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What free banking actually looked like: https://www.frbatlanta.org/-/media/documents/filelegacydocs/...

TLDR: Banks regularly collapsed and not just because of fraud, but started to collapse less as they got regulated more. The system functioned (for certain values of "functioned"), but shockingly enough the man on the street did not turn out to be better at evaluating a bank's solvency than central banks. They were of course also less able to bail themselves out if they misjudged a bank's solvency.
Germany also seems to make more of a thing out of forest kindergartens (Waldkindergarten), which sound amazing to me. Still supervised I suppose, but at least they’re outdoors.
I will disagree with the TV thing, but I think isolation and very strict control over their schedule isn't helping. For example my 3.5 year old wanted to play in our backyard, I said no because we have no fence and he could wander away plus I found some garden snakes last week and didn't want him alone down there. However part of me felt bad for him because he wanted to be outside in the grass and I was too worried to let him do it.
No, we are pretty sure what is going to happen. You work with the evidence you have, what you know, not what you don't know. We cannot continue to 'grow' our economies, our economies need to fundamentally change. Unconstrained growth is economic cancer.

The third industrial revolution will by necessity change what we currently understand economies to be:

https://impact.vice.com/en_us/article/bj5zaq/watch-vices-new...
I think it's great that they are focused and clear, but I'm specifically talking about hostility to random people.
Still looks a lot like censorship in effect to me.
This whole article lacks sources and really reading it I feel like it's a covert advertisement for... something
Discussed yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17214337 (70 points, 32 comments)
I think that's right, and I don't think it will be a problem to move since Git is distributed by nature.
IIRC, PayPal has a specialized API for that.
As I understand it the information isn't PI and so isn't covered by GDPR.
Or you break out your infrastructure into smaller components and move the more demanding/critical parts of your infrastructure to that other language and keep everything else you've built!
I think what you're describing is called "compassion", in case you were looking for a word that fits better than "philanthropy".
Williams tubes don't rely on the phosphar coating (and some don't have a phosphar coating at all). It's all about the static electricity on the tube.
I'm only half-joking as I was surprised to see a Facebook rebuttal so quickly after an article like this.

Reputable journalists always seek comments when they write in depth about a person or company. There’s always at least some forewarning.
I think the issue here is not the advantages or disadvantages of their scale.

Rather the chilling effect - the firms themselves (may be) slow to perceive the next iteration of consumer needs.

Startups on the other hand figure them out - and build a product.

The big fish/spiders, with their larger webs, sense the new upstarts and THEN build those features - and then go back to whatever it was that they were doing. The cycle then repeats.
Have you _seen_ what Skype has become?

MS may not be dreadful across the board any more, correct, but they absolutely have it in them to wreck a perfectly serviceable product once acquired.
Oh, I see, given the interpreter is written in strongly typed language, allowing to go without static typing is a feature by itself, and allowing to test for methods presence allows to do duck typing, thus it allows to say that ruby implements duck typing.

It makes more sense than talking of duck typing explicit usage by end users, given it's quite rare we assert proper received parameters extensively.

EDIT : which makes me realize we have a machine language without typing (binary), on top of which we use a language implementing strong typing (C), used to build a language without strong typing (ruby), on top of which Stripe is building strong typing. Making a definitive decision is hard :)
no, they're already using Bayer tactics, which are no better.
I switched from android to iOS about 2 years ago as well, and I see my spouse use android all the time. All those flows you speak highly of look like bloat and a barrage of buttons to me. There are notifications you can’t dismiss, and the notification styles themselves almost always clash with the theme unless they come from google-developed apps. I like the clean look. You also describe a lot of features that are exactly or nearly identical on iOS (like responding to a message in the notification).
Facebook disruption will be Facebook "spontaneously" ceasing operations, without replacement.

I bet on a quick shutdown, possibly with extradition shenanigans, offshore funds and other drama, after a criminal investigation or a whistleblower shines a light on potential liabilities.
So instead of admitting mistake you insist that 10x higher prices are somehow invalid argument. You have convinced me!
One click deploy to Azure and AD integration is very compelling for businesses as well.
Check out Red language if you get the chance. It sounds like you might like.
Both can be true. He should have had backups, but the service from DO was still very bad.
So you know when people ask "why does X startup have X,000 developers? what do they do all day for a single app[0]. Here is your answer:

"Technical details:
- 9 month of work by 3 people;
- real thing, runs over all code of #Stripe"

https://twitter.com/darkdimius/status/1002103748875902978

Now let's look at this from a financial perspective:

So let's say average $175k salary per employee + benefits and you're looking at easily north of $600k to do this.

I'm not saying it's "right" or "wrong", but thats just what companies at this scale do because they create development cultures and subsequent financial controls that allow for indirect production software development to happen.

[0]for the record, Stripe is much more complicated than just a "single app"
That is all down to your config. If you go to "Tools \ options" , then in that dialog, expand the "Debugging" node and select "General", you can "Enable .Net Framework source stepping", and you can also tweak the way the debugger handles external code with "Enable just my code" and "step over properties and operators". There's loads more - by default it is really paired down.
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The GDPR is already incredibly readable for something that is used in the legal system. I'd say that if you're not capable of following it, no amount of rewriting is going to make it accessible to you while still containing the required words to keep the original meaning.
Well I read about the lab and neurostimulation in Norman Dodge's book "The brain's way of healing". I checked his website and the message about the device that FDA might approve it in the end of 2018.

Here is the message:

PoNS UPDATE, January, 2018. Information on availability of the PoNS will now be through the manufacturer of the device, Helius Medical Technologies. In brief, some good news is that the final patients in the studies required for FDA approval finished their treatment in May and July 2017. The two studies which are the necessary prerequisites for FDA approval have now been completed, and a final package with the results, is currently being prepared by Helius for FDA submission. But the PoNS can not be made available to the public until FDA approval comes through. The latest guestitimate we have heard is that it could take until the end of 2018 for the FDA to release its decision. This may seem confusing, because the PoNS was available to patients who were in the well-known studies (for instance, the U.S. Military study of its use for treating traumatic brain injury and the Montreal Neurological Institute study for use for Multiple Sclerosis patients). But now that the studies are complete, the PoNS cannot be available to anyone until approved by the FDA. We know this is frustrating for those hoping to get access to a PoNS, and who had hoped it would be available by now, but this pace is not unusual in approval of new cutting-edge devices. Other news is that there is a migration of PoNS development activity to Helius. Because the PoNS studies have been completed, the Tactile Communication and Neurorehabilitation Lab that opened in 1992 and developed the PoNS and many other inventions, has been closed and the three scientists who invented the PoNS, Yuri Danilov, PhD, Kurt Kaczmarek, PhD and Mitch Tyler PhD, are now consulting for Helius on how to refine it. The TCNL lab website still has 50 research papers related to the PoNS posted on it, here.
Weirdly, you haven't addressed the ideas expressed in the article in any substantive way.
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He clearly must have had a buggy experience elsewhere before.
Why wouldn't or shouldn't they market it? Coca-Cola Germany improvised a new soft drink during the war and called it Fanta, and later it was adopted by the parent company. It's not like they helped build the gas chambers or anything.
CPR rarely works – why do people have so much faith in it?
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“Global warming ... has us fucked left, right, and sideways.”

That is a big claim that requires adequate proof to which none was offered.

Besides click bait articles which attempt to suggest everything is caused by GW, there is actually very little evidence to suggest we seen any detrimental effects of GW so far.
Personally I feel that my mind is registering what each type does, kinda like building a mental dictionary. Dynlangs also have types but in terms of reading code it feels you can just skim through and skip the details. I guess there is a difference in the cognitive load of reading code and writing code.
You almost killed yourself over a dozen times, but your advice to the inexperienced person above is a few safety tips, not much better “just be careful”.

The only reasonable advice is to not even touch the stuff unless you’re an expert with plenty of training. Especially since there’s nothing to be gained except satisfying a useless curiosity.
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There's a lot of people on HN and reddit who don't understand the scepticism some people have for microsoft. But actually, I wouldn't even say things have changed that much recently - Windows 10 was born into controversy with both the forced upgrades and spying. Skype didn't happen too long ago, nor did Nokia.

I also like this post here[1] from reddit about some of the earlier evils of Microsoft's leadership.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3aicvf/what_vill...

I know there is an open-source movement going on with MS, but I inherently don't trust them - they've got prior form and still have the power to shift the software landscape even more in their favour.
> Where are you getting this information from?

Mainly my own personal thinking. No other sources.

> Surely interest on deposits is accounted for as a funding cost and is paid out of the bank's revenues (same for staff costs).

Of course. But before those are paid, they do not (need to) exist anywhere (but in the profit account if you want to take an accounting view)

> I don't know why you're calling double accounting "trickery".

Because that's what these people claim that double entry accounting is some magic wand that is needed to create money. You could operate a bank without double entry accounting that would not change the economics of the bank operations anyhow. You do not need to have double entry accounting to make a loan nor write an IOU. I Can write you an IOU that says that beefield will pay 10 bucks to the holder of this paper and you could use that as a money to buy stuff at least from me and my mom. Not sure if anyone else would trust that... No lending, no double entry accounting needed.
That's also how chiropractics started.
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RIP Britain's high streets. Stop bewailing them and think afresh
I'm English and I've never heard the phrase "house-blind" before. You're probably better off using phrases which don't require an in-line definition.
The MSFT GitHub transaction needs to be blocked by the FTC.
So basically, your argument is that it's a dangerous attack on users' privacy for Facebook to allow users to view it through any app but their own, no matter how strict their contracts with the app developers, even if those developers are big companies like Microsoft with a lot to lose if they get caught doing something malicious? That it's an attack on gay rights for the Facebook walled garden to not be maximally strict and absolute in its grip on what software people can use to interact with their friends on it?

Because that's what we're talking about here: apps that allow users to access their Facebook accounts and interact with their friends through them. Not shady Zynga games or information-mining quizzes, but alternatives to the official Facebook app that are only allowed to "provide versions of the Facebook experience" and are created by major device manufacturers.

I'm curious how Facebook's continued willingness to allow web access to people's private information fits into all this too. After all, the user's web browser has access to all this dangerous personal information about their friends, it can certainly do all kinds of malicious things with it, and Facebook doesn't even have any kind of contractual relationship with the browser developers preventing this. Given how many shady browser extensions are out there this is certainly being abused right now. Should Facebook take down their web version too in the name of protecting gay children?
Serial ports work fine with my Arduinos. I regularly flash stuff using ESP tools from WSL.
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I'm strongly against this. Bypassing the system's DNS is a no-go.

If this passes, it's going to be a nightmare to system administrators. Basically, each and every split horizon will be broken.

But, promoting DNS-over-HTTPS in the browser and providing an easy-to-install, separate tool for Windows/OSX to solve through DNS-over-HTTPS is something I could get behind.

Like how on my network I do use dnscrypt-proxy, so everything is already using DNS-over-HTTPS.
Had to look up a lot of fine words to discern that answer. But I still stand by that you cannot equal expensive cars with conspicuous consumption as in the definition "the spending of money on and the acquiring of luxury goods and services to publicly display economic power".

You can buy expensive cars for other purposes than showing off.

And you cannot equal driving in expensive cars with evil/bad. The striving for that expensive car can be the exact motivation that made that guy or girl work extra hard for creating something valuable to the world.

Life is easier if you put people into boxes, but in reality you have no idea about their way of life, struggles. motivations or contributions to society.
Here are HN predictions: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Microsoft%20buy%20GitHub&sort=...
Perhaps they should be free to do as they choose, but make what they are doing very explicit. In the early days Google heavily promoted the idea that their rankings were independent and free of commercial biases, and we now implicitly assume that's true. If that's not the case, then perhaps we enforce explicitness about that - somehow.
I think what people have said about shadowbanning in the past was not that your post were hidden from your followers feed but more than your post would not be visible within the hashtag section. So let's say you keep spamming your posts with 30 unrelevant hashtags, instagram would stop showing your post within the hashtag page. Instagram didn't explicitly say it was not happening and they could make a case that it isn't the true definition of shadow banning. But it seems that many people have observed this behavior in the past.
What is the fastest serial computer?
For some time, the fastest computers (such as those listed at Top500) have been massively parallel. Not all software solutions can be broken into many distinct, independent streams, though. What is the fastest computer which does not rely on many processing units and parallel code?
Well a soft drink developed to work around trade restrictions is pretty much unrelated to crimes against humanity. They even discontinued the line it once reunified corporately (now that the restrictions were gone) but demand remained so it was returned to production.
> Linux is pretty much fine for the traditional desktop computing

Yeah, on the desktop things are getting better. But ... everybody is moving to the smartphone. And there things are getting worse. For example, my Banking app works only on 2 platforms, which are not open.
> As opposed to Windows or OSX where you're just screwed.

Let’s not be disingenuous. I don’t know about Windows, but macOS has had absolutely wonderful critical failure recovery for a while now: There is the recovery partition, which acts like a mini-macOS and lets you do various things like drop into Terminal.app, use Disk Utility for drive scanning and repair, or do an ‘archive and install’ (extremely useful for the technically challenged) which keeps all your files but sets up a fresh macOS install. If even the recovery partition is borked you get the option of ‘Internet Recovery’, which connects to WiFi and automatically downloads and installs a fresh copy of macOS (with the aforementioned archive function, if an old install is detected).

Compare this to Linux, where you either get dropped into GRUB or a bare shell..
"Others do it too" is not a good justification of course. But his comment also fails to to explain how Microsoft is somehow more evil than the industry standard.
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Where do you see advice of "just be careful"?
Thought this was being posted because Microsoft acquired GitHub. Came to find more scandalous deeds.
One example: The main thing they're hated for is patenting GMO seed varieties in support of their roundup pesticide product line.

Roundup works by making seed varieties that work just like normal plants but are immune to the roundup pesticides. So a farmer can place pesticide on a field, and it will only kill weeds, not their crops.

The "hate evil Monsanto for destroying nature" bandwagon ignores that:

1) 99% of anti-gmo stuff is anti-science fear mongering. There are very few good general anti-GMO arguments.

2) Farmers love roundup because it increases crop productivity per acre sustainably.

3) Using roundup greatly decreases the amount of pesticide needed per acre of crops, since it can be targeted so much more precisely. So it makes the world's water supplies and crops cleaner overall.

4) Because round-up seeds are so great, farmers sometimes try to grow it without paying licensing fees (because why would you if you can get away with it?).

5) Monsanto is very legally aggressive defending its seed patents, since why would anyone pay to license their seeds if you can just steal it? Monsanto spent a lot of money developing the science for roundup seeds.

6) Monsanto has never sued someone for accidentally having round-up seeds (cross contamination). They have an amazing win rates on their lawsuits specifically because they only target cut and dry cases.

7) But the bandwagon is against the evil Monsanto, so people are overly credulous on the farmer side.

The vast majority of things Monsanto is criticized for play out just like the above.

As a separate example, check out this Quora answer for, "Is Monsanto evil?": https://www.quora.com/Is-Monsanto-evil. And let me know which side seems more reasonable to you.

Documentaries are an awful way to disseminate accurate knowledge. It's 90% emotion driven, and almost always has a narrative to tell that they're not going to want pesky facts to get in the way of.
GitLab: We're seeing 10x the normal daily amount of repositories
I'll be mirroring my stuff to gitlab (an instance that I control). The reason for that is fairly simple: I have never seen an acquisition by Microsoft be a positive development for the software.

On a more ideological level, I think the company is fundamentally reprehensible in it's business practices and has been for the entire time that I've known they exist. I do not think they will ever change and I do not think they came from a good place that they could return to. It wouldn't be right to support them any more than I have to (for example, things I need to do my job).
haha.. so would I :-)
GitLab will see huge spike in project exports
Don't you know Crest or Oral-B? (I'm not sure if you are talking about the US, the comments you replied to were about the visibility of the GSK brand in the US).

I find also a bit surprising that you refer to Colgate-Palmolive as Palmolive. The short name used by the company is Colgate.
This is ridiculous conspiracy theorising.
I did -- but IMO it is less outrageous (but outrageous nonetheless) than what the top three (Google, Amazon, Facebook) are doing. And there is always a certain amount of risk when you putting your data on someone else's servers.

Just to be clear, I use Windows only when I have to -- never by choice.

That said, my point is that even if Microsoft's acquisition of GitHub turns out to be a bad thing, I'd wait to see how things go before migrating en masse.
Great. I sound like a good idea for a utility token sale ICO. :)
It's a shame code doesn't drop into the public domain after a decade...

But windows must be a colossal mass of who knows what at this point. I'd be embarrassed to open that cupboard for all and sundry to inspect. And likely a double edged sword in terms of security.
What is Github's reason for this? I'm looking for some salient reason why they'd sell their company. Is it investor pressure or founder apathy, or ...? It seems to me like creating and running a product as admired as Github is a bigger prize than just cash in the game of life?

“Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of love. He naturally dreads, not only to be hated, but to be hateful; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of hatred. He desires, not only praise, but praiseworthiness; or to be that thing which, though it should be praised by nobody, is, however, the natural and proper object of praise. He dreads, not only blame, but blameworthiness; or to be that thing which, though, it should be blamed by nobody, is, however, the natural and proper object of blame.”

~ Adam Smith
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I think the problem isn't so much a question of users trust in Facebook but rather users apathy with regards to their own privacy.

I think most people are aware enough that they are the product - I just think they don't really care all that much.
Twitter does allow choosing this though. Untick "Show the best Tweets first" in settings and you will get reverse chronological order back.