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Give any technology time to sit long enough weeds in the form of lawyers and regulators will grow over it and snuff it out. Rarely is society left with an efficient technology after government is done with it.

Unfortunately most of my peers call for more and more regulation of business and all technology. More regulation is always good in their eyes.

I've explained how regulation should be viewed as a constant push and pull, as society needs to be willing to repeal a regulation if it's not logical or relevant.

Unfortunately the word repeal and regulation in the same sentence is dirty and I get looks for even mentioning how large unnecessary barriers to entry via regulation isn't always a good thing.

In some ways this is why I support crypto currencies. Not for the scams and pump and dumps of today, but rather the building of a decentralized internet that may survive the lawyers and usher in a new era of freedom and creativity. Of course we are still about 5 years from having a GitHub or a search engine on top of crypto currency at the current rate of development. Unfortunately the bubble craze attracted a lot of unsavoury characters that is currently doing this space a lot of harm. Thankfully the lawyers can't shut Bitcoin down so we're safe for now.
Ooooh man, I would love to do that. I enjoy writing markdown, and I enjoy using pandoc.

However, whenever I have to print something, there is pretty much just one possibility in Markdown: export as pdf. And export as pdf uses Latex. Latex is cool. But if you want to customize your document, you will sooner or later need to include latex headers into the "build" process of your file, and soon you have a clusterfuck of tooling and a make file for a document that was supposed to be a simple report. And then I'd rather write it in Latex.

Does anybody have a solution for this? Some kind of print-friendly Markdown-to-PDF workflow? All the non-Latex alternatives looked horrible. In fact, I sometimes export markdown documents to Word just to print them.
I became a web dev just last year (at 37yo), before that I had worked with startups (marketing and as a founder). So I always was interested in creating and improving digital products.

I am pretty happy with the day-to-day activities of a software developer, but I miss talking to customers, creating spreadsheets and reports to reach business decisions, understand how a product solves a problem, etc.

I am still not sure about the transition, but I would like to learn from other people about it.
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The Garmin watches have come a long way. I bought a 645 Music. The key feature for me over Apple or Android watches is battery life. The Garmin does many of the same things that the AW does (always-on screen, GPS, music via BT headphones, 24 hr heart rate monitoring, notifications, weather, etc). The last time I charged it was Monday, and I've done a 1 hour GPS sport activity, and other indoor activities this week. It is currently sitting at > 50% battery remaining. And this is with a lot of "fiddling" that you do with a new toy, which I'm sure runs down battery life more.

I'm coming from an Android Wear based Polar M600. It was nice, but Android Wear 2.0 was a bit of a dumpster fire and kind of ruined it (random battery rundown, Music removed on every f/w update, hard to sync Music, could not shuffle Music after Android Wear 2.0 update). In the end, I could not count on more than 8hr of battery life unless I put it in airplane mode with the screen off.

Before I settled on the Garmin, my Nexus died. I was seriously considering switching to an iPhone just to be able to use an Apple Watch. But then I learned that the AW3 has a battery life of only 18 hours. So I just updated to a Pixel and got the Garmin.

It seems like using Android / iOS for a watch OS may just be the problem. I was also considering the Fitbit Ionic, which has a comparable battery life to the Garmin. There just don't seem to be any Android Wear watches with a 5+ day battery life.
> where do we get a black hole to poke

As qubex suggests, this is really about confirming that asymptotically Schwarzschild spacetime (and its close relatives) is mathematically robust [1]. Asymptotically here means that if we perturb (gravitationally or electromagnetically) a Schwarzschild black hole the resulting radiation from "balding" will decay exponentially fast and die off to ground state well before spatial infinity. This is also a useful check on practices like (in cosmology) taking a boundary at some reasonable radius from a galaxy as if it were asymptotically Schwarzschild space, and stitching it into the expanding Robertson-Walker spacetime.

There is no poking of astrophysical black hole candidates involved.

That said, signals from LIGO and (eventually) LISA will provide experimental evidence to check some "balding" conjectures for various types of extremely strong perturbations (NSes falling into BHs, for example). Electromagnetic astronomy isn't really directly helpful, other than double-checking that one of the colliding compact objects is almost certainly not a black hole.

Finally, "other efforts" will soon include the Event Horizon Telescope, which was already the only practical platform for direct observation of a candidate BH. For Sgr Astar, observations from the South Pole Telescope have to be captured in Antarctic autumn and this time around the recorded data had to wait in Antarctica until Antarctic summer (when the physical media could be flown out in reasonable weather; there is insufficient bandwidth from Antarctica to send it over a network), so the first tranche of data are still being crunched. It's very premature to do wild speculation about the nature of Sgr Astar (and your speculation is really wild).

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[1] Hintz works on the stability of several black hole solutions, for example https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.04489 -- he here he deliberately breaks the symmetries of the Schwarzschild solution to see if removing tiny angular momentum by hand poses mathematical problems.

I haven't looked at the Klainerman and Szeftel paper [ https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.07597 ] yet.
The problem is that said GNU support (which AFAIK is the one everyone interested in the language uses) is contributed by ... Adacore. They can decide to stop doing that should they wish to do so. I might be out of date, but their Ada compiler is the only one that's up-to-date, targets multiple platforms, and can be used for free. So they have a sort of de facto vendor lock-in.

Also, if you have to recreate a collection of lib from scratch, I have the feeling people would rather contribute to a newer language in the same (or same-ish) space doing just that, such as Rust -- which I think is what is happening, even if Ada still has some distinctive features.
I couldn't even login in my account because of that popup so I didn't try further.
Yes and no. Yes certainly the skills you describe are more in the financial category and help more, if you need to choose. But one really should be able to do both monitoring and simple calculations in one's head, at least getting into the range of the actual result. If you pay your single chicken leg with a $50 note and don't expect "more than $40 change" in return, then this can be bad for your finances as well.
Why not respond back with ~1 year once you have a team in place.
Very good point. There would be an awesome opportunity for some software engineer to create such editor (cross-platform of course). Also it could support other markup languages such as Textile as they don't differ from each other so much.

Also what would help this is that the Markdown was standardized and would have these features included out-of-the-box.
I was talking about the impression that this is what will be called "Web 3.0". I know this has been pushed a lot, but nowhere in the articles you posted (or the other I read by myself) this is called "Web 3.0".
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Being Ok with failure and being risk-happy are two different things.

Being risk-happy doesn't mean you're okay with failure either.

Failing isn't becoming "not a problem", rather when you fail you recognize it as a chance to learn why you failed and how to make better next time, rather than trying not to fail ever.
I still think the focus on wealth/income inequality rather than on absolute poverty is irrational. I've seen people justify it to me on the grounds that people care about relative poverty, which to me reads "people are jealous". But then the result is:

1) A focus on inequality is irrational.
2) People focus on inequality for irrational reasons.

This means that if policy-makers and intellectuals fully give in to the people's wishes, we'll accept decreases in wealth in exchange for more equality indefinitely. If this sounds like a strawman, it's because we have "backstops" to inequality-decreasing wealth-destruction. But why should we tolerate any wealth destruction at all?

And if reducing inequality is possible without wealth destruction, why focus on inequality?

(This is besides the "Oxfam problem" -- there never is a coherent definition of "wealth" and Oxfam never seems to fully value people's homes and work animals and suchlike in poor countries.)
The image proves it's not industrial espionage only if you're playing a very shallow game. I expect that anything that muddies the waters helps the attackers. Attackers are quite familiar with forensic and analysis techniques, and you'd have to be a pretty naive attacker not to include red herrings and intentional pointers to shift the focus to someone else.
> "I'll just follow my routine and charge it by my bedside every night". Even if you don't follow the routine and forget about charging it, it recharges relatively quickly.

That's if you can charge it. I (and a couple of friends) routinely sleep out of our own home for a couple or three days on a whim. We can easily come by Lightning or micro-USB chargers if need be but we'd be hard pressed to find a smartwatch charger†, which means a dead watch soon enough.

† Qi largely isn't popular enough, and even then if it were an Apple Watch it's been walled into only working with Apple's chargers.
It‘a not like 2FA is an absolute must if you use a secure password and a password manager. I think forcing it is just wrong :(
During SXSW 2016, The Irish (specifically IDA Ireland) held an Irish Wake for Dead Startups. It was to hear people talk about failure and the lessons learned thereby.
So, now it has restarted perhaps the Dev can tell us what the fix was?
All tech, including wearable tech, used to be expected to last at least 10 years. AFAICT, this didn't stop being the case until it became common for every single piece of electronics to run an operating system, at which point tech got caught up in large software companies' compulsion to constantly rearrange things.

I think it's really about the cloud. I kept my last iPhone way past a typical phone's lifespan, and got to experience watching it slowly revert back to being a dumbphone. In the same way that smart home devices have a nasty tendency to stop working as soon as the vendor decides to stop maintaining some critical server the product needs to be able to ping just to turn on properly, apps eventually stop working with the latest OS your phone can run, and pretty shortly after that some service running in the cloud will stop being able to talk to whatever version of the app you're stuck on.

In the case of Apple's or AT&T's apps, this happened almost immediately after the first version of iOS I couldn't upgrade to came down the pipe. In the case of others, it was 6 months or a year later. The web browser died in its own special way, choked to death by more JavaScript than it could handle.

I get the economics behind why companies do this, but it's sad, all the same. A 35 year old Commodore 64 is every bit as fun as it was when it first came out, and every bit as capable, but a piece of tech that's only 3.5 years old probably has a blinking jewel in the palm of its hand.
Sure, it's obvious it wasn't based on C/C++, but these days, among the most popular languages, it plays in the same sandbox. I'm sure if you'd run an unsupervised clustering over the Wikipedia pages for various programming languages, you'd get Ada in the same cluster as C, C++, Rust, D, and maybe Go.

...actually, this is something I'd really like to do if I had more time...
If that is all luck is, then is there ever a point to these discussions? No one is going to leave with an understanding of how they can “be more lucky”. You just either are, or you aren’t and that’s all you’ll ever be. Either that or it becomes a contest for who is the most or least lucky.
The worst part is that they only need to succeed once - if the laws are changed it will become exponentially harder to change them back. So they have every motivation to keep dumping resources at this.
Uh, what? Hell, no! The debt belongs to the TRU entity. The creditors will get pennies on the dollar. They're getting ripped off.

If you really want to see some fuckery, go look at what Wells Fargo did with their portfolio of bad HELOCs. Here's a hint: They spun off a new company that "bought" those "assets" which showed a profit for WF. The new corporate vehicle took all the pain away for them. I haven't been able to follow what happened after that, but probably something like all the bad debt is either still sitting out there in this other corporation or maybe it's been wound down by now with all the losses swept under the rug. We're talking billions here.
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I think the Time Value of Money is one of the most important concepts any lay person should understand but most don't. I came out of college (an Ivy league school) as a physics major with zero understanding of finance. At my first job, one of the first things my boss asked me was, "What would you pay me today in exchange for me paying you $100 in one year?" That, of course, led to a lesson on the time value of money. Not a difficult concept to grasp, but despite a great education, I had never had an occasion to think about it and understand it. Once you get that concept, everything else about finance and investing is pretty straightforward.

I wish every high schooler had a basic finance course that started with that same question. Then moved on to personal finance basics like understanding interest (credit cards, car loans, mortgages, etc) and net worth (assets) v. income.
Maybe saying 49 or 51 would work...
> It could be that the results were built into the model’s design.

Every true mathematical proposition is a tautology. I don't find this point particularly convincing. As long as the model's predictions match reality in interesting ways, it can lend possible insights on why reality might have certain characteristics.

> Like getting an improbable series of heads when flipping a coin long enough, improbable clusters of events are bound to occur for at least some agents in a large enough set.

Yes, but what's alarming is how most agents' capital fell from bad luck alone, and how good luck only seemed to benefit a very small subset of the population, and talent was not any kind of guarantee. These characteristics of life are denied by many people, so to see it reflected in such a simple model is, I hope, instructive.

> Why should capital growth only occur on chance events, when most workers are paid wages in exchange for their work?

The way I see it, chance events that exponentially increase wealth drown out one's piddling wages. Wages don't seem particularly relevant to why Warren Buffet and Bill Gates have billions, and many people live paycheck to paycheck.
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They probably should not be dealing with all the pain of Vulkan at all.

I've been playing with Monogame (used to be Microsoft's XNA) lately, which is cross-platform and very easy to get up and running with.
Bullshit.

Word is a nice editor and can edit Markdown files too.
There’s also a free add-on that makes it easier to handle the MD format.
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MD->HTML->PDF. Just use a browser to render your document. You can make the process a bit more automated by using something like Chrome Headless. I'm sure there's a project out there that does this all in one step from the commandline.
If you train any sport with any kind of seriousness you usually end up needing more advanced training features, like HR pacing, zones training, intervals for speed workouts, cadence..

There is no way to do all that properly with an Apple Watch as of today.
Not to mention the pain that is to wait for the screen to turn on to see if you are running at the proper pace/HR vs a Garmin watch.
I had the same experience on Android Wear -- interacting with apps is painful. Further, apps on the watch tend to run the battery down faster. So I wound up removing all the 3rd party apps that I'd downloaded anyway.

I discovered that if all you want is activity tracking, notifications and calendar, other brands of watch do this for far less money without the hassle of charging every day. Check out some of the newer Garmin or Fitbit watches.
Which watch do you have that detects deadlifts or squats?
Youtube's SciShow gave me my introduction to epigenetics.

Perhaps the science has advanced since this video was created, but I think it is a fine primer on the subject.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp1bZEUgqVI
https://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/do-you-need-a-wealthy-backg...
From Dag Kittlaus, co-founder and CEO of Siri:

"@Jessicalessin This statement, wholly false, was made by the architect and head of the biggest launch disaster in Apple history, Apple Maps. In reality Siri worked great at launch but, like any new platform under unexpectedly massive load, required scaling adjustments and 24 hour workdays."

https://twitter.com/Dagk/status/974047743596404737
> If you need to get detailed, or your estimates don't line up with what your savings account is actually doing

I think the point is that the ability to count pennies when called upon is part of what keeps your rough intuitions properly calibrated.

If one literally cannot do exact arithmetic when necessary (whether mentally, manually, or with a calculator), then how does the gut learn what to pay attention to, and when it might be wrong?
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It certainly is a good course and I recommend it too. However, this is a full-fledged class requiring many weeks instead of few hours or days.
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There's not much there for SPA development, perhaps because Lispers generally aren't in that field.

That being said, there is Parenscript, which is a Common Lisp subset that compiles server-side to javascript (so it can be used client-side for SPAs, etc). It is an evolved project so it works just fine.

There's a lib for doing React dev using Parenscript, as well.

Besides that, there is JSCL which is an attempt to bring a full CL implementation on javascript. This is very interesting, however it isn't suited for a SPA.

And of course there are a lot of CL libraries for html generation, JSON parsing, web servers, etc.

>Maybe trying CL on the backend first

I'd say CL is just perfect for the backend side, everything you need should be there.
The paper is not concerned with philosophical definitions. It picks a certain mathematical model, and describes the effect of two concepts which it calls "talent" and "luck". The question is whether or not the model captures reality sufficiently accurately, not about whether the two quantities match a specific definition nor about the philosophy of that definition.
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The most recent episode of the “More Perfect” podcast (which discusses Supreme Court cases) is about the commerce clause:

https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/one-nation-under-money/

(No transcript unfortunately.)
Good point. Losing too much sleep as a bipolar can interfere with patience and decision- making once you get into those highs.
Thanks for the reply. I know very little about Chinese business practices in general.
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I had a really funny experience trying that problem. As I began reading it, I developed a strong desire to glean over it and 'just get done with it' and felt a distracting buzz in my mind. I enjoy studying maths and doing proofs myself but I got this basic questions wrong. I just went'ugh, started with 60 spent, ended up selling for 90' and I went wrong with it.

The point is, I felt a strong aversion to word problems and such, which I think remind me of riddles which always trump me. Therein lies the desire to 'just be done with it' and the underlying aversion to maths I think other people also have.
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Ah, fair. I was using it here as more of a general term for all berries caught under the umbrella of various health crazes (antioxidants, etc.), but forgot about this berry (which, as you say, is a lot of fun to play around with).
Let's just define that "human like" in context of machine translation from now on mean "with full legal responsibility". Then let's see who claim their translator is "human like".
Which results? Some rich people stay rich by getting gifts from their daddies, by being mean and by having other people do the calculations for them. Doing it this way one might even become president. But I think you won't find anybody that got to prosperity without it. Even the meanest of exploiters need to calculate their money and check their balances.
Did you try using another DNS ? Are you on the same wifi with your phone and yout laptop ?
> Such a system would be excellent for bringing trains to a halt, but that's pretty much it.

You could also cut off gas and water lines, so it would probably prevent a lot of damage due fire or flooding.
Is there a reason to prefer Sci-Hub to Library Genesis [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Genesis]?
Have you checked out Madoko?

https://www.madoko.net

> Madoko is a fast markdown processor for writing professional articles, books, manuals, webpages and presentations, with a focus on simplicity and plain text readability.

> With Madoko you can write complex documents completely in markdown and get beautiful PDF and HTML output.
Just looking around me now and imagining everything I see having an augmented reality overlay it seems exhausting. I guess the giant blue arrows will help me focus.
I read an interesting book which suggested that what we call luck was a learnable skill in and of itself. It suggested that luck is no more than effective noticing, and a "lucky" person is simply more likely to notice something that would be construed as lucky by a neutral third party.

The book also noted that lucky people didn't win more than statistics suggested they should (they were no more likely to win the lottery), but they opened themselves to situations which allowed a win to happen, and so had more chances to win than someone who closed off their options.

In case you're interested, the book is "The Luck Factor", by Richard Wiseman.