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> Reddit gets very dark very fast and it is factual that they don't control it nearly as well as they should.

It can never be factual that something should be, since what should be is subjective.
I'll be frank, this whole situation seems really fishy... I don't think Russia had anything to do with this. Not with the elections and world cup within months. It makes zero sense whatsoever. But I also don't feel sorry for them because their past shady and thuggish behavior makes it easy for them to be framed for such acts.
Another Russian exile, Nikolai Glushkov, died this morning in London.

It could just be a massive coincidence, however there do seem to be a lot of coincidences to write off if we are to assume that the trail of dead Russians does not lead to Russia.
I think he's saying there just isn't much driver availability. I live 40 miles outside of Boston and whenever I've looked there has been little or nothing available. Uber and Lyft might as well effectively not exist in my town although, yes, I can fire up the app and request a ride.
> No benevolent dictatorship has ever existed.

I can quibble with this just a little. A truly benevolent dictator will recognize how harmful dictatorship is and will immediately remove himself from it.

http://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdstatehouse/html/gwresignation....
For whatever it's worth, 2K did buy the thing from Squad. Too late for most of the original devs, but it might change things. On the other hand, they're keeping Squad as the developer, which doesn't feel so good...
It doesn't make any sense to look at marketing as a discrete component you can separate from everything else. Drug companies don't want to spend money on marketing, obviously. They do it because it increases sales by more than what they spend on marketing. That's typically good for the consumer, because that means the fixed development cost can be amortized over a larger number of buyers.

It's worth noting that most technology companies spend more on sales and overhead than R&D. For 2014-2015, the ratio between R&D spending and SG&A spending was 0.59 at Pfizer, 0.75 at Google, 0.56 at AstraZeneca, 0.43 at Apple, and 0.58 at Microsoft. Apple wouldn't be able to sell cheaper iPhones by reducing its advertising expenditures...
Twilio Flex = Twilio Flexing its Flexibility (or programmable contact centers)
This isn't my department, but I'd assume our servers have accurate time. But I'd also assume Amazon has accurate time, and you say they don't, so maybe I don't know anything.

Then again being accurate to 1ms worldwide sounds like one of those problems that runs up against the speed of light? We don't have atomic clocks like Google does...
It would be interesting to see a course than spanned multiple years building upon the same project with the same team, emphasizing different aspects year-by-year, but I imagine that would be pretty nightmarish on the scheduling front.
Have they finished Entity Framework yet?
Or, it's what a nonviolent psychopath would to.
Please do not normalize that term in contexts to which it does not apply. This is not "news," and can therefore neither be real nor fake.
Why are there Ads in my App Store?
I wonder what that column in their database is called...

This disturbing Youtube video problem is an interesting one, it feels like a persistent DoS attack on the platform.
Interesting. I've never had an issue with the built-in session restore functionality. I'm not dismissing you, but asking what issues you've had with it (so that I can watch out for them.)
Right now the only thing that somewhat limits the accumulation of wealth by the wealthiest in our society is that they eventually die. Even if they pass it on to their offspring, those offspring are often ill-equipped to run their parent's business empire. Eventually the dynastic wealth fades away and others can take their place. If people could live forever there would be no limits on how much wealth individuals could concentrate in their hands. It would be like the meths in Altered Carbon. I don't want to live in a world where Jeff Bezos possesses more wealth than the bottom 90% of the planet.

Our laws and economic system currently lead to extreme inequality. That would have to seriously change to allow for immortality.
So they do another hit after another high profile hit? Why?

I see far more motive to disrupt Russian elections and the Russian world cup than I see motive for taking out two Russian exiles who have been out of the country for over a decade.
This happened to me once in high school. I had fallen asleep on the couch in the basement (it was fully finished, and my siblings and I spent most of our days down there when we weren't outside, playing, watching TV, and playing video games) in the early evening. When my sister wanted to watch TV, she tried to wake me up, leaning over the back of the couch. For a solid 5 minutes my memory just did not work at all. My inner monologue was something like "What? What is all of this? What am I? What is that (my sister)? Where am i?" etc, repeatedly for a number of minutes.

Nothing like it has happened since.
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Never mind that with text it is quite easy to skip all the fluff and get to the info one wants (in this case, the specs and other differences between the 3B and the 3Bplus).
What is it that makes this fishy to you? Why do you think Russia is not responsible? Who else would've done this? Did someone just magically have a rare nerve agent made in Russia, brought it to UK and sprayed it on an ex-Russian spy? Gosh, what a freak accident! Or if someone did it on purpose then what is his intention? Why would someone go out of his way to frame Russia? What is the goal? Purpose? Or maybe... just maybe... it is just Russia being Russia and doing shady Soviet style operations.
Our existing lifespans are arbitrary. They are largely based on the length of time needed to procreate and ensure a successful subsequent generation or two; and on our ability to overcome that limitation. Saying, "I would not take immortality treatments if they were available" is different from "I will not accept medical help for my heart condition" only by a matter of scale. Having more humans on the planet and for longer does come with challenges, including resource usage issues, but it also comes with the tools to conquer those challenges and other benefits besides.

The cost of mortality is having Albert Einstein around for a meager 76 years, instead of hundreds or thousands. Multiplied by all the other great minds our species has produced, this is an incredible cost that, in my opinion, vastly outweighs your assumptions about the cost of immortality.

In my opinion, culture can only be threatened by homogeneity, but even print, radio, television, film, and internet haven't managed to kill it. Immortality will necessitate and possibly facilitate cultural change. First, because our culture will have to adapt to accepting immortality. Second, because immortal beings will likely become bored. We really have no indication that culture will stagnate or die. I suspect it will slow, but I suspect most things will slow when we are no longer so bound by time. And, due to resource issues, immortality will likely require (and possibly result in) a great diaspora of humanity. More humans, living in more places, having more experiences, and being more separated, means a more diverse culture, even if a lot of those humans are the same humans.

Finally, immortal humans will likely be far better caretakers of resources. They will have personal incentives to make sure there are enough resources, that those resources are renewed, and that they are used in a way that preserves the planet. Humans have a very difficult time even conceptualizing what the world may be like for their great-great-grandchildren (and modifying their behavior accordingly), but they understand fear for their personal safety far better.
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> The frustrating bit is that these scams paint a really sour picture of the space as a whole. There's a lot of value to cryptocurrencies, and as a technology it's poised to change the world in some very serious ways. People latch onto it because it's a powerful idea and because the underlying technology has a lot of legitimacy to it.

> People hear ads about how you need to move over your 401k and discount the whole space as a scam. The scams are crowding out the innovation, drawing potentially disastrous regulatory scrutiny, and as a whole setting back a legitimate budding industry substantially.

I accept your reasoning. But cryptography was all the time about how one can "scam" another person or prevent being scammed (where "scammed" in this case means e.g. that the cipher is broken).

To give a concrete example: MITM attacks on, say, Diffie-Hellman key exchange (just the standard textbook MITM attack if DH is used without any certificate) is in this wording just scamming the user that he has a secure connection while in reality someone can eavesdrop it or even modify sent messages. Of course the standard solution for this exact problem is to use X.509 certificates. But the "scamming" does not stop here: Of course a malicious person immediately thinks about more sophisticated attacks such as replay attacks to scam the user and again of course the protocols use methods to prevent this.

In this sense my counterclaim is that this does not "paint a really sour picture of the space as a whole", but just presents the "ordinary man" with what cryptography has been about for decades in a completely realistic (though in this case perhaps somewhar painful) way.
> I generally don't consider the long term sustainability of the companies I purchase goods from.

We could probably go on at length about the moral problems here, but likely not productive in a comment thread.

> That said, I'm a software developer and my very generous salary

I'm not sure how to read that. I am also a software engineer, and even very high salaries in wealthy urban zones are typically not 'generous' in the sense that good software labor creates a vast wealth surplus for the shareholders and ownership, to such a degree that the high salaries are still not very fair.

> the indirect (via the demand curve) result of the destruction of manifold entrenched business models at the hands of VC subsidies.

Sure, but usually companies are expected to demonstrate evidence that the subsidy wouldn't be _permanent_ .. that there is evidence of a path to profitability.

The reason it's worthwhile to draw much more attention to the VC subsidy situation with Uber is that they have not been able to do that, and have instead generated unprecedented losses without making any progress towards profitability. It makes it incredibly different than typical cases when VC subsidy creates a short term runway to profitability. That is not what's going on.
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Only interested in money? They demonetize videos but leave on the platform. So Google ends up paying the infrastructure cost without any revenues.

Only interested in the money would be just remove the questionable content that advertisers have no interest being associated completely from YouTube.

Sounds like the opposite of only interested in the money?

Can you explain?
"There is certainly a scientific approach to art. In science, endeavors often require as much or more creativity as they do logic. All this stands to reason; art and science are not the same, but both serve to advance us forward, each on their own, and in service to each other." - Unknown [1]

[1] http://www.actinginbalance.com/on-art-and-science/
My implicit point was that addressable memory size is not a factor when choosing between 32 and 64-bit ARM.

Looks like I should have communicated it more clearly.

AArch64 does have some perks, but mostly for out-of-order cores, which RPI3's Cortex A53 is not.

That said, even A53 can benefit from 31 registers in 64-bit mode. Large virtual address space is nice not only for memory mapping files, but to do lazy initialization while keeping high performance direct pointer access characteristics. That way you can have the MMU doing the check and indirection for you instead of slow explicit conditional check in code.

You can mitigate pointer size by ensuring memory accesses are PC-relative. Perhaps there could be support for something similar to x32 ABI [0] as well.

AArch64 codegen does need to generate more conditional jumps or CSELs (like cmove) though. Also function entry & exit code is larger due to lack of LDM & STM (load/store multiple). But on the other hand, stack spills are rarer, thanks to 31 general purpose registers instead of 14 on 32-bit ARM.

Where AArch64 truly shines is when you have a real out-of-order CPU core, for example Cortex A72. There are significantly more opportunities for instruction level parallelism due to dropping instruction predicates and other changes.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X32_ABI
I wonder at what point it becomes profitable to hire telemarketers to drive interest in a cryptocurrency you've bought into so you can pump and dump, especially if these telemarketers are coming from overseas where they're notoriously cheap.
That is exactly what this is.
Lets supposed the true sales were 50/50. That would indicate a majority of google people are just buying the equipment and not ever using it.
I think Amazon illustrates that our understanding of 'monopoly' is lacking. It is not just a company which owns 95%+ of the market which is dangerous, but just normal old large companies that own 20% or 40% or so of markets. Oligopolies have their own effect on markets - the econ 101 explanation is a kinked demand model where there is no incentive for the companies to lower their price.
Fellow Brooklynite here, and I agree 100%. I can't believe the hubris of these guys, trying to get me to get out of the cab after they hear I live in Brooklyn. And BTW, I'm JUST over the bridge in Brooklyn, about 10 minutes from the E River in traffic! It's the tourists that suffer, or the newbies, who aren't as rude as us New Yorkers - they'll doubtless exit the cabbie who says, "Sorry, not going there." I don't exit cabs when legally they can't ask me to.

But it gets worse with yellow cabs. First of all, they never clean their cars. Half the time it smells like a goat has been freshly transported. Secondly, they don't care about noise - at least half of them use the radio speaker system to conference call in either their wives or their fellow drivers and yap away while you get to hear that, on high volume. Sometimes there's awful music. That's rude and inconsiderate and doesn't often happen with Uber and Lyft.

I'm going to say something mean: the cabbies get what they deserve. They can whine all they want, and I do have some sympathy that these drivers moved to this country only to get stuck in what is a failed monopoly structure. The reason why cabbies were successful before Uber and Lyft and medallions used to cost 1 million dollars was because they operated under a monopolistic environment with no competition.

I remember once the cabbies went on strike because they were mandated to install GPS tracking devices and credit card machines. The machines made them furious, and for a year after a lot would be taped up: "Sorry sir, machine doesn't work."

It makes my blood boil just thinking about some of the awful experiences I've had with yellow cabs.

Glad to see them suffer.
Sending off diplomats won't hurt Putin as much as sending off McMafia style oligarchs. Unfortunately UK has no guts to do it.
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Prices in Denmark would go down, or Pfizer profits would go down, both would be bad. Of course drug companies "hate negotiating with large parties"--because countries can exercise monopsony power: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopsony. It's the same reason suppliers hate negotiating with Wal-Mart. Monopsony is not a good thing. It causes economic inefficiency, just like the exercise of seller-side market power (monopoly).
Mossad could easily be as responsible and they have motive with Syria.
I disagree but think you make a good point that shouldn't be downvoted.

The issue here is really a fundamental conundrum around providing services that are of general utility to the public. At one point, people in the country couldn't get electricity, because densities were low and profitability low as well.

NYC has the same issue with cabs, which is addressed by regulation but also required savvy consumers willing to complain. Uber/Lyft address this in their apps and via subsidy... and they do this because the promise of universal service is essential. Once you allow exceptions, you get back into the situation where you can't get a ride to a black neighborhood or can't get a ride if you're the wrong ethnic background.
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The title exaggerates Caplan's conclusion. As the article says, "Caplan calculates that while those who stick it out and earn a degree earn a good return on their personal investment, that doesn’t apply to the half of poorly performing students who drop out."
Point taken. Though "call by name" still makes me twitch :-)
So you would rather know nothing about how users are using your product, rather than risk offending the subset of users that are vehemently against telemetry?
I am not sure this can be considered nonviolent.

On Mozilla, I recommend to use Reader Mode.
At risk of being voted down I will say that the time in which Hawking has worked has been a "dark ages" for physics in my mind. (As a physics PhD; and I don't blame Hawking for this, rather the rest of the environment.)

Circa 1970 the number of physics PhD's produced has outstripped the number of permanent jobs in physics, sometimes by a factor of 30:1!

One result of that is that physicists have to make it through a keyhole to get established. Another change that has happened since then has been a profound disconnect between theory and experiment. Back in the day, Einstein could make a prediction about light being bent by the Sun and have it be confirmed in his own lifetime.

The "modern" physics superstar like Hawking or Witten just doesn't do that. When neutron oscillations were finally detected after years, it is almost forgotten who to give credit for for the theory because it is really just a conjecture that some matrix element isn't zero. Even in condensed matter there is the spectacle of seeing theoreticians dogpile on the problem of cuprate oxide superconductivity for 20 years without making any progress until an experimentalist noted stripes in the electron density.

The result of it is that you get ahead by getting the approval of much older physicists, not by understanding the world.

As for Hawking himself, his ideas about information loss in black holes, the wavefunction not being unitary and all that were just plain bad ideas that held back quantum gravity by 30 years or so.
Read The Tau Manifesto!

https://tauday.com/tau-manifesto
Good "alt news" use sources properly.

You're thinking of clickbait bullshit.
The figure I'm referring to is per kilometer: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-...
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The United States is indeed near the top of the list in percentage of car ownership, but it's pretty high in most of the developed world. Arguably, there's less of a "private car oriented culture" elsewhere but most adults still own cars nonetheless.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/04/16/car-bike-or-...
Yeah, I think the issue is a casual/familiarity vs. professional/formal situation distinction more than a politically correct one. Dude/chick make sense in casual situations where one has some familiarity relationship with the other person. They aren't often terms one would use in a formal or professional relationship.

I suppose the interesting question to ask is does HN think of itself as more of a professional/formal discussion community than one that leans towards casual/familiar?

(I'd assume that the answer is that it probably varies with comment writer and both sides of the argument are represented here and have fair points.)
While you're joking, one thing that appeals to me about my recent dive into functional programming is that it strikes me as knowledge that is 'fundamental' enough that it'll never disappear or become irrelevant.
How is the person identified? Facial recognition? Long-distance RFID reading? Mobile phone location tracking?
I was a C++ fanboy, before I had to deal with Lisp in college. While Lisp itself seemed unusual with all the parentheses, it had a few good ideas I really missed in C++ . That was the point where I looked for languages similar to Lisp and that lead me to what I'm working today with: Haskell.
Lua is on my list in a similar way as SQLite, high quality impl, fast, versatile, damn near bulletproof embeddable scripting language.
Why? Because Russia is an international bully/mob. They are going after people on their hit list because they don't have to fear the U.S. intervention. Clearly, Trump is not going to do a thing. So now is the time for assassinations in the U.K. The country and NATO are at a weak position because the U.S. probably won't help sanction and retaliate Russia.
Prescription drug consumers are a subset of the general public. But all of general public aren't prescription drug consumers.
How game theory may explain Trump talking to Kim Jong Un
Kids is a big thing -- needing specific car seats means taxis are out until your kids are 12.

That said the average car costs $34k in the US and lasts say 10 years, that's $3,400 a year. Maintenence, taxes, etc another $1500 at least, that's $5k/yr before you move an inch.

While automatic cars may not get rid of everything, many 2 or 3 car families, especially in the suburbs, may drop to 1.
A nerve agent made in Russia - that's what we are told. I would believe this only if confirmed by a truly independent third party.
Marketing is mostly a zero sum game. To be successful, you have to spend more than the next company.

If all companies reduced their marketing spend equally by 50%, nothing of value will be lost.
Please comply with the license of the blockchain implementation in Python. It's MIT, so all you have to do is include the copyright notice ("Copyright (c) 2017 Daniel van Flymen").

You should also tell people under what license you're releasing your changes :)
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Ok, this is seriously intriguing.

Are more details about this magic thing available?
bitcoin transaction volume is down ~50% from 400k/day in december to 150-200k/day recently

the "demand" is from people who like seeing lines that go like this / in their portfolios

the ratio of people who are actually using the "product" to those who are just speculating is pretty insanely low
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> I've never known anyone to have an "e-mail" checking machine in their kitchen.

I saw a lot of that in years past. Seems that there was a trend for awhile to have a builtin desk in the kitchen, and that desk typically had a Windows computer on it. I doubt many of these people used it for more than email and basic stuff.

> Go ahead, find one. I'll wait. Please tell me what OS is going to replace Windows??

I'm seeing Linux slowly take over on workstations, both at home and at the office. I'm no longer surprised to find Linux installed where previously it would have been unheard of.

These are just my observations, though.
The answer to your first question is certainly "yes". Unfortunately the answer to the second is "no". No pharma executive ever got a bonus for saving lives.