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Market dominance is absolutely a fair argument for something being preferred by consumers, unless if you’re going to allege fraud or assert that everyone is dumb.

It of course doesn’t mean that things will remain this way forever. Credit cards have risen to prominence within living memory, there’s no reason why this has to remain. But it also means that if you expect something to replace credit cards, it must overcome both consumer preference and comfort, as well as all the advantages that the incumbents have.

As an aside, we have internet money. They’re called credit cards and debit cards, and we all use them daily to purchase ludicrous amounts of goods and services online and offline. What I have yet to see is an actual explanation for how any proposed “internet money” is superior to my Visa without relying on any ideological claims.
What you're missing is, everyone gets to depreciate their investments. Large oil companies are some of the few who can't.
I'm slower than that. It takes up a good portion of my day everyday unfortunately.
Exactly. That's what they teach in most self-defense. Avoid situations at all costs. Run away. Hand over the money. Even if you're carrying or know how to kill with your hands.
because nature does not optimize some axis, it selects the most survivable. nature can be dumb too
The "training mode" bit sounds amazing. Imagine training on the top 1000 websites with this in 3 modes: zhtml, zjs, and zcss. Then make the training output a different standard, that basically encode the peculiarities of the languages. Finally apply compression in the server and in the browser, that would be basically the same as zstd but without having to send the dictionary each time.

It might be small gains, it might be large ones on both transfer size and decompression speed, I'd love to see some tests on this. The best thing is that, if a browser (say Chrome) and a CDN (say Cloudflare) agreed on something like this there would be no need to even to anything on the front-end nor the server side, automatic free benefit for the users.
I think it helps too much, so I vote to remove it!
BSD is a licence for software. Papers are literature. How’s that going to work?
You bring up a valid point, and indeed the cost math doesn't add up at the moment.

My argument is that if you are an e-wallet provider specializing in Vietnamese Dong, then implementing a Bitcoin wallet into your existing offerings is trivial, since most of the required technology stack is open-source.

If you are an e-wallet provider specializing in Indonesian Rupiah, implementing a Bitcoin wallet into your existing offerings is also trivial.

The magic (and cost reductions) will come when users realize these silos can now talk to each other. I believe it's a question of why not? instead of why?
I’ve always had excellent, and prompt customer service from Amazon. I’m curious to know what kinds of issues have you encountered where you were unhappy with how they dealt with it?
The west has spent far more brainpower in making up bioethics regulations than actually talking about the procedures themselves. Cue the threads over here.

Also note the differences in culture: the chinese parents consented to it. I m not sure how easy it would be to find this in the west.
So now what the world needs more is for rsync (or heck even just ssh) to have an option to use zstd compression, instead of gzip. Using gzip compression is great if you're moving stuff over a slow connection, but I'd like a faster method for when I'm moving loads of data over Gb ethernet between fast discs. I'd even settle for rsync/ssh supporting lz4.
I guess the document about Google is so big they have issues uploading it to the web server!
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Did the future kids even consent to being born in the first place? Birth itself is a violation if we're going to be really technical and strict here.
I'd be heading to RISC-V for openness.
maybe we should be screening couples before we allow them to copulate, then. taking gambles with randomization experiments is 100% ethically indefensible.

please, spare us the "100% correct" and certified ethical positions
> How do you disallow ownership of means of production without totalitarianism?

The same way you disallow ownership of government office without totalitarianism; by making the thing that can't be privately owned publicly controlled via democratic accountability.

> Imagine a person has a small auto repair or sewing shop. They will not give up on profit unless you raid them, rinse, repeat.

Or, imagine a person owns the right to tax a small village. They likewise won't give up the profits unless you raid them, etc.; that doesn't make the transition away from feudalism totalitarian, it just means that changes in social concepts of property rights face resistance from those who have power in the old system that they would not in the new.

> Yes you can have hybrid model where you leave a lot of small business around, which is no longer communism as we know it

It's no longer a system where the only property that exists are what Communism holds to exist by right, which explicitly excludes the means of production, but since virtually every actual “Communist” state did some degree or another of that hybrid model in practice, it absolutely is “Communism as we know it”.

> since there's a lot of bourgeois people feeling great compared to workers.

Well, perhaps some petit bourgeois, but Communists more have problems with them as class allies of the haut bourgeoisie than directly.
>> I've worked with enough legacy code to know that playing around with seemingly unused areas can have unexpected consequences.

Imagine trying with million or tens of million year code.
I have mixed feelings about privacy. I think that transparency can be good in the right context. Selective transparency as a tool for coercion is what I'm worried about.
The financial transparency that some cryptocurrencies promote is a net positive in my opinion.
I like the idea that the most valuable cryptos are also the most public ones.
It's as if society was paying people a premium for choosing a transparent currency as their base.
Celebrities give up more of their personal privacy as they become more famous so it would make sense that wealthy people should give up more of their financial privacy as they become richer.
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They're not fake if they can be redeemed for things that would otherwise cost real money.
We mainly do DB construction ourselves, and for C# use LinqToSql and our own repos to integrate with it.

This is mainly because entity framework is terrible. It’s slow enough that the lack of speed which is worse in Linq gets negligible. It’s unproductive in that it’s really verbose and unintuitive in how it works, especially code first. And worst of all, it’s migrations often break, leading to a lot of time fixing it.

So if you’re doing C# I’d probably keep doing raw sql if I were you.

Django by contrast has an excellent ORM, and with node you have stuff like prisma (though it doesn’t have a mssql driver.

So really, I’d suggest you looked into python for your services.
The problem is that we don’t know whether this would prevent diseases with any reasonable certainty, and using non-consenting human beings to try to find out implies a profoundly dangerous devaluation of human life and individual rights.

If you can reach a high certainty level through other kinds of tests, then that would be another story.
There was a time where it was covered by the standard Facebook patent grant (“sue Facebook for whatever reason and you lose grant of all Facebook patents” or something to that effect), and at that time I recommended against using zstd regardless of its technical merit.

Luckily, as part of the big react grant backlash,it was dropped from zstd as well and now it’s (as far as I understand) also good from a legal standpoint.
C is unsafe because it comes with no memory protections. In an environment like a typical operating system (depending on the OS of course), there's a chance it will escape its sandbox. This risk does not exist in wasm. You can write the most atrociously misguided C ever and run it in wasm and know for sure that it will never do anything worse than corrupt its own program state.

You get similar benefits by using a decent OS and/or by putting the untrustworthy code in e.g. a docker container. It's still code that can't be trusted but at least you are setting some hard boundaries that have no easy/known ways of being bypassed.

However, it would still be bad if the program gets compromised. If, say, you are handling some credit card details and are using some C code to do that and it gets compromised, all of the interesting stuff (i.e. the credit card details) would be inside those boundaries. This is why using C to do that is not a great idea.

This is a concept that is often misunderstood by people: most of the interesting stuff (from a hacker point of view) happens inside the sandbox. This is where you access and handle sensitive data and access protected resources (e.g. a third party website). Many attacks use relatively low tech mechanisms such as script injection, man in the middle attacks, social engineering, etc.

Wasm indeed does nothing to protect against that. If you are handling user input in any way, that is potentially a way for hackers to inject code in your sandbox. If that sandbox has access to or control over anything interesting, that just got compromised. If you are using a language that is notorious for its decades long history of input validation mechanisms getting compromised (cough C cough), that means you can't trust input validation to function properly even inside a wasm container.

This is exactly how many browser attacks work. They don't install viruses on your machine or whatever but they simply trick you into revealing your credentials, visiting some evil website, or entering your credit card. A bit of injected javascript or a redirect is all that this takes. Any injected code never leaves the sandbox; it doesn't have to.
> I'm skeptical of this, but I don't know that it's wrong.

It depends on what you mean by “worked”.

1) Have they allowed a slower and more humane shift of workers to other more competitive industries?

Yes. The GM bailout is a great example.

2) Have they helped keep certain skill sets in a country?

Yes. Undoubtably.

Is this important? I think so but there are opposing arguments.

It can take decades to build up an industry from scratch vs a few years to pivot into a related industry.

Think of how long it would take Germany to swap its automotive engineers and factories to producing tanks vs how long it would take a services based country to start producing tanks.

3) Have they lead to the revitalization of an industry?

This ones a lot more murky and it all depends on what time frame you are looking at and what you think the future will hold.

There are certainly examples of it working between first world countries for limited time periods (a decade or two).
then you should not have children, but you should clone yourself. because your children are certainly going to be a messed up version of god's creation
So… you're wondering if japan performs basic maintenance & rolling stock replacement?
> And yet, two posts up you complained about control of people's freedom

I'm a supporter of reasonable freedoms not unlimited freedoms. I would like checks and balances on power and it's accumulation whether it's a person or group of persons. Just like voting rights, we at least try to achieve equal voting share for each person. Money is power it needs reasonable checks and balances so that wishes of few do not affect many. No one needs $100 million to survive or live a reasonably good life. If you need more for an endeavor you're free to appeal to others to invest into your effort. Point is, large changes needs to be made by proportionate amount of wills.

> Do you no see the irony in that contradiction?

There's no contradiction. It's just a suggestion to avoid a few of such problems, but if you have a better suggestions, I welcome it.

>Hah! What a huge "if"

Yes that's a big 'if', just like for any other idea. Only fools are certain of things, those without power have only hope.
I've checked the dimensions of a typical bunk bed and it's around 120-140cm x 200cm. But you'd also need two 30cm lanes for access to those three, so eventually it's at least:

(120cm3 + 60cm) 200cm = 8.4m^2.
Exceptions are mostly annoying because they’re infectious, and somewhat undocumented (they’ve not part of the api; if an upstream library adds a new exception, all downstream code must now handle it [or document it]), and if anyone misses the update, its a runtime error waiting to happen. But notably, your compiler won’t say a word about it (unless its java, in which case you’ll probably get too much :-). Return codes are similar, but less cascade-y. Try-catch being verbose and fucking up control flow is just an added bonus.
Yeah, check the references also.
First off links to news sites, not studies, then the links just point to the front page.

We have this statement in the article:
"Similar studies have found glyphosate exceeding maximum residue limits (or MRLs) in Cheerios, beer, and wine.4,5"

This one:
5. Copley, C. German beer purity in question after environment group finds weed-killer traces. Reuters (2016)

Googling that gets to:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-beer/german-beer-...

That article doesn't give a limit for weedkiller in beer, but does for water.

Now I'm no expert, but I would expect primary ingredients such as water to have lower safe limits, because they're expected, A. To be consumed in higher quantities and B. Combined with other primary ingredients with the potential the potential to end up at a higher overall chemical level, as seemed to have happen here.
Nah we are not in brave new world yet. We are in a world where china is willing to brute force its way into it through very risky experiments, while the west is not willing to own up to the reality that our future is no longer natural, and we are not even going to be a single species.
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Based on what you've said here:
>"Went through one company which lead me on with first a phone
>interview then a hacker rank challenge then a take home
>project then a onsite interview with a whiteboard programming
>challenge and a final interview. I never heard back from
>them, only to find out later on that I had been rejected
>without them telling me!"

I would suggest you could have a couple of issues (bearing in mind that I have little evidence to go on):

1. One might be technical competency - The only time I'll repeatedly give technical questions i.e. HackerRank, TakeHome, Whiteboard is if I'm not convinced that you have the technical skill by some earlier stage.

2. You're failing the "cultural fit" test. This is in my opinion always the hardest one to figure for an interviewer, and is usually the last question hanging over a candidate. I understand that you're frustrated with the process, but any semblance of arrogance during an interview is often a big negative in the post interview recap. Particularly if the position is more commodity than specialist developer.

To add more context can you do any or all of the following;
- Post some code
- What sort of position are you going for?
- Where are you based?
The brutal rebuff reminds me of the argument against using keywords, which I still add to my websites as, when used appropriately, adds value. PR is similar in that, while it may no longer matter to Google, it still matters (and you don't have to pay $7/mo. to figure that out) because there are other search engines crawling the surface Web that aren't Google.
I've heard this dismissal made by the likes of Sam Harris and Michael Shermer against Deepak Chopra, which is fair enough.

But Roger Penrose is not Deepak Chopra, and he's earned the right to be treated with far more respect than this.

Perhaps the article doesn't do his work justice, but that doesn't make it reasonable to draw these kinds of derisive and vulgar comparisons.
No amount? I disagree. The speed limit is inherently a balance between safety and time-efficiency. You can convert time-efficiency into money, and figure out a monetary cost of different speeds. Even if it's an absolute mandate to keep safety levels the same, you could cut everyone else's speed by 1kph and make it up to them with a share of the money. Or you could subsidize safer cars with the money.

And at a certain price point you can call in a police escort or start installing express lanes.
it's very treatable if it occurs

Surely it is a bit of a stretch.
Stack Overflow is for very specific questions with very specific answers.

You'll get better results for more general questions from a reddit forum.
> sadly the only game in town for new sites these days is likely facebook traffic, snapchat and youtube.

I disagree. I started a new site last year for work, it's an educational site that contains resources for teachers and parents supporting children with a variety of special educational needs.

SEO isn't a big deal for us, but I did all the basics, made sure pages were structured properly and the content is good. 12 months later virtually all our traffic is from organic search, and we don't use Facebook, Snapchat and only use Youtube to host a few videos.

It seems to me like Google is still doing its job OK.
In practice, I don’t know of anyone offering 0.3% card processing fees. Most POS systems and online payment processors are more like ~2% e.g. Stripe is 1.4% + ~€0.30 to take online payments from within the EU. And chargebacks are passed on to the merchant with an additional fee tacked on.

Can you point me to any cheaper solutions?

I like the idea of having the processing fees displayed prominently on the receipt though (like VAT). If people had to actually pay more to use Amex (rather than the merchant absorbing the blow, or distributing the costs across their other customers), then they might quickly go out of business (and rightly so).
I used to be one: https://bergie.iki.fi/blog/working-on-android-2017/

Nowadays using an iPad Pro instead. While there are some software limitations, the hardware is much nicer than what you can get with Android or Chrome OS.
Chargebacks essentially are escrow. The merchant can't stop them from happening because the money is taken from the merchant account reserve, i.e. a minimum balance that the merchant can't withdraw. Sounds similar to money held by an escrow agent doesn't it?

And credit card transactions are also expensive, between 1.5% and 3% and even higher[1]. It's just that the cost is hidden from the consumer by accounting for it in a higher product price. (Some merchants like gas stations may offer a cash discount, which can be used as a rough estimate of that hidden cost.)

On top of this, merchants get charged a hefty fee (on the order of $50) for each chargeback that they receive.

[1] https://www.creditdonkey.com/credit-card-processing-fees.htm...
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That's quite the brush you're painting with there. Is the primary motivation behind fining the same everywhere?
I like Charles Bloom's blog, but I'm not sure if it's very approachable (after all, it's "rants" :-). If you want more diversity in the readings, ryg blog [1] makes good reading. Start with the most recent series on efficiently reading bits [2].

[1] https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/category/compression/

[2] https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2018/02/19/reading-bits-in-far...
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So... chose:
- lz4 for speed/cpu usage
- zstd for compression ratio
- zlib for portability/compatibility with correct compression ratio... but slow...

And dump everything else ?
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A similar effect can be achieved with Newlib, which is mentioned on the post, and exemplified at: https://github.com/cirosantilli/linux-kernel-module-cheat/tr... You might need to implement some syscalls though. Or similarly you can also use an open source embedded system like FreeRTOS or Zephyr which essentially implement the syscalls for you.
That’s quite a bold claim. You must be one hell of an economist to just assert something like that.
The Osdev wiki is a great resource on this type of thing https://wiki.osdev.org/Expanded_Main_Page
Or, you know, he probes (even if without results) for things we consider "done and closed" or "needless", so we reduce any argument he makes to a huge strawman.
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I have also covered baremetal multicore at: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/980999/what-does-multico... The exemple is present in the same repo: https://github.com/cirosantilli/x86-bare-metal-examples/blob...
They should have been fined more than a measly €20k in my opnion. As a developer I'm deeply ashamed that people are still storing user passwords in plain text. There is no reason behind this behaviour what so ever, other than pure laziness ...
City of York receives responsible security disclosure, threatens submitter
I wonder how many of us are totally fine with gene-edited babies but find Facebook morally reprehensible?
The blog post links to this much longer Atlantic article: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/planckia... -- the link probably should be changed to that instead.
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Just FYI although the music industry has changed (much lower profit margins now), it's still a cartel of companies who actually own the vast majority of the content, and extract a pound of flesh. Perhaps you think that Spotify "disrupted" the industry (and Last.fm / others before it), but everyone still pays the piper - the majors (and given that they own the content, they can choose how much to charge for it whenever their contracts renew, which they make sure is frequently).
Or a 4-core ITX ARM board with almost[1] 100% open TianoCore UEFI firmware with ACPI and with x86 emulation for VBIOS [2] that allows video output from the EFI framebuffer… with a DIMM included… for a THIRD of the price of the Blackbird:

https://www.solid-run.com/marvell-armada-family/macchiatobin...

[1] one 12kb blob: https://github.com/MarvellEmbeddedProcessors/binaries-marvel...
[2] https://github.com/MarvellEmbeddedProcessors/edk2-open-platf...
None of the parties that are involved in Linux actually care one iota about the desktop. At best it is a side project. It is phones, servers and embedded,

Only a very small percentage of what is a shrinking market uses it uses it on the desktop.

It will never happen. The only company that has really invested into anything close to Desktop Linux is Google and it is Chrome books which are pretty much a walled garden.

While it was better than it was 15 years ago, there are still dumb problems like "Why doesn't by usb headset work?" or "Oh X shat itself again with my GPU". Whereas with Windows I can reinstall the GPU drivers while playing a youtube video. The only thing I haven't had work is some cheapo chinese Serial PCI card from fleabay.
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One day, I will create a website with decent ranking algorithms to destroy stack overflow: https://github.com/cirosantilli/write-free-science-books-to-...
Capitalist "Libertarianism" is not actually Libertarian at all. It is authoritarian.
You're right, they are of course different. What I meant is that if you know any of those languages, your knowledge can be very easily mapped to Dart. I had experience with those langs before, and I was productive with Dart from day 1, it never felt like a problem to me. I'm just happy Google didn't go down the route of using JS like in RN :P
What annoys me is that Reddit threads get locked after 6 months. Then people ask another one. And another one. I want to fix that with decent algorithms one day: https://github.com/cirosantilli/write-free-science-books-to-...
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