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The symptom is obvious: ivory tower professionals professing knowledge.
Sorry, but I don't trust Google, and you shouldn't either. Google is a deeply unethical company because it follows you from your work to the restaurant to your bedroom, literally. Google knows everything about you: your sexual orientation, your friends, your hobbies, your political orientation. And Google does this invasion of privacy so they can show you an ad! Imagine any other multinational doing this, and there would be riots on the streets! But now Google also wants to know what you buy and when you buy it.

PS I consider Google to be the most unethical tech company in SV, for the following reasons: blatant invasion of privacy and monopolization of internet. No one is forced to use Facebook. On the other hand, Google reaches into every website and into every process that happens on the internet.
How is this any better than the manufacturer just maintaining a database of legitimate parts (identified by QR codes) and then contacting the manufacturer when you want to know if a part is legitimate? About the only thing a blockchain would do is insulate you from the manufacturer's API going down. But even that can be solved by having the manufacturer simply send you a copy of the database periodically (and then contacting the manufacturer if your database copy doesn't have the part, in case it's newer than your database, although even that can be solved by having the manufacturer generate the codes in advance, so the database they give you can already contain the codes that will be used for parts manufactured over the next month).

Heck, you don't really even need a database for this at all, come to think of it. Just have the QR code contain a signed copy of the part identifier. You can validate that the signature matches the manufacturer's public key and that will be just as good as asking the manufacturer if it's valid.

Also, now that I think about this, this whole scheme (including using a blockchain) has the fatal flaw wherein a knockoff can just copy the QR code from a valid part. There's nothing stopping anyone from reusing the QR codes, and the knockoff will appear just as legitimate as the original.
> Teaching gun culture and demanding gun safes (like it's done around here) would probably be a safer and more efficient route.

That can be done and the 2A can also be repealed (gun ownership doesnt need to be a "right"). Why not do both?
Nice to see that they actually do something. I have never heard Facebook publish anything about what they do...
Because if you follow along here you'll see a lot of hate and vile comments about people on the countryside.

Some even seems to take pride in how they can't even talk reasonably to their relatives once a year.

People notice this and might not be very keen on cooperating with people who despise them.

Also maybe they've read history and knows what happens to unpopular unarmed people.
What's the use case for Twitter to allow outside write API access?

If twitter banned all API write access, what would be the problem?

The vast majority of people would still use Twitter via the app or their website, and it would obviously solve a lot of spam problem. But do we really need automated emergency alerts that don't filter through a human?
I don't know whether it has anything to do with the shootings or not, but the problem is real.

American men and boys are really denied any kind of culture or identity because of political correctness.

I can go to a Dewali celebration, and it's obvious the people there have a cultural identity. But try making an American version of that, and it will either be drained of any real culture or come across as intolerant or at least unaccomodating.

The male identity issue is just a part of the larger cultural identity issue.

Aside: I think "guy" is one of the worst examples. Ambiguous about gender and adulthood at the same time. What an identity-killer.
I feel like this could come in handy while looking for a date at https://wordsofheart.com/
"Toxic masculinity" refers to the masculine role/behaviors taught to boys from infancy (but really the "toxic" part is meant to soften the criticism for a centrist audience). Who would insult men for being biologically male? What would be the ends of that?

The point is to assert that these behaviors are both optional and destructive to teach to just one sex. A constructive human ideal should be taught to everyone, ignoring sex like one would ignore race or shoe size or other physical property.
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>It's more important to be authentic and true, even if that means having less friends, than a phony with a lot of fake friends. All this has the result of making it more difficult to randomly find real friends.

And this is where Facebook tries to seduce you. I'm going to go ahead and say that 90% of your Facebook friends aren't friends but rather they are acquaintances. Being friends means actually doing something together. Rather than liking your Facebook friends' vacation pictures, why not go on a vacation with them?
The cat is already out of the bag its just like bittorrents of copyrighted content. Yeah It's illegal but that doesn't stop anyone. Also, with how easy it is to change one crypto for another how would you even regulate it? I am not asking that retorically and am genuinely interested in this if anyone has an idea of how cryotocurrency regulations would work.
I think the better subject for comparison would be creation stories, not Jesus.
>I knew a lot of other grad students, myself included, who would throw anything with meta-analysis in the introduction in the trash. You cannot deal with controls across completely different studies in meaningful ways.

You probably need to rethink this. Meta-analysis can be quite stable and valid.
In my personal experience, the transfer fees, transaction times, and the fact that the market can crash overnight, makes cryptocurrencies more trouble than they're worth, at least at the moment.
With the bitcoin price drop articles like these have been popping up on HN quite frequently. previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16421383

What I feel has never been discussed is not whether blockchain or decentralization is a good idea rather how does decentralization will work? The issue is not whether immutability is bad idea rather how will it work in case of disputes?

The only answer I keep hearing is - well, game theory can take care of it. This misses the point that if people are aware of the rules, they will find ways to break it.

We saw a good example of how "we need 51% for manipulation" works in real life during Status ICO. F2pool which held 25% of the mining power was able to manipulate the ICO holding back ethereum transactions:

https://steemit.com/ethereum/@dhumphrey/f2pool-manipulates-u...

It wont be long before people come to realize the rules and start exploiting it.
go a step further and you will get into key management devices like the HSMs and/or the Amazon KMS. KMS cost almost next to nothing and it is pretty neat since its a web service, especially coming from the world of $40k+ Thales/Safenet HSM devices which are a pain to deal with (backups, rehash, redundancy).
I can't speak for rvo. However, I'm legitimately concerned from what you wrote and that you've carried this on you since you were 11.

Please, talk to someone (like a consuelor or a therapist) and work it out.

Bullies do exist. Sometimes, they teach you something, and sometimes they're just bullies. (I'm not excusing their behavior).
It's these deluded comparisons that make blockchain proponents look silly. The "traditional banking system" provides orders of magnitude more services than a blockchain. They are just not comparable.
it's hard to say because GANs are still black boxes. There's a lot of research into explainable ANNs that gives some explanation as to how the NN arrived at a particular conclusion, so I think it should be possible in the future.
Thats an interesting point. There is actual hatred for country folks.

I get it though. My folks are from a village in India. We sometimes get shit on by city folks too. Some country folks like guns. But its not a "right".
Its a very basic recharge app. So if its a spa i can give a very smooth ux without any reloading or anything.
Also i was thinking to add service worker so i can cache assets and giving it a look of a native app (like other pwa)
Basically idea is to create a very minimalist PWA.
How would it solve the spam problem? People would just write bots that work through the website by scripting headless browsers.
I think the reason that I feel that the authors points is the same as yours but better made is that the author's doesn't lean so heavily on hyperbole.

> I said that in modern 'western' civilisation they are explicitly disparaged.

In parts, sure. In other parts. Not at all.

Anyone who feels that disparagement of traditionally (or genetically) masculine qualities is a universal in the west spends too much time in the wrong filter bubbles. Go watch some sports ball.

Please understand that I don't think it's a bad point either. I'm not disagreeing with the point. I'm saying your can have you point and make it more charitably, carefully and accurately.
I agree. I think this article is just another attack on masculinity, introducing uncertainty and doubt about masculinity itself by acting like being a man is confusing.

I don't support these men who turn on their own biology, tearing down the buttresses of the masculine identity under the pretense that "it's too hard/confusing/challenging/whatever to be a man."

Nah. Sack up, get your life straight, take your licks, stand tall, and keep moving. Master your emotions and be aware of the interpersonal dynamics that impact you. Strengthen yourself in every sense of the word, minimize your use of porn and video games, and build a useful set of skills. Stay humble and let your work talk for you. I could write a list a mile long, and I think most guys can do the same. We have history books full of great men to study and emulate.

Some men are being co-opted to do the insidious dirty work of the anti-masculine feminism of our modern era, falling prey to doublespeak ("feminism" means "equality"), sexual manipulation, and the empty claim that something is wrong with being a man.

> toxic masculinity

There's nothing toxic about masculinity. Full stop.
Attitudes towards mental health in the US and the west in general are quite frustrating, and I hope they are improving. On the right there seems to be a tendency to deny nuanced views of mental illness from economic, religious, or simply conservative cultural motivations, or to push sedative (using this term metaphorically) medication as a panacea. On the left there are many influenced by the (understandable but deeply destructive) anti-psychiatry movements who both affirm mental illness and deny proper care. It is quite frustrating to see someone talk about their own "undiagnosed mental illness" while citing Foucault to disparage people you care about for seeking psychiatric methods that, as you described, saved their lives.
Exactly this. It seems likely this is a giant money laundering and exfiltration scheme that both the US and China would nominally like to stop. That they don't is problematic.
At some point in the article they mention that an alternative to the proof of work could be to use the proof of stake: the oldest stake build the next block. Did I understand correctly? How can that work? Doesn't it create multiple problems to do that?
Because just getting the authorities to respect your rights is hard.

If it wasn't a right then it would suddenly be worthless in many districts.

Here's some middle ground:

Mandatory training. Around here it is provided by hunters organizations, often at cost price.

Background checks by police + recommendation by hunter organization or the equivalent of NRA.
Just last week Google maps directed we take a turn going down the wrong way of a one way street that was already clearly marked as one-way on the map- yeah, I'm not too worried about even Google's dominance in this area.

Also, Apple maps in my area has been quietly, but steadily improving. Still not as many POIs as Google, but nicer interface and turn-by-turn (IMO).
I can't figure out what to do with my 100/100megabit connection. 4k youtube is nice, but that's about it.
The 'American dream' has never existed in the form you seem to think it has. It's never been possible for everyone to 'make it big'. That's just physically impossible.

The problem with the US is you guys seem to think that if everyone has some abstract level of 'potential' then if they don't make it they just deserve to fail and starve. In my country, we don't view things that way.
You are getting near some fundamental concepts in economics, but still need some guidance.

For one thing, saying that here "are" 100 software jobs is not the right way to think about a labor market.

You're right that no worker can sustainably be paid more than their work is worth to the employer. That is an upper bound on their pay.

Similarly, no worker will accept less in pay than they can get elsewhere. That puts a lower bound on their pay.

And so on.

The science that deals with this is called "Microeconomics", or sometimes, and more descriptively "Price Theory".

There is an enormous amount written about it, and knowledge of it gives you a hugely useful tool to understand the world. I wish I had a great introductory book to recommend, but I don't :(
Which of those examples needs to be distributed?
Stripe's recent article on SaaS has some great breakdowns on numbers as well: https://stripe.com/atlas/guides/business-of-saas
But if the game company wanted to make them tradable, they already could - see TF2. And if they don't want, they're also not going to implement a game with ERC20 tokens.
My filtered water didn't taste good after a couple of days of intermittent fasting. Also, I grew up with distilled water being around, my dad would bring it back from the lab. To many people it tastes "off", but I am used to it. Can't get any more "pure" than distilled water. (I know there's likely still stuff in it, but close enough)
Search for Noise. I believe Copperhead OS is working on a fork that's compatible, but doesn't rely on Google Play Services.
> Blockchains typically use the “Proof of Work” system, where multiple participants try to solve a difficult problem in order to certify a block to be valid.

Apparently no one has told him that a blockchain is just a data structure and has nothing to do with proof of work.

https://youtu.be/fOMVZXLjKYo?t=21m40s
With a blockchain the end user could tag the part hash as being installed and you could see exactly who each supplier had the part at what time. A database could go offline and stop a part from begin installed into a jetliner but a blockchain would be always available. The manufacturer could track which parts the end user has in stock and installed and make production decisions easier. A consortium of manufacturers could use the same blockchain for all their parts. I am not claiming it's more efficient for all use cases just that there are some distributed trust applications that seem to make sense.
In the US constitution, it actually is a right. We have a right to bear arms.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_Unit...
Philip Zimbardo, who ran the Stanford Prison Experiment, has written and spoken on this topic too.

TED talk:
https://www.ted.com/talks/zimchallenge

Man, Interrupted (Why Young Men are Struggling & What We Can Do About It):
https://www.amazon.com/Man-Interrupted-Young-Struggling-Abou...
I’m a beginner. So I dont think so that the new programming language makes a perfect spot for developer. They goes for the old one which are already popular from last long years.
Your parent comment is correct.

Consider the use case of space-efficient indexing. A negative response from bloom filter would help the querying engine to skip blocks of data that do not contain the value being searched.

If the density of the value is low (i.e., occurs in a small percentage of data blocks), then we can skip a large number of data blocks with the help of bloom filters. But if the density of the value is very high, it implies that the value occurs in most of the data blocks, therefore we would be forced to look at most of the data blocks. In the high density scenario, bloom filters would not provide a significant advantage in reducing the query time, although it would still provide a significant advantage in reducing storage space requirements.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16435521 for an example of such a use case.
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Sure. I grabbed a link close to hand which has a pretty decent discussion on one area. If you have others, I'm sure readers would find them useful.
A marketplace where none of the money is going to Blizzard or Supercell. Where's the incentive for them to do this?

There's also a lot of technical issues here. What happens if I sell a card while I'm in the middle of playing a game?

And of course the usability issues. What happens if I get hacked and someone steals all my cards? Blizzard / Supercell would have no way to make things right short of giving out free copies of cards to people (which would quickly become an avenue for fraudulently duplicating cards by having various accounts get "hacked"). And more generally, in order to participate, I need a private key that I keep secure. What happens when I lose that key, because I'm not a crypto nerd but am just an average computer user playing a game? Now I've lost access to everything I spent my hard-earned money on, and once again, Blizzard / Supercell would have no way to make things right (short of giving out free copies of cards, which leads to fraud, etc).

About the only benefit here is the ability for users to trade items without the involvement of the company in question, but there's very little benefit to the company to allow that, and it carries far too many serious issues.
I just ran into the problem for an HR collegue that uses Excel.

Real financial data manage to produce three floats (with only 2 decimal places as usual with finance) that when used together a+b-c produced -0 (actually -0.1336e-20 or something like that).

The result ended up producing a cascade of mismatching results in further calculations seeking for 0 balance.

It’s a known and identified "feature" with a correct workaround which is rounding (for finance) and an horrible evil twin "formatting away and praying" that can lead to futur unfigurable mess for candid users.

So for me I agree that floating point error is not so bad from a mathematical standpoint, but from a technical stand point let us all remind that for most humankind 3/2 = 1.5 (and not 0).
> If you are reading this from a dark and bad place, please know that you're not alone. You have a lot of options, and I promise that if you take that first step, things can get better.

I really think they need to have some sort required of "Life Skills" class in high school. In which they teach you how to get help, how to ask for help, how to share your feelings with friends in a safe way. And your options if you do get into a deep dark way. Based on personal evidence, almost every adult gets depressed in some way and many don't know how to get help or deal with it in a healthy way.

I didn't learn any of that till my 30s. I nearly committed suicide multiple times. Our current society and the toxic religious one i grew up in taught me that a man needs to be strong and doesn't need to rely on others. Pray to God and just pull yourself up by your bootstraps mentality.

It's amazing how helpful it is to know that you are loved and cared for. And people want to help you. You just have to ask for it.
The problem also happens in static linking, this is as old as the library concept.

For example, the public symbols of the libraries might collide, they might have side-effects that misbehave because there are multiple versions, they can rely on yet on another library that can actually only be linked exactly once, ....
Thanks.

A little nitpicking: in US it is actually a right.

It might seem weird for the rest of us but then again in their defense they never had a Srebrenica, an Auswich, a Rwanda in the last century so I guess it can be seen as an insurance:

They're paying a few lives every year to protect against genocides.

(And to be perfectly clear: I don't want that system here where I live, I just try to understand their situation.)
Sorry, I should have said "cause of the difference"

Obviously people don't go on sprees merely because they have a weapon. But they need gun access in order to commit a mass shooting.

I do agree there might well be some additional cause. I think if you flooded Canada with guns you would see more mass shootings, but perhaps not as much. The US does have an overall higher crime rate, after all. And mass shootings do occur elsewhere, though the US is consistently high up per capita.
I make heavy use of cardless cash via my bank's app when I need to visit an ATM. I haven't had my wallet with me for more than half an hour at a time this year.
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> Who would insult men for being biologically male?

If you can't see through the rhetorical bent of the term "toxic masculinity," then I will try to show you how I see it. To argue that this isn't an attack on masculinity, let's replace the noun only. It's like saying "toxic communism" but arguing that the phrase is not an attack on communism.

Are you saying there is a special, clearly defined sort of masculinity that is toxic, yet extricable from masculinity itself? That's a tall order.
Be careful what you ask for. High taxes on alcohol would be like Prohibition "lite". Smuggling and corruption would increase. Drinkers would go blind from poorly distilled moonshine.
If the 'rights' that this country was practically founded with don't need to be 'rights' -- then you should propose just eliminating the constitution in general. Why do we need a 'right' to be free of unreasonable search and seizures? Why does the freedom of speech have to be a right?

I'm sure what's left of the government will act in the best interest of the entire country.

And surely all the guns will just cease to exist after our right to legally bear them is repealed. Gangsters, teenage boys, drug dealers, they will all happily turn in their guns and promise not to get any more.
Read for literally any new testament scholar and you won't find a single trace of that argument that you're presenting.

Bart Ehrman, Robert Funk, Dale Martin, John Dominic Crossan, Mark Goodacre, Gerd Lüdemann, James Dunn, and the list goes on and on.

If books are not your thing, you can find a great Yale course about the subject here: New Testament History and Literature with Dale B. Martin: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL279CFA55C51E75E0
When you read between the lines of these "productivity" academic career policies and measures, you realise that they are aimed squarely at fame rather than quality of science.

I guess the argument goes something like this: when you get fame through your high profile journal publications, we will be able to attract more grants and more fee paying bums on seats.

Who cares about what you have actually written? Under the current model, nobody really.
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Yea, I know. I am asking why not repeal this amendment, like the 21 amendment did for the 18th. Why have it as a "right"?

If its not a right, then the government can pass much stronger gun laws, including confiscations, etc. But still allows good citizens to own guns for hunting and stuff. Maybe even limit the number of guns per person, control the type of gun, etc. Just give enough so that country folks are happy with simple hunting rifles and cant do much damage.