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One of the options I see as possible is that the USGov will effectively "acquire" crypto of it gets used enough. They would do this by mandating parity with the USD so that it's simply another instrument of the USD. Would take a lot of legislation, and work but it's possible to do and preferable to allowing a competitive currency inside the states.
Has it? I don't know, the people I know never had a good relationship with their banks. Plus, there were other changes; at least in some places, banks were much smaller than today. Is it not true where you live? If it is, couldn't that have the effects you describe?
I've been developing software professionally for 25 years. I've never found them to be useful. Even if you have them, they're usually out of date, and anyway they don't really help answering the questions you have. None of the places I have worked at have put a lot of emphasis on UML diagrams.
SPARK exists, we don't need Rust.

Most evangelized/shilled technology since systemd tbh.
I'm not sure why this would be a goal. There is nothing illegal about holding something valueable. It is only taxable events, such as selling your bitcoin, that require disclosure to the government (so that they can tax you, obviously).
I'd say that the automation enables it to be an order of magnitude worse. And it will be worse for any entity that doesn't really care about it.
I would guess it's the "fake news" part that is triggering the downs. Using that phrase is a sure fire way to piss off a subset of all side, but especially people who support/like what the article is saying.
If the escalation is accessible, everyone will try it. That includes anyone who got handled correctly.
And as detection becomes more accurate, an even larger ratio of escalations will be blatantly wrong.

This explains why slightly inept well meaning companies shy away from such escalation paths.
I wonder about the stats on appeals in court. How many are successful. How many go to an appeal at all. How costly is a single appeal / how costly is the average successful appeal.
>RAM is cheap

This is the wrong mindset. RAM is only cheap if you don't use it. As soon as you go just 1 byte over the maximum RAM it turns into the most precious resource of the entire computer.

If an app uses more memory than another then it is not better because RAM is cheap. It is better because it provides more or higher quality features at a reasonable cost of increased memory usage. But at the same time it is also worse for people who do not need those features.

Here is an example: When I launch the graphical file manager nautlius it consumes roughly 26 MB of RAM showing my home folder but when I go to my "Pictures" folder it suddenly shoots up to 300MB. There is a reason for that and it is not "RAM is cheap", if that were the case it would always use 300MB regardless of what I do with it (electron apps are a major offender of this). Nautlis consumes that much RAM because it has more features like displaying 1000 thumbnails of all those pictures.

Now this feature would get in my way if I set up something like a Raspberry Pi Zero to take a photo every hour. Nautilus will crash because it needs too much memory to display the thumbnails.
Spaced repetition is a very useful tool when making it through law school; it was for me and many of my cohort. It's very useful to improve scores on many tests, from first aid to tests for a hunting license. Is it very useful to 'really' learn? Only a bit. But there is value in improving test scores in its own right.
That's a good point, and should be mentioned, but I think it is also important to remember that businesses "accept Visa for payments" via a middleman (e.g, Braintree or Stripe) and that is still considered the same as "accepting Visa" as far as the general public and shop owners are concerned.
There's a difference between "faking it" and "trying your best but making mistakes". Trained pilots still crash airplanes, but I'm not getting on a plane flown by some random passenger.
Both Jaynes and Pauling are extremely intelligent and not gullible people. Why are we so quick to dismiss their "Crackpot" theories, simply because they don't fit with the dominant paradigm?
What is the point of OOP then, if you are using it in a functional way ? This just proves author's point.

Do you truly use it in a functional way though, that would mean, that you care about separation of state and identity. If you are mostly using immutable collectons/objects with pure functions, then it's fine, but this is not OO.
All of them except programming, I'd say. That sounds like a 2000's-programmer-centric view of the world. Modern software is unique among all the fields I've worked in, in that it combines:

- people routinely working on systems far too complex for them to ever understand fully, and which often change completely on the timescale of weeks or months

- all the relevant data on the web in a format (like error messages or function names) that's easy for google to index, and easy for users to type

- people sitting in front of internet-connected computers anyway, and sufficient time slop that the team doesn't need an instantaneous answer

When I was knee-deep in water at an archaeological dig 15 years ago and my professor called out "What species of tree is that by your knee?", or when I was working on the catwalk last week and my lead called over "Check that the instrument in front of you is safe", googling it would have been completely infeasible, for several reasons. They'd just replace me with someone who knows what they're doing.

> Learn the conceptual framework, and you'll remember the details by partial reconstruction as you need them.

When I took organic chemistry, they taught the special cases of each reaction type first, and then generalized them at the end of the year. When I took engineering physics, they made us start with the generalized form first, and then we had to derive the specifics as needed. At the time, I was frustrated by the chemistry approach (why didn't you tell us there was a simpler form?!), but 20 years later, I remember a lot more chemistry than physics (even though my grades in physics were much better). I might be able to fumble through an SN2 reaction if I needed to, but I'm sure I couldn't do anything at all useful with Maxwell's Equations.
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This is what I've put my soul into lately. The idea is to use radar imagery to find traces after avalanches.

I don't know what more to tell you, but I would love any feedback!
Speaking as a psychiatrist, this is the most interesting (re)development in psychopharmacology in decades.

For anyone who hasn't read it, Pollan's "How to Change Your Mind" is a fascinating journalistic/autobiographical look at these amazing psychotropics. One of the most important lessons I took from it was just how much research was conducted in the 50s and 60s, only to be swept under the rug once psychedelics became politically radioactive. The studies are, of course, of their time - with all the limitations that implies. It's great to see the growth of modern, active research in this area.
USAA has only one physical location in San Antonio but they've never failed to be courteous and helpful over the phone. And their app is a great replacement for a physical location for most of my banking needs.
So do I have to pay taxes for the taxes I just paid on my Bitcoin?
Could this incident have given Clarke the factual basis for the airlock scene in 2001? More than most SF authors, he liked his fiction to be broadly plausible.
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Technical inaccuracies in reporting do not make an article "fake news." Fake news is the intentional publication of stories purporting to be news that have no factual basis for the purpose of misleading the public.
Exactly. I would also add "big business" to this too. I bet we see a few different BTC products/services start to get announced that were probably put in motion this time last year.
If Lincoln's election did not cause the South to secede, his attempt to abolish slavery almost certainly would have.

Prior to the civil war, there were numerous compromises between the North and South whereing the South got to keep slaves. In March of 1861, Congress passed the the Corwin Amendment (requiring a 2/3 majority of the House and Senate; which is even more impressive given that 7 states had already seceded and therefore did not vote) t, which was endorsed by both presidents Buchanan and Lincoln.

I don't know if the Corwin amendement would have been ratified by enough states, if not for the Civil war, but given the timing, it is impressive it managed to amass even the 5 ratifications it did.

For what it is worth, I agree with the South's assesment that compromise was not going to be tenable long term, but the North certainly was trying.

As the certainty of a military victory became clear, along with the costs of the war, the opinion of the North began to change to a much less compromising abolishanist stance; which should not be suprising.
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It could be a matter of scale - being able to improve the bias in a human doesn't mean you can do so for all 900,000 sworn law enforcement officers in the US (or any other country).

On the other hand, you can update 900,000 computer processes in a relatively short time.
Blood money: Bayer's inventory of HIV-contaminated blood products
You might enjoy this. I was growing up in the countryside in the late 80s when BBSs and services like AOL started to take off. We were too far away from anything like a city for them to be a local call, so my use of them was extremely limited. I had a friend who lived a few miles closer to the nearest city and they were a local call for him, so we’d always spend a lot of time on the BBSs at his place.

Eventually we came up with a brilliant scheme. My friend’s father had a home office with a dedicated phone line. He had signed up for call forwarding so he could be reached when he was away. But outside of business hours, the line sat idle. The process of changing the forwarding number was totally automated and free. Calling his number was a local call for me, and calling the interesting services was a local call for him, so I could bounce through his line (with his permission, of course) to call these things for free.
it's a trap. you don't want to complex objects/classes. keep them simple!
> have a mostly automated system detecting violations and such, and also a good human support system with power to override the decisions of the former; the two are not really incompatible.

While that's true in the abstract, I don't think it's true in present society. Both private companies and government are under near-constant pressure to cut costs, and the people who are charged with implementing those cuts will be tempted to under-resource the human override team or cut it entirely. Quality of service isn't the priority.
I would like it if the arrow keys worked, in addition to WASD, and if holding a key down would continue to move the avatar.

That said, nice project!
Doesn't work on FF.
Not sure I understand your question. BitPay exchanges BTC for USD, not Gold for USD. Gold typically requires a physical exchange of goods, and can't be done electronically.
> How can you make the most number of groups happy with their seats?

You mean, make the most money? Nobody cares about making customers happy.
A machine can be tested for bias and measures taken against such bias are certainly followed.

The same does not hold for humans. Detecting the bias (down to the person level) is very hard. Going on to remedy it is even harder. You can't (or at least shouldn't) reprogram people.

In other words, you can change a racist machine, but not a racist cop.
I just finished reading The Secret Barrister and it already seems to be the case, at least in the UK, that if something is wrong you can't really clear it up.
I can‘t defend most banks but (I live in the in UK and) I’ve switch to Monzo who was explicitly built with that in mind: they manage to automate a lot of interactions, save on agencies, etc. explicitly to be able to invest more on services. This allows them to offer a visibly far better service. Thanks to automation, they have been profitable for a couple of months now (with a million customers) and have now switched on growth mechanisms.

Disclosure: I know several people working there but I have never used my contacts for preferential customer service, nor would I expect that the service could be better than the standard one.

Generally, I think that the incredible gains from automation are possible but require a lot of internal changes to make sense; changes that most companies do not have the leadership to conduct. This s why new actors often take advantage of those. I suspect that’s why Google replaced Encyclopedia Brittanica and countless more examples.
I'd like to support this statement that I do not remember the last time I used them as well...

Most of the time, they are accompanied by company (or team) specific TLAs that I do not understand, at the time of starting, anyway.

For instance, 1 year ago I joined NXP, which is a HW oriented company. I tried to study the UMLs, which for instance, described how CMSIS packs are delivered and how they are split into DFPs, BSPs and SWPs. At that time I had no idea what the documentation is about and I've rather started incrementally building my mental image of the whole system. Looking at the UMLs now, I understand them, but I can still clearly see that they will only confuse a newcomer.
Reading some of the comments here reminded me of a great talk by Stuart Halloway called Narcissistic Design.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEZv-kQUSi4
> and that is still considered the same as "accepting Visa" as far as the general public and shop owners are concerned

Which is itself accepting a payment network’s promises to deliver bank deposits to you which are, themselves, a promise by a bank to redeem to you electronic or physical dollars. Ohio is replacing the Visa layer with a Bitcoin layer; all else is the same.
Robo-servants at home.

Imagine not doing any mundane tasks at home (cooking, cleaning etc)

On the worse side : if there are robos at home. There will be sure outside in streets too. So we will have to figure out new jobs for ourselves.
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This article presents an overlooked case of research misconduct and violations of basic principles of medical and business ethics. When Bayer's Cutter Laboratories realized that their blood products, Factor VIII and IX or antihemophiliac factor (AHF), were contaminated with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the financial investment in the product was considered too high to destroy the inventory. Cutter misrepresented the results of its own research and sold the contaminated AHF to overseas markets in Asia and Latin America without the precaution of heat treating the product recommended for eliminating the risk. As a consequence, hemophiliacs who infused the HIV-contaminated Factor VIII and IX tested positive for HIV and developed AIDS.

Full article: https://sci-hub.se/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24785...
You could also argue that is has nothing to do with breathing.

But rather it's conditioning to switch to a less anxious mode. So if you practice doing anything physical while becoming calmer then eventually you'll imprint conditioning on yourself . So that when you go through those motions, regardless of it they are a way of breathing, moving your fingers, walking, whatever, just something very specific then you'll trigger the emotional change too.

Not to say the technique doesn't work. Just that it's difficult to isolate what actually makes things work and we often jump to an unsupported conclusion.
Those sound synonymous to me. It’s a payment method for a transaction which in this case is priced in USD. Not much different than accepting MasterCard or checks to pay off a USD balance. It’s convenient for some people, and shouldn’t affect or upset anyone else assuming the government didn’t spend a ridiculous amount of money to implement the payment method.
that's why you need a good appeals process.
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While not exactly the answer to your questions, problems of a similar nature ("how to most efficiently use a space for some or multiple purposes") can be solved using Golomb rulers [1]. I first learned about them when I played with the Distributed.net client to calculate optimal Golomb rulers. I feel they or a similar class of tools can be used as the answer to your questions.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golomb_ruler
That however goes both ways, making it also far easier to install a dictatorship etc. because you don't have to replace tens of thousands of police officers with regime loyal ones.

We're walking on razors edge here, it only takes one "election gone wrong" and we might find ourselves in a nightmare with no escape.
We have so many HN on racist machine learning algorithms that I'm not yet convinced we can do a good job of ridding our algorithms of bias.
I'd like to offer a few decades of perspective on your claim.

I've been programming for 30+ years. When I sit down to code, most of the time I've thought through it before even typing and am ~99% confident I won't hit a roadblock. I've spent half my life mastering my programming skills.

BUT: I'm a high-level technical lead / product lead, so I only get to write code a few times a month and it is more for stress-release because I've mastered it (and because I am a mentor to / lead 30+ programmers and this gives me a chance to interact with them).

If I wrote code 100% of the time I'd being winging it 1% of the time. So in this regard you are correct.

However, because of how corporations work, once you've demonstrated proficiency at "junior level work" you move up to the next big challenge. Yes, that sounds pejorative, but coding is not hard compared to the next levels of competency: programming is junior level, software architecture is senior level, product roadmap is staff level, corporate direction is above that. Sorry if that hurts your butt, but knowing the latest JS framework or how to optimize your C++ is trench-work compared to convincing the CTO where your division should invest its R&D budget for the next 5 years.

Because there is no "school" for learning how to plan your company roadmap, you really do have to wing it and learn from experience. And since shit is changing so fast... well, sure there are basic principles studied is business (that sometimes are useless for strategy but are good for tactics)... but in tech, it very much is "wtf is going to happen next and is this the right choice." Sure there is an executive board, and vice presidents gunning for your role, but you REALLY are winging it at C-level unless you are in your 70's and have helmed multiple large companies.

So from a top's down view from higher-importance positions, winging it is simply part of the job.
About twenty years ago, I knew a guy who owned a snake that was fed with live white mice. Once, around feeding time, he and another guy we knew ended up making a bet about what would happen if the mouse was exposed to vacuum prior to becoming lunch. Long story short, it was put in a glass chamber from which the air was evacuated over the course of about a minute. Basically, it sniffed around for a few seconds then abruptly fell over dead, with the only external sign of damage being a small dot of blood on its nose.
I used to read a lot of different hardware journals back when I worked for a semiconductor manufacturer (including lots of unpublished analysis from our big customers). I don't remember any of them anymore.
Spaced repetition is misunderstood. The original idea was to decrease the amount of time needed for long term memorization, over a different approach, like sequential or purely random repetition. However, many people now compare SRS over no repetition at all.

One big problem of SRS is that it gets unwieldy with larger chunks of information. SRS is good for vocabulary, bad for medical texts. The much bigger problem is that it takes an unpractical amount of calendar time. If you have three months, yes you can SRS a few hundred words. If you have a week and want full recollection at the end, you'll still repeat the list of words a couple dozen times and SRS makes no difference.

Another problem is the time it takes to prepare a database or a set of paper cards. By the time I prepare a database from a book I could probably read the thing twice or more times.

For exams that require recital of information (for example medical or law exams) mnemonic techniques like the Loci method (also called memory palace) are much more reliable and more practical.
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There's nothing illegal about holding it, but due to tax law ambiguities and changes, almost every person holding it is guilty of some tax evasion/fraud. As governments get more and more desperate for revenue to back their spending (this is especially true of states who can't print money like the Fed can), I certainly don't want to be on their list of "likely criminals" they can come after.
Is there any reason to assume most mammals don't also have olfactory fatigue? Seems unlikely to be a human only thing.
When has a dictatorship been prevented by the lack of loyal police officers?
> The word “sad,” for example, scored low for both warmth and competence. “Melancholy,” on the other hand, scored high for competence and low on warmth.

Why can’t “sad” be used in a “warm” context?
For thoroughness, it’s also just the same as if you sold anything else that’s subject to capital gains tax in order to pay your taxes, which I suspect is not a rare occurrence.
How can a business be a person?
A newer submission got traction, see discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18527917
That this is possible is concerning, it means the system is not smart enough. Might open the possibility of trolling by holding up cardboard cutouts of people and running across the street. Of course that's easier said than done but still...
> Developers “cannot risk the possibility of Apple removing them from the App Store if they bring suit,” the American Antitrust Institute advocacy group said in a brief.

To my untrained IANAL eyes, this seems to be the meat of the argument. Apple is trying to say they are just an agent facilitating a sale, all the while jingling the kingdom keys in their back pocket by controlling who gets to sell.

They are seeking to chill consumers and developers alike.
Paraphrasing Plato (quoting Socrates): The more I learn, the less I know.

Highly trained, competent people often encounter situations they're unfamiliar with. That's what keeps the job exciting.

To believe otherwise suggests either lack of training, or ...
Well if you get assigned bad seats you might not come back, for this sort of thing I would say happy customers would lead back into more money
thanks for the response. I will definitely check it out.
I know it's considered low-quality to discuss voting here, but something is becoming extremely shady with the voting on this forum. Boo be the share of all downvoters too lazy to express their resent in writing and reasoning. Praise be for otterley who bothered to explain it to OP and did his tiny share in building a better world. And wtf for those who downvoted his comment (I'm especially baffled by that one)
Have a look at the Arc42 template [0] which is a generic outline for software architectures. TLA does not make sense for most of the items there.

[0] https://arc42.org/overview/
Some games (League of Legends, Ingress) have or had crowdsourced 1st level appeals for minor infractions.

Maybe that's the way to go. I know many volunteers answer Google's forums.
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