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>The article mentions sharding but sharding usually reduces security

I think if you're careful about it, sharding can be done without impacting security much. Suppose you would split the Bitcoin network exactly in half. Each half has only has as much hashpower, so you can attack it for half the cost. But each side also contains only half as much money, so the potential payout went down by the same factor as the price of attack.

Of course it's more complicated than that, because a realistic attack isn't about stealing money from everyone but from a handfull of large targets. Also, TON is proof of stake and not proof of work. And you have to scale sharding not with money present, but with transaction rate. And the shards (presumable sidechains?) will transfer money between each other, and you have to scale that as well. It's a complicated problem, but I wouldn't rule sharding out as a viable approach.

I highly doubt they can do the promised "millions of transactions per
second" in any realistic scenario, that would be a major breakthrough. VISA can only do 57 thousand transactions per second [1]. But I also don't think they need remotely that much. Paypal has an average transaction rate of ~200 transactions/second, VISA of ~1700 transactions/second. At least paypal's average rate would be achivable even with Bitcoin's codebase if you were to take some liberties with block time and size (which isn't entirely unreasonable, the internet got faster in the last 8 years)

1: https://mybroadband.co.za/news/security/190348-visanet-handl...
"...combination of tax increases and spending
cuts..."

As of the moment we only have the political appetite for the spending cuts and tax cuts. The tax raises will come later when we realize how far we've bankrupted the social safety net programs, perhaps 10, 20 years from now.
Since we're off-topic anyway: have you tried Spacemacs? It's all the ingrained vim keybindings on top of a... more powerful system.
Corbyn's vilification is not a sign of fascism but a different problem over Brexit - like I said our next challenges will not look like the 1930s - we will invent our own new cballenges
Are their recruiters being told to purge applicants from their hiring funnel based on race or sex? Are they getting on social media and explicitly telling people to subscribe to people based on their race?

YouTube has really been going the extra mile.
I understand that you're trying to stretch this term to fit the SF situation, but the reality is that no one can become "landed gentry" outside of the British, Polish, or Chinese systems and also by traveling back in time to when these social classes operated.

Due to the impossibility of becoming "landed gentry" in the modern United States of America -- in the same way that being knighted is likewise impossible here -- using the phrase to describe a group of people is taken as intentionally misapplying a metaphor to insult, divide, denigrate, and bully the target group.

When folks misuse a term like "landed gentry" that tells me that the argument they want to signal is that "those people" are evil and bad while "our people" are good and honorable. Therefore, those people's homes should be taken away and replaced with high density housing for our people. That's certainly an argument. I personally don't find it particularly compelling, but I'm not an SF voter.

As far as MWOD, that publication might consider reviewing whether or not they should be making such low quality definitions publicly available -- it's a sad day when you're upstaged by Urban Dictionary [1].

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=landed+gentr...
I also went from Geany to Vim.

I found Geany really useful when I'd just started programming, as it has some useful features, like file browser, symbol list and terminal window, while not being as overwhelming as Eclipse with its project management and autogenerated code, "marketplace" and whatnot.
To be fair, the 'very high tax rate' it's been put up to is still less than income tax levels, so it's still being incentivised.

Not once you take the already applied corporation tax into account, though. Then the overall tax rate is around 5% above regular income tax, with the exact difference depending on which tax band you're looking at.

Of course you can argue that employees also pay NI on PAYE salary, but if you're going to go down that path then really you also have to consider that employees get paid time off, pension contributions, etc. that their employer is footing the bill for. Again that leaves the balance quite heavily in favour of being employed rather than going independent, even if the employer provides only the statutory minimum PTO and pension contributions.

Operating through a limited company wasn't particularly cost-effective even before the dividend tax change if you were actually running a real business and taking on the usual costs/overheads/risks of any other business, unless you were able to take advantage of something like Entrepreneur's Relief following an exit (and willing to accept the slightly strange limitations that come with that).

Otherwise, it mainly only worked in favour of people like the ones you mentioned, who weren't running a real independent business at all and were simply skirting the law in an effort to abuse the tax system -- effectively, taking most of the perks of being an employee, yet getting the tax advantages of not being one. If the government had any idea what it was doing with the small business sector, it would surely have dumped IR35 and brought in a more suitable replacement to deal with that situation long ago. There was no need to hit all the legitimate businesses as well.
React is newer than jQuery so there aren't yet as many mature libraries out there. Still, it's component-ized approach, especially with Redux, can help keep complex applications easier to manage and reason about.
> When Budgie first started out way back in 2013, it had very very simple aims. It could quite easily sit on top of the GNOME 3.10 stack, and utilize all of the components with no issue.

> As a result, Budgie 11, the next major release, will be built using Qt 5, C++, and Wayland. Using these technologies, we seek to provide a refined version of the experience you know and love, but with fluid, accelerated animations, a beautiful user interface, and full integration of Raven to be a first class component.

https://budgie-desktop.org/about/
Yeah honestly that's like scooping a bucket of water out of the Mississippi River and thinking you're helping prevent a spring flood. But I understand the satisfaction anyway.
Incredible news. I cannot wait for this study. I expect positive results for both the supplements. What's your prediction?
I agree - it is very hard to find the cause.

I'm thinking the raise of extreme nationalism and populism (i.e., nazis) seems to caused more by pace of changes (rate of it) in the society and economy than by economical problems or even immigration.

It seems like that Nazis are more a reaction on the pace of the changes. For example, science was rapidly changing (weird quantum mechanic and even weirder general relativity are both from Germany), society was becoming very liberal (religious tolerance, etc.), economy (fiat currencies, etc.) and so on.

In short, "change" anxiety causes this.
The realtime-ness of airtraffic control is really very soft... We're comparing to humans on radios here... HTTP is waaaay faster...

Also, web services are well understood in terms of scalability, uptime even in the face of replacing/failing hardware, ability to shift load to other datacenters, etc.

By building on HTTP, you get authentication (OAuth) and encryption (HTTPS) for free. Build a JSON webservice and you get a nice extensible protocol too, so can add new features on an almost weekly basis without disrupting existing users. By building on TCP/IP, you can allow any form of transport - satellite, wifi, bluetooth, LTE, etc. without any extra testing or certification.

Most existing airtraffic control systems wouldn't be able to handle a nuke... The internet is designed to resiliently route around such things...
The incredible multi-dimensional chess of Qualcomm vs. Broadcom vs. Intel vs. Apple vs. Google vs. Governments
Ask HN: Are there any apps which are “Paid” in one country, “free” in another?
If you're using nicotine to help regulate your mood, I would definitely recommend grabbing a vape; your lungs will thank you.

On the flip side, a vape 'may' not be as effective, as it is possible its one of the other chemicals in tobacco that's helping. Tobacco is known to act as an MAOI, and MAOIs tend to be prescribed as antidepressants
Yikes... this is a toxic attitude. I'd expect that kind of scrutiny in a hard-hat and lunch pail assembly line job, not a purportedly professional career.
The bugs are actually fairly easy to kill: a weak detergent solution in water will do so in a few minutes, and very simple traps based on this.

Adding the concept of some form of bait -- food or heat seem to be the obvious options, might be the bee's knees. I'm thinking of a simple solar concentrator under one of these bait stations to create a warm attractive target (set out in the mid-to-late fall when the bugs are seeking out warmth) and attract the bugs.

For ag: a concentrated essence of whatever it is that most attracts the stinkbugs, with a similar detergent-water trap underneath, around field or orchard perimeters, might serve.

The bulk materials are inexpensive. The attractants, if sufficiently targeted, should not have an excessive impact on other insects.

The wasp angle also seems attractive, though potentially risky (see the cane toad angle from the story).
"Classical music has a lighter, clearer texture than Baroque music and is less complex. It is mainly homophonic — a clear melody above a subordinate chordal accompaniment. Counterpoint was by no means forgotten, especially later in the period."[0]

People, just listen to some music, it doesn't matter, that the music is in decline since the baroque period - the music needs listeners.

[edit]
"Since there was a greater emphasis on a single melodic line, there was greater emphasis on notating that line for dynamics and phrasing. This contrasts with the Baroque era, when melodies were typically written with no dynamics, phrasing marks or ornaments, as it was assumed that the performer would improvise these elements on the spot. In the Classical era, it became more common for composers to indicate where they wanted performers to play ornaments such as trills or turns. The simplification of texture made such instrumental detail more important, and also made the use of characteristic rhythms, such as attention-getting opening fanfares, the funeral march rhythm, or the minuet genre, more important in establishing and unifying the tone of a single movement."[0]

So, hello modern music, hello rap/r&b/soul and the likes. It's not worse, it's incomparable. Most people react on rhythm and catchy sounds, hearing no music at all, really. Comparing music is nuts as many here pointed out, and the question was different - can we have the next Bach? For me, the answer is "yes", for sure! Can we hear him/her? - perhaps no, label's target group is different.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_period_(music)
"Blockchain" is not a well-defined technical term, but to the extent it has a meaning, it refers to a distributed-consensus system using a Merkle tree for tracking ownership of items and proof-of-work for avoiding Sybil attacks (and therefore double-spend).

If you don't need distributed consensus (e.g., you're fine with a centralized party maintaining the current state of the system), you don't need the above. If double-spend attacks aren't meaningful for your application (e.g., there's nothing that someone can maliciously do twice in different ways, and cause two different groups of people to believe two different, incompatible actions happen), then you don't need proof-of-work. If Sybil attacks aren't a concern (e.g., you can only use the system if you're authenticated via some external means), then you might not need proof-of-work.

For tracking ownership of physical items by known participants in a real-world economy, blockchain probably doesn't help a whole lot. Just use normal Merkle trees.
I sort of agree with you. A lot of "justification" ends up being such a frustrating waste if time. Usually necessary though.
> good nutrition (veggies, nuts, olive oil, eggs, etc.)

I'd highly recommend reducing carb intake; cut out your bread, sugar, starch, pasta and try to stick with meat and greens. Low carb diets (Keto, Adkins, etc.) made a huge difference for me health wise.
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In Ayaya’s telling, her autism involves a host of perceptual disconnects. For example, she feels in exquisite detail all the sensations that typical people readily identify as hunger, but she can’t piece them together. “It’s very hard for me to conclude I’m hungry,” she says. “I feel irritated, or I feel sad, or I feel something [is] wrong. This information is separated, not connected.” It takes her so long to realize she is hungry that she often feels faint and gets something to eat only after someone suggests it to her.

This sounds more like a failure to integrate sensory information than a predictive error. That also fits with existing theories of autism relating to sensory processing.
Macros 2.0 means both Macros By Example 2.0 and Procedrual Macros 2.0.

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Except the MFNs were significantly weakened or struck down entirely by a number of the largest European countries. For better or worse: I think OTAs have brought many good things to consumers (efficient comparisons, more competition amongst accommodation for example) and they depend somewhat on being able to offer the best prices. After all, the point is to make the search easier and more efficient.

Disclosure: used to work for an OTA.
Could you be so kind as to provide a non YouTube link for this? Sites that don’t honor the 1st Amendment are blocked on my devices.

Thanks.
Since we're talking roads - layers of gravel, and asphalt - it is very easy to save a a lot of money by shaving off some thickness at any level. Construction companies the world over do this and a mm here and there are usually tolerated. Toronto area construction companies skim so much that the roads cave in.

If it isn't corruption, then how are they getting away with it?
Nice. Looking at this takes me back to 2000s, and leaves me thinking we’ve taken a wrong turn somewhere. Software should be simple - and that means that it should do one thing and do it well, not be stunted for “aesthetic” or other reasons...

In case you don’t, please support gapless playback. It’s an obvious feature for concerts and live performances, and a lot of software (e.g. whatever Ubuntu uses) doesn’t handle it at all.
When a lawyer or consultant bills a client he has to enumerate how each hour is spent. As an engineer in another field I submitted all my calculations for peer review, and all my drawings had to be signed by a manager.

When you buy a grocery product you get a list of every ingredient and all the nutritional info.

It's nothing more than transparency and accountability. The one paying the money wants and deserves to know what it's for.
Yes, I did like you before. But once I got used to Alpine, apk (its package manager), and ash (its shell), I feel myself at home. Furthermore, in most occasions I find newer updated software on Alpine vs. Debian.

Also besides disk space, I really have no idea how docker manages memory, but my assumption (naive?) is that smaller images will consume less RAM memory. I didn’t benchmark this though.
Same with 9/11 for me. I could swear I saw it live but I don’t think I actually did. All I remember is being kept back from school and watching the news repeat everything.
Better would be trapping them in a non-grinding system.

If you have a wet-dry vac, adding water + soap to the vac first will kill the bugs ingested. That should also help minimise the resulting stink, though you'll want to empty out the vac.

The vac approach is largely recommended only when you've found a large stash of the bugs.
Tadashi playlist: Tadashi Tokieda: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt5AfwLFPxWI9eDSJREzp...
Thanks for the reference. For a 10-11 yo (if I read "5th grade" correctly) this is actually a surprisingly abstract reaction (all the tragedy aside)
> Bitcoin is filling, first and foremost, one single human need: to buy drugs.

I know no one who transacts with Bitcoin for drugs (I've been involved with Bitcoin since 2011). DNM is obviously big, but I think you overestimate drug transactions vs how many are merely speculating.
Org-mode has been nice the few times I've tried it, but without decent mobile support or multi-master syncing, it's hard to adopt it as my main productivity tool.

I've tried a few mobile org-mode clients and been universally disappointed. I'm increasingly convinced that the right path forward is to give Emacs an Android port (it's not that hard) and let the mobile org just be the mainline org, perhaps with a layer of android.view.View widgets (orchestrated from lisp) as an interface.
Go very light on the soap if you do that, or you will have a stream of foam pouring out of the exhaust of your Shop-Vac. Best to use a low sudsing HE laundry detergent if you want to try something like that. Do NOT use liquid dish soap.
Isn't that sort of the same thing? To what end does one integrate sensory information other than to make predictions or classify things?
Direct spray onto a collecting surface seems to work fairly well. In my experience, the bugs will congregate on window screens. Spraying them with a weak (1/4 or lower) mix of detergent (Dawn, Trader Joe's handsoap at a 10 shot / litre, or Clearwood & Sage Multi-Purpose Cleaner at 1/4 - 1/8 strength) will kill them in a few minutes.

I've offed 100s per day in this manner.

A screen-based bait / spray station might automate this.
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One precedent for this is FLARM, the air traffic system designed by glider pilots in Europe. It was one of the first systems deployed where aircraft had GPS equipment broadcasting their positions to each other. Developed privately and first deployed voluntarily. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLARM
Musk refers to Nuclear as a potential part of the transitional story.

Your comment suggests Nuclear is a permanent part of the "mixture", and that there's not enough capacity for all the energy needs without it.
I'm not sure saying "tanned skin is damaged skin" directly answers the original question, or at least the way I'd ask it. Suppose, I go outside for a little bit at a time with my kids during the spring, and get something of a tan, then I go to the beach and am a lot of direct sun.[0] Although the articles say the tan is not much protection (2-3 SPF max), it is some. On the other hand, I had lots of exposure during the spring. Both effects are real, but which is bigger? For that matter, how big are the effects of those exposures? Can you just add up the entire time spent outside during peak hours?

[0] I do use sunscreen, but between getting in the water, uneven application or whatever else, I end up with part of my body burning a fraction on the time.
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ledger

https://www.ledger-cli.org/
You probably know that already, but the First Amendment does not apply to private companies.
Why "let's say a year" and not 50 years? Or never? You just made a number up without knowing any operating costs.
Hey! I'm having the exact same issues right now. Why did you add demodex? How could you tell you had mites?
Not knowing Chinese, I also had to look up '星', as parent comment does not explain it. It means planet, so literally 'Wooden Planet'. Nice.
Isn't it just more economical at this point? If you're a low-income/impoverished, it seems like a daughter would have more opportunities for higher education, given how many female-only scholarships there are nowadays; and that's not even considering how many foundations exist solely to help young girls advance academically now.

People have always wanted their children to have the best lives possible, I don't particularly see how this is any different.
Investing in high-profile ICOs is just about the worst investment advice, similar to investing in cryptocurrencies when you hear about new records on CNN. At that point only the suckers invest, while the smart investors (like the ones who invested in the pre-sale and pre-pre-sale in Telegram) will start cashing out.
Large scale reinforcement learning on diets I believe would save millions of years of shortened human lifespan and poor health.

Medical professions already agree that diet plays a massive role in health and longevity. Large scale reinforcement learning will be able to give a far more accurate view on exactly what elements of diet have what effects on health on an individual basis.

Sadly, this kind of tech will remain illegal in most of the developed world, and the benefits will never be realised.
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He also streams in English. I don't know any Polish.
You can run one of the many "speed tests" to see how much bandwidth you're actually getting from your ISP connection. For example:

https://www.dslreports.com/speedtest
You may be saying the same things. It seems like the person you’re replying to emphasized _daily_ justification of work, which does seem unnecessary to me.
“E.g.” means “for example,” so the quoted sentence explicitly says those are not the only ways.
> Theoretically you could write WebAssembly code that generates e.g. a bitmap, or an SVG, and have a minimal, unchanging HTML+JS "bootloader" for it...

I was expecting something like that from the OP title. I don't doubt however that this technology will come, it's a question of when. I hope they will support text selection :)
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Having "%20" in the URL isn't giving me confidence...
Might be an idea to have a way to skip all the animations... Or at least accelerate them 100x
Uneducated individual here. What is the proper term for arguing against a claim that was never made or incorrectly assumed, but ambiguous enough to become a target? I see this a lot in political debates. Something more technical than a misunderstanding.

Anyway, I think that’s what’s happening here. It’s not a simple matter of different learning styles, but rather the strength of stimuli that are involved when learning something new. Some people may find text sufficient, but a lot of people prefer videos because it’s far more engaging. Breaking down learning styles into visual, audio, etc is meaningless imo.
Can one turn those animations off? They might be nice the first few hundred or even thousand times, but afterwards, they will be despised.
I definitely remember that day - Commander Dick Scobee was from my hometown of Auburn, WA, so every tv was on. Likewise, ask anyone from the Pacific Northwest who was alive on May 18, 1980 what they were doing that day... I was maybe 3, but even I recall vividly.
Nice use of taxpayer money... swines.
> I had a job that believed this and limited us sometimes to only 90 minutes sleep.

Can you elaborate on that? How could your employer possibly control something like how long you sleep?