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I've thought a lot about death, mortality, living in a futuristic world, etc..

I would immediately sign up for immortality instead of dying in ~70 years given the magic pill rule scenario.

Just think of all of the amazing things you'll witness while not having any forced pressure for all aspects of your life. You'll never get sick, you'll never need to worry about finances because there's nothing that would put you into a fear driven scenario where you "must" make money.

You could go through the years doing whatever you want and you'll live long enough to escape technology bubbles that each generation lives through. Like you said, you're pretty much a different person than you were 15 years ago. If you were 150 years old but still 25 inside, you'd get to experience a completely different world. It would be like having infinite lives with no reset switch on your memory.
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> Some cultures/ideologies really are better than others. If you need me, I'll be right here in my Western Civilization, happily not vivisecting anyone.

Good old western civilization, no blood on our hands.
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In my own experience, it is not an easy skill though. In the end it may look bad, behave bad (you bought wrong washer/materials/tools) or simply drip in another place, become greasy, leaky, squeaky, etc. It is an usual thing to outsource hard problems to professionals (and look at things as trivial when you’re one). I think that everyone should do what they really like to do and what they are satisfied with.
"Nothing stopping you from creating your own" is quite a trivialization of how difficult it actually is to break into the, rather entrenched, video game console market.

Having to compete with companies that haven't just been around and known for decades, but have massive resources and synergies due to their sheer size, is a pretty daunting task, and that's just the hardware side.

Trying to convince major developers, and especially publishers, to get on board with such a project is also no small feat, you'd pretty have to convince publishers to do a 180° on how they've handled a lot of things so far because publishers are also known to be quite big fans of draconian copyright laws.
> try to be considerate

I understand what you're getting at, but if someone tells you explicitly not to do something (e.g. in the terms of service of their website), doing that thing anyway doesn't seem very considerate.
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"What god is capital punishment meant to appease?"

I have to agree just a shade with the premise.

A lot of punishment is morally oriented, and it's derived from our value system which is headed by 'God', or at least an interpretation of that.

Murderers are executed not just to keep them off the streets, but as a matter of punishment which is fundamentally pleasing to our moral code ... headed by God.

I think old-school capital punishment is at least distantly related to the concept of sacrifice.

Though I wouldn't want to equate the two.
> these distributed networks are novel and interesting

They were interesting when the bitcoin paper was released.

Then people (outside of the cult) realized that you Do Not Need A Trustless System. Society is built on trust. Wasting ENORMOUS amounts of power just to replace a few trusted entities with 51% of the network is a horrible idea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCHab0dNnj4
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> some measure of type-safety is available

I haven't done it, but I'm fairly sure you can use jQuery with Typescript
Wondering what that says about your personal life.
I would disagree. White label alkaline batteries are notoriously inconsistent in terms of capacity.

AmazonBasics isn’t a white label, it’s a brand in of itself, with consistent quality.
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> Are they here yet? No. Are they performant yet? No idea because they don’t exist.

Right, they're not here yet, so you don't know.

> because the problem isn’t accessing the DOM - it’s doing it performantly in your code and there’s nothing about host bindings that hint they’ll solve that problem any better than JS.

WASM solves the problem of allowing languages with different semantics, strong type systems, different paradigms etc. that JS doesn't provide. Some of us care about the language we program in because we want to have somewhat enjoyable experience while doing it and for some JS does not provide that. That is the problem WASM solves. Whether host bindings would give us sufficiently fast access to the DOM isn't clear yet, as you yourself admitted, but I don't see why not and I certainly don't see what you're arguing about here - the problem WASM solves is, again, primarily not about DOM access that is somehow faster than JS, people are even expecting a bit of a penalty, at least initially, but as long as we can get rid of JS monopoly on the front-end, I think WASM achieved its goal.
My mobile neural nets are still in the training stage. Sometimes, they have trouble recognizing when the dogs fifo is full.

Also, though I derive great happiness from this automation effort, I’ve noticed that the processing units are quite expensive and the maintenance cost is also large. After 5 years, I’m certain I’ve spent more time training them than if I fed the dog myself and more money that if I hired a 3rd party DwaaS (dog walker as a service).
A shutdown is still a denial of service attack, which might be bad enough on its own. How well can the grid compensate for one or several plants suddenly dropping offline? We know cascading grid failures can happen.

But, I guess the risks there are about the same for a nuclear plant as they would be for a computerized non-nuclear plant.
No sane person would store nuclear waste in a canal especially if the canal links with other water bodies.
Anyone capable of putting together ikea furniture is also capable of building their very own gaming console.
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I've build a web scraper + web UI in order to create direct links to spotify albums/EPS based on specialized (and well curated) music shops which i use to keep up with new releases, one of them being boomkat.com.
I got the idea because i was spending a lot of time on public transport trying to tab + search between the music shops various websites and the spotify app while being on my phone, which I found quite frustrating.
I got a great deal of insight on problem solving from being a university teaching assistant for 2 years. Every couple of weeks or so, there would be a particularly difficult assignment, and I would get many visitors during office hours that week.

The first thing I would always do is have the student walk me through their current understanding of the problem. What surprised me was how incredibly wide the range of mental models students used was. Also it was interesting that quite often students make their mental models far more complicated than the actual problem.

My job was really just to help the student simply and clarify their mental model, and from there they usually solved the problem on their own.

Smart data structures are better than smart code. I think this applies to your mind as well as code.
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American banks laundered 300+ billion for drug cartels.
ISIS is not a blimp but they did have to move about 600 mil / year in Oil revenue alone.
This, retailers don't even want to support Apple Pay because of its transaction fees. If there is already a almost free and efficient payment system that everyone is happy with and is used by 99% of the population why bother with anything new that IS NOT SUPERIOR TO WHAT YOU ALREADY HAVE?

I simply don't know what problem BTC was supposed to solve.
Claude Shannon wrote a great piece on methods of problem-solving: http://www1.ece.neu.edu/~naderi/Claude%20Shannon.html
Keep in mind your memory of your parents tends to start well into your childhood. You might have been as old as 10 before there's anything in there at all about how your parents behaved towards each other. Certainly 5.

I say this because when kids are small, they stress the hell out out their parents.

And that stress often turns into arguments. Little sleep, and endless menial tasks like cleaning poop does that even to people who never had any issues before. As the kids get older, there's less of the drudgery and the kids end up being more interesting. Less pressure on the relationship, and a huge relief as you slowly realise you've wiped your last poop. As stress recedes, kids are getting older and forming positive memories.

Also remember survivorship bias. If you have a fight and get divorced before you have kids, there won't be any kids around to remember your happy marriage.
Kickstarter next. Or maybe an ICO complete with white paper. The wonders of a DNA based blockchain could be leveraged to guarantee that the product is legit. Then get a few Youtube 'influencers' in on the gig, giving them promo codes that, if used, give them a $10 back-hander. Plus the $75 Google give you for your first goes at ad-words. I would love to be stalked everywhere I go online by 'HOT DOG WATER'. Then there is affiliate marketing. That would work.

A back-story is needed too. Some story about how the product was discovered in Germany by some gay Jewish-Romanian autistic savant in the 1930's, for the Nazis to spare him from 'Aktion T4' due to his discovery. Maybe they mixed it with amphetamines so that the Luftwaffe could fly 24/7.

The concentration of 'Hot Dog Water' in the rebooted product could differ from the original in that the 'water' collected from the nether ends of pigs is pasteurized, homogonised, denatured and FDA approved for modern 'tastes'.

The inevitable court case could also be part of the 'art performance', to take the piss out of how big pharma defend their opioid products.
I think that such self sacrifice among the Aztecs is very different to the politically and militarily oriented sacrifices you mention.

The former has no reasonable or practical reasoning.

The later - does, as I think any service member will understand. Every mission has some degree of likelihood that one will face death, some are just willing to up the ante to . a much greater level. The belief in some kind of 'special heaven' is not really the motivating force, it just kind of makes it easier to do.
Isn't a exp growing user base more a problem for the support support rather than the developers?
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Race to the bottom is what makes a progress.

Would you prefer to work a month to be able to afford a shirt, like it was just a few centuries before? Or do you prefer when "race to the bottom" made the cost of the same shirt into a few hours of work?
It’s mostly online, but there are also learning centers at which you can take classes. I believe the a lot of users are home school students. Many are students for whom their school’s math curriculum is too easy. AoPS is used heavily by students competing in things like the math olympiad. In addition to math, AoPS teaches two computer science courses in Python, which are roughly equal to first semester of college computer science.

The teaching is both an online lecture and reading from a textbook, as well as office hours and supplmentary videos. There is also homework, which is graded and gets long responses, of the type that usually takes the grader 10+ minutes to write.

Source: used to grade Python homework for AoPS; I should not be considered speaking for AoPS and I may be incorrect about some of this as I never was a student.
Nice. I haven't quite jumped from IFTTT/Zapier to Huginn yet but this is something I plan to do as well. Have you compared it with beehive [1]?

[1] https://github.com/muesli/beehive
FileZilla doing this has been known for at least a few years:

https://web.archive.org/web/20140816230250/http://blog.glust...

Back then, they were doing it as part of the (previous incarnation of) SourceForge's "DevShare" offering. eg malware authors got SourceForge to bundle crapware with popular Win installers, and gave the developers a cut of the take.

It seems like the FileZilla people didn't like that revenue stream being cut off, and went to the source directly afterwards. :(
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Okay and what about the migration of the other 700m people with most frequent destinations being US and Europe from the bottom quartile of countries by GDP?

Mexico has 125m people and the US has around 12m illegal aliens. Let’s generously assume that only half are from Mexico, that’s 5% of the population that was willing to take the risk to live in the US illegally. Now create an open boarder? You’d have 10% of Mexico moving to the US tomorrow. It’s human nature to want a better life and it’s also human nature to want to protect the life one already has.
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741 problems: terrible bias current, offset, input range, output range, power consumption, voltage requirements, GBW, noise.

They’re just horrid. Fine for noddy stuff like power supplies and PID loops etc though.
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Designing it right at the beginning is a problem for every software. I have 100+ lines controller actions in rails and I'm not proud of them, but it has grown like this over the last 8 years, it has 100% test coverage that I probably wouldn't have to touch if I decided to refactor the method into a few (yes!) services.
And if nothing else works, try the Feynman Algorithm to solve really hard problems. :-)
Yeah. Isolation cells are "resort like" now. Maybe you want to check in into such a resort for a few years? I mean it seems to be a great deal according to you.
> The threat is real and part of the threat are willing accomplices such as yourself.

You realize this kind of behavior, accusing others of being traitors for doubting your narrative, is textbook propaganda behavior?

It's also really odd behavior considering you didn't even back up your first claim, saying "there's more than only Twitter ads" without saying what "more" adds literally nothing to the discussion.

Nobody is doubting that "Russian interference" exists, what many people are doubting is how much influence it actually had on Trump being elected or Trump's daily business in general. Because the narrative that Russia is to blame for everything from Brexit, Trump getting elected to the resurgence of nationalist sentiments is just that: A narrative designed to build the perfect bogeyman.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsehood_in_War-Time#Summary
That’s just crappy circuit design if they do that.
The author is wrong as in presenting the cult as a flaw. Every imaginary human construct has value because we have agreed collectively to subscribe value to it. The stronger the religion the strongest the construct. For bitcoin to become a dominant SoV we need to see some crypto talibans/missionaries/crusaders.
I am a developer and almost all the solutions to my software engineering (architectural) problems have occurred to me when I was walking. Even sitting down quietly dosen't work. I have to keep walking.

It has gotten so absurd that I do a lot of walking at my work, usually in an empty conference room and people have many a time wondered if I do any work at all.

But, I love it. The challenge, the walk and the solution is exhilarating to me.
I am good explaining things to people.

I just realize what people take for granted and make it easy to understand.

Everybody in Swizzerland-Austria knows how to sky. Kids learn so soon they do not remember when they learned like most people do with learning to walk memories.

In some Pacific islands they learn to dive. In New Zealand they learn to sail. In Japan or Spain people eat fish by tradition, in most Argentina it is a strange thing to do, you eat meat.

People on HN are mostly hackers, programmers, using a command line, what is a parser is or how to program is obvious for them, but is very strange to general population.

What is normal to us, is very strange to other people raised under other circumstances.

Learn about your audience. Use parables like Jesus to explain what they don't know with things they know very well.
The Europeans did not remotely come close to killing Central and South Americans at the rate they killed themselves, moreover, the term 'rape' is not a useful pejorative, as there were no real natural resources of value that were removed from that area that would have affected the ability of the aboriginals to live.

Gold was removed in vast quantities, but has only a commercial value to those who have ascribed to it such arbitrary value. Otherwise it's just a pretty rock.

Of course - the masses who died from imported disease notwithstanding.
The ceramic ones never cost 15 cents.
PortableApps (https://portableapps.com) seems pretty good. :)
I don’t use it at all anymore. But probably used it once or twice a month back then. If I woke up late I’d double click as soon as I got out of bed, or if I was having one of those days where I just cbf going to work I’d do the single click.

It took barely any time to set up a lambda to send an email, and I was mostly doing it to entertain myself with the novelty of it. But on the few occasions when I did, pushing a button and then going back to sleep instead of getting up for work was pretty sweet.
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Wow, thanks for that! I finished it in one sitting, and it was wonderful. Not only is it an excellent example of vertical storytelling, it also spoke to me in a way that nothing else has in awhile. I'm left feeling inspired and hopeful.
> Bitcoin is for the paranoid and conspiracy theorists

I would wager a small fraction of technically-literate paranoids and conspiracy theorists own Bitcoin. More plausible: people with some other tendency buy and then, when asked for an explanation, rationalise with conspiracy theory-like reasoning. (My guess for the tendency: gambling affinity.)
I run a contract manufacturing service in China. We mostly work with US companies bringing new products to market. I'm a little uncertain what you're asking, but my email is in my profile. In general, I can say that individuals trying to start anything hardware related almost universally run into funding problems before they finish (or their idea was just not what the market wanted).

My usual recommendation to people trying to start something hardware related is to do as much as you can in the beginning to make "sales", with sales being defined as whatever you can get that proves someone would actually pay you money for your widget. Prove you have a market before you pay for expensive tooling. That process can vary, but crowdfunding is one example.

Some rough rules of thumb if all you are interested in is cash outlay:

need 2 parts: 3D print or CNC

need 10 parts: silicone mold or CNC

need 200+ parts: injection mold

If lead time to first part, part uniformity, or uncertainty about design changes are factors that might also swing you toward or away from injection molding.

For injection mold tools, assuming the part has a normal level of complexity:

2cm cube: ~$3k, 5 weeks to first shot

15cm x 5cm x 2cm: ~$4k, 5 weeks to first shot

25cm x 15cm x 5cm: ~$8k 8 weeks to first shot

First shot means the first time the tool is tested to make samples. Generally there is a sample approval and testing process you have to go through before any remaining tweaks are made + the final mold texture or polish is added. I find the total time has more to do with how organized and diligent the client is in responding, but assuming nobody drags their feet we generally can be production ready in another 2 weeks or so.

We only work with production tooling (hard steel, lasts a long time). From checking around, if you use aluminum tooling or other "cheap" fast turn prototyping stuff the price doesn't seem to be any less, and in many cases is more. Tooling made in America is usually significantly more... maybe 1.3 - 3x more.
Apocalypto is a brilliant film designed as an emotional mass market play, but the production design was so great it's award worthy.

Mel Gibson's films usually give some insight into the nature of power and politics, which is really fun because so few attempt to bother with that kind of stuff.

Listen to the DVD voice-over with he and the director of that film, they give you some amazing information as to the backstory of the political setup of the city in which the scenes took place.
Things should be seen in context. People here are trying to understand The Cloud as a technical term. They then see contradictions left and right because everything seems to be The Cloud now. It's definitely not a precise technical term anymore, but I'm pretty sure that the organizations switching expect some concrete benefits.

Often, switching to "a cloud" simply means using a managed service. Either managed by another company/agency, or by another team in the same company/agency. That means it's not necessarily a technical decision, it's more about making their employees productive. The important thing to realize here for hackers is that not everybody has the same tech skills and needs.

As opposed to the (more flexible) hardware in the basement server room, "The Cloud" is bought as a product for a specific purpose. The benefit to end-users is that they can concentrate on their core business, whatever that might be:

- Cloud CRM customers can concentrate on CRM stuff. They don't have to worry about hardware, server administration, etc.

- Application developers using a PaaS can concentrate on their app. The PaaS handles the lower levels: it keeps the app running, load balances traffic, keeps the app responsive (e.g. by scaling up number of app instances).

- Operators of a PaaS can rely on a managed infrastructure layer.

Not having to have in-house experts can be an advantage for companies/agencies that have difficulties attracting the right talent. And even for experts, working on the highest possible abstraction level, e.g. using a PaaS or "serverless" when writing an app, can improve efficiency a lot.

Depending on the type of service, there are a few other benefits that people expect from "The Cloud", such as elasticity.

Self-service and instant availability of resources to end-users is a big one for bureaucratic environments. My team needs a database. I can create one myself through The Cloud, and I don't have to go trough "the official channels" for a permit and then ask a DBA to actually do the work. The Cloud can work around old processes because it comes with risk management built-in. My team can have a resource limit, up to which we can flexibly book any resources we need. Auditing is also built-in. Operators of The Cloud can easily monitor resource usage across teams.
Pros: they potentially play the Spotify ad to their friends, effectively advertising the service.

Cons: each playback means bandwidth + royalties cost.

So the question is, does the probability times the return from their friends bring more money than the free playbacks? I'd really like to know the answer.