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>The war on cash is being waged for the exclusive benefit of those who already wield an inordinate amount of power and control over the economy

Yup, this article tickled a deeply buried "sovereign citizen" type personality I didn't even know I had.

So without cash your options are write a check, which means you have to give your money to a bank, or use a credit card, which means you have to give your money to a bank.

Americans learned in 2008 exactly how much power banks have.

I'm reading a fantastic book right now titled "Walkaway." It takes place in a near-future where solar and hydrogen energy are robust and cost effective enough that, when combined with raw material feedstock, can be plugged into 3d printers to make pretty much anything you've got drawings for. Combined with an open source CAD community and UN refugee resources, it opens the opportunity for people to simply walk away from civilization, print up shelters, and build anarchist communities that refuse to even use popularity as a form of currency. It's a fun idea to chew over - post scarcity, why not just walk away?
Saying SLIME (or Slimv) are useful is an understatement. Having a quick interface to the REPL is not an optional part of Lisp programming for me.
You just proved GP's point, you don't want the commute, you want to live in the suburbs.
abductive reasoning, which is finding the simplest narrative or explanation that fits the known facts.

The problem there, is figuring out what "simplest" means. To many people, "God" seems like the simplest explanation for the universe, even though what the word implies is very complex. It's the same phenomenon as people who say, "Scientists can't explain magnets, the liars!" Magnets seem like a magical extra, but it turns out that electromagnetism is a fundamental. It's a rock sitting on a tabletop that's complex and turns out to need explanation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwMSaCrcAmM
For dismissing questionable stuff in the browser which I’d rather not click, I prefer doing it from within dev tools, using a pinch of CSS.
This is pretty interesting. I don't use js but I took a quick look and apparently (x % 2) == 0 as a test for even integers should still work properly there, since a comparison of -0 and 0 will consider them equivalent.
Why Hawaii's volcano is so UNUSUAL
I would also highly recommend the same book.

"Technology changes, economic laws do not"

https://amzn.to/2I9NTzp

Among other things, Hal Varian went on to work at Google as an economist.
I had a great time in San Diego riding these and I am thinking about grabbing the $500 electric scooter on Amazon instead of the $1200 boosted board.

Interestingly, I got kinda pulled over when I was riding one late at night in San Diego. The police officer said I needed a helmet and to get off of it. I think he may have just been having a bad afternoon because in the daytime there were hundreds of people riding around without a helmet on. I am not saying that I think it's a dumb idea to wear a helmet, I always do when biking around my city's streets. Next time I'm in San Diego I'm bringing a helmet with me, and then, I'll be unstoppable.
SparkLabs launches a token to let anyone invest in its accelerator programs
I've been in the Army for 16 years. Dumb recruits are their bread and butter. They wouldn't give them up for anything in the world. Independent thought,or intelligence in general, are strongly discouraged unless you're lucky enough to be in one of the tiny,incredibly rare units that does something interesting.

The military desperately needs smart people, but they only begrudgingly allow them to exist.
As you correctly mentioned, some do have medical requirements that require them to wear shoes in the office, which is obviously totally OK.
In the top right of any video page, above the "Up next" slot, is an "Autoplay" switch. Turn it off.

Disappointingly, the setting is per-device, and not saved into your account. But it's there.
>This is seriously denting my continued belief in Google's security chops. I know they have some of the finest security researchers on the planet but this was handled in a ham-fisted and ineffective way so far.

This is a great demonstration how a company can have all of the right talent but still manage to become incompetent through poor organizational policies.
I do. It's my favorite of the mainstream DEs. It doesn't waste much space, it looks good out of the box (in my opinion), and it's more stable and responsive than GNOME in my experience.
> The point of type checking is that it has to be rigorous, it doesn't do anything for you if it doesn't check types.

I don't always need to check types. I don't need to know that isReady returns a bool. It clearly returns a bool. This idea that type checking has to be absolute is because in statically typed languages it does, not because that's a forgone conclusion.
Also not the poster, but I'll put in my 2 cents.

I believe in inerrancy, which sometimes means literalism, but sometimes doesn't, because it comes down to intent. The Bible isn't a science textbook, so there's room for allegory and hyperbole, but it can only go so far, so some issues, like "was there a real Adam and Eve", or "was there a flood that wiped out all of humanity except Noah and friends" would, in my view, cross that boundary, and so I do believe they happened.

Underneath this worldview are presuppositions about the nature of reality. Christians believe in a natural order - that the world works in a certain way - and that God created it that way and sustains it. But that doesn't rule out God's ability to interfere with his creation. Since, in the Christian understanding, such events are unusual, they aren't discoverable via Science.

So Christianity is anti-scientific only if you believe the only real knowledge is scientific knowledge (logical positivism). There are serious philosophical problems when it comes to this worldview, even if you're not religious. (It doesn't do a particularly good job of explaining science itself for example)

I highly recommend "Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism" by Alvin Plantinga for a serious philosophical approach to this problem.

As to your second point about morality. I actually agree with you. In my view the Bible is not really about morality, in the sense of a bunch of rules and guidance for life, but rather the Bible presents a grand narrative about the nature of the world we live in:

- We were born good and free but Adam and Eve through their sin brought ruin and death to all creation and drove a wedge between us and God.
- Not satisfied to see us destroyed, God came up with a plan to save us instead.
- That plan starts with Abraham and the nation of Israel, but is all intended as a foretaste of the ultimate fulfillment to be found in Christ.
- Christ, as the second Adam, pays the penalty for Sin, thus allowing the severed relationship with God to be re-established, and freeing humanity from the power of sin and death
- Christians live near the end of this story, in the "already" and "not yet" before Christ comes again

So morality is important, but not so much for the rules, but for what it tells us about God. In the Protestant tradition, the purpose of the law is in 3 parts: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_and_Gospel)

1. "[W]hile it shows God's righteousness . . . , it warns, informs, convicts, and lastly condemns, every man of his own unrighteousness" (2.7.6).
2. It functions "by fear of punishment to restrain certain men who are untouched by any care for what is just and right unless compelled by hearing the dire threats in the law" (2.7.10).
3. "It admonishes believers and urges them on in well-doing" (2.7.12-13).

And its that first part which is so vital. The laws exist to show how sinful we are and why we need a savior.
And they use checks, bank transfers, etc for those transactions. Not cash.
> excluding salaries _if we must_

My view might be biased as I live in Austria which is well-know for government subsidies and funding. And that includes gold handshakes to send 50 yr-olds into early retirement. WHY THE FUCK!?!

Anyways, my point being: Instead of outlawing big cash payments (hard to achieve in my eyes) the government has a lot of opportunities where it can show the transparency needed to re-establish trust from the plebs (sorry, citizens).

I'd see publishing public transactions as a first step and private ones as a second step. I mean, all we know about that dutch-irish sandwich is fairly limited, but if those transactions had been public early on some data scientist would have said "oh, that looks funny".
Visual Studio Code LiveShare extension also has terminal sharing, but not with recording, simply being able to work with the remote's terminal.
I learned Caml Light and SML in 1996.

Our university had quite a few courses where ML was the goto language for project assignments.

In those days Python was hardly used, still trying to get adoption.

By 2000 most Python projects were all about Zope, which I was surprised to find out it is still around.
Again, not op, but, it gives me a reason to pick the altruistic option rather than the selfish one, when I can 'morally' justify both.

For instance, beggar on the street. I can feel morally okay by saying "They might not really be in need, just doing this to get extra money; I'll donate to organizations dedicated to helping homeless instead". But from my Christian perspective it changes, "Why am I judging this person's need? Who knows how much those organizations will help this individual person, who is here now, asking for help. Maybe they don't need it, but maybe they do. Would I rather risk a mouth going hungry, or risk 'wasting' giving a dollar to someone who has enough?", and I give the dollar. Or better yet, say "Wait, why is my time so valuable? Am I really in so much of a hurry? Why don't I see if I can buy this person a meal and talk to them for a bit".

Now, I can certainly see people aligning their basic axioms to arrive at this same decision without an appeal to religion...I just know that for me, I wouldn't. Without a belief in a God who I know values them as much as me, and wants me to help them, I have no reason to push back against my own selfish rationalizations. I might still donate, but then it's just to absolve myself of any guilt I might have (which is also the goal of the rationalizations, really). For me, the belief in God compels me to move past just absolving my guilt, and instead leads me to ask how I can show love.

You might make the case that this is just another form of guilt, and maybe it is (certainly, doing nothing leaves me feeling just as guilty), but it feels qualitatively different. A begrudging giving of a dollar compared with actually engaging with the person leads to two very different feelings, and I know I never choose the latter without an appeal to religion. Again, for me; YMMV.
I 100% expect you're correct in your assertion, but here's the big question: do you know why the latter is faster than the former?
Seems like a good use-case for a linux VM? I tend to use VMs for things it's clear shouldn't really be installed on my workstation.
As a religious person reading Orson Scott Card's Xenocide (Part of the Enders game universe, but not at all like Enders Game) really impacted me.

In it you have a father who is a religious leader and transitions out of the religion to a more atheistic view and his daughter who becomes holds true to their faith in spite of the evidence and her father.

I saw a lot of myself in that girl and it really brought to light the folly of religion when you step outside of the religious framework. I'm still religious but the book made me think.
It's been out of favor since Derrida, but I think Structuralism is due for another pass in the limelight. An extreme subjectivism about reality, shaped by the stimuli you are exposed to. These external stimuli are what define your axioms, and from there, you use the same (fuzzy, bad, and prone to inducing contradctions) logic as everyone else. It provides a compelling model for why people have difficulty reconciling their opinions; they're not even talking about the same things, just using the same words, the same signs.
Vulnerability in HTML Design, the "script" Tag
>I honestly can’t think of anybody in my career who’s been comfortable with dynamic languages that had a desire to move to static. It’s such an impediment to the entire programming style that it doesn’t naturally happen.

I'm someone who would be described as a pythonist. I learned CS in python, had a quick foray into Java (which I'm not particularly fond of), and then have done the vast majority of my coding, both personal and professional, in python. I'm a huge proponent of type hinting.

Reasons for this:

- It's not really an impediment. Quality code should already have APIs notated with argument and return types. Converting docstrings to mypy is easy.

- It's optional. You have some weird super dynamic magic nonsense. Cool, annotations are optional. Don't include them on your metaclass-generating decorator function. Being able to opt out of the safety guarantees easily is really really useful for those cases where you do want to abuse dynamism.

- Its super useful. I catch bugs faster now. I write less buggy code. Refactoring is much, much easier (mypy highlights the lines where I'm now doing bad attribute accesses etc.). Some of these things can be provided by a good ide, but I'm often not in an IDE, and this way I can run it as a pre-commit hook.

Agreed that for sysadmin work its maybe not as helpful. For math and ML, I think it is. There are issues that make numpy/tensorflow really difficult to typecheck internally, but there's active work on that front as far as I know.
This has been an issue for me. My solution so far has been to just make a wrapper html page that uses their library.
> simply walk away from civilization

There's no unowned land to walk into.
Plenty of people from all over the world would love to swap place with you. They can enjoy driving, you can go to using involuntary, non-motorized, commute.

Cars and mobility that it brought had been the revolution of the last century that increased the quality of life for billions of people.

I want my city to fully adopt cars, and may be smaller personal vehicles like a two-seats car. I want my city to stop chasing grandiose dreams of public transportation that is wasteful, ugly and demeaning to individual needs and liberation. I want my city to be spread out than be infested with ills of public commute.

People who want to treat other people as a herd instead of as an individual, support public transport or shall I say enjoy thrusting public transport on others.

"Why don't you take the train so that I can drive my Lamborghini after going to Dubai in a private place?" They ask.

No, thank you. I would rather enjoy my Toyoto Corolla with 220k miles on it.
The link is to the announcement of the project. The announcement is a public Facebook post, which seems reasonable given that Facebook developed the project.
Meet “carnivore dieters”
The Book of Assistance by Imam Al-Haddad (translated by Mostafa Badawi) - I'm a religious person and read a lot of literature related to that. Most of them provide a temporary high and then no particular benefit after. This was a notable exception. It was extremely practical and much of what I read affected me and made me changed the way I lived. It's highly specific to Islam though and much of the advice might not be relevant to others.

https://fonsvitae.com/product/the-book-of-assistance-imam-ab...
Ah, that's nice. So you can change the type of a function in one file that you are editing, and pyre will show you all the other places that are now using the wrong types.
Or: auto logout. It's how I effectively dampered by Facebook usage. No apps on the phone, log out when done on the desktop. Adds a picosecond for considering whether you're tabbing over out of addiction or free will.
Honestly entire Army is a about being dumb. (In my opinion). And it is costing ton of money for us any ways.

Instead having a good productive life where you engage with society (Pizza and Netflix) and create value it is stupid to join a cult like Army where you are brainwashed into being a robotic human being fighting wars for old infirm men in Washington. Are we really supposed to feel proud about young soldiers dying in Syria, Afganistan or Iraq ? What for ?
2% monthly churn is not low. That annualizes to ~25% which is significant. The cost per acquisition of getting a new customer is actually quite high so their churn numbers definitely hurt them.
Another commenter said Peterson is not an empty self-help guru. I suspect the only difference between the "real deal" and an "empty self-help guru" is how much we like the person.
Good highschool performance involves a lot of organized instruction-following. It's not so much that the dropouts are "dumb" per se, just that they don't perform well on mental tasks that they have been instructed to complete. Most of the poor academic performers I have known were more lacking in self-control than they were in IQ points. That's the antithesis of what the ideal soldier is pictured to be, a human machine that performs every task exactly right. Someone like that would absolutely steamroll highschool.
You have a good point, but the way you are writing is unnecessarily aggressive. Emphasis on the unnecessary, it doesn't add anything so you should leave it out of your writing.
To be completely fair about this, the US was ramping up a long time before Pearl Harbour. (This is part of the extended discussion around the attack itself, and whether it should have been anticipated.) British rearming began in 1936, the US was certainly planning in the late 30´s, actual spending began in 1939, and ramped up quickly after that during 1940.

In war, as in many other things, if you want to ride the wave, you have to be ready long before you see it coming.
What's inside a Tesco Power Hit disposable phone charger. (2017)
> Spouses called, first worried, then angry. Yet the work continued:

Somehow I feel like this part is something that shouldn't be celebrated.

Don't get me wrong it's a clever prank(and we had plenty of those at our game studio) but the game industry has enough problems with work-life balance and crunch that it feels tone deaf. I saw enough divorces at my last gig to know this stuff can have a non-trivial impact.
What does pizza and netflix have to do with it?
I actually use the autoplay a lot to fake curated playlists when listening to music. Works pretty well. You start with a good song and it keeps getting good related songs.

Until it trips up and you go from Foo Fighters to Taylor Swift but tht only happens rarely.
GitHub's 2017 Transparency Report
How's people's experience with Flow?
Ask HN: Crazy browser plugin idea
Hello HN,

I have a crazy idea for a browser plug in that would help a bit in knowing which parts of a webpage to trust and which parts to distrust.

I'd like an option where each and every pixel that is rendered as the result of a third party component on a webpage can be given a dim or a highlit background or overlay depending on the setting.

That way you could see at a glance which parts of the page were 'first party' and this would help you in properly assigning trust.

Is there such a thing? What would it take to build it?
Tech Breakthroughs That Could Make People Love the Bus
I enjoyed the movie a great deal I thought it was as true to the series as was realistic for a hollywood enterprise.

But I don't think a person would get much sense of the books from the movie, just as a person would not get all that much sense of an Austen from a hollywood version. (BTW, that's why I suggest the second book in the series for a first try. It is much more like the rest of the series than the first book, in my opinion.)
Have you considered inflation?
What's your workspace like? Do you have a desk and chair and all, or do you sit in bed with your laptop?
Get all of your technical leadership to talk about what the future of the company should be. Talk to candidates about where they think the industry is headed. Find a good fit.

I'm not sure what you should ask to determine competence at that level, but they should at least share a common strategy.
Neat site, I just signed up...hopefully I can find a neat company to do some additional work with (working for a college is great from a stability perspective, but it doesn't always force you into the most interesting of projects...so the ones I come up with I have to find time for outside of the normal day to day work stuff that comes up...hopefully if I can find a good company to do some extra work for it'll help provide an outlet for me to continue my personal growth :-).
I have Auto Play disabled on my YouTube account for regular channels. The control is above the Up Next list and I've had it off for well over a year now.

https://i.imgur.com/qaK6W8W.jpg

Playlists though keep going which is annoying.
I think describing these as static type systems is a bit limiting. I prefer to think of them as static code analyzers. They don't change anything about the representations in memory, but they do validate invariants about the code. I actually hope we start seeing systems that validate invariants that are not type based like "SQL Injection Safe SQL Query" and "Range between 10-100".
I think that’s the point. Governments would prefer cash just didn’t exist.
> not every government can be trusted with the control over your money. Think of Venezuela or Zimbabwe, for instance

Or Brazil, where the government suddenly froze everybody's bank accounts in the early 90s (Confisco da Poupança). An article about it (in Portuguese): http://radioagencianacional.ebc.com.br/geral/audio/2016-03/h... and on Wikipedia: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Collor_de_Mello#Confi...
We're all running some bespoke setup, and probably each planning something more-advanced and more-bespoke, just to overcome bugs in browser implementations. What we all actually need is a browser developed with the goal of being secure by default, rather than shrugging off eg the leaking of network config / window size / rendering engine nondeterminism / etc.
Boilerplate doesn't mean (binary) bloat.
I think the title of Founder with a little description on the job responsibility would make sense. Having the description more in lines with the new job you're looking for would make it positive.
> If capitalism is based around rational self-interest, why would anyone exclude political power as a means of increasing their wealth? It would be deeply irrational to avoid such an avenue.

Not true. It is in our best and most rational self-interest to participate in philanthropy and in building a nice society that we can live in, enjoy, and make a profit in. Capitalism and philanthropy and a social safety net are not mutually exclusive, which is why (like I already said) there are capitalists who vote for candidates who want to increase taxes and increase spending on social goods and services.

In fact I'd argue that it's only capitalists who can properly invest and sustain a strong safety net. That's why countries like Switzerland and Denmark are capitalist countries.

> Yes, regulations will interfere with the unfettered pursuit of profit, but that's by intent.

The example of it being hard to enter the pharmaceutical space to produce cost-effective generics is an example of government regulations prohibiting cost-reducing competition.

You can pursue profit while offering a good or a service that is less expensive and higher quality than the alternatives.

> Because it didn't really seem to make much of a point. Yes government spending priorities could be different and I'm sure there's wastage that could be lessened - although I'd guess less than you think. Cronyism exists in any organisation of more than one person.

But the point was that it isn't capitalism that is responsible for that cronyism. And that the wealthy wanting tax cuts does NOT mean that the wealthy need to dismantle the safety net in order to get their tax cuts. We can afford both tax cuts and a safety net if we eliminate cronyism in the government.