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"I mean the true Scotsman!"

You definitely presented it as the strategy for popular takeout places in NYC. And it's not.
>>The fact that there's a large number of employees who signed this document provides great evidence to contradict this claim.

As the saying goes, talk is cheap. So is signing a document.

What is not easy to do is putting your money where your mouth is and acting on your convictions, even if they cause you great discomfort.
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What sort of CFD analysis do you do? Automobile-related?
That is true. But then he stops making the payments. The bank either forecloses and takes the house to settle the loan, or he sells it in a short sale for $350K and the bank writes off the difference. Worst case, he has to file bankruptcy and maybe pay income tax on the amount forgiven. Either way, he still got to spend the $500K on...whatever.

Now that I think about it (and these are pure anecdotes), at the time I heard tales of people using the money from refinancing to buy a smaller home with cash. Then they'd move into that and let the first house get foreclosed on (because their paid-in-full primary residence is protected in bankruptcy).
Non public issue trackers are a waste of time because they don't allow users having the same issue to congregate around discussion of that issue.

If asrock wanted people to contact them about bugs like this they should create a public bug tracker, otherwise they deserve the delayed response time from not getting this via the preferred channels.
And then he counter-sued the DOJ and then reached a settlement. The disagreement was over welfare applicants. That can be twisted a number of ways, but you can't misconstrue that to imply racism. Landlords (and banks by the way) have a legitimate, financial duty to lease to the most-qualified tenants. When you ignore financial qualifications...you get the 2008 real estate crash.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2186613-realty-compa...
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2186614-trump-promis...
At least for the purposes of the flowchart, it seems to be defined that way. Otherwise, the "Are you having hard time agreeing on who controls the data store?" bubble would be a bit out-of-place.

That said, if you don't have something like that, then most the rest of the bubbles don't make a whole lot of sense, either. When there's one central authority, they have the ability to unilaterally rewrite history, so you've also lost any features that flow from that not being possible, such as strong auditability.

Git seems like a decent litmus test. Is git, rebase and all, a blockchain technology, or merely a blockchain-like technology?
You don't have to cryptographically sign each commit, it's just a blockchain where the difficulty is "a single valid SHA256"!
I think you're getting downvotes because your statement brooked no argument, and people know if they comment they will be dragged into an off-topic back-and forth battle with a 9/11 truther that nobody could win.
Certainly Supreme is not a small company and their standard lines have huge huge distribution and are not particularly unique. The OP was referencing the lines outside of the Supreme store on Lafayette, this is the supreme store regardless of the fact that there are many supreme stores, the original supreme store in Manhattan releases limited one time short run series of Supreme only available at this store. This is pretty much the standard streetwear MO, regardless of how small or large, even folks like ader error who I believe are held by the founders yet have global distribution still drop original and limited in this manner, if I want one of their drops I have to pay someone in Korea to line for me or wait for it to arrive on the secondary market for some insane markup.
A few reasons I would guess at:

Business startup by necessity has gone down. It's much easier to get hired by an international company in a niche field and work from home now, so people no longer are required to start a business to work in the field of their choice

It's more difficult to start something really innovative, related to the slowdown of Moore's Law

It's more difficult to start a business in an established field, as licensing laws have come to cover so much more of the landscape. You can no longer just decide to become a barber and hang out your shingle.
It meant, engineers who work on problems related to physics.
Probably as if he’s in a department store. Could have also said “sporting goods”, it just wouldn’t have been AS (marginally) funny. It’s a dad joke, at best, but I don’t think it’s offensive in any way. People need to grow up and get over themselves, instead of trying to police each and every little thing someone says.
The "permanent web" has now just become "the most popular pinned web" like torrents did. :(

I really think we need to expand our use cases to included mutable and immutable content.

People simply are not going to switch to the dweb if they have to deal with this complexity.

I did a talk on this at the Internet Archive's Decentralized Web Summit a few months ago, and how we can fix this, alongside a bunch of others in the dWeb space like DAT, SSB, etc. ( https://www.decentralizedweb.net/videos/talk-better-algorith...).
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Despite what you want to believe, there is no virtue in having a first just to have a first. I’d rather have a kick-ass first female president than a “figurehead first”. You need to examine your virtues a little before getting uptight about missing a chance to signal.

Further, the US is not great because it’s progressive. It’s great because we are allowed to be progressive. It’s great because it is structured to systemically fight oppression. Does that mean we are absolutely free of all possible oppressions? No. But we have invented a society that limits the damage oppressive factions can do. In other countries the government, the monopoly on power, is allowed to oppress (and we’re trending that way in the US, which is unfortunate) for the “greater good”. Because the government can’t do that in the US, it means we e.g. can’t silence homosexuals or transgender people arguing for equality. It means you can call Trump a thing and not have the police at your door.

We are certainly not “the greatest country evar omgee” (I’m not into the imperialist stuff either). But the example we have set for the world has lead to the fastest expansion of human knowledge our species has ever seen. That’s pretty great.
I think the key point that crypto-enthusiasts often miss here is "Are the entities with write access having a hard time deciding who should be in control of the data store". For many purported use-cases for blockchains (things having to do with traceability of goods for instance) the answer to this question is most likely "no".

For instance if you want to trace a shipment of pineapples there must be some entity somewhere who's tasked with making sure that the goods are up to code (otherwise anybody could just lie on the blockchain). This entity is clearly "in control of the data store". Of course you may want to be able to publicly audit that entity's records to detect any wrongdoings or suspicious activity, but that doesn't require a blockchain at all, simply having a signed public database/log (that anybody could archive) would do the trick nicely for instance.
No, it still triggers a taxable event. "In general, the sale or exchange of convertible virtual currency, or the use of convertible virtual currency to pay for goods or services in a real-world economy transaction, has tax consequences that may result in a tax liability."

[1] https://www.irs.gov/irb/2014-16_IRB
TL;DR: Probably not but maybe
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If I cut myself off at a certain arbitrary time, the time spent building mental context earlier is totally wasted.

If what you have to remember to make a certain change means you have to keep 27 things in your head at once to avoid making bugs, you might want to consider re-organizing your code so this number is smaller.
> Is it better to look at per capita or per unit of economic growth?

Per capita IMO. Not all economic growth (assuming you're talking about GDP) is created equal, and not all of it is desirable. You can grow the economy both by drilling oil and by installing solar panels, but one of them helps the problem and the other hurts it. If we start pricing carbon externalities into both activities, the panels would make more sense financially.

Economic growth exists to serve people and make lives better - it's not an end in itself. And emissions per capita is an indicator of how carbon-efficient the economy is in providing whatever lifestyle it provides to its participants.
How do you do that though? Whoever doesn't disarm has a massive advantage.
Worst case? Couple the device and a great mic in clay.
Agreed, absolutely worth a visit.

Weird comparison to the Newseum. In hindsight, I also had a similar reaction.
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I had to compile some Python libraries from C source on a Solaris box once. Initially I got errors due to an incompatible version of the OS maths libraries that were clearly written in Fortran, though I can't remember the details of the error messages. So not really a direct dependency on Fortran, but it was still in the mix.
Its a Joke "real" programmers write billing systems and nuke simulations in Fortran :-)

I have work on both in Fortran - if you consider a Fast Breeder a mommy bomb
You're right. There's a respectably wide span across which the longbow may have become dominant, and another period of using some amount of both. I think most certainty is their origination in Wales. The Welsh and Normans were constantly learning from each other's tactics from the earliest excursions by the Normans. There are some who document longbows being used during the war of succession between England and Normandy in the 1140s (The Anarchy), and in Wales a little later in the 12th.

Others have argued much later. Unless we get an older find of Mary Rose quality, I think that debate will run on. :)
You don't have to drive to find those things. Even the densest cities have parks. You can walk, you can bike, you can take public transit. I have a pretty long to-do list myself, but I can still find more natural places than my yard when I go for a run five or more days out of seven.

If you choose to host social events on your own property, that's fine. Houses are great for that. But is it really worth it to maintain a yard 365 days a year for those hypothetical three that you use it for entertaining? Is it worth it for everyone to do that, at such environmental cost? The universe is not all about your pleasure.
My belief is even more draconian: I believe you shouldn't be able to cross "industries" like that. If you are hardware, you don't do software, and vice-versa. If you deliver content (cable companies) then you don't make content. It's like we're now back to the Andrew Carnegie days.
The average American has so little buying power that they have become absurdly price conscious. If a big player muscles into my business, they can undercut me and ruin me with no recourse. Why would I get into that?
This matches my experience in IT: sometimes recruiters prefer to hire a girl, even if less qualified, just for sake of having a girl in the team, because it is "improving the morale" :)
No offense but you're framing your situation as though you had created a garden of native plants when in reality all you did was let your yard be overrun with whatever would grow. In other words you neglected it, intentionally or otherwise.

Most of the plants in your photos are considered weeds. So by not pruning and selectively removing aggressive and invasive plants, you're actually increasing your neighbor's use of herbicides in their attempts to combat them.

Then you cried foul when local laws were used to compel you to clean up your messy yard that was a nuisance to others. You're relying on the "why can't everyone else just behave like me then we wouldn't have an issue" defense.
Real engineers are liable if their output fails.

What is one of the first statements made in every software license ever written in the history of computing?

Civil Engineers: Bridge falls down, PE's stamp is on designs, design faulty, is liable = Real engineer.

Software "Engineer": Program fails, money lost. "LOL must be bugz, btw: THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION." = not an engineer.

Can you imagine if an aerospace engineer submitted the designs for a new turbine engine with an asterix at the bottom of the blueprints saying "this engine design is provided as-is without warranty of any kind either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to whether or not it will blow up in flight"?

The programmers for the Space Shuttle program may have been actual engineers, because I'm willing to bet that they submitted documents guaranteeing the performance and operation of the code they wrote.

Yep:

>NASA knows how good the software has to be. Before every flight, Ted Keller, the senior technical manager of the on-board shuttle group, flies to Florida where he signs a document certifying that the software will not endanger the shuttle. If Keller can’t go, a formal line of succession dictates who can sign in his place.

https://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff

So maybe some programmers can be engineers, if they put their money where their mouths are and don't go "lol bugz, didn't buy support contract" if something goes wrong.
>I'm worried the future will be a small handful of oligopolist mega-corps.

I think we're already here, or closer than a lot of people realize.
Why ? and did you get equivalent performance afterwards
I would also like to add that companies encouraging freedom of speech internally to a level that makes such protests possible are exceedingly rare.

In most companies employees have no freedom of speech unless unionized and not even then. And protesting against projects based on moral principles publicly is a sure way to get you fired.
Article claims that "modern Fortran already has [...] generics" but AFAIK it's still not possible to write e.g. a type-generic sort function (unless you restrict yourself to types all inheriting from a common class, a bit like very early Java). So there's no standard library of basic algorithms and data structures, and you can't even write one, without resorting to meta-programming (likely in a language other than Fortran). From what I have seen about Fortran2018, this will not improve any time soon.
What about Germany?

Their renewables have basically been replacing nuclear, rather than coal as maybe we can agree would have been better.

Yes nuclear is on its way out, but I feel Greenpeace and its ilk havent got the order right.
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I believe free format came about in Fortran 90, and that FORTRAN 77 was still fixed format--at least that's what a quick Google suggests. But even still, fixed-format F77 has stuck around in lots of legacy code bases for a long time. We only migrated one of our large codebases to free format a few months ago.
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Some have argued earlier, see my sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18544499
Google could do it in a much more transparent way than others, for example by stating "Here is what we know about you, and this information may be given away to the government if you proceed with a search that they considered dangerous".

I think it would be better than the current situation, where Chinese people are left with a poor quality search engine, which won't find a good answer to the question, report them to the government, and do it in a very secretive way.
For many people, their phones are synonymous with the internet. That’s why the App Store being a closed ecosystem is much more troubling than the XBox.
You might be interested in what's in the headlines today.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/27/manafort-hel...
Recommendation 1:
Ensure that national interoperability frameworks and interoperability strategies are aligned with the EIF and, if needed, tailor and extend them to address the national context and needs.

Recommendation 2:
Publish the data you own as open data unless certain restrictions apply.

Recommendation 3:
Ensure a level playing field for open source software and demonstrate active and fair consideration of using open source software, taking into account the total cost of ownership of the solution.

...and so on.
If a monopoly exists, and doesn't harm the consumer, what's the issue?
You do see what you're saying right? Essentially, you're saying the government is responsible for the laws regarding censorship, not the businesses that operate there.

If censorship existed in the USA, Google would have still started under it, and simply operated with that constraint. This is no different than operating in China.

Google can't influence one way or another what censorship laws exist in China, currently. If they had a significant market share there, then they might be able to negotiate terms, since they would have some leverage.
And Google bought Motorola basically for its parents and then sold all of it off but it’s patrntd.
> Anonymous recruiting entails that the ... date of birth ... are not included in the job application

If I write on my application that I have 25 years of experience, does that have to be excluded due to it revealing that my date of birth is likely more than 40 years ago? Can they really believe that the amount of experience isn't important?
If a bridge falls down you blame the contractor :-)

This Happened at Dar Al Hadassah when I worked there
>> According to the mores of the time, Spain's actions were perfectly acceptable.

That is a deeply ahistorical statement. In their own time, the conquistadores were strongly criticised for their atrocities, particularly on the side of the church. For a most prominent example see the extensive Wikipedia article on Bartolomé de las Casas:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartolom%C3%A9_de_las_Casas

Also, try to think about it this way: if everyone was OK with collonialist era practices, why are we not OK with them today? What changed, and when did it all start to change? Do things ever change spontaneously, with out explicit criticism of current morality, and purposeful attempts to reform it?

(No, they don't).
This is the first I hear about the "slowdown of Moore's Law." Do you have any data to share? Thx.
Yeah, and if the climate scientists are as wrong as nutritionists were about fats [1][2]...then what? We destroy the world economy for the wrong reason? In ANY complex system, there are trade offs for every choice. And would you starve a billion people to save the planet? Would you quadruple oil prices to cut emissions...hurting the poorest in the process? The point of free speech is that we DEBATE things like this so we can TRY to arrive at the best answer, knowing damn well we still might have to TRY AGAIN if and when we fail.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_pyramid_(nutrition)#Origi...
[2] http://www.jbc.org/content/86/2/587.full.pdf+html
I think he is talking about himself though.
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Fortran is still highly relevant in the science community. I worked with a couple senior scientists from a national lab and they mainly only knew Fortran and C/++. Almost all their legacy software was in Fortran so everyone who joined the group had to learn it too. Not coincidentally, they mainly teach Fortran and C++ during my physics minor (same programming courses as majors). I know they introduced Python to the curriculum these past few years though.
> you could easily install it

Haha, no. Last I did this, you must have a Macbook, you must configure Xcode, generate new certificates, sign the entire application bundle, and then you get to sideload it - and never get an update ever unless you repeat the entire process.

In contrast on Android:
"This application is from an unknown source. Would you like to still install it?"
True, but the scale on which the Inca practiced sacrifice is not exactly comparable to the Aztecs, e.g [1].

1: https://phys.org/news/2018-06-skull-tower-rack-evidence-azte...
I'm just one data point, but we opted to go for a corded mower. Considered a battery one but they're so expensive and we knew it'd run out of juice before we finished the yard. Wrangling the power cord while mowing is a bit annoying but I still vastly prefer it to gas. It's super fast and easy to turn off and on, quieter, and I never have to bother with storing and smelling a can of gasoline in the garage/fill it up at a gas station. Plus the environmental benefits.

I told a couple people in my family about getting a corded mower once and they just scoffed at me and extolled the "virtues" of their gas-powered mowers. I was pretty annoyed at their condescending attitude about it, as if they had the moral high ground on the issue.

As for why I maintain my lawn, well I have dogs, and dogs might enjoy sniffing tall grass, but they run a lot less than they do on short grass. We had both this year because we were too busy to mow for awhile and the difference in their behavior was pretty stark.

Also when you do finally mow it again with thick grass it takes at least twice as long to mow the lawn because the mower can't handle it as easily.
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> We've had nuclear generation for 64 years now and harm to the environment is minimal.

Has it been? I'm not really convinced that's actually the case because even if something nasty happens, the usual reaction seems to be to just pretend "everything is okay" and then raise the threshold levels for radiation exposure because that's pretty much the only thing that can be done.

Case in point: Fukushima is still sitting on loads of contaminated dirt and water, with no clue what to do with it [0].

On a global level that might be "minimal" but I doubt the local population cares very much about that distinction.

Imho this is quite similar to the naivety with which the US conducted their nuclear tests. Back then they also assumed "It's far enough away from population centers, there's no danger for anybody". Decades later, the statistics speak another language [1].

Which is a common problem with nuclear: Direct attribution is pretty much impossible and the long-term epidemiological studies required to recognize these effects are not only very complex but also extremely expensive.

Leading to a situation that down the road we might have repeated the same mistakes like previous generations before us did: Leaving the actual problems, and it's solutions, to following generations, who gonna curse us for our naivety and hubris.

There's also the factor that nuclear requires massive cooling, this last summer already has seen several plants, all over the globe, shut down/throttled down due to rivers running too hot for cooling [2]. If the trend of increasing average temperatures keeps on going, this will become a much more common issue.

[0] https://www.fastcompany.com/3058303/look-at-the-millions-of-...

[1] https://qz.com/1163140/us-nuclear-tests-killed-american-civi...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/sep/07/weatherwatch-nu...