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>Our debts are their assets. Inflation reduces the value of their assets.

And our assets are their debts.
Hi, I live in Grafton county.

Bears killed my chickens and frequently loitered around the coop when I replaced them and strenghtened the structure of the coop. They also clamber up trees to steal bird food if we leave it out past the time that the game wardens recommend that it be left out.

I have in fact filed reports with the game wardens when they show up on my property during daylight and nothing has ever happened (sorry fans of North Woods Law).

Bears steal my garbage every time I leave it out after a certain time of the year. They drag the bags through the woods leaving litter behind them until I clean it up. So after the bears wake up I have to keep garbage in my basement.

I have friends over the border in Vermont who say that the bears don't bother him and his neighbors that often because they shoot them more frequently so they become more person shy.

This quoted paragraph is absurd:

>He diagnosed a kind of xenophobia: People are often frightened of black bears for no good reason. Sure, the creatures are big—they can grow to 500 pounds or more—and they’ve got sharp teeth and claws. But according to Fish and Game’s public-education campaign, “Something’s Bruin in New Hampshire,” which is intended to “enhance public tolerance towards bears,” the animals “do not typically exhibit aggressive behavior.”

Yeah, I'm a xenophobe because I don't like having to spend a half hour or more cleaning up after a bear adventure or replacing broken bird feeders and replacing dead livestock. I'm irrational or just a dumb hick if I don't want my dog to die if he gets in a fight that he can't win with a black bear. It's not 'phobia' when bears live on your land or right next to it and frequently raid your property: it's a rational prudence that comes with living near wild territory.

That document mentioned also is nothing about increasing 'public tolerance for bears' and everything to do with teaching people what to do to limit the damage that they do to your property and your animals. You can read it yourself here, like I did before encountering this article: https://wildlife.state.nh.us/pubs/documents/samples/somethin...

You have to go out of your way to find hobos and 'poor rural stock characters' for this minstrel show in text in Grafton, which has a median household income of $58k and lots of affordable land. The county is also pretty big as far as this state is concerned and contains many more towns than just the one detailed. There are also bear hunting permits you can get that ration how many people can hunt it in any one season and overall the state does a good job in controlling the population without the hunting getting out of control.

A libertarian can easily go door to door all day long here and never meet someone who even knows what the word 'libertarian' is supposed to mean. It has nothing to do whatsoever with the bear issues which are tricky but mostly under control. The bear hunting season is short but it does a lot to keep the population under control. Vermont has exactly the same issue with bears and they address it in a similar way.
Entire UK has very limited freedom and they do not stop to finding new ways to it even more.

Guns are totally banned, only criminals have them. You also cannot and should not defend yourself because you can go to jail for hurting your oppressor.

There is blanket ban on carrying knifes, and recently they pass a law that buying knives you need to show ID. Next on the list if you buy baseball bats or corkscrew, you also will need to have ID.

Most cities require you to show ID to use internet.

Don't have to mention biggest number of surveillance cameras per square inch and per capita.

You really don't want to live or rise your children in such oppressionist country, trust me.

Source: few friends living in UK for way too long.
I have spent time learning, messing around with, and evaluating each of the languages that you have listed. In the end, I decided to go with Rust for my particular application, which is a large (100k SLOC) GIS application. Rust and Zig are probably the fastest of the listed languages, although Nim and Crystal are not far behind. I found Nim to be the easiest to program in, despite my lack of Python background. The friction factor seems the lowest. Crystal is quite a nice language, but I have reservations about its future, which have been shared by its originator (the compiler may not scale well), and it does not have Windows support or support for multi-threading. If these obstacles are overcome, it could be really interesting. Nim is really great, but they have to hit v1.0 by the end of year. I'm not sure if the devs realize how important this is to the user community. Zig is quite interesting, and highly performant, but it is probably at the earliest stage of the listed languages. Rust is certainly the furthest along in development, has a larger user community and learning resources. It's not the easiest language to learn or use. I agree with your assessment of the language but will say that things get much easier once you've spent some time with Rust.

The other languages that you didn't mention but are worth evaluating are D and Go. Again, they have advantages and disadvantages that may make them either more or less suited to your application.
If it comes to prevention of piracy, I think a lot of torrent sites go underground, behind login or on Tor network.
When it comes to AI and weapons, the tech world needs philosophers
Answers:

1. I have no proof, it is "my theory."
2. I wouldn't trust them in any way.
Mostly true, except with BitTorrent you get tricks for NAT traversal that WebRTC will never have and failure is an option. It works without a STUN/TURN central server, as long as the swarm is sufficiently connected.
Any startup worth its salt will pay you a high enough base salary to max your 401k and still have a ton leftover for after tax investments.
Lasik is one the best decisions i've ever made for myself and honestly any person i've ever talked to feels the same way. This is totally anecdotal and a small sample size but i'll say as someone who's had lasik I would never go back.
I have no clue. I'm expecting to use supplements for the rest of my life.

Also, I'm supplementing to levels normal for young men. And young, I am not. So there's zero chance that I'd have adequate testosterone now, even if I'd never used a supplement, or had some disorder that reduced testosterone production.

I am aware of increased health risks. Especially for testosterone-dependent tumors, such as prostate cancer. So I get screened frequently. Also cardiovascular stuff.
This is mostly irrelevant- I feel as though the phrase IQ has become so diluted by jackasses on social media who feel a need to brag about their IQ. Usually they got the results from some snake-oily trivia site. Because of this, that whenever I see a study that mentions IQ I immediately doubt it. What is a standard IQ test? What does it test for?
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> What's the best way to circumvent this? Is it even possible?

1) Get rid of the misfeatures that allow the problem to exist. Change the browser to never send headers that leak information by design (Referer, Cookie, Etag, User-Agent, etc).

1.1) (Optional) Fix stateful sessions that previously depended on cookies with a new HTTP session+authentication feature (that doesn't have the problems that made the Authorization header mostly useless).

2) Strip most of the other HTTP headers that leak bits of entropy so the browser fingerprint is too small (~16 bits max?) to be a unique id.

2.1) (Optional) Add some of the removed functionality back as a single header that reports a single "browser class" out of a handful (<32, 4-5 bits max. ~8 would be better) of predefined classes (e.g. "Standard Desktop with screen size between H1xW1 and H2xW2 with >=2 channel audio output. Supported codecs: audio=[MP3, AAC], video codec [...]", "mobile with multitouch screen with size ...etc...").

3) Disable Javascript. Running Turing complete code from potentially malicious remote hosts will always be dangerous, because it isn't possible to answer any question about the behavior of a program without running it (halting problem in general; Turing machines with >=7918 states cannot[1] be proven with ZF set theory). A safe web of documents is possible. Software needs to be handled separately.

Of course, none of this will happen because the people with the power to make most of these changes derive a lot of their income from surveillance.

[1] https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2725
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"Due to the culturally sensitive material of the content on these cylinders, and out of respect for the contemporary descendants of many of the performers on the recordings, access to the majority of the audio being digitized is currently restricted."

I'd like to learn more about the cultures of the peoples in this country who came before me - but I am apparently not 'enlightened' enough to experience their words.
I love the Idea, and I think it's pretty smart.
When I'm doing work on my laptop, I always have my phone nearby. I think it's unlikely that both of them are compromised or stolen simultaneously.

Also, the Android app requires no device permissions, haven't seen that in a while.
I've always held that the quality of Google services is directly proportional to what Google engineers need for their jobs. Paste a stack trace in the search box? It's uncanny how it will take me straight to the one blog post that tells me what my problem is, and the best solution for it (even if it doesn't contain that stack trace!). Recently I've been working in the theatre, and it's shocking just how bad Google is at searching for theatrical terms.

Part of the problem is that many are generic English words that have special meaning on stage -- but when I add a word like "theatre" to try to clarify, Google assumes I want to buy tickets to a musical. Adding other terms doesn't help much, since there are so many indexed webpages which just happen to have all of those words. It doesn't help, either, that lots of terms have many synonyms (and alternate spellings) which are also common English words. I spent 20 minutes the other day trying every combination of related words and synonyms before Google found a page with the information I needed. Good luck trying to find information on how to make a "return" (the stage object) in Google!

Try a Google Images search for "clew", and compare a search for "clew theatre". Then try to figure out how many of the latter images are actually hits for a silently-autocorrected "crew". (Yes, I can use - and "" to help control this, but why do I need to quote every word I type in Google?) They say their goal is organizing the world's information, but it really looks like they care more about helping the users who want to buy cheap things online.

Theatre is in no way unique here. Most fields I've touched that don't have SEO professionals working to sell products online have terrible presence in Google. At this point, I believe Google was the first competent search engine, and now they're just using that position to make people who want to be found figure out how to get good Google juice.

Is search "solved" if it only works when we have professionals whose job it is to ensure their content is searchable? It's a hard problem, and maybe what we've got is about as good as it gets for the (commercial) web of today, and we need a new system that's naturally more amenable to search. The "semantic web" didn't really pan out, as it was pretty heavy, but why can't someone just slap a meta tag that says dewey="792" on their pages and then have Google let me search by that?

Search as a competitive business and method to search the unstructured web is done. Search as a means to find information is still wide open.
When I need to parse or validate S-expressions, I just write the functions (here message, to, from, timestamp, etc.) so that eval()ing the S-expressions either validates it or returns whatever data structure I need.

So the easiest way would be to use or code a small lisp interpreter in C and eval the S-expression. For example, one could use Chicken Scheme to do so.
Looks like dfdaemon is at the root: https://github.com/alibaba/Dragonfly/tree/master/dfdaemon
I don't see how 5G changes anything. Wireless providers were exempt from net neutrality even when it was in force and have a long history of tiered usage and throttling.
"+" is for synonyms. That might lead in the right direction but it's not the same.
It's 100% a DRM thing. Desktops are pretty much the most powerful platform to watch Netflix on yet the most restricted in terms of available video quality due to their open nature.

For example, my desktop with an i7-2600k (that's a Sandy Bridge CPU from 2011) has zero issues playing 4K60 VP9 footage on YouTube in Chrome with CPU decoding, yet on Netflix with the same Chrome I'm arbitrarily restricted to 720p H.264 video.
Why do [time] libraries all seem to make this mistake? I think I fixed the same concurrency bug due to misuse of Java’s date parser at four different companies (one of them I didn’t even work for).

Use one object to hold configuration and another to hold state.
That will force you to use completely different CSS layout model. Yes today is common practice the use of box-sizing: border-box and it should be the first line of code when you set your layout. I don't what to force anyone to use box-sizing: border-box.
yeah. yet, the consumer side demand for such content is well established now.

i can't help but wonder what kinds of workarounds consumers will invent (against all regulations and attempts to defeat them) to pass that content around.

consumers might embrace Netflix's old-school disk-mailing tactics. or maybe Netflix will re-embrace that.

or some sort of illegal low power local extended WiFi networks?

dunno.
A minimum-wage worker can’t afford a 2-bedroom apartment anywhere in the U.S
Twitter, Reddit and Pinterest should be worried
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You do not live on the Internet, you live in physical reality. Very much in reach of the police. Or a cruise missile.
Conspiracy theorists have a huge blindspot, an unchecked bias. They prefer for some irrational reason (usually to fit their narrative of the world, that also rests on biases) a less likely explanation (a worse model).

It is usually lack of certain empathy, overabundance of xenophobia or other kind of bias.
What sort of issues do you have with lots of individual files?
Are you talking about bundling them under torrents and dealing with that? Or having trackers handle +1000s of torrents?

Is there a self-hosted solution that does? Like IPFS or Dat?
To paraphrase Woody Allen, as fakes go, it's one of the best.
Mail is one of the key parts of the internet no offence you don't want someone straight out some boot camp of dubious provenance having any input into what language or the spec of a MUA or MTA.

Any new developers on this need to have experience working with email standards and a good knowledge of C++ / C not some fracking scripting language!

And as some one who used to do international interconnect I think I have some valid input here - this has shades of the amusing project spitfire fiasco in the late 80's.
Are you saying they are biased because they see the world through the lens of their studies?
Constexpr aside any modern optomizer will handle this easily. Constexpr is more for allowing results to be passed to templates, static_assert, etc.. and less about optimization imo
On macOS Safari, any location request through the browser API (not based on IP geolocation server-side) only gives the option to allow it for a day, not permanently. It's a start.
Why would we expect a minimum wage worker to be able to afford a 2-bedroom apartment?
Ahhhh. Okay that makes more sense. Although at the time they did have accounting and audits. The last audit was September 2017, I believe.
Yeah I don’t understand people who short - the downside is functionally unbound. Maybe it’s “investors” and “managers” using other people’s money?

I’m sure my risk/reward bias would be skewed if the downside was “less commission income” rather than “well there goes my retirement”
>The difference is that the housing prices were clearly in a bubble

The above article shows that Bitcoin was at the very least, in a bubble last year, and may still be one.

>and banks were intentionally packaging subprime mortgages that they knew were bad and selling them as a low risk investment.

And nearly every coin has an ICO which is a "sure thing". Everyone is selling their coin like it's a low risk investment.

>This is much much different than Bitcoin.

How?

>I would argue that Bitcoin is the only asset class that is not currently in a bubble.

So, you're living in denial then?
I mean, likely. Given the number of devices they are on, someone has to be using the Battery Historian or similar tools to optimize for power usage.
If anything, Bitcoin is closer to the even older Tulip-mania than to a Ponzi scheme.

A Ponzi scheme is a specific kind of fraud based on the promise of an unreasonably high return on investment which is actually payed by late adopters. Bitcoin doesn't make promises and it doesn't have a cover story to hide the source of the money. It may be a bubble, but it is not a Ponzi scheme.
Games are certainly a different way to tell a story, but I wouldn't say "terrible".

> The way games are used as a narrative medium is by shoving movies inside them

If that's how a game is presenting its story, then yes; they likely would be better served by simply making a movie. Games are an interactive medium, but that just means that storytelling in games will be different and use different tools than other mediums, while allowing for entirely new kinds of engagement with a story being told.

The memorable video game stories in my experience have been those that were engaged, collaborative experiences that I felt physically involved in as a player. The wholly emergent stories from Dwarf Fortress, the dynamically simulated open world with a strong interactive narrative in Star Control II, or the incredible physical connection to the tightly presented stories of Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons or What Remains of Edith Finch; these are all different ends of a spectrum of interactive narrative design.

The kind of games you mention are certainly terrible examples of storytelling, but to dismiss the medium as being a "terrible way to tell a story" is to miss out on some of the most interesting interactive stories being told.
> it's 100% native code

He's said it's not compiling the JavaScript to native code - it's running it in a normal JavaScript JIT. It's not 100% native code.
> I hope you'll find this inspirational if you decide to take a moment to rethink typography, typesetting and the overall design of the website and PDF.

Thanks for the feedback!

I would very much like to improve the looks of the website and PDF.

The current situation is this: I have zero experience with html/css, so I just took some css template and tweaked some values (lots of trial and error) until it looked okayish (There is probably some unneeded stuff in there too). And PDF is created by using the default style of asciidoc-pdf - I guess this can also be customized, but haven't looked into it yet.

Having said that, if somebody with more web-experience would like to improve my style.css [0], PRs are welcome.

[0] https://github.com/narimiran/nim-basics/blob/master/style.cs...
I don't see it. Currently the Democrats have two senators from California. Do the three-way split, and Democrats have two senators from California-SF and two from California-LA, and the Republicans have two senators from California-EverywhereElse. Democrats gained two senators, and Republicans gained two senators. That seems neutral to me.
Odd question, but do you read as much literature as when you were young? There seems to be a fairly strong correlation between reading literature/fiction and concentration in studies (and no, I don't have the sources on hand, I heard mention of them on YouTube, of all places.. Boo, I know. Improper citation, but what are you gonna do. Sometimes I listen to lectures when I work). I, personally, had gotten into the habit of reading technical papers all of the time and foregoing literature and fiction on the basis of "well, what good is that doing me?!" and had noticed that my focus had been slipping. Now, this could be anecdotal or I could have just needed the down time but, I started reading some scifi (is that what Hitchhiker's Guide and John Dies is?) again and my concentration seems to have gotten slowly better.... could also just be time away from the screen. Though I do read on a Kindle Paperwhite, so who knows.
There is Chipotle in London now. I don't know about Cambridge.
Easy has nothing to do with it. It's not like you have to renew an IQ test. You either passed it, or you didn't. An expired membership card proves they passed a proctored test just as well as an active membership does.

In any case, I agree with you in spirit. It's just bragging rights. I think a lot of people renew just so they can say they are a member. But that's stupid. It proves nothing. Nobody else cares. Nobody else is impressed. Want to show yourself to truly be an ass? Pull out your Mensa card.

I truly don't give a f*ck. I was in for one year. Their journal and discounts were not worth the price of membership. I already have friends and don't need any more. It would have been a waste of money to renew.
There's an incredibly ironic undertone to an article suggesting two of the world's largest global monopolies should expand their reach to better be able to beat other, smaller regional corporations.
Yeah, basically this. The data was aggregated and a graphical heatmap was displayed on top of the website, with some fancy accomodation for responsive designs. You could see heatmaps for hovers and for clicks. Customers then optimized their shop flow, adjusted graphics that looked like they were clickable but weren't, moved important content into more visible places, etc.
Trik Spam Botnet Leaks 43M Email Addresses
UK PO Boxes are not a privacy tool. Anyone can find out the name and address of the owner.
And that's why we have new nightmare called USB-C.
it's healthy in the sense that the giants are pitted against each other.

it's unhealthy in the sense that the little player is basically locked out.

it's also unhealthy in the sense that the big players will be incentivized to unite in an unholy alliance against the masses for the sake of increased profitability.
Provocative title. I guess that's what you were going for :)

I see no evidence why this isnt another also-ran social network.
>> SBCL

Was `jerf` opining about "dynamically-typed languages" or just about "dynamic scripting languages"? It matters.

>> inherent language design flaws

Not "design flaws" but design goals -- Scripting languages are designed for gluing.
I think the idea is better fixed WISP options which could potentially replace cable internet. If Verizon/T-Mobile suddenly have a home internet option based on 5G, then Comcast gets competition.
Shorts help us find companies like Enron.
> Lobbying the government to restore net neutrality is far cheaper than building out an ISP.

Also, I suspect that state-level legislative initiatives are going to be much easier to win than trying to sue executive agencies.