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This seemed to me a key point of this article:

"...those public goods^ which, through hundreds of years of government, business, and democratic processes, we’ve agreed are priorities and values our finance and currency systems should reflect."

I think your opinion on this statement colours how you think about the rest of the topic. How do you see this process, and what it produced. Are we, via Hegelian pendulum swings, Smithian invisible hands or democratically aggregated will... are we producing a better money system all the time. Incorporating good ideas. Reacting to changing needs and wants. Keeping everything relatively bug free.

Or... if you fall on the other side of this... do you see this process as a mature game, hijacked democracy, corrupted capitalism or bougie conspiracy.

I think most everything else traces back to this disagreement. If you're in the mature game camp, you do not accept that the way money works is at core determined by rational trade-offs between anonymity and governance or more mischievous dynamic.

Interestingly, this explicitly does not divide along any possible left-right spectrum. It's more of a conservative-radical divide. Your radicalism can equally be of a marxist, schumpeterian or modern variety.

^The Public Goods he lists are tax compliance, anti-money laundering^^, stability and market integrity, and consumer & investor protection.

^^Anti Money Laundering deserves it's own little rant. AML has little to do with money laundering in 2018. It is (legally) a euphemism for a broad set of controls that (if successful) will make it enforceably illegal to accept a robber's money with a positive responsibility.
I think the outcome where the bicycles exist and the company pays a fine is way better than the outcome where they ask permission and no one gets to use the bicycles.

I'm pretty confident that social pressure or technology can solve the littering issue, too, leaving forgiveness approach with no drawbacks at all. I would be happy to step over the bicycles, seeing it as a sign of an actual innovation in society that people are really using and benefiting from.
That point comes way further along, assuming you're talking about bare metal and not simply cloud instances.

For my workloads, serverless functions would end up costing 4-5x more than operating the infrastructure myself. Given that my infrastructure costs exceed the salary of some number of developers, that's a very real difference.

Probably makes a lot of sense for early-stage, though.
Can't you do Windows runners even on cloud? I thought there was a callout on their pricing that said that your custom runners don't count toward usage metrics.
It's a "social" science experiment to see what happens. Might as well put four people in a 900 sq ft condo for six months, give them a 40 minute telecom latency, and black out all the windows.
A roof, clean water, and food. Waste and sewage removal is a mutually beneficial luxury.
Hot take: people avoid taxes because they don't want to pay money, not because the tax code is complicated
Unless you rename QE to something like "hard fork".

In order to preserve the integrity of the blockchain the following actions must be taken...
You can overdo fairness and cause troubles to the poor. Very concretely: Giving someone a loan, despite their credit score being marginal, will severely mess up their credit score forever, if they can't repay you.

If you are poor, then don't create more debt! It should be hard to rack up such a debt, not easy and accessible. No amount of credit is going to increase your social status, because you have to pay it back with your own current/near-future money.

If we want social justice for the poor through access to more money, then capitalism is not a good way to go. The state should become a credit provider.
Ok, let's go with that. How many of your friends would associate with the drug economy? Would you tell your employer that your are associated with that?

And I'm talking about dealing drugs, not about smoking a joint which is socially acceptable in many places.
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"Poverty decreases IQ" studies are contentious and not well replicated. Why does it keep getting repeated in 2018?

This Princeton article is from 2013 and talking about the paper, "Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function". Here is some December 2013 commentary doubting the paper:

> Mani et al. (Research Articles, 30 August, p. 976) presented laboratory experiments that aimed to show that poverty-related worries impede cognitive functioning. A reanalysis without dichotomization of income fails to corroborate their findings and highlights spurious interactions between income and experimental manipulation due to ceiling effects caused by short and easy tests. This suggests that effects of financial worries are not limited to the poor.

Comment on "Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function". Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259207757_Comment_o...
>Can you give example biographies ?

Godel, Nash, Erdos, Cantor, Tesla, and many others.

>Ignorance is bliss until you are bored

Aren't smarter people more easily bored -- because their minds need to have more stimuli all the time, as opposed to being more content with simple things like sports and a beer.
As long as the act was accidental I don't see any need to assign blame or guilt to anyone.

This need for regulation simply dosn't apply to pedestrians, and strict rules just seem extreme and uneccessary. There simply isn't the evidence that pedestrian behaviour is a cause of death and injury among drivers. So why bother inflicting unpleasant rules and laws on people? Especially when the pedestrian themselves is likely to be the only person injured or killed.

Of course some places do have jay walking laws, and I would agree that people should follow the law. But those laws exist solely for the benefit of motorists and not the safety of pedestrians. I just don't see any strong moral case for those sort of rules to exist.

I think that cars create a uniquely weird set of circumstances. We impose a set of rules and restrictions on people that are more aggressive than would normally be acceptable. They are completely against free will and liberty. They are a total drag. And people reactively assume that the same rules should be applied to other road users. But that is categorically unfair and uneccessary.

Should drunk walking be banned? Should kids cycling to school be banned? Should we have a law that punishes careless walking? No, that is ridiculous. But we have to have those laws for drivers.
Could you quote or otherwise cite where the article claims that?
One of Amazon's innovations in the virtual server space is finding new and different ways to repackage their EC2 servers.
Any valid logical sentence is a tautology.
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> When I talk to cryptocurrency advocates, they typically argue about private benefits but I want to hear more about the public benefits

I find it easier to imagine cryptocurrency providing public goods in areas of hyperinflation or other massive macroeconomic malfeasance. The article is right that governments have lots of tools to suppress it--raiding exchanges, sting operations--but it is unlike bullion in the sense that you can't hide your entire bullion stash with encryption. The outcome of that cat and mouse game is highly contingent on local conditions.
How far apart are you going to put them?
Remember a few years back when that sedan size meteor hit a frozen lake in Russia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBLjB5qavxY
It was breaking windows many kms away.
Around 3:10
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I came to say it is a failure of Uber to have a insufficient experimental protocol that ensures that drivers stay attentive. Breaks, cycling between engagement and disengagement as well as internal system status clearly displayed (dashboard LEDs, not a text based screen) should be designed around keeping the driver alert.

Uber will of course claim that the driver's specific job was to ensure safety of passengers and pedestrians while putting the bulk of the responsibility on Vasquez. The blame ratios in this case are way over 1.

Why is it important that we [[know this]] ?

> Herzberg, [[who was homeless]], was walking her bicycle across the street,

I feel like I am supposed to care less with this fact.
Apart from quantity, quality of sleep is also important.

I just realized how much a little light can disturb sleep. My blinds are opaque but hung 1-2 cm from the window frame, letting in just a few unwanted photons. I temporarily taped the blinds to the frame, leaving the room in almost complete darkness. I haven't felt this rested in years. Do try this at home!
Have a doctor perform a sleep study examination.
I'm not very familiar with Scala3, but as far as I'm aware implicits are still a core part of the language?

Let me put it like this: I recently applied to two high-profile startups with experienced technical leadership, and they both explicitly asked me if I was a Scala fan. They weren't and made bad experience in the past regarding productivity due to complexity, tooling and developer onboarding, which unfortunately matches my experience. There is some good stuff for certain niches (Akka, Spark etc.), but otherwise I feel like Kotlin is winning.
>I would estimate that around 90% of the people I know who want to become a doctor (around 30 people) are motivated solely by the desire to make lotsa money and be able to drive an expensive car.

There far easier ways to go about getting more money than spend over a decade in studying for it, plus all the hard work that comes afterwards.

More people that get into medicine that I know of either are idealistic, like the lifestyle (as portrayed on TV), had parents that were themselves doctors, or do it for the prestige. The money is not the biggest factor.
I deserve my down votes. This is explicitly designed not to be a political forum. I have come to the conclusion that there is no neutral pursuit of technology and my participation here is thus a contradiction. Still I want to get to 400 karma for that juicy downvote button. Thanks for the commentary I will work on being less preachy.
I wasn't actually trying to help per se. I was just wondering if it was something he's/she's tried is all.
I still haven't used it enough to have a real opinion, but I think `dyn` is the one thing in all this I feel is a bad change. Otherwise the module system is going to be much nicer, `impl Trait` has been a thing needed since day 1, and some new forms of elision are nice. I'll be curious to see if I like the `match` changes though.
At the voltages and amperages this size of small off grid pv system is, all you would ever need is insulated gloves and 1000V rated insulated electricians tools. We're not talking about arc flash suits here.
Corporation are people does not imply anything about actions they take in these instances. Also just because you have a couple of examples about moral behaviour does not make it a norm.
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Sending 100 people at a time to on a near suicide mission is quite a dumb thing to do. You realize that bringing them back might turn out to be very difficult, that is if they survive the trip to Mars and the landing. Also the infrastructure to do so will be quite expensive. We've sent robotic gear to Mars and most of it has failed. Gear that doesn't require air to breathe, water to drink, food to eat and that can be just abandoned there.
It is when its imposed upon people. It's not like everybody self-elects to "work to live". Especially when they're just a cog doing a BS job just to pay the rent and feed their family, not full-filling their entrepreneurial or creative or other dreams through it...

(And the culture and glorification around working to live has a lot of employer influence in it).
They didn't replace it after the 3rd failure? The third time I called about repairing my Core 2 Duo MacBook, they just let me pick out a brand new model for free.
Newline in realpath (and many other commands) output is mostly for aesthetics. It doesn't help with taming $(), because $() strips all trailing newlines, including the ones that were actually part of the pathname. You would have have to resort to something as ugly as:

f=$(realpath ... && printf 'x')
f=${f%x}
Well we could switch everything to balanced ternary (which has a higher radix economy not just than binary, but also than unsigned ternary. Something most people talking about ternary neglect to mention - because the traditional formula for calculating radix economy isn't generalized.), but that comes with a heap of other (tractable!) problems...
Go is weird to me... tries to be low level, but has a GC. I can see it being a good option for someone coming from Java wanting to target more native code, but I'm not personally impressed. Plus `interface {}` ;)
Agreed. As someone who has worked with Rails over the past 9 years, the only time unicorn-killer is generally used is to save an application from very bad engineering. That’s it. That’s the only reason to ever use it. No serious (or even not-so-serious) production app should be using unicorn-killer as a strategy. Ridiculous fail. Rather than releasing shiny new stuff, it might be wise to fix the core issues with the stability of the system first. Using New Relic or Skylight should at least help narrow down where the memory leak originates.

I know we are supposed to be “Hurray Gitlab! Open core!” but it feels like GitLab support around here is contrived and astroturffed, by GitLab insiders. Any company that actually claims unicorn killer is a robust way to handle memory leaks has some extremely incompetent technical leadership. The robust way is to not to have memory leaks! Essentially restarting your servers all the time (which is what unicorn killer practically does) is a ridiculous way to handle memory leaks.
I have. I was diagnosed with Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder and Type I Chronic Insomnia.
> Realize in C and JS and most languages, the standard equality '=' operator, does exactly this.

> For example, console.log(2(a = 10)) would print 20 while setting a to 10*

`=` is the assignment operator, not the equality operator. The equality operator is `==` in C and `===` in JS.
What is meant is that there are long term health consequences of sleep deprivation and you can’t cancel those effects by oversleeping the next couple days after an all nighter.
I'm no expert but I thought that the whole 8 hour a night thing was not true, at least not for everyone. If I force myself to get 8 hours of sleep, by forcing myself to stay in bed after I wake up, I get a headache. If I let myself wake up on its own without an alarm, it averages around 6.5 hours. If I get below that, then at some point I will sleep more than the 6.5 hours, and maybe even 8 hours.

So from personal experience it seems like some of the things in this article do not mesh well with personal experience. I'm just confused at this point as to what to do. Am I suppose to stay sleeping for 8 hours even though I am awake? If for some reason I can't sleep at night and get less hours of sleep than expected, am I suppose to call in late to work and miss my morning meetings? You want to do the right thing here but getting 8 hours of sleep for some people just seems unpractical and there must be countless people who never get 8 hours and live long fruitful lives (I have no evidence for this but it seems like it would be true due to me not remembering anyone who told me they get 8 hours of sleep). I guess I require more evidence that 8 hours is what everyone should be getting. If maybe some people need 8 and others do not, then maybe they need to word it that way.
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Incidentally, the match changes work in stable today.

The audience for the edition isn’t just those who follow Rust closely, but for those who don’t. And even for those who do, we want to take a look at some of the things that make writing Rust feel differently in the last few months. Turns out the match stuff was good enough to stabilize a bit earlier, even though it was designed with all of these other features.
The article gives an impression of a group of people who behave like cultists.
What are the advantages of a Pixelbook over a XPS or a Thinkpad?
Not really. For example, a doctor who is here only for money can chose more expansive operation/treatment than necessary in order to win more even if it is not a good choice for the patient.
No, I've never really used any recreational drug, including alcohol. I don't mean to sound judgmental, but for me personally the long-term effects of THC aren't understood well enough for me to try it yet. If you don't mind me asking, does your wife have to take it on a consistent (ie nightly) basis to sleep well?

Maybe when I'm older with less to lose I'll experiment more and see if things like that work.
If jaywalking is illegal then that person should be prosecuted for that. The rest is just an unfortunate accident (assuming that the driver was at the correct speed). It is horrible, but hardly evidence that strict regulation needs to be applied to pedestrians. This is a ridiculously unusual situation after all.
Very tragic for Wright and his loved ones.

I bought some nail scissors from their website a few years ago when hunting around for something better than they sell in Boots in the UK high street - I marvelled at their comparative quality - I even posted to my FB page to recommend them.

I feel sad and wistful also, to see the decline of the company, which seemed inherently artisanal.

More sheet-pressed tat from China, less handmade steel, alas.
Tabs polute an otherwise perfectly simple concept, fixed width fonts. If they had't existed out of the gate, no one would have ever considered asking for it, especially if the reason was "I want to be able to pick my own indentation level". They'd be laughed out of the industry. You want the whole world to worry about your prefered indentation level every single time they start a new line? Thats never going happen. Take the indentaion level your given and burden yourself with the task of writting a feature for your editor that lets you pick what you like instead. Oh, and have fun fighting with it every time you open a file you didn't write.
I'll try to get my little brother to sign up to a hacker news account. If we get that far without me doing it for him, we'll see if you can make sense of his response.

He doesn't have a great ability to write because he's severely autistic. You know, the disorder kind that makes it difficult to learn to read and write?
> China has to import ballpoints for ballpoint pens from Japan because they don't have the skills to manufacture them in China.

You're info is outdated now.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/01/18...
I for two.
How do you know? Massive productivity increases over the last 40 years have not reduced labor participation in the slightest.
There is more to life than smiling and talking to people on a daily basis.
I didn’t say it is less readable. I said it is more opaque. After all, there is still a type parameter implicitly. It is also inconsistent, because you still need type parameters on types or in cases where the type trait is defined on the impl block.
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Only among the older generation. The younger generation has a much higher preference for local brands.
Were having this discussion on an international forum, online. People are making blanket statements about language without a scrap of distinction as to background or locale, just “white” and “black” and little else. Further back in this thread appears the phrase, Thanks for your assumption that I am an American, I am not.

So yes, the context I’m examining was very much on the table.
>My counter is that people might like the concept of anonymity, and they may even hate their bank, but they like a functioning society and (relatively) stable financial markets a lot more. In fact, we’re usually willing to sacrifice some anonymity, or create governance systems (warrants) that impinge on them in exchange for public goods like law and order.

Stable like depreciating USD by 95% in less than 100 years?

Stable like the boom and bust cycle every 6 - 12 years due to inflation and currency manipulation?

Stable like using inflated money to have waged massive wars?

Stopped reading when the author put that lie in there. There is absolutely nothing stable about USD that is worth the risks.

It is a moral imperative to make bitcoin (cash) and deflationary money work for society.
Some people are unable to show that level of attentiveness. They may be disabled, kids, short sighted, drunk, etc. Should those people be morally and legally banned from the road? As a driver you just have to accept this kind of stuff when you drive in peoples communities. Unregulated humans are not always predictable. Sometimes accidents happen.
During the 80s Japan was ruled the a single party that had been in power since the end of WW2.
We do exactly that when the judges decide on the monetary amount of fines. So, in the end, I don't see a problem with these calculations from a utilitarian perspective.
I've never understood how this could be the case, evolutionarily speaking. Even in the absence of electrical light, there is rarely complete darkness. Did our remote ancestors just sleep extremely poorly whenever there was a lot of moonlight?
This is fascinating stuff — every time I use my oyster card I have wondered what it is doing behind the scenes.

Do you know of any write ups about TFL's infrastructure/processes? Would love to read about it.

I'd also like to buy whoever lead the TFL API's move from XML to JSON a coffee|beer!
I don't have all the answers about how a new economic system might work, but some possibilities I can think of include:

- New cryptocurrencies (possibly built on smart contract platforms) could replicate some features of the banking system

- Some loans could be based on deposits instead of new money creation (i.e. the naive view of how banks work)

- Easier creation of equity instruments based on crypto tokens could substitute for debt financing

One thing that fascinates me about all this is the ease of experimenting with new ideas. I don't know where we'll end up, but I'm optimistic that this messy process will end up advancing civilization.
The best thing to do is probably to sleep as much as your body tells you to, which in your case happens to be 6.5 hours (It can depend on genetics), and in my case ends up being more than 8 hours. Forcing yourself to sleep longer probably isn't a good idea.
Exactly. It's strange how a lot of people just lump all these various companies together and just call it "China."

There are tons of Chinese companies that make extremely high quality stuff. You just have to be willing to pay for it.
Same. I setup an AppEngine cron to call a Google Cloud Function every 8 hours to invoke an API and persist on GitHub all for free[0].

0 - https://github.com/cretz/badads
I'll be really curious to see how the async/await stuff plays out. I'm still a bit unclear as to why it needs to be a language feature and not something in STD or an external crate. I'm sure if I read the RFCs/Issues I'd understand better, but it's been a while. Regardless, most of the changes so far are welcome in my eyes :)
> but there's a lot of other cruft in there

The ToDos is a sort of inbox of actionables. We don't use approvers because we use assignees for MRs but here you'll get anything that requires (or may require) some action on your part, like mentions, assignments, CI job failures you're responsible of... ToDos get automatically "done" when you act, such as replying to a mention. Alternatively you can manually mark some issues as "done" or "to do". I like this workflow personally use them to great effect by practicing a form of Inbox Zero, and combined with the personal issues and MR lists they give me a good picture of what I have to do.
Thanks! Learned something new today.