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>Yet every day there are stories (such as this article) showing crypto becoming more deeply ingrained in mainstream circles.

Depends what you claim to be mainstream. Most of these "stories" are either 1/ speculation related (this one is) or 2/ some pipe dream it's-totally-going-to-work-guys technology that's going to cure cancer and solve world hunger through the power of SHA-256 and healing crystals (see IOTA, 99% of all ICOs, the "De Beers" crystal blockchain, the Kodak chain etc...). Now beyond all of that noise, maybe there's actual value somewhere.

I'm definitely in the camp of the "unbelievers" but I really don't think I'm being unreasonable. I think I understand how cryptocurrencies work (probably better than 99% of crypto zealots judging by the average technical level of cryptocurrency discussions online). They're great for buying illegal stuff online and timestamping documents. Every single other use case I've seen so far involves such a heavy amount of hand waving that I wonder if crypto-enthusiasts suffer from RSI more than the general population. It either simply falls apart after the smallest amount of scrutiny or ends up being so much more inefficient than "centralized" alternatives that you end up wondering who would use that (again, outside of doing illegal stuff online).

So frankly I don't think it's fair to oppose both camps like this. Either the technology is useful or it's not. If it is it shouldn't be difficult to explain how it is. Not by making fancy marketing slides but by explaining what problem it solves and how and why it's better than the alternative.

I could make a long post explaining why I believe that "public key cryptography is dumb and useless" and nobody would care because it's pretty damn obvious that it's actually very useful. It doesn't cease to exist if you stop believing in it. For the "Blockchain" (whatever that is) I'm not so sure.

Furthermore remember that cryptocurrency enthusiasts often own cryptocurrencies, so they have a clear incentive to "pump" the technology whereas unbelievers don't really have anything to gain either way (although you could argue that some are jealous of the bitcoin millionaires I suppose).
The problem is that "we" understand the issue, but Joe & Jane Suburbanite have absolutely no clue about any of it and when they vote, they vote for the guy with the nicest hair.
Also not included in the chart: Japanese unemployment at 2.5%
>Companies that value diversity (age, gender, nationality, etc.) are the ones looking for that high-quality output that makes products work in the long term.

What’s the evidence behind this assertion?
it's far far worse than that. you can inject arbitrary code to all opponents so install a root kit and read their Bank account or install a cyberlocker ransomware or turn their machine into a bot net.

Windows and Mac (and Linux) really need to switch to as sandboxed systems and deprecate the 1980s style of code execution. The threats have changed and it's completely unacceptable how much access desktop apps have
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At&t routers are complete garbage anyways. I've literally had the following conversation with a csr:

Me: hi can you open up some ports on my router?
CSR: sure which port?
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Same in Spain. People are obviously working. Otherwise there would be riots in the streets already, haha.
What did you use in place of SSIS?
All I've got is your word that he's crooked. There are totally reasonable ways that people can have a fancy looking Aston Martin and be dead broke at the same time (used cars, financing, underwater on loan, etc).

Estimates are guesses by nature, and it's not surprising you know nothing about them.

If you hate your job that much, what are you doing about it?

It's weird to see the top post on HN be an immature and empathy-barren rant that is completely irrelevant to the article.
I think you guys are arguing worse is better versus the right thing. :)

Unix made for very simple filesystem internals, with a crappy interface (worse is better). RMS was a very complicated filesystem with a nice interface (the right thing).
Off label prescribing is perfectly legal; off label marketing, however, is illegal.
You'd be scarily surprised just how much telecommunications runs on Perl5 ranging around the ~150GB level.

I had my stint at an ISP that worked with around 40 state level and national orgs. I saw the underbelly of how things work, and its frankly scary.
> I really dislike this kind of visualization since it makes regions with total different population densities appear on the same level.

This visualization is using European NUTS-2 regions, which have roughly equal population. Each region is between 800k and 3 million people. While perfect scaling is not practically possible, it is much better than geographical regions.
Good point. However, this example could go either way.

Suppose everything you said is true, but in addition to all that, there is a set of symptoms caused by -- making this up -- endocrine disruptors in our drinking water. When pregnant women drink too much, they get some subset of symptoms from a set that overlaps 80% with the cardboard box symptoms.

Now we have two different causes for different symptoms. In addition, you can get the strange case where:

patient A, symptoms X, condition G

patient B, symptoms X, condition H

patient C, symptoms Y, condition G

patient D, symptoms Y, condition H

Although most of the time, condition G will have similar symptoms and condition H will have similar symptoms.

That's why it is so useful to have a marker.
On the Steam Forums they deleted all threads regarding this.
Firstly, the problem is a geographical display that will visually over-weight sparsely populated areas.

Secondly, per your question, it's perfectly natural to expect economic activity to increase with population density. Increased density of people means that travel costs (both time and money) are far lower, and thus the profitability bar for niche goods and services is much lower. That means there's a lot more demand that can be profitably satisfied given the population and their skills, and thus they can be better employed.

In other words, there are reasons cities increase the expectation of employment: they lower transaction costs and increase economies of scale.
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No - to be on the dole you need to be actively searching for a job in most jurisdictions in Europe. E.g. in the UK you need to go down to the job center every week and prove you're searching for a job in order to claim unemployment benefit. It's literally called jobseeker's allowance to reflect that.

Also what is a "government job market program"? Are you referring to a government employing people en masse to inflate the employment rate? You generally need taxes to do that so it's probably a legitimate approach.
> The young are embracing crypto-currencies.

As an anecdote, of the three first friends/acquaintances of mine that came to my mind that seem to have strong interest in cryptocurrencies, two are past 45 years old.

> You don't have the correct worldview, you'll never will and no one will.

There are differences, however, how wrong a world view is. I personally are a quite strong believer of Popperian philosophy of falsifiability, and currently cryptocurrency embracers do not pass that smell test but are there somewhere around religious zealots on the credibilty scale. You know, also creationism may be right, and being wrong in that discussion as an opponent to creationist has much higher price than being wrong about bitcoin future.
This was news in the fall, wasn’t it? Trying to renew the hype it seems. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-21/goldman-i...
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Well patched, they downgraded the game to an older build with other problems.
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Python is the #1 language for Net/Dev Ops. Knowing a little will go a long way once you start managing everything with Salt or Ansible (both written and extended in Python).

Here's a good introduction: https://www.learnpythonthehardway.org/
Plus the agitprop--the media hates the Internet and always depicts it as an accomplice in crimes. So the "real" Internet would be portrayed as the dark web, full of unseemly crooks, gangsters, child molesters, etc. You wanting "full Internet" would imply that you're a pedophile. And you're not a pedo, are you?
I just like python pandas better than R.
Two days ago I was watching a German TV show in which the panelists discussed the low-wage-job boom: apparently unemployment is very low (5.6%) but an unhealthy portion of the jobs people are working are low-wage and/or exploitative of labor, and thus not really contributing to long-term social stability.

If too many people are working minimum wage and the minimum wage isn't realistic then sooner or later you have a big problem paying for social services.

(In Germany it's 8.84 EUR per hour but has only existed for a few years and I gather there's a lot of noncompliance.)

So, interesting map, but only telling part of the story.
> The child is not property. The child is a human, and has human rights. Those rights are protected. The child has his own independent legal representation to look after its best interests.

How humane of your government to decide that a toddler must starve to death.
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What would the effects be of releasing nuclear waste in space? Could we sent up all of our nuclear waste, put a rocket on it and just let it disappear into the distance?
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You are correct, but all in all, it was a fun to solve quiz, so it counted as some brain exercise :-) I wasn't reaaaally confident of anything heehe.
Really? In my industry they're paying qualified people $200 just for an interview, no strings attached. Another is giving free tickets to Infinity War.
I know; but the chart's source data almost certainly doesn't use figures that are calculated in the same way either. At best, they'll have been manually corrected for estimated biases. (Will they have correctly accounted for how many people get shifted off into disability payments and other health-related benefits that are used to massage unemployment figures? I have my doubts.)

My point was more that a suspiciously precise number of 5.8% was chosen as a magical barometer of goodness, justifying a switch in hue, not just brightness or saturation. The magic number of 5.8% doesn't seem to have support elsewhere.
For example, the regions of higher unemployment in the south of Belgium make up more than half of the territory, but contain only about a third of the population.
From that article Ireland is the most highly educated country in Europe, I never would have guessed that.
The South America / islands and included because they are territories belonging to a EU country (France, Spain, Portugal). Turkey is in there because it's a candidate country.
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For what it’s worth, I believe you. I sincerely believe that people would have been fired for inappropriate use/access of data.

My comment is a deeper one. The incentive in general is to improve value produced, and identifying bad actors is not a short term way to increase value produced. Long term it probably is positive, but because those outcomes are somewhat removed from the immediate here and now I expect them to be disincentivised. I would love to see evidence or reason for why they aren’t, but that’s the thrust of my thinking.
then it's stupidity and malice.

stupid to think using the IP was a good idea

malice to break my device in order to paper over their stupidity.

And from a telecom no less - of all people, they should know better.
I'd be interested in performance figures: how many TLS handshakes can this setup complete per second vs a "normal" one?
I don't think 2 would work, we use static maps and they only work based on the site they're loaded from. They won't even work on our dev instance because I've not whitelisted the domain.

Unless lots of people are going to your actual site, of course.
You're not wrong. I admit, it's a term from the euphemistic cogs-in-the-machine language of management. But I've found no way to entirely avoid adapting to "their" culture.
London has a larger population than the whole of northern Ireland (8,787,892 compared to 1,876,695)
> One region is desert, only 10,000 people live there

> In the other region there are 1M people

This has already been normalized: these are European NUTS-2 regions, which are drawn to contain roughly equal populations. Each NUTS-2 region is supposed to be 800k to 3 million people per region. It's not perfect, but it's not just geographical borders with wildly different populations.

For example, London is split into 5 regions, most big cities are their own region, and small countries are just one region. Going into even smaller regions would be nice (and are defined in the standards as well), but it seems that nobody has put in the effort to collect data at that granularity.
How usable is this in for example webdriverio tests?
I'm 49, still working, still learning new stuff all the time. You can't assume that someday you'll stop learning and start being productive. There is always something new to learn. Always. The next project is going to have new concepts that you haven't seen before. I still charge for it all. If the project requires a certain new technology, I'm not hiring someone new just for that project. I'll learn the new concepts, and then do the project.

The technology world is so rich with concepts now that you could spend your whole lifetime learning and never accomplishing anything. So why should I pay to learn something that only this project requires? Every project will have something new, therefore I can never make money? No, the cost of learning is built into every project. That's the way it is. Software development is not plumbing or carpentry. It's different, and learning is part of the cost of doing any project no matter how old or experienced the engineers are.
> You will either shard functionally (extracting complete tables to other database servers)

This isn't sharding. This is vertical partitioning. Sharding is a type of horizontal partitioning.

Reference: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shard_(database_architecture...
You are wrong, that is obviously not the cause.
Alexander has a "Need for Speed" article where he shows it's in the neighborhood of Clisp, but Clisp isn't really all that fast. Comparing to SBCL would be more useful as it is very fast.
It's stupidity, then malice as a cover-up.
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That's the standard definition for unemployment. An unemployed person is generally considered to be someone who would want to be employed, but is not. It is meant to be a measurement of the number of people who want jobs, but are unable to get them.

There are other measurements for labour force participation, which are usually fairly easy to find, and are a proportion of people who are legally able to work, against the number of actual workers.
Reading your comment is reassuring, as I sometimes feel like I'm the only sane one at work. Farcical training sessions, management-speak with zero content..I could go on.
I don't so much mind all that - I accept it as part of working for a large organisation - but it drives me crazy when I joke about it later and nobody has any idea what I'm on about.

Maybe it's me..
How many managers do you have and what is their level of experience at managing direct reports? It's certainly possible for managers to do a poor job at conveying appropriate feedback, both by failing to give positive praise for good things and by pointing out failures and negative outcomes that you could have avoided.

If you feel like you're not being challenged, tell your manager! They may have decided you're doing "good enough" and aren't motivated to take it to the next level, but it sounds like you are. A strong manager/report relationship is one where the manager can sense when you have more in the tank and knows when to push and when to back off. If you don't have that relationship, start building it.
Exactly this. A lot of these "challenges" are about the theory but the real job is never about the theory of things.

I mean knowing the theory is a nice to have but I don't remember last time I used it on my daily job, especially after 10 years of experience.
Dude, you're honestly comparing the Romanian health care system with one from a developed country? I'm also Romanian, cut the crap.
What privacy-related purpose does tape over the headphone socket serve? That makes no sense to me.
I think the drawback for space disposal is the risk of rocket failure. If a rocket explodes with nuclear waste on board, the waste would spread over a large area. It's safer at the moment to consolidate nuclear waste in small areas away from civilization.
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> This is perhaps why women may be more likely to feel like impostors, because they typically do not see themselves reflected and reinforced—in some sense, validated—in the same way that men do.

For some reason, I was irked by this comment which seems to be completely unsubstantiated.
> The gains are not "ill-gotten". Slamming people who buy Bitcoin and implying they are somehow morally wrong and that you are somehow superior is disgusting.

They are ill-gotten, since the only actual value Bitcoin produces is to the drugs trade (or similar businesses that rely on evading the rule of democratically-passed law). All the rest of Bitcoin activity is zero- or negative-sum - there's no other value going into the system, so everything else is just moving drug money around.

> "it's worthless" "If" "I will lose out" Sorry to break the news but a Bitcoin is worth 9200 US dollars. You are wrong and you have already lost out.

People sure as hell aren't getting 9200 dollars' real-world use out of it (except maybe the ones who are trading drugs). For anyone else it's a 9200 dollar hot potato - someone is going to be left carrying the can.

> It wouldn't matter what I said, you've obviously made up your mind so no matter what

I'm always open to substantive arguments. "Nice cope" suggests you don't have any.
I believe your 'one tip that always applies' is horrible advice. And if this is the mentality someone approaches management it doesn't surprise me they have bad relationships.

For me I'm open and direct with managers. I've had some good ones and bad ones. Id say 70/30 ratio in favour of good. And when a manger is bad the adage plays true, 'People do not leave bad companies, they leave bad bosses'.
I'm not sure 10,000 packs a stadium in the US. Maybe the bleachers of a high school football stadium.
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Nothing wrong with Perl5 though.
I have always had impostor syndrome, but also a somewhat revelatory idea that most people are just human beings full of shit too. Let me explain.

In college, I revered my professors - always thought of them on a higher plane, so much smarter than everybody. Same with doctors. Then I go to grad school, and realize that my fellow classmates (who have become professors, or the ones in MD/PhD programs doctors/surgeons), are smart indeed - but not on some super-human super-intelligent level who's batting way above my level like I felt in undergrad. It's like all of a sudden I realized that people in those positions are humans like me and aren't on some higher plane. I mean, maybe there are a few people who truly are. But most of the people I revered are regular joes (who most definitely work hard). Similar to looking up to adults when you're a kid, then realizing they're human beings with flaws once you grow up.

On the flip side, I constantly feel like I don't know what I'm doing compared to other people. Doesn't matter what level I reach in my career, it's all the same - that data scientist over there truly knows his stuff, I'm just faking it. That manager over there truly knows his stuff, I'm just faking it. And you know what? Maybe there's some truth to it. But the truth I've found is that if that's the case, there's probably an exceeding number of people who are 'faking it' too, so I'm in good company at least.

I also tend to conflate 'faking it' with confidence. In grad school, all of my published papers would have so many caveats - "the results suggest that maybe possibly potentially .... " or "the results suggest that ____, with the caveat" or "we possibly found evidence..." My advisor always had to change my wording around to be at least a little more definitive because journals would pick up on the wishy-washy statements. Now in the corporate world, people expect definitive statements because putting 'possibly, maybe' in every sentence doesn't exude confidence that higher ups or customers want. So in a way when I say something in a confident manner when I'm only 80% to 90% confident, I feel like I'm faking it.
I've been using Jupyter for some time now since it was strongly recommended/almost-required in my school's classes. One thing I think Jupyter team achieved is reliability of common interface. Like, regardless what my data is, white noise, music, image, matrix, human face... I know I can easily output it and get some sane representation.
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A big reason for this is because other street drugs like cocaine and benzodiazepines are increasingly being laced with fentanyl. Plus other opiods are being laced with fentanyl as well.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/05/americas-...