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At least you can buy RAM if you really wanted to.
For few years in late 1990's, you couldn't buy RAM if even you had the money. Companies like Dell/Apple were unable to manufacture computers to sell because of lack of RAM modules. Price of RAM Modules literally fluctuated a lot like gold or crypto coin day by day.

There were robberies targeted at computer parts distributors by robbers who wanted RAM modules to resell in black markets.

And this is how Samsung got big. They had just started investing in RAM manufacturing and Dell/Apple and the likes started signing long term contracts with Samsung for steady supply of RAM modules. Samsung Electronics Revenue grew x4 yoy one year around that time.

This is about the time when Dell signed 10 year contract with Samsung for computer parts. I learned much later that as a term of the contract, Samsung stopped selling Samsung branded laptops in North America. It was weird. Samsung had started making some good laptops but they suddenly disappeared from shelves in US. Laptop reviewers who reviewed them in EU praised them, but they were not sold in US.

I guess I am pretty old...
I feel like UBI is just a band-aid fix for all the real issues (in the US at least) that already have proven solutions in other parts of the world. Rather than giving people money, I'd prefer a higher tax rate for a single payer healthcare system. Reign in healthcare, pharma, and insurance companies. Put a cap on tuition increases, and fund education again. Slash the military budget. Cut down the red tape permitting insane zoning laws, and allow higher density housing where it is needed. Placing the onus of how to spend all this money on individuals might seem like a good idea, but if we instead invested that money in real, lasting, scalable solutions we'll be a lot better in the long run.
How does this work? I always assumed that you can have only one transaction open per session/connection (yes there are subtransaction but I don't see how these could be used for multiplexing independent transaction over the same session.).
I've never understood the desire to own things like Rolex watches.

It's a watch. It tells you what time it is. You can get a pretty durable one that'll last you nearly a lifetime for under $100, especially if you get a digital one since there's no moving parts to break.

So why spend $5,000+ on one? I mean, yeah you might want to get something fashionable and shiny, but that doesn't require a $5,000 purchase.

I feel that the only reason to spend $5,000 on a watch is so that you can show off to other people that you can afford to piss away $5,000 on a watch, which is just silly.
> everyone can afford a little bit more now.

This is not true. UBI doesn't create money out of nowhere. It redistributes existing money. Poor people can afford more, and rich people can afford less, because taxes increase.
I don't know much about him.

What I do know is that listening stories directly from the founders is much more authoritative, informative and educational than listening to it from the investor's standpoint. Founders go through the stuff. Of course, investor's have their own stories which can be informative if they talk about specifics, not abstract things.

I just wish there was a way for people to share about their failed startups. Now, THAT would be truly educational. Majority of failed startups disappear without founders sharing their learnings and that knowledge is forever lost.
There are solutions, but only at platform level.

JVM, CLR, COM, UWP, DEX, TIMI, ILE are all possible approaches with various degrees of success and most of them also have C implementations available.

It is almost impossible to get some kind universal ABI between OSes and languages without an extra level of indirection.
I'm aware - is there a contradiction above? I didn't mean to imply this is new.
It can help prevent allocations if you work with large arrays or strings
Did you really just complain that the analogy was hyperbolic 10 seconds after reading that the analogy was hyperbolic? Everybody here knows already.
tell me again how Alexa even gets this data these days? I mean ages ago it was thru sketchy browser addon toolbars etc, but seriously how many are installed now? Never really trusted their numbers
Not true anymore. You need an email just to sign up now.
I feel like the books and consulting came from the fact that Scrum, while it can be explained in a paragraph or two, is very hard to reconcile with the idea that what the business wants is for you to be able to guarantee that you'll be "done" (and define exactly what that means) by a particular date in the future.
Again, check that table. It says a lot:

https://stanfordmlgroup.github.io/competitions/mura/

On just about every test set, the model is beaten by radiologists. Even the mean performance is underwhelming.
I think the focus on the toxic user base is an artifact of the idea of one-dimensionally categorizing people based on their political ideology. That is such a hot button right now that it completely overshadows all other contributions to society in most forums. Reddit, by allowing some bad behavior and anonymity diffuses that ever present political aspect of modern life.
Facebook effectively sells data. It simply doesn't sell raw dumps.

The distinction isn't a minor one, but in this context it doesn't much matter. Reddit is unlikely to have the kind of quality data that facebook has to sell - directly, or indirectly.
You should see how the rent goes up in military towns every time our BAH goes up. If everyone knows the tenants are receiving more money the general price for rents will tend to go up.

This might be the unintended consequences of a wage/ price spiral.
Okay. The medium post is written by 'SuperCrypto' and begins with this disclaimer:

> As many people are reading this, I would like to remind all — Please take this as an opinion only

I'm going to go ahead and not even bother dismissing that one.

The CNBC article. You applied a Fox News worthy amount of spin to what really happened.

The central bank of Poland decided to warn its citizens against the dangers of speculating in cryptocurrencies. The SEC has done the same. The former simply adopted a more creative approach targeted at a high risk population: millenials. Crypto is rampant with fraud. This isn't news.

I'm not even sure why you linked the scmp article. From there:

> The bogus invitation could be a ruse by traders seeking to profit from a further decline in cryptocurrencies including bitcoin on the futures market, analysts said.

Enough said.

> There are also clear coordinated attacks from CNBC such as a couple weeks ago when Warren Buffet, Charlie Munger, and Bill Gates all got together to trash Bitcoin.

They're all close friends/business partners and have been for a very long time. It's neither surprising that they concur nor that their opinions were sought within roughly the same timeframe. Buffett and Gates are the two most publicly generous contributors to charitable and philanthropic causes around the world. You decided to call into question the motives of perhaps the two wealthy individuals on this planet who are least likely to have malicious intent, based on the evidence.

As far as I can tell, you're the real shill. Weaponizing a combination of FUD and conspiracy theories to do whatever you can to resuscitate the value of your ill-advised crypto holdings. I can't fault you for being human I guess.
Generally the problem is that management wants this idea you call "just in time planning" to happen all the time, and even believes it to be synonymous to Agile. Meanwhile the software team is saying, that's fundamentally at odds with the entire premise of how to write software. Saying you want to produce software that was always planned at the drop of a hat (which is what management wants) is like saying you want to chisel Mount Rushmore but you won't tell whose faces should be on it until right at the end. It's just not a coherent goal. My hope with the barriers to anti-quality thing is that we would take things like this, where regardless of what management feels entitled to, and make it sacred and inviolable that the obviously stupid and incoherent things can be vetoed by the feet-on-the-ground people doing the actual work.
As a native-born American with all of my family in the US, I use Reddit for the same category of things too :)
Toxicity is detrimental by definition, so not sure what you're getting at.
Anybody knows how much improvement can you expect from tiered compilation? And are there any drawbacks - is it stable?
That's just insulting and has no place here.
> It doesn't matter too much how it's settled.

It matters very much how it is settled. Right now BTC drives the price of the future, but there isn't a mechanism for the price of the future to pressure the price of BTC.
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But why does this interconnection necessarily establish a price floor? The cost of producing a penny is more than 1 cent, for example.
FWIW, Perl 6 does have `Proc` (to run an external process) and `Proc::Async` (to run an external process asynchronously). But `fork`, no: it was decided that `fork` was a unixism that was not supportable on OS's like Windows. And it was also decided to not make the same mistake that Perl 5 made with regards to trying to mimic `fork` on Windows, and use that idea later to try to mimic threads on non-Windows OS's.
Public Works, using the post office as a model.

We really do need to be building a lot of stuff, and or fixing stuff we have already done. That work is a direct stimulus, can pay pretty well, and benefits everyone public and private alike. Additionally, the returns from it can pay down all of the expensive bombs and non returned items that we currently spend or have spent on. An example is the interstate highway project. Our current president once the toll that, which is really stupid, but similar kinds of projects will deliver similar kinds of returns. The interstate highway project is still paying us great dividends years and years after it was created. Last figure I knew was 6/8 maybe 10 times the dollar spent.

The post office still getting a lot of bad press right now, is actually exemplary and its performance in return to the public. It is entirely self-funded, doesn't take any tax dollars at all, pays good wages, has a lot of value to the public, and the benefits are worth working there.

Other self-funded public works could work the very same way. Those that use it pay for it, and we all will benefit from the economic development. An example might beat networks, another example might be first line Healthcare, there are many to choose from.

One that I've been thinking about lately is energy. Well distributed public investments in energy of all forms, managed on a higher level through something like a post office, might really pay us off, and deliver a lot of options making energy competitive and well distributed.

The key thing to understanding all of this is government has agency, it's for us, by us, and we need to employ it to our mutual good. Yes, this will compete with Private Industry, but they should be competed with, otherwise they'll accumulate wealth stuff in the bank, and complain about the lack of opportunities to invest and make returns. There's nothing wrong with any of that, but it's a stalemate. One we don't need.

I knocked this out really quick on Google Voice. I apologize in advance if this is a bit of a mess. Hopefully the gist comes through.
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> If I do business with you and write down your name, the GDPR requires that I delete your name if you ask me to (and even if you don’t if our relationship ends).

No, it really really doesn't.

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-17-gdpr/

> The data subject shall have the right to obtain from the controller the erasure of personal data concerning him or her without undue delay and the controller shall have the obligation to erase personal data without undue delay where one of the following grounds applies:

> the personal data are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed;

> the data subject withdraws consent on which the processing is based according to point (a) of Article 6(1), or point (a) of Article 9(2), and where there is no other legal ground for the processing;

> the data subject objects to the processing pursuant to Article 21(1) and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing, or the data subject objects to the processing pursuant to Article 21(2);

> the personal data have been unlawfully processed;

> the personal data have to be erased for compliance with a legal obligation in Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject;

> the personal data have been collected in relation to the offer of information society services referred to in Article 8(1).
"Reddit is ... relatively ad-free."

Um, no. Not even close.
> It can be double-spent

Well aware of this fact, but it has never happened partially because Bitcoin is the largest and most secure blockchain. Regular currencies can be double spent too, but rely on trusted intermediaries to step in and reverse the fraudulent transactions. In a way that is part of what makes Bitcoin so remarkable. That you can transact without having to depend on intermediaries.

> It can not, therefore, represent an economy that expands in real value as it grows to include more people engaging in more trade.

No, the value is in the fact that what you hold represents a piece of a limited number of coins that will ever exist. Gold does not increase in value because people are actively spending it to purchase coffee. It is a hedge against inflation.

As more US dollars enter the economy and are used for transactions, the value of a single dollar decreases.

> The network presently costs the Earth as much energy as the entire energy usage of the country of Denmark.

I am not going to defend the energy usage and say that that is good, but the energy usage is part of the reason the network is secure and why there hasn’t been a 51% attack. FWIW the traditional economy: banks, vaults, armored vehicles, money printing, etc uses up far more energy.

I would also encourage you to watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T0OUIW89II. Bitcoin actually has the power to introduce innovations to produce cheaper, alternative energy due to mining competition.

> A transaction can take "anywhere from 30 minutes to over 16 hours" to be recorded in the ledger.

The lightning network solves this by creating payment channels off chain which can be processed and confirmed in less than a second.

It is silly to criticize a software project for inefficiencies now that will be improved upon and changed in the future.

> That there is a limit on the divisibility of a Bitcoin makes its deflationary nature even more of a liability.

If the value of 1 satoshi (smallest divisible unit of a Bitcoin) were to get to $0.01 it would mean each Bitcoin would be worth $1 million. This problem also exists with gold, but it is even worse there. A gram of gold would cost around $40 right now, and it is not really possible to split it up much further than that.

> Bitcoin has been stolen from marketplaces and web wallets with impunity. Even air-gapped storage is not invulnerable.

Yes, but the fact that people are trying to steal it in the first place means that they think it is worth something. This is also true of any valuables. Jewelry, diamonds, gold, silver all can be stolen. Bitcoin can be stored in secure vaults or in your head.
We know for a fact that there is manipulation to prop up the price of Bitcoin. The wash trading and tape painting are well established. We know that exchanges have just invented $2 billion in the form of USDT. But clearly it's the Big Bad Evil Bankers who are manipulating the market to kill the poor little guys with their $120 billion Ponzi scheme.

People are betting against Bitcoin because it's a stupid idea. It just plain doesn't work, so it's not a threat to anything except the atmosphere and Bitconnect victims. If anything, "the establishment" should be grateful for Bitcoin because it shows how much we depend on institutions like the SEC, the FDIC, and the Federal Reserve.
* lack of dependency management

* no concept of versions to declare API compatibility

* no easy way to hook into a central package repository

* source files to build have to be named manually in CMakeLists.txt

* header dependencies can easily be wrongly declared, which is never noticed

* the language is hard to work with

* it's quite slow for large projects (10s of thousands of compilation units)

* cross-language builds are a pain (C++ + JS)

I'm not saying this is all CMake's fault, I really like it for the reasons you outlined. At work, we are transitioning to Bazel to get rid of some of the pain points above, although it has different problems.

Having worked on some larger Go and Rust projects, I find the integration of language and build tools to be fantastic to work with and wish the C++ community would come up with a practical solution (probably involving Modules TS) at some point.
Hasn't neoclassical economics been adapting supply/demand reasoning to markets without perfect competition for quite a long time though?
I can't say I'm enthused by reddit-on-mobile. I stick to the desktop version. No idea if I'm alone in that...
> Visualizations are great for shared intuition, but it should only be used at the end of a long personal struggle which should involve hours upon hours of undistracted effort, preferably involving something tactile like a pen and pencil.

There is a classic Alan Kay talk that touches on this very issue, called "Doing With Images Makes Symbols." It discusses what the true power of HCI really is: that complex ideas (or even "unthinkable" ones) can be expressed via HCI using some combination of visual, kinesthetic, and symbolic reasoning.

The whole talk is well worth watching, but here is the part I feel is most relevant for Victor's point:
https://youtu.be/p2LZLYcu_JY?t=1h7m10s
Think of all the grandparents that have Win Vista / XP machines with IE defaulted to Yahoo.

Also, all the spyware/malware/adware seems to be wrappers around a Yahoo search for some reason.
While it was a genuine question, I don't think the "No True Scotsman" fallacy applies at all, since that refers to subjective interpretation. IIRC, one of the objective rules of Scrum is that estimation of tasks is done by those who are to do them. If that is the case, and the owner of the backlog is estimating tasks, then it would appear that Scrum is not being practiced (or only partially being practiced, which may as well be not at all). I'm not sure how you interpreted any handwaving from a legitimate question, but I do agree with the point in general.
Your only looking at one side of the market equation. Landlords have to compete for tenants as well. They can't just raise rent to whatever they want, they all compete with eachother. Only in markets that are severely supply constrained like the bay area where this wouldn't work. Also, in areas where new supply could easily be added, if more people have money, it will create new demand for housing and it will be built.
Wouldn't it be preferable to set the C++ standard with:

set_property(TARGET tgt PROPERTY CXX_STANDARD 11)

That way if you have multiple targets you're not setting it everywhere?
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Data point of 1: I use Facebook all the time and I think Reddit is terrible. Half the subreddits I see are toxic and the other half are people with 0 life experience. I have tried many times to derive value from it (much like Twitter, its advocates tell you you have to 'curate your feed') but no matter how much time I invest, I just can't make it work.
they're still a net drain while they come up to speed

And we wonder why companies expect candidates to have years of experience in the exact stack they use and don’t offer training to anyone with other experience, just not buzzword-compliant.

All these people were smart enough to get hired in the first place remember.
> when it's easily possible to rent it out for $X+2000

Just because somebody has an extra 2000 dollars in their pocket every month doesn't mean they can earmark all of that money for rent; they surely have other bills that they need to pay as well. If the apartment was rentable at $X+2000, then why wasn't the landlord renting it at that price before everybody got the extra cash from UBI? Why do you think that somebody would say "Yes, now that I'm getting an extra two thousand dollars a month, my apartment is definitely worth an extra two thousand dollars a month" instead of saying "welp, rent is too high here, guess I'll move to some place else that's charging closer to what I used to pay"?
High margin might tamp demand for the Coinbase crowd, but I don't think it matters a ton to the big players who wanted to be able to short BTC. The futures market isn't a place most retail investors should be anyway.
enjoyed this a lot. the revelation moment was described in the kind of manner that brings a smile to your face.
C was broken from the beginning if you go search what compiler researchers from Algol school of languages had to say about it during the early 80's.

"Oh, it was quite a while ago. I kind of stopped when C came out. That was a big blow. We were making so much good progress on optimizations and transformations. We were getting rid of just one nice problem after another. When C came out, at one of the SIGPLAN compiler conferences, there was a debate between Steve Johnson from Bell Labs, who was supporting C, and one of our people, Bill Harrison, who was working on a project that I had at that time supporting automatic optimization...The nubbin of the debate was Steve's defense of not having to build optimizers anymore because the programmer would take care of it. That it was really a programmer's issue....

Seibel: Do you think C is a reasonable language if they had restricted its use to operating-system kernels?

Allen: Oh, yeah. That would have been fine. And, in fact, you need to have something like that, something where experts can really fine-tune without big bottlenecks because those are key problems to solve. By 1960, we had a long list of amazing languages: Lisp, APL, Fortran, COBOL, Algol 60. These are higher-level than C. We have seriously regressed, since C developed. C has destroyed our ability to advance the state of the art in automatic optimization, automatic parallelization, automatic mapping of a high-level language to the machine. This is one of the reasons compilers are ... basically not taught much anymore in the colleges and universities."

-- Fran Allen interview, Excerpted from: Peter Seibel. Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming

However, C and UNIX are symbiotic, so there is no way we can get rid of C, while keeping POSIX based OSes around us.

So, it will stay around for many decades until quantum computers or something else eventually takes off.
They've banned so many of the toxic people that Voat, Gab, phuks et. al. have pretty much become toxic cesspools of ostracized communities.
Why is Yahoo so far up the list?
Do they have anything good anymore?
Rider presumably is better than VSCode if you do a lot of refactoring. If not, it's an overkill, and VSCode or slightly heavier Visual Studio for Mac are your best options.
Desperate or naive people take these jobs, these people only exist where there are more job seekers than jobs. It is a chance for the desperate to finally gain that experience. Being indispensable is not possible in those conditions.