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No, they wouldn't shut them down. They'd open up the toolbox of administrative law to bleed them. We don't need to pass new laws. (that's what the line about "enforcement" means.) The US Government can just barrage each noncompliant company with investigations, subpoenas, law suits, enforcement actions, national security letters, consent decrees and the like. They can find every issue or abuse of the platforms that no sane person would prosecute, then prosecute (or settle) them. They can sniff out (or manufacture) contradictions in depositions and pin charges of perjury, obstruction, or lying to law enforcement on individuals at the company. Given enough time, a concerted government effort to make life miserable for any of these companies would sap them of money, power, morale, and attention. (Their attention being valuable, the thing that keeps them competitive in the global marketplace.) This is a mirror image of the no-encryption-without-permission issue: administrative law allows the government to punish using process. You can't really run a company of any size except at the government's pleasure, because they can use administrative law to impose arduous costs and punishment through process.
I’ve driven a classic car. I don’t remember any power hierarchies in play. I do remember the roof down, the sea breeze blowing through my hair and fish and chips by the beach.
I don’t think someone labelling a book a classic is much different. Except for the lack of engine sound. Damn that was a good car to drive.
So this is all or mostly American movies and tv? I was hoping for classic sci-fi cover art
My skeptical question is, "Wouldn't the (I assume cell phone based) digital payments platform have happened, anyways?"

The telecom companies in the Philippines (as one example) had phone-based digital payments in 2007 or so. It was just a matter of time and critical mass of cell phone ownership, until such payments happened.
Yes, this is among the finest popular geology articles that I've ever read. Also, the really cool thing is that it's part of Native American oral histories. But that's only a few hundred years ago. There are also stories about the eruption that created Crater Lake, ~7700 years ago. That is impressive.
I am under the impression that the dome is entirely decorative, which does seem kind of nuts given its size.
Okay, that's a joke people. There's no moore's law for carbon nanotube extension (that I know of). There is an analog of electric battery price reduction over time, about 15-30% per year. Here's a graph of it - https://electrek.co/2017/01/30/electric-vehicle-battery-cost....
You realize Bitcoin/Ethereum are simply computer software right?

And you missed the essential caveat; aprox 4.11% of Bitcoin addresses control 96.53% of all BTC in circulation. This is a conservative estimate, as anyone familiar with how Bitcoin addresses and wallets work, would know one user is likely controlling many addresses.

A perfect example of this, is a few days ago 1933phfhK3ZgFQNLGSDXvqCn32k2buXY8a created a script to subdivide 111,114 BTC into several hundred addresses, from 60,000 / 30,000 / 20,000 / 10,000 / 5,000 / 500 and then to 100 BTC accounts, over the course of a few hours. [2] Following the movement here now leads to recent deposits into the Binance and Bitfinex wallets.

And most importantly, on the computer science behind Ethereum - In any DLT network with an adversarial threat model it's impossible to create a smart contract with any functionality relying on external data inputs (betting on the outcome of a sports game, or tracking any real world data input) within the network as there's no way to validate the authenticity of that data unless a trusted 3rd party is designated, at which point the network becomes useless. Not even to mention the question of why anyone would want to use a token with such wildly fluctuating market price, and who's supply is controlled by a small userbase of oligarchs.

Additionally, the entire cryptocoin market has an Achilles' heel.. Tether, and Bitfinex are widely suspected of counterfeiting aprox $4,000,000,000 USD (by producing USDT for free anytime they want) [3] [4] [5]

[1] https://www.sec.gov/rules/sro/cboebzx/2018/34-83520.pdf

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/9bfnff/near_1b_are...

[3] https://medium.com/@bitfinexed/latest

[4] https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/tether-aug

[5] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-24/not-even-...
What about at the poles?

Seems like that would negate the lateral problems, but maybe I'm just introducing a twisting one instead...?
Yeah. The Americas have been populated for maybe 20-40 thousand years. And heavily, according so some sources.
My point was not that there's no reason for cash in real estate. You being up a real scenario, but my point is that the scenario I describe is so common and well known that anyone with some contact with the system would know to bring it up. That the journalist didn't brings the rest of the article into question.

Imagine someone writing that anti-virus brings pain with it, because it has a negative side effect on programs that need to shim and redirect system calls. Yes, it does, because the vast majority of the time that use case is a virus. If that's all they wrote on that front you'd wonder if they really understood computers.
I assume you’re being sarcastic but it’s sad to me that these days it’s hard to tell.
Terrorist and their sympathizers will be affected if demonetization happens again, like anyone else who has cash. The bigger question is whether it has helped in curtailing the menace.
It's interesting how different the tone of the second page is to the first. The fact it is so different in tone and also so easily missed makes me think it is designed NOT to be read. Are they hoping it slips by the media but want to have it there for future reference (perhaps when introducing their next tranche of authoritarian legislation to regulate tech companies?).
No. De-facto governments can get their way.

Sure, they'll always be holes, but it will be very hard for a regular joe to not only get their hands on the right tech, but then to use it effectively. And then to have enough money to for the ensuing legal battle when the judge orders him to sit in jail until he provides his password.
The plastics are diffused, innumerable, and spread through-out the ecosystem in varying environmental conditions where solutions will have varying effectiveness and possible negative impacts on wildlife. I'm skeptical of our ability to implement a large-scale collection effort that will collect a meaningful percentage of the waste, with a further concern that a poorly implemented solution may in fact add to the waste and/or impact the environment in ways just as damaging as the pollutants it does remove.

Yes, enforcing standards worldwide is a "near-impossible" task. But cleaning up waste at the scales we're talking about, after it's entered the ecosystem, is impossible. There is no magic bullet here, and the more people who ignore what has to be done to fix the problem, hoping projects like this will make it better, the worse it will get.
Reading the classics is learning the state of civilization, learning the breath of human cruelty and understanding why it is essential to the human experience, essential to progress of the species, and is essential to the structure and formation of justice and law. The classics give one the background why things are they way they are, and why as messed up as things appear to be, they are the best we can manage. If one is not at least exposed to a few of the classics, I wonder what value foundation one has beyond their potential one sided religious up bringing. Without exposure to the classes, one is adrift in a sea of unknown pop cultural references, only picking up the severely watered down and over exploited Classic Themes when they appear on popular TV, film, and comic book quality regurgitation of their ideas.

I tend to consider myself "over read" - I have read everything published by my favorite authors, their followers and their students. When I find a voice I like, I'll finish that entire school of thought. But I'm also very extreme in my reading. I started reading very early, isolated in Christian rural Iowa as a youth, I had a severe stutter, and read the library rather than engage in the other kids I could not manage to converse without sounding stupid. So, I sorta ignored "childhood" until the end of elementary, after which I was the oddest over intellectualized little shithead one could encounter.

Why read the classics? They locate you in time and space to understand the state of society. That pretty valuable.
OK, fair enough. But why wait?
It's fun to think about what a combat spaceship would actually look/function like.

For armor, all you'd need is a large shield in front (similar to the movie Sunshine). You can turn to face inbound enemies quickly enough so that you'd only need to defend one angle. Enemies will try to maneuver missiles around it, which could be shot down with lasers behind the shield, making that an ineffective tactic. Then you'd have your own missile banks with which to attack the enemy's shield.
Everybody in power here has both hands full stabbing each other in the back. I'm guessing they just yell "Yeah, whatever the US ambassador says" at their staffers as their "sign off" on legislation...
Its just business. The military-industrial complex is able to get billions in tax money in order to bomb people. So, thats what they do. The funding makes the complex powerful, and gives it the ability to lobby for more money, so they bomb more, and so on.
Doesn't plastic, especially white shopping-bag plastic, reflect more solar radiation than open ocean? Wouldn't covering a large portion of the earth with white plastic actually lower global temperatures? I saw a video where an open water reservoir was covered with floating plastic balls to reduce evaporation. Maybe a large plastic island would help fight global warming.
Many large scale organisations seem to operate similarly.
Boston University
What's really chilling is the atmosphere in tech in which certain legitimate democratic outcomes are wrong and that tech has a responsibility to "do better" next time and avoid more "mistakes".

Perhaps your algorithm isn't buggy just because the democratic process didn't produce your desired outcome.
Arguing uncivilly like this will get you banned on Hacker News, regardless of how right your argument is (or you feel it is). If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow the rules from now on, we'd appreciate it.
The Garbage Patch isn't a floating island, it's a region where microscopic particles of garbage are more common per cubic meter of water than usual.
Eh, I agree with the post you're disagreeing with.

It could be we develop some new physics soon and hopefully the engineering know how to take advantage of it. In this scenario we've developed space travel with a still primitive understanding of human biology. A far more likely option in my eyes (although still very unlikely as this is all speculation and opinion) is that we eventually develop a way to move into the transhuman era and robot ourselves. At this point space travel can use the traditional method of traveling < speed of light although this isn't interesting. Also, if you can upload your mind onto a server, I wonder how much value you'd place on exploration. Of course the singularity concept is just SciFi right now and probably just as likely as us developing wormholes, but it seems like it should be more likely given another century or two.
As you're getting connected in the local community, check out a little service I built: https://twitter.com/NashTechEvents

It's driven by ML using Meetup, Eventbrite, and a bunch of other data sources. And always open to feedback. Feel free to drop me a note. :)
I'm just providing a counterweight to the "horrific" description. It was and still is pretty bad if you can't use the modern wrappers. But it served an important purpose and wasn't really possible any other way.
Because, right now, it's cheaper to get hydrocarbons out of the ground than to break down old plastics, and the price signal is an excellent pointer toward the best application of our scarce resources.
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Digital payments had a small spike, but I think it sort of died down after 2-3 months. Now I do not find many small vendors/businesses taking digital payments.
Ok, now I'm tempted to rewrite Twenty to work in the terminal. It's already c++!
The facts of the actual case make it much easier to understand the problem, but how is that situation actually different? There are still multiple people it could have been, no evidence is presented to distinguish between them at all and it's an obvious injustice to punish one person when it was another who did it.
How can the forces exerted by weather patterns still make this viable?
Maybe so, but can you please not post unsubstantive comments to HN?
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I have listened to both the planet money episodes (I love Planet Money podcasts). I'm from India, living in US for more than 10 yrs. So I kind of have enough perspective of how Demonetization is seen within India and from outside India, including based on knowing personally who benefited or got screwed by demonetization, and who were left unscathed.

Must say, with what I have known about the medium and long term after affects of demonetization, I found NPR / Planet Money's research / info in the podcast terribly biased. This bias is sort of ironic since it is from a radio station that is very pro-democrat from a country that keeps harping about "Trump won because Russia" even though the process was as democratic as it could be.

Like NPR, NYT is also extremely biased against the current Indian administration, while simultaneously being subtly (sometimes overtly) anti-Hindu / anti India.

I sincerely listened to the Planet money episodes hoping to find some genuine shortcomings of the demonetization process, but was totally disappointed at the kind of propaganda based content they came up with! Sadly, NYT does the same with this piece of writeup.

There are many, many +ve effects (short, medium term) that I can talk about. But the main -ve point of this whole process is that one round of demonetization is not enough. A few more rounds of demo, and crooks will have enough fear in even accepting cash for bribes and probably will need to resort to barter system.

I personally know many who stashed illegal unaccounted money in gunny bags, and have suffered a blow to their wealth (as I wished) and I know a few who have had their black money stash replenished partially after a year of demo.

In either case, it was very heartening to see those who slept on mattresses made of cash suffer and struggle.
Why are the Amazon affiliate sites so unsuccessful? Are there too many of them? or what?
Yes, to each his own. Even with reliability, I find several aspects of ICE undesirable: Slower start time, vibration, noise, inconsistent acceleration, the smell of gas at the pump and exhaust from the tailpipe, the pollution, the maintenance schedule, less cargo space, and the greater decrease in reliability with time.
There is nothing to stop you encrypting your comms, except to convince those you talk to.
Sighs. 2 years later, as the country disintegrates into a mess because of ignorant assholes like you, here you are, still being a dick.

Sort your life out, Jim. Pathetic little incel.
Yeah, my desktop is root on ZFS with arch as well, even with the LTS kernel I was always running into issues with mismatched SPL/ZFS and the kernel, I'm trying the DKMS package atm. That took me an entire day to get running.
Huawei may be bricking modded devices to kill community development
My recommendation is that you read this regarding food allergies.

What I do is (1) avoid the medical community like the plague (except for dentists); (2) take other advice without immediate rejection, unless it is plainly wrong, but skeptically nontheless; (3) over a long time gather relevant information and always be on the lookout for it; (4) try some of this information in practice with personal experiments to see if and how it works and do not expect it to work forever if it works at first; (6) try to define what exactly you mean by "food allergy" preferably before attempting to fix it.

Generally what has helped me has been a balanced lifestyle with moderation in all aspects including diet, sleep, exercise, work, play and spirit, since they all interplay, but this balance may be highly individualized and can take some trial, error and instrospection to determine and may vary with time. In USA society work can typically be a big imbalance and has been so for me.

My experience is that much of what people commonly call food and other "allergies" is due to cumulative negative emotional responses or stress often coinciding with a lack of happiness in life. In such cases the cure is to find and be that hapiness.
I think you should read the twitter thread linked. Nobody is calling this a bug: rather, YouTube put their fingers on the scale because it was better for their bottom line.
Can you please not fulminate like this on HN? It makes for predictable, tedious discussion.

As plenty of HN users demonstrate, it's possible to hold a view similar to yours while posting thoughtful, substantive comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Can you please point out the "uncivility" in my reply?

Edit: I did read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Exactly. When people talk about "future proofing," they're imagining the future as a predictable, linear progression--which it definitely isn't. The people best equipped to deal with the complications of the future are those who have direct experience with it ... in the future.
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I was watching a talk from Cruise that mentions this. The main problem with cameras is dynamic range. Dealing with different lighting conditions that can change quickly is hard (the sun is really good at washing out colors). Lidar doesn't care about the current lighting conditions.

https://youtu.be/s-8cYj_eh8E?t=22m39s
Ok, you're right from that perspective :)
Material science is tough. Check out engine/turbine material science developments. It can take >decade to get new materials into planes.
Agreed.

It popped up in The Martian, but some of the early 'hard sci-fi' I read - Stephen Donaldson's The Gap series - described similar designs. Rendezvous with Rama would be an earlier, more famous example. I've been surprised that it doesn't show up way more often.
Love it. You start with AutoCMakeLists.m4. Yes, m4 macros are back in the game again!

Using autocmake, you build that into a CMakeLists.txt. After that now you can use cmake to generate your Makefile. Voila.
Keep in mind these are "conservative developers" - they work in C/C++ - meaning a preference towards C styled C++, a preference towards maintainability, and a preference away from the latest features of C++. That is being a developer, yet in a tech shop. There are lucrative alternatives too:

When one looks outside the traditional technology industries, there are a huge number of technology jobs as the tech person in a non-tech industry, being forced into the tech world. These tend to be C-Suite level jobs, so picking up an e-MBA is also be pretty good idea - to know how to talk and operate in their terms, how and why what you're doing for them is what you're paid to do. They have no idea, and very likely a history of being burned by low level tech consultants.
Sure they were. As were prostitution rings and other such things. They were affected because everything was. I remember at the time, people hailed this as a "surgical strike". Given the collateral damage, it was more like indiscriminate carpet bombing.

India's economy is hugely cash driven and to suck out 80% of that in a single night was an economic shock. The aims were changed repeatedly. Black money, digital transactions, recapitalising idle assets etc. I don't really buy any of that but I'm willing to give the government the benefit of the doubt. Now that it's, for all practical purposes, proven to be a failure, they should accept responsibility for it.
If that's what you're interested in, you might want to check out https://www.podaris.com/, which started as a tool for planning autonomous Personal Rapid Transit networks. It now supports conventional modes as well as theoretical systems (hyperloops, etc.)

(Disclaimer: I'm the founder. Not meaning to steal UrbanFootprint's thunder, as it looks like a great tool, and it would be great to interoperate with them someday.)
I say it's too hard for the average person to figure out the true impact of alternative medicines. The placebo effect won't let people evaluate the treatment with an impartial mind.

I've taken fish oil regularly for years yet I can't judge the impact of it on my health. I live with the idea of hope. Hope that it is helping but I will never know.

I believe that's the case with most alternative medicine since there are few independent studies that can be cited to determine the benefits.

You will always find individuals that will swear on the benefits but individual benefits don't translate to universal benefits. This is especially true now that you can find anyone that has an opinion on anything on the web. It's the confirmation bias on overdrive.
It's substantive, pointing out there are many major tech projects these days based on pipe dreams born of sci fi books. The fact there are so many means either our tech leaders are not very smart, are scamming the government funds, and/or are out of good ideas. Which leads to the bigger question, what has happened to our vision for the future?
This.. “Don’t know anything about web development at all? Don’t worry you can just take a week long bootcamp!
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As the data shows 99.3% of the cash returned. This doesn't include Grameen banks. So the number maybe more. Percentage of black money has increased. The amount of cash transactions with respect to digital transactions has also increased. Demonetization is a total disaster and I can't forgive Modi for making the country suffer like this and taking 100 lives for nothing.
Awesome! I will get that on my next ThinkPad.
And what data plan do you use?
The same. Using Restbed, a C++ embedded web server framework, a twitter messaging app is about an hour of work.
On the contrary, I find almost every small vendor accepting digital payments. This is from personal experience.
Restbed is the C++ framework, and yes, we use SQlite.
What angered me the most was the suddenness of the announcement, I thought it was authoritarian to have the executive capable of issueing such orders with immediate effect. There wasn't time for courts or citizens or even legilature to look into the legality of such a move before it was effected, and constitutionally challenge it.

Such measures should have been pursued through legislative means rather than executive. The way it was done indicated the Indian Governments lack of faith in democracy.
Worse, they will be paying to recycle (dispose of) it. Right now there are major issues and limitations in the processing of even the generally clean/sorted and re-usable plastics from residential collection. Some recycling facilities are being forced to simply dispose of even these materials as they would any other waste. (https://phys.org/news/2018-07-trash-piles-china-door-recycli...)

What they are collecting is partially broken down by ocean salts and UV light, and has absorbed contaminants (a lot of these plastics are actually from fishing equipment, but the post-consumer component largely enters the ocean via some exceptionally polluted river systems). These are going to be small and unmarked plastic pieces, you would need spectrographic analysis on each piece to determine the type of plastic before it could be recycled.