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"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

Generally, after ratification the 10th Amendment was treated as a truism: essentially a useless amendment that simply confirmed the federal system of government. The words of the man who drafted the amendment, and who opposed it's inclusion:

I find, from looking into the amendments proposed by the State conventions, that several are particularly anxious that it should be declared in the Constitution, that the powers not therein delegated should be reserved to the several States. Perhaps words which may define this more precisely than the whole of the instrument now does, may be considered as superfluous. I admit they may be deemed unnecessary: but there can be no harm in making such a declaration, if gentlemen will allow that the fact is as stated. I am sure I understand it so, and do therefore propose it.

For much of the 20th Century, the justification for most federal laws infringing on state activity has been the Commerce Clause, which was extremely broadly written.

Most recently, the 10th Amendment has been interpreted to mean the federal government cannot force the states to enforce federal laws (see, e.g., Printz and the recently decided Murphy).
This reminds me of all those times that Yahoo bought advertising networks and tools.
This is something I've always wondered about- how would you do it? How do you break the cycle of freetext EHR notes?

Doing so could have incredible utility for sharing data across various clinics/hospitals/pharmacies/etc.
> Bitcoin has unquestionably provided folks looking to work outside traditional financial systems (and governance) value. You can see it in the black market use and its use in ransoming everything from Game of Thrones to hospital records. It was used this way almost from day one.

Yes, I covered that when I said the blockchain gave us bitcoin, and that's all it's done as far as unique value.

> Also, the use of smartphones as this "instant remote communication" doesn't begin to describe where the technology led, which was to the smartphone which is some type of multimedia device capable of far more than its initial concept.

So what? My point is that "instant remote communication" was a communication revolution that did not need to hunt for use-cases, the technology itself was inherently useful and it developed into something more because its ubiquity (a result of its near universal utility and appeal) created a market for competition between selling this device that literally everyone wanted.

The blockchain is not at all comparable to this. Most people can't even understand what the blockchain is (and that includes many technical people) and those who can at least understand what the blockchain does mostly come to the conclusion that they don't really have a use case for it (including the large majority of enthusiasts who don't do more than shuffle bits around between arbitrarily delimited distributed spreadsheets).

> you don't make a stronger point by downplaying the difference in value between when cellphone launched and what cell phone technology offers today.

You're incorrect. The two have nothing to do with eachother. "Smart devices" like palm-pilots existed for a long time but never took off because most people couldn't justify the purchase (since it really didn't do much for them). Fast forward to a time when everyone is already carrying around portable network computers because... and here it is again... they were clearly useful in their communication capability... it was a clever but natural opportunity to replace these "dumb phones" with computing devices that resemble computer systems that were already validated by the desktop market.
You make an excellent point. I never thought of it that way and it totally makes sense. I guess I was looking at it from the perspective of an individual: I would rather my work be used to build amazing stuff than as way to extort others.
nosql is a databse system, blockchain mission is to enable trustless immutable unstoppable appications and miney transmission worldwide to change society. comparing apples with hot dogs here
I'll take a severance over a PIP any day of the week

PIPs exist entirely to build documentation to fire the employee
I didn't say it was. I'm just searching for any kind of value from predicting a recession with such a coarse grained level of precision. I think it's a ridiculous claim.
@dgacmu Cannot reply to your comment so I will here.

> For any investor, there is a point in the mortgage interest rate vs risk-adjusted returns space at which investing is better. That point may differ, of course.

I agree there always is a point, what I think is that the risk-adjusted return should be much bigger to be worth taking. The spread between the mortgage rate and the stock market return usually is not that big.

There will always be missed investing opportunities but leveraging the house you live in to squeeze an extra 1-2 percentage point at the risk of going bust doesn't look optimal to me.
Researchers having trouble due to Schedule 1 status in the states seems weird, when Canada just legalized recreational use. What has this war on drugs given America?
why are cryptocurrencies outlawed though is a mystery
Honestly the bigger problem is that it DESTROYS value for middle men so badly that there are a ton of reasons not to do it. In any consumer product that sells a story or a history the idea of checking ones work has only potential destroy value.
There are other reasons to not pay off you mortgage, especially in the US. The two most prominent being:

1. Usually a certain amount of equity in the house is protected by state law (varies from state to state). So if someone sues you and/or you go bankrupt, no one can touch your principal residence provided your equity in the home is below the state's threshold. That is assuming you stayed current on your repayments and the bank is still good with lending to you.

2. No recourse loans. If you pay off more earlier, you are just opening yourself up to further risk. I'd much rather lose a bit on super low interest rates (and maybe a little in lender's insurance, too), than lose out if the housing market crashes.
Can anybody tell me how to get on Interviewing.io?
Signed up with them a few days ago, when I find out that they are in private beta. There was zero indication on the landing page or on the sign up page(misleadingly labeled "Give it a Try") that their service is not usable. How weird is this? Only on the log in page do they have a minor warning about being in private beta.

Here's examples of them being in private beta:
2.5 yrs ago https://twitter.com/interviewingio/status/704713242195529728?lang=en
10 mths ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14898033

The YC article I linked has a person who'd been on the waitlist for a year. That's not a waitlist in my opinion...Also the owner said at that time they'd be coming out of private beta soon, which they clearly haven't.

Do they have separate waitlists for people signing up with LinkedIn vs email? Like if I sign up with my LinkedIn which is public info I'll get off the waitlist faster than using a workplace email, which would be faster than an anonymous email? Do they pre-screen based on signup data, and some people just "wait" forever?
I agree. It is my personal opinion that all three terms are so vague that an intersection among them doesn't really mean anything.
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You would think a professor in Constitutional Law would be eager to plug a whole that the police were taking advantage of, namely suing the money instead of suing the person. Yet all there was was deafening silence. So disappointing when people don't see things like this.
Toward a Mature Science of Consciousness
Definitely not, but the original commenter was looking for any purely functional programming language, not necessarily one with dependent types. I think we are years away from having an easily comprehensible and usable dependent type system, if it's even possible to have one.
The current drug regulation regime strikes me as backwards--it seems that the more appropriate assumption should be to not regulate a substance, until it can be shown to be harmful (I'm not talking about label accuracy; I see that as more of a truth-in-labeling issue).

To me, cannabis illustrates how absurd the current drug regulation paradigm is. The idea that it would be classified as a Schedule I substance is ridiculous. But to get the FDA to change anything, you have to have people engaging in illegal behavior, to create a demand for specific legislative action about a specific substance, to drive a market for a derivative chemical, to petition to the FDA, to begrudgingly change the scheduling.

I've come to the conclusion that drug scheduling and the war on drugs is an economic failure, leads to police abuse and socioeconomic injustices, and acts to reinforce monopolies in the health care market, by ceding power over access to specific providers.
Yes! Good point. It's remarkable commerce clause passed this many years of scrutiny. It's extremely difficult to think of things it doesn't apply to.
I see a lot of bad tech IBM antecdotes ... every place of any significance has bad tech. Your good solid application had a bad library , a poor structured table. Encapsulating this problem is a trait of good design.

How much code does IBM have? I have read the bad stories , anyone have good tales? And otherwise does anyone know their total code base size? Leys be engineers about this not journalist.
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Yeah trying to "time the market" is generally higher risk. I am not offering any sort of advice, but personally I am just making sure my emergency fund is healthy (>=6 months of expenses) and looking at lower risk investment options like CDs.
Does this mean we can have more than 16GB in our laptops now?

Also, is "stratechery" named based on the old Celebrity Jeopardy skits on SNL?
15 percent is most definitely not the standard amount in San Francisco, unless you want some stink-eye with your dessert.

In fact I don't think there's anywhere in California where 15 percent is considered normal anymore. Where I'm from (small town) nobody will be offended if you tip 15%, because you're more likely to be poor than cheap. But even there, 15% is undertipping in 2018.

The math is the smallest part of the tipping problem, IMO.
It would be a wild dereliction of the duty of SCOTUS to let the facts of a particular case influence their judgement on a broader legal question. Many cases get sent back to lower courts without resolving a broader legal question because the facts of a particular case weren't quite perfectly aligned to make it an appropriate vehicle to resolve a broad question. The political gerrymandering cases decided thus far this term are a good example.
>> ...that very few people are gonna know about or even use

"This is major because Firefox has an install base of hundreds of millions of people which significantly expands the audience that can be reached once this feature rolls out to the mainstream."

https://www.troyhunt.com/were-baking-have-i-been-pwned-into-...
Or actual bankruptcy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westinghouse_Electric_Company#...
Reminded me of this HN comment regarding Dropbox right when it launched: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
"3. Right now most payment processors do not work with adult industries and the ones that do charge exorbitant fees. Blockchain can bring those fees down a lot and let performers keep a lot more of their money."

There is literally nothing about blockchain that would inherently do this. that is entirely on the payment processor.

"That was solved by banks and cash, but blockchain can be another solution that doesn't require an insane amount of infrastructure, employees, call centers, etc to run."

This is quite false; bitcoin requires a very large infrastructure with incredible energy costs to run.

"6. I think voting is something that could happen on the blockchain. Boom, now anyone can verify the results of the election. People can't as easily scream election fraud."

But now my boss can verify who I voted for. So can the mafia.
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> There was a time, a bit longer ago, when beam search and A* were considered AI.

Yeah, maybe the marketing people said that..
In some states it is illegal to defend against civil forfeiture practices using hidden compartments in your vehicle to store 100% legal property (e.g. cash, jewelry, confidential information)
Actually, "Distributed trust", if the distribution is wide enough, enables "Trustless transfer of value and information".
For me that's a clearer way to think about its potential.

Number one problem it solves is obviously money. With an algorithmic stabilization mechanism, you can now have a fair and unmanipulated currency. (Basecoin, MakerDAO, Havven, ...)

From there, you can have programmatic incentivization. This allows you to solve a huge variety of problems that the internet only began to solve.

For instance :
You can now scale privacy networks like Tor that, in its current state, requires benevolent node operators (of which there are too few), and thus take private communications to the mainstream. (Orchid, Mainframe, ...)

In a similar vein, you can make mesh networks like Firebase actually global by incentivizing the node operators. Bye bye ISP monopolies. (Open garden, Rightmesh, ...)

If you add an identity system (say your government supplies its citizens with a blockchain ID), technologies such as zero-knowledge proofs could allow you to vote on various issues from your home, anonymously and un-censorably. Hello Democracy. (Sovrin, ...)

And if you really want to make your imagination run wild, checkout projects like nCent or Fetch.ai, which propose visions that totally redefine how society, as a network of humans, could function.
Hey Oliver!

Yeah Tridactyl is great. While I'm not a great JS/TS developer I might be able to offer a couple of pull request for documentation. Is there anything I can help with currently?

> 2. This isn't actually true. Tridactyl does override page binds. The reason you think GitHub is stealing a Tridactyl bind is because GitHub steals `/`, but Tridactyl doesn't bind anything to `/` - that's a default Firefox bind! (And whoever decided it would be a great idea to use that in GitHub should probably test their code in more browsers).

Didn't know that. Interesting.
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The rovers and shuttles have backup systems with different code in them specifically to deal with coding bugs. These fallback systems have also been repeated needed because of bugs in the shipped system.
Payout of unused vacation time is also a matter of state law (for example, it's required in California)
Couldn't the internet community at large create their own sovereign nation, w/ an elected parliament to basically overrule the EU, if the EU enacts legislation for the 'internet', or other nations the internet can sever all connections w/ that location and they can go build their own internet if they choose or they can back down w/ their demands/unethical laws?

Or heck the internet gov't could impose 'tariffs' on nations in EU, on all data to pay legal fees.

I can see a lot of American businesses just stop allowing EU traffic, that would obviously cut back on a lot of issues.
I think "payment/settlement" here is clear, but not the link to network-native resources.

Let's imagine you have an auto-scaling application. You hit a big spike (like several orders of magnitude) and have the (cryptocurrency) resources to keep it running.

Traditional vendors on invoice (or on credit card) would likely be loathe to just approve your monthly spend going from $500 to $500,000. You'd probably hit an interruption in service as the vendors protect themselves and underwrite to a higher credit limit.

Having non-repudiable smart contracts that get the vendors paid automatically once the resources are verifiably transacted would eliminate that friction.

(Plus, chargebacks, interchange, etc.)

On the extreme other end of the scale, if your resource transactions were small and highly distributed, it would get very cumbersome and costly to verify and pay $500,000 in $1 increments. (Plus chargebacks, etc.)

My point here is not the traditional one about credit card fees and frictions, though. It's specifically about the locus of trust.

If you sell me an electric guitar on eBay, there are two big trust gaps: one is about me actually getting the guitar as described, and the other is you getting the money. The fact that the "money" happens to be transacted as bitcoin or whatever doesn't change the need for trust at the ends of the physical transaction.

But if you are transacting network-native resources, smart contracts let you connect the payment settlement to the resource itself. Factor the primes out of this number and you get BTC 1.00. Transit these packets and you get so many ETH. It's because the resources exist on the same network in approximately real-time with the payment ledger that they can be verified automatically.

Doesn't work for most kinds of commerce where verifying that the transaction is settled is a non-computational operation. (Are the goods arrived, merchantable and fit, as described, etc. etc. -- always you will need to be putting your locus of trust out in the physical world with reputational ties, personal trust, escrow agents, brokers / dealers, etc.)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17395493
I was surprised to find my name in the "contacts" list. I guess I'm KK35. Is that a WHOIS thing or something?
Serverless has gone too far
> One feature driving Docker adoption that I think a lot of people miss is that it's got fairly workable (if warty in one case and obnoxious in the other) implementations for OS X and Windows. That removes a lot of friction for developers who work in companies where IT won't support Linux on employee workstations.

Vagrant does this, too. Sure, it runs a VM, but so does Docker.
I'm always bemused when walking into a nearly empty chain restaurant and the greeter has to struggle with where to seat you.
If you're restricted to English Omega Tau, a podcast done by a German guy, also has a great episode on Wendelstein.

http://omegataupodcast.net/22-nuclear-fusion-at-mpi-fur-plas...
the blockchain hate is strong..
You are incorrect, Sir. Grandparent is correct. May I recommend that you re-read the link? It says exactly the opposite of what you claim.
There's nothing arduous about bread making when you use a slow rise. I make bread and pizza dough and bagels several times a week, for couple reasons: a. it's bloody cheap, b. it's damn easy for how good it is. The process is literally stir the ingredients together and put a lid on it for about a day.
8 bagels, 3 pizzas, or a nice loaf of sourdough cost about 27 cents total.

Just go down to your local library and get My Bread by Jim Lahey.
This article is assumes that attacking a blockchain would be just the classical 51% attack scenario of bitcoin. Innovation from coins such as Decred show an evolution in blockchain technology that makes a 51% attack exceedingly more challenging to pull off.
"Apples to apples, Decred is 20x more expensive to attack than Bitcoin"
https://blog.usejournal.com/apples-to-apples-decred-is-20x-m...
"Your own link makes note that selective incorporation doesn't apply to the bill of rights."

No, it doesn't. In fact, it clearly states the opposite noting that the 3rd, 7th, 9th and 10th amendments in the Bill of Rights have not been incorporated.

On that page you can even find a table noting when each amendment in the Bill of Rights was incorporated. It quite clearly tells you that the 2nd amendment was incorporated in 2010 in McDonald v. City of Chicago.

Nothing you said in this comment is correct.
This is a good way to keep people aware of the status quo and be controlled by seeing and participating in these things. To paraphase Agents of Shield "How do you keep such control over all of your slaves?" "He has them kill each other, that's what I'd do."
Well, I would guess that determining "Pilot on the plane" is pretty straight forward with an ejection seat. If I were designing it I would put a soldered in wire through the seat that completes the 'pilot seat is still in the plane' circuit. Pilot ejects, circuit opens because the seat yanks out the circuit when it leaves.
Have you looked at Sensor Tower?
I've done mercifully-little C(++) programming in my life, but the very idea of dll's has always seemed extremely fragile to me. Depending that deeply on the system configuration for basic functioning... ylech.

I also can't help but wonder if they're obsolete these days, given how incredibly cheap disk storage is? Can anyone who works in that sector speak more to that?
All the Ryzen 1000 processors (including TR) were B1, at least as far as AMD told the USB-IF (and AFAIK nobody ever observed anything else in the wild). Epyc is on B2.

At the time, there was some speculation that B2 might be the "mirror image" die that Epyc uses 2 of.

http://www.usb.org/kcompliance/view/catalog_search/results_b...

http://www.usb.org/kcompliance/view/view_item?item_key=88142...

However, they now report Pinnacle Ridge (Ryzen 2000) as being on the B2 stepping.

Ryzen 2000 is on a slightly updated 12nm process but does not incorporate any library changes. I'm not sure if you could just drop the existing die onto the new process (given that 12nm is really a 14+), or if you could un-flip the die to the proper pinout using the substrate, but it seems like that might be where they moved to the B2 stepping.

But yeah, AMD produced the B1 stepping for an uncommonly long time. At least through the end of 2017, and the first B2 steppings showed up like June 2017.
The word on r/uber is that in NYC if you don't cash tip your uber drivers, you start getting 1-star passenger ratings, and some drivers don't take rides from passengers rated under 4.6 stars.
> Watch what happens when the body of startups funded by global pools of capital ... sees the NPV of software startups vanish as lower expected investment returns smack up against higher risk-free rates.

I don't know exactly what that means, but if it means what I think it does, I've been there. I was at a startup in 2001 and we were getting interest from VCs, to move out of angel funding. The economy was already slowing but then 9/11 happened and there wasn't a VC that was shopping for at least 6 months, all the investment money dried up literally overnight. We barely survived on salary austerity and a RIF.
The healthcare industry is a POS. If blockchain can make it even 1% better then it will be worth all the hype and gripe.
The NYT article says precisely that recessions happened 6 months to 2 years later in all cases, except in one case where the economy dipped but wasn't officially a recession in the 1960s. This is different than a stopped clock that is eventually right. In the last 50 years we had recessions or at best a very poor economy with almost no growth (only one time avoided a recession by defn) with 6-24 month lead time after negative yield curve.