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>Existing tokens had to set their capital controls in the Genesis event, and those tokens that print money haphazardly, won't last.

For all the other discussion topics, this is one of the most interesting aspects of crypto-economics for me. We can bake in different economic models and see how they work without it being easy to manipulate them later.

It's sort of disappointing that most platforms I've seen are either going for a basic deflationary model (token emissions dwindle and stop) or a fairly flat inflationary one (every block produces 25 new MeatloafCoins forever).

There's a lot of research that could be done into "how much do we have to expand the token supply to correlate with increases in actual economic activity and attrition while keeping token values flat against real-world goods". Not by actually pegging the value with a backing fund or guaranteed redemption, but rather by a self-regulating algorithm.

There's an interesting rabbit hole there: Can we get a proxy value for "actual economic activity" by crunching the blockchain, or will we need externl information feeds? Can it be made resilient enough to reject trying to game the system?

And then, there's the matter of "does anyone want to botstrap a truly stable currency?" Would you get many early participants if you say "it's explicitly designed to discourage speculative HODL behaviour?"
I would say European and south American comics are mostly unknown in the US.
L'incal, Corto Maltese, Mafalda, El Eternauta... There is a whole world which is distinctly different from the mainstream American style and manga/manwa, and very interesting.
Yeah it's a bad trade-off developers don't realize they're making sometimes. Spring is Gigantic. Application containers like Tomcat aren't much better. It's easy to write huge apps in Java that still perform well so there's not much pressure to modulize huge monolithic libraries. So we all just deal with the 200+ deep stack frames.

Newer frameworks like Vert.X and Dropwizard address this pretty well. We have a fairly large Dropwizard project that still starts in ~5 seconds. Also some written in Spring MVC that take 2 minutes...

Also, God AspectJ let's you create horrible abominations. And it feels like it was designed to encourage you to do so. A great example of why you shouldn't always use self modifying code even if it's easy to do.
Might obesity be related to lack of sleep?
I think that's true for anyone who's comfortable with proofs by induction, but most people aren't until well past the point where they'd normally learn to program.
There's a very simple fix to this: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jmdugan/blocklists/master/...
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If we had a standard for safe C that the linux kernel could feasibly meet, then it could be a condition of future changes that it continue to be safe.

As you say, it's pretty hypothetical on both fronts--we're not gonna be able to prove that about a C project like the kernel, and they're not gonna rewrite in Rust any time soon.
If you need to let load external JS, you have failed as a webdeveloper.

Just from a performance aspect:
An additional DNS resolve, additional TCP handshake, additional TLS, just to deliver a .js file that you could have easily served from the original website.

Not to mention the security aspect.
A trillion is not a billion

$78 trillion = $78,000 billion (or many, many, many times Jeff Bezos)
I doubt you’d get that kind of help; the compiler would say “you need an unsafe block here” not “use a reference instead”, for example.
Exactly. The need for a CPAP is almost always mitigated by weight loss.
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>Point is that it broke and you’re trying to figure out why and how to get it fixed

Yeah, but the point was made to support an argument (that code should have fewer abstractions so that it's faster to grasp any part while reading in a hurry, as opposed to more abstractions so that it's shorter and more generic, even if that means having to study the big picture to get what some smaller part of code does).

Now, if devs routinely had to quickly understand some local code at 3am to fix bugs, as per the example, then sure, fewer abstractions and more clear local code would be better.

But since your example is contrived, where does that leave the main argument?
I always educate myself on any technical subject instead of relying on democratically enacted laws. I educate myself on biochemistry instead of relying on The State to keep my food safe. If I have offspring I will educate myself on teaching techniques so I can choose the right private school instead of relying on publicly funded ones. This is all highly efficient.
I think using number of downloaded will also count number of build on each commit. Imagine if you have three branch in your repository, each push will rebuild the project (redownload dependencies). If you push three times a day it will download three dependencies three times.

Also, some project include their dependencies to VCS which only count once per build.
But "clocks" can only be in "sync" – i.e. record the same time between each "tick" – when they are in the same inertial frame – from special relativity. In addition, there is gravitational time dilation.

Thus, the "reality" is that no two clocks are in sync. As Rovelli points out in "Reality Is Not What It Seems", with the precise clocks we have today, it's possible to measure this effect for a difference in altitude of a few centimetres.
When a cold case is solved, why can't internet sleuths move on?
The hard part is search engine ranking.
Yeah. But I always blamed that more on sourceforge than filezilla.
If it’s used to invest then whatever is purchased is the offsetting asset. Sadly, it’s being used to fund current operations which has no offsetting asset. The offset is retained earnings. That can and needs to be fixed. It’s how state governments run and they do a lot of investing.
I find it amusing too.

I don't hold user data or regulated data... so I'm hopefully one of the cases that isn't illegal, but if I'm wrong then please let me know a worthwhile wordpress.com -> static site tool. With a baby abusing my free time, new hosting has been a low priority.

Update: I don't like that Facebook gets told what you read on my site, but I'm not sure it indicates much to them, maybe they'll sack Facebook employees who read this? Let me know.
I think your math is off by a few magnitudes.
>It’s not easy going into medicine but it is more reliable than many other paths.

It is, but it also has a much smaller earnings cap than other professions. So "for the money" here means "for decent enough money but nothing to write home about".
Ask HN: How does Bitmoji make money?
> The languages are so similar I have no idea why they haven't done it yet

the languages are so similar because microsoft started with J++ and got a lawsuit from Sun (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_J%2B%2B).
I don't see how this has anything to do with Facebook specifically as any 3rd party JS script can do this. Clickbaity title.
Well if you translate it to safe rust at least the worst that could happen is a design flaw.

And you can write oracle tests to catch those.
You don't need the MS Store for 3rd party repositories.
> The creator of the MutableFoo instance can make all sorts of changes to the instance but then pass it around as a Foo that can't be modified.

Until you cast the object...

You should use truly immutable data types unless you specifically need otherwise, most modern languages and libraries encourage you to do so.
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This is... literally the opposite of reality. Did you forget a /s?
So, ability to commit a crime is illegal? Did I miss something in this article?
Well, animals in nature (which evolutionary, we still are, civilization is just a tiny sliver of time) don't really have ambitions.
Cyberduck? https://cyberduck.io/

Seems like a good alternative with a modern UI.
As a user, I despise social buttons and never trust or use them. I'm very curious if I'm in the minority on that or not.

(And that's considering only UX, not privacy issues.)
Hey, mine too! I actually had that, reformatted, it was fixed for a while, and it's back to doing it again.

The worst part is when windows will start ignoring my request to delay updates to the weekend, and will begin restarting my computer during the week whenever I walk away from it for too long.
>This is not an alternative to generics or generic functions in the language. It fixes nothing.

When it comes to Go, you don't know what you're talking about. Learn to write a container type and then get back to me. Here's a Heap https://golang.org/src/container/heap/heap.go?s=2105:2138#L5... See the return type? interface{}. This is how it's done in Go. How did you think it was done without generics? IntHeap, StringHeap, FloatHeap, etc?

"You can't do X because Go doesn't have Y" was the original point. My response was "you do X with Z." Whether or not Z is good or bad is completely orthogonal to the original point seeing as how it's idiomatic in Go.
I'm imagining numerous editorials "I don't know how to tell you to stop sacrificing children...."
The premise here must be that the translator (human) has the original C code. So answering questions like "is this an array" is as simple as reading the C code to determine that.

Allocating too much space or getting a subscript error seems preferable to unsafety, and something one can hammer out with oracle testing.

Actually, it would be cool if there were generated quickcheck-like oracle testcases alongside this so you could start your translation to safe rust and test along the way.
Even way down here where the core of the conversation isn't happening? How would a "no" derail it?
Found the millennial who majored in art and took out ludicrous student loans.

Good luck blaming others for your problems...

Poor you.
"Learning to control it" ("it" being the stress of poverty) just sounds like another overhead you are expecting people to deal with that people in a more stable situation don't have to worry about.
`out` is a necessary evil to get any sort of sane interop with the Windows API. Otherwise, using a tuple [0] is almost always better.

[0] Bit like Python: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.tuple?vie...
In 1935-36, two Soviet humorists took a coast-to-coast road trip across the US and gathered their experiences in a book called "Single-Story America" (or "Little Golden America" in English). The translation by Charles Malamuth seems rather wooden compared to the hilarious, witty tone of the original Russian, but I think it's still very much worth reading: an uncanny number of their observations about American life and culture are still completely relevant today.

(Some choice quotes in my Goodreads review: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6708623)
As I see it the main benefits of C over using other languages like Rust, are generally the ease of getting access to raw memory, sharing pointers, and direct access to hardware. Rust is actually good at all of that too, but is just as unsafe.

The point I’m making is that the mythical “safe C”, would have to remove many of the benefits of why people enjoy C, so why not just use Rust at that point?

One variation I’ve seen is the idea of “safer C” put forward by DJB, which would remove all undefined behavior as it’s main goal.

In any case, people would need to learn something new, and that seems to be a huge barrier for any language.
Median price tag for a Silicon Valley home hits $935,000
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It's an extremely common and well-known library. Why is that clickbait? It's also helpful to study one concrete example at times. We know what Facebook collects and how they use it, and that closes the loop on whether this is scary vs. merely interesting.
It's weird, all right. Counting twenty would surely be just as convenient.
>those are numbers that say you wish you were as smart as the smartest person you ever met,

A 130 IQ is the 95th percentile. I don't know about you but I've met more than 20 people.
Just wait a couple of years and lets see how relevant Go will still be as 1.x without adding more features, outside stuff like Kubernetes and Docker.
Heys guys complaining. This is cross framing. 98% of the websites you are using use google fonts, youtube videos, external libraries and «serverless» telemetry.
So please, don't act as little virgins, we had warn you in loops since years and years.
Oh, yes, he's lightyears ahead of annoying youtubers. I'd just love to give him a couple of pointers. But I still subscribe, he's great.
As a developer, our job is making decisions (about code / requirements). This is directly related to decision fatigue ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_fatigue ) - the "not wanting to think about other things when you get home.

If one has the resources to reduce the cognitive load of other decisions (eat out rather than have to do meal planning), well... that's the advantage of having a well paying job.

The flip side is where problems occur. When someone is dealing with other REALLY IMPORTANT decisions (pay rent? pay food? pay utilities? medical bills? - pick two or three), making other decisions for a white collar job becomes harder to get and harder to keep.

This then leads off into tangents of basic income, guaranteed housing, universal medical care, etc... All of those things reduce some of the difficulty of making those really important decisions.
The immediate goal of everyone in this country should be to open the borders and open trade.

There is no excuse.

Borders serve no useful purpose in a globalized economy. Can you imagine how terrible it would be if the states had hard borders between them?

People act like having open borders mean invading marauders of foreigners, but did everyone from Ohio invade Maryland because of the open borders the states have? In reality, most people would stay where their family and relatives are.

"My dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders, sometime in the future with energy that's as green and sustainable as we can get it, powering growth and opportunity for every person in the hemisphere." - Hillary Clinton

Let's start by making annexing the states of Canada and Mexico into the US, and work other countries from there.

Do it.
Buff headwear (http://www.buffwear.co.uk/) is great for this as it’s a really soft material, much more comfortable than an eye mask I find, and will stay in place unlike a towel or whatever. Blocks out a pretty good amount of light too.
For DOM - we will see I guess. It simply opens the door for some much needed competition ;-)
> Instead of formally quitting, enduring a potentially awkward conversation with a manager, some employees leave and never return. Bosses realize they’ve quit only after a series of unsuccessful attempts to reach them. The hiring process begins anew.

I don't understand how you can do this without knowing that you are leaving money on the table by "ghosting" from a job you are already working in.

I would think this happens only in blue-collar jobs / min-wage jobs like a flipper at burger king but the article mentions in a previous page that

> In fields ranging from food service to finance...

If you were working in Finance (or even Tech) and suddenly don't show up, and your manager realizes that you've quit after being unable to reach you, how will you (the "ghoster") determine what your last day was, and get paid until then? The Boss can simply tell HR / Payroll "I don't remember when he/she disappeared, so not sure for how many days we need to pay him/her".

In this case, you are potentially losing out on a few 100 to may be a 1000 or 2000 $ by not properly quitting and indicating your last day.
Why not eat insects for protein? Also nuts and beans.
Because no one is making a profit from fixing it.
One thing open borders would completely destroy would be the social safety net of many countries. Let’s say there is completely open borders between Sweden and the United States. Sweden has high taxes and an significant social safety net. The United States has low taxes and a non-existent safety net. Over time, people who pay a lot of taxes migrate from Sweden to the United States. People from the United States who are unable to work for whatever reason, migrate to Sweden.

This would also affect government. You either end up with a large underclass that doesn’t have voting rights (see Qatar for example) or else they have voting rights and the laws of the receiving country change to reflect the culture of the immigrants.
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Surprisingly, Office 365 Exchange + Outlook has this now.
https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/like-an-email-messa...
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Exactly my point. Thanks for adding more detail.
This is why kids think their parents are idiots. - We are, but it's our kids fault.
Cool stuff, way more advanced than I thought of. I don't have an account but might create one, on phone right now. But I drop my 2 cents here. I rather see a free version with a simple relationship between MRs.
Basically;

If linked_mr:
print "warning, merging this will also merge:" + linked_mr

...

Function merge()
...
if linked_mr:
merge(linked_mr)

Then building a more advanced version for EE.
This an interesting article because it reframes current immigration discussions from humanitarian issues to economic ones.

I'd like to see more modelling on wage depression to see why this wouldn't have a widespread negative impact.

Additionally this seems like a weird point:

>Unskilled migrants care for babies or the elderly, thus freeing the native-born to do more lucrative work.

If lucrative work were available, wouldn't native-borns already be doing it?
One island grows 99% of the world’s kangaroos.
Probably not. The only point of contact with an admin I can think of is that orms can manage schema migrations.
There are ways to make this efficient but 1) people need to be concerned about the issues at stake 2) a lot of online business model also needs to be refreshed (-> chicken and egg issue). The best thing about privacy / security scandals and laws like GDPR is that it brings theses issues in broad light and they become a topic of discussion.

Side note : state backed safety laws and inspection may bring more harm than good, and I will never send my children to schools it would be the best way to make them stupid
CVS Pharmacy definitely includes the facebook scripts and hooks into every damn button you click on.

Not sure what is "illegal" about the scripts themselves. I would tend, however, suggest that the sites using these scripts may be using them in ways that are illegal (as in HIPAA for instance in the US). Under HIPAA the violator would NOT be facebook, because they didn't install the script on other companies' sensitive sites, nor are they aware of such usages and they didn't sign BAAs with them. The ones that would be doing something illegal are the ones that sign BAAs or otherwise are directly responsible for keeping health information secure.
yeah, it's not "either C# with a better language and less ecosystem, or java"... you can use scala and get something more powerful than C# and still get the java ecosystem. I suspect I will be using scala as my main language for some time to come
It's distinctly possible that Unity3D will "rescue" this aspect if C#, although from what I saw of the community it's not there yet. Probably the lack of a good package / dependency manager - oh, and the lack of up-to-date C# support (last I checked you were stuck way back with 3.5).

Yadda yadda, if I wanted to "fix" the lack of an open source community in C#, I'd start with the Unity3D community.
That might be useful for the 0.00000001% of the population that read your post, but wouldn't it make sense that sites using the script make changes?
How can they if they have to work full time to take care of their babies?

Part of the problem with today's economy is that it's basically impossible for a middle-class woman to have a child and work. There needs to be a large population of unskilled laborers to do these kinds of low-level jobs that a person with a college degree won't do.

This is why data shows areas with a large population of lower-class have a higher fertility rate.
Taxes would likely change from income taxes to consumption and property taxes, so it’s unlikely that governments will go bankrupt. More attractive areas of the world will cost more to live in, but it would eventually turn into one large country with pockets of exclusive communities.
I would happily sign a waiver for some feedback.

That said, I would bet that a lot of decisions, especially among "finalists" are essentially random (who seems smarter/better put together/whatever).

You're not going to get someone saying "well, you took 10.3 minutes to sketch out a solution to our first problem, which was too long. We would have hired you if you finished in under 9 and half minutes though."
Author here. I have great respect for Harel's statechart work, but it wasn't mentioned because it's not particularly germane to the topic at hand — the chapter is part of a computing education handbook. There are indeed other such chapters where one could imagine these references making a lot of sense.
That’s why they aren’t having kids and the population is declining.
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I was browsing amazon today for an e-reader but it struck me that I already have an expensive phone that outperforms every e-reader on every front except for the display.

Then I started wondering, are there specific Android browser for reading only? This might sound like a weird question but I'm looking for a browser that lets me read longer articles without being distracted by popups or images, I just want black on white text, maybe even something that emulates the look of e-ink.
A lack of good child care options pulls half of all reproductive people out of the workforce.
Of course, there are plenty of people on the internet ready to complain that scientists who warn about global warming do so only because they are making a profit from it.

Perhaps the problem is that the fix would cut into someone else's profits.
> Additionally not being able to share images as a feature? I guess everyone will do the three step upload to imgur first.

That's a feature for me. If I wanted to be constantly barraged with images, I would have stayed using Facebook and Twitter. People on IRC posting imgur links gives me the opportunity to accept or decline (usually based on their reputation, the channel's response, or my boredom). With other social networks, images are almost always unsolicited and often only waste scroll space (good luck to those still on limited data plans and want to know the context of the latest notification).

Besides, text often can have more substance and precise meaning (even if it's not perfect all the time). After all, we're all communicating with mostly just text right here. Another example of something else that features mostly text are books, so it's certainly not deprecated.

Give me all the text please - in fact, if you give me an image with a caption, I'll read the caption first. I can happily find images through other mediums so IRC without embedded images isn't a problem at all here.
Agree, I think most web devs should already know this, I am just surprised it's not a popular topic of discussion.

Also, the common argument for this technique that CDN lets you cache content so that users don't have to re download it every time. But I think it could also be done at the HTML level by precising a hash value of the file that we want to integrate (I stopped web dev for a few years I don't know if that has been added to HTML ?)
Everybody's Right by Paolo Sorrentino. He's better known for directing movies.
Forfeiting it is still worth it if it keeps the status quo. Or even better tighten borders.