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I appreciate you taking the time to answer, but I don't really see anything concrete there.

I'm really not sure how tokens or 'coins' would/could result in the benefits you mention. Global communications networks certainly have revolutionised global cooperation in ways not before possible. I'm just not seeing the value-add of cryptocurrency here.

> It's not inconceivable that people on this forum could create a game or service that leverages decentralized tokens to accomplish what in the old paradigm would require lots of human and financial capital to achieve

We've had game tokens for quite a bit longer than cryptocurrencies...

I'm sorry, but this reads like a fantasy more than any way in which blockchain technologies could actually enable anything.
Yeah they do, yet is used as much as GL ES 1.0 was on the PS3.

Most Switch games are done in Unity, Unreal, Crysis and a couple of other lesser known middleware engines, taking advantage of NVN.
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It's not launched if you can't buy it, and I can't find a link to buy it.
If you look at the smaller print on those two pages, the Ryzen 7's single core performance is a little under the I7's, meaning if your workload doesn't take advantage of the extra cores then this only roughly an equal move.
Is "BareMetal" an invented one-word marketing term, or should it be written "Bare Metal" with two words?
> And you won't have to generate your config files (parsing, maaaaaybe), because those needs are covered by the fact that the files are programs. They are _already_ generating a configuration.

Yes, theoretically, if settings.py was a "generator" format that you ran as a pre-step (like you do to get parser-generators like Bison to spit out source files for you to work with), and this generator actually spat out something like a settings.json, and all the rest of the infrastructure actually dealt with the settings.json rather than the generator, then, yes, it wouldn't matter. Tools in other languages could just generate the settings.json directly.

As it stands, none of those things are true, so tools in other languages actually need to do something that outputs settings.py files.
What no one is talking about here is how this would be handled, especially for a small online sellers. There are almost 10,000 tax jurisdictions (https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/mccon...) and you're not allowed to collect sales tax unless you register for that jurisdiction. There is also a fee collected by most jurisdictions to register and most make you send in periodic reports, even if you didn't collect any taxes for them.
That would be a cool project to try to make electron without blink
I don't understand why they decided to create an incompatible protocol without changing the name.

The problem is the reallocation of bits from the block counter to the nonce, which they even admit might be problematic: "The amount of encrypted data possible in a single invocation is 2^32-1 blocks of 64 bytes each, because of the size of the block counter field in the ChaCha20 block function. This gives a total of 274,877,906,880 bytes, or nearly 256 GB. This should be enough for traffic protocols such as IPsec and TLS, but may be too small for file and/or disk encryption."

Are you kidding me? WHY, would anyone deliberately put in a flaw that wasn't there originally? And introduce an completely pointless incompatibility?
Yeah, this is not a good explanation at all, bordering on racist honestly. No data cited for claims, and plenty of counterexamples to disprove the point easily.
Dynamic coordination among a group of people. Top down approach does not work best under this. It's not reactive enough. There are just so many to talk about regarding this. But I think that's one of the very core dimensions of this game. And there are so many other national teams do not reach their potentials. China is a nice key word for clickbait. And it worked well.
> one of the reasons they have risen in prominence recently

Hmmmm....

From TFA: "West Germany ... won the World Cup in 1954, 1974 and 1990, and reached the final in 1966, 1982 and 1986."
Then he shouldn't have used the word 'implies' as a conjunction, he should have said 'ought to mean', or 'should require you to be' instead.
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The Tokyo metro is doing fine, maybe try learning from Japan?
Classic example of correlation != causation.
Of course the guy you reply to has no replacement, and people downvote you. Typical SV noveau-riches that inexplicably hate taxes.
> Bob had a relationship with Alice, and now couldn’t fire her because it would look like quid pro quo. Alice was the worst manager I have ever worked for

This seems like a problem caused by relationship policy and optics rather than the relationship itself. Doesn't Bob have a manager that can get involved to explicitly get rid of Alice?
Why would this target Elixir instead of Erlang or BEAM byte code directly?

Putting a language on top of a language on top of a language does not seem that smart to me.
Limited interest: most of the country views it as a child's sport, to be outgrown. There's not many places for a kid to just kick around the ball with friends, because it's hard to get to a field, you might have to reserve it, how do you get your friends there, etc. It's not an organic sport like football (in the US).

Pay to play: for youth development, the player's family has to be fairly well off. This is pay for either an academy, or going to a D1 college team, paying for travel, etc etc

Limited coaching talent: not very many soccer coaches play or even watch soccer regularly. This leads to an emphasis on agility and strength rather than skills and strategy. Agility and strength work out pretty well if the team you're facing has the same focus, but if you're playing against a team that has drilled and nurtured intelligence it will end badly for you.
That is the plan.

In a few of Java Language Summit talks, they mention about such cases.
Where is your data? Where is your evidence for this borderline racist claim? Africa doesn't have strong teams, clearly your explanation falls apart with the slightest analysis.
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> I kind of feel like he's just throwing away everything that's happened in the last few years and acting like it didn't happen.

What are you referring to by "everything"?
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And once again I have to rant. What is the deal with companies announcing new products or services without actually having any details on their own websites?!? They go through all this effort to launch new products, but then they waste the initial excitement. I hopped over to att.com to find out more and hopefully order the service to test out and it's nowhere to be found.
You were on the right track and then veered off course at the end. The problem is startups don’t pay enough for the risk you have to take, and there are few easy problems left to disrupt. There will always be small businesses and sole proprietors, but there are few winner take all startup opportunities that require little capital to start.

Also, after seeing what happens when startups flout regulation (Uber, Airbnb, Theranos), I prefer government regulation stay intact or more of it. The less startups abusing the commons, the better.
Sorry, I meant Lower Manhattan. Harlem itself is rapidly gentrifying as well.
> Sony understands the platform business better than anyone. And I'm not just talking about console makers, I'm talking about all platforms: iOS, Android, Steam, Facebook, Twitter, etc etc etc.

Out of curiosity, seeing as how some of those platforms are the bread and butter of companies that have market caps that far exceed Sony, what leads you to believe that?
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> being able to try something that is not 100% proven but that has some potential is better than nothing

Most groundbreaking new treatment don't cure you forever, they only prolong your life for 6 month or 1 year. (After more test and improvement, they extend the time more, hopefully many years.) So don't expect too mush from an unproven treatment.

So a more realistic alternative is

A) No unproven treatment, and try to have a good pain relieve treatment and good emotional support for the family

B) Spend all your money in an unproven treatment and left a broken family, and

- 1%? chance of 6 more months of life

- 50%? chance of no side effects

- 49%? chance of nasty side effect of the treatment that makes your small time on Earth worse

For a real example, there is a somewhat popular but ineffective treatment for some types of breast cancer that include bone marrow transplant, and living with a transplanted bone marrow is a problem. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMbkrev58584

> It has been estimated that more than 30,000 women in the United States with breast cancer received bone marrow transplants between 1985 and 1998, at the cost of millions of dollars, considerable adverse effects, and treatment-related mortality rates of 3 to 15%.
> I believe student loans can be written off after 25 years.

The forgiveness of student loans is considered taxable income. The WSJ ran an article a couple weeks ago, a dentist had over $1M in student loans and projected to have $2M when the forgiveness kicks in, at which point he would then owe $700K in taxes.
Ok, one more question(sorry!), so is it merely about point of view?

How does postmodern thinking define objective and subjective, and contrast the two to come to the conclusion that an objective reality does not exist?
This is neat, in a conversation about the technical aspects of image recognition with webcams in low lighting conditions, you're talking about secession and the 3/5th compromise. Let's try to stay on topic.

> But deciding a product was good enough to ship without caring that it worked for black people requires the effective belief that black people didn't really count as people.

Nobody ever said "oh it doesn't work with black people? Who cares LOL." I was going to make a crack about mental gymnastics but this isn't even that. You're just making shit up at this point.

> When laziness just happens to have a blatantly racist outcome in a place where there is a centuries-long history of racism, Occam's Razor suggests the explanation is racism.

No, even using your sentence here you admit the cause is laziness but then try to reframe it to racism because that fits your world view. Just like the fact that we're talking about webcams and you're talking about the 3/5th compromise and the American justice system.

Is there institutional/structural racism in the US? Absolutely. Webcams aren't a good example of it, sorry.
We also have a display and also do pairing. You have to press a physical button the device which results in a 4 digit code on the display that has to be entered in the browser or app (somewhat analogous to bluetooth pairing). At the end of the day this results in a cookie being set. But the traffic is still over http.
a '+' is a valid character in an URI scheme

then http+unix:///path would make more sense
Wrong tittle, should be: why China doesn’t dominate soccer yet.

They are investing heavily, buying loads of European youth football trainers, scouting their own youth at great rate and building their league up pretty fast.

You heard it here first: they will host the World Cup football in 2030 or 34 and will be contesting for the highest rank.
I doubt most (vast majority) have more than a statistically meaningless set of any hypothetical autism markers. A predilection for technology, math or science and social immaturity are commonly identified items techies use to contend they "may" be on the spectrum, but the reality is even mild autism includes so much more abnormality than that.
So, you got a job at a defence contractor hoping you were going to write code for life saving medical devices? I think I see where you went wrong...
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Specifically "rich countries with a contingent of multibillionaire ideologues actively working to destroy public infrastructure".

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/climate/koch-brothers-pub...
I suppose they might use NVM to interface with Nintendo specific hardware, they don't need it for graphics. So if engine developers are smart, they minimize NVM usage to only those corner cases, since there is no need to reinvent the wheel and duplicate work.

>yet is used as much as GL ES 1.0 was on the PS3.

Any Vulkan based engine can use it. Wasn't there Doom release for Switch?
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I would love to have the browser be a local "application server" on the desktop. Currently, people hate electron because shipping and running duplicate browsers is heavy-handed, insecure, and silly.

There's definitely a different feeling between having a running Discord/Slack tab vs. using a native app for it, if you're using it a lot. A native notification bar icon, shortcuts in the menus/app launchers, the app not exiting if i need to restart the browser, the app not being affected by extensions I install (adblockers, etc).

The app being separate from the browser is good. But it should still be the same engine running this. The same master process as well, possibly?

Either way, Electron has been a huge boon for apps being available natively on Linux and that's just awesome. I don't want to lose that.
Game developers wouldn't increasingly be using cross-platform play if they hated it. Sony's decision has nothing to do with developers, it's because they're scared it eases the ability for people to leave their platform by removing a barrier.
The converse to this, though, is that there are people who do get duped, and they get ripped off for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Especially where, for instance, there are sick kids involved. You see campaigns in newspapers and on social media, for donations so that some poor, dying child with untreatable cancer can be flown to Texas or Mexico, and they just have to have $150K for the treatment and drugs they need. They aren't medically trained and they can't spot the scam - hell, they don't want to spot the scam, they want their child to live, and who can blame them? They've already taken out as much debt as they can afford. Their families and close friends have probably done the same, and they're campaigning for the general public to chip in too, for a treatment that's effectively a fraud. It's heartbreaking.

This is where we need someone to step in and prevent the behaviour.
It's especially ridiculous for those who played the Paragon beta on PS4, as their Epic accounts are still blocked from other consoles even though Paragon has been cancelled and shut down.
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This is quite interesting. Being on the spectrum myself, and many of my friends being so as well, it is very important how different everyone on the spectrum truly is. For high functioning people like myself I see Autism more akin to a mental super-power that can be crippled by small things. The difference in thinking is magnificent, and it aids in my success in most things that I do, but is an absolute disaster when it comes to socializing with people near me. In a town of 300 people, there aren't really any tech nerds or otherwise. Which makes socializing awkward since technology and game are a massive portion of my life. Even to just go to the doctor the interaction is anxiety inducing that my heart rate can raise by a good amount. (I've seen 133 on a bad day, when normally I hang out around 100.) Having to rely on analysis of people and memory of what people think is acceptable is absolutely exhausting.

Having a clear test for autism is wonderful, but the spectrum is of infinite width and infinite height.
They're from New York and haven't been much elsewhere, what do you expect?
Still reading the case in detail, but these quotes address your comments head on and indicate that SCOTUS likely would not support a state scheme allowing for a multitude of local sales taxes (a la California).

EDIT: While it is true that the dissenting opinions wanted Congress to solve this problem for them, the physical nexus rule was (and generally always has been) a construct of the Courts, and should have been struck down by the courts. Having a legislative counterpart is no excuse for letting bad decisions live.

EDIT2: Also, SCOTUS did not strike down the nexus requirement, only the specific physical nexus requirement of Quill. The dicta quoted below strongly suggests that complex sales tax system would require stronger nexus than the South Dakota regime.

"Complex state tax systems could have the effect of
discriminating against interstate commerce."

"That said, South Dakota’s tax system includes several features that appear designed to prevent discrimination against or undue burdens upon interstate commerce. First, the Act applies a safe harbor to those who transact only limited business in South Dakota. Second, the Act ensures that no obligation to remit the sales tax may be applied retroactively. S. B. 106, §5. Third, South Dakota is one of more than 20 States that have adopted the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agree­ment. This system standardizes taxes to reduce adminis­trative and compliance costs: It requires a single, state level tax administration, uniform definitions of products and services, simplified tax rate structures, and other uniform rules."
Nintendo has started to brick the game cartridges coming from consoles that were hacked. So you could buy a game second hand that doesn't work. Nintendo isn't in the clear yet.
A dying and constantly miserable human is not a rational actor
The biggest reason is the pressure on HFT scenarios that want to migrate to Java and see it as a blocker, and the new kids on the block that offer better support for such scenarios.
Another reason might be that in Europe soccer is considered a rather masculine sport. Very few girls even consider playing it. Girls usually play volleyball, handball, etc. but a girl that kicks the ball with a foot would be strangely looked at here.

In the US, I hear, soccer is reasonably popular as a female sport, so the talenf pool is larger.
Wasn't china good in the early 2000's? I think they made it to the finals or something, what happened?
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>> "We mapped out the social network, if you will, of which genes the viruses are friends with and who they're talking to inside the brain," Dudley says. In essence, he says, they wanted to know: "If the viruses are tweeting, who's tweeting back?"

Finally, a relatable metaphor for millennials like me!
Is that so? In that case, why should only the special class of the terminally ill have the privilege of this choice? Everyone should have it. Just do away with drug trials and approvals in favor of a situation whereby anyone can advertise any substance whatsoever as being a cure for any ailment. The free market will determine what drugs work, no problem!

If that's not okay, why is okay in the case of a special class of patients? Because they will be dead soon anyway, so who cares?
Self discipline definitely has a momentum effect.

My most productive days are the ones that start at 5am with a run, followed by a shower, meditation, and writing up a list of things I want to accomplish that day. Then I start working with my noise cancelling headphones and my flow-state playlist. It's very deliberate from start to finish.

My least productive days are the ones where I roll out of bed randomly, when the sun has been up for a while, and sit down at my desk still in my pajamas. HN or YouTube tend to be my first tasks of the day, and sometimes I don't get to any others. These types of days seem to be something that's happening to me, rather than something I'm choosing.

I struggle with depression, and I find the second kind of day is a feedback loop of anxiety and procrastination. The first kind of day is a virtuous cycle of productivity and serenity.

That 5am alarm is the best way I know to set the whole thing in motion.
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Why not have fleets of electric vehicles with varying sizes, from 2 person mini cars to 20 person vans for large parties? Where I live, there are no subways, and busses are very energy/money inefficient. You may have a nearly full bus here and there, but the majority of the time there are barely any people in the busses, probably because it's $2.50 and it's a poor service. You don't get door-to-door service, increased road surface damage (y=x^4, where y= road damage with x=vehicle weight), crappy diesel fuels spewing pollution onto pedestrians/cyclists, hitting sidewalks and causing cars to back up whenever they make turns. I don't believe in the investment path to useful public transport here when we can have decentralized, electric, personalized services in the near future.
Well, whether or not (and if so, to what extent) unconscious bias taints engineering or scientific research is an interesting, and potentially important question to answer, it seems to me that the only people who are addressing the question are people who are overtly, consciously biased themselves - to the point where they actively exclude anybody who doesn't share their own set of biases.
FEIE means there is a sizable dollar for dollar advantage, depending on the taxation rules of the host country.
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Messi is on the lower end then, as was Maradonna...

A low center of gravity is actually a good trait in 'soccer' as everyone knows that knows a thing about the game.
> It is ignoring a large swath of humanity based on the color of their skin.

No, it's an insufficiently sensitive contrast filter combine with too narrow a training set. Screaming racism at everything that is even marginally approaching the topic of race detracts from real racism and ignores the actual issue here - shitty software.
A lot of folks commenting in here should look up Thalidomide.

Approved by most of the agencies in Europe, but denied by the FDA, it turned out it was really really bad.

So yes, the FDA does slow things down, and yes, people have a right to try what they want, but just keep in mind that the FDA does serve a purpose.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide#Birth_defects_cris...
Well, there was a really bad period in between then and now.

They finished last in their group in Euro 2000, and did quite badly in 2004 (though I don't remember specifics), and those were the results that motivated several changes (or, at least, moved some already-in-progress moves towards centralization forward).
I’m sure every company has done lots of things various people disapprove of.

This is an article about cross-play and your comment isn’t related to that, is it?
Unfortunately not applicable. The problem is a user with a regular desktop browser open and has the ip address of the device (on the same subnet). They have to type something into the browser address bar.

As far as I can tell, there is no way they could type something like webrtc://1.2.3.4 and would have to type something beginning with http or https. It can't be the latter because of signing issues, so we are still stuck with http.
I believe this is one of many reasons why tech companies, especially unscrupulous startups, look for the youngest talent they can afford.

Not only are these workers hungry for a job (and can be hired for less money because of their relative inexperience), but they also have not worked in the industry long enough to cultivate an ethical barometer (or are hungry enough for work that they would be willing to compromise their own ethical standards, if any).

When I read about or see a developer/engineer/etc stand up in support of the ethical or moral factor of their work it always makes me proud.
What else would they have been?