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I am really upset about this acquisition.. And equally or more concerned with centralized power points, maybe to an extreme that is too radical. But I do believe at it's core, crypto is different because it's core ethos is to reject that notion. So while the internet disrupted centralized broadcasters with a decentralized protocol for content distribution, it wasn't baked into the technologies ethos. So in my opinion, this difference of core mission, along with the ability to launch dApps (anonymously even, if you'd like) without fear of being shut down, will be a differentiation that protects this technology's fate from creating new centralized choke points.

Ie. if Sean Parker was driven by the mission/ethos of crypto, Napster couldn't be taken down, people would still be using it today, and the traditional music industry would be dead (as well as traditional tech companies like Spotify).
The article also mentions sequestering underground, there's just no way to make a profit doing so at the moment.
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It was ~$350 when I looked at it this morning, $423 when you posted, and $569 now.

If current trends continue... :P
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Fair enough, but my comment was aimed at people trying to get less sleep in order to fit more productivity into the day. I think there are situations where one has no choice but to be sleep deprived but those are extremis situations like war and having a newborn baby.

Sleep science suggests that if we must be sleep deprived we should do everything we can to limit it. If you're the parent of a newborn, that likely means napping every chance you get to at least limit the damage you've done to your sleep through constant interurptions. Caffine will reduce the effectiveness of those naps.
Incidentally, an unexpected benefit of the server-relay FaceTime implementation is the ability for Apple to allow 32-person FaceTime calls which was a feature just announced on Monday.
This article would make more sense if crypto currencies were actually decentralized... that ship sailed maybe five years ago? Today, only a handful of corporations control the majority of the proof-of-work hashrate [0]. What’s more, development teams represent another centralized group (ie. you can count the devs that contribute to consensus code on 2 hands if you’re generous).

So my question is: in what way are crypto-currencies not already in the state the article is warning about? If I capture the lead commiter to your chain as well as the lead miner, don’t I effectively own the chain?

[0] “Both Bitcoin and Ethereum mining are very centralized, with the top four miners in Bitcoin and the top three miners in Ethereum controlling more than 50% of the hash rate.” http://hackingdistributed.com/2018/01/15/decentralization-bi...
Might be time to reassess whether the US is a "developing country", or how we bundle these metrics.
> and they'd call anyone a fool who followed some set of rules or principles instead of getting ahead

> It's hard to argue they're wrong.

Except for the fact that in this very thread there seems to be quite a backlash against them. Seems to be very short-term and selfish thinking.
Me too... I sold all my stocks. In the process of deciding what to do with my money to safeguard it against a Trump recession.

It hurts to watch the market continue to climb, but I am confident Trump's short-sighted actions will cause pain.

Putting my money where my mouth is, as they say.
I find it hilarious that a CA company is leading the charge in new, efficient, high-quality pre-fab design and construction. These units are going to improve construction quality and lower costs in every state except CA, thanks to our asinine zoning laws.
Is this a click bait article?
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What did you major in? Was it poorly thought out from the beginning or did college admissions lie to you about job prospects?
Agree. The area leading up to the barrier could at least be striped off.
It seems like if UK and EU agree (which institutions exactly is a good question) the Article 50 notice can be revoked, at least there's lots of support of that opinion around: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withdrawal_from_the_European_U...

Maybe it can be done unilaterally too.

Even if that weren't the case, I think it'd theoretically be possible for EU and UK to have an exit agreement retaining full cooperation, the UK leaving and immediately applying for membership again. That process could be quick, if everyone (which in this case would involve all member states) agrees about it... but could also be a point where some governments might try to strip the UK of privileges from it's current membership.
According to FRED there seems to be a glut of coal plants https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CAPUTLG2211S .
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I am inclined to agree, but this isn't an example of appeal to authority[1] it's just a willingness to believe in the status quo ("police should always be able to catch the bad guys, shouldn't they?").

1: https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFalla...
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> After all, what’s scarier? The rise of the machines, or the rise of the morally ambiguous men who pioneer them.

This article summarized things so well. I love it!
I wonder how soon radar reflecting paints will start being used on roadways and barriers, etc. That seems like it would be a general benefit to all brands of cars with auto drive.

At the end of the day we want to know if the autonomous systems are safe. Policy decisions will end up depending on that determination. That requires clear definitions for what constitutes failures and accurate gathering of data.
Here's a cool video of ToyotaHome (yes, that Toyota) assembling a modular home in Japan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kzpv47o80eg

Their website: http://www.toyotahome-aichi.co.jp/ (JP only, no English)
I'd be happy if the moderators simply clamped down on submissions that had nothing to do with either, like posts about Trump's daily gaffes.
it was result of a search on mobile. Was lucky to be able to copy the link at all :) Anyway, the guys made their place in the history of our civilization, and whether a link is pirated or not it will be just a footnote at best - hundred years later nobody would care who posted that video, while the content of it and the people in it will be revered.
What a great resource, thanks for sharing. Might you have any feedback on IVPN as a provider as well?
Melissa Mayer is up there as a "tech bro" if you ask me.
No, politics is in part about what is right, in part about what is possible, in part about what you convince people to do. AI is useless for all of that.
Interesting with the dataflow diagram support. Wonder if it supports flow-based programming style named ports...
I believe so. That may be due to several rounds of consolidation; it's a tough business and there's a lot of periods of oversupply, which brings down prices.
Many people in the U.S. see nothing wrong with "logless access" as a way of avoiding law enforcement, when it is practiced in other countries whose law enforcement can -- including within the scope of their laws -- be quite abusive.

What makes you think your law enforcement is different?

And, with data potentially held in perpetuity, any past action may become grounds for prosecution, depending upon how law at the time of prosecution is defined.

People in the U.S. -- mainstream, as opposed to "minorities" -- have spent that past couple of decades waking up to the fact that laws and law enforcement are tools, not paragons of virtue. And those tools can be and are used for evil and harm.

This may not mean turning your back on the system -- nor even having the opportunity to. But it can mean being proactive to limit your exposure to potential abuse.

Not to mention all the commercial interests, who would love to have those logs. And, if your VPN company gets sold, including if it goes bust, all those logs become "assets" that will be monetized, regardless of any "promise" that was made. If there's enough value in them, lawyers will spend time and energy breaking any contractual obligations to same. And it's not like the company itself is around anymore to take the other side in such a dispute.

--

P.S. A bit of personal perspective: I've taken to using a VPN all the time -- as opposed to just while on public WiFi, like I once did -- to a) Keep Comcast out of my browsing, both their monitoring and their JS injection; b) Keep Verizon out of my mobile data use, again both monitoring and injection (that header they keep wanting to inject for tracking/advertising, among other things).

HTTPS is finally becoming widespread enough to prevent some of this, but that change has come years after the above abuses started. And it still doesn't mask domains, nor inappropriate GET's.

Good security isn't just reactive. It's pro-active. Another precept is to always provide minimal information to get the job done.

Anyway...
And this is exactly why all of these articles recently about how "great" it is that Tesla sends out frequent OTA updates are ridiculous. Frequent, unpredictable updates with changelogs that just read "Improvements and bug fixes" is fine when we're talking about a social media app, but is entirely unacceptable when we're talking about the software that controls a 2 ton hunk of metal flying at 70mph with humans inside of it.

The saying has been beat to death, but it bears repeating: Tesla is a prime case where the SV mindset of "move fast and break things" has resulted in "move fast and kill people". There's a reason that other vehicle manufacturers don't send out vehicle software updates willy-nilly, and it's not because they're technologically inferior.
Absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence.
Good examples. As per iTunes, I used to use it extensively. Probably spent hundreds of dollars over time. And yet I almost exclusively use Spotify now. Although the issue with both is that those businesses exist at the mercy of a few very large labels, so even though somebody could come up with an iTunes/Spotify clone - even in a weekend hack - they would have a near zero chance of getting a label to sign with it, much less enough to reasonably compete with Apple or Spotify. So while they get to enjoy their oligopoly, the reality of the situation isn’t entirely their fault, either.

As per outlook, I use it for work. I work at a big university and higher education moves VERY SLOWLY, so in my case even if a fantastic competitor to Outlook existed, we probably wouldn’t adopt it because we’re comfortable with our Microsoft contract, and even if the prospect was raised of changing email clients, it would probably take a decade to even happen.

I don’t see too much danger with either example. My parents had far less choice when it came to, say, televisions and cars. But things turned out all right.
If they where better now, than humans (fully sdv) than everybody would be selling them, using them etc. That wasnt my point. My point is, even wheb they become safer, maybe even many many times safer, we are going to see some accidents, that you could argue, a human would have avoided. And it will be terrible for the people involved, there will be outcries etc. But the sum, will still be that many many lives are saved.
For perspective, the Obama Administration already imposed solar panel tariffs twice and funded Solyndra and US solar investors in general - who are all now in need of their bailout as you mention.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/17/business/energy-environme...

http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/261363-us-hits-...
That's one of the reasons for government - to make unpopular decisions for the good of the people it governs. A 50% price hike would also have the knock on effect of making more economical cars increasingly desirable and maybe encouraging people to use public transport.
Based on what other posters are saying about the language design and the interface design, it's built in such a way that you don't have to do a ton of boilerplate to integrate Zig code with C/C++ projects. That, in turn, means that you can start new sections of your code base in Zig and gradually start eating your legacy C/C++ code until you have a project written in Zig instead of C. And it seems like it does this by not being too opinionated about your use of memory, unlike Rust.

I would be really interested in using it if I had more Clang support in bare metal systems. I think the consensus among embedded developers is that we would all really, really like a modern language with modern type-safety and type-checking, but we also still want to do crazy crap with memory at times.

It doesn't matter so much that there's a way to do something, but it matters a great deal how you are expected to do it. Keeping it simple matters, and Zig looks pretty simple compared to other compiled systems languages that I've seen, so that's wonderful.
Yes, after Mobileye (now Intel) learned there was an internal Tesla effort to replace them.
Hm, I should have said "value proposition", e.g. SSDs are low latency but can fail, S3 is high latency but "never" fails, etc.

Datomic is designed for data sets larger than memory, and also to do a good job caching working sets that do fit in memory.
I tried to convince management that the “reveries” were leading to unpredictable behavior.
Another form is “so and so is on secondment to [the new organization]”, as in “She is actually a naval officer, but is on secondment to the Air Force as part of an project to standardize repair procedures.”
Haha, no I was in this universe, and am old enough to have participated in that era as well ;)

I think it's pretty clear, though, that both the quantity and quality of open source software has increased drastically in the last decade or so. I think it's fair to say I may have stretched the degree of causation git had, as opposed to just correlation. But I also think it's pretty evident git, as a tool, had something to do with it.
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Yea, intro is a bit misleading. Maybe the first 6 chapters(~130) pages is enough for a solid intro.
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I definitely knew some in undergrad. I went the grad school route though, so I haven't seen them so much in industry.
The words of leaders should always be taken literally, because the those words only become "jokes" when they are otherwise unexplainable in rational discussion.
The example made me lol:
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On that note, they could utilize the box color to match the party affiliation.
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DRL is fun, that's what matters! :) Though classical non-biological RL has some strong assumptions (Markovian) that may not work in real world (it's nice to see fixed points with Bellman operator in theory), but for some reason with the "Deep" part, magic happens.
You have had good financial planning habits in your family for two generations. That is in some sense "training" that many first-world poor people don't get.
Wouldn’t that require not being end to end encryption as well?

They can’t stitch and re-encode the video streams if they can’t decode it server side.
> I think primarily identity and git locations.

Accounts/authorization is already semi-federated through oauth etc. You can sign in to gitlab.com using your github.com account.

We still have only one kind of namespacing and for users and projects: domains, leveraged by Java (and go, others?) for packages, and email for identity.

Discoverability is really a matter of indexes and catalogs; npm, pypi, Google and duckduckgo.

Delegating login is actually useful for self-hosted vcs/issue trackers: not as low friction as just sending an email with a patch; but it's easier to be able to "sign in" with an existing account, add an issue/code - and get notifications via email - rather than having to manage an account for every program you use and find bugs in...
Yeah I skimmed through the linked article[1] very quickly, and the word "hydrogen" appears only twice. It does seem like they're glossing over the cost of hydrogen, which wouldn't be cheap if they want to produce fuel. (All the energy stored in the fuel basically comes from hydrogen.)

[1] https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(18)30225-3
This blog doesn't link to the main site. I know I can just google it or remove the subdomain from the url, but it wouldn't take much to add a link somewhere on the side.
I'm not so sure. Whats the average lifespan of a house? 50-80 years? To me it makes sense to invest the time to optimize design to make best use of the land area. I guess you could still use somewhat standarized parts though, spend more effort in the design phase.
You may be referring to the seven[1] or more[2] trademarks, not patents, that China recently awarded to Ivanka.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/28/business/ivanka-trump-chi...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ivanka-collects-her-...
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In my personal experience, weaning yourself off caffeine over the course of a couple of weeks is drastically easier than attempting to quit cold turkey. My preferred method of reducing or eliminating caffeine dependence is to reduce intake by 25% every 3-4 days. Once you're down below 50mg per day, you can switch to tea or quit without any physical side effects.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9170342
[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19219847
Getting a comparable user experience. The technology is impressive but the video quality, FPS, and latency are not. Most people are just surprised it even works as well as it does, but once the honeymoon period is over the issues start to become apparent.

This is why you mostly hear stories like "Oh, I tried [service] out once and it was actually pretty good"; it's a novelty for most and not worth paying for.
Isn't ignoring someone who wants your help showing that your status is greater than theirs?
> I could have cameras, but I legitimately don’t want to provide footage to law enforcement.

You could have or you would have?

The logs are there, we usually have them, they don't cost much and they are pretty useful. Like his previous comment said, if you had never intended to have logs there or have reasons not to have logs (replace logs by camera in your situation), then there's nothing unethical about it.

As he said it's not the result but the intent that make it unethical. In the same situation, it could actually be ethical to not have logs, let say to allow people to communicate behind a corrupt government that want to silence them.
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Historically, Microsoft made a good platform. People wanted to use it. Then Microsoft consistently, over a period of years, in several different directions, tried to use the fact that people used Microsoft's platform to make it harder for people to use other platforms or products.

That's not tinfoil hat stuff. It's historical fact, and I was around when it happened. They tried to, in their term, "leverage" their OS dominance. But on the receiving end of that leverage, it feels like being forced.
>Why do they think they are kings of the world if they are on the lowest chain in the tech world?

You're talking about a bunch of kids who've come through a system where their core interests, skills, talents and personality types make them at best a permanent member of the out-group, at worst a constant target of derision or outright bullying.

Having navigated that system, they've now successfully got through a grueling degree or more and have landed themselves into a spot where no longer are they the out-group, they are the group. Not only that, they're making good money and are getting to do something they love to do, with people like themselves. They're more comfortable in themselves, and to be themselves, but their lack of social skills often shines through.

I've considered myself to be somewhat of a bridge between the nerds and the non-nerds throughout my life, having been in sports but also making time to code/hang out with those deemed to be the nerds, and I'm honestly sick of the constant attacks being perpetuated on these kids who've "made it" in tech by the very same types who made comments about or excluded them earlier in life.

The pilot fish of the tech industry, particularly tech "journalists", are far more toxic actors than anything deeply seated within it.
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Ford didn't call their adaptive cruise control "auto pilot", they call it as it really is: "Adaptive Cruise Control with Stop-and-Go".[1] By contrast, Tesla touted their ACC "auto pilot" with auto steering and clearly in this case it didn't steer correctly and proven fatal (at least 3 times in my memory.)

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnUtjs-jeJA
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What I’ve learned from many people is that land is a valuable asset to have. Land is naturally scarce with a fixed supply, so it is a decent vehicle for storing wealth.

Would be cool if you could transfer land titles via blockchain, then you don’t need a middleman. If you can provide tiny lots to purchase for people who don’t traditionally invest in land, it could potentially be a great way to help those who are in poverty build a bit of wealth.
If you're dealing with a team that is mostly very experienced, they may not be used to people who can solve a problem--once they're pointed at it. They might just assume you can identify problems on your own, like they can.

Try talking to friendly coworker and saying: not sure what to work on, got any suggestions?
> Now imagine the same situation with Tesla's huge semi batteries.

I'm bearish on Tesla (not financially, but I'm mostly a pessimist in regards to their news).

But to be perfectly fair: I'm not sure if 400 gallons of diesel fuel (typical in a 18-wheeler) could be put out by a typical fire-department.

There was a tractor-truck spill due to an accident in my area once. The fire-department closed down BOTH sides of a 2x2 lane highway (55 MPH zone, very few traffic lights, a grassy median). You don't mess with 400-gallons of inflammable diesel.

The good thing about diesel is that you can just, burn it out. Burn all of it. Close down the highway of course, but once it stops burning, its safe to cross. It may take 30 minutes to an hour (all the people stuck in traffic can get out of their car, talk with each other, play on cell phones or something...), but a controlled burn is better than an explosion.

I'm not sure if Lithium Ion has a good procedure yet.