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Traditional currency isn't backed by anything but its usage as well.
> My problem is unschooling is that just because you’re not interested in something (as a kid) doesn’t mean you shouldn’t learn it.

I was initially concerned about this as well, but my experience so far is that it's not really an issue. We test regularly, both formally and informally, which I feel is very important so my wife and I have a good understanding of where she is relative to her peers. With the exception of the "sight words" portion of language testing in K-3, she has continues to be far ahead of them.

"Child-directed" doesn't mean "no parental involvement". Where a traditional school manages the things that she would be taught, we manage the things that she's interested in. We take care to do things as a family that expose her to skills that we think she needs to know.

If that sounds time-intensive... well, it is. My wife doesn't work outside the home and I work remotely. It's substantially less time-intensive than building a traditional curriculum and teaching it daily, though.
Macros is the most glaring omission that I can see.

Scheme's closest equivalents are neat academic exercises, but I don't consider them complete macro systems.
They're a corporation, their sole ethic is "to make money," full stop, that is the only reason Apple exists.

That's a reductive and inaccurate trope which also seems at odds with and unrelated to the rest of your comment.
Prove that’s possible since we have yet to even define what consciousness is.

How can we know we made up our minds when we don’t know where such a capacity to do so starts and ends?

If I study reading tea leaves I am simple informed in nonsense

Studying economics is studying bartering habits of the people that control the bartering system

It’s not hidden knowledge. It’s watching culture norms and encoding those in daily behavior

It’s more religion than science
I would rather anyone opening a line of credit be required to obtain proof of acceptance by the person named on the account and until doing so they are 100% liable for all debts incurred. How this is defined will require regulation. The burden is increased at any time a request is made outside of the state and city of residence
Absolutely not. This is Facebook basically goading the EU by obviously flouting the rules.
Task warrior is a hell of a tool - it's synced accross my devices and doesn't need proprietary software. I built a Taskwarrior app for pebble as well, so I can have the tasks that have a deadline in the timeline.
I recall many consumer reviews of older Samsung phones criticising the plastic backs and asking for glass or metal.
I suppose there will be more people thinking about it now, after Cixin Liu published his book about it.
i think the value is also the ability to transfer value relatively quickly without having to sit at a bank for 30 minutes to do so.
Paper recovery seed in bank deposit box.
The cost of producing solar power is rapidly declining
Interesting. It seems like after the senate hearings, Facebook is trying to communicate to its users that sending them your data is a necessary part of using their services.
>The excitement is that, Donald Trump doesnt have control over Bitcoin. China doesnt have control over bitcoin. No government does. People with computers have control over it. There are 21,000,000 Bitcoin ever ever ever. No amount of awful government can change that.

It's already banned in some countries, and many tax it. Evading those laws comes with risks, so many or most people comply. Exchanges end up being forced to hand some data over to the IRS/others. Overall, governments seem to have control over it nearly the same as they have control over the trade of anything else.
That's definitely not what the overwhelming majority of people buying bitcoin today are counting on though. Like, at all. Otherwise "HODL" wouldn't be the meme it is. It doesn't make sense to hold inflationary currency.
>Makes perfect sense.

Maybe so. And as I said, that makes me sad. People who work hard to develop full-featured and high-quality software fail to make headway, but people who cynically manipulate others to lock them in to one company while providing nothing of value make millions. It's perfectly rational and perfectly disgusting.

Chrome OS is worthless for its users. I don't much care how good it is for Google.
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Hear! Hear!

As much as GD gets under my skin, it has actually been useful to me. I looked up a firm and saw that many reviewers thought the CEO was nutz (along with many astroturfed reviews). After a 2 hour phone interview (5-7pm on a Friday) I left a similar review. Gotta pass it along.

One thing that GD could do is launch into the #MeToo movement. Instead of excel files, having GD as a clearinghouse would be useful. The glaring libel and slander issues aside, it would be an exceedingly brave step, an unlikely one for GD, but a very useful one.
at least for me, the answer is yes. I'm unsatisfied with almost all the options in laptop market based on my requirements. I just have to choose one, that makes me less unhappy.

Asus and Lenovo have great ultra books running Win10. Ultimate Office 365 support + good battery life. But it lacks a terminal + integrated UNIX utilities.

I prefer to use Linux on my laptop, but at the moment, it is lacking office 365 support. On some brands there is a serious battery issue.

Next option is macOS which has sane shell. But I don't understand, why is there such a huge race toward making thinner laptops? Previous generation MBP, was already thin enough. Consumers demanded thinner laptops. And now I have to bare with thinner MBP but less reliable battery power, fewer ports and a very noisy keyboard (which is disturbing everyone in library).
To me, it's easiest to think of it as "Make, for data". Your ETL pipelines are often a complex graph of dependencies. If some step halfway down the chain fails, you don't want to restart at the very beginning -- you want to restart where it failed and keep moving.

The ETL frameworks (Airflow, Luigi, now Mara) help with this, allowing you to build dependency graphs in code, determine which dependencies are already satisfied, and process those which are not. They'll usually contain helper code for common ETL tasks, such as interacting with a database, writing to/reading from S3, or running shell scripts.
wrt old-fashioned scams in my sibling's comment... they've been around much longer than they've been outlawed for. arguably, we would have better herd-immunity to them if we'd never outlawed them in the first case.

yes, there's no recourse to losing your BTC. it's a good thing you were only playing around, or you'd be really screwed.

if you mortgaged your house, well... that wasn't very smart was it. I'm sure you won't make that mistake again, and I think/hope we as a society/culture can work to help you recover from that.

whatever the case, if you lose your money/btc/shirt the banks won't be much help to you.
Why would anyone choose to do that without some huge advantage to make up for the risks? The only reason seems to be ideological commitment and that doesn’t seem like an especially large market.
> At least if the current "1%" hoard dollars or euros in their mattress they slowly lose their wealth thanks to inflation.

Long story short, they don't.
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> > But, if one says "I can eat glass, it doesn't hurt me," you will be viewed as an insane native, and treated with dignity and respect.

Thanks, now my coffee is all over my desk. ;)
Don’t know about you but on iPhone Safari it’s terrible. No momentum scrolling makes it exhausting to scroll through, and there’s a broken horizontal scroll.
Maybe because cigarettes cause cancer? I personally don't care if people smoke or not. I'm only saying there's little downside to vaping period and from a smoker's perspective, it's helpful.
What in the world are you talking about? There are a number of avenues you have to reverse fraudulent transactions with banking products that aren't available with BTC.
There is an ongoing project called https://netfpga.org/, with several variants up to 100GBit/s.
People are always losing money to old-fashioned scams, regardless of currency. It's a lot easier to learn about and protect yourself from simple, hundred year old scams than the brand new, never before seen scams the financial industry comes up with.
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I've been a Tesla owner (Model S 75) since December 2017, and since then I've spent a crazy amount of time reading about Tesla (forums, Twitter, Reddit, etc.).

I've never spent so much time reading about any other car that I've owned - I don't think I've done that for any other gadget - and I thought it would be of interest for others to get a hand-picked list directly in their inboxes once a week. Not only because of how much time it takes to consume the information but also because some exciting information passes without making "too much noise."

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At human timescales, yes. Think of it from the other side - the immediate reaction to humans finding the existence of extraterrestrial life will be the start of an interstellar weapons program in every country. Now ask yourself what happens if an advanced civilisation reads the message, assumes correctly that these humans ought to have working weapons by now. They’re just going to dispatch a fire and forget drone and set a watchpoint to make sure we’re taken out cleanly.
Youre basing your argument on the assumption that ALL datacenters have been wiped out. Its unlikely the entire world will engage in global warfare on a scale large enough to disable the internet, which the bitcoin network relies upon. Also, historically government currencies destabalize during war, so bitcoin would probably retain or increase in value, not diminish.
> Whoa.. why do random routers need my SSID location history? Is that list removable by “forgetting” all the previous networks?

It's how the standard currently works and what enables fast reconnection. IIRC, the device sends out all available SSIDs, at the router responds with the one(s) it's able to use to connect.

I agree that this is backwards, and I'd rather have slightly slower WiFi reconnection in exchange for better privacy. I don't know what the OS-level behavior is if you delete all previous networks. I assume it works, but I haven't tested it.

Oh, and for what it's worth, this isn't just for mobile devices. Your laptop probably does it too. In fact, OS X has an annoying habit of connecting to WiFi networks in the background even when the laptop is closed and asleep, which means it's doing this broadcasting behavior as long as the WiFi setting is turned on.
I just can't use eshell. Too many programs I use expect a terminal. They use control and render codes, emoji, etc that eshell doesn't understand. And there are no Emacs alternatives for them nor am I interested in developing one.

The ansi-term mode is annoying. It doesn't work like regular Emacs so it messes up all of your keybindings.

It's much easier to just use a decent terminal emulator and live with the cruft than to fight it.
Basically software for batch processing a tonne of data.

eg. importing a SAP feed into a database, or loading a bunch of csv files, or like processing a bunch of images...

...anything where you have to convert data from some source through a series of steps (typically a DAG) into some useful output.

However, its often misused.

For example, if you have a trivial amount of data, or trivial process an ETL is over engineered cruft where a simple script would do.

So there are many (rubbish) ‘simple ETL frameworks’ which offer zero value and technical complexity for no benefit.

Unless you need multiple servers processing data through multiple steps and you need the auditing and process control... you probably don’t need an ETL, just a simple script.
No it's not, Michael Greger is known Vegan/Plant based quack full of selection/confirmation bias thus totally biased and unreliable
Deflation reduces demand and increases hoarding. Why spend when tomorrow my deflated currency will be worth more than today? The currency then acts less and less like a currency (sound familiar?). In a deflationary environment, wages would go down over time and workers do not accept reduced wages vs increased wages even if their purchasing power remains the same in both cases. With small amounts of inflation, wages rise over time and people spend those raises, which helps fuel the economy.
Inflationists / consumptionists have been demonizing savers and sound money since the 1700s, if not earlier. They enjoy the artificial boom induced through inflation of the money supply and then blame gold or speculation or "animal spirits" for the bust. They think that if we could only got back to the consumption levels of the boom, then we'd be "back on track." This never works, and the calls for consumption are usually special pleading by bank-connected interests that stand to benefit from monetary inflation.

We will see the pattern continue with Bitcoin, the most sound money the world has ever known (no matter how high the price goes, you cannot increase supply beyond the scheduled issuance). This time is different, however. The consumer can (and should) control her own private keys, which means not trusting a bank, which historically will inflate the money supply to its own benefit. Forced confiscation of privately-held Bitcoin will be much more expensive than previous confiscations of gold already held in vaults.

Unfortunately, those wealthy savers with their money in the vaults mentioned in the article will have their Bitcoin confiscated when things get bad enough. Too many in the space have already learned the hard way what happens when you trust your coins to a centralized institution.
> Hell, even major freelance marketplaces try to track your every billed second by taking screenshots of your desktop or webcam "just to make sure you're working".

Well that's some dystopian nightmare stuff I had no idea was happening.

EDIT: refine quote and add italics
https://sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2018/05/07/-eggs-not...
No, it’s a motivation to abandon monetary policy focused on eliminating inflation and re-prioritizing employment.

The solution to hoarding capital is inflation or direct taxation of asssts.
It's not. The benefit is that

- you can keep a service running long after the project that created it has disbanded and/or the runtime and build environment is deprecated on a given O/S

- you don't necessarily need to deep-dive into the business logic of legacy services

- you can replace a service implementation with another one running on another stack without having to adapt service clients

- you can change auth mechanism outside of the service implementations

- you can scale out (CPU-bound) services onto multiple hosts

Mind you, these benefits are not achieved by using microservices/SOA in itself; the contribution of microservices/SOA, however, is that these design goals aren't impossible to achieve because of architected reasons.
Yeah, they're fairly clear that you can't make service conditional on marketing et al consent.

> When assessing whether consent is freely given, utmost account shall be taken of whether, inter alia, the performance of a contract, including the provision of a service, is conditional on consent to the processing of personal data that is not necessary for the performance of that contract.
Yes. It’s horrible. I opened it for like 2s and gave up. I guess if reader mode works this could be OK.

Don’t override scroll behavior.
This is the best article I've ever read on the subways. So many people blame so many factors: people holding doors, overcrowding, badly made signals, etc. But this explains it very well with clear visuals.
https://github.com/OWASP/owasp-mstg/blob/master/Document/0x0... has all the relevant information, including reversing apps using native libraries to hide functionality.
Later in the thread, he mentions that the consent they ask for doesn't really comply with the GDPR principles.

> This appears to breach several important principles of the #GDPR, including the principle of purpose limitation, freely given, non-conditional consent, and of transparency. In other words, if Facebook attempts to collect consent in this manner, that consent will be unlawful.
For static or static-ish content, absolutely. But I was talking about (and writing) web applications and web services, where the responses generally aren't cachable.
> On the other hand, these bitcoins that are hoarded in a bunker are extracted from the economy as long as they are there.

These bitcoins were bought with cash, which is now sitting in the sellers "savings" account. The dollars did not disappear in thin air.
Similarly, I have noticed that a difference between American subways and European subways is that when you stop at a station in Europe, the interlocks allow the automatic doors to open as soon as the train is slower than maybe 1–2 km/h. Whereas in America they don't open until a couple seconds after the train has come to a dead stop.

I keep wondering how many wasted man-hours this adds up to over the course of a day — especially on a line that's running at capacity, so if one train is 4 seconds later then the next train will be 8 seconds later and so on.

(The same seems to be true of elevators.)
IMO the choice of a nondiscrete semiprime data length is a pretty good indicator that it isn't random either…
> Maybe SOAP wasn't the entirety of SOA, but back then it was a big part of it.

Well, SOAP and Wiz-Dull.

Many of the robotics platforms in common use (e.g., ROS) consist of independent, single-responsibility services that communicate over a shared message bus using a protocol that's not HTTP.

But for enterprise apps, it's 2018. Other protocols? What other protocols? You should be using HTTP/2. It can MUX multiple streams over the same connection. FINALLY! At long last! We're no longer limited to a single concurrent stream!
How much value does that really add? Traditional banking doesn’t have many problems with that and it’s moot for most people because the bank has to honor commitments even if they make an error.
> We let work take way too much time from our lives.

This is one of the sad realization one must have at some point. Reminds me of Bukowski's Factotum[1] where Bukowski mentions that we're selling our most precious item: our time.

> “You haven’t been busting your ass, Chinaski.”

> I stared down at my shoes for some time. I didn’t know what to say. Then I looked at him. “I’ve given you my time. It’s all I’ve got to give—it’s all any man has. And for a pitiful buck and a quarter an hour.”

> “Remember you begged for this job. You said your job was your second home.”

> “…my time so that you can live in your big house on the hill and have all the things that go with it. If anybody has lost anything on this deal, on this arrangement…I’ve been the loser. Do you understand?”

I think this quote is valid whatever your paycheck. If you're working full time you're probably getting screwed in the deal.

[1]: some quotes: https://p1x3l.com/story/214/bukowski-factotum
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Sure, while everyone was feeling smug about Shkreli being thrown in jail, we ignored the actual problem. It was a huge distraction and I would guess manufactured.
I use Google Keep with pretty good success. Having one list for "To-Do Now" (daily stuff) and one for "To-Do Later" (longer term goals). The key for me is syncing across devices. If I can't add the to-do quickly when I think of it then the system wouldn't work for me.
Shoveling data into an ML library is relatively straightforward compared to understanding what that library is doing and why.
Brilliant! (Apart from putting the words journalist and Daily Mail in close proximity)
Send a pull request to add it to https://github.com/pditommaso/awesome-pipeline/blob/master/R...
Most broadcasts quickly attenuate into noise.
At the most basic level the function of a currency is: I gave you this amount of goods and services today, you give me a ticket that's good for goods and services from you (or others) in the future. Ultimately those obligations need to gradually decay away to nothing if they're unused, just to stop someone hoarding for ages and then causing chaos when they call in their debts. "Hey, remember those 100 chickens you got from me 5 years ago, you owe me 90 chickens now" seems a lot more socially sustainable over the long term than the reverse.
While we're nitpicking, unless you have partial eels, it's arbitrary number, not amount. That calls to mind measuring blended eel, of which I don't want to make a career.
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It doesn’t really matter who’s a proponent of what - if life is not singular then you have to assume it’s relatively common, and then you have to assume that messages like this will reach aliens on a wide spectrum of hostility and advancement.
python is slow and single threaded, which is a tangible problem for an ETL, and airflow specifically.

...airflow is good enough for other reasons, but that doesn’t mean ‘not python’ gets off the wish list.
> By that reasoning, investing in gold is also speculation.

What else? However, gold has some utility as jewelry etc. Cryptocurrencies are (currently) pure speculation.
Serious in the sense that they seriously wanted it? July 2010 was when they rolled out their silent tracking of all ios 4 users in an unencrypted database on the device for up to 10 months. In a happy coincidence, a bug ensured that the (presumably untested) feature of turning of location serviced didn't actually prevent the tracking.

And of course they never asked users for consent about this, except by putting something in the end of their 15000 word EULA.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/apr/20/iphone-tr...

https://www.wired.com/2011/04/iphone-tracks/
That looks very interesting indeed, and love to see some more development in that space.

Would anyone care to explain how it differs from Airflow? I had dismissed Airflow some months ago for my use case (Windows, and large number of dependencies were an issue at the time), but would still like to eventually migrate my ETL scripts to a solid framework sometime in the future.
I'm not even remotely involved with the HFT world, but I can't think of any good reason why they'd want to receive "shortwave" signals from Europe in Chicago.

Short-haul microwave links for low latency and high bandwidth, yes, but at shortwave frequencies you are literally talking about BITS per second. TFA says "Think dialup speeds" but this is lower than even dialup!

They certainly aren't receiving any meaningful amount of data (which I presume you need for HFT) with that shortwave receiver.
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