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I was surprised to read this comment, because I was just recently feeling pleased about how pristine my iPhone X still looks after 7 months. I carry it in my jeans pocket, sans case, all the time.

Examining the phone very closely under a bright light, I was able to find a handful of tiny scratches on the iPhone X display. I cannot see them in normal use at all; the phone basically still looks brand new.

In comparison, my previous phone was a jet black iPhone 7 Plus, and the display got three very visible scratches in one year of use. The back, of course, was full of micro scratches, but that was expected.
Most networks support a channel mode that only lets people connected to the server via SSL join the channel.

Some networks only let people connect via SSL.
> For example, ask a lay person about BB and they will tell you it's an explosion, in the classical sense

Give her Weinberg’s book to read and she’ll come to a different
conclusion. Of course those books won’t give you a deep understanding
of cosmology but that doesn’t mean they have to be completely wrong.
Stephen Weinberg’s The First Three Minutes is my favorite example of
pop-sci done right.
If money is speech, then how are any constraints on campaign spending possible? But the Supreme Court has maintained some constraints, so it's a practical judgment call, balancing free speech against the potential for corruption. They didn't have to draw the line where they did in Citizens United.
The current 'old' also inherited a built environment and a great deal of basic research

The current generation of pensioners paid towards the previous generation of pensioners without quibbling.

It’s only millennials who take it all for granted and don’t want to pay what’s fair.
Then use nicknames, or abbreviations. Searching for symbols is very hard on the NLP dominated Web. And even if Google is getting better (but I tried a month ago with Scalaz symbols, and half of them failed), the other search engines (for example Lucene used by forums, or full text indexes) will strip out every non alphanumeric character.
GitLab has moved past being a "a code repo manager" and is creating a tool to manage the entire SDLC. My reaction to this is the opposite of yours. Adopting it has already allowed us to get rid of Jenkins (shudder), and will soon allow us to replace Jira as well. Your wishlist is reasonable enough but I like the direction they are going.
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One thing to consider: as per a recent Bloomberg article, with the tax code as it is now in the US, for the really rich with tax exempt structure over family offices, if you are paying any income tax on income that you haven't yet spent, you're not doing it right.
Why shouldn't everybody demand to be under the same tax regime as the wealthy? Why is this not a debate? Who owns the debate?
> the idea that money could be independent of government (and hence those that own the government) is very dangerous

that's how things were quite recently (before the ~19th century)
In some ways this isn't a bad thing, history has shown us there are plenty of politicians willing to use national identity to whip up and justify intolerance.
What's the problem of implicit arguments in scala? I can see why implicit conversions can be a problem but aren't implicit arguments required for typeclasses and other nice features?
> Meaning that every C64 was like very other C64, so you knew what you had to work with on the hardware side.

Well, other than:

1) PAL vs NTSC systems. True compatibility breaker.

2) Two different versions of SID sound chips (and every SID being more or less unique)

3) Different VIC-II versions (or at least some chips where VSP (variable screen positioning, a fast method for horizontal scrolling) works and some where it doesn't)).
Collect taxes? I'm a leftie but you don't actually need to have taxes for a government to operate. Prevent money laundring and terrorism?? Lol as if that don't happen in the current system. It's more of a question of what group is allowed to do those things. Basically the state today are just eliminating competition. Andreas Antonopolous is pretty much dead on here. There are consumer protection and security aspects which we also should have with decentralised crypto solutions but for the most part the state we have today creates more problems than it solves. On top of that they just throw the rules out of the window if that benefits the little club at the top, not to mention millions of poor brown people who suffer when a state yields the total power of the population and economy to act like evil psychopaths against out-groups for financial gain.. but yes we must make systems that make their power impotent and obsolete
Indeed. You still need someone whose job it is to ensure your S3 buckets are secure and whatnot. The job is different day to day but the need for someone to take responsibility for it hasn’t changed.
Sounds like we agree quite a bit. Even so, I’m often deeply disappointed in outcomes of constitutional cases (and government behavior in general) because it seems like they’re often “thinking too hard” or failing to courageously apply a simple, straightforward, and apparent reading.

I’m a fan of Gorsuch because he doesn’t seem to do that... Originalism as I see it is the opposite of open text jurisprudence, where the text is viewed through modern values and assumptions and made to bend to them.
There’s literally a MacBook available with 4 ports. Just because there’s one with a single port doesn’t mean all of them only have one.
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I'm not talking about hypothetical rape allegations. I'm talking about the Assange rape allegations. Educate yourself about the subject before just talking about it otherwise what's the point?
Yes and once some genius worked out that you could make money out of thin air (John Law) governments became very powerful. Nobody who has control of this system will give it up easily, certainly not to a bunch of nerds with a cool idea.
Not to detract from the Rails situation because I largely agree with it, but there are also issues with Ruby's memory management, as some memory just can't be reclaimed. Rebuilding Ruby with jemalloc helped in mitigating rampant memory fragmentation for our loads and use cases, but things can only go so far regarding how things are managed. At some point the processes need recycling, so yes, most literally, regularly reaping the workers is most literally a robust way to perform an OS-level sort of GC, as in you're 100% sure it works with any reliability, and even though it may hurt some theoretical sensibilities this is a very hands-on, practical solution.
What's your opinion of Odersky's scala3 implicit plan?
IMO Master makes sense. The Master user is in full control, there is no one higher than the master.
Out of curiosity, have you used it to build anything for yourself or at work?
Just like the dot-com bubble and burst, economics always wins, someone will find another way to make it work. The resistance of banks is short term and futile
Obviously, the wealthy own the debate. And that is no accident but the result of a highly successful political project that has been instituted over the past 40 years. Hey, there was even a study about it[1]:

Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence

It wasn't always like this.

[1] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...
Define "rich".

IMO the correct threshold is "earns more than needed over some longish period of time", which is another way of saying "has income that isn't spent". If you use that definition, everyone who spends all of their income gets that treatment, because their unspent income is zero and the tax on that is zero.
> It's been almost 100 years since the initial clash between classic mechanics and quantum theory, and how much closer are we to unification?

There is no problem with, to use your words, unification of classical mechanics and quantum theory

Classical Mechanics is recovered from Quantum Mechanics in the limit of h-bar (Planck's constant) goes to zero. In our day to day experience, Planck's constant is so small as to effectively be zero. The non-intuitive effects of Quantum Mechanics occur when we probe areas where the non-zero value of Planck's constant cannot be ignored.

There has been enormous progress in the last 100+ years in understanding how the world is described by Quantum Theory. In some ways, the so-called Standard Model of Particle Physics can be seen as the crowning achievement of that work.

The only remaining question on that front is the absence of a testable theory that describe gravitation as a quantum theory. String Theory appears to be a leading candidate for this, but it has not, so far, made any testable prediction outside of what we already know from other theories.
So they actually did deny.
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What I know is irrelevant. What matters is the general understanding and comprehension of the masses. If you accept Twitter and Facebook as an acceptable representation of the public at large then it's clear there are __a lot__ of naive / misled people.

Long to short, the majority would rather believe in the integrity of the intelligence community than the IC's willingness to take any road necessary (not just the high moral road).
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Real 'Cyber'-'Punk'.
Didn't they made this repo only for pleasing themselves? Not for dealing anything.
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It’s a ”function value”, since you haven’t applied it to another expression.

Whether that is a partially or fully applied function doesn’t matter in the first syntax, but in the second syntax you have to add ugly parens to disambiguate the partially applied function from the function call.

As soon as you get serious about type-level functions, the first syntax beats the shit outta the second.
I went to grad school in Canada and I didn't have to do any standardized testing.

People recommended doing your GRE but it wasn't required.
The blockchain allows two strangers to interact without needing to trust eachother, and without needing to bring in a trusted third party. That is an incredibly valuable service, and one that adds a lot of consumer protection to services that are able to leverage it well.

For example, using blockchain based contracts, we are able to empower consumers and enterprises to store data on foreign machines, without needing to know much about those machines besides their IP address. Using the blockchain's native currency, we can ensure that all payments are guaranteed, that no unfair chargebacks can happen, and further that the storage providers on our network cannot make money unless they actually keep the files for the duration of the contract.

No fraud, no chargebacks, no payment for unfulfilled services, with lawyers or courts or claims processes required. We can protect our users much more easily and cheaply than traditional services or marketplaces, and this is made possible through a blockchain.
I think the beauty of IRC and the previous way of thinking when we built the internet was just this - we could hack any change or additional layer into the software that we used.

IRC was, with the exception of simple clients, codable, scriptable, extensible.*

Software today is “what you get is all you get.” It’s pretty sad.

* It was a human body script that caused you to look at this “*”. Scripting is powerful.
It turns a mess of internal sharepoint/wiki/confluence links into an easily memorable namespace that can be 'linked to' verbally or on post-it notes.

A common hostname is 'go', so when you launch some new programme, project or tool, you can put 'go/projectname', or 'go/toolname' in places like chat topics, email footers and presentation slides.

Applicable in larger places that end up with a mess of different documentation systems, and where trying to unify everything would be a waste of time.
And a C compiler writer would reply "hold my beer" :-P.

(talking as someone who was working on a C-to-C# transpiler for PSMobile to port my C game engine to it before Sony axed it :-P)
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At least in the United States, as far as I'm aware, you can use any currency that you want. However, the government and IRS only accept tax payments in US dollars. Under these laws, you could transact in cryptocurrency all you want, but you'll need to pay sales tax, income tax, and other relevant taxes in dollars.
I use a leather case and plastic screen protector (7 Plus) not because I care about resale value, but rather because I don't want to coddle my electronics; I want them to be fairly durable. The way I see it, the dividend from the trend of maximally thin phones is the ability to put them in a robust leather case without them becoming too bulky.

My anecdotal experience has been that a plastic screen protector greatly reduces the likelihood of screen breakage, presumably because the soft plastic can absorb some amount of impact force. I've never ever broken a screen, and I drop my phone fairly often.

I also prefer the finger-feel of the Belkin plastic screen protector. And I enjoy replacing the protector every 6 months or so and walking out of the store with an absolutely perfect, scratch-free screen.

(I tried the Belkin glass screen protector once; it cracked within a month. And I disliked the finger-feel.)
"I'm not going to be held accountable for someone else's actions"

I agree, you are not. You are responsible for your own actions. So if you choose a life of non-violence - that is allright and it allways depends on the real situation, so I am not saying you should buy a gun. Because there is also this old proverb "Live by the sword, die by the sword" meaning I guess you also think that the more someone spends energy with something - like preparing to shoot someone for self-defense - the more likely it is, that he will have to do it at some point, so you just completely refuse it.
Well, there is some truth to it, but on the other hand - I for example train martial arts since I am young, but I never had to use it for real - even though there were many situations where I was glad, that I could - I never had to back off in critical situations. The knowledge that I could probably beat the aggressor, gave me the confidence to defuse the situtation calmly.

My point is, you should be aware, that there are indeed many bad persons around and if you choose the path of non-violence than you will have to rely on other people to protect you. And even if you never encountered violence, than this will just mean that those protectors (usually police) did allready a good job of keeping the violence away from you.
Hi Jason! Please get in touch with me too; I have a lot of Chinese data to share and discuss.

I made https://pingtype.github.io - a program to break up sentences into words, pinyin and parallel translation, and typing characters by breaking them into glyphs.

I also just finished making a large dataset of glyph images of 52,000 characters from 1200 fonts - see my other comment for the download link.
The last statistics I saw indicated that more than half of all US bankruptcies were due to high medical bills and even having "good" insurance by American standards was no guarantee of protection. That hardly constitutes an edge case.
The page at that link says:

« The most effective sink of atmospheric methane is the hydroxyl radical in the troposphere, or the lowest portion of Earth’s atmosphere. As methane rises into the air, it reacts with the hydroxyl radical to create water vapor and carbon dioxide. »

So if the page is right, possibly not "most of the ways", but at least "most of the methane".
You buy your Bitcoins in US dollars, that's all that matters.
As long as people, companies and organizations do their business in dollars, cryptocurrencies will be ignored. If someday a large chunk of the economy is done using them, the government will do something.
See also: https://m.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Chuck-Yeager-is-i...
Is there a huge amount of fraud in the online storage industry now? You can put as much as you want on s3 or whatever for almost nothing right now.
Cryptocurrencies are not "just like cash". I cannot teleport 1 billion dollars in cash across state borders. I cannot store it my head while imprissoned. I cannot manage it without accomplices and theft risk.

The whole premise "exchanges as identity gatekeepers" is in contradiction with the promise of stable world wide cryptocurrencies that ar just as good as fiat. When that happens, nobody needs exchanges and money laundering becomes a fundamental feature of the financial system.
If i where at the CIA, i would hire such rotten apples, so i have a handle, and know where the handle is, and could very carefully watch, wether somebody else was pulling that handle.

And if that trooper went rogue, and i had to make a public exempel- all those other rotten apples i had, ready to do whatever i want them to do- would know from where the bullets come flying.

Spying always attracted those who live in hiding by nature anyway. Before beeing gay was socially accepted, huge parts of the spy community where more or less flaming. If the suspect was a peod- and lived a spys life since puperty anyway, might as well hire him.
Unbeknownst to you, you nailed it, because the "full privileges" role is "Owner", not "Master". "Master" really is "Maintainer".
Signal requires a phone number.
Keybase is an identity service.
iMessage requires a phone number and is not verifiable.

IRC on the other hand allows ephemeral usernames, you have the option to use e2e encryption if you choose, etc.
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Sure, voters' demographics don't match up with the population as a whole, but they're certainly not more skewed against the tastes of the poor than an idealised free market. (I don't think they're likely to be well represented in Levine's survey or the central San Francisco housing debate either)

Your linked homevoter article underlines the point by suggesting that low density housing areas are more likely to be downzoned than zoned for higher density, which is odd if a majority of their population has an unexpressed desire to live in a less suburban area, especially since it's most likely to happen where residents are homeowners and wealthy and white enough to be an influential voting bloc.

Restricting supply is itself a perfectly valid reason for actually preferring lower density housing, but it's only part of that equation. It turns out that many people who might answer survey questions saying that they ideally want a walkable neighbourhood with better transit actually end up obstructing plans to put a train line through their leafy suburb and a mixed-use development towers a few blocks away from their house.
It’s no surprise. This has been a theme for him through out his career. The typical angst of the goth/industrial scene he’s been part of since the beginning of the band.

I believe that during bush years he released Year Zero with its alternate reality game [0]. That albums entire message was about the fall of america and western society in general. The game was really eerie but a fantastic way to promote the upcoming album.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Zero_(game)
Resistance to state control is one of the axioms Bitcoin is built upon. If you think it is not possible, then Bitcoin cannot make sense to you.

https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin/wiki/Axiom-of-Resis...
How could we know whether those sad news are true and not?
>The status quo comes at great cost — high rents paid to financial intermediary institutions along with other various and protected oligarchies.

So far so good.

>However, it also provides benefits in the form of public goods.

Hmm.

>It generates and sustains core functions of the broader state and economy such as tools to capture tax revenues, prevent money laundering and terrorism financing, capacity to control the money supply, protect consumers and investors, and ensure market integrity and even (a degree of) financial stability.

Tools to capture tax revenue, prevent money laundering, and prevent terrorist financing? I thought tax evasion and money laundering were some of the services they offered! Protect consumers and investors? Secure financial stability? What?? Did everybody forget about 2008 already? A small elite set of people KNOWINGLY wrecked the world economy, calculatedly corrupted our political, regulatory, and academic bodies to ensure no responsibility ever come to them, let alone demands of repayment, flipped the incentives around to become fabulously rich and rewarded for driving their companies into the ground and ruining their clients, got paid to lie and deceive, to give lectures and papers and audits saying everything was a-OK, to lie to clients about the junk they were peddling, to take regulatory roles and stand aside... If you want to see it this way, doubtless millions of excess deaths are attributable to their actions. Make no mistake, if they could get away with it they would murder your entire family in cold blood for a hundred bucks.

The current financial/banking scheme can very well go fuck itself. It's difficult to do worse than this; it's a broken in almost every way, except in securing power and vast wealth to a select group of people. Note, I'm not saying blockchain will surely bring about anything better.
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This is rich. Most manufacturers would not need to start a special program, you just mail your laptop back, no lawsuit needed. Lenovo will send a repair person to your home. Apple really is trash. You can't even replace a hard drive in their laptops. Fisher Price laptops.
I was referring to the keyboard issue, not the error 53 issue or whatever.

For the keyboard issue, it’s a simple case of honouring ACL saying that devices should last for a reasonable period of time. Two years is the baseline automatic baseline for iOS and Mac within Apple, with discretion used past that.

I think the error 53 thing was a bit more nuanced and that was a genuine misinterpretation of the laws.
How do you account for the effect where people do live closer to their stated preference in Boston than Atlanta, then? Surely if those effects were so deleterious, that wouldn’t be a thing