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> vastly easier to use for a large number of tasks that a large number of people need to do frequently (specifically, arithmetic on measurements).

At the expense of being vastly more difficult for a large number of tasks that a large number of people need to do frequently (specifically, manipulation of physical quantities).

What do I mean? It's very, very easy to take a pound of some substance and reduce down to ounces with a balance: halve, halve, halve & halve again. It's very, very easy to take a gallon of some liquid and reduce it to gills: halve to get 2 pottles, halve each again to get 4 quarts, halve each again to get 8 pints; halve each again to get 16 cups; halve each again to get 32 gills. It's easy to cut a yard into feet (thirds) or a foot into inches (thirds, halves, halves).

But it's very difficult to manipulate physical quantities in the French Revolutionary system: if you have a kilogram of some substance, turning it into decigrams is … a right royal pain, because dividing a weight into tenths with a balance is a chore; you need a set of pre-measured weights to do it. Ditto with a litre; ditto with a metre.

If the French had really wanted to make a difference, they'd have chosen to introduce a different base for arithmetic …

(I certainly agree that it's nice that the whole world has settled on one standard; I just wish that it were a better standard. Much the same as with computing & x86/C/Unix.)
What are you so hostile against a simple shower thought?

My personal opinion would be that if anything is vegan (the "plants nourish on dead animals" position is an argument for another day), then a carnivorous plant itself is unquestionably vegan.
The case of bitcoin being safe haven is probably only apply in the long term. It's quite obvious the price is heavily speculated now.

As we speak market sees extreme volatility and we have a bit of green positive https://www.coingecko.com/en
Do not imagine it lasting again due to sheer speculation and negative sentiment.

Once it cools off, bitcoin will probably test it's attribute as safe haven again only when the stocks and bond market gets hit in isolation.
Even now we do not see increase in gold price yet
A usable service taking advantage of this is still a long way off, but we don't get there unless people do the legwork.

One thing that could be usable more quickly would involve simplifying the problem space a bit. For example, the airbnb example using symbols could translate to, say, react components. If the grid system is well designed and you have a mature library of components, one could easily come up with interfaces that would generate react code, and ideally work well enough to serve as a starting point for the engineer to take over and turn it into a working app.

A system like this also need not be used in production-ready apps - I can envision a scenario where PM and designer can quickly sketch out and test ideas with working interfaces, without direct engineer involvement. That in and of itself would change front-end development significantly as the article claims.
It doesn't matter whether the data format in this case is a Merkle tree or a flat CSV file. OK, we add an extra column in the CSV, now we have "secretvoterid, vote, signature", still no need for blockchain.

Also, you are still fundamentally trusting a centralized authority - the government who issues the keys, and the same government you were worried about fudging the vote count. Maybe the government is adding people who don't exist (sybil attack), and the "signatures" on some of those votes are just random noise, how do you know? So your scheme gains you nothing.

At the end of the day, the only trustless scheme for voting is being able to tie votes back to names so that illegitimate votes can be challenged by the public. Any other scheme requires you to trust the government to count votes fairly, or issue keys/voter tokens fairly (we can call these a "ballot"). Blockchain doesn't change this, and if we want to get rid of the secret ballot we don't need Blockchain to do so.
Not sure if you're using the credential "autofill" feature, but somewhat recently there was an attack in which their autofill extension could be tricked into "autofilling" specific sites' credentials on a malicious webpage. (Not sure if this has been fixed by LastPass)

The fix for that was to not use autofill and revert to manually grabbing your username/password when filling out a login form.

Aside from that, I am not aware of other "hot" attack vectors.
I would go if there were something similar in Bangalore.
Agreed - it's a balance.
> Torrent laws are used by lawyers and scamers to send out fines to random people and scam them for money, what does a consumer get out of those laws? Nothing...

If you are a provider of internet access for example via WiFi, and you didn't collude with the users to breach the law, and you are sent a Abmahnung by a lawyer, then you can demand them to take back the Abmahnung including any financial demands after explaining to them said situation and making credible that you weren't exclusively using your internet access. You also don't need to investigate who was the perpetrator, and no ask no tell works. If the laywers don't step back, you can sue them with a Negative Feststellungsklage.
This is an example of how it is usually easier to make something suck than to make it better...or the endless appeal of the idea "Hey, let's monetizing sucking." The fundamental user behavior here is what I've been calling "the shareware problem."

The shareware problem lives at the intersection of rationale economics and ethical dilemma. It's rooted in human psychology. It goes like this:

Some decades ago, I had twenty or so shareware programs on my computer. For historical reasons, by "on my computer" I include on floppy disks that I could stick in it. On average, the requested payment was $15 or $20. Some of the programs I used regularly. Some I used sometimes. Some I used rarely or not at all.

The essence of the problem is that paying for all of them was a non-trivial amount of money $300-$400 and this importantly this amount was greater than the aggregate value relative to commercial software. I mean I wasn't getting value from all that shareware equivalent to Borland Office Suite, and it was only $99.

So the economically rational alternatives were to pay for some the shareware on my computer but not all of it. The problem with that is once I am not paying some shareware authors, I'm not behaving ethically in a system of ethics where shareware authors deserving payment is an ethical principle. Damn you Kant! So I might as well not pay anyone...or make paying the exception so that I feel good when I do it.

That's why shareware went away and non-corporate backed open source projects struggle for funding and why this scheme may backfire...there's too much software in the world (orders of magnitude more than when I had shareware on floppies).
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The best thing about Elm to me is how it's innovated on tooling, and has trailblazed on the super readable error messages.

At the end of the day though, I don't understand the appeal. The people who really are into functional programming will gravitate towards GHCJS and PureScript whereas the ones that aren't as into it will be drawn to TypeScript and plain JS. I really don't get where Elm fits into it all.

I can see Reason being way more mainstream.
Errr, what? This project uses huge neural nets for detection, nothing like that is available in OpenCV. I think they only use OpenCV for IO (accessing webcams etc).
Yes, but eating the butcher would also stop butchering, so I'm not sure I want to plant that idea in the head of vegans...
I'm talking about their PHP API
The problem is the opposite.

For example, Firefox’ screenshot addon would inject HTML into the page, and then the page could take the screenshot’s data and use it.

Addons currently have no way to reliably display their own UI on top of the page, without the page intercepting it.
This takes the no-honey approach: https://github.com/hmontazeri/is-vegan/blob/9d0b35a41c21bdcc...

Considering honey to be vegan sounds a bit fringe, to be honest.
It is worth reading about the impact of supply chain on the other front of the Napoleonic Wars, the Peninsular War in the Iberian Peninsula, especially Wellington's defense of Portugal and the Torres Vedras.

The French forces largely relied on foraging an pillaging for supplies when operating in the Iberian Peninsula, which initially gave them a strong advantage, being able to operate inland without support. But eventually it also became a problem.

As they went deeper into Spain and then into Portugal, the lack of well established and guarded supply routes meant that messengers and envoys had to cross enemy territory filled with partisans, resulting in the birth of the guerrilla.

When they invaded Portugal and headed for Lisbon, matters became far worse. Wellington had secretly fortified the peninsula leading to Lisbon with a massive set of three line of hill forts (the Lines of Torres Vedras), and used scorched earth tactics to wipe out any resources beyond the lines, while Lisbon was well supported by the British Navy (that had complete control of the waters after Trafalgar).

As the French forces approached, they were utterly surprised to find the heavy fortifications, and the barren land meant they had no resources to maintain themselves, as there was no supply chain.

Running out of food and unable to break into any of the fortifications, they were forced to withdraw completely after a month going back to Spain and losing 1/3 of its men in the process due to the harsh winter.

The Peninsular War by Esdaile is a great book about this front, and the Sharpe series by Cornwell complement that with a historical novel aspect, and astonishing attention to detail.
Reminds me of something I overheard an older artist say when dealing with a difficult customer who didn't want to pay the asking price for one of her paintings. When the customer demanded, "Well how long did it take you to paint it?" The artist replied, "My whole life."
Well it's an option - either you follow the terms of the license agreement and give up ownership, or you're in violation of their copyright. (Or you contact them and work out better terms.) They can put any terms they want in the license agreement, if you don't agree to them you don't get a license.
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> removing big banks from large long-distance cash transfers

In practice, you need an account with a "big bank" to buy bitcoin. The recipient also has to have enough technical literacy and resources to safely convert the bitcoin into spendable money, sometimes at a significant markup. The buying power of the funds are also subject to wild fluctuations for as long as it takes the recipient to convert to usable money. Bitcoin is just not practical for this kind of thing.
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Honest question: What are a vegan's views on pets and work animals, such as a horse who pulls a cart to the vegetable market.
I think this would also be great in NYC as well. And if it's registered as a true 501c3 charity, there are plenty of resources in the city to get grants and community center space for the lectures and such.

This concept has amazing "franchising" opportunity.
I guess you're right, it's really not. Some things are broken out into objects (WP_Post, WP_Term, etc) but I'm pretty sure that's only to utilize the PHP object cache
It might still end up in LEO. SpaceX wants to demonstrate to interested parties that they can coast for 6 hours then do a second burn of the upper stage. That's important for some payloads to GEO. So they're going to put the Tesla in LEO then 6 hours later do an insertion burn into solar orbit. If something about the coast fails then you will end up with a Tesla in LEO.
Pages sadly could still detect this content, and change their behaviour based on it.

Ideally you’d want to allow addons to modify pages in a way that pages can not detect or interfere with.

(e.g., some newspapers used to run JS to remove the AdBlock "block this" UI whenever you tried to remove an ad)
Anyone know where to watch that isn't Youtube? Blocked at work :(
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The only major grip I have with Ubuntu is their deficient support for Nvidia drivers. The Noveau et al configuration was a particular kind of hell for me. Ubuntu is hands down the best OS for development for me though.
Why are you so eager to read something that just confirms your existing ideas?
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What's the point in using YAML if you're using an ad-hoc subset!?
Apple had an IRC server too. It seemed to be one of the kinds of servers that many companies had back in the day, perhaps sitting next to their Gopher server.
It is possible for a "technical document" to appear rigorous enough to untrained eye, but sadly, you can fool people, you cannot fool nature. Which is why "Hyperloop", which was not even an original idea, still remain in paper...
Fellow Cursive user here. Being able to hit a key, in my case Shift + CMD + P while the cursor is on some text and to see it live in the REPL is pretty incredible.

It’s also kind of weird that a lot of other languages do not have this
I was lucky enough to see this live, the video is great but doesn't really do it justice.
By making the booster bigger, you have much more margin for making everything reusable. And once everything is reusable, marginal costs approach the cost of fuel rather than the cost of the rocket.

And of course, you can put more than one payload on a booster.

After all, we don't have a single 747 for each passenger, or for each package we fly.
A nice idea, would have loved to have a mentor while I was coding my first Javascript mudball. Only problem I can see is clearly the human factor eg. there can be only one mentor mentoring one person at the time. (unless you're doing lectures of course)

I think the biggest thing mentors can influence on is the culture of doing things and I myself have always been fascinated by the level of proficiency some older programmers have. It seems so natural to them which makes me want to try to emulate it by doing things better and learning more. Best role models I have had have been funny, cheerful and smart people who loved what they do and taken pride in doing things right.
A lot of sovereign funds could be called "Questionable" since those are funds directly under the control of the Government.

Many High Net Worth Individuals set up investing trusts overseas to mask their real income and these funds are usually run by investment professionals who "place" these funds.

So, yes it is tough to check the provenance of a funds LPs all the way back to the source. But if you stick to tried and tested sources - ex-founders, Pension Funds, State Funds, College Endowments, Hedge Funds, and suchlike, you're more likely than not - taking funds from a responsible source.

Of course, that is not always the case with ALL VCs.

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But maybe those people just want you to shut up?

I have plenty of vegan friends and a small set of them beat the drum constantly.

I’m not going to be vegan and if there was a meat prohibition, I’d be an outlaw.

The thing that particularly drives me nuts about this kind of vegan is that they will bring cookies to a party and after everyone’s has eaten them point out that they were vegan and that everyone enjoyed them.

A. Carrots are vegan. I can eat stuff without meat, too.

B. No shit, Carl. You made them we assumed that.

C. the cookies sucked and people weren’t going to be rude at a dinner party where someone already went out of their way to make you a vegan dish.

D. They dipped them in milk because they were dry AF

E. If I went to a vegan party and made vegan cookies and fed them to everyone and told them in the end there were pig eyeballs in them everyone would get pissed.

I don’t do that because I’m not a self righteous asshole.

</rant>

Also, Carl sucks.
Ah amazing! I've been vaguely looking for exactly this since they started landing boosters and this is the first accurate one I've seen.
My linked comment(1) should be a way to verify that a vote was recorded as cast while at the polling place, and to provide a receipt to allow later checking that nothing was tampered with that doesn’t reveal ballot choices. This would stop anyone except the government itself from getting proof of how someone voted, and if the latter situation arises you have bigger problems, but burning your receipt is easy.

There are probably even better methods to further protect both anonymity and verifiability. I don’t know if the group at (2) is still active, but the graphic presented there looks like a good setup—-though I think they are after vote-from-home, while my linked comment still makes use of polling places.

(1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14921442

(2) https://followmyvote.com/cryptographically-secure-voting/
> I would think we would try to avoid 51% attacks by construction because the blockchain would not be easily accessible by non-voting machines.

So we're trusting the voting machines? Doesn't that defeat the point? Surely they should be able to run on public networks while honouring Kerckhoffs's principle: A cryptosystem should be secure even if everything about the system, except the key, is public knowledge.

That's the whole mission here, no?

> they may just see a normal voting machine at their precinct, beep-boop the screen and go home. The value would be in being able to audit the entire vote chain, which we currently don't do.

But if there's no 'voter identity' in the system at all, what's stopping a malicious government from just synthesising the whole blockchain?
Yes, and that is because of the blacklist. A blacklist can only answer if something is on the list. One could either claim that the function should never return true or that returning true is correct, but the accuracy is unknown.
Person posts cool tool they wrote, that they find useful. Shows it to the community, this community, which many may really appreciate. Then gets ripped for not thinking through the complex privacy issues with said tool. Not everything is malicious.

It would be better to give constructive criticism, like:

This is a really cool tool! I might even choose to use it, but I have a few concerns: 1) it sends too much data unfiltered to the algolia search servers. Could you instead make it a button that only then triggers the request or opens another browser window? 2) the analytics are also a concern. In general, you should always make these opt-in; better, ask the user through a dialogue to enable them; even better, request feedback through some other system (github for example).

Let’s try and be nice here and give people the benefit of the doubt.
DST is complicated and has very questionable benefit. The length of months is inconsistent but not a big deal.

Other than that I find our time system very straight forward: about 9 billion cesium phase transitions make a second, sixty seconds make a minute, sixty minutes make an hour, etc. Every six months check in with IERS whether a leap second is scheduled (or find it yourself by calculating mean solar timbre and checking its deviation from your atomic clock). If a leap second is due, the minute 23:59 has 59 or 61 seconds (displayed as 23:59:60). To get local time look up the local UTC offset and add it.

If you calculate in local time, time may repeat one hour due to DST, so just stay in UTC and convert for display. We have a homemade problem because computers pretend that every minute has 60 seconds, but that's not the fault of the time system.
> The case of bitcoin being safe haven is probably only apply in the long term. It's quite obvious the price is heavily speculated now.

There is no "safe haven" on the long run, it has been a cycle of pump and dump schemes, no more, no less. and it will continue, Right now the exchanges are dumping their crypto and buying fiat.

An investment vehicle as volatile and unregulated as Bitcoin cannot be a safe haven. Bitcoin has lost more than 60% of its value in 4 weeks. It's rife with scams, fraud and exchanges that just steal people's money pretending they were "hacked".
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Wouldn't it be more viable to build a Mars Space Station on Earth's orbit?
Wouldn't it be more viable to build a Mars Space Station—ark—on Earth's orbit and send it to Mars orbit at the next launch window?

This would save a lot of money and years of time as it won't require building many dedicated BFRs for every payload and pack of passengers allowing to use existing SpaceX Falcon rockets to bring all required payload to the orbit continuously. It would also allow starting habitat construction near Earth that could save time between the launch windows. Later the whole thing with payload and people could be sent to Mars orbit where it would unload half-baked constructions on Mars and serve as a post between Earth and Mars.

While on Earth's orbit this could attract a lot of attention, money serving for sponsors' PR, and as a tourist attraction for riches.

Do you think financially and from time frame consideration building the MSS could be more viable than building many BFRs to launch everything during the launch window and only then start construction on Mars?
In Python the built-in debugger can't attach to a running process, but it's just a matter of installing one.
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Conversely, if you are interesting in both Elm and ReasonML there is Bucklescript-Tea - https://github.com/OvermindDL1/bucklescript-tea/.

The Elm architecture ported to Bucklescript.
They're starting to resolve this in some stations. Many Manhattan subway entrances now have boards above them showing the arrival times for the next two trains.
Is veganism "eliminating the consumption of any animal products" or "reducing consumption of products that are produced due to animal exploitation and suffering". In the former case, honey is clearly not allowed, but in the latter it could be. Beekeepers and their bees can definitely be more of a symbiotic relationship than an exploitative one.

I see both sides of the debate; at the very least it's not as black-and-white as most other animal products.
The "average person" doesn't have access to a computer or stable internet connectivity, if we're arguing for what the average person should be able to do/access we have a lot more basic problems to discuss before we get to decentralised virtual networks.

That aside, technically anyone with a computing device can contribute to most networks.
This is indeed an interesting question, and debated by vegans. The exact definition of what makes something permissible for vegans is just not there. With "no central nervous system" a creature should not be able to feel suffering, but are we sure. There are some videos that show these shells escaping a preditor, that would show they are aware to some extend.

For me it is simple, I eat everything Fungi and to the left of it in this image: https://evogeneao.s3.amazonaws.com/images/tree_of_life/tree-...
> Considering honey to be vegan sounds a bit fringe, to be honest.

Maybe on a "percentage of vegans" level, but on a logical level, why? Humans provide housing, (supplemental) food, protection, medical attention to bees in exchange for some of their honey production.

The bees don't really get to consciously choose, sure, but you could make an argument that the Whole Foods employees selling you tofu don't get much choice in whether or not to work, either.
Would like to hear more about how the change in your lifestyle and food habits made a difference. If you don't mind sharing, you can email me, my email id's in my profile.
click bait. Plus when you get to the site, it is totally devoid of information vs. prettiness.
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