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You would cull 6.5 billion people because they like fashion and video games and are wasteful?

When it happens I hope you aren't swept up since we are going to need people who have the answers to everything.
> On the other hand if, like I believe, it's mostly scams, empty promises and poor understanding of technology and/or economy, then this might be the beginning of the end.

There are several startups that have made progress but not enough progress that the value of their token has increased through network effect. The Brave browser has 5MM MAU. There is still a lot of development to be done to whitelist ads and pay users for their attention. It's a good start though.

Other startups are starting to realize that on boarding new users with Meta Mask doesn't work. The users unfamiliar with cryptocurrency exit the funnel early because installing a plugin and depositing money makes the experience much more difficult. This is the case with FunFair currently.

Increased adoption probably won't happen until 2022. Because these assets are liquid it's likely we'll see an even bigger drop until then.
Well I mean Christianity's been doing it pretty well for a long time now.
> We're ruining this planet multiple ways for not only ourselves but nearly all other species

Totally and absolutely agree here.

> Sad thing is, the vast majority of people are oblivious or flat out don't care.

Also totally agree here

And here's some real thought experiment stuff I've been doing. So basically, should we continue this (unchecked population, unsustainable resource depletion), something has to give right? That's an absolute fact. Our pace of reproduction and resource use simply can't go on forever, and that's where things will get interesting. Will later generations (think 1,000 years+) have adapted a bit better? (E.g., in the future polluting the ocean for example is a crime on the scale of kidnapping or something similar).

I mean the fact at the end of the day is, this can't be sustained. Something is going to have to give in the way we live, eat, have kids, etc (and by we I mean all earthlings, I'm aware that the US reproduces at a fraction of the rate of emerging/frontier countries).

It's a really interesting problem with no clear solutions
To me, it’s obvious that the Bitcoin Cash “hash war” has been what’s triggered the fall of the 5K support level (and to me, it’s telling that 200 messages in, no one has really even mentioned it).

The contentious fork has been very disruptive, causing BCH trading to be halted and lowering trading volume across the board. At the same time you have a huge redeployment in mining resources, up to 4exa on the Bitcoin.com pool alone pointed to BCH to defend vs a BSV takeover attempt (along with threats of 51% attacks and long range re-.org attacks) - up to 30% of SHA-256 mining power was pulled, mining at 100-200% less profitability of BTC, which also would have had some pretty big effects on the market (potentially parties dumping BTC to fund hashrate, potentially other miner related effects).

This sort of shakiness/distraction/fud drives the whole market down, which drives more selloffs, which drives articles and discussion like this, repeat.

Now that this seems to be largely over (and exchanges are opening BCH/BSV back up) you’re actually seeing a bit of a price/volume bump after this cratering, although I think people will be skittish for a while. I think it’s right to be skeptical - the people that are building real things will keep doing so, largely under the radar, and the markets will do as the markets will.
Anyone have a reference relating the free energy minimisation principle / active inference to reinforcement learning type environments?
If that's the case I'd expect you to be investing every spare penny you have into BTC at the moment...
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I have friends who still say their program "abended".

Just a minor nitpick - the green screens we see today are also often descendants of the 3270 family as well as the 5250's that started life with the System/34 and found their way into the AS/400 and iSeries.

I had to nitpick because the 3270 is where this beautiful (shameless plug) font originated: https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font
Probably. Btw I like how OP wrote shit about killing 90% of people even if that included him/his loved ones and then edited it. Nice. As if people who write such things have loved ones, lol (your mom doesn't count).
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The intimidation is the police demonstrating their ability to intrude in her hotel room as they please. If the police wanted to take anything or hurt her, they could. They want her to relive that moment any time she performs an investigation the state may not agree with.
The problem is that they do 0 advertising outside the splash page on steam when 99% of people are just looking for deals.
They also did some absurd deals like $2.50 and $5 for the summer sale which is great but dilutes the value of the product when normal price is $50.
They probably could have teamed up with a major distributor like Target or Best Buy so people could give it a try in stores but Valve seems very anti-retail stores.

I think there is a lot of potential in this space with Google, Amazon, and Roku competing for Movies/TV while gaming is left wide open
do you have a counter argument for: "you still need to trust the devices that write to the blockchain" -- so ultimately you would be trusting the supplier.
> We have email, which is basically instant, free and worldwide. Why can't we have the same for payments?

We're getting there, but we're doing it in the mainstream space, not the cryptocurrency space. Within and between an increasing number of countries and groups of countries, this is becoming possible.

But between banks, not with distributed wastes of power like Bitcoin.
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I don't think I was in any way abusing. I said that your attitude does not inspire goodwill or good sentiments. You're trying to make money, like everyone. That's fine, not everyone is a monster for not writing free software, giving to charity, whatever. I just don't see why you should feel entitled to make the money the way you're attempting to. Your userbase feels strongly about some issues and these are the same people you're trying to convince to give them money to you. Calling them fundamentalists will not help or solve anything, and I can't emphatize with "If only more of my users agreed with me so I could make more money".
According to the analysis in the article, Yahoo does not waste bandwidth on web fonts because it uses system fonts. So, the title of this submission is a distortion.
This is a shockingly unhelpful discussion point when applied to corporate behavior in general. As a significant amount of bad action could be justified as "their lawyer probably advised them to do this".
Pro-tip: look for small, cash only hotels. Those "uncly Liu inn" style lodgings are easy to find in rural areas.

If they are cash only, and not issuing fapiaos, it means that they have no formal registration.

For travel, mopeds are not required to have number plates, and are not triggering number plate scanners.

Cash only intercity buses also likely running informally. Tickets for regular rail are also available for cash, but lately there are reports of police doing ID checks on trains.

Telling this as helpful tips to avoid excess attention from police as a foreigner in China. Living in a big city with sizeable foreigner population is relatively easy. The only "minor" inconvenience you encounter are occasional 4am police visits to check your ID, and a broken door if you happened to be out during them. While in smaller towns, you can easily be one of, say, 20 foreigners in town, and the police attention to you will be much more "personalised." Also, get a Chinese name. It is said that foreigners with Chinese names get way less attention than people with non-Chinese names.
Yeah https://www.theoceancleanup.com/

Though the majority of the plastic comes from people in Indonesia and China chucking it in the river. Those countries really need to stop that with old fashioned things like littering fines and sticking it in landfills. Plus recycling etc naturally.
I mean, he’s already functioning at the level he is aiming for, so might as well make it official.
How come people don't know what work you are doing at the company (thus allowing your colleague to take credit for it)? That's probably what you should try to address.

I'd start by writing emails detailing such or such feature you are working on, how it improves the system, etc. Maybe ask for feedback, or ask general questions to the business owner. Maybe suggest using some issue tracker where you could document over time what you are doing via comments, issues, etc. I'd expect your colleague might be the kind to distort truth, so such record is a good point of reference to set things straight.

Not only that would be good for you, since people will know that you are improving the system, but it will be good for the company since they'll know what's going on. They are lucky you're actually doing your job because another employee could have been slacking off and they wouldn't even know it.
This is an excellent break down of OP's situation, which seems very common in tech.

> make it known

This was the hardest "part" of working in a company for me to understand and execute on, especially when reporting to a non-technical supervisor. The thing is they simply don't know where to look or what to lookout for to give us accolades. It isn't as hard as we make it out to be, either. It can be as simple as "I made the common components for the WidgetMaker uniform through out the system, increasing reliability and improving maintainability. This will help us avoid an outage during peak WidgetMaking season so we can continue to make Widgets and operate smoothly", which isn't at all horn-tooty, but gives credit where due.
Yeah, this isn’t all that surprising. Chances are they had to get everyone to sign off on the new rules because of how many jurisdictions Google operates in.

Doesn’t really seem noteworthy to me.
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This is ignorant and wrong. Integrated communities date to before the founding of the United States. Frederick Douglas was a prominent and internationally recognized voice for equality and integration 100 years before the 1960s. We fought a civil war over it. Immediately following that civil war, there were strong legal protections created for the rights black Americans to own property, run businesses, vote etc. in an equal and integrated way. These protections were then chipped away down to Jim Crow levels through the sustained and vigorous efforts of racists who wished they had won the civil war and perpetuated slavery.

To be even more specific, you have authors who worked directly with Campbell during that time saying that they knew that he was racist and that it was wrong.

This idea that racism was normal and not remarkable in 1960s is a pernicious fiction that is promulgated by racists and their apologists. If you feel that this is an unfair inference about you, I would recommend you spend some time with history and get caught up.
what are you saying...? that whatever toxicity of ingesting plastic is proportional across all living things by weight?
There is a difference of course though and it's important to market to non-technical people that readable, maintainable, and tested code really does lead to lower costs for the company in the future.
Great breakdown of the various options.

I think this would be a great question to talk about trade-offs rather than having one right answer.
>“Google announced a prospective policy change that applies going forward to individual sex harassment and sex assault claims. This policy change does not apply retroactively to claims already compelled to arbitration.”

Given the context, the phrase "already compelled to arbitration" sounds pretty fucking disgusting. It gave me nausea just reading it.

Perhaps Google's lawyers should take slightly more care over these legal missives and maybe wonder, given the wider situation, if it makes them or their employers look like complete and utter scumbags before hitting send.
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It depends to a great degree on the volume and impedance of headphones. HD-25s perform quite well at normal volume for music that doesn't have tons of transients for phones with decent DACs.

But it's something you have to actively look for in phones.
* Basic Attention Token (BAT), Brendan Eich, digital advertising

* FunFair (FUN), Jez San, online gambling
AML is bad because it makes a crime out of something which isn’t actually bad. Yes, criminals are bad people who do bad things and they should be caught & punished. But KYC/AML are about making it easier to find criminals by their behaviour, not about crime directly. They violate the right to privacy, among other things, but most people don't care because — by definition — most people are normal: they don't carry $10,000 across state lines; they don't pay cash for everything; they have state-issued identification. They don't care if abnormal people who aren't criminals are inconvenience or oppressed by KYC/AML laws.
All of these suggestions are noted and appreciated
Interesting coding challenge
i'm curious to any public cases of systems / companies or anything . getting into trouble due to being pwned via an exploit like spectre where that exploit was really the key to the whole shenanigans.... i would say a system engineer is responsible for system configuration ,and if it's requirements call for it, disable smt or enable this muck?

Is there even a valid real-life case that supports enabling of these measures apart from some marketing stunt vuln disclosure? there have been many cpu bugs and issues in the past, but post these suddenly it's all on the band-wagon to be hyper paranoid on hw exploits... not all bad,, but maybe a bit over-reacting? in the past these issues were just silently patched in microcode or ignored. i remember reading about one with cache issues on xbox where they just decided not to generate the instructions which could cause it in compilers :')... silly but effective for the platform... and that's the thing. i think there's hardly anyone who should worry about these kind of exploits. rather worry about the more mundane and common ones first?
Outsourcing your moral agency to lawyers might be an explanation but it’s not an excuse.
Of course, only those blessed with good vision and memory should be able to have a visual record of their life :/ I can't wait for a chip that records everything I ever see so that I don't have to rely on flaky human memory.
No,children can use YouTube. However, the TOS prohibits them from making an account. A parent can set up an account, or they can use it without logging in.
I think it's fascinating that this is 100% different than what Bitcoin was sold as.

The theory of Bitcoin was basically "money without people". You wouldn't have to worry about governments and politics; value would be sent and stored in pure pieces of math. Mere governments couldn't possibly do as well as the glorious algorithms wisely fixed in advance by, etc, etc.

But if you're right, Bitcoin has way more politics than a third-world kleptocracy. And it clearly lacks the institutions and formal procedures used to shape those kinds of political currents into useful effects on the currency and the economy.
I never heard this one... what do you have to back it up?
> This is bigger than many well-known and long-living companies

And not in any way comparable, as it is merely the spot price multiplied by the supply, not any sort of reflection of total value or productivity.
mariadb / mysql? matomo / piwik.pro? It seems mostly done by the original developers however and not a new 3rd party.
The problem with smart contracts is that you settle for a "all bugs are feature" solution.
I recommend reading So Good They Can't Ignore You, by Cal Newport.

And more broadly, learn how politics are played.
>I thought that the value that I create will talk more than the nonsense of some people.

Nope. Silence is always less noticeable than noise.

Evil prevails when good men do nothing. Also, nonsense fluff prevails when good work isn't spoken of.

You have a professional duty to make sure nonsense is crowded out by important information. No one is going to do that for you.

Follow the rule of three...tell people what you are going to do and why it is important. Tell people what you are doing. Tell people what you've done. And not just anybody; decision makers.

It is no one else's job to tell people who influence your life of your good works.

No one has time to dig through everything you might have done to hold up the shining examples of your work. And now you have someone above you that might actually be interested in seeing it kept buried so it is even more critical that you do that interpersonal information transfer yourself.

You are a business, and like a business there is no worth in a product that the people who are in a position to buy don't know about. You're going to have to market and sell your value to the people that are buying. All of the time. Make it a habit. Your co-workers are competitors...don't expect them to sell your product for you. (though, keep in mind, part of your value-add is cooperating in your value-add chain so don't take this analogy too far).

Honestly, this is stuff that took me way too long to learn. They should teach it in engineering school. Hell, they should teach it in secondary school, for that matter, since there is really no one who is not running a business even if it is a business of one.
> I would gauge them by a combination of time in the market,

Absolutely not. Time on the market isn't an immediate indication of competence. It certainly isn't an indicator of potential. In my experience you are so much better making an objective hiring choice by throwing EVERYTHING related to programming and interviews away and simply providing a battery of personality tests. I went through this when I was interviewing with Bridgewater.

Performance is better determined by the briefness of product, the speed of execution, and minimal time of delivery. An educated person can make gross determinations of this by examination and testing of the code. Likewise, lesser souls can evaluate the product for code style, a super high dependency count, and favorite framework.

Ultimately it comes down looking for an ambitious endeavor versus looking for emotional comfort.
on frontpage with 200+ comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18493519
If you are able to discern his motivations, you can probably have faith that others will, too.

The extent to which your ego is bound up in taking credit, having a certain reputation among your colleagues, etc, is the exact extent to which your coworkers behavior can "get to you".

Always the best advice is: do your job to the best of your ability and don't worry what anyone else is doing. Others will notice. And if they don't, then perhaps its not the kind of place you would want to work, anyways?
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There are two separate problems here: making the MTA meet demand and making it efficient.

You may not be able to achieve both goals at once. Tackling MTA efficiency will involve a lot of confrontations with the union. And you know they won't back down on a single thing, so service will degrade further.

Having said that, maybe now is the time, when things are crumbling to take them on, with the hope of having the popular will at your back.
How can you work together or respect someone that takes credit for you work? This guy is a snake, it's not about being introverted.
I don't think it ought to be assumed that one would always apply this same line of thinking to other corporate behaviour.

In this specific case the context is about the few specific instances where this policy will not apply. Given that nearly all these instances seem to involve ongoing litigation, I applied this reasoning.
The future of Facebook was in Groups. A while back, they removed the group-only apps, probably because too many people were using it to get the real use they had out of Facebook, and advertising wasn't working in such silo'd interest groups (Though there's no reason it couldn't).

When they did that I saw that Facebook was becoming less and less useful to me. When I looked around at my close friends and family; almost all were in a few really active, really niche groups and getting most of their Facebook experience there. But Facebook has no interest in being the next-generation phpBB. I'm assuming this is the beginning of the end; no adapt-or-die mentality since they can just acqui-hire now.
> Low-level crooks and privacy minded folks are the ones that get caught

Low-level crooks getting caught is how higher-level crooks get caught.

> Cost of compliance with KYC/AML/ABC is greater than the money recovered.

Recovering money isn't even the main overt point.
Forced arbitration should simply be illegal. As long as it's legal, you can't expect individual companies to not make use of it, that would be a competitive disadvantage.
This only works if demand continues at all. "The halving" is of little consequence if nobody cares.
Yeah, it's time value of money. There are many kinds of subsidies, including direct to consumer. If you're interested, the IEA's old reports mentioned here would be the best place to start (many countries have since cut their subsidies, so there's progress):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_subsidies#IEA_position_...
Generally we measure how lethal something is by using an LD 50 that looks at mass of chemical per mass of body. There are exceptions to this, but as a first assumption it seems reasonable.
Frequent, random Internet searches regarding bioweapons, chemical weapons, fabricating nuclear weapons, and how to get in contact with various terrorist organizations.
How is this a relevant question?
The vast majority of cryptocurrency transactions are in Asia, meaning China, Singapore & Japan according to a sharespost webinar I tuned in to last week.
Getting money out of China has been a driver of cryptocurrencies in 2017 and early 2018, with little utility other than moving money around to invest in safer havens.
Which confirms GP's original idea. There's a fine line between an API that is full-featured and one that can be learned in an afternoon. Plotly is easy to work-through. But if you're aren't comfortable digging through its source code the documentation won't help you. Furthermore, it seems like their support / hosted solution is less for hackers in need of a helping hand and more for completely non-technical users that won't touch JS with a ten foot pole.
Fewer than 10% of US families do not have cars so it’s far more accurate to say that it’s true in most areas of the country.