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So you've got to draw a distinction there, though the distinction was blurred significantly by the repeal of the Glass-Steagall act.

Particularly before it was repealed, you had two different kinds of banks: Savings and Loans, and investment banks. S&Ls were the ones actually making the loans, and would have been prohibited from getting involved with CDOs. Investment banks would have been allowed to get involved with the derivatives market, but could not have operated as a S&L.

The banks who were just operating as S&Ls made out like bandits - they made bad loans, immediately found a rube to sell them to, and whistled Dixie as they walked away.

Banks that bought a lot of these CDOs ended up being the rubes, and that activity was the major source of the "too big to fail"-type bank closures and near-closures.

Where it gets muddy is that it used to be illegal for those two kinds of banks to be the same entity. But still, I think you can draw a logical, if not physical, line down the middle in order to say, "the people actually making the bad loans weren't really the victims here."
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> I'm hoping this is sarcasm.

Is it really not obvious considering that the post to which I was replying said this?

>> His reaction in denying her the Porsche seems to me to be about telling her she has to earn such trinkets.
Agreed. It's relatively useless information without normalizing the differences by the variances (Cohen's d) or at least providing confidence intervals.
Proof of work mining is just a bunch of computers trying to brute force the password for the next block so they can get the mining bounty and fees from the transactions they include, so the vast majority of the results are thrown away. For bitcoin in particular, the difficulty is a sliding scale based on how quickly the most recent blocks have been mined, so increasing the number of miners leads to more energy being required to mine a block while the transaction capacity stays relatively constant.
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I was in the generation between you and your kids. We had amazing games like Quake and Half-Life but we also had the awesome Qbasic games community.

There used to be entire sites hosting Qbasic games, many of which were often simple puzzles that had a very unique artistic style and charm to them that was worthy in its own right. They also often came with the source, which let you dig right in, try to modify it for more lives, etc. Qbasic games weren't much to look at compared to the budding photorealism of commercial games, but the constraints imposed upon them by the already-aging Qbasic platform forced developers to come up with some truly cool stuff that maxed out what it was capable of doing. Wetspot 2 and Ghini Run come to mind, as well as countless raycaster tests I built entire worlds within.

There hasn't been anything like it since, with the unique intersection of constrained tooling that creates a distinctive style, a strong community, and an easy to learn programming language. Pico 8, love, and this may come close to recapturing that magic.
No, if your app is failing in a way that a page view now costs $1.00 instead of $0.0001 for example then the application should go down.
This is the only viable long-term solution.

Cameras that can see through walls and drones the size of a fly are coming.
That raised an eyebrow for me, too. I recently moved a project from Angular 1 to 6, so this is fresh in my mind. There aren't enough changes between 4 to 6 (or even 1 to 6) to cause mysterious 30 second lag times by themselves. And upgrading the front end's base framework under a time crunch is almost always a bad decision, regardless of which framework you're using.

In the companies I've worked for, these guys would be written up and likely put on a performance improvement plan, if not flatly fired.
So basically it's an oral history of SV? Sounds awesome I'll check it out thanks.
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Why even that? Why should I spend an evening scanning 400 pages of junk? That's worse than just keeping the book. Trash is trash.

I could spend that time finishing Accelerate (potentially a timeless classic), or Openshift in Action (doomed to be dated and irrelevant someday, but immediately useful to me now). Those are genuinely useful to me. Hoarding is not.
"Macedonia (FYROM, the country) [...], despite their nationalist"

You say nationalist as if that's something wrong, even forbidden. Greece itself is being run by nationalist governments since decades (disregarding their political color). Austria is run nowadays by a nationalist government. Heck, the US is run by Trump, who is a nationalist.

"and expansionist government"

FYROM has never ever even hinted they, a 2.1 million people tiny nation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Republic_o...), have any territorial request on Greece, an 11.2 million people nation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Greece). As Greece is part of both the EU and NATO, the idea of an expansionist FYROM is pure and simply ridiculous.
Somehow.

The original first CLOS implementation called PCL (Portable CommonLoops) was written in 100% Common Lisp with very little implementation specific CL code. PCL was a library which ran on at least 15 different Common Lisp implementations.

What really is a myth that it's (only) macros. That CLOS implementation is a complex library written as data types, functions, macros, ... and which was bootstrapped to be partly written in itself using classes, method, generic functions, ...

See for example: https://github.com/binghe/PCL
>But acting like that's not a viable solution is silly.

Usually you want to understand the problem before solving it. In this case, they wasted a bunch of time doing a bunch of things (upgrading all the dependencies, and refactoring the app) in the hope that something (ANYTHING) they're doing hopefully fixes a problem they don't understand. Smart move?
I used to think you needed an amazing idea to become a successful entrepreneur
I mean, we have application menus for that.
But wasn't it used for introductory CS courses? Perhaps someone can chime in about how it worked.
You don't refuse painkillers because someone broke a leg and just needs it to heal. It's not problematic to treat symptoms of underlying cultural gender roles but cultural change of course should be an endgoal.

I mean I generally agree it may end up in a security theatre area, but if they do find hidden cameras used for molka, I think that's helpful, not useless.
This is a pretty big privacy invasion and privacy is something very valuable to people. Our browsing activity doesn't seem like a big deal, but when companies are taking away our privacy and using it to create ads, a lot of people care! The big problem is that people have their privacy and personal space bubble, and if you reach into it they will be very angry.
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The graph starts at 50% where there is a thick line. It grows up and down until it contains the entire variation. The extreme values are not relevant.

It is a pretty standard format, and this "warning the graph does not start at 0" kneejerk is tiring. (What would you expect a graph with both positive and negative values should look like?)
There is no inconsistency, just a missing set of quotes around "right" - I hold there is no right or wrong in this matter. I don't reject the right of the people living in the area to try to influence the concensus - they might have even a financial stake in imposing "Lakeview Heights" over "East End Projects". But do they have a fundamental right to self name?
> Understand the services you depend on. Track the number of requests you're making to them, how long they're taking, and how many are failing. Reason through your system and look at the data when you have issues, rather than grasping at straws.

This is a good thought-process even when debugging issues during development. I've seen many developers attempt to "fix" issues by trying to figure out what dance/keystroke makes things work.

Whenever you encounter an issue of any kind, anywhere, understand the issue before attempting to resolve it. It may require you to dig deep into things you don't currently understand, but your career is currently telling you that you need to understand it.
Well, public transit between major cities and in/out of country is OK. Online timetables are reliable enough, you can get tickets online etc.. No live GPS tracking though :) But tourist attractions in smaller towns or, worst of all, in between them is kinda.. tricky. One of the reasons why hitch hiking is not dead.
I don't think so, since I don't think I've heard of that one. It was probably whatever functional programming podcast was popular back then.
In the absence of historical data, receiving information from another person, without any quick way to verify what has been communicated, coupled with a necessity to decide/act, has long required/used a shortcut.

You look in that person's face, you make the call. You'all remember that stuff. Maybe not so common now, but it's still on TV.. "My word is my bond." and all that.

If that utterance doesn't come with a hardcore look of sincerity playing across the face, well then it's not believable. Looking emotional doesn't mean looking distraught. It means not looking like a mannequin.

Even with data, logic, reason, and an armful of facts, imagine two people with equal amounts of the aforementioned, trying to convince a 3rd party, but one of the individuals throws in expressions/mannerisms that communicate "trust", "sincerity", and "competence"...
The important issue is consent.
This. We’ve gone backwards in informed usability.

In my first software job in 1997, the UI department employed an industrial designer, a graphic designer and a researcher with a masters in cognition science. The company had a usability lab where the UI was tested under controlled conditions.

Today companies have a graphic designer who calls themselves a “UX expert” and draws pictures of interfaces in Sketch.
Great news! Now this madness will stop.
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This is a great article and more people should read it. I was wondering why the sentences sound so familiar and it turns out it's heavily plagiarised (as in, a substantial number of sentences and paragraphs are
lifted verbatim from) Gerald Weinberg's book The Psychology of Computer Programming (listed at the end as one of the "references").

Read this book; much of it is still very applicable decades later (and the exercise of translating it into modern terms makes you think and is valuable too).
Odd indeed, especially since it has all the other useful tools one could use to create palettes. Maybe the target audience is creative people, not us just reusing ad nauseum the same effective palette.
>If you do go and track down the problem in your depedency and file a bug

There's a difference between upgrading your dependencies because you traced a problem that you know is fixed in the newer version and upgrading your dependencies because you hope it fixes a problem you don't understand.
this is using CRISPR for what it's meant for (scientifically, not biologically).

All the breathless articles about curing diseases, and solving long-term hard problems in genomics are wastes of space. Those things are going to take decades and may not even play out successfully.

CRISPR as a tool for scientific discovery, on the other hand, is the real deal.
It's not just nudity but the fine details of body-shaming; entire magazines exist of clothed photos of celebrity women where details are circled and labelled as horrible.
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Translators can't really win. They can either stick to the literal of the original work and betray its meaning, or convert the meaning and lose the literalness.

The second one yields the best translations, but is akin to writing the work yourself and may not be acceptable for either the original author, the fans, or the publisher.

Some of Terry Pratchett's translators (like the recently deceased Jan Kantůrek) won awards for their work because they had to use the second option, the first one would have made the translation completely pointless.
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Heroically buried lede 80% of the way down:

The East Cut name originated from a neighborhood nonprofit group in San Francisco that residents voted to create in 2015 to clean and secure the area. The nonprofit paid $68,000 to a “brand experience design company” to rebrand the district. [...] and one of the East Cut nonprofit’s board members is a Google employee.

Inverted pyramid is for those other newspapers I guess
Jobs was stunningly cruel to his daughter.
These signs don't seem to be marketing to well insured people or people in the medical supply chain... Unless they are just driving through my neighborhood for some reason.
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But it is. The town is allocated cheap electricity from Niagara Falls, and until recently, did not use its full quota.
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Why not? It needs a definition, just for the context. You don't have to like it, but it can certainly be defined that way.
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> The issue with maps has always existed.

As an amusing aside, and whilst not wishing to introduce flammable politics into this discussion, there's a funny thing that goes on whenever the topic of the Scottish Independence debate arises in the media or on social media. It usually concerns the Scottish border between Scotland and England and usually heads along the lines of "rebuilding Hadrian's Wall" to keep us pesky Scots out of the rUK (or whatever the reason de-jour is) and is often repeated by unionists (and journalists) far south of the border who've likely never set foot in Scotland.

Little do they realise (or they do and are playing along with the usual lazy stereotypes and tropes about Scotland) that Hadrian's Wall doesn't track along the Scottish border and is in fact up to 70 miles south of the border (at the eastern end). So they unwittingly in their minds donated a decent chunk of the north east of England to Scotland come independence day. Well, thank you :)

So yes, people's ideas about maps and where borders lie are issues everywhere, not just in China.
Your post sounded very much like my own story. Flew most of my life, wasn't particularly afraid until a night-time flight with severe turbulence where the plane dropped so fast the only thing that kept people from hitting the ceiling was our seat belts. A few people screaming, lots of scared murmuring. After we got off the plane, we heard there was bad weather with 100km/h winds. Ever since then, the slightest bit of turbulence gets me very anxious. I'm also less scared when I'm alone (dying alone isn't as scary), but usually I'm with my wife & kids, so the fear amplifies (even though they are all quite comfortable).

One coping mechanism I recently came up with is that I realized it's not so much the fear of crashing that I have (I've been able to rationalize about how turbulence != crash), but it's more that when the turbulence starts, I hate the unpredictability of it - I have no idea if the next bump is a small one, a big one, or one so big it will cause panic in the cabin. Thus even the smooth waits in between become angst-filled.

On a recent vacation, on the ground, I ended up playing with my kids on a "parkour" playground, running up and down hills, jumping on trampolines, getting the same feeling in my stomach and inner ear as a bumpy plane ride. So once I was back on the plane and we hit some turbulence, in my mind, I visualized myself running around that playground again. I know this sounds silly, but it worked wonders. When the bumps came, my mind was already prepared as it was pretending running and jumping on a trampoline. This helped me cope a lot, by taking me to a different place.

Many people mentioned hearing pilots attitudes towards turbulence helps and I can totally see that. However, one thing that I wish they wouldn't do is announce before the flight that a) it's going to be a smooth ride or b) there will be some bumps along the way. For me, at least, in scenario (a), if we hit some unexpected turbulence that makes it worse for me because I know the pilots weren't expecting it and (b) if they say there will be a bumpy ride, I'm bracing myself the whole time and I've been on flights like that where they ended up being 100% smooth :/
I think they should definitely make it a much more serious crime with harsher penalities. It's too hard to catch everyone with a camera, but if you catch a few people and give extremely heavy fines and jail time, you will discourage others.
Yes. And I think it can still be wise to avoid jumping to “this person is evil” too quickly.

Most of us know we often behave in ways inconsistent with our own values (because of lack of information or just personal imperfection). But when we see other people behaving in ways we think of as wrong, we’re quick to assume their behavior reflects their deepest values, instead of weakness or ignorance or normal hypocrisy.

Seems like a manifestation of the fundamental attribution error:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_erro...
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Considering how the USSR carved up eastern Europe and how they treated the local Germans in the east as the war wound down, I think one of the considerations was to not want parts or whole parts of Japan fall to the SU. In other words we didn’t want an eastern iron curtain. There is no way were going to allow the SU a major invasion force on Japanese soil.
It does sound like they used TOTP when possible but in some instances only SMS was available. My issue is that they seem to act surprised that SMS is so broken. I have trouble believing that any admins of a site that large have missed the various security alerts and news articles about hacked accounts, lost cryptocurrency, etc.
Makes me think of my home... my son is a "hardcore gamer", by anyone's definition. He doesn't recognize his mother as a gamer at all, despite her spending 10-20 hours/week gaming. She's mostly doing puzzle games on her iPad, so that's not "real gaming".

So there's a fair bit of gender and cultural bias in the very idea of "gamer".

I don't play video games, myself, for the same reason I don't shoot heroin directly into my eyeballs. I know I have a problem, so I avoid the problem.
It's the opposite. A false sense of security is feeling safe when it isn't safe. In this case, it is safe, but people mistakenly feel unsafe.

The police are providing a real sense of security that both represents the actual security and the peoples' feeling of security.
If you want to see really bad subtitles of Japanese media try watching anything on Crunchyroll. Their subs are all written in <24 hours by people working off a script dump without actually seeing the show for really bad pay. Netflix is amazingly high quality in comparison.
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Ignoring the graphs, curious how much of this is just a response to community. Anecdotes abound, beware.

Even as an older (for gaming, anyway) white male, the community in some competitive games is just really unappealing - it basically reminds me of middle school, and I guess I'm not really into that anymore. Lots of things said just to get a reaction (e.g. racial slurs), lots of weird discussions about women, lots of puffed chests the second there's an opportunity to, etc.

I don't really have the time to be competitively good at any of these games, and the community kinda sucks unless you are competitively good, so it's kinda like what's the point? At least with rec sports the community is generally nice even if you're terrible (probably because you're in-person).

Sure, you can just mute people usually. But if you're muting everyone all the time, you might as well just be playing a single-player game. You can just play with friends, but that requires you to have friends who haven't also gotten sick of these communities.

Conversely, the community in games more oriented towards completion/design are usually great - because your success doesn't detract from someone else's, and they're not usually depending on you for their own success. Feels much more like a community.

Anyway, my point being that I wouldn't be shocked to learn that women (and likely people of color) feel the same way - once you're not really part of that core group of young white men, competitive games start feeling really unappealing unless you're just really into the game itself.
Awesome, I was waiting for that to change my old breaking down router.

Any recommendation for a good entry-mid range home router running OpenWrt smoothly?
From what I’ve read, and even the biography, he was a dick pretty much all the time. But the brilliance that was (rightly or wrongly, I pass no judgement other than I lean towards the former) assigned to him meant people ignored it for the most part. Fascinating really.
I have been learning Go lately and would be interested in an engine like Pyxel but for Go. Does one exist?
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