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Yep, because it's forcing you to do awkward hierarchies that most people get wrong. And even if you get it right, it tends to be awkward a lot of the time.

I was always a big fan of CLOS (Of Common Lisp) and Dylan (poor Dylan).

By the way, the spiritual successor to Dylan (IMHO) Stanza http://lbstanza.org/ doesn't seem to get much love.
The mayor's view is consistent the engineering rationals for bikelanes. Bikelanes are for cars. Not in the sense that cars are meant to drive in bikelanes. In the sense that bikelanes exist to relegate bicycles to second class road use for the sake avoiding inconvenience to motorists. Ticketing cars for standing in bikelanes would inconvenience motorists.
I keep a bottle of water too. Yes, I think realistically the only reason that I'm stuck that way is because of a blizzard. Melting snow is going to be the solution. In any case I think given I don't die right away, the best chance to be found and rescued is to have a radio transmitter device. So the cell phone, even when it doesn't work, is the next most valuable thing. There are tons of stuff we can do with the cell phone or ham radio. Kim was searched for, just that they couldn't find him. I think being searched for is the most realistic scenario if something like that happens to me.
Great, I'm glad for this new information. So when I go out to look at my breaker box which is billed as 200A (or 400 which they will at least tell me is really 320) service and it has two 100A (or 200A) breakers for a house/garage full of loads, I just hope it doesn't burn down?

As a home owner how will I ever discover this in a non-catastrophic way? Will I put an ammeter clamp on at the breaker box with an alarm on it? Will I know the load of everything that is plugged into that service? The breaker won't blow, but the building will burn down... and it's not the fault of the electrician who installed it and code enforcement says it's fine?

As examples of non-continuous loads that are likely to be continuous for 8 hours or more: a double oven during Thanksgiving, halogen flood lamps at night, or an electric space heater during winter. Oops, you burned your house down for Christmas.

(edit) Discussing this with an electrician, he says that in fact the breaker will flip after extended/continuous load near the breaker limit. It would not be considered a hazard, because the home owner would experience the breaker flip each time before there was a problem. He also said that it's the difference between running at 75 vs 100% of rated current is about 15C of increased temp on the wires and also not a concern for copper.
A French Baker Is Fined $3,600 for Working Too Hard
Yes it does. Do you want to try it out?
It's not that simple. The word "assets" is the wrong word (and I know, you didn't pick it). What actually happened was that there were two kinds of assets, safe and... not so safe. And when the bottom fell out on housing, people got out of the stock market too. Where did the money go? Some evaporated, as people found out that their assets weren't worth as much as they thought they were. A bunch of the rest went into bonds, especially US Treasuries, which were regarded as the safest asset out there.

The Fed responded by buying a bunch of treasuries (QE). That drove the price up. If you happened to hold treasuries when the Fed did this, you made money. On the other hand, everyone else on the planet was also buying treasuries, so the price was going up anyway - the Fed just made it go up more.

So some people sold, because the price was high. Some did it to cash in the price rise. Others did it because, going forward, the rate of return was dismal for the next X years. Those who sold had to put their money somewhere. Where would they put it. Not in treasuries - that was what they were selling. So they were getting out of treasuries, and had money to buy other things. That's what the Fed intended.

But it's not just QE. It has always been a good strategy to hold bonds when interest rates fall, because the price of the bond moves in the opposite direction of interest rates, and the longer the bond duration, the further the price moves.

Why did the Fed do this? A few paragraphs ago, I said that some money just evaporated. Well, "some" here means four trillion dollars. So the Fed used QE to create four trillion dollars and pump it back into the economy, which kept the whole thing from seizing up in a real Great Depression. Whether people holding treasuries at the time made a bit more money than they would have is beside the point.

So freejulian is wrong in what he's implying, that there was some conspiracy of evil bankers to transfer money to the rich. But he's right that, when this came down, holding bonds was the right move. (But by the time QE started, the big gains had already happened.)
> You stopped at every red light on your way to work today(...)?

Yes. I bike 6 miles but only hit 7 lights because I head over to the west side greenway.

> (...) and you witnessed nearly every other cyclist doing the same?

Your original claim was:

> The overwhelming majority of bicyclists in NYC do not stop at red lights or use hand signals.

Even if I saw, say, 40% of bicyclists blow red lights, it would still contradict your claim of an 'overwhelming majority'.

Also, I'm a bit confused now about your claims. Are you claiming that a majority of bicyclists every now and then goes through a red light? Or are you claiming that a majority of bicyclists constantly go through red lights? I disagree with the latter but could agree with the former.
Just because you can't buy them doesn't mean they aren't still used.
Sure, that's the motivation some atheists have in believing or at least entertaining the idea of a multiverse, but ultimately, it does relatively little to advance atheism, and not just because of its intractability. Fine tuning is an interesting thing to ponder, and certainly a single universe that is finely tuned could lend some support to divine intent, but the real arguments for the existence of God do not hinge on fine tuning or probabilities or any of the standard fare of young earth creationists and the like that philistines like Dawkins enjoy dumping on. The best arguments demonstrate God's existence as a necessary fact following from evident premises. (Btw, Edward Feser has recently publishes a book, "Five Proofs of the Existence of God", on the subject, selecting five that he holds to be particularly important.)
Thanks for sharing your connection with Adrian. It was nice hearing some positive memories about him. I know he did what he did with Manning with much consternation but out of a moral necessity. It really did weigh on him.

I met Adrian in about 98 in SF and shared many of the same kinds of adventures with him. He shared a lot of his physical and electronic intrusions with me and he never did any harm or anything malicious. It was all simple exploration in the best hacker ethos. He'd usually inform the 'victim' taking nothing for his services except a Coke while he told them his story.

I'm also curious what happened, morbidly. I haven't heard from him at all in a few years. An unfortunate addition to the list of young, talented but troubled hackers I've known who've left us too soon. :(
Let's make a website. – A blog series on learning web development from scratch
> Just like cars, bikes have a responsibility to look out for pedestrians

Absolutely, and when I'm in a bike lane next to heavy pedestrian traffic, I try to be more careful. But as CydeWeys points out, Sir Newton preempts local, state and federal laws, and always has.

> bikers are largely ignorant or disrespectful of the law. If it's a red light and a bike blows through it, is it really the pedestrians that are the problem for not watching for illegal bikes?

We're just throwing around anecdata here, so I'm not going to try to argue the "No True Bikeman Would Run A Red Light"; I try not to, and I certainly don't blow through them when there are pedestrians. I also certainly do see other bikers doing that sometimes, though I also see most stop and wait, or carefully navigate the intersection.
There's a theory in memory research that says that you need to focus or at least notice an idea or thing before you can remember it. Example: given a picture, few people will be able to completely describe it but you'll be able to describe those areas you focused on or caught your attention.

We think that we remember everything we see or hear but that's impossible since in order to remember the data first has to be detected and it has to go through short-term memory before it can be stored in long-term memory. Short-term memory can hold about 7 items at one time. Also, our memory's nature is to forget unless it's important.

So given the above, it's impossible to retain much of what we hear vs reading. We get the illusion that we are capturing everything we hear but we are not. We capture what we think is important but it's going by so fast that it's just bits and pieces with our minds filling in the blanks. Basically, what audio is doing is keeping our minds busy.

So if you want to get the basic idea of a book you listen to it. If you want to retain the most of it you read and you try to recall what you just read.
That was my reaction. Here in California you’d have to be a several time repeat offender and take something of significant value (like $4,000 +) to get prison time.
The difference is that you committed a crime, landed yourself in jail, are not the property of the state, and have a finite term to serve. Sounds like a big difference to me.
Reminds me of Logan's Run.
It's likely that there won't ever be a single cryptocurrency that solves all the messy and complex problems of our global financial systems. Bitcoin is certainly far from delivering on that promise at the moment. It has however delivered a significant improvement in providing a trustless, secure, fault tolerant and immutable environment in which to implement a clean slate in monetary policy. Ethereum evolved this from a ledger of transactions to a ledger of computational states, and off to the races we've gone in using these as inspirations toward improving the broken qualities of our modern financial services industry. Factom offered a different take on inflation and deflation, dozens more tinker and toil to get it right. Transparency has improved, regulations have begun to take shape, and its just the first inning.
> and that stability comes from employment.

and suppressing freedom of expression
Can the code be modified to track the amount of time each infraction lasts, then graph that? It would be interesting to see what percentage take 30 seconds or less.
Nightcode Clojure IDE
If you want to avoid OO you'll also want to avoid treating functions as first-class values. As soon as you have structs that contain functions, you can build OO.
"It could be that we’ve been shielded from these existential threats by our very existence."

Lots of misleading casualty statements like this in the article.

Still enjoyed it.
The Greenhouse Effect: Eco-friendly glass architecture that incorporates flora
I do believe they don't need to be replaced, they need to fix their birth rates instead.
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I think it's interesting to standardize these things as ERC20 tokens. It's still very early days, but that allows you to leverage the entire ETH econsystem which is still growing. For example, I could store those ERC20 tokens on my hardware wallet, or phone wallet, send them to others without using a platform's website, etc.

Also, your comment reminds me somewhat of the infamous Hacker News comment when Dropbox posted ("everything you want to do can be done simply with rsync"). Sure, perhaps it's simple for tech folks that know how to build a database and a website that lets you mint and share tokens. But what if you are a popular Youtube vlogger? You either don't know how to do that, don't have time to, or don't want to spend the money. But perhaps you'd use this service, quickly mint tokens, give them away to users, and invent interesting use cases for them.

Personally, I love this idea and think it has great potential. Will anything useful come of it? Who knows -- it's early days. I think the most interesting use cases, if they exist, haven't been thought of yet. I look forward to seeing what people do with it.
You might have been hit by a bug involving KB3135173 [0]. A later update fixed it, or modifying the Registry can fix it. Windows 10 seems to have issues if it expects a registry entry to exist, and it doesn't. (You probably have no control over any of this unfortunately, being a work PC).

[0] https://www.ghacks.net/2016/02/16/beware-kb3135173-for-windo...
They do seem to exist, based on the notes in the release history. I'll link when I'm off my phone, forgive me.
I'd imagine, although I'm not entirely sure, for a similar reason why a lightbulb won't always be on. Something needs to power it, and without the power it can sit in the off-state for eternity. If the power stops, the light stops. With happiness, something needs to start it, and without anything to keep it going, the happiness goes away.

You could also say "Evolutionary Reasons," although that's much less interesting and more of a cop-out. The argument on that front is just that sadness is the optimal state of a human being to succeed, whilst happiness is the way to reward them for succeeding. If they're always happy they'll change nothing. It makes sense, obviously, but it's very much a low-hanging fruit.
The complexities of a green screen
>but the Japanese are a people with a strong sense of honor and admitting that they are in need of social, emotional and financial help can be very difficult. So difficult that they evidently prefer going to prison

Is it that sense of "honor", or is prison the only source for the social, emotional and financial help that exists for them?
Great mind fuck.
Use a metal strainer for frying or a wok to make a [wokfi](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WokFi), they work great.

You can also use tinfoil, glue and paper to make [tiny reflectors](http://www.freeantennas.com/projects/template2/index.html) on your router's antennas.
Maintaining state and mutating state is useful and neatly done in OO. That is, when done right, which is hard. I certainly agree that for processing data, good functional languages reign supreme. They are usually terser while more expressive.

It seems that solving problems need their own tool. Compilers typically fit a data processing pipeline. Yet, a use case such as editing an AST (e.g. a text editor showing incomplete syntax state) probably could better use OO as a tool.

Most current software then simply uses the wrong tool for the job; they do data processing with OO, and state representation and mutation using functional pure idioms. A problem that is not yet solved very well in the industry is interplay with these idioms. .NET with C# and F# comes to mind, which allows for easy workflows leveraging both OO and functional.
Who are you quoting? I search for that text and came up empty.

Car crashes are a leading cause of death in the US. Speeding a mere 5mph over in NYC can mean the difference between a lethal collision and survivable one. Underfunding of police departments where they can't enforce the law is a bug, not a feature. If the law is unjust or the punishment too severe, then that's what needs addressing no?

I find those opposed to traffic cameras are often also ones that break the law as a matter of routine and daily habit. Getting a ticket is not an "oops", it's "a cop happened to be nearby this time". Is it difficult to admit the necessity of laws like stopping at red lights or stop signs?

If there are problems in the program's implementation (e.g. cutting yellow times) or corruption (kickbacks), that is not the fault of traffic cameras. It's a problem with the local government.

Lastly, how do you feel about driverless cars? Automation would surely save lives but would presumably burden car users by following the law all the time as well. Granted, attempting to evade compliance would simply be impossible, not imposed by a fine.
Long term, you will either have government as we know it now, or an alternate currency, but not both. The monopoly on currency is closely related to the monopoly on force.

I generally think a lot of anarcho-capitalist theory to be obvious nonsense, but on that, they have a point.
The bike lane is entirely within a door-length. Cars are already on both sides (parked on one side, driving on the other), so cyclists often have nowhere to go. Drivers and passengers being unaware of cyclists is not the cyclists' fault!

A public awareness campaign of the Dutch Reach could help a lot. https://99percentinvisible.org/article/dutch-reach-clever-wo...

As could penalties for endangering fellow road users.
> Japan has been relatively xenophobic

Even if your statement were true (and this is questionable), the problem is that Japan is not made for foreigners. Like, not at all. Consider you need Japanese licenses for a great number of jobs involving care, and that such licenses require great Japanese ability in the first place, and foreigners would be out for the most part.
>The reasonable choice would be to mine a fixed amount of coins per year over ~100+ years

But that doesn't fix the underlying problem which is that early adopters can get the coins for pennies, whereas late adopters have to pay thousands.
I'm not xt00, but based on age/out-of-printness I'm guessing it may be Datta's 1989 book "Quantum Phenomena (Modular Series on Solid State Devices, Vol 8)". His 1986 book "Surface Acoustic Wave Devices" is a distant second-best possibility, depending on what was in that one semiconductor device physics course.

Everything else seems to be in print still, though some are expensive (as typical of specialized books).
Highly recommend this article for a dose of reality (he also covers the theory of money creation)

http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/2009/01/31/therovingcaval...
It seems like leverage has shifted from the central banks to commercial banks over recent decades, and indeed there has been massive consolidation of power in the commercial sector. The central bank seems more like an insurance proxy for the tax payer to the commercial bank, as evidenced by the 2008 rescue packages.
There's an essay on this: https://www.gnu.org/software/dotgnu/treecc_essay.html
Historically, that was at times abused by simply creating a lot of laws you could wantonly charge black people with breaking. But even setting that aside, we are simply calling slavery (or, at best, indentured servitude) an appropriate punishment for crime, not describing some phenomenon wholly different in kind.

Consider the text of the Thirteenth Amendment. It specifically exempts prison labor from its prohibition on slavery.
now your car is blocking their path and they could end up smashing into your illicitly parked vehicle.
I've had friends end up going through the rear windshields of cars

I agree with the arguments about moving cars pulling into the bike lane, doors opening, etc, BUT if you can't avoid smashing your bike into a parked car with enough force to go through the rear window, then you definitely aren't skilled or responsible enough to be riding in the city.
Most of these bus and bike lanes were ‘built’ by taking away road shoulder, on street parking, and loading zones. with the way the street is currently laid out in for example the video in the article, there is absolutely zero space for vehicles to stop.

Just because a city repaints the lanes doesn’t magically add extra pavement, and ignoring the needs of motorists results in them ignoring the painted lines.
> PPS: The 200% debt to GDP ratio is rather fictitious as 40% of that is owned bey the Japanease government dropping their actual debt load closer to 120%.

you make it sound like a debt at 120% is nothing or not even a problem.
>Computational work = constant payment.

With moore's law, that would result in hyperinflation. Who wants gold if the amount that is mined doubles every 2 years?
My last name was a Kevin Mitnick cover identity! :D
I can't really say that sounds unreasonable. do we really need drag strips within the city limits? by definition, the participants have cars.
I'd be okay with them all following his lead
Whataboutism. A wrong by one side does not excuse a wrong by the other.
> Japan needs a root-cause-analysis asap, and act on it without burrying their head in the sand.

You don't run quick-fixes on a society at large, unfortunately. Many things are cultural and slow to change.
The person receiving the token isn't the customer, the issuer is.

As an issuer, you do not have to worry about Hexel dissapearing. Presumably, the website doesn't make this clear.
The Posh Pen Paradox: when writers and artists fear their tools
If there's one thing I've learned through many years of human contact: if you need a thing done, you methodically plan it out, do it by yourself, and don't tell anyone.
Those bollards take up space, and we’re already dealing with what are in some cases very old and narrow roads.
There’s great wisdom here from an obviously enlightened crowd, but I will say, as a php dev for 9 years, permissive attitudes toward bad advice about programming did hold me back as an engineer.

I know php is the butt of many jokes about bad language design and bad architecture, but I wasn’t helped by the glut of terrible, outdated advice about php programming that just wouldn’t go away. I could have benefited from a forceful, constructive voice that not only helped me solve my problem, but taught me to seek a higher sophistication for the code I was writing.

And that’s where I think advanced developers turn into humiliating jerks. I would wager that most of them aren’t deliberately trying to excoriate junior devs, they just are frustrated that developers are repeating the same inefficient path to good practice that they may have trod. Instead of being short-fused and curt, they should take time to inventory the positive things that helped them, and pass those tidbits of effective advice along.

It’s very hard to pause and take note of resources or insights that made you much better as a developer. However, those who can are able to give junior devs a shortcut to excellence that is a net benefit to everyone around them, instead of just getting frustrated that the junior devs aren’t achieving enlightenment as fast as they themselves would have liked to.
Microsoft and Apple also back the CLOUD Act.
This would also enable seamless gift card exchanges. Currently secondary markets exist for gift cards, but they take ~10% margin to account for the high fraud risk, holding time, etc.
That’s an interesting approach. Are you generally working in imperative languages? Last I recall you were using…Scala?

I’m new to it, but it seems like there’s a lot of innovation quietly happening in this space.

My approach is more like a declarative build system, I guess. To add TAGS support, for example, you add an output that can generate a TAGS file, and declare that it depends on a resolved AST (one with fully qualified names). Then you can make queries like “pull tags from {this set of files, the whole database, everything in this namespace, &c.}”. Dependencies are resolved, and errors reported, mostly automatically unless you want to change the default behaviours.

If you want to regenerate tags after changing some input, then as an optimisation you can compute only the diff resulting from whatever dependency was changed upstream (usually a file, ultimately) at the memory cost of caching intermediates (which right now means leaving the server running).
Huh. I could have sworn he was on III. Maybe I’m misremembering IV stock and with expansions as two different games.