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I was working on exactly this many years ago at the OFTN OSWG with an open source project called Hum.

I stopped development after Apple got sued for secure p2p video chat with the original version of FaceTime, seeing as Hum was also going to support secure multiparty p2p video chat. Unfortunately VirnetX (and by extension, the US military) owns a patent that would have made deployment of Hum difficult without an expensive legal team.

It's not too hard to imagine that the real reason you don't see many p2p encrypted communication platforms is US military-sponsored patent trolling. This aligns with their mass surveillance interests.
AI and genetic engineering also might end the world as we know it.
It would definitely be a good direciton to go in, but I suspect a major potential problem for Spotify will be the possibility that the major record labels pull their tracks off Spotify in retaliation.

This was less of an issue for Netflix as Netflix streaming already had an extremely limited selection of third-party licensed content.
The problem with this approach is that there's so much music out there because it is way cheaper to make music than it is to make films and shows. Even if spotify was somehow able to sign the top artists, they just couldn't keep up with the influx of new artists coming up every single day.

Music lovers also tend to be very particular and nuanced about their taste in music. Therefore, if I as a consumer don't find my music on spotify it means I'd have no reason to subscribe nor come back to spotify.
Well, that's a very myopic view of what happened to windows mobile. Windows mobile and blackberry owned the mobile enterprise market for years. Then the iPhone came around and despite not having any ecosystem at all (or even native app capability) immediately started displacing both of them rapidly. Microsoft and RIM both gambled for a long time that ecosystem would keep windows mobile and BB OS in place, and only realized that it wouldn't once iPhone and Android had taken most of their market away. Microsoft then concluded from this that ecosystem didn't matter as much as people thought it did, and that if their offering was good enough the ecosystem would materialize by itself. Windows phone was never good enough compared to iOS and Android for that to happen, so it failed. But, the underlying theory was not crazy given what had just happened in the enterprise mobile market.
>One of the things I've learned about The Hill's opinion page is to background check the contributor -- seems like just about anyone can get an article there.

Or background check any facts they present in making their case, then form your own opinion.
He resides in Asia now. Singapore iirc. Some of the other ETH foundation people are in Bangkok. As someone involved in crypto lets just say you have to look deeper than that.

Frankly 2017 made him. Without massive liquidity 20bn crypto space exploding to 700+BN, he'd be mostly holding something that could not be spent.
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How to access SCI-HUB?
First Google result is a link to Fox News, and an article titled "Liz Peek: Census 2020 – Liberals, get over it, we must ask about citizenship!"

People can agree or disagree with that, but The Hill does not appear to have a consistent editorial stance that is separate from individual authors.

I have seen moderate contributors as well as more extreme partisan ones.
With a superhero name like that, you're going to find it easy to get job interviews!
Agreed that we need to fix that and also make it easier for people to build/maintain plugins. A hard problem across the cross-platform mobile space that I hope we can help with.
I don't think this is about unnecessarily ceding ground -- it's about arguing in bad faith as a tactic for delaying and confusing the issue.

I see it all the time and it's interesting that someone has given it a clever name.
First and foremost cryogenics has a PR problem. It is somehow more popular to say that you're glad people are dying by the billions than to align yourself with the people trying to make an earnest effort to stop it (now imagine how fast I would be banned for the same position around genocide).

I'm not sure whether this will just further the kneejerk anti-cryogenics sentiment or if it will seem to more normalise normal post-death cryogenics, but it does seem a rather dangerous play. I don't want cryogenics to find itself tangled up in crazy legal issues.

At an object level I'm not all that concerned with the ethics of people taking this bet, given the science is pretty sound. It does not make sense to allow people to take medical treatment that have a significant chance of serious harm for the chance of a few years longer health if it pans out, but then ban a bet as safe as cryogenics.
Just[0] reminds me of what some people attribute as the 'narcissist's prayer'[1].

[0]

>First of all, I don't have a dog.

>And if I had a dog, it doesn't bite.

>And if I had a dog and it did bite, then it didn't bite you.

>And if I had a dog and it did bite, and it bit you, then you provoked the dog."

[1]

>That didn't happen.

>And if it did, it wasn't that bad.

>And if it was, that's not a big deal.

>And if it is, that's not my fault.

>And if it was, I didn't mean it.

>And if I did... You deserved it.
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That works too. And maybe use ffmpeg to encode + 7-zip (p7zip 7za on linux) to encrypt and name the chunks based on date in a programmatic / deterministic manor.
Why single out these two providers? Shared parent company? Are they paying out of some marketing budget? Cheaper peering for some reason?
I like Spotify too. But in the end, it will just be another MegaCorp controlling music, especially when shareholders are involved. So I'd rather see the delicate balance between all parties maintained as-is.
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Money. It's not profitable to run an encrypted messaging service for free, because you can't extract any data from the chats, and people aren't willing to pay what it costs to maintain a good app.
Setting up ad hoc (aka standalone) Spark cluster with a bunch of machines you have control over is ridiculously trivial task though. It's as easy as running spark --master=x where you designate one machine as master. All others started with --master=x become slaves of x. Then you just submit jobs to x and that's all.
True, but it looks like these 2700X will come out under the 8700K's price point.

So if a Ryzen7 2700X has better multithreaded (aka: compile times, blender rendering, etc. etc.) speeds than something spec'd ~$50 to ~$100 more than it, that's a winner by any stretch of the imagination.

Single-core performance is most important in Javascript and Video Games. But most production tasks these days are multithreaded.
Everyone, read The Satoshi Affair [1] and make up your own mind. Don't believe he's a fraud just because it seems everyone else is saying so.

Ask yourself - If you were created the system that would dethrone banks and governments, would you want to be known?

1. http://archive.is/kjuLi
Gotcha. Thanks for the clarification.

My concern is that too often, embedded web apps still never feel right. It's that uncanny valley. I'm sure it's better than its ever been, but do you have thoughts on bridging that uncanny valley? (through maybe some CSS animation libraries that mimic the native controls?)
71% of the market is "almost no one" ?

Who do you expect to investigate tobacco products, if not the institute of tobacco control at America's #1 medical college?

edit: also, if your "high power mod" still uses a nichrome heating element, you will have the same problems. Chemistry is chemistry.
reddit is a UX nightmare though, they could use a redesign. The primary reason I don't regularly use reddit is because it is so unintuitive and defies so many conventions in terms of human interface that I became overly anxious just looking at it.
"our understanding is that he will stay at Google"

My understanding is that they are mistaken.
We're all guessing, but his net-worth probably didn't come from his salary. He joined Google 1-3 years after Google was founded so we have to assume that he got a lot of stock options, especially given his talent. When Google IPO-ed in 2004 it had a market cap of $23 Billion. Today is 30 times that much.

Of course he might have sold shares, but then he might have gotten super bonuses for a lot of his projects. Maybe he asked to leave and Sergey and Larry gave him a new title and lot of money. Sometime a small tweak makes a Google-sized company billions or tens of billions. They are generous with a tiny % of the sum.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/03/waymos-uber-lawsuit-reveals-...

"Embattled engineer Anthony Levandowski collected $120 million from Google, despite involvement with at least one start-up that would ultimately compete with the company, according to new legal filings. "
- Spotify’s UI is much cleaner IMO

- Better iOS app

- Native (well, Electron) MacOS app

- Playlist folders - niche feature but a big one for me

- Amazingly good music discovery on Spotify (not properly compared with Google but they get it so right a lot of the time even for niche genres)

I do wish Google Play could address some of these (most of all playlist folders! big one for me and how I organise music) as I do love the ability to store your own music along with cloud music that GPM gives, and it would be enough for me to switch with just a couple of changes.
No tabs. It's UI is more awkward than the mobile site itself. Honestly just not as good of an experience.
> Most neuroscientists think the ability to recapture memories from brain tissue and re-create a consciousness inside a computer is at best decades away...

At best, decades away? That's some crazy hubris. It's not even imaginable how far away it is. I find it absurd that humans think they can achieve arguably the highest level of godliness in mere decades. This is almost as crazy as saying teleportation is less than a hundred years away. We can't make predictions about things we don't understand.

Edit: I'm getting some flak for not including the rest of the quote, but I would argue that it doesn't matter. The rest of the quote was "and probably not possible at all". Their conclusion makes no sense. How can something either be impossible or potentially very possible? This statement shows how little academia actually knows about neuroscience. And no, this is not comparable to opinions about the moon landing in the 50's. By the 1950s we already had a completely sufficient theoretical framework for achieving space flight. The same cannot be said about consciousness upload as of today.
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> She is politically engaged, having contributed $120,000 to Democrat campaigns in 2016. Her book tours have taken on the feel of someone sounding out campaign themes.

Having worked in politics in DC I can tell you that this is a very small amount of money to donate for someone who's politically motivated or interested in running

Book tours often act like campaign tours, especially when your book is promoting a certain attitude or culture (Lean In)

If this is the only evidence of a political run the author has, I wouldn't hold your breath for a 2020 run.

Plus its The Hill, which is a very politically focused news source in general, so that probably was just added to make it a little more interesting for its reader-base
Thankfully there are also non-standard apps that are better (i use one called sync).

I think its tough to run a social network today and not be tempted to milk your users for everything a la facebook. Reddit does a reasonable job imo (and is being rewarded with good communities building there) though you can see the app is a bit of a grab in that direction (otherwise theyd just make the mobile web experience better). Hopefully their trajectory will stay positive though as always people will move on if bad decisions are made (a la slashdot, kuro5hin, digg, etc)
I’ve never gotten a good answer as to how an electron microscope can image the synaptic weights. If you look at the pictures it can barely capture the synapses.
E=mc^2, so oil ;)
Levandowski got $120m in pay from Google. His acquistion was when Uber acquired Otto
Yeah, that's exactly the kind of shift I was thinking about. Now that said, I don't think Tesla is ready to do this, which would somehow prove old timers right. If Tesla managed to this bmw level of automation they'd be pushing enough cars to fulfill demands and keep investors. Later they'll make that 20% jump if Musk really wants to make a SpaceX kind of leap.
> On mobile, if you visit the reddit site, they push a "use the app"-banner in your face. Every goddamn time.

It's not at all obvious, but if you go into the settings menu on the top right, you can tell it to not ask you this anymore. It seems to store it in a cookie, so you shouldn't be prompted if you don't use incognito or similar when checking it.
I've taken it around the same time, too.

To this day the name of the professor brings a smile to my face. If I remember correctly, I didn't even plan to take this course (had no interest in finance), but after watching the Intro video I was hooked.
Just say no.

Exploitative behavior only becomes an expectation when enough employees prove willing to do it.
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> Like sure, you don't have to use an underwriter, but, as you pointed out with the Google example, it won't go well for you if you leave them out.

Well, the original claim was that underwriters provide negative value. There's a tradeoff, but clearly they do provide positive value, on net.
Steel, with a concrete composite deck. I did post-tension retrofits and other interesting concrete stuff as well.
I agree. My point is that they aren't overriding, they're just clueless. Using `onClick` instead of a proper link solves their problem and they don't even see the new one that they just created.
My point is that science is meant to 'sell' something. Not a product, but the knowledge that has been created. If the knowledge is never applied in the real world its missing out on a lot of potential. If 'tinkerers' are not able to digest the knowledge we do have an issue. I'd like to think that the tinkerers/hackers/programmers/makers in the end are the customers of computer science.
I did exactly this for a year and my quality of life suffered so badly that I nearly had a panic attack so i just sucked it up and moved into the city. I mean look: I like living in the city but when I consider that I could eject and live in the country i continue to encounter the reality that i would be disconnected from the majority of my community and the most interesting and well paying jobs.
Does brilliant need to be quantified?
At this point your best bet is to get it straight from the source https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1434852

> Provides an optional resolver mechanism for Firefox that allows running together with or instead of the native resolver.

> "localhost" and names in the ".local" TLD will never be
resolved via DOH.

> TRR is preffed OFF by default
They've been working pretty hard to avoid Sandberg getting any of the credit that she apparently deserves. Facebook bent the NY Times to altering one of its recent stories that noted Sandberg's culpability in one of the messes.

"Mr. Stamos had been a strong advocate inside the company for investigation and disclosing Russian activity on Facebook, often to the consternation of other top executives, including Sheryl Sandberg, the social network’s chief operating officer, according to the current and former employees, who asked not to be identified discussing internal matters."

"Perlroth [NY Times reporter], however, confirmed that a change occurred after Facebook’s public relations team reached out to the New York Times with a statement some time after the story was published."

https://lawandcrime.com/exclusive/facebook-forces-nyt-to-qui...
Sandberg comes across to me like a bad actor in the video (in the Hollywood / stage sense) and I mean more than usual / more than I expect even from an executive. I could barely watch it, it oozed inauthenticity so badly. Not too sympathetic on the gut level.
Starting their own label is biting the hand that feeds them, though. They need the libraries that the major labels have in order to stay in business.

Perhaps when they're not competing as heavily with Apple and to a lesser extent Google they could start their own label and the major labels would just have to deal with it, but I don't think it's a realistic course of action until then.
I did not run into any trouble with Sedgewick's course. His coding assignments are the most elegant and comprehensive I have seen which leave virtually no room for ambiguity. But they are challenging indeed.

> "he gave you a mostly finished program..."
What? He gives you an API with public methods and you have to do the implementation. How is this a mostly finished program?

> "The issue I had was that there was basically no feedback"

The tests are your feedback. When a test fails you need to figure out why the test is failing and what's wrong with your code or if you understood the requirements incorrectly.

I absolutely enjoyed his courses and finished both of them with all the assignments. His assignments are not something you can knock out in an hour. It usually took me at least 3-4 hours to complete any assignment sometimes even more than that.

I also did Roughgarden's course and loved it. He is an awesome teacher. Both Sedgewick's and Roughgarden's courses are very good but they have different approaches. I found Roughgarden's coding assignment a lot easier than Sedgewick's.

Make use of the course forum. If something is not clear ask questions on the forum. Though I found that Sedgewick's requirements specification are very comprehensive and unambiguous. In fact while doing the course I wished software requirements on the job were anywhere close to that comprehensive in real life.
You're missing the point though. We know Sweden is cashless, I live there too and the article isn't about Sweden becoming cashless.

It's about an opposing opinion to the cashless trend that we're already used to.

You might not know anyone who shares the opinion but I do, several of them.

Personally I share the opinion on an ideological level but practically I'm just too lazy to make a real change in my life.

I have friends who always swing by the ATM before we go out, while I pay for everything on my cards.

But the real issue here is that if we rely 100% on an electronic method of payment we'll be more crippled than necessary if some calamity would befall our society.
That's why I called it “café”

Jokes apart, I'm trying my best to make it a more technical instance, but I can't control what the users toot. I just hope that someone joins a tech instance to talk about tech...
> For about $100 cheaper..

More than that. An AM4 motherboard is way cheaper than Intel Extreme FCLGA2066 systems.

By the end of the day, you're $200 cheaper once you account for a completed build (motherboard, RAM, CPU) compared to a FCLGA2066 + i7-7820X system.

Really, the i7-7820X competes against Threadripper 1900X. Quad-channel memory and all that good stuff. The REAL competitor to the Ryzen 2700X is the Intel i7-8700k, which has outstanding price/performance and relatively cheap motherboards too.

Hopefully we'll see more reviewers compare these two chips. Ryzen 2700X vs i7-8700k is the real battle.
I don’t think it benefits anybody two have two mixed messages coming from two different FB leaders right now, and if only one of them is going to speak up it might as well be Mark.

Her saying “ditto” a lot is not going to help. Her job right now should be inward focused while Mark takes the heat. If his messaging doesn’t work, she’s plan B when they need to pivot.

(Disclaimer: I’ve never worked at FB and I hope it goes away in its current form.)
Well, we do have state grown and sold Marijuana in Uruguay, who knows what a more forward country might do :)
Because suggestion that men and women in general are different is criminally sexist. It's what got us here in the first place.

People(republicans) need to get it through their heads that there are NO differences between men and women, period.
For the same reason that wealthy countries have public health services, basically. You are right that there are economic issues at play, but there are good arguments that the intrinsic cost of revival should be pretty low, and the process of getting there is just waiting however many thousands of years of technical development it takes.
Yeah I agree that Disney won't be a serious issue for Netflix. You may see some users cut Hulu or Prime out and add Disney but Netflix is still in a good place.

> Apples to apples in terms of where they compete, Netflix will be comparable to or larger than Disney in size in 2018 or 2019.

For share of streaming wallet yes; but they hover at only about 5% of net income. So Disney doesn't need to be anywhere near the subscriber amount to reinvest heavily in content and acquisition. Also - Netflix has the US mostly saturated so they have to create or sign content for the various international markets. While Disney already has great content with global appeal.
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Replying to my reply. What I mean is the phrase "extremely brilliant" could be restated as just "brilliant." This wasn't a slight on your comment, I'd also like to hear some examples.
It is opt-in if you pay for it, but almost no one leaves it unchecked. There's also the option to not require an email for free downloads.

Often these are people I've sent from somewhere else, and we talk regularly. It's not like with Facebook where it's a faceless corporation unless you're spending enough on ads to get an account specialist.

They generally knew me before they gave me money. I'm not collecting any data on them other than the email. I don't even run analytics on web pages I control. I wouldn't even know what to do with it that would tell me anything I don't already know, or that I couldn't get by just asking.