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Desperate politicians making absurd rules when:

1) US election went “wrong”.

2) The same is happening to them

3) They’re mostly not hitting their own companies

Obviously it’s a lie. The “right” is gaining in Europe like crazy, not because of Facebook, but because the existing governments have seriously underperformed.

But politicians faced with the choice of admitting mistakes that they don’t even know how to fix, or to wildly and randomly strike at whoever got blamed ...
It feels like a slight failure that things like this are necessary, especially for a new language.

As a Python developer, I am no stranger to slightly ridiculous packaging / environment woes. However Go has 19 years on Python. I understand that they are different languages and ostensibly serve different purposes, but it feels like a shortcoming to me - based on the little Go experience I've had.
I doubt that singularitarians, or singularitarianism even exists. The idea that it’s somehow the agenda of the SV rich and powerful is a ludicrous straw man.

What next, the Church of Drakes Equation?
Exactly my thought! I appreciate Google's effort in many fields such as distributed computing but in the past few years, a lot of Google IO announcements feel like vapourware/demoware that they're going to scrap/rebuild in a few years.
While I'm sure Shimomura is a genius, however you define that, I can't help but roll my eyes whenever I see another post about IQ on Quora. If IQ truly even measured raw intelligence, that doesn't get you very far in life. To do anything with that intelligence you need to put in a lot of effort and this requires things like time management, stress management, discipline, focus and drive. I'd rather bet on the person who is high in those 5 attributes I just mentioned but with an average IQ over someone with high IQ but who is only average on those 5 attributes.
There are of course quite a few crazies among singularitarians, however some are not. On the other hand, almost all critiques of the singularity are squarely in the "they have to be wrong, or I would need to sit down and read a book" genre, case in point, this article. Clearly the author did not bother to read The Singularity is Near, otherwise they would have noted that the entire argument is carefully crafted to subvert the critique that singularitarians need to hit a specific roadmap.
it costs aver $2.7B to get a drug approved based on the most accepted estimates. biggest cost is cost of failure. r&d is hard, highly regulated and expensive
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The author is referring to brands that typically pay for ads, not provide them.
> real damage to the fairy tales which inspired him

What about the next Walt Disney?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act
I have seen so many people made miserable by an inability to do this. Especially once they earn a bit of money, and experience the 'good life'.

I really love fine craft beer. But can still sit down happily in a cheap pub and drink a jug of Victoria Bitter. It helps greatly to have entirely distinct mental categories in such cases.
It depends on the font format. If TrueType doesn't let you code something, you could use an SVG font etc. etc. Almost all fonts in the wild are outline/scalable, so that imposes some limitations.
Have you ever transferred 120,000 EUR with them, or - you know - any serious amount?
You might just be to facebook because you like content similiar to others in an ad group labelled african american.
"This means to open and read a post in Peerdium at-least 1 other person should have the tab opened of the post"

Are you running a server hosting 1 instance of each document so that there is always at least 1 other person hosting the page?
I don’t like a lot of Go features but the GOPATH system is really quite good (until you care about pinning versions, when it becomes not worse than Python).
I object to the idea that Java has an easy learning curve. Java is only easy because there is a massive investment put into it up front, in the form of freshman CS courses. So (a) a lot of the learning curve gets attributed to programming itself being difficult, and (b) once you internalize the model you categorize everything else as being "easy" or "hard" based on how similar it is to Java.

If you take people who instead learned Python as their first language, and put them through all the ceremony that is getting "hello world" to work in Java, you're going to get a very different reaction. A lot of this is very dependent on perspective.
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I'm not arguing that it isn't expensive, but when, for instance Johnson & Johnson spends $8.2B/yr on R&D, and spends $17.5B that same year on marketing those same drugs, it's hard to argue that the cost of R&D is the major issue here.

edited to add: especially when you look at the US R&D tax credit, available under section 41 of the tax code.
It does, but it's disabled by default. Note that this option is about using IPv6 internally between containers. Even with it off, any exposed port will be both IPv4 and IPv6.
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> Nobody wants to spend money on marketing. If drug companies could recoup their investment faster by spending less on marketing, they would.

This doesn't pass my sniff test. The original article's point isn't that companies are marketing just so they can flush money down the toilet. Of course it's profitable. The article's point is that we as a society want them to spend more money on R&D; and our current strategy seems not to be working.

Companies would prefer to spend no money at all. If they could recoup their investment by spending no money on marketing, research, development, or production, they would. So a good company does the next best thing: they find the least costly, most efficient way to make money and prioritize that.

If companies are investing the majority of their resources into marketing, that at least suggests that they view marketing as the most efficient way to make money. Since we as a society would prefer that R&D be the most efficient way for them to make money, it may very well be reasonable to look for ways to decrease the cost of R&D and/or to increase the cost of marketing.

Shortening the exclusivity period of a patent might be an effective way to decrease the value of marketing, since marketing returns likely benefit from exclusivity.
> all without doing any real damage to the fairy tales which inspired him

I agree with the rest of that sentence, but this really isn't true. Disney's bowdlerized versions actually do harm and even displace the source material in public consciousness.
I'd say that's more an issue with current copyright law than Disney.
> “they can't record what you're looking at and reuse that information for targeted advertising without consent”

What law prevents them from doing this?
This 30 minute video from the recent Linux.conf.au may also be of interest.

https://youtu.be/zl68asL9jZA

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It gets the job done.

The JVM is a different beast than the one you knew 15 years ago. GC is not a problem (usually) anymore. Change of hardware? Change of OS? Want to develop on something else? No big deal, it's all on the JVM. And it's a pretty damn fast JVM.

It's got an extensive library ecosystem that isn't going anywhere. Because enterprise uses it so extensively, there's lots of support for it, lots of demand for it. Amazon is big on Java- heck they hired Gosling last year.

Java is stable, not going anywhere, and an easy choice to make. So yes, people are happy that it's getting better linguistically. Stop being a language snob.
Kind of like how soda companies encourage people to exercise. They don't want you to stop buying their product, but cut back just enough to stop people complaining.
If I'm reading page 65 of that presentation correctly, naive Strassen (what this person did) should be approximately 75% as fast as MKL on an 8 core machine for a 4Kx4K matrix, and even the improved algorithm outlined in the paper is only approximately equivalent, and I wouldn't call it "Strassen's".

I stand by what I said (although that paper was a cool read!)
BGP Flowspec is commonly used ISPs. Sadly, they won’t extend that to their customers.

They’d rather sell yet another service rather than supporting open protocols.
Yea they could, but this is basic politics and sovereignty. Nations are allowed to make rules for operating inside themselves. You don't just get to ignore all of those rules when working inside them because you said your home is another nation.

The other side of that is that you can tell foreign governments to fuck off if you aren't dealing with them at all. The only time the foreign governments matter is if they are a superpower able to bend your own country to it's will, and that point you are basically a colony anyway so there's not much you can do
> For Windows it allows you to share the directory between the WSL and Windows

I've avoided changing the GOPATH by using the following set up:

C:/Users/<user>/go
(Standard windows GOPATH)

Then symlink in WSL:

ln -s /mnt/c/Users/<user>/go ~/go

Works pretty well. Then you can install Go on Windows if you need it, otherwise your dev environment is isolated and your Go code remains on Windows if you remove/refresh WSL. Also if you use file history, the code will be backed up this way in your Windows home as well.
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"How do you synchronize multiple events? How do you handle partial system outages? What is the retry strategy for failed events and how do we handle inconsistent data?"

Funny thing is that the traditional stateful model handles these scenarios horrendously as well. Probably more so, since you have no history to reconcile with.
>Yeah, and Google made their opinion of Java quite clear by adding first-party support for Kotlin.

Which is good for Android developers as they crave that syntactic sugar. Unfortunately, businesses have different priorities.

>As for Java being popular because it has mindshare, you are agreeing with my original point. It doesn't continue to exist because it's a good language. It continues to exist because of inertia.

It may not have all of the syntactic sugar that other languages have at the moment, but given its new release cadence its only a matter of time before it reaches feature parity.
> leading to mining decentralization around local electricity deals.

The amount of electricity it takes to secure the network is directly proportional to price. In order for BTC to replace traditional currency, it would require more electricity than the world currently produces each year.
Is this true? No oil money or movie money? Or software sales money?
The example of Humira is a terrible one: as a monoclonal antibody, to produce the exact molecule would require another company getting its hands on the plasma cells that produce it.

It is not as simple as copying the chemical steps to produce the drug, as in Lipitor.

Complicating this, there is evidence that not all Monoclonal antibodies that act on the same receptor are made equal - some might be antagonists whereas others are agonists.
That's easier said than done. If you don't already have proper market making infrastructure and strategies you'll probably lose money trying to do that. Add in market makers paying per order and it doesn't make sense
To be fair though, once you undermine this clause, the rest of the comment can be applied to almost any enterprise: illegal drugs, weapons, or almost any other harmful industry.
Yep, I'm running Node v10.1.0

I worked around it by just copying the class as described in the website.
I think the jump to 9 is going to be a little rough while organisations figure out modules and all the new flags tickle into a billion build scripts but 10 and 11 don't seem too bad.

I heard one good approach is to start testing newer releases in your CI systems as soon as possible but wait for the next LTS ever few years to migrate production.
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That law would have more teeth in Maine.
What does this have to do with the next Walt Disney? The next "Walt Disney" is not going to be copying Mickey Mouse they will be creating something new... Inspiration != copying.
Your comment is the snarky one, and you attempt to dismiss 35,000 deaths rather than 2. In every single one of those 35,000 cases, someone decided to drive that day, on purpose. You almost got it right: In this crazy wacky weird world we live in, people would rather talk about 2 CO deaths caused by some dumbshit accessory nobody needs, than the 35,000 caused by their own complicity and laziness. Nobody asked whether those deaths were intentional, but you answered anyway, so that's interesting.
> the last numbers I saw, 2015, showed marketing budgets for medicine to be often times twice what was being spent on R&D in the US.

The marketing expense isn't necessarily avoidable.

Suppose it costs $50M to research a drug and patients will pay $1000 for a course of treatment. If you do no marketing then you get forty thousand customers and can't recover your R&D. If you spend $100M on marketing then you get two hundred thousand customers and more than recover both your R&D and your marketing expense.

Spending more on marketing can allow them to do R&D they otherwise couldn't by providing more customers to spread the R&D costs over.
> A better example might be Minecraft, where there are different servers hosting the game and you can't necessarily port your items over.

How would items appear on the blockchain in this case? If every minecraft server can record created items on the blockchain, I can just run my own server that's modified to give me whatever I want. At that point a simply federation of servers seems to provide the same utility of transferring items between servers (but for free).

EDIT, added:
> Winners get paid in cash and also get one-time issued virtual medals as proof of their achievement. Like Super Bowl rings, these medals would have sentimental and tangible value.

They have to be issued by the organizer of the tournament to provide any value. What does decentralization buy me there? The organizer might as well just put on the website "X won Y".

A lot of these pie in the sky ideas seem poorly thought out once one asks what new value would a blockchain solution add.
Alexa and Siri are listening to commands you can’t hear
The use of `var` is a great improvement over the current method of declaring variables. I love Swift for many reasons (optionals, structs/objs, succinctness, no GC, etc.) and var-style declarations is one of them.
https://endpts.com/pharmas-broken-business-model-an-industry...
Valid points, but it doesn’t appear like you’re forced to allow scripts out of sequence. I was using the Obamacare one and everything flowed okay.

Not something I’d leverage per se, but not bad.
It's true. We can reduce carbon emissions by reducing consumption but at the same time, we'll be reducing productivity. The key is to increase services and the digital economy and also reduce manufacturer of goods. For years now, the best way to increase buying activity is to make things and to make old items obsolete. That is Apple's business model and that has been the business of most manufacturers. But what will happen if production is reduced? Individual's livelihoods will be decreased. The real key to the problem is to switch to other types of productivity such as services, and digital goods. It's nice to say that we can reduce our carbon footprint by reducing manufactured products. But that doesn't do anything, we also need to suggest and act on alternatives.
Let us not forget the Song of the South movie:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_of_the_South
It seems that Tolkien may have liked the animation ("I recognize [Disney's] talent, but it has always seemed to me hopelessly corrupted."), just not the treatment of fairy tales in the story.

It's perfectly reasonable to appreciate Disney & Co's contribution to animation and visual story-telling without respecting the underlying stories.
Pharma's Broken Business Model – An Industry on the Brink of Terminal Decline
Could be a pretty useful tool for creating a text-based game with multiple plot lines :)
From the OP:

> The new generation of DEXs, such as 0x, Kyber Network and Saturn Protocol, enable 1-click wallet to wallet trading and that makes the holy grail of arbitrage, the atomic arbitrage possible. What does it mean?

> An atomic arbitrage is a strategy that executes both trades (i.e. buy 1 ETH for 50,000 SATURN and immediately sell back for 55,000 SATURN) in the same transaction, without any possibility for slippage to occur. The transaction either completes and you make a guaranteed profit, or fails entirely and you simply wait for the next arbitrage opportunity.
One example might be the provision of a ‘free attraction’ service in exchange for surveillance capabilities, and the business model being various unrelated ways to exploit those capabilities (targeted ads, selling the raw data, selling products derived from the data, etc).

This has become the default business model of the B2C Internet, as distinct from offering a service in exchange for payment.
Knowing what I know about how corporations are run (which is nothing more than anyone else who has worked for multiple large organisations) the ISPs are dragging their feet on IPv6 because they can get away with it and it saves them money.

I switched ISPs for my fibre connection because my previous one had an absolutely terrible IPv6 implementation. I made sure to let them know why they lost me as a customer, but it's very likely that never happened to them before or since.

I think IPSs can get away with horrible service and abominations like CGNAT for quite some time before it gets so bad that IPv6 gets properly deployed.
"Bringing joy to millions" might be a bit more of a stretch for some of those.
Looks like, in the last 10 years in the US, lightning has claimed less than 50 lives per year [0]. I'm not sure how that would compare to carbon monoxide deaths from cars when making the proper adjustments, but I suspect lightning is a bigger threat. The male to female ratio (221 to 62) is interesting, and I suspect that it's because males tend to work outside more than females (anedoctal).

[0] https://www.weather.gov/safety/lightning-fatalities
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Based Tolkien.
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None of the market makers as far as I know consider retail orders to carry any information at all, which is precisely why they love then so much.

They can fill retail orders with no real concern about adverse selection (unlike on an exchange where an informed institution is trading against you) and make much more of the spread per trade. Hence why they pay for the orders and give price improvement

Source: work at a market maker
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Current copyright law is the law in large part due to Disney’s political influence.
> I initially started to commit the whole vendor folder for each project, but lately I only commit the Gopkg.lock and Gopkg.toml

This really bothers me too; I appreciate Go's liberal application of convention over configuration, but I feel like this part of dep is a break from the simplicity afforded by the aforementioned principle. I often appreciate this in other Go tooling (e.g. gofmt), and I would love if they just made everyone do dep one way (I don't care which.)
Twitter has been net income positive each of the last two quarters.
Only if the expected return of mining is greater than the cost of the electricity. No one will spend $2 to get $1 worth of crypto.
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I agree, its a complete change in paradigm. Lots of projects are a mix of the old and new ways of doing things which is a mess. Developers too - are you a traditional style Java dev or a new style?

If it keeps going in its new direction, soon they'll just be able to name it javascript. :)
That was fantastic! Any other great guides like that or a repository of them?
Armadillo is built on any BLAS you might like to use. (Eigen is a hand-implemented replacement for BLAS, by the way.) So I, too, am interested in what BLAS implementation is used here. OpenBLAS vs. regular LAPACK/BLAS (or ATLAS) can make quite a large difference.
My transfers were in the 1k-10k range, I guess that's not "serious" for you.

But no, if I were putting such a big amount of money in their hands at once I would certainly do more research and look for better safeguarding.
I know Kubernetes wasn’t around when Cloud Foundry was started. That wasn’t my point. Some of your argument was that building Cloud Foundry was hard (and I agree!), therefore you need a vendor’s PaaS. That isn’t true.

If an engineering organization takes Kubernetes and adds their own tooling around it to turn it into a PaaS for their org, that isn’t in the same league as building their own Database or what you did with Cloud Foundry originally.
Crazy idea: all pharmaceutical research should be publicly funded and publicly-owned. No private ownership of drug patents, period.

"But this will disincentive research!" Maybe. Or, tax people more in order to fund the research. The tax revenue would go directly to researcher salary, equipment, expenses. Even a large tax increase can't be worse than today, where people have to pay huge $$$ anyway, of which a large cut goes to executives, shareholders, the marketing machine, etc.

I believe by and large, people that go into pharma research do it because they're interested in the science and the cause, not because of any privatized profit motivation. Which is to say, people will still go to grad school in the same fields and continue carrying on the research work (so long as the facilities and equipment is available, which we can solve). The downside is that many senior executives would be displaced or be forced to accept lower compensation.

Someday in the distant future, people will look back and be as shocked that private companies profited from medicine, as we're shocked today about the for-profit firefighters in ancient Rome.
> That's not a real problem, you can export onenote to many other doc formats

Oh it's a real problem alright.

Having used many notes apps & formats over the years, I've been burned by this notion too many times to ever fall for it again. Exporting is only a practical means of migrating sizeable note collections if the export and subsequent import into another system can be done with high fidelity for both content and metadata. This is extremely rare. In practice, the exported version nearly always requires an amount of reorganisation work that's impractical if you have years' worth of notes.

I'll never again use notes software that uses an opaque storage format. In a way I regret this, as it precludes Onenote, Evernote etc, which do have their advantages (no note app I've tried has ever had as nice a basic canvas as Onenote, for example). But longevity and cross-platform availability are the keys for me.
I've heard that a lot of ISPs in Australia are stuck on IPv4 as their whole billing systems (written in early 2000s) use IPv4 addresses for everything. Including techniques like mapping an array of size 2^32 (entirely possible with virtual addresses) to keep counters for each user.
It would be a complete rewrite of their billing systems to work with IPv6, and they no longer have many/any programmers on staff.
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