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Indeed, as I said above:

> The third largest party in Germany wants to leave the euro

I presume they feel they have to leave the euro before there is an option of leaving the EU.

It's true that other parties refuse to be in coalition with the AfD. This is a bad move on their part. It doesn't make them not a main party though. Especially because the other parties have also been refusing to be in coalitions with each other too.

Right now German politics is the most disastrous in Europe - all the political leaders hate each other, all have publicly trashed each other, all have been refusing to work together and yet Merkel and her buddies continue to rule as if nothing had happened. It's taking months to form a government because they're trying to figure out which party-destroying, soul-sucking coalition is least unacceptable to them and the voters.

We will have to disagree on the EU's approach to compromise. Yes, it compromised with Thatcher back in the 1980's but that was a different time. The EU was much smaller and its institutions felt much less powerful, so compromise and teamwork was much more important back then. As the EU has grown so have its ambitions and the character of the project has changed. The modern EU is not the same organisation that Thatcher dealt with.

That can be seen in recent events. Cameron was given nothing at all and told to pretend it was some massive sacrifice by other leaders. The British public easily saw through that instantly which is why virtually nobody in the remain campaign referred to his "deal" ever again. A compromise would have been the UK suspending unlimited immigration from the EU. It was made clear that such a thing was never going to be on offer and they thought it was insane to even ask.

As for the opt-outs ... good luck keeping them in the event of a remain vote! The EU sees "opt outs" as some horrible nasty legacy thing that they regret ever happened, not as a basic part of negotiation. Even their phrasing shows what they truly think: Germany and Germans like to refer to them as "special privileges"! I have German friends and debated Brexit with one of them once, that's how she called them and I'm not surprised, they call it "extrawürst" in their language - extra sausage. Deep down Germans know that the EU is an undesirable future, but feel they have to suffer through it anyway for the greater good (elimination of Germany as a country and transference of German pride to Europe, a new country free of the horrible history of their own).
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Have a look at Parallel U niverse's Quasar. It's q Java library that provides lightweight threads called fibers. They have some interesting older entries in their blog with benchmarka and comparisons to Akka etc
Also known as the credo of the software industry: why build something performant, robust, secure and usable when you can ship an Electron app that's barely fast enough and patch the bugs later?
Sounds interesting! Does anyone have examples of AI startups that solve real world problems? Just trying to get a picture of what companies would fit their fund.
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There's a thing that bothers me with ICO, it's when people call it an investment. It has nothing to do with an investment, it's basically a presale for the service that the company will provide.

It offers you nothing of what buying shares of the company will (except when explicitly specified in the token sale) : no dividend, no voting power...

Expecting to earn money by buying tokens in an ICO is pure speculation, as you expect the token to go up. But this goes against the real user's will to use the service: they want a fixed price (who wants to use a service which price changes every day?)

To sum up, buy tokens as you would buy presales in Kickstarter, to support the company, but don't expect to earn money with it if you really it to be a real service / product. And avoid ICO that make you the promise of earning quick money.
I have no idea what I'm going to do once my OG Pixel stops being supported. The lack of headphone jack is a serious concern to me. It truly blows my mind that so many people are capable of accepting this!

I can accept the lack of removable storage and battery. But the headphone jack? That's just the end of the line for me.
In fact, Webvan's Wikipedia article lists their fate as "Bankrupt, resurrected by Amazon.com in 2009" without going into further detail.
Emacs: an editor for last 20 years and next 20 years.
i wonder if it will mean that coreos becomes the official server-side fedora to rhel ... and replaces the community powered centos.
IBM can support it as an extension in their C++ compiler. No need to burden the rest of the community with it. It's not like C++ compiler vendors are shy about adding extensions :-)

Despite C++ supporting EBCDIC, I seriously doubt the overwhelming majority of string processing C++ code will work with EBCDIC anyway, because the programmers probably never heard of it, let alone tested the software with it.
Android's QA has always been terrible. As a Nexus user, I guess being a beta tester was part of the deal, but there's no way I'm spending $900 on a Pixel 2XL to replace my Nexus 6P. Nothing justifies the premium price really.
Who can even imagine the levels of incompetence in this.
I'm so conflicted about this. On one hand, having the "engine" written in Rust, and the frontend written in language suitable for writing a GUI, per platform, is a sound architectural choice. On the other hand, if there's one type of open source applications we have enough to choose from already, it's editors. If it's for fun and the educational process, then by all means, that's swell.

Bui if it's because the world needs yet another editor, just because it can be written in Rust, I'm not so sure.
You forgot about Samsung Galaxy devices, which have all of that and are the most successful mobile phones right next to iPhone.
It's not like "simulation" is commonly used to describe one's thoughts. So your idea is that we're just arguing about some sort of hypothetical colloquial sense of the word, even though it's obviously used here in the context of comparing humans to computers?
The article doesn't make the claim of excluding federal and state funding, and the usual method of reporting expenditures by a public jurisdiction would include spending which happened to be supported by (e.g., backfilled by partial matching funds, in one common model) money from other jurisdictions at higher levels.
And a well designed small house is better still in my view

The design and layout of a house is so much more important than just the sq ft. I wish more people would focus on that. We have a really well planned out 1500 sq ft. house and we have literally more usable rooms and space than many people I know with houses more than twice the size.
There are a few interesting things to explore in that field, with different twists:

https://algorithmia.com/algorithms/opencv/SmartThumbnail

https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastruc...
1. If there are no USD backing, why would its value stick to $1?

2. Correct, the claims are a problem. They claim backing and audits and these may constitute fraud

3. If they just print them out of nowhere they are basically printing hundreds of millions of dollars for themselves. If they aren't backed, do you think they could hold value in these circumstances?

4. These magic unbacked tokens are probably a large part of BTC price rises in recent months, and look like extra demand in the marketplace, massively distorting the BTC and altcoin markets.
No that would not give you the A, or the I from my experience.
GC, no bigger-player backing, backend was propriety for a long while, and till fairly recently it wasn't a community project, but a one-man work.

D is generally a much better Go (especially if you add fibres to it), but it doesn't have Google-brand behind it, so Go ate it's lunch in distributed systems space, while Rust is much better suited to be a serious competition to C++.
I know this is probably not the best place for this. But I am a bit tipsy and want to type.

I was janitor at KEZI (a ABC affiliate in Eugene Oregon) and gave up and went homeless for a bit. My sister got me a room with her friend for a few months while I found a job in Portland. I had to find a job.

I had about 80 in cash so I had to cover job hunting and food with that. Not a easy task. So I stole a paper from a neighbor to look at the job listings. Great.. A temp listing and only a three miles away. So I can walk there. Fuck paying 2.50 for the bus.. That is two totinos.

So I am waiting after filling out a application. They basically have you sit there all day and call you if "day labor" is needed. "Labor Ready" if I remember correctly.

So I go out for some air and outside there is a weekly employment thing. I flip through and there is a promising ad. It is on 21st and Holgate near Reed College.. Way to far to walk. So fuck it.. I will risk the 2.50 to take the bus there and hope for the best. In my mind I was thinking job I will probably not get or 24 packets of ramen.

The job was at Qualex. Basically Kodak. We did all the film possessing in Oregon. And yes.. I got hired.

I worked in the digital room. Which was basically turning digital images upright and burning CD's. Processing thousands of images a shift. Calling the police when we hit kiddie porn, processing the images from murder scenes. The cops used us. So many suicide photos. They did not prepare us for this. Yes, suicide with a shotgun is possible. That was my Monday.

I was fired because of 9/11. I went to work on 9/11 and there was a note on the time machine spouting shit about "respect" and "mourning" and that we didn't need to come in. Which is bullshit. We didn't need to come in since nobody wanted film developed that day. And a call letting me know before I spent 90 minutes on the bus would have been fab.

So the next day it was all cool and during lunch I bitched. Shocker. After I said they didn't have us work because there was no work my card I used to clock in stopped working.
From an advertiser perspective it is much nicer to use Google Shopping than the old days of attempting to use the regular text adwords to advertise products. Also better for customers on the regular search results page to find products with the shopping listings .

There was a time when Google Shopping was both free and paid listings which was probably a better balance. Even if it still was like this I think having people submit product feeds still leads to much better results than just scraping.
The government has declared war on marijuana growers, meth cookers, cocaine suppliers, etc., and has failed utterly at it. Why would going after opioid suppliers fare differently?
I agree that c++ is complex, but remember that while trying to update the language the standard committee is trying not to do breaking changes.
If you can do a greenfield implementation like rust, you don't have the baggage of an installed base, yet.
If you compare c++ to a language that is also around for more that 25 years it starts to make more sense why it is complex. Add to that, that it started as an extension to c, which is the reason why it became popular in the beginning.
Also, zero-cost run-time abstractions.

It is whatever you give priority design-wise, and if you look at what is important in c++ (zero-cost runtime abstractions, control of the resulting code), then ending up with something as complex as the c++ language is hard to prevent.
I'm not surprised in Perth. It is going through a multi year property slump. I guess builders are desperate? Good time to build, but is unusual.
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To not hinder is quite a lot of help. Considering it's going to piss off the superpower.
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Are you from US? Microsoft’s offline maps for the whole country take 3.81 GB.

Technically that’s indeed many GB, practically modern phones have many more GB available, e.g. my one has 32GB flash memory.
Why would you want that? When it comes to working immigrants, the Swedish unions generally have the power to say no [1], which they use – several high-skilled immigrants have been thrown out of Sweden the past two years.

[1] https://www.affarsvarlden.se/juridik_affarer/facken-stoppar-... (Swedish)
I hadn't seen that Chomsky quote but he sounds completely delusional. And I'm from Europe.

I'm aware of no country democratic or not where paying taxes is a "day of celebration". I have never seen anyone celebrating paying taxes. To believe that in other countries people love taxes and government, and the USA is uniquely special in this being not the case, makes me wonder to what extent Chomsky really understood the world at all.

Nor does Chomsky appear to understand conservative philosophy. He simply divides the world, Marx-style, into "workers" and "business owners" and then assumes business owners must hate democracy because taxes. The actual divide is between conservative and leftist, and conservatives like their government small and local i.e. the opposite of Federal. Many business owners happen to be conservative but so do many workers, as the number of Trump voters in former rust belt states will attest.

Chomsky can't even stay consistent on what this strawman of "business owners" actually want - he starts out by claiming they hate democracy (=government) and then later claims they both hate and love government at the same time.

Not surprisingly after inventing a non-existent class of people with non-existent beliefs, he then struggles to understand them. And this guy is supposed to be some great intellectual. Sad. Thomas Sowell has far greater understanding of the political philosophies and views that divide the people.
I also thought about augmenting this algorithm with the semantic information output of a neural network, but couldn't come up with a good way to generate training data for semantic segmentation which wouldn't distort objects.

For example, if you consider an image of a roof, the roof pixels will all be semantically similar, but if you remove any of them just based on that, the regular structure will be distorted. Do you have an idea how to solve this?
There are variations where this works out in google's favor, but there is a big difference to the ebay situation where you just keep relisting the same item until it sells for a "good enough" price: each ad impression is only sold once, there is no relisting.
The MVN and BIC are not the "opposite ops", they are the same operations but they do "binary not" over every bit of the parameter which is easy to implement in hardware. It's true this also allows for better code density.
How is it barely portable? Sure, less than C for now, but its not 'barely.'
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Yes, they should. And here is why:

1. Stability. I'm writing my own editor at the moment, and the text buffers are kept in a server process. Last time I updated the server process it'd been running continuously for a month despite extensive reworking of the frontend. The backed is trivially simple (~300 lines), and easy to keep stable. If the frontend crashes it doesn't take my open buffers with it.

2. Coming up in a fraction of a second with state most of the time. Most of the time I have a ton of buffers in RAM; rather than reloading a ton of files, most of the time when I bring up the frontend, the files I'm working on are already there. Re-establishing an IPC connection to the backend is not noticeable.

3. Faster starts over slow network connections - I can run the backend remotely and not have to transfer a big file other than what is needed to view the bits I care about.

4. Simplicity: I don't need to implement tabs or multiple windows - I got that for free from my window manager. Instead if I want to split the current buffer, I just spawn a new frontend that re-attaches to the same buffer from another process. There should be no need for an editor to re-implement its own window management.

A client-server design makes very little difference to memory usage and doesn't require a separate executable.
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..."People want an authority to tell them how to value things, but they choose this authority not based on facts or results. They choose it because it feels authoritative and familiar."
Considering plugins can be written in any language and communicate via JSON, I'd posit they can be whatever you prefer. Turing-complete, even.
> Programmers make a lot more money now than they did 20 years ago. Not because of unions (which are extremely rare for programmers), but because of productivity improvements. A single programmer can accomplish vastly more now than was possible in the past.

That is complete nonsense. If your hypothesized productivity increase were true, it would be reflected in a decreased demand for programming labor (just like the advent of combines and tractors made farm workers more productive and decreased the demand for farm labor). The only reason programmers are paid more now than 20 years ago is because of an increase in demand for their labor.

The productivity improvements come from the product of this labor: software. This explains the growth in demand for programmers - telecommunications infrastructure improvements and ubiquitous computers mean that companies now have many more opportunities for automating processes with software than they did 20 years ago, and are trying to take advantage of these opportunities to increase profits.
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Trying to build it, but I get

error: could not find `Cargo.toml` in `/home/xyz/Downloads/xi-editor-0.2.0` or any parent directory
yeah, just another ugly monster with 50 frontends, with stupid name, unusable for the next 50 years. academic shit. :q!
I like Friedman but this manifestly isn’t true: it’s about the ratio of capital (and management) to labour. Any profitable company can set this ratio to whatever they want.
The Darwinism/Lamarckism thing is wrapped up in politics. Darwinism is used as a justification of the social order. Might is right. The strong survive. Lamarckism has a more touchy feely feel to it. Not that Darwinism is fundamentally wrong! Its just that the nuances are ignored because of the politics.
You also mentioned volumes that have been written. And those would be greatly preferable to podcast or videos, which are some of the worst forms of information sharing, with low density, inability to process it at one's own pace and several other reasons.

Unless you want to discuss something visual where showing things on camera helps greatly with delivering the subject matter, you're much better off writing an article or two. But if the video is mostly about looking at people's faces as they talk and flashy intro animations, then you're just wasting people's time and attention. Again, why not just write an article and include photos of people involved?
I've found Americans frequently believe/are told by their media that Norway and Sweden are forms of socialist paradise - basically sort of what Marx wanted but never achieved.

It's not quite clear why anyone thinks that. As far as I know Sweden has a pretty typical welfare state and union laws, comparable to the UK. It's a very politically left society in general with respect to things like identity politics, but economically it's not much different to France or the UK or other countries with publicly funded healthcare.
Including the incredibly weird "bitmask immediate" for logical operations.

It's so complicated that the assembler in binutils actually implements it by brute-forcing!

https://github.com/bminor/binutils-gdb/blob/c40d7e49cf0a6842...
Entropy is a "property" of everything.

So you are saying there is no value to Bitcoin?

I sent money overseas to family with it... does that not count?
What support does C++ have for EBCDIC?
The most recent widely publicized example was the State of Nevada, specifically, the state-operated Rawson Neal Psychiatric Hospital in Las Vegas.
You are right. I was extrapolating future scenarios where Oracle or SAP trip up in their race to the Cloud, causing a major drop in their stock. Honestly it's a pretty realistic scenario, it's not a secret that the Dell, HPE, SAP and Oracles of the world have serious challenges ahead of them. One of them is bound to hit an attractive price, and for a bold and deep-pocketed suitor to act on it. The question is when?
yeah I'm pretty sure an iphone 4 isn't doing that great either.
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To second that the serialization format is unlikely to matter: I'm doing my own editor, and I don't put any effort into minimizing deltas, and retransmit more than the full visible window content on every keypress currently. I expected to have to change that to get it fast enough, but latency just isn't noticeable so I've bumped it down to the bottom of my priority list.
you've driven to a very specific corner.

It’s one particularly egregious example but there are plenty more: education is another, why are state comps good enough for The Workers while Graun types go private? Or housing.
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Depends if your friends are managers I guess.

My father worked his way up into management in a union shop in the 70s and 80s. The union was completely insane and basically declared war on the company. It was hacking computers, stealing mail, working with the cleaners to rummage through wastebaskets looking for corporate info they could blackmail management with. And of course they kept interrupting service to the customers via strikes.

The solution was simple enough in the end. The company replaced the striking workers with machines. But lots of people's lives were harried and disrupted in the intervening years.
Sorry to prolong the tangent, but that font is truly legendary. A milestone in the human quest for clarity and form, especially if that human is me.
In the negative case, yes. In the positive case, a few well behaved individuals viewed in isolation could cause a misunderstanding of the wider population (“ideal minority effect”).
That's not based on Russian / Eastern European, it's based on SCAM levels across the whole cryptocurrency sector.

> targeting people in the US

Anyone doing >anything IT related<, will target the US, first. Everyone outside the US with a startup idea does that. People there have the biggest investors, biggest tech scene, biggest chance of success, etc. I don't see how Russian / Eastern European targeting US makes them scammers.

> investors in these schemes have no protections / legal recourse as these entities are outside the US.

And that's related to the entity, not the team. How about a team of Russian / Eastern Europeans with an American entity? Would then be not a SCAM?

Of course I think what is stated in the OP is pure prejudice.

There are multiple scams originated in every nation, so let's not put the guilt on origin of the team behind it.

Vitalik is a Russian-Canadian, as well as lot's of good guys working on Cryptocurrency.
"You know you're charging the right amount when a client complains about the price but still pays you."

Another related thing I've had the misfortune of experiencing is that people who don't intend to pay you from the outset generally don't complain about the price.
Am I missing something? Why not just

const add = (a,b)=>a+b?