must use leave for the weekend.

Also, most line units have block-leave, meaning you can only take leave in prescribed periods which limits flexibility.
The sole problem crypto currency solves is the problem of centralization. Regarding the Airbnb case, why would people want to pay the Airbnb commission when they can have direct payment and bookkeeping using the blockchain?

Of course there are still the (important) issues of disputes, insurance etc. that are provided by the centralized entity. These might be solved in the future and might be not.
Wow amazing! A point of pride for bulgarians is that one of our folk songs ended up on the gold record onboard Voyager 1 [1]. I knew about japanese groups singing bulgarian folk songs but this amarican one is new to me, thanks for the link.

A fun inter-cultural song is from the italian band Elio el e Storie Tese that recorded one with the choir of bulgarian national radio - “Pippero” [2]. Its sad that there aren’t many modern collaborations like that as it sounds very magical and beautiful to me.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valya_Balkanska

[2]https://youtu.be/l3hlxHhuyaE
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Where can I subscribe to this? I've had a drone fly away once..
http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/press/index.cfm?id=1589

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2013/11/12/w...

https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dispu_e/cases_e/ds487_e...

http://www.airbus.com/newsroom/press-releases/en/2012/03/swe...
Thanks for sharing! Have you got more of these? I'd appreciate recommendation of artists/songs to check out.
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Hateful. Annoying. Thank goodness for kbd remapping
They tried:
"This project is an Electron-compatible app shell for creating desktop apps based on Gecko, the rendering engine used in Firefox."
https://github.com/mozilla/positron

but they failed:
"As noted in the blog post Positron Discontinued [1], this project has been discontinued. The source remains available, and you're welcome to reuse it."
[1] https://mykzilla.org/2017/03/08/positron-discontinued/
I have no doubt that almost any industrial concern you care to name headquarters elsewhere than the colloquial locale. Does it alter the point being made where it works and where decisions are made? If I said airbus decides in Toulouse will you point out where the board actually meets?
Silly question: isn't this phenomenon bound by the Nyquist limit, which means it would take at the very least 4k fps to reconstruct music (considering that a soprano can get no higher than 2 kHz)? That sounds like an impossibly high framerate.
That's a leftover thing back from Ottoman Empire times. There is not a lot of love for Turkish people in Bulgaria.

So the situation isn't great but it's been not great for a long time.
And he didn't. The closest I know is the account described at https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Richard_Feynman :

> Feynman was a truly great teacher. He prided himself on being able to devise ways to explain even the most profound ideas to beginning students. Once, I said to him, "Dick, explain to me, so that I can understand it, why spin one-half particles obey Fermi-Dirac statistics." Sizing up his audience perfectly, Feynman said, "I'll prepare a freshman lecture on it." But he came back a few days later to say, "I couldn't do it. I couldn't reduce it to the freshman level. That means we don't really understand it."

"Beginning students" here means beginning college students. Not toddler.
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I haven't tried it yet, but this is supposed to be the equivalent but for the Youtube app: https://f-droid.org/packages/org.schabi.newpipe/
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(Disclaimer: I created and maintain this library which is now apart of the eclipse foundation):

http://nd4j.org/ - in built GPU garbage collector and everything.

If you want raw cuda primitives (not generally recommendended and hard to do right) - you can take a look at our javacpp based (we also maintain this) cuda bindings:
https://github.com/bytedeco/javacpp-presets/tree/master/cuda

Unlike jcuda (which people typically recommend despite not being updated as often) we actually depend on this for the nd4j and deeplearning4j projects.

These cuda bindings are meant to be a 1 to 1 mapping to the cuda api as well. Hope this helps!

If you want a fairly small and minimalistic look at the underlying c code which uses cuda take a look at:
https://github.com/deeplearning4j/libnd4j

All of this is published on maven central for you and runs on linux, windows and even mac. It's also the same api. All you do is switch the backend.
Why the hell are YouTube ads allowed to run 3rd party javascript, and since when??

That's the biggest question not answered by Google. Why wasn't there a big outcry when this became possible? They can do all sorts of shit, not just mine crypto.

This used to be the single biggest thing not to do. The possibility of running 3rd party Javascript in Google's ad networks used to be one of the biggest nightmare scenarios if it got exploited, but the article (or the Google rep) doesn't mention anything about an exploit, it's as if 3rd party javascript running on their ad network is expected behaviour, just the fact that it's running a crypto miner isn't?!

There's no way in hell I am ever going to not block Google's ads after this. "Youtubers" and "Content Creators" can cry all they want over whitelisting their channel or site in particular because of all the hard work etc, but not if they want me to run a hostile ad network's code.
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Why not use solutions like iRedmail or Mail in a box?

iRedmail - https://www.iredmail.org/
Mail in a box - https://mailinabox.email/

They allow you to setup your own mail server and yet make it easier to get started.

I have been using iRedmail and it has been working well so far.
What you describe is most often called something like "Rubber duck debugging", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging . I learned it as "talking to the wall" debugging.
Ubuntu PPAs are somewhat like that.
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I think there is potential for using smart contracts for traditional agent based hotel bookings. Settlement of these booking between the agent (ie., booking.com) and the hotelier is a messy and complicated process. It varies from invoicing or manual transfer, to generating virtual credit cards and emailing them to the front desk.

Using a contract to do this actually makes a lot of sense and could limit breakage (where the supplier doesn't or can't charge the agent for the booking).

My main concern about this (which isn't addressed anywhere in the white paper) is privacy. If this is done poorly, you are effectively linking accounts on a public ledger with real world locations and dates. Not only that, the guest and the host know a lot about the financial state of each.
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But how do they go to the destination? Or pickup users from their location?
Reminds me of the Dutch hip hop song Watskeburt?! by De Jeugd van Tegenwoordi. Someone made Norwegian subtitles for this as if the song was in Norwegian, and it actually makes sense (sort of).

Watskeburt means what's up, while vaske bur can be translated to cleaning cages.

[NSFW] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YiVhFgN7I_M
Here's a great one from Estonia, featured in this very weird Soviet-era movie https://youtu.be/jpW9Fcrw5kE
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They often mean "badly written logic in badly configured MySQL". Logic in DB(2) literally powers our world.
I remember visiting my dads radio enthusiast friend when I was a kid in the early '90s.

He had a giant dish in the back yard hooked up to a computer with a monochrome monitor. I think he got weather data from it.
I see no obvious reaction, and the guy on the right threatens to leave for another reason than her being married to a turk.

All is, and was, good in Bulgaria.
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But the main use-case for this API seems to be organizing things - and it's strange that I would want certain tabs not take part in my organisation scheme.

If I had virtual desktop support, but certain windows are nevertheless shown on all desktops, that would feel broken, too.

Of course notifying users of audio/video recording is important, but this could be done with a separate notification - with options to stop recording or activate and un-hide the tab.
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on Linux workstation. Rock solid
I'm waiting for them to include something like tree-style tabs by default in a future version :o
I think they definitely require GPS or some form of satellite navigation mechanism to work. I really don't think they can use the local built-in radar to position themselves. I believe until now they have taken it for granted that GPS will always work. Theoretically we can place ourselves in the map based on visual recognition and radar, but its much more difficult than using GPS, and I don't think any of the current implementation have thought of a fallback mechanism..
For additional context, they moved headquarters in 2001 (a few years after merging with St. Louis based McDonnell Douglas in 1997):

“The company shocked Seattle--and much of corporate America--by announcing in March that it is moving its headquarters out of the city where William Boeing created the company 85 years ago, making it synonymous with aircraft manufacturing.

“The move, Boeing said at the time, is part of a reorganization to give more independence to its three core businesses--commercial airplanes in the Seattle area, military jets and missiles in St. Louis and space and communications business in Southern California.”

http://articles.latimes.com/2001/may/10/business/fi-61490
Yeah I just hit ^z twice to suspend now, and if I do it by mistake (which really rarely happens) I can fg.
Doesn't Airbnb already solve that problem? (Without a blockchain.)
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Yeah, I'd rather just block all of that stuff and monitor it on my own, but thanks for trying Microsoft. Or maybe I should thank the EU for the GDPR and the DPA's for forcing you to do this.
Looks like it's only for recording streams, not playing them. I misunderstood that. Apologies.
Crypto laundering seems pretty interesting.
Given that the top of the wheel is nearer our eyes, it's natural to think of the top of the wheel when saying "right" or "left".

Of course, that only works for vertical wheels.
I think you left out "practice".

What you describe is hard to apply to, say, tango dancing, which requires a kinesthetic learning essentially impossible to get from anything other than practice.

There are also fields where that immersion approach doesn't work well. Think about the topic of "how to lose weight" or "how to raise a child."

There is a huge amount of media on the topic, and everyone has an opinion, but I don't think the immersion will result in understanding those topics on a very fundamental level.
I hate this, its my system let me do what I want.

Besides there's already a browser for the mainstream audience and its called Chrome.