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I suppose a nice example would be city lights. There was an article lately about how electrical consumption for city lights increased despite the switch to LEDs.

Can't quite find the article though, but here is one about light pollution increasing (which does not necessarily correlate with electrical consumption, but still):

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/light-pollution-increasing-arou...
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I ran Fedora for a few years on my Dell laptop and I have to say that it didn't just work.
The thing that makes Ubuntu stand out to me is the very large size of it's user base compared to other distributions.
This means that things like edge cases in hardware are much more likely to be addressed, and there will be more chance of other users having the same problem, therefore more chance that you will find a solution.
> Bitcoin was supposed to be an improvement upon existing payment methods

Where are you getting that from? People noted as early as 2009/2010(Hal Finney particularly) that it was inherently inefficient for that purpose. And that perhaps people would build addition layers on top of it, but it was always clear that it wasn't some magic solution to payments at any reasonable scale.

Not to mention the value proposition of credit cards for consumers(cash back, fraud protection, various perks like travel insurance ect) has always been obviously superior.

Bitcoin is cool/interesting/potentially part of a well balanced portfolio as an investment with unique properties. But I feel anyone who jumped into Bitcoin because they thought it was going to be great at payments was badly mislead.
Your premise is incorrect on two counts.

San Francisco is 51/49, male/female. Not a particularly high imbalance at all.

The median age is 38, which is older than the median age in all of California.

The majority of inhabitants in SF, are in fact not young male tech workers.
Tox. A proper p2p messaging tool.

IIRC Signal needs phone numbers.

So Mr Manafort should chose Tox over Signal in any future crimes.
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Or add a noscript element.
Do you think such a private individual's behaviour holds for all society?

First example: if lots of people had that free hot water, there would pretty soon be companies offering them money for the use of it. A bitcoin miner hooked up to a stirling engine under the hot tap, perhaps?

Second example: shoe materials are probably fungible for other petrochemical products. Reduced-wear elastomers might result in fewer pairs of shoes wearing out but higher demand in other markets.
Dropbox mentions Microsoft, Google and Apple as competition, because for these companies, file synchronization is just another feature (not a product). Steve Jobs said it himself: https://techcrunch.com/2012/01/23/dld-2012-drew-houston-yes-...

And sure, the big three don't seem to care too much about privacy (although Apple has recently been making some strides with regards to encryption).

The fact that there are many "not worth mentioning" competitors building Dropbox alternatives (or add-ons) with E2E encryption may signal that there actually is a demand.

It's only a matter of time before one of these companies gets it "right".
What I meant was, when you set up the container and got your data in S3, it is in there, same goes with serverless.

Nobody prevents you to write your serverless function so it needs a block store of a certain size or ingress at a certain port.
There were layoffs in Cannonical in 2017 and the decision was taken to end Ubuntu Touch and ongoing development of Unity.
Mark Shuttleworth made a public announcement that this was in preparation for an IPO.
In light of these public announcements about the future of the company I would find any rumour that he tried to sell to Red Hat to be a bit lubricious.
For any particular mountain or mountain ranger there could be a number of processes, some of which may dominate for periods of time.

It could be slow / fast growth followed by slow / fast sinking / decay / collapse / asteroid impact / weathering.

I image there have been a number of sequences that have played out in various locations over time.
I felt exactly the same way about Singapore. Penny pinching, MBA-ish types who don't get tech running everything, a confucianist predilection towards authoritarian managerial styles and nobody rocking the boat makes it something of a tech wasteland.

Ironic cos the government has Silicon Valley envy and they've got it real bad - spraying cash liberally at everyone except actual developers in an attempt to clone the magic.
How does this square against the housing situation? From what I've heard Vancouver housing is comparable to London.
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The mechanism here is more like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_tweezers.
A well-designed local multi-media selector for Android
> Collectively, the tech industry in Canada would reap great long-term benefits from offering salaries that are competitive with those in the US. But companies acting in short-term self-interest only try to pay their employees the bare minimum they can get away with

What is the benefit (other than, like most people, wishing that you could make more money)? The only thing I can think of is that you believe people who bring something extra special to a business expect more, but those specific people are already paid more than the typical tech worker because they bring something special that is worth paying more for.

For tech people in general, the pay is low, relatively speaking, because the market is saying that Canada does not need more tech people. That is, compared to the US which has a much greater need for more tech professionals; we're still a long way from sales clerk-level overabundance of labour.

In Canada there are fewer tech jobs overall, while being a society that puts intense social pressure on its youth to focus on getting jobs like these. There's a reason Canada is named the most educated nation on earth and it's precisely why the pay is comparatively low for these types of jobs.

If we want higher pay we either need a lot more tech work, or fewer people willing and able to work in the tech industry.
> After finishing his first two Android apps

I think this guy's definition of project based learning is "large finished project".

My idea of project based learning (which as a self learner I use quite a lot), is very _very_ small examples, try to make those examples work in the most unpolished way from a user perspective (focus on the core functionality) and explore the different ways in which they can work as a way to explore the topic or idea that you are interested in. _not_ "try to make some end product based on this idea", that's a whole different venture.

In his example of making a chat app to learn about networking:

> Over the next three weeks, Bob spends a lot of time building the GUI for the app, which he already knows how to do, and only a couple hours implementing the client protocol.

If he wanted to learn about MVCs and GUIs this is indeed a good project. If he really wanted to learn about networking from the perspective of chat, he should have either avoided the GUI and come up with the simplest possible CLI based interface... or avoid the interface all together and just experiment with the core networking code and send hardcoded strings or pipe in some text without a nice CLI. I mean this smartphone chat app is really a strawman IMO.

Disclaimer: I've read nothing about project based learning, I only recognise it as a concept that has emerged in my own personal learning strategies as I am sure it has in many others.
They won't hit all your needs but consider one or more of:

0. https://librsync.github.io/ (used by dropbox and used in rdiff-backup, duplicity, ,...)

1. https://github.com/axkibe/lsyncd (from a google engineer)

2. https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ (the B Pierce)

3. Just rsync or rclone[a] in a loop or triggered with incron (http://inotify.aiken.cz/?section=incron&page=about&lang=en)

a. https://rclone.org/
Compare housing costs in London, Paris etc vs SV - yes health care Is nice but that is used as an excuse by employers who also benefit from the European health systems.
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People view technology as a deus ex machina that will enable them to keep doing what they're doing but magically it won't pollute any more.

For example, many think that solar powered planes will enable flying without pollution, which somehow justifies their current flying. The "logic" doesn't work, but they just want a story to help them sleep at night while they read that the arctic is 45 degrees above normal, knowing somewhere in the backs of their minds that the jet fuel they paid to burn to move their share of a plane around the world and back contributed more to that climate change than nearly anyone in hundreds of thousands of years of human existence.

Technology has helped humanity out of many problems, as have markets and economic growth. Now we're facing problems that technology, markets, and growth are causing (extinctions, resource depletion, pollution, litter, climate change, etc), Jevon's paradox contributing significantly (the tragedy of the commons and principle agent problem being others) and people haven't realized that applying more of what solved other problems isn't helping but exacerbating current problems.

Technology can buy us time, but systems change generally requires changing the goals and beliefs driving the system, which are social and emotional issues, not technological.
Germans were kind of late to the whole RADAR party in recent history (1940s). So now they are perhaps overcompensating a bit.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-germany-exclusive/e...

Tesla executive Klaus Grohmann was ousted last month after a clash with Chief Executive Elon Musk over the strategy of Grohmann’s firm, which Tesla had acquired in November, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters.
What's your point? That every javascript developer is unethical because companies are hiring javascript developers to do bad things?
Project based learning works really well for me and it seems to work well for the 20,000+ people who have taken one of my courses (based on feedback I've gotten over the years).

For example, in 10 hours of time I went from 0 knowledge about Elixir / Phoenix (or functional programming) to having my own Phoenix app up and running with multi-login passwordless token based auth, webpack integration, etc, etc.. I now feel like I have a really good handle on how an Elixir app can be set up with Phoenix and how all of the front end aspects of a web app fall together with it (routes, templates, views, endpoints, plugs, etc.).

I spent the least amount of time possible just looking at Elixir's beginner guide to get a feel for the syntax and then I started my own app and just looked up stuff as I needed it. Nearly all of that time was spent doing "feature based development" on the app.

"I need to add a /faq page, ok, how do I generate a controller and hook up a new route, let me check the docs."

"My app layout is getting a little gnarly, how can I use template includes to split out my navigation, let me check the docs."

This style of learning is how I teach my https://buildasaasappwithflask.com course too. We cover over 50 general web development topics, but topics are went over in the context of building a real world app, implementing features as we go. Then there's self guided homework assignments to implement even more features into the app.

How do you prefer learning?
And sometimes this results in the 1 system being so complicated that it's less effort to build and maintain system 119 than hammer system 1 into a round hole.
Vancouver has the tech salaries of a small city like Boise and the housing costs of San Francisco.
> I've never seen laptop hardware that Linux "works out of the box" on, and I've installed it on at least 15 laptops in those ten years.

Buy any > 2 year old Dell Latitiude and it will work out of the box. Maybe the (IMHO useless) fingerprint reader not, but all other stuff will work. Had at least 5 different models.

Also highres screen is an issue which is not fixable because you need to fix every software. Same applies to Windows in this case but it does a better job in pixel scaling non-HiDPI apps (but they are still ugly as hell in many cases).
Oh, i tend to disagree on that. He who comes first trains user-interface behaviour expected. If s/he is fast enough, the people will expect a certain behaviour - and be always annoyed if the others do not have it.

So if you are good and stay in the race, and you are first- that can be something that binds customers.
Actually, Jeveron's paradox would hold in the case you mentioned. Someone who gave you heated water would give it to you with an implicit quota otherwise a rational actor use an infinite amount of it.

If I actually had free no-holds-barred heated water, I'd run a pipe down to the local laundry and sell it at a profit. That is the rational response - the reason you don't see people doing that is because nobody offers free heated water at scale.

Your mistake here is thinking that resources have an implicit purpose (hot water => warm showers). If that were true, Jeveron's paradox would not hold. The paradox holds because once something becomes more abundant, it can be used for totally new activities.
Ability to do a job and education are orthogonal skills. No, you don't necessarily learn how to do a job during your education but that is a skill quickly picked up (or never learned) after. As is the case for anyone not getting any education.

> Some WANT people that only know how to learn and the concept, so they can teach them how to do it the "X Company Way"

Those companies would do well in not hiring people with ambitions that have not had any education, correct. But part of getting an education is avoiding having such mindless jobs.
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It seems to me you already have a good laptop. What version of Debian/Ubuntu are you using? kernel?
I think the problem with communicating a logical chain of thought is that it presupposes the idea that logic is immutable and continuous throughout the chain. In sciences, logic is usually fairly immutable because it's not the object of study, so you can show the ideas, without context, and they'll make sense because the frame of reference is constant.

In philosophy, it's usually the case that if you simply presented the idea, without reference to the thinker, you'd definitely provoke misunderstandings, if not incomprehension. Philosophers don't have a common conceptual vocabulary, so when you think a given thinker is referring to a given idea (say, logic) you can really only say for certain that they're referring to their understanding of the idea.

Further, they don't have a common vocabulary for describing ideas - often to the point that you get 'young' and 'old' versions of the same thinker (for instance, Hume) because they use words in different ways within their own corpus.

So, if you wanted to present a logical chain of ideas, you'd have to develop first, your own logic that is a superset of all the contained systems of thought. Then, you'd have to develop a vocabulary that unifies disparate concepts without reducing their complexity.

Predictably, most philosophers have come to the conclusion it's easier just to organize thought by thinkers rather than ideas. Non-philosophers tend to see this as some kind of veiled appeal to authority - but it isn't really. Philosophers are very happy to pervert, break, or alter the corpus of a given thinker in order to do something new with it.

The strength of philosophy depends on rigorous questioning, and rigorous questioning does not tend to lead to monolithic bodies of thought - and that's what you'd need to produce the kind of logical and lexical superset an idea-oriented approach would need to be practical. Without substantial agreement on very many basic questions, such an approach would undoubtedly just do violence to the ideas.
That's beautiful. Time to go plant some more trees. Thank you.
Amazon is in a difficult position. If their response to being informed was, instead, to re-issue the IRS form with a declaration that the account owner did NOT receive the money as income, then they have instead invented a way for people to dodge taxes by fraudulently claiming they are a victim of a money laundering scheme.

Also, fairly obviously, Amazon is not criminally liable because when the transactions happened they were, as far as they knew, simply selling books legally. Amazon had no criminal intent. This is the big difference.

Money laundering is also a difficult thing to deal with, since there are 'tipping off' crimes a lot of places, so you are not allowed to reveal that you are investigating.
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It will be fun when people realize "ASIC resistant cryptos" are anything but
That's funny as a joke (monty pythons take was great) but doesn't make sense.

The gain from making it opt out is massive.
The gains to be had on your slippery slope are too marginal to make it worthwhile.
In particular, a clock with a 10,000 year cycle.

It's one of my favourite books.
Exactly. The pawn shop doesn't commit a crime by buying stolen goods in good faith. Neither does Amazon here.
I had to get a Facebook account in order to support login through FB for an apps at work, and got into the dreaded "you needed to upload a picture" issue. It would unlock for a few hours and then asked me again.

I tried everything, emails, FB forums, twitter, etc... Even wrote a message explaining the issue on top of my picture I uploaded. It finally worked after about a month, after I just uploaded the same picture again one more time.

If you allow people to login with one of those system, make sure to provide an alternative that has no dependency on anybody else.
I have wood floors, not carpet... this being said, it's the thin wood type, not hard floorboards, not sure what's underneath...
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What do we mean by "high efficiency" PV panels in the context of commercial roof tops ?

AFAIK thin film are around 10%, standard PVs around 20% and the multi junction are 30% but cost x10 for special uses only..
For me (I’m 46 so I think I’ve reached “get off my lawn” age), it’s short for “this [is the correct answer.]” So I’ve never had a problem with it and probably used it once or twice myself.

A couple summers ago at the pool I heard a teenage girl exclaim “poned!” after besting her friend at something they were playing. It took me a moment to realize she’d just said “pwned” since I’d never heard it said out loud before and in my mind I’ve always read it “owned.” Now that was a “get off my lawn moment!”
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Only if this is the only check. You can implement ut for ergonomics
> 1. Even if you don't do SNI, the hostname is on the certificate that the server sends.

Not necessarily, think about things like

*.tumblr.com or *.blogspot.tld

And while for example Cloudflare's free TLS certificates are not wildcard certificates, they bundle dozens of unrelated sites in a single certificate.

The DNS remark still applies, since wildcards themselves can't be cached by a caching DNS server, only individual instances of a wildcard can be cached (as usual). However, with a caching DNS server there will likely be many fewer DNS requests that can be observed compared to HTTP requests.
Many of the Forex exchanges HAVE added crypto-assets to their offerings. It tends to be limited to BTC and maybe a FEW more, though -- some people might view that as a problem.
Similar situation happens with the examples of "ridiculous" regulations in the EU. I've checked a few of them out in the past, and each time they turned out to be some bullshit spun by UK's tabloids that later got republished as factual by the news portals on the continent.
Viewing this site without JavaScript enabled shows it's been 0 days. Turns out it's supposed to be 12.
I really wish that at least unity 7 is an official/semi-official flavour for 18.04. I'm perfectly happy with my workflow on 16.04, and have no desire to switch to Gnome, Plasma or anything else. None of the other alternatives come close enough to the simplicity, intuitiveness and stability of unity 7 at the moment. This is of course subjective, but without unity, I see very little reason to use Ubuntu over other distros.
I missed that, but I am curious. Do you have references for that?
Get on a VPN and try to log from there... It'll ask you to verify your login by sending you a code via email (because it detected your login from a different country and classify it as "unusual activity".
The point is it is really weird for Romanian to use "da" for yes, as that isn't Romance at all. But Romanian is interesting in that (much like English) it takes words from everything. The word for potato is "cartof", which is clearly from German "Kartoffel".
Not sure what education consists only of lectures?

Also, you've misread me completely. When I talked about learning framework X I explicitly said that it was a waste and that education will give you something much better.
Trust and reliability build up with time. Regulation is coming to crypto. The existing regulated companies won't be eager to touch it unless regulation has developed and/or they see lots of potential profits.

While cryptocurrency might look like it's a big deal, it's still pretty much peanuts for many existing players.
There are pre-build packages for OSX, most GNU/Linux distros. I have built it on Windows using the "Microsoft C/C++ compiler for python" that Microsoft makes available for gratis download.

Have you tried Gridsync, a GUI for Tahoe-LAFS?

https://github.com/gridsync/gridsync
Can you list any specific examples? I'm aware of products that track the BTC price and futures, but not really any existing players which would allow you to buy actual btc so that you can hold it in your own wallet.
The article begins with a bad example:

> A team of researchers led by Mark Bonta and Robert Gosford in northern Australia has documented kites and falcons, colloquially termed “firehawks,” intentionally carrying burning sticks to spread fire.

They didn't document that the falcons carry the burning sticks, they documented first hand witness of falcons carrying the burning sticks. There are no videos of the falcons carry the burning sticks.
I certainly hope we DO see DEXs take off in the near future, but right now, every single one suffers from a severe lack of liquidity, which distorts prices and can make trades difficult verging on impossible if there's nobody with a suitable counter-trade offer.

Liquidity is the number one reason traders love the Forex markets, and the reason so many Forex traders will trade only in the major currency pairs. Hell, I've even known a couple of traders who will only trade GBPUSD or EURUSD for that precise reason: If the market is sufficiently liquid, there is pretty-much ALWAYS someone who wants to trade at your price.

On the flipside, where liquidity is too thin there's no market, no matter how many bells and whistles the "exchange" has, and no matter how attractive the notion of pure p2p exchange might be.
In case I wasn't being clear enough, by benefits, I meant benefits from the perspective of the Canadian tech industry, not necessarily from the perspective of Canadian society as a whole (that's a much more complex and nuanced subject, one that I haven't made up my mind on myself, and your points certainly seem valid).

And the most obvious such benefit I can think of is slowing and/or reversing the longstanding trend of the Canadian tech industry losing some of its best talent to the US because of salary disparity.
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