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This tax provision is not designed to be friendly. It's designed to deter what the US considers bad behavior. You can disagree that it's bad behavior, you can call the law is unfair, immoral, unreasonable, illogical -- whatever. Arguing against those positions is not the point of the post I made.

My point was to point out that there isn't any loophole in U.S. that would allow a cryto billionaire to avoid capital gains taxes via the expedient of renouncing citizenship. People can try anyway and see what happens, but there's a non-zero risk that they'll be chased to the ends of the earth by the IRS and DOJ.
He makes a great point, which is that this is an issue that shouldn't just be on the minds of leadership, legal teams, and PR; increasingly decisions that impact people's lives in massive ways are made on the level of the engineers and data scientists who are actually making the implementations, and they need to be every bit as aware of the ethical implications of what they're doing as anyone else (if not moreso).

In this day and age a single line of code written by a junior engineer could drive something that millions of people interact with hundreds of times a day. This is going to have an impact on those people's lives.
Haha, thank you, I'm glad you liked it!
They are. Some context might help: when it originally launched, Bitcoin Cash was slower and more unusable than Bitcoin if you needed even a single confirmation, because the forker fucked up the difficulty adjustment algorithm so badly that blocks were every hour or so most of the time. So the Bitcoin Cash community pushed the idea that zero-confirmation transactions were safe there, unlike on the evil SegwitCoin chain, so they could claim it was still faster than Bitcoin since this was the whole selling point. There was no actual foundation for this claim, but it became vital to marketing the coin.
I always found that weird, they basically begrudgingly added the menu back
Collecting email addresses on http (https://eucoin.io/ doesn't work) doesn't convey security or trustfulness. Emails are collected by /emails.js and send to the /emails URL.
There is a difference between not having ambitions and not working towards them. I believe that the latter is the case. Almost everyone wants status, money, and stability, but when someone doesn't believe they are achievable, they won't fight for it.
You could change "India" to "United States" in this article and still be pretty accurate.
you don't. you're not handing over the private keys. you sign the transaction locally, and give them to the third party to broadcast in case you're not online. it can even be multiple third parties so you're not trusting a single one. this provides better reliability than broadcasting it yourself on your home/vps/colo connection.
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Pretty different board. RISC-V ISA has various well-defined subsets. The cheap board is the microcontroller end of the spectrum. This CPU has an MMU, etc.
Well, it can be solved the way current banks deal with fraud and chargebacks: rely on a very small number of parties misbehaving and set off a small percentage of money in the system to offset fraud. Another (complementary) way is a reputation system for "nodes" (as is the case in hawala). Both imply some sort of centralization, but so do Lightning incentives (see the discussion around "payment hubs"), so not much difference there.
FWIW, Impala compiles more than just predicates. See, for instance, https://github.com/apache/impala/blob/e98d2f1c0af270930cd8a5...
Read, ready player one, this is where we are heading.

You think people are glued to their phones now.

Wait till they can wake up and put on their VR gear to go to work, school, concerts, visit other countries, lands, planets.
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As I recall one of the benefits of spoken Navajo was the difficulty of distinguishing it from a bad radio signal of some other language.
Tor has a centralised list of exit nodes.
Would be super cool if they would even port their stuff to Web Assembly. Now we have some Android and some iOS solution, but webasm would be truly platform independent.
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I don't think anyone seriously thought that 8MB blocks would crash the network. The actual concern was in the increased cost of running a full node.
Are those services called banks?
I honestly dislike how the author abuses terms like "lots" and "a handful".

For example: « That means you can use a single payment channel to make lots of payments to many different people—all while generating just a handful of transactions on the underlying blockchain.»

I am no bitcoin expert, but AFAIK the bitcoin network can currently process in the order of tens of transactions per second, and that is a low number compared to the 50-100k transactions per second that VISA et similia are currently capable of processing.

So, many are "lots"? How many are "a handful"?
Are short-term sea rise forecasts really up to 11 feet? Won’t that wipe out a big chunk of Silicon Valley?
Yes, in fact I was talking about crony-capitalism.
Also consider the fact that Italy is the country where a communist party got the largest share of the popular vote, ever.

But fun thing is that after ww2 many communists in Italy didn't really like economic central planning bcause it felt too fascist. So, they were communist but they didn't practice communism to the full extent. Italy also used to have classical liberals like Einaudi who even became president for many years, and kept politics in check.
Sadly, I noticed that we are moving towards statist ideas more and more, with people expecting the State to solve everything and regulate all aspects of life. It's scary.
Even people like Berlusconi or Salvini, while right wing, still have a lot of statism in them, even considering just what they appear to be.
Schools in the UK most definitely print.
Nature already has this technology. Plants & Trees. Plants & Trees have numerous other advantages compared to Bill Gates' solution:

* They are less expensive

* They don't require a technological infrastructure, meaning 3rd world countries could easily deploy them

* They require little to no maintenance

* They promote life & ecosystems

* They have been tested in the field for hundreds of millions of years

* As CO2 increases, plants & trees grow & consume more CO2. A positive feedback loop!

Plants & Trees are a far superior solution. We should spends billions of dollars on more plants & trees.
I have recently performed a relatively simple development by using programming languages on which I had low-to-to-no experience: Perl (low), Ruby (no), Rust (no) and Go (no). Note that I am quite adaptable on the programming language front and that this small experiment was precisely meant to showcase these adaptability skills. Rust was, by far, the most difficult-to-learn, difficult-to-research, counter-intuitive, unfriendly, constrained, unappealing, etc. of all of them. Warnings and errors appeared systematically and, despite their verbosity, were rarely helpful.

The most ironic part is that so many restrictions and problems are likely to provoke people to rely on whatever option happens to work, which might not be the best/safest one. Being so concerned about making sure that the generated code is extremely safe no matter what by sacrificing flexibility and user friendliness is far from ideal. Restrictions and prohibitions have always to be seen as an in-the-worst-case-scenario resource, not as a primary solution; much less when dealing with something as complex as programming, a very powerful tool supposed to be managed by knowledgeable individuals. The higher the freedom, the better the results delivered by a sensible/knowledgeable person. Unless Rust changes a lot, I don't see it going anywhere. It might get some support from theoretical/academical/inside-whatever-bubble circles, but seriously doubt that developers with real-world experience can like or even accept most of what this language represents.
This is the rhetorical trick of "just asking questions" and it's nasty.
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I wish my bank would stop asking me for individual characters from my password - make auto-fill all but impossible AFAICT.
The problem is that the mainstream media are, for the most part, rationalizing an economic order that keeps poor countries poor. It's hard to deny that policies imposed by the IMF on third world countries play a role in ruining their agriculture and harming industrial development, to the benefit of the EU bloc and other rich countries. Why shouldn't I blame journalists for not informing the public about the actual reasons why millions of people are kept in poverty? These issues never make the mainstream media headlines, so there's nothing absurd about the claim that people are systematically mislead.

Also, just because an argument is made by people from the far left or far right doesn't mean that it's wrong. Guilt by association is a cheap rhetorical device.
Better advice: have the client pre-hash the password before sending to the server.
Spam? You mean "spam" generated by Steam and Stripe since they stopped accepting Bitcoin? People have stopped using Bitcoin because the fees were too high. That's not "spam".
Nice try Tim. You almost had me with the p.s.

I’d invest in some moonshots -

Neural computer interface.

Bio-scanners so an iOS device can (further) become a medical diagnostic tool.

A high resolution (5k+) Apple screen that I can plug my laptop into.

More and more battery research.

500M-2B on launching Apple satellites, to scan the planet daily at sub meter resolution, data would augment many Apple endeavours and they could also sell
I despise open office plans but the Regus approach was workable. When you work within a team in a room, the tendency for random noise was minimal. The only problem was noise leakage from other offices.
>> the cheetah, is a successful hunter not only because it is quick, but also because it can hold an incredibly still gaze while pursuing prey.

A bit off-topic but I have a theory on athletic ability when it comes to certain sports related to this post. Before I share my theory, consider this 1 minute clip narrated by an apex predator.

https://youtu.be/S9MtJ164XJI?t=1m24s

When I was young there was a lot of ethic tension in my neighborhood. Being a minority, I always felt like prey. I didn't even trust the police. I lost every street fight and broke a few bones along the way. And I was terrible at almost all ball sports because I could not get my eyes to smoothly track the motion of a basketball for example.

I suspect, but don't know for a fact, that they eyes of prey being chased by said cheetah are darting chaotically looking for any and all escape routes and to avoid additional predators.

In my 30's I spent time training in brutal martial art combat techniques. I trained in powerlifting and 10 years ago I weighed 200lbs. I grew muscles I didn't know existed. Now, I have lost nearly all of these gains because I no longer train, but I managed to achieve and maintain that predator instinct. When I play racquetball, I murder that ball. I can track it perfectly.

The downside is I have safely ridden a motorcycle most of my life. I find I have more "close calls" now that I lost my innate ability to feel like prey which no longer comes naturally.
I typically download cracked games because I'd like to one, try them first. Second, have a copy that doesn't require some DRM/Online check, etc.

I've bought probably 10-20x the games I've actually played as well. I stopped playing video games regularly in 1998, but kept buying for the next 2 decades. My rule about 10 years ago was the game had to have all DRM and be under $10.

I'll finish Baldur's Gate and Thief 1 & 2 eventually!
Yeah, it's pretty childish.

Just open the link in incognito mode.
And sudden electrocution. Seriously we've all been zapped after walking across the wrong type of carpet and touching something/someone, why does no one in these stories think "Oh I hope this doesn't have the potential (hehe) to suddenly discharge through me." They're all like - COOL!!
Further, the Netherlands is the best prepared country for sea level rises in the world. It's likely they will end up selling the technology they developed domestically, to all the sea-facing cities of the world (assuming sea levels do rise as predicted). It's going to be extremely profitable for them.
Specifically from the article:

> They found that the inner ears of living cheetahs differ markedly from those of all other felids alive today, with a greater overall volume of the vestibular system and longer anterior and posterior semicircular canals.

> These traits were not present in Acinonyx pardinensis, the extinct species examined by the researchers, emphasizing the recent evolution of the highly specialized inner ear of modern cheetah.
a post on corporate responsibility that does not mention concepts like "income" "inequality" "wealth" or even "politics" requires a bit of rounding out before it's a complete discussion.

the author touches on a few points but tiptoes around the biggest issue: corporations need to pay in to society by design, and AI will be disastrous if they are not forced to uphold that standard. the same goes for AI's potential impact on privacy and free speech-- these are major major issues, but they are not the only major major issues.

economic inequality will continue to skyrocket if AI is remotely as efficiency-improving as everyone hopes; higher inequality tends to erode other democratic ideals like free speech, human rights, public political engagement/power, and the rejection of civil encoding of status.

artificial intelligence will make it far easier for corporations to avoid their fundamental economic responsibility to pay for the society in which they operate and directly enrich the lives of people within society in multiple dimensions. this is already happening. this is a problem that needs a solution.

ideally, AI is used to distribute resources for greater goods rather than entertaining individual gluttony for money.

we need to start agreeing on the axiom that the purpose of corporate activity is to increase the standard of living of society and increased profit margins should mean increased burden of charity rather than merely more zeroes on a billionaire's wealth.

that is the correct moral vision of corporate responsibility in the light of artificial intelligence.

getting into the mud with details on human impact assessments doesn't serve the fundamental truth that AI-- for all the benefits it will bring-- is an existential threat to the status quo that everyone knows will kill that status quo off over time and replace it with a new and unknown one.
I tried that once, but the support just replied with some bizarre KYC procedure. https://clbin.com/gCNYu

I'm trying to buy games, not open a bank account.
Some people are wondering if Tensorflow Lite would support CoreML / iPhone's neural engine. Tensorflow is not supported with coremltools (but I suppose Google could contribute a patch for this). I'm not sure about the CoreML libraries on the phone but from my understanding it may work.

Keras is supported out of the box with the Tensorflow backend though. See https://medium.com/@JMangia/super-simple-end-to-end-test-of-... and https://github.com/apple/coremltools
For clarification, "trait objects" are a subset of the trait system, and have much less use in rust programs than traits overall. A trait object is a dynamically dispatched pointer (often owned through Box or Arc), as opposed to the usually statically dispatched generic usage of traits that's more common in rust.

Destructors aren't guaranteed to run in Rust, they aren't necessary for memory safety. It's a fair concern to note that they aren't modeled, because they are pervasive and can impact memory safety, but they don't exist to support it.

Panics not being modeled is of course also a big gap, although you could always compile your code with panic=abort if you wanted to dodge that issue!
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Here's some of my old games: https://imgur.com/a/8Psom

I (re)bought most of them in the late 90s after chucking my games in the early 90s when I got tired of my Apple //e.

Still have my original Apple //e and a backup. Finally got that color monitor upgrade too!
Thinking of an analog system — maybe this is like short term vs long term memory systems. BTC being the later.
I'd like to think that at some point in time meeting minutes are going to be completely automated.
Honestly, I think Clippy might be due for a comeback. Of course I don't think actual Clippy will come back but I think that some actual intelligent AI could help with office tasks if it worked (which is a big if). In the same way that Word knows I want an outline if I type "I." I think it might be useful if Word could know I want to type a letter if I start with an address or something.
> I've never had anyone even attempt to refute the idea that coal is carbon-neutral in scientific manner.

Except maybe nuclear, no source of energy creates new carbon. The question, vis-a-vis carbon neutrality, is "over relevant time scales, does this leave more carbon in the atmosphere (as opposed to sequestered in oil, coal, trees, whatever)?" If you create coal and then burn it, that's carbon neutral (modulo whatever you produced creating the coal). If you dig ancient coal out of the ground and burn it, that's not carbon neutral.
Rust is a direct contender to C and C++, not to script or GC languages. Please compare apples to apples.
It's not about what you render, but how you render.
What I know for sure is that Venice proper (that is, what is in the middle of the lagoon) has been hemorrhaging residents for a long time now. Residents strated moving to Mestre and Marghera for various reasons (for example because they worked there) but also because Venice is becoming a touristic attraction, not a place people want to live in. Prices for houses are completely insane, and the fact that people are going away feeds back to a lot of shops (I mean shops for residents, not for tourists) closing down.

At the moment the isles are home to more or less 55.000 people, while the majority of the population lives in Mestre and Marghera.

> Why would this ever be a problem?

Because, as I said, there are very few residents in there. Would you still call it a city or is it more Mestre's tourist attraction?

My parents moved from Venice to Mestre in the 80s, so I was born in Venice but always lived in Mestre. I'm not sure I resent them for this, in hindsight.
This is a fantastic point, and I think a lot of AI development that goes in the direction of trying to replace human beings is essentially absurd. We already have humans, why would we want something that can do what humans can already do? Rather, we want something that extends the capabilities of humans into areas where they aren't proficient. For instance, why do we put all this effort into natural language processing when humans are already totally optimized for it? What we need is a solution to scaling, not a solution to NLP itself.

EDIT:
To expand; one way to do something like Siri would be to have a system that routed requests to human operators. The human operator would give the correct answer to the request, and then the system would use that as training data. If the system was reasonably confident it already knew the answer to the request from previous training data, it would answer right away, but if it was below a certain confidence it would route to a human. This seems like the smartest way to leverage machine learning in these kinds of scenarios, and I'd be surprised if someone hasn't already tried it or something similar in the past.
Backblaze + Time machine for the mac, iCloud for the iPhone, compressed/encrypted VM snapshots for the servers.
Totally agree. I have spent months last year parsing corporate documentation rules. if we had more tech writers whose job is to make sure the docs are in the right form we could free up years of engineering time. Same for booking travel. We have to do it ourselves but still follow a ton of rules you always forget if you do it only once or twice a year. If we had one person that could book travel and get visas a lot of time could be saved.
To be precise, Applicative was known for quite some time by mathematicians as "lax monoidal functor". That this concept is useful for structuring programs is the recent discovery. Even in the last 10 years we've learned a lot about functional programming and I'm sure in the next 10 years we'll learn a lot more that really changes the way we approach it.
It's completely game dependent. You can distribute games that are completely DRM-free through Steam if you wish: http://steam.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games
Babylonian alert: in some Englishes, "highway" is "road", whereas in others it means "high-speed motor vehicle road". Confusing, yes: given that the article talks about rural and city roads and the GP tries to refute it through freeway speed limits, apparently some of the confusion is present here as well.
Why would anyone (specifically developers) buy another apple product if they now start blocking hardware from working on PCs?

Them blocking battery extenders with headphone jacks on the iPhone is already bad enough, but doing it to PCs is a whole other level of walled garden.
That's interesting none have launched with propulsion yet. I remember talk about the VACCO system when I was doing CubeSats a few years ago but it doesn't look like they are on-orbit yet.
The chart he linked to shows a very weak correlation between smartphones/productivity, even as a single data point...

https://bankunderground.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/chart.pn...

There was an even larger drop in the late 1970s (what caused that?) and the dip started around the time of the recession in 2008 as well which must have had a large impact.

There were very likely many causes to productivity and I'd be curious to see what the major historical drivers predating the modern smartphone/financial crisis era dip.
So what are the efforts taken to overcome these issues?
glibc crypt() uses sha512, IIRC (the thing that encrypts passwords in /etc/shadow). Iterated a number of times to make it suitably expensive.

So perhaps not as good has the bespoke password hashing functions, but not a disaster waiting to happen either.