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English is my first language. I didn't use Anki to learn English vocabulary. I learned by reading books and talking about them to people.

For language learning, I'm skeptical of any method that doesn't resemble real-world use.
Are there books about pranayama and neuroscience that one can point me to? For meditation I found Search Inside Yourself to be a good book. I wish there was a book like that for yoga.
“Try moving towards architectures like micro services. KISS.”

I don’t think you have worked with micro services, or more importantly have had to manage them.
It seems pretty weird to watch the collective comment pool rage against this change. Seems to fall largely into a couple groups: "people who think it's a waste of time", and "people who are upset that Ohio's official currency is still USD".

Aren't there more interesting responses possible for this move than outrage? Right now this seems limited to businesses, I'm curious why specifically target them instead of all taxes (given that the backend infra seems like it would be the same for both). How does the pricing work given volatility (is there potential that you'll pay taxes and the price will shift such that you owe more / get a refund after the fact)?
Yeah, basically. But you can't change that - making that a flaw of democracy because it apparently isn't built with people in mind while it's supposed to.
It's not something you wash your hands of and walk away from, having handed it over to the dev team

Unfortunately that is the reality of the vast majority of Enterprise Architects I have ever worked with, writing massive tomes completely disconnected from the actual systems. The could all be fired tomorrow and no one would even notice (in fact one company I worked for did exactly that after too many complaints about them from the devs! And since they sat in their own cordoned off section, really no one did notice until the meeting invites suddenly stopped!).

The only architecture that matters is a living document; for example the CloudFormation or Terraform that actually generates it for real.
Plugins run through the host network stack. Ensure you disable java/flash/etc.
Enterprise Architect by Sparx is by far the best one I’ve used. At least as of a few years ago. The best user experience / convenience / features.
The browser actually have become so fast websites can afford to be bloated turds.
This is interesting because now you could really leave the dollar while living in America. After all you can live your whole life in BTC but still need to come up with USD in April to pay taxes.

Probably too late though, I think true BTC believers are few and far between these days.
This plan doesn't cause Ohio to hold any bitcoins in their treasury: they're reconciling them for USD at time-of-payment via BitPay.

And sure, they could support paying in all kinds of things. But Bitcoin has a decent wave of popularity among humans, so they're taking a swing at supporting it, similarly to how a variety of online retailers have. It seems like a weird case to see them add support for a popular method of payment and respond "but why not gold".
About entering the Imaginary: you're in the right.

That said, there are a number of stages in the development of Lacan's thought (Malcolm Bowie counts three); he starts out ostensibly as a clinician but gradually expands his concepts outwards until they're a generalized theory of subjectivity.

From this point we can argue whether societies have structures somehow resembling subjectivity - as an economist I've spent a lot of time on the clock doing this. The thing is that as a clinical theory Lacan is way out there in the sophistic hallucination scale, even for the tiny minority that wants to resurrect psychodynamic therapy. Yet that's not what draws people to him, is it?
malloc() will crash on too big input value, because malloc() takes unsigned size_t on input.

Will it, or will it just fail and return null (which may crash later code if it doesn't check)? I believe the spec mandates the latter.
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After using Omnigraffle exclusively, I’ve taken a huge liking to PlantUML and alongside confluence... it serves 90% of my needs
I’m super biased but I still hate them. There’s something powerful and simple being able to execute parametered queries. Alas if the industry is going this way then I’ll have to adapt.
They are using BitPay, they get dollars, so it's a gimmick.
"Receive settlement for Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash directly to your bank account in your own currency, with zero price volatility or risk."
Using quaternion pairs for 4-space rotations relies on the simple fact that each quaternion represents a hyperplane in 4-space (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformation_geometry).
Using single quaternions to represent rotations in 3-space is geometrically a different mechanism, which AFAIK doesn't have such a simple geometrical explanation.
Thanks for the suggestion, this has got me thinking...

I had thought about hashing IPs and user agents combined, but even that would be quite reversible since user agents aren't that unique really.

I've done some research on bloom filters and this looks like a good lead. It could be challenging to implement with AWStats though, as I guess I'd have to perform the bloom filter logic before writing the log, and then write a fake IP address accordingly in order to keep the Unique Visitors count consistent.

For example, if the bloom filter says that the IP is not known, then I could write 10.0.0.2 to the log and increment a count. Next time a not known IP comes in, 10.0.0.3 is written, then 10.0.0.4, and so on.

If the IP is already known, then the unique visitor has already been counted, so just write 10.0.0.1 to the log.

The result of this is that all log entries would be for 10.0.0.1, except for those where a new visitor had connected for the first time, which will be an arbitrary IP from the 10.0.0.0/8 range.

Have I got the right idea here, or is there a better way? This is my first rough concept.
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I am always wary of architects that don't code or at least aren't involved in the whole life time of the project so they have to feel the consequences of their designs. Our IT department is full of "architects" whose designs then get outsourced to India. Either their designs are crap that doesn't survive the first contact with reality or they are so trivial that pretty much anybody could do them. They spend a lot of time in meetings with important people though.

I find it much better to empower the senior devs of different teams to duke it out among them. Maybe the process is not as clean as having some genius architect divine the perfect architecture but it reflects reality much better.
I really want what you said to be true, tho I'm a little more skeptical than you. I don't see this as competition at all, since it will be immediately exchanged for USD, and I would assume the tax bill will be issued in USD and the equivalent BTC amount will be calculated at payment time.

I'm also pessimistic that this will be used. The new taxes on cryptos that the feds put in place have done a great job at icing speculation and making people's lives a living hell should they engage in crypto-trading (a pretty darn good disincentive). I think the federal government is well on its way to killing crypto currencies already.
Even competent people with good training aren't perfect. Competent people make mistakes. You mention bridges, buildings, and ships, all projects built by massive teams of people and stringent processes. These massive teams of people and stringent processes are necessary exactly because people aren't perfect. I'm unclear what you mean by the article focusing on "untrained people", unless you're trying to claim that politicians and newspaper executives are untrained.
Is someone in the Ohio government losing or lost a ton on their BitCoin investment as it's tanking something serious now?

This is a bit strange especially with Bitcoin tanking.
[Note: I have a hatred toward Facebook the company and what it has done with its products and strategy.]

We have a moral duty to not do or support so many things, but we still do because of other people, social conditioning, believing that there's no better way, etc. Making binary decisions in life is not easy most of the time.

On Facebook, my belief is that people ought to quit it on moral grounds, but there are no comprehensive equivalents to its features on facebook.com for them to move to. There are plenty of alternatives for WhatsApp and FB Messenger that are far, far better than those. Instagram could also be replaced with some adjustment. But the Facebook timeline, news feed, groups, pages, events, etc., are not easy to replace with a single alternative.

I can't wait for the day when quitting becomes easy because alternatives are far better and easier to use.
Should have a (2014) in the title
So I should find very basic books? Because for me newspapers or even my mobile phone's interface are unintelligible.
The price of Bitcoin has been shown to be influenced by a small number of holders, I don't understand why any government would allow for services to be paid with such a volatile "currency"
Doesn't N26 hold a German (and very recently, UK) banking licence?
The point I was making (though I didn't really say) was not that gold should be used, but that someone can simply convert their own BTC via the normal means to USD and then pay with that, same as you could sell your gold. Why even offer this service? Are there REALLY enough people interested in paying their taxes in BTC that this service is in any way worth providing?
> That means Ohio is putting the USD in competition with cryptocurrency for the primary thing the USD is used for: Paying Taxes.

That's not the primary thing the USD is used for. Paying US federal and some other taxes is one of several things that the US dollar is the sole thing used for, but that is very different than being the primary thing it is used for.

But unless they are denominating tax debts in Bitcoin, it's not meaningfully different than exchanging bitcoins for dollars to pay taxes, just a little more convenient.
The pricing part is explained in the FAQ, they are using a third-party so the state of Ohio never sees crypto. I assume that the exchange rate has the volatility risk baked into the conversion price, so the cost is amortized across all payers.
> What Google needs to do is lock information for verified businesses or businesses they’re directly scraping from the Corp location pages.

If they do that and the correct information changes without them updating, they're (rightfully) going to get sued by those businesses. By having it editable by anyone, they avoid that, even if it results in the information being wrong more often.

Proper ways to deal with this would involve employing actual human beings for moderation, for filling in / updating the map data, or for providing support and a verification process to businesses trying to correct their data.

All three of these solutions cost more money than the status quo and are things that Google doesn't really do anywhere, so I doubt this is going to get better anytime soon.
There was one post requiring it on upwork two days ago. Coincidence?
And that is not true at all, especially in sports.

When you just starting playing a new sport, you are still learning and going along while making a lot of mistakes.

After few years of playing you learn enough (by experience or training), to know what to do and how to act. (think shooting dribling, positioning in soccer).

If you played your 'younger' self, you'd run circle around that person. Hence training and experience matters a lot.

Same with engineering. While products change, some of the same patterns and problems keep repeating over and over, and after few years of work you know how to deal with them, avoid common pitfalls, etc....

So, people are truly "winging it" only when they are thrown to new situations/discipline, but both experience and deliberate training gets you to a level when you can anticipate events to a certain degree, and be proactive towards them. That's not "just winging" anymore.
So basically this is letting BitPay tax your tax payments? What a marvelous idea.
Umm, why not?

If Ohio wants to go through the process of allowing alternative commodities to be accepted as payment, then good for them?
the primary thing the USD is used for: Paying Taxes.

How can that be given so many taxes are some fraction of some other transfer of USD?
> Why even offer this service?

As stated in the article, it's one of several symbolic gestures being made in an effort to market the state as “tech friendly”.
When I did it, I had the sensation of being denied breath. Mildly unpleasant, but I think this is what forced present focus and got me out of stress.

Not very unpleasant mind you. Same level as seeing how long you can hold your breath, except much less intense.
You misunderstood the article - it was arguing that treatment makes people worse and despite that, it should be allowed.
There's been a memo going around from the higher-ups in Central Services that anyone named 'Harry Buttle' should currently take extreme care, due to minor bugs at Information Retrieval.
Does modern medicine really have gender transformation figured out?

When I think of medicine, i think of a scale.

Vaccinations work, we’re good at mending broken bones, appendix surgery saves lives but is iffy, but teeth are beyond our ability to save.

Is transgender surgery and lifetime hormone replacement on the safer side of that spectrum?
There's also a concern of practicality and pragmatism. Gold can't be sent electronically; USD and BTC can. Liquidity is a pretty strong reason.
Companies are not going to give their employees lead blowers unless it is a lot more efficient.
I think GP is referring to this: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2016/12/comcast-s...

Comcast's behavior isn't exactly malicious right now, but it could be pretty easily.
LinkedIn is also less "sexy" to cover for the media than Facebook. Nobody cares about LinkedIn news, especially in middle America, but Facebook is popular everywhere.
What happens to Ohio's treasury if BTC's value halves and stays in a bear market for two years? Or worse, never recovers?
Add to that a justice system also mostly automated and you are quickly caught in a Kafkaesque nightmare you can't get out if something goes wrong. Imagine the justice system run like google support. Even if something is clearly wrong you can't clear it up if you are not a famous person with a big Twitter following.
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> Why not accept gold too then?

Because as the article states explicitly this is a “tech friendly” image generating marketing stunt; accepting gold doesn't serve that purpose.
But doesn't this imply that it is not a good investment of time to get your name/business in there?
In any large group of people, most of them are idiots.
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A lot of first pass geolocation is done by IP so the user doesn't have to be asked for permission.
> someone can simply convert their own BTC via the normal means to USD and then pay with that, same as you could sell your gold

I don't know if you've tried to sell gold, but it's a little bit more involved and difficult than exchanging BTC/USD
“The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”
I just asked myself this question quite literally yesterday. In my search for an answer, I stumbled upon CodeTriage. You pick a language with which you're comfortable and a project (or two) that utilizes that language and CodeTriage delivers GitHub issues to your inbox. It takes a lot of the guesswork out of knowing how to jump in.

https://www.codetriage.com/
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I'd rephrase it to "it was arguing that treatment should be allowed even when it makes people feel worse".
Cool. The Desikachar and Krishnmacharya people seem really good and very practical. I have done some trainings with Gray Kraftsow and I would love to have someone with that depth of knowledge guide my practice.
So... Did they actually sell these things? How much did they spend on that stunt?
Ohio is not receiving Bitcoin. They are locking in the USD value at time of payment and get that.
This is why you actually do something like Levenberg-Marquardt, which combines a gradient descent with a trust region of quadratic optimization, which is varied depending on if the cost function is decreasing or not. And of course it is iterative, so a single bad step doesn't destroy everything. The advantage comes from faster convergence in practice.
I think the OP was winging it. This is from 2014.
This move was probably planned about a year ago, back when Bitcoin was over $10k. The wheels of government turn slowly, and now that they've turned, you're right that it looks pretty strange to announce this right as the market is crashing.
Please read the article. They won't be holding BTC. They are using BitPay (which exchanges it immediately for USD).
This sounds interesting.

Will this make fish much much cheaper?

Will it be easier to regulate since it is all data is stored? Are these companies more interested in regulation (since if theyve invested so much they may want longterm production)
> they assume that non-elite white southerners are either stupid or evil to the point where they will start an extremely brutal war who's explicit aims are to preserve the wealth of the elite at the cost of everyone else. This seems... unlikely

What were the dissenting poor supposed to do? Refuse a paying army job? Travel to the North to read up on the other side’s views? Before the modern era, most wars were fought for personal reasons involving the elite. Commoners enlisted because the army paid and offered opportunities to rise in social status.

The South was run like a feudal society:

“Among the many scholars who have worked on this question, V.O. Key is a distinguished political economist from the Southern University of Texas who devoted his life to offering a factual and definitive answer. He is a founder of American political economic studies -- he used scientific factual surveys and data rather than ideology and speculation. So this issue of how rich ‘plantation’ oligarchs repeatedly got poor white farmers to vote against their own interests in local elections is really no longer a mystery. For centuries, the oligarchs limited public education, and tightly controlled the media in the South. Travel was restricted in the South before the Civil War. Southern newspapers consistently lied to the voters. The sermons, school-books, political tracts, and newspapers repeatedly ran ‘stories’ intended to keep the population angry and afraid of Slave ‘rebellions’ and foreign influences. Achievements of the Slaves, or any brilliant black person, were systematically suppressed.

Professor Key factually documents the repeated behavior of the rich plantation owners in taking and maintaining political power. Very few of these feudal lords did much for their own communities and they did not build a middle class. The rulers blamed Negroes, and Yankees and foreigners, for the poverty and lack of infrastructure in the South. Southern politics in State and Nation by V. O. Key

More recent scholarship -- influenced by V.O. Key's scientific and mathematical methodology in ‘political economics’ -- continues to document the fact that at the time of the Civil War, the South was one of the wealthiest regions of the world. The oligarchs had a global lock on raw cotton production and could easily have won the Civil War by paying for an army three times bigger than anything the North could have produced.

In addition, the South was heavily-armed and each State funded a "State militia". The "militia" was conscripted from almost all able-bodied poor white Southern males. They were conscripted into press gangs to hunt down runaway slaves. The North had no equivalent ‘state militias’.“

https://www.quora.com/If-the-majority-of-southerners-werent-...
I agree that the first important step is from drawing to modelling. Having a single model means that all your drawings are (and stay) consistent.

The next step is the integration with the surroundings to keep the architecture model consistent with the code and the requirements. For the code, the usual way is generate code from the model. That is tricky and has a bad reputation because it is hard to get right. For requirements, the question is whether you actually track them (probably no in SaaS/Web environment; probably yes in embedded).

What I'm not sure about: In theory the integration tests should be derived from the software architecture, but I have you to see even ideas for tool support there.
If one constrains themselves to arenas where there's a level of finite class of situations one might encounter, you're right.

Venture outside the comfortable and it's back to winging it, though with more proficiency and intuition, maybe.

Everything is a skill, including winging it.
The US Federal Government doesn't accept BTC.
If ID was based on a full sequence, probably not, but it rarely is. But if you ask how can it be not unique, that's an answer.
The state is working with the cryptocurrency
payment startup BitPay to handle its payments,
which will convert the bitcoin to dollars.

Not sure if this really counts as 'accepting Bitcoin for tax payments'. You surely can pay in anything via a middleman, as long as the middleman sends dollars to the state?
Ohio gets USD - never actually touches Bitcoin.
This is coming from a business consultant (BA/PM and configuration primarily), but in my experience, it seems like the OOP paradigm is fine in most cases and is leveraged in a functional/compositional fashion typically, so I fail to see the issue with OOP a paradigm. Generics and polymorphism can be used to basically create a functional system that only uses domain specific classes to handle edge cases.

In short, OOP as currently used, in my experience working on numerous RIA/municipal/county government enterprise document management systems, seems perfectly adequate to the tasks at hand and can be used in an effectively functional way.
That's absolutely hilarious. But at least it was easily fixed.

But to anyone complaining about how this is dystopian: compare it to human police officers who can racially profile and exhibit their prejudices to disproportionately target segments of the population, and which there is absolutely zero easy fix for, especially when we consider how prevalent unconscious bias is.

At least an automated system can be analyzed for bias and, when it's found, corrected. There's a lot to be said (in terms of justice) for fair and uniform enforcement of a law, assuming of course there is due process for appeals (and that the law is democratically legitimate in the first place).
I first saw this story as https://threader.app/thread/1066284025600339968 , which didn't work for some here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18524844
While C integer rules are bit too arcane for me to remember, isn't the conversion from unsigned to signed integer in __addvsi3 undefined if the sum is greater than INT_MAX? If it is, the whole function is pretty much useless as compiler can optimize it to just plain addition.
> What happens to Ohio's treasury if BTC's value halves and stays in a bear market for two years

Nothing, because like most other traditional economy outlets “accepting” Bitcoin, they are just contracting with a processor that actually accepts the Bitcoin and pays the State in dollars.
Seems like fake news. The state of ohio will not accept bitcoins -- they just "allow" you to pay your taxes using bitpay, which is a service that will convert your bitcoin to USD on the fly. How is this any different to what you could always have done, i.e. selling bitcoins for USD first and then paying your taxes with the USD?