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but will it? I would buy BTC at $1, at $10, at $100... There are many like me. I think its foolish to think that it will reach 0. Too many folks believe in it...
This is a neat implementation.

I stopped watching trailers for movies a few years ago - headphones and closed eyes during movie previews and everything, and it greatly improved my enjoyment of nearly every movie I see.

I go for the story and visuals, and studios long ago decided that story and visual surprise were worth sacrificing to get people into theaters.

As for figuring out what to see, I find that a combination of any of title, director, writer, genre, and occasionally performers are enough to make up my mind.
I suppose then they will all simultaneously do it and all die. Or perhaps being perfect logicians they will hold a lottery and inform the winner of their state causing them to die alone for the good of the group.
The scrolling is awful, it fades out the trailer roll if I stop moving my scroll wheel. Looks like it's not resetting the 'hide trailer roll' timeout when scroll events happen.
All of these questions can be answered with some research online.

1) Yemen is a result of Saudi-Iran Proxy war: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/un-probe-details-fallou...

2) There will surely be challenging times but every country that had liberated itself from monarchy has gone through similar struggles.

3) >The Saud family is understood to be more liberal than the general Saudi population
I don't have an answer on this but what is well known is that the Saud family partnered with Wahab family to push Wahabbism, since the start of Saudia Arabia. This alliance of faith & state was done to control the people similar to many times in history when faith has been hijacked to recruit supporters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahhabism
Well, not everywhere. But a good number with some notable services left out. Here's a chart: https://conversations.im/compliance/
Ironically, it was (some of) the elites who decided to hold the referendum. So they should be disillusioned with their own crowd as well.
I'm quite excited about finally being able to achieve the holy grail of "reusable microservices".

I think the key thing that makes this actually possible in the Kubernetes world is the idea of operators + CRDs. It gives devs/ops a stable surface for configuring/scaling/operating a reusable component which is a pain otherwise.

Perhaps even, the ease of running multiple microservices on Kubernetes will one day be greater than the ease of just operating a monolith.
The person in question forgets that some people build their whole careers on how to manage people and situations like that. You'll always be taken advantage of by people like these until you finally learn that coming up with a comeback is not really a creative problem, but rather a problem of military-like training in communications.

In the rare scenario someone would come up to me this way, I would have already been prepared by knowing what exact wrong things they themselves did in the past (not because I am a horrible person, but because people did and would take advantage of me this way in the past). I would directly retaliate and then make sure the person in question learns this lesson for the rest of our relationship. Rinse and repeat.

More importantly, the fact that the person in question can approach you this way and in such a manner is already a good indicator of either you working with someone who is an incredible idiot or there're some organisational issues.
These also leave a "red bullseye ring" around the bite area, which is a common sign of a deer tick bite.
As someone approach mid-thirties I just want to thank all of you for your stories. I find myself thinking of these things, but it's still very tentative. They'll probably become reality before I feel I'm ready for it, and all this helps.
Intelligence is a better predictor for success than wealth https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120329142035.h...
Involuntarily losing money is a punishment. Even if it goes to a good cause.
The pictures in that article are incredible. See the one at about 50% of the way down (yellow parrot coming at the camera). Wow
Not today, but historically it was.

See the Coinage Act of 1792, which set a "dollar" as 371 4/16 grains of silver or 24 3/4 grains of gold.
Bingo.

I think there are different kinds of poverty being assumed here.

On one had you have the innovation coming from the poverty of Cuba where they have adapted in amazing ways. But that's a society where poverty is the norm and things like family structure isn't much affected by it (I'm guessing).

On the other hand you have the poverty of the US where it's not the norm. The gulf between poor and rich (or just middle class) is overwhelming. The poor in the US are marginalized -- living in the least desirable areas, terrible access to education, jobs, grocery stores. High crime, broken families. Kids grow up with constant police sirens, sounds of domestic disputes, drugs, crumbling houses. That stress takes a toll. Focus on education is secondary to just surviving another day. Long term stress has been shown to cause a constellation of effects that are ruinous for our health -- mentally and physically.

Remember: it's not the absolute value that matters in poverty, it's the income inequality.
> Centuries of human history shows that most people choose not to be poor, if at all possible.

And it's not just “poor vs. not poor”; a substantial share of the people who have the capacity to be rich without much effort expend additional effort to be more rich, if there are opportunities to do so.
MIT Should Not Be Supporting the USA.
Once you get into the social housing program, your housing cost is 25% of your income. If your income is 0, you receive a monthly check instead and the social housing is deducted from it. Varies by province.
I don't get how he didn't see making such a comment as an own goal, given how the average person sees the financial system these days.
Hmm I guess this analysis explains why IE has sucked for so long
> and I definitely don't want the video to even follow me around as a tiny minimized window

Why the hell did this become a standard pattern on news sites anyway? It's the WORST.
It looks really nice. Scroll wheel scrolling is broken though :(
To your first point: yes, quite an easy question indeed. However saying "A is ok because B does it even worse" is hardly a convincing argument.

To your second point: I don't know, yet in my opinion it should be left to the people of that country to decide what they want for themselves, don't you think? -_- "Democracy!", scream the US patriots, yet meddling and overthrowing democratically elected rulers when it doesn't align with their interests, under the flimsy excuse of "they didn't make the right choice, we know better, with our dictator they will be more free than with their choice". Just doesn't sit right with me.
Android Things 1.0 launches, Google promises 3 years of updates for every device
Jeremy from fast.ai here. I think it's tough to really substantiate this claim fully in a mainstream tech publication, without getting into details that are likely to be rather dull for much of the audience. However, I do think that the claim is a reasonable one, and there's more details to substantiate it in this article I wrote: http://www.fast.ai/2018/04/30/dawnbench-fastai/

Training small-ish datasets quickly is definitely not a toy problem. Most folks I know using neural nets in practice are using datasets of ~100MB. Some people do have giant datasets, but it's not the norm. And being able to train them quickly and cheaply is great for running experiments, as well as making the field more accessible to people with fewer resources.

If you're only interested in training larger datasets, this competition showed that the fastest Imagenet training on a single machine, and the fastest on publicly available infrastructure, also was done by fast.ai. The only better results were on TPU Pods, which are TPU machine clusters that are not publicly available. (It wouldn't be terribly hard to show similar results with a cluster of GPU machines, although it wasn't something that we have spent time on ourselves as yet.)

I strongly disagree with your claim that small groups can only compete with tech giants on stuff that tech giants aren't working on. There is a large amount of empirical evidence both now and throughout history that this isn't correct, and you have shown nothing to substantiate this claim. (I heard similar claims when Google first appeared: "a small group of Stanford researchers can't beat Yahoo.")
I would take more vacations just for the chance to take a leisurely flight on a dirigible with a world class chef. In fact, the flight might be the vacation.
And of course as soon as it can be created practically and cheaply, the price of gold will drop to [close to] the cost of manipulating atoms to create new gold.
Love the observation that lifestyle choices once construed by friends as evidence of a mid-life crisis are eventually accepted as just part of who you are — that has largely been my experience too.

It also helps to see others normalising skating as a commuting form — I'd guess 1/3 of Casey Neistat's videos feature skateboards, longboards, and their electric variants. (He is 37.)

I was tempted by longboarding, but bought the skateboard because they're easier to trick, carry, and stash. I can see myself buying a longboard eventually too, though…
Not only that, but I don't believe (correct me if I'm wrong) that any UBI skeptics would argue that UBI wouldn't "help" the people who received it in the short-term, like in a 12-year-period, but that it's unsustainable in even the lifetime of a single generation. It's more like social security, which was a great deal for the first generation that started receiving it, but is getting more expensive and less beneficial with each passing year.
> Please, god, no. Won't anyone think of the passionate hobbyists...

Professiinals not withstanding, this seems involuntarily comical.
The logic around that is:

If you're scrolling, it stays open.
If you pause the video, it stays open.

If you stop moving your mouse, we wait a couple seconds then fade out. If you move your mouse, it resets the timeout.

Some people would scroll a little then stop moving the mouse to watch the current trailer and were expecting details to fade away since they were no longer interacting with it.

I think I understand your point, but it's tough when some people expect A and some people expect B.
Misophonia: current perspectives (2015) [pdf]
In practice, it's not very secure because the difficulty mechanism ensures that hash power always centralizes. Any widespread commodity miner will automatically defeat itself -- that's why all of those early ASIC startups fizzled out. As soon as they shipped something, their value proposition was nullified.

Add to this that the payout mechanics strongly incentivize pooled mining, even for people with powerful miners, and the "guarantees" get that much flimsier. A small handful of men ultimately control the Bitcoin network because they have authority over 50%+ of the hash power, and they've all been in the same room on multiple occasions. It's no different than the small handful of men who control the Fed / other major financial institutions in our fiat systems.

Bitcoin was an excellent thought experiment, but it's no wonder that Satoshi wants nothing to do with what it has become.
Haskell does async IO by default using green threads. GHC allocates Thread State Objects which completely represent a (green) thread on the heap.

A capabillity which represents a cpu core contains a queue of TSO's. If a thread blocks on something it can also move to a different queue which is used for thread synchronization, blocking on computations from other threads, io etc.
Couple retires, decides to ride bikes around the US
While there are many factors that play a role in 'growing up', I do think you make a valuable point in highlighting drinking as a salient factor. Looking at my peers (early- to mid-thirties), drinking habits seem to correlate more than even 'big' things like marrying or having kids.
My excrement is several orders of magnitude more scarce than Bitcoins and gold bars alike, but it has no value because nobody wants it.

Scarcity relative to demand pushes up market prices (i.e. extrinsic value) but that's something entirely different...
> Scarcity is absolutely an intrinsic value

Then what is the number? No, scarcity is an important attribute that contributes to perceived value, but it's not intrinsic. Otherwise any cryptocurrency that is scarce would have intrinsic value, as opposed to the many that are essentially 0.
Jeremy from fast.ai here - let me know if you have any questions about the new course. :)
Wrong it's a block every 10 minutes. See I can be pedantic too :p 10 minutes is the speed of light compared to any typical bank transfer. The ledger isn't public in the sense that you can identify the owner of an address easily or at all.
I didn't realize there were federally set minimums. Good grief.
I find this so fascinating. What’s the best way to get up to date in the latest research going on with dolphin communication?
You may have missed the "multi threaded vs single threaded" section where they talk about a very similar pattern:

"The way it works is simple, it uses blocking IO, but each blocking call is made in its own thread. Now depending on the implementation, it either takes a callback, or uses a polling model, like returning a Future."
In scenario two, why should the plate get more expensive over time? It's the same exact plate. Nothing changes about it. I don't get a service where chips are fixed. I don't get a discount on food occasionally. Nothing. So, there's no _reason_ for the monthly fee, from the perspective of the purchaser.

You seem to be taking issue with my word choice, but I stand by that choice. The second scenario is a crappy deal. It's "Crap" for the consumer. I don't know anyone in their right mind who would go for deal number two willingly.
I wouldn't be surprised if some black swan breakthrough in automated assembly/modularization/mobility of housing in less than 30 years halves the availability of manual plumbing work so that when your children just get 1 to 10 years into that career there is a sudden plummet of pay, possibly combined with an influx of workers coming in from previously wrecked markets.
I think the opponent Russian sub was an Alfa, though. That's the one that's sunk at the end of the movie.
I guess the zipf distribution rules out that the dolphins speech is encrypted? Sounds far fetched but we shouldn’t rule anything out for alien intelligences.
> This is far from the sub-Saharan African context where the economy is still developing and leaders are mulling how best to sustainably extract countries from extreme poverty.

As developing economies continue to develop and pick the lowest-hanging development fruit, it will be interesting to see what happens to these comparisons. I won't be surprised if, in 50 or 100 years, the poorest 5% of the United States is on par with developing countries. By some accounts, that's already kinda-sorta the case [1].

[1] https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/How-Poo...
Does It Beat the Minimal Standard?
.NET Core is like libc and is targeted by .NET Standard.

The problem is that the majority of .NET developers aren't moving away from .NET Framework unless we can take our tooling with us.

Lack of GUI tooling, missing 1:1 feature parity with EF 6, DB drivers are holding many back.
I wouldn't expect it any time soon (except on specially regulated roadways, which hopefully there will be a lot of), but I tend to agree that in the long run, full automation is the ultimate answer to the commuting issue. Safety first, though.
Whatever you think of UBI, you won’t be able to point at the results of this study and make any compelling argument that UBI works or doesn’t work.

For UBI to be tested effectively it would, at a minimum, need be implemented at a national level and include everyone in that nation.

For one, that is the only way to see the macro economic effects. Second, in this study the money falls from the sky. No one is being taxed to pay for the UBI nor is the currency being debased.

In any case, if it works, people like me will point to these flaws. If it doesn’t work, the pro-UBI camp will have their set of flaws to argue.

Finally, this study seems to suggest that ‘success’ is determined by what percent of people on UBI work. Instead they should be measuring people’s standard of living improvement, if they work or not.
Often such things "work" technically, but if you leave the project, some poor schmuck has to figure out what you did. It may be obvious to you, but not to others. Remember that maintenance is a bigger cost than development on average. Write systems for other developers, not for yourself.
Well said, Jeremy!
It's called jury nullification and it's sort of up in the air whether it's legal or oath breaking (I have no idea as I'm not American).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification
The real question for media publishers (one I've already experienced at a large sports agency): "is it worth supporting the web".

It is worth it, there's still a lot of traffic, but it's a different model and elegant, interactive browser experiences aren't the target.

Minutes spent, repeat, and quality traffic continues to move toward native apps. GDPR and ad-blocking represent increasing risk + decreasing revenue with the status-quo media web experience.

So the status-quo is becoming prioritizing search engines, social scrapers, and a well-designed URL funnel that pushes traffic toward your native app where you can still monetize with display ads, reliably autoplay video with client-side video ads, and push notifications that result in actual traffic.

There are strategies for monetizing on the web (server-side ad stitching, integrated marketing, pay-gates, hell - just buy traffic to your site that you know doesn't have ad-blockers) but sometimes it's counterintuitive to funneling traffic to native.

Ultimately it requires investment in Product/Creative/UX/Dev to define and sell-through a vision/strategy for web to decision-makers when those decision-makers are seeing numbers that suggest even the investment to define the web strategy is a poor investment - let alone investment in developing and maintaining it.
You understood correctly. This is a custom format that has some ideas from h.264 and who knows what else.
I can think of loads of reasons that both what the article says and your experience can be true. For instance, maybe your neurons are better at handling spatial information? Nowhere in their findings do they imply that the quality of the space and time tracking has to be the same.
i have been looking at them on ebay for about 20 quid. i wanted one for the office for printing wifi guest access tokens.
Thanks for the feedback, I'll answer this by providing some more context.

a) I've done well when you consider revenue/global brand reach/spread

b) I've spoken informally to trusted board members nobody seems to have clarity on the best way forward

c) Option 7 seems to be the best way out

d) on point number 9, yes I'm distracted, but I've understated how much thought has gone into the second idea; it's something that's constantly come up when I'm with my customers with whom I have a remarkably intimate relationship with. I live for them and this one issue keeps coming up. I have toyed with the idea of getting someone else to build it, but it requires some industry good will, customers willing to pilot it etc and so far that rests with me. I meet with my customers on a fairly frequent basis to figure out where their general pain points are, what their industry vertical trends are and what other issues I can solve for them (typically this involves an introduction to one industry vendor/company or another). In the course of these conversations you can unearth a lot.

To use a theoretical example. I will use Square. If in the the process of meetings with customers in say retail figures out that nobody has built for purposes of this conversation a CRM that addresses their needs and it's a pain point that keeps coming up in every single conversation with retail customers what would you do? Over several conversations you have industry members nagging you for a solution because over time you have become their trusted advisor.
The other big question is about the cost side of it. True UBI claims to be able to not be that costly, as it will enable the shut down of all monetary forms of welfare. The resulting unemployment of those employees working welfare related jobs shouldn't even be that concerning, because then the benefit side of UBI would kick in for anyone unemployed. How you study all of that on a small scale is a mystery, as it seems to me that UBI is nearly impossible to bootstrap and will just have to be tried full force at some point with some limited studies as guidance.
Just curious, which terminal did you fly out of?
If anyone has doubts about UBI, consider the great A/B (or rather B/W?) experiment the government ran as part of the New Deal. One group was provided subsidies for housing (analogous to UBI) and another was not - decades later, the initial modest help compounded to leave one group much more prosperous than the other. I'm willing to bet on the outcome of this study.

https://www.npr.org/2017/05/03/526655831/a-forgotten-history...

"African-American families that were prohibited from buying homes in the suburbs in the 1940s and '50s and even into the '60s, by the Federal Housing Administration, gained none of the equity appreciation that whites gained. So ... the Daly City development south of San Francisco or Levittown or any of the others in between across the country, those homes in the late 1940s and 1950s sold for about twice national median income. They were affordable to working-class families with an FHA or VA mortgage. African-Americans were equally able to afford those homes as whites but were prohibited from buying them. Today those homes sell for $300,000 [or] $400,000 at the minimum, six, eight times national median income. ..."
Quite possibly, things like distance and number of participants would most likely change the dynamics.

That's why I was wondering about the game theory part, so it could perhaps be modelled and tested in software. Running large scale UBI experiments is pretty slow and expensive, so tuning the parameters in the real world to make it work is going to take a very long time and cost a lot of money.
Out of curiosity, where'd you sign up?
WooCommerce CRM
This looks really cool. More and more OSS projects are using slack for coordinating development as well as providing support. This makes it faster and simpler than forums but removes all search engine indexing. Maybe your project could help solve that problem.
> From what I can tell, governments can ban mining, shut down exchanges and co-erce developers.

Cutting off exchanges from financial institutions will likely be the primary way the government attacks cryptocurrencies. Just look at what happened to online gambling 10 years ago. Online poker and sports gambling were booming. What the US did was prevent banking companies from doing business from gambling companies or intermediaries (e.g. Neteller). Basically overnight, online gambling became a shell of what it was previously. Sure there are still ways around it, but it's enough of a hassle that only the most die-hard players are going to find it worth it.

It doesn't take a huge stretch of the imagination to apply the same strategies to crypto. If financial institutions are prevented from doing business with Bitcoin, et al., it's basically game over, as long as its utility is dependent on buying with fiat currency.