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All true, and we have to live with it. The idea that humanity has gained because of military needs is not outright unethical, but it's troubling. It means that everything we aspire to as a culture in the US relates to killing other people. I personally have a big issue with that. I'm not some drumming in the park lefty hippie, though. I have avoided working directly for MIC companies throughout my career, but I'm not exactly lily white when it comes to this matter. It is nearly impossible to separate yourself from the evils of militarism and big government in the US. Even the most benign looking company you might work for, when you peel back the veneer, is taking government money in some form. It's not always obvious how. I used to work for a company that made legal research software. Well, the US Government, including institutions like JAG, are big customers of it. Everything in the US, one way or another, is backstopped by taxpayer money.

On a side note, I don't get all the adulation for the recently deceased John McCain. Mr. McCain was one of the biggest supports of the MIC and its warmongering ways the past 30 years. Here was a man like no other when it came to gilding the pockets of the militarist corporations. He's exactly what Eisenhower warned us about, and Smedly Butler a generation before that!

We could, if we wanted to, disassemble this mess. It would not mean we would eliminate national defense. It would just meant we would cease the warmongering, the unnecessary spending on ridiculous boondoggles like the Littoral Combat Ship (while regular military people go on welfare), and basically move to more of a Swiss style approach to defense where regular people are involved back in the process again. Right now, it's all about billions of dollars funneling from you and me into the pockets of Lockheed Martin, L3 Systems, General Dynamics, and the like. It's time that it stopped. Despite what you think, this is what the new breed of Republicans is trying to accomplish--McCain was never a Constitutional conservative. Not for a single day. And his run for President was a stage-managed failure on purpose in order to promote the devious ends of his cohort. It's time to hit the brakes on all of it.
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Ok, but still, why should I care if a package listed in requirements is dependency? What difference does it make in the real world?

And `pip freeze > requirements.txt` writes out version of the package that `pip install` later installs.

Very very seldom has this ever caused problems and I've been doing Python for over 8 years. I just really don't get the "problems" you see here, they seem pedantic and theoretical rather than real world issues.

Again, not to say pip is perfect, it isn't. Just that it's way more reliable than NPM.
Lighting as a bitcoin fork is at: http://lightningbitcoin.io/
... or locally grown organic super-fresh superfood greens for a major tourist economy like Las Vegas?

It could work for niche stuff, but energy costs is always what kills these ideas for the mainstream market. Sunlight is free. If we had Mr. Fusion maybe it could work.

Edit: I suppose it could work in the Middle East too where energy may be cheap enough (solar, cheap gas) vs. the cost of shipping it from Europe or further away.
There is/was a substantial Jewish drug trade in Melbourne. Unsurprisingly, organised crime isn't restricted to any particular religion or ethnicity.
> I go there every now and then because of the nice vibe, lush green environments and musical events.

I visited Copenhagen last year and went to Christiana to see this vibe, greenness and artists. Instead I mainly saw teenagers drinking, and lots of litter. Another comment below mentioned that the legalization of drugs will hopefully bring Christiana back to what it used to be since it will not longer be the place to go get drugs.
The "Amazon effect" was previously known as the "Wal-Mart effect" and the same issues that are not attributed to Amazon were caused by Wal-Mart namely:

* Effect on local businesses

* Cost of low paid social services for the government: 'Walmart store costs taxpayers between $900,000 and $1.75 million per year for social services for its workers, such as healthcare'

* Low inflation and wages.

Walmart created ultra efficient logistics pipeline from China to US end consumers and was competing aggressively with price even in US made products.
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You can use pandoc if you don't mind a little bit of manual work:

https://gist.github.com/bmaupin/6e3649af73120fac2b6907169632...
And as a side benefit you get secure WiFi at many (most in Europe) universities, teaching hospitals, city centers close to a university, etc.
> where you can’t trust the government at all with the currency

Executive Order 6102.

If you're in a country where you can't trust the government, you lost. The government can take away your gold, your government can take away your bitcoins.

If "the government has become the enemy" is a problem, then you've got bigger problems at hand.
To provide context and pointers to previous literature. Very often it happens that only some of the insights from papers fall into fashion and when you go back and read the original you find other things of value that didn't get picked up.
Something I have in the pipeline. I hope to add a feature which lets you toggle which items have been reviewed which would show up in the explorer.
I cannot understand how my colleagues get any command line work done with the default macOS terminal.
Didn't you know software developers and attorneys should be giving away their skills and time for free?
rel="me" for authentication sounds like it could help with the inevitable problem of Mastodon account verification. Instead of putting a verified checkmark on your name,
whatever that is supposed to mean, put one on your home page if there's a rel="me" pointing back to the same profile. Parties that don't fully trust you (other federated servers, most likely, but individual clients if necessary) can verify the relationship before displaying the check mark.
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Has anyone tried running this? I wonder how long does the training take.
You should write the extension and find an attorney to help you. I'm sure it would be popular.
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I was reading about a general extension abstraction library that would offer this support, so hopefully a plan for the future!
American Eagle Gold coins are US-Government issued, serial-number stamped official Gold coins of the US Government.

Created by the US Mint, you have strong assurances that you are recieving in fact, 91.67% gold / 22 karat (an alloy, because pure gold is too soft for the typical consumer).

If you do want 99.99% Gold / 24 karat, the US Mint also makes the Buffalo coin. But that's usually harder to store.

American Eagle coins are super easy to obtain and trade. Just go to any gold shop and ask for an American Eagle gold coin.
You can give benefits to the disabled. You cannot simply switch disabled with whites and say that because a transmutation of the practice is racist, so is the practice. The original proposal was for corporations, who are not capable of being discriminated against.
> Lastly, you can measure electric resistance. A gold bar will have a different resistance than a tungsten bar, especially if you compare a frequency sweep AC resistance vs DC resistance (if there is a difference, which should be about 20nOhm/m vs 50nOhm/m for Gold/Tungsten, you know the material has a core that is different from the outside).

Electric current mostly travels on the surface of a material. Gold-plated tungsten might not have sufficiently different resistance from pure gold, if the plating is thick enough.
One of the problem I always have on Slack or other chats is the 300+ unread messages after being offline for a day or two. I tend to skip everything but sometimes I miss things I should read...

A solution?
Personally, I haven't found keypress latency to be a particular issue.

I'm familiar enough with the terminal that I generally type by rote, I don't even need to look at the terminal while typing for most common tasks.
> If not, the pentagon would simply fund a new silicon valley in virginia and the surrounding area.

I'm skeptical that the military would be able to recruit AI talent in significant numbers. There's a fairly strong cultural opposition to military applications among AI researchers. Between that and the comp packages they're getting to work at "cool" companies (i.e. consumer or pure research focused), the cost for the military to draw them away from that seems like it would be prohibitively high. Especially if they're also asking them to move away from SF/NY to somewhere "boring" like Virginia. Isn't the military pretty limited in how much they can pay?
If you don't do the lit research part, how do you know you are getting results and not reinventing the wheel?
Maybe it's fine for an undergrad writing a toy expository paper in an educational setting, not contributing to anything real. But why should I read someone's thesis if there's no reason to expect it's not already covered in my textbook?
Sure it is. Hard money advocates see the Fed as some kind of parasitic liability on America, but it's quite the opposite. It's a weapon of war. A sovereign currency that can be manipulated is an instrument of empire. Eliminating it in a world where everyone has one would be akin to unilateral disarmament.

Generally speaking libertarian idealism is unthinkable until we have had at least 50 years with no war. It won't work in a violent, power-hungry world ruled by warlords and sociopaths.
Getting rid of our warlords sounds great until you realize there are others.
Noted. With the extension only available on desktop I put a focus on getting a simple page up which would direct users the right way. Will give this some attention in the next iteration.
Sorry I meant to say that the Christiania hash trade is controlled by Hells Angels. I don't think Hells Angels are particularly Christian despite the biblical name! It is just to point out that the guy saying the trade is "exclusively muslim" is talking bullshit.
It would be helpful if you could cite one payment channel service that is up and running today and has there properties.
I've found that almost all the results I get from Google these days point to some "big site": pinterest, quora, wired, verge, etc. Often, these sites are behind a paywall/login wall, and the content isn't very good either.

Is the whole concept of authors publishing their opinions and thoughts on their personal websites dying, or is Google ranking such posts lower?
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The Prince - Machiavello. Just kidding, if you are in the technology business I strongly reccomend The Manager's Path. It is a very good book to learn how people interacts with the leaders and how to manage your own leadership.
Affecting ≠ engaged in
So why aren't you making a couch that extrudes lettuce? Deliver the starters via Uber and Lyft.
Fees are only higher in Bitcoin which the developers have crippled. Look at Bitcoin Cash or other cryptocurrencies for much lower fees.

Here are some reasons why cryptocurrencies is a superior payment system, even for the consumer:

* The fees are lower (VISA and PayPal fees are priced into the cost, and they are much higher)

* It's anonymous (see Monero for example)

* You can send money easily to anywhere in the world (lookup EatBCH which is a charity providing food in Venezuela)

* You don't need a bank's permission. There are many unbanked people in the world.

Here are some reasons why it's a superior payment system for the merchant:

* Eliminates credit charge back fraud, which is a very big problem

* The fees are lower, especially important for low margin businesses

* Nobody can freeze your accounts, like PayPal has done on numerous occasions

* Any business can accept money digitally, for example porn sites and marijuana businesses have had a lot of problems accepting credit cards

A permissionless and trustless digital payment system has so obvious benefits I really wonder why people have trouble seeing them.

Is it ready yet? No. Are there problems? Yes. But the benefits are there.
Do: Take work that involves causes you can get behind. At these pay rates, you can be picky.

Don't: Build deceptive products. Mortgage backed securities were created by programmers who lied about their randomization process.

Do: Analyze business to make products that assist people, making them more efficent and/ or less stressed.

Don't: Believe or let stand others belief that positions held by humans can be totally automated out. Perfect example is the automated telephone operator. Customers hate them, and companies still end up needing someone to answer the phone.
> can you point me to words "store", "of" and "value" in the above question?

Bitcoin is up the past couple of weeks. So inevitably, the BTC community will be calling it a store of value.

I think the general community is just reacting to the moving goalposts. When BTC's value is up, its a store of value. When its value is down, BTC's value is its transactions.
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Yes, but for that person the all advantages of Bitcoin that are typically mentioned (trust-less, secure, etc.) go out of the window.
Every time I see this project pop up I think about how awesome an idea it is. Not sure about the practical side... but the project is very cool indeed.
How can we access the risks of turning off WWV? I know it use to be tied into all sorts of long running industrial, transportation and remote location applications. And was considered the ultimate fall back because it was so simple. Many of these uses may be even forgotten.

I remember helping to set up a LAN in the late 1980’s. They had a WWV receiver with a serial interface to set network’s time. I thought that was super cool. Not too many years before micro computers need to have their clocks set manually with every reboot.
what would you like it to happen? the extension may be able to filter the ones sent in the last N hours and adjust the number of unread... but that wouldn't solve the problem of missing things you should read.
Very interesting, and something that I talk to my partner about at times. My method of managing emotions is to try to cool off before engaging in a new discussion, if not for diplomacy then for my own sake -- it is so tiring to be angry!

I think this is also why words of affirmation and acknowledgement are so important, like taking the five seconds it takes to say you appreciate your partner, and thank you for clearing the table after dinner yesterday.
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Octotree is a much larger extension which has a extended scope. This was built as a small, seamless file explorer to support the GitHub pull request view. I think of it more like a component than an actual full augmentation.
Enterprise programming language
Lightning Network.
Don't try to ask that in Christania you might end up in trouble or atleast get an angry answer. Drugs aren't sold on the side streets either. They are sold everywhere outside christania like by the central station. Take if from someone who spend every day there. Got a friend who was drunk and was doing cocaine in one of the establishments there and when it was discovered he got beaten up and banned from the place.
The US Government has the ability to extract money from you legally. It holds the power of taxation.

If the US Government, tomorrow, declares a 100% tax on Bitcoin, they can legally posess all of your BTC or... make you a criminal.

See Executive Order 6102 for historical precedent. FDR declared Gold to be illegal and took it from most Americans. At which point, you either gave up your gold, or became a gold smuggler. The US functioned as such until Nixon removed the executive order.
free speech in terms of the 1st amendment is about _government_ restrictions on free speech, the law is mostly totally silent on private agreements or arrangements.

This is a fundamental distinction that is missed entirely in way too many online conversations.
This is similar to my own idea for how to authenticate a Twitter verification esque setup; having the user upload auto generated files to their server and the site check for those, like how Google verifies accounts in Webmaster Tools.

The issue however is that I suspect verification should also have the purpose of verifying that the individual/group doesn't just own a third party domain/resource, but that they're the owners of the version people associate with that name. All these systems make it very easy to just register say 'Microsofte' and end up with a verified account called 'Microsoft' or what not. That's going to allow for a lot of easy impersonation.
Shattering net neutrality is a damaging force that benefits only megalomanic Internet gatekeepers and throws a monkey wrench into content providers. And at the end of the day money wins.
Yep and it sucked much more than WP ever did, only after everyone started ignoring it while making use of Genymotion or Microsoft's own implementation, did Google care to actually improve it.

So bad emulator support wasn't an issue regarding Android's adoption.
I don't see the beneficial element to this project. Visual Studio Code is opensource, free of charge and used by millions at this point, why would anyone want another license just because of the license alone?
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> Rel="me" sounds bizzarely narrow, at the same time wildcard-ish and borderline narcissistic. Something like Rel="about:author" or Rel="author:blog" seems better to me.

That article states that this is not the intent of rel="me" but rather: "The me link relationship can be seen as saying: the URL I am pointing to is about the same person as the page I am on." So it's not describing the author so much as noting that the two pages are about the same person.
My terminals stay open inbetween computer re-boots, so not really a problem? I imagine most dev-types keep terminals open all the time on their local dev machines.
That's a people problem that needs a people solution.
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I used to come home and work on things that I really like and is very intricate. I like to work on core libraries or very low level stuff. I am an embedded dev by profession. In my entire 13 years of my career I always went home to program on something I really like. This helped me destress a lot and also helped me professionally.

I really struggle with the office environment. I really love the open source development culture of mailing lists, IRCs etc. Handling different people face to face and their mannerisms always irks me a lot. Also being an introvert in a horribly extroverted workplace really puts a stress on me.

When I go home I really love to read and implement something at my own pace. These days I have picked up cooking which is a lot similar to programming and I really love it.
I have a digital clock that I received from my mom just before she passed. It uses WWV for time/date sync. It has never drifted off time. If they shut down those stations, I will have to create my own NTP to shortwave low powered SDR unlicensed transmitter.

Does anyone already happen to have any code that will use system time to generate the audio signals and time code that would replicate WWV?

Edit: I think I found two [1] [2]

[1] - https://github.com/ka9q/WWV

[2] - https://github.com/micooke/wwvb_jjy
Just one side note, that moving background is giving me motion sickness :)
But I am gonna probably spend a lot of time, making mixes...
> You don't need the internet nor the power grid to use bitcoin.

> To use bitcoin via the Lightning Network minimally, you need a CPU and a method to transmit data.

How do you verify that your opposing party actually has bitcoins to send to you?
I was an early adopter of Virtual PC on OSX. I have to say that it never worked to a performance level of being useful even for business needs like running basic business apps like Excel, Outlook, Visio, Ecco Pro and the like.

I abandoned the idea of VirtualPC once Microsoft bought connectix as they were still the EvilCorp of the time.

I did not see any useful PC virtualization on OSX until Apple switched to Intel and VMware jumped into the game.
> an instrument of empire

i don't see the word "nation" in here. do you?

i don't care about empires losing their weapons. i would very much invite such an event and would do everything in my power to enable it.
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This is only the case in AC (skin effect). DC penetrates the entire conductor.

The higher the frequency the less you penetrate the material (self-induction in the material forces the electrons outwards).

This enables you to effectively do a sweep of material composition by increasing frequency and measuring the resistance. In theory you could even tell if the core was not conductive at all (due to the resistance not changing despite lower frequency).

So even if the plating was thick, you would be able to tell because the resistance curve begins to change at lower frequencies due to Tungsten having a higher resistance.

If your device is really accurate you could even measure the rough area of the core since skin effect is proportional to the square of the resistivity.
I bet it's the same problem in France as in Sweden. Programmers are managed by managers. Therefore managers are ranked higher than programmers. Therefore managers make more money than programmers. But there is no shortage of managers. Therefore managers' salaries are not increasing. Therefore programmers salaries must not increase because they must not surpass managers' salaries.
AI as in rule-learning systems aren't necessarily inscrutable. 'Real AI' will necessarily be so once it reaches a sufficiently high level, purely because we won't be intelligent enough to know whether its rules are right or wrong.

The 'right to explanation' idea sounds well-meaning but almost certainly useless. Even humans making decisions are pretty bad at explaining why they made the decisions they did. Sure, they'll come up with some plausible-sounding explanation but it's almost always a back-justification rather than the actual chain of cause-and-effect that led them to the conclusion.
Interesting, especially the 115/145. The octane equivalent #s from that era seem to be all over the map.

If actually 115/145, that's a big delta in performance for lean operation, and certainly helps the narrative. Do you have a primary source? I'd like to read further.

Regardless, what's certain is the Germans were in the high 40s mmHg for manifold pressure in late variant DB 605, vs the Allies were in the 60s mmHg for Merlins.