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>Bitcoin transaction fees can be as high as $50!

1. This isn't bitcoin

2. They were that high once, and have not been again

3. Point 2 really doesn't hold since they will be that high again if it ever gains mass appeal, however:

4. there are solutions to even that problem that are being tested and rolled out now called Lightning Network.

You can think it's all snakeoil or a scam or whatever, but building a little strawman to make it sound like it's pointless isn't helping anyone. There are plenty of things about bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general that are still unsolved problems, but harping on the fees is silly at this point because it's the one that people are actively trying to solve in just about all cryptocurrencies, and I honestly believe that they have it figured out, and the road forward is just one of adoption and hardening.

Stellar uses a system that is pretty much designed to have low fees from the start, and Lightning Network is a pretty damn good way of scaling a blockchain system off the blockchain for the vast majority of transactions making fees a fraction of what they are even now.

For example, a single transaction in Stellar right now costs about $0.000002 USD. And that fee is expected to not change significantly, and unlike bitcoin is not variable but is fairly fixed, and will not go up with more activity.
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>And then do what once you are in?

"Running a port scan caused the weapons system to fail"
> I'll happily pay for streaming if the selection is there.

This. A million times.
Moving energy production to renewables is the easiest part. Much more difficult is the part where we need to do something about the few billion (and rising!) gas-guzzling personal automobiles. Electric cars are simply not going to be the solution in the timeframe that matters. In the EU traffic is the only major CO2 source that continues increasing. The third big problem is agriculture, specifically meat production. Two to three billion new people who have traditionally been mostly vegetarians are now hungry for meat, and the planet simply cannot afford such a thing.
While I love, loved, and will always love C, it has too many security dangers like these. I know it's not intrinsically its fault, and that you can mitigate lots of issues using better tooling, but many of the issues with C are due either to poor design choices (just look at the state of string.h) or things nobody could foresee decades ago. While being close to metal is of paramount importance for tasks such as writing kernels, we shouldn't be forced to pick between safety and simplicity; I think that C needs a treatment like C++11 has been to C++. Lots of people will stubbornly stick with C89, but a boy can hope, I guess.
Both of the examples (2-Party Multisignature Escrow Account with Time Lock & Recovery, and Joint-Entity Crowdfunding) have been possible with Bitcoin for some time.
Except that those predate the era of music records. People are not interested in notes, they are interested in the music. Recordings of Bach and Vivaldi are still usually not in the public domain.
Is being physically hurt the bar now? How about living in fear and the extreme inconvenience with moving to different residences out of fear?

Also, for example:

>In December 2016, Lucy Richards, a 57-year-old woman from Tampa, was charged with four counts of transmitting threats in interstate commerce for sending death threats to Lenny Pozner, whose son Noah was the youngest of 20 children murdered

Imagine losing your child and then having to put up with people like that who are fueled by someone trying to get rich off low information people. We as a society can and should do better.
Agriculture, deforestation are major emitters not directly linked to fossil fuels.

Cement industry, heating are large consumers of fossil fuel that are seeing very little advances compared to electrification of the transportation sector.

So just because renewable electricity starts to dominate does not mean our carbon footprint goes to zero.
Personally, I don't feel like me rescinding my earthly possessions and refusing to procreate will do anything to help anyone, other than maybe quench my own conscience.

That whole approach is referred to as hair-shirt environmentalism, I believe. Bruce Sterling once observed that if you're trying to combat Climate Change solely by minimizing your individual impact, the logical conclusion would be to stop living altogether.
I wonder how people would react to the following situation:

There are many Google mirror sites, most of which are currently blocked by China. If the Chinese government decides to work with some of the mirror sites to deliver Google search results in China, on the condition that the mirror sites apply a government filter to the search results, what would happen? I could think of three reactions:

1. Block those mirror sites from accessing Google search results, but this may be difficult since they could just use a different IP address.

2. Do nothing. A censored Google is available in China but people can hardly blame google for not blocking the mirror sites.

3. Work with the mirror sites (for example, require them to display Google ads along with search results).
At a personal level, switch energy provider, change your diet, cycle / use public transport and drive electric if you must drive (it's more complex than that depending on if you have a car or not). If you have the chance to own your property and the cash to do so, ensure it's insulated.

On a financial level, divest from fossil fuel, invest in renewable energies and sustainable technologies

On a professional level, if you have the privilege do be able to choose your job, try to find one that do no evil.

Happy to hear about more suggestions
> Add in a smarmy attitude and poor social skills and only the most confident or skilled people will contribute; which isn't a bad thing to be honest.

It is a bad thing, because the "most confident" and the "most skilled" are almost never the same.
In my experience, the larger the project, the more likely you are to get that type of response.

Small, actively maintained projects are often very welcoming and happy to have any help.
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I can't answer for the parent, but I'll make an assumption with an analogy.

You're on a long walk, absolutely starving and there's a strong possibility you won't get to eat for a while. A guy by the road is selling apples - with the small amount of cash you have on you, you could afford 4 or 5, enough to fill you up. Across the road there's an empty looking house set far back from the road, with an apple tree right in the yard at the front. Hundreds of apples have fallen on the ground - it's no biggie to lean over the fence and grab a handful of apples. No one is in the house, the guy selling apples isn't watching, what do you do?

Of course, you _are_ starving, and you do have some money, which you'd be prepared to spend on food. Now assume that next to the apple seller is a small cafe - the menu is vast and you can eat as much as you want of pretty much any kind of food. You pay once and if you stop in on the way back you can eat again. Now what do you do?
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Sure, but sometimes that agenda is simply to uncover facts. Worrying about the agenda can obscure things more than it clarifies. It isn't always about the agenda.

On emailing classmates, that's probably trivial. Lots of school classes have Facebook pages or WhatsApp groups, or mail groups or such. These can be trivially easy to join.

These people are Russian military officers, they traveled to Salisbury, they did these things, they went back to Russia. They lied about who they are and why they went there. It doesn't really matter what the agenda of the people uncovering this is, as long as the information is valid. The question is, what should be done about it?
The computing world is a lot larger than the web, believe it or not. Python is huge in scientific computing, and is used for lots of server-side scripting. JS/TS don't have much of a presence in scientific computing beyond the web presentation layer, which can be generated from Python libraries. Python is used everywhere in science, and the ecosystem is incredibly rich.
Hi!
This is great that I can chat with you.
I am wandering with what kind of fish I should start. I know that goldfish are the most resilient fishes but they are not edible, catfishes are edible and can live in my climate but are they easy to handle or they will die from my inexperience?

The climate I am living is mediteranian, not that cold winters, hot summers and close to sea (I live in Corfu/Greece).

I want to grow tomatoes and cucumbers so I guess I need many fishes to produce more amonia(I am noob so I might got that wrong) are editable fishes ok for growing tomatoes of should I stick to goldfishes?

Are the catfishes taste good or should I choose other fish?
If you haven't read The New Yorker story about Cameron Todd Willingham, a man (almost certainly innocent) who was executed in Texas based on junk arson science, you should rectify that as soon as possible: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/09/07/trial-by-fire
> an attacker between you and your DNS server could determine which sites you are attempting to communicate with just by reading packets on the network.

This buys the attacker very little. If they can see the packets on your network to read your DNS traffic, then they already know what servers you are communicating with.
People in regions bearing the brunt of the change aren't just going to stay there. There will be mass migrations of possibly hundreds of millions, and no wall is going to stop them.
Especially if you compare that to patented technological inventions, that often consumed much more time, effort and money to develop. These patents expire after 20 years. How can it be justified that a song that someone wrote maybe within a week keeps the copyright virtually forever?
Thanks! I'm going to play around with it a bit more and if I still have problems i'll hit you up. The GUI stuff was all a precursor to automating it with Ansible anyway so unless that's broken I think it'll be okay.

Azure Devops is awesome though. Told my wife i'd found a modern Microsoft product I really liked, she nearly fainted.
Yeah, I've seen both sides of it too. As you say, a lot (the majority?) of projects are really happy to get patches, often rework minor things in the patch instead of telling you to re-do stuff. This is especially true of smaller 1-man shows. If you send a patch for a bug it's either gleefully lapped up and applied, or ignored forever (life happens, I get that, no problem).

The other side isn't always true vindictiveness, just wise-ass level garbage.

Anyway it's turned me off more than a couple of projects, forums and sub-reddits. You get that 1 dude that you see again and again posting newbie put-downs. They are usually not the lead of the project, but certainly a lieutenant-type. Maybe with "mod" privs. A lot of the time the regulars are sycophantic towards this person, to get on their good side I suppose, maybe to see if they too get some recognition or power. It's rather sad to see, but what else can they do? Walk away I guess. And as a lurker it's what I do when I see it.

Also, maybe I read too much into the text. It could just be that text is a really bad media for niceness, and something that would be said out-loud in a different tone comes across as jerky in text.
> Aye but it can be a *refactor in how easy it is to revise a shit architecture ...

:)
Not surprising. Regulations almost always have this affect.

The bigger players win.
My thinking as well. This is a golden opportunity to replace Elisp.

Edit: Guile won't be used, because of the burden of contributing. https://github.com/Wilfred/remacs/issues/66#issuecomment-273...
“Your typical architecture astronaut will take a fact like “Napster is a peer-to-peer service for downloading music” and ignore everything but the architecture, thinking it’s interesting because it’s peer to peer, completely missing the point that it’s interesting because you can type the name of a song and listen to it right away.

...

“Talk about missing the point. If Napster wasn’t peer-to-peer but it did let you type the name of a song and then listen to it, it would have been just as popular.”

—Joel Spolsky, “Don’t Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You,” 2001

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/04/21/dont-let-architect...

———

In the last 17 years, that quote keeps popping up because the companies that focus on letting you type the name of a song and listen to it right away have made money, while those that introduce friction to support some label’s business model? Not so much.

But they keep complaining about “piracy.” 90% of piracy is eliminating friction.

This past weekend, I bought the new Doctor Who on iTunes. I paid because Apple gave me a lot of ways to type the name of the show and watch it right away. Same reason I’ve spent thousands on music with them.

It’s not about the price, it’s about the convenience.
For me this is by far the best feature of static typing.
>The average number of trackers per page has dropped by almost 4% from April to July. The opposite is true in the US: there, the average number of trackers per page has increased by 8 percent over the same period.

since when is this a bad thing? i want my page less bloated with 100 trackers...
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FWIW, this is the attack that DNSSEC is meant to prevent.
Realistically, profit seeking corporations would hire them.
Insufficiently profit seeking corporations will be out-competed by ones that aren't.

They're also not becoming social pariahs outside of, perhaps, the vocal liberal segment of silicon valley.

I bet they'll be fine.
I wonder why you would need to add engineers to scale an automated trading platform. Extra features, sure. But scaling? Shouldn't be an issue if things are reasonably designed.
>I get it's faster to write dynamically typed code

I would dispute that, but I guess it depends on one's workflow. Different workflows work better with different kinds of type systems.
I used to repair smartphones for a living, with the majority being iPhones. Back in the 3G and 3GS days, popping those cracked screens and fixing them for $80 was my bread and butter.

From what I understand, factories would receive an order from Apple for X units. They would make 10-20% extra, deliver X to Apple, then sell the extra out the back door of the factory.

These parts would make their way onto eBay and I would buy them.

I still get spam LinkedIn messages 7 years later from cell phone repair parts dealers in China.

In my case AFAIK they were legitimate parts, not backwards engineered. Made by the exact same people, just siphoned out of the supply chain.
which one do i count in, if I participate legally (spotify, purchases, etc) but also pirate? am I counted in the 6 or the 4?
there are already a billion people advocating for collective action ie someone else should do something. Donors need to take it upon themselves to fund and assist geoengineering moonshots.
i'd be wary of anything the IFPI, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry present as fact.

Similar organisations were until recently engaged in shakedowns of small businesses for even playing the radio.
Even after this was ruled illegal in Europe we used to still get a letter every year demanding we pay up for the benefits music was bringing our business.
Well the Russian government seems to take them seriously enough that if I were them I'd buy a big life insurance policy and start being worried about polonium in my food if you catch my drift.
Last quarter Google grew YoY for the quarter at 26%. Same with the quarter earlier which is actually accelerated growth.

So as the numbers get bigger growth rate increasing. But have not yet rolled out the robot taxi service in Arizona which they say is coming this year.

Transportation and shipping is over a trillion dollar opportunity. Take some time to get there is true.

So the headline of this article seems void of reality?
Human societies can have individuals doing all that. Stable, large societies. The astronauts can survive in the vacuum of space because of technology, and they can get to space because of technology - technology that is backed by hundreds of thousands of people all across the greater economic machine that built the rocket and the space suits, and supplied and fed everyone involved.

As individuals, we're not much more interesting than any other animal. It's our technological civilization that makes us interesting in the grand scheme of things, and that civilization is both hard to bootstrap and extremely fragile.
horses for courses. I would prefer a 100k java LOC program over a 10k loc python program, any day.

The ease and safety you can make huge refactors is a huge win. Sure you can do it in python, but you will be writing x10 the amount of tests and final LOC counts including tests will probably have python come in closer to Java than the 10k > 100k loc indicates
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Seems like the version currently in the Play Store (2.18.293) is still vulnerable as it was released on Sep 24th.
Whistlers comment on why he charge what he did

John Ruskin: 'The labour of two days is that for which you ask two hundred guineas?'

Whistler: 'No. I ask it for the knowledge I have gained in the work of a lifetime.'
Right now I'm spending a week at Taizé, a retreat centre in France. There's access to Internet only from 9:30 am - 8 pm, for 15 minutes at a time, then a forced 10 minute break (unless I change MAC address).

I don't have a bank account here, so I can't pay for a 2 year subscription for 4G. I also don't have a job. I'm grateful for my offline music collection keeping me alive right now. Music is especially important when times are tough, and it's in those difficult times that money and subscription-level stability are hard to find.
I simply don't listen to music as much as I used to.

Today a Youtube playlist is often enough for me.
The algorithms you would learn for graphs etc are also just math and equally abstract. What makes the difference in how real you treat the two concepts that are both abstract but generally applicable?
>Using ML, tracking and profiling to give me ads for the fridge I did buy last week is not relevant

Come on, that's not what they are trying to do and you know it. There's so many valid arguments you could make, why use a strawman?

But the answer to your first question, is because ads targeted to users pay more, get more clicks, and overall perform better than those that are targeted to the page.
Streaming services are nice, but I haven't yet found one that contains the complete discography that is available through torrents and other means. What's worse, what's available changes often so songs that are available now may not be available next week. In other words, streaming services provide a service, but they are far from replacing other means. If a service popped up that provided streaming of all the music I wanted to listen to 100% of the time, then it might be worth paying for. Another use case is mixing songs which usually requires local copies. Basically, all streaming services are deficient in some way so it shouldn't be any surprise that piracy continues.
I guess the part to take away from this is that at the time women were not employed in creating illustrations due to the labor involved in cutting the copper plates. Although the article doesn't really offer any other examples of women coming after them, how they opened the field of scientific illustrating to more women.
Personally, I think that refactoring Python is straightforward (and many refactorings you need to do are much simpler and easier to do without breaking existing APIs -- doing refactorings in Java usually needs changing much more code even for simple things).

I think that the real problem is not having a good test coverage, and I agree that bad programs written in Python may be harder to work with than bad programs written in a statically typed language (but in a good codebase, even if large, I'd rather be working with Python).

-- although note that in the latest incarnation of Python you can try to use Mypy (http://mypy-lang.org/) along with https://github.com/Instagram/MonkeyType or https://github.com/dropbox/pyannotate to add types to you and go from there if you really miss types too much and this could make a bad codebase bearable (I'm personally waiting for PEP 544 before adding any types though as I'm not a fan of the type system implemented in PEP 484 very much).
Yeah - I can't easily buy losless recordings that I'd get as files that could reside on my NAS, so tough luck. Streaming services offer less than a third of what I listen to, and their UX is idiotic. I cancelled my Spotify after I found out that my downloaded songs are deleted from my phone for the fourth time for some unknown reason, that really pisses you off on a 10-hour road trip.
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Yes the same applies to integrals. But when you go from 1d to 2d or 3d problems, the analytical approach quickly becomes too difficult.
Even the sheet music is still copyrighted, because you want modern notation, not photographs of the originals.
> Every device in the world shipping with at least one environment for JS

I doubt that's true, while it would be more true to say that most devices in the world is running something compiled from C or C++. Also, The JS environment (web or Node) is running on top of C++ code.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14015524
When you say 'fix' do you mean 'prevent a two-degree shift' or 'transition to an zero-net-emissions economy'? Or do you mean we can avoid some survivable threshold higher than two degrees?

I agree that useful action is possible and important, but I'm starting to feel that our last chance to avoid catastrophic climate change was sometime last decade or the one before.
wat, like no credit/debit card of any kind?
And I'm light-years ahead of Django. (D Programming though.)

https://github.com/DiamondMVC/Diamond
I don't see what's "fair trade" about enjoying the fruits of others' labour for free.
This is also what i love most about go. The code is so easy to read and thanks to `go fmt` everyone's code is structured the same way.
Maybe most baroque recordings are not public domain. But you can find many good-quality recordings of any particular piece under reasonable creative commons licenses [1].

[1] https://imslp.org/wiki/Brandenburg_Concerto_No.5_in_D_major,...
> a right to have problems dealt with at zero monetary cost for a reasonable period of time in line with the sticker price

so If I am clumsy and accidentially break my display of my macbook (entirely my fault), apple should replace it for free?
> refactoring a equivalent Java project is way more challenging. I'd argue.

Sorry but you are wrong. Just plain wrong. There are benefits for both languages. But to say python is easier to refactor is like saying Java is more concise. It isn't.

>Refactoring a Java project takes a whole department and process management crew.

Has nothing to do with the language, but the company. A small company will refactor and have an update out same day in Java. An enterprise using some python will be as you say
But they won't, and they will be fine even if comes to living in a bubble. As it has always been, the poor will carry the burden of humanity.
However, when I'm searching for Python, it's Pandas, Matplotlib or Numpy most of the time.
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To fix all the technical debt you (rightfully) incurred by focusing more on shipping than future-proofing.
doable sure. But enjoyable? ;-)
Pro tip: dry shirt in your backpack.