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federalism will always result in top heavy administrations, where fewer and fewer people have more and more power over the whole country

You could say that about any form of government. I think it's human nature to want a single dictator, so the governed seem to eventually give their consent to one.
But wouldn't you agree that your brain + NoKey instead of a piece of paper as a backup would be more secure? And more convenient, as you don't have to type your passwords anymore.

I don't wanna push you, just wanna give you some things to think about. As long as you use strong and unique passwords everywhere you're good.

Also, it's not a big problem if one of your devices dies, as long as you paired enough devices you won't lose any passwords.
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> Why is it wrong to kill another man?

"Why" implies to me that there is or should be a rationale. Our culture stores a lot of behavior and spreads it by the means appropriate. Some need rationale most do not.

Killing feels evil and is considered morally wrong. But in reality mankind, like many species, decided at some point, that killing its own should generally be avoided and is therefore allowed only under very specific circumstances.
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From a developer’s perspective, d3 makes so much use of type coercion that it is too clever for a non-savvy js/webdev worker to reason about.
Which documentary?
There used to be sort of an Engine War in the late 90s and early 00s, Id tech, Source Engine, Unreal. Now ID is basically gone. And it is interesting both Valve and EPIC manage to create a platform, valve created Steam, and EPIC made Unreal almost like de facto standard. ( Yes I know there is Unity ).

I wonder why ID didn't continue to compete with Unreal in the middleware engine. Why Valve decide to leave what was at the time possibly the best game engine. How Unreal went from some mediocre engine to an insanely great engine and still improving rapidly.

Doom ( Or John Carmack ) used to be the sole cheer leader for OpenGL. I still loved 3Dfx, Voodoo and Glide though. The API was small and fast, in an era when Direct3D was .... really not very good. And Interesting times, Intel is now coming back to GPU market again after i740, it was the first Graphics card to use AGP Slot. May be instead of GPGPU which we should go back to graphics with AGP; Advance Graphics Processor.
I don't want to defend a naturalistic perspective on morals, which is unfortunately popular nowadays and leads to a lot of immorality, but there are definitely bio-logical reasons for not killing others in your group. Humans are altruistic, group-based apes whose survival depends on collaboration. Originally, this might have been small groups only. Today society is based on the collaboration between (nearly all) nations, because modern technology and labour division would break down entirely within about six weeks without massive global trade and shipping.

There are also some moral principles that follow directly from factual matters, provided some very basic first assumptions are made. Theories of just resource distribution and social justice are of that kind. The principles that get things going are very basic, e.g. reciprocity, generality of moral statements, and fairness in the sense of trade/bargaining/exchange fairness get you very far.

It is a myth that religion provides values, as it can be shown very easily by historical comparison that it never has. The values defended by major religions such as Christianity and Islam have changed over the centuries again and again. Modern Christian values, for instance, mostly come from the enlightenment movement and were not endorsed at all earlier. (Christianity is just an example, AFAIK this is true for all religions.)

Churches and 'holy men' have always had a vested interest in selling their values as a product of their religion, though, and they are very good at selling this false story to the public.
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> I find it entertaining that you post this a within 24 hours of the linus/tanenbaum rehash.

Do you have a link about this latest rehash? I tried googling without success
Google also committed to releasing an update to its App Engine Gw Basic and Turbo Pascal environments, “some time in the 2021 timeframe”.
That's why sports broadcasts in English pubs contain a beer glass in the image[1]

[1] https://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/special-shows/the-mystery-hour/c...
The high level source code – yes. But in the end almost everything (except one app implemented as an electron app) will be compiled to native code. They're using multiple forks of react native for various platforms – that's what he basically means by "written in JS".
> I wish there were more free playgrounds that can also be used by adults, spread around like the ones for kids. I also like ropeways, climbing high, swings etc.

It's not a major investment on your part. Buy a few ropes, a swing and make your own in your garden or a nearby forest.

If you live in a location which prevents you from living a healthy life, perhaps you should think about moving.
This is a good point, however the volatility is primarily that the space / projects are so new.

The economic structure of each project varies, however most are designed so that if they are used for the utility they offer then they will have a price > zero.

Due to the fixed number of coins in circulation the value should rise in some relationship with increased adoption & time (time due to deflation)

Probably only a handful of coins will be used for B2C commerce. Notable other utility includes:

> Decentralised storage (currently much cheaper than any company can offer)

> Supply chain tracking

> Website monetisation systems (without needing ads)

> Smart Contracts

> Create your own blockchain (backed by existing decentralisation)

In summary: if it's used then a project should succeed.
You still think it's about Vue Native. It's not. It's about using web stack for desktop applications. This is a "solution worse than the original problem".

And the damage is done. This[0] comment by 'm_fayer elsewhere in the thread is quite chilling. Actual native toolkits are rotting, as big companies join the web-for-everything bandwagon. Not only delivering bloated applications with toy-like UIs becomes the norm, we're losing the ability to deliver fast, useful UIs!

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[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17301972
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What taste is the strongest? (A)Water (B)Sugar (C)Lemon Results in Water, Confidence: 34.43%

What tastes better? with same answers: Sugar, Confidence: 85.91%

Weird
I don't understand what you are trying to say in this comment, can you elaborate? Where should gp voice their "special love" for Linux?
> It's a "real" language, it's just not a terribly good or fast one

"There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses."

- Bjarne Stroustrup
For a brand new phone. If everyone around you is using a phone that's less than 2 years old and purchased brand new, then you're living in a bubble.

Same issue with web apps that run just great on the developer's 9 month old iMac over a symmetrical 100/100 connection vs the typical family's 5 year old chromebook (or the 8 year old Dell at the office) and 10/768 that's also supporting a Netflix stream.
Huh, yeah that's interesting, thanks. I'm obviously way behind the state of the art in JWT-hating.
Video games have gone Hollywood.

Largely because of improvements in graphics, game budgets have gone way up and studios are afraid to take risks. Hence you get mostly sequels, online cash cows, linear on-rails shooters/cinematic experiences that are easy to sell. Content is expensive to produce so studios are afraid of "wasting" it. Yet I was still discovering hidden things in the original Deus Ex 10 years after I first played it.

1997-2004 I think was the golden age of gaming where technology was good enough that cool things could be made, yet bad enough that small-ish creative studios could compete. Games were popular enough to make it profitable for studios to make them yet not too mainstream to dumb them down for the lowest common denominator.

System Shock 2, Deus Ex, Metal Gear Solid, Silent Hill 1-3, Resident Evil 1-3, No One Lives Forever, Age of Empires, Warzone 2100, Mafia 1, Half-Life, Syphon Filter, Parasite Eve - in no particular order; I am sure I am forgetting many many more great titles from that era.
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Last time I looked their POS systems ran Windows XP. I wonder if this is still the case?

Some parts of it seem to go through an old school terminal emulator, but others seem to be custom Windows apps and webpages using Internet Explorer. For a company selling the latest tech they seemed woefully out of date.
I’m not too sure why you’re being downvoted, but it is probably because you phrased your statement a bit awkwardly.

But you’re right that (if there is only a very small number of co-founders) employee #1 should never be accepting 1/100 the total equity the founders have. Employee #1 screwed up in negotiating at least half way decent deal for themselves.
In parts at least yes... and children. Which result in love and a family.

But if women nowadays refuse to do both those things, that also fails.

What is a wife else? Some female room mate, that pays rent with "love" whenever she feels like it?
Those are product decisions someone like me can't actually confirm right? I just know that the purpose or the goal is having a single code base, single toolchain, many targets. I just know I've heard of all of those targets being experimented with! A bit early to assume anything, especially from lowly me!
go maps work like that too.
Question: Where is Brazil?

Aristo is not sure about this one...

Aristo's best guess: Additionally, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Atlas of Living Australia, Brazil, and the Bibliotheca Alexandrina have created regional BHL sites.

Confidence: 16.75%
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"The better part of valour is discretion; in the which better part I have saved my life."

- Falstaff the comedic coward in Shakespeare's Henry the Fourth
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In many cases the input is known at compile time.

For example instead of

#define BTN_A 0x01

you have

bitmask<Button>(A)

Both of these are known at compile time and they are equivalent.
Not spending time thinking about handling those, not debugging anything related to them, etc.
The code might look almost the same, but it's always a cost of how to get there. And the code in these middleboxes not rarely smells.
A bull market isn't worth much if you can't trade or sell your coins at some point, no?

The infrastructure needs to be there to 1) support a high amount of buying and selling transactions, and 2) bring money into the system.

This fund will bring money into the system.
Strange that, considering the companies were founded and named when the technology was still current.

Of course "Carphone Warehouse" (the trading name of the company that merged with Dixons to become Dixons Carphone) probably does sound incredibly strange to anyone who wasn't alive in the carphone era, but they were a strong high street brand so I can see why they stuck with it.
Yes. It's the most cost-effective solution, because:

- we haven't figured out how to make companies care about "delivering value" part of the "delivering value in exchange for money" work, and

- we allow them to dump externalities on users without consequences or compensation.

So the most cost-effective solution in this scheme will be a half-assed product that's barely good enough to be sellable, and which makes my computer use more electricity while being less capable of running software simultaneously.
I read that has the client having specific support for these DB but a fallback to generic ODBC otherwhise
I have a strong issue with the whole taxonomy. How do we decide what is a scripting language and what is not?

What are other languages, enterprise languages?

The same goes for "systems languages" and to all those making a flag of these definitions.

They are meaningless.

In keeping with the UNIX philosophy, everything under /bin is a system software, no matter what language it is written in.
Typical capitalism outcome.

Cheapest to produce AND worst quality. In this case by bad performance and unneeded cellphone battery drain.

These products will be dominated by superior options eventually.
Answer: node_modules
You can call me naive, or you can read my papers. For example, https://www.nature.com/articles/nchem.1821
is a massive simulation of a GPCR that my team designed and ran. It's a similar idea to the Relay work (simulate the dynamics of the protein, make a markov model of the subsets with transition parameters) With that tech, we could easily implement computational mutagenesis. I agree 100% that protein engineering is a great technology and I wish we could do it rationally. But to be honest, none of my computational work can beat what Jim Wells did at Genentech in the late 90s (converting subtilisin to subtiligase through amino acid mutations).

Here's another paper I wrote, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24265211 which demonstrates there was a systematic error in protein force field implementations; our work was a major breakthrough in improving structure prediction.

Also, being able to predict structures isn't sufficient to engineer protein function.

Please don't call people naive; especially if they are experts in their field.
Agreed. The History of Rome is so good that I'm tempted to listen to the whole thing again.
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Can you describe just how they would make a killing? I mean, in terms of making a product that sold, and produced drugs of value.
And most of the few that do happen to be arrogant entitled pricks. People on this thread who're saying that the founders should try and be fairer towards engineers might actually have a point, although until recently I’d not have agreed with that sentiment myself, and might in fact have argued against it.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15986687
Are you objecting to the article because you feel the title is misleading (i.e. it actually does contain math), or because you don't think MCMC can be explained without math?

I actually felt it was a halfway decent description of MCMC, but I could see criticisms from both perspectives above.
DNSimple offers a fantastic service provided by a highly technical team.

I have no affiliation with them other than being a happy customer.
Words matter, and 'brake' or 'braking' have dictionary definitions which contradict your statement. It's an important distinction because experienced drivers know to anticipate problems and slow down before they need to brake. You probably do this already without thinking about it, especially if you drive a manual transmission. Ever drive a speedboat? Same idea, they have no brakes and you learn to look further ahead and anticipate, and allow outside forces to slow you (rather than relying on an internal braking mechanism).
Question: Who is jesus christ ?

Aristo's Answer: this lizard can walk on water

Confidence: 32.00%

Guess that explains it.
Talking about being surrounded by enemies, it might end up really badly for you:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partitions_of_Poland
I think there are some interesting use cases that probably aren't even considered by a lot of people. But I'm not sure how they'll play out.

For example; there could be a time in the future where smaller companies decide to go public through a token (i.e. an ICO, but with a company, not a utility token) at a fraction of the cost it currently takes to do an IPO. I'm not talking about scammy pump and dumps, but an actual company with employees, assets and a business model.

Underwriter banks generally 1) sell IPO shares below value to their investors to cause a first day trading pop, meaning less money into the pockets of the company; and 2) take between 3 to 10% of the raised capital as fees for their efforts. On tens, hundreds of millions or billions of dollars.

I could see crypto being a more efficient way of doing that, cutting out the middleman, and where a token represents a share.
POS terminals transmit data back to the computers they're attached to unencrypted, so they can definitely store it if they wanted to.

Everything is speculation at this point, I assume they just kept CC and personal info in a db somewhere for no good reason like a lot of companies do but it's really hard to tell as Dixons haven't told the media too much currently.
I am not the GP but I will give it a try. Unequivocally bad:

Death of a loved one.

Unequivocally good:

Birth of a child.

Most people tend to experience these things more than once in a normal life. They represent a reality more real and more final than even psychedelics could manage: life and death. Impermanence.
Are you sure it wasn't running Windows Embedded POSReady 2009, which is based on XP SP3 and supported by MS until next year?
I could see using this for fraud detection and then kick off a 2FA flow if it couldn't verify.

However, most biometrics aren't the best single line of verification. You still have to add a backup verification of some kind.

Examples, I was working on my car all weekend and my hands have new calluses on them and my finger print is off. I got a new keyboard and my typing pattern is different, etc.
> These products will be dominated by superior options eventually.

Would love that to happen, but all the other market sectors suggest otherwise. "Cheapest to produce and worst quality" seems to be all that's available to majority of the population.
You are right, but in my opinion the page/writer completely fails when they don't explain and clearly state that the possibility of "correlation =/= causation" exists. And it fails because we lose 80% of the people to blind belief towards what the article says, and from the other 20%, 15% are saying "correlation =/= causation", and a 4% like you are saying in response: "sure, but that's something we need to investigate to tell".

I understand that the balance between science and selling the science is hard, but it can be done, and imho they could be doing it better.
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"How do we decide what is a scripting language and what is not?" -> John K Ousterhout decided in 1997 (because, IFAIK, he invented the term). It was quite brilliant at the time, IMHO.

Now, 20 years, later, I consider his dichotomy outdated on several levels. I did a talk about this 7 years ago ( https://fr.slideshare.net/sfermigier/four-python-pains ).
It's an analysis of the evidence regarding the controversial parts of the EU copyright reforms (link tax etc.).
So d3 is actually a _set_ of libraries, of various kind, most of which happen to be useful for data visualisation. Through its richness, there's a good chance that at least _some_ of those libraries will fit your use case well enough. There's nothing stopping you from not using it, and in fact my most recent work was with Canvas, and the only thing I used was d3-scale, which aids mapping datasets into number ranges and selecting ticks.

In another case I might not care about it, but use d3-selection, a mechanism for creating a data-driven DOM tree — but it's pretty clear that you can achieve similar mechanics with React.

Importantly, you don't have to pull the whole thing into your dependencies just because you use a bit of it, and it's light on own dependencies. So just using a small subset of functionality is "cheap."
only because the current mess forces network encryption to be enrolled within the application at it's layer doesn't mean that's the ideal solution.
But while FAANG equity has a 95% chance of still being worth hundreds per share in 5 years, the startup's equity has more like a 98% chance of being worth $0 in 5 years (based on startup survival rates). The expected value is essentially zero. That's why you can't make up for startup salary with startup equity.
>Ryan combined the async nature of event loops with async I/O... rightfully a very clever move.

How is it clever? You cannot have async IO without an event loop. Async IO was a pretty mature technology long before nodejs came out. Netty did this back in 2004. The only special thing about nodejs is that it's culture is to be async by default.
Something simpler is to put all bitmask enums in a namespace and use ADL to find the operators. Like this: https://pastebin.com/raw/ANh93JnN

Personally though, I wouldn't use this safety in most code. You'd have to be in some pretty serious shit for these templates to reduce mental overload rather than add it.
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I am somewhat surprised by the statements about asymmetric crypto algorithms. Given a good library they don't seem more error prone and given many common use-cases they are not significantly slower.
And you left out the way libraries worked, GUI modes, pro-tracker and AMOS?!? :)
> no care is really given anymore about resource usage, etc because all of that is abundant.

They're abundant for people who you only think about themselves. Who believe that their application will be the only one running on the machine. Which may be the case if you're developing software for touchscreens on a factory floor, but is definitely not true for end-user software, and doubly not true for anything on the web.
Yes, that is preposterous.

Let's assume for the sake of argument that it's true. The people who promote the theory seem to be the only ones capable of hearing this whistle, the theory itself being political backlash, so it clearly defeats its own purpose in that regard. And of course it does nothing to prevent backlash from the actual policy goals.

It's simply an attempt to get away with arguing against straw men. Taking a perfectly reasonable statement, such as "enforce established immigration law" and take it to be "code" for something completely indefensible like "keep out those subhuman spics". It's hard to argue against the former, much easier to argue against the latter. Of course it does nothing to change the mind of your opponent who already knows and agrees that people of any given ethnicity are not less than human, but it does prevent those in your own camp from taking anything your opponent says as a reasonable statement.

Scott Adams described the phenomenon in a recent blog post:
http://blog.dilbert.com/2018/06/10/why-democrats-hear-a-secr...
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Didn't seem to be any different than normal XP from what I saw. Could be completely incorrect though!
There is a really good podcast episode about the TalkTalk hack https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/4/
Last time I bought something from currys, they wanted to know my postcode and name. SW1A 2AA (number 10), so good luck using the personal information of "Larry Felixton" who lives there.
The dollar has (disproportionate) value because it's the currency for global commerce (i.e. oil and other commodities).

Gold however only has value because we believe it is a store of wealth, and we believe it has value.
Even though it's different, but in terms of usage, I think it's like a decentralized 2FA (or MFA) solution?
The fact that this relies on overloading an operator for every enum makes this a complete non-starter as is in any professional codebase unfortunately. That can be fixed with a trait type though.
Sorry, what I said was probably confusing.

I meant, I keep the password to KeePass in my brain and in backup places. I'm unlikely to lose all those.

>Also, it's not a big problem if one of your devices dies, as long as you paired enough devices you won't lose any passwords.

Not everyone has a million devices.