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Hey Greg. Securities law is an area where a lot of lawyers have limited focus. A typical startup lawyer (such as myself, before retiring) may be knowledgeable about common exemptions for private offerings but less so when it comes to the larger universe of securities. The SEC's position on p2p assets is best put in this write-up by the corporate finance head William Hinman [1]. The SEC is not concerned so much with the details of how a token works, but rather in how it is offered on a case-by-case basis. Keep in mind that in the US, we do not focus on the security but on the offering.

Also a token that is offered in a securities offering may later be traded in a way that is not an offering of securities, for example if the protocol becomes sufficiently decentralized at a later date.

For myself, I would steer well clear of anything that looks at all like a securities offering of p2p assets b/c I like to keep my life as simple as possible. But I realize that is not advice everyone wants to follow.

The SEC is not the biggest threat here -- as you can see with projects such as Tezos, the bigger threat is the private securities bar which will go after any token offering that leaves a deep pocket. Even if the SEC and state regulators aren't concerned with your offering, the private bar will go after anything that plausibly is an illegal securities offering, provided that the pot of money is worthwhile target. This is exactly the kind of hazard that p2p protocols are perfect for avoiding, so why bother making a new p2p protocol that is vulernable to this kind of risk???

I'm a retired lawyer and this is NOT legal advice for anyone. :))

[1] https://www.sec.gov/news/speech/speech-hinman-061418
I don't think that limiting downvotes to accounts with X karma is a significant contributor to the problem of getting attention to a new high-quality post on a fairly high-volume site.
Technically you couldn't spend most your time in NY and still claim residency in FL. Laws require you to spend at least half the year in FL and have done other things besides buy a property to show that you really do live in that state.
I think the developing world considers bosses that provide them with comfortable middle class incomes by local standards doing work which is far more attractive than alternative employment opportunities to be a tad more virtuous than the equally wealthy Westerners clamouring for the elimination of their jobs though...

Nothing could really be more damaging to the development of poorer countries than condemning them to subsistence incomes because we've decided it's only ethical for businesses to employ their workers if they're productive enough after all other hurdles are considered to earn Western wages.
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Really fantastic work. Best interactive write-up I've seen of a technical topic in a long time.
The claim is that big companies are uninspiring drudgery for the people who work there, not that scaling up isn't an effective way to make money (though VC as a category is known for poor overall returns). There's no contradiction - indeed in http://www.paulgraham.com/schlep.html pg argues that a lot of moneymaking opportunities are overlooked because of the drudgery involved.
An anecdote that I previously posted on another thread and will repeat here:

A couple months back, I flirted with moving from NYC to Las Vegas for tax reasons. I was shocked at the expense of luxury housing there, and construction costs were similarly high (I was quoted $450-$500/sqft, on par with NYC). My realtor explained to me that rich Californians were "stampeding" into Nevada and had increased the cost of all things high-end by 50-100%--basically in the span of a year! She was very bearish on the market.

It seems some measure of rich flight is playing out in California/Nevada; enough to transform segments of the housing market. It's not far-fetched to imagine the same with New York/Florida.
Since I was quoted, I'll respond. Yes, I'm disappointed that things were portrayed this way. It doesn't matter whether they were portrayed by the official APA guidelines, Monitor, or Jessica Schladebeck (and focusing on her too much almost becomes ad hominem). Whoever did it, the focus on gender instead of behavior is counter-productive.

You've done us a service by identifying some of the context here. Thank you. On the other hand, you're also being a raging hypocrite. You complain about others being smug and accumulating internet points, as you do the same yourself. You call others 4th graders, which is itself lowering the discourse. And you most conspicuously have not taken your own advice of an internet sabbatical. Physician, heal thyself.
Creating a high quality game engine is by no means an easy task, but you don’t need each contributor to know all of these things and you can use existing libraries for a lot of them. A lot of the things you mention have good quality MIT-licensed (or similarly liberal license) libraries you can use to save time. Its still going to be hard, but its not thaaaaat inaccessible.

Some examples: for entitiy systems, EnTT is amazing. For a job system you’ve got stuff like cpp-taskflow, for physics there’s bullet, for graphics there’s bgfx or full blown renderers. Sure, these won’t solve all of your needs, but they’re a good starting point that frees you from having to do a lot of stuff yourself.
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We need to tax wealth, not income, to increase social mobility. Taxing income hurts entrepreneurs, taxing wealth pushes the idle rich to work harder.
I read it more as a "A strange game. The only winning move is not to play" sort of thing.
Did anybody else read this backwards? That SML was doing something to support VSCode?

But more importantly, Hooray for SML, and people making the tooling easier!
> Swift is kind of like Rust with garbage collection and more convenience baked in.

Sure - but again, OCaml or F# have been there for decades.
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Why would there be more benefit to me if money is spent by my congressman vs. by Bill Gates?

This is the difference between spending other people's money and your own.
Thats interesting. I feel that i am actually there and have a visual experience when reading. I assumed eveyone did, thats why the GPs expressions make perfect sense to me. I think you might be the outlier
shopping at carrefour Antibes with over 100 cashiers you could buy wines from €15 - €1500 in the same shop. Not just wines but fresh fish section that is bigger than some Kaufstadt shops in Germany themselves. The level of choice there was phenomenal (closer to US than anywhere else in Europe). Fresh whipped cream from the Normandie that costs €30,-- for 500ml (and you could taste it) ... exotic meats (goat, horse, pigeon, rabbit, fresh fois-gras ...). At the same time Germany had scandals with their "Klebefleisch" essentially meat that consists of lips+arseholes glued together to make it look like genuine ham ...

I never paid attention to the price of groceries when shopping in Germany because growing up poor I always had the attitude not to be stingy with food and only buy what appealed the most. Coming to France I had to pay attention and actually look at the label because I might pick stuff that I simply couldn't afford. Doing this in Germany I might end up paying for regular groceries 250,-- (avg feeding a family), while in France I might pay 800 or more if I didn't pay attention. The first few times had to actually return once the cashier presented my bill.
Scala/Play

Python/Django

Groovy/Grails

Elixir/Phoenix is far less popular, but very fun and gaining steam.
The PlantUML plugin for confluence is free and works great for us.
Improbable's statement says clause 2.4 [0].

Here's [1] what it says now:

> 2.4 Streaming and Cloud Gaming Restrictions.

> You may not directly or indirectly distribute the Unity Software, including the runtime portion of the Unity Software (the “Unity Runtime”), or your Project Content (if it incorporates the Unity Runtime) by means of streaming or broadcasting so that any portion of the Unity Software is primarily executed on or simulated by the cloud or a remote server and transmitted over the Internet or other network to end user devices without a separate license or authorization from Unity. Without limiting the foregoing, you may not use a managed service running on cloud infrastructure (a “Managed Service”) or a specific integration of a binary add-on (for example, a plugin or SDK) or source code to be integrated in the Unity Software or Your Project Content incorporating the Unity Runtime (an “SDK Integration”) to install or execute the Unity Runtime on the cloud or a remote server, unless such use of the Managed Service or SDK Integration has been specifically authorized by Unity. Additionally, you may not integrate the Unity Runtime with a Managed Service or SDK Integration and offer that integration to third parties for the purpose of installing or using the Unity Runtime on the cloud or a remote server. For a list of Unity authorized streaming platforms, Managed Services and SDK Integrations, click here.This restriction does not prevent end users from remotely accessing your Project Content from an end user device that is running on another end user device. You may not use a third party to directly or indirectly distribute or make available, stream, broadcast (through simulation or otherwise) any portion of the Unity Software unless that third party is authorized by Unity to provide such services.

Here's [2] what it used to say:

> 2.4 Streaming and Cloud Gaming Restrictions.

> You may not directly or indirectly distribute the Unity Software, including the runtime portion of the Unity Software, or your Project Content (if it incorporates the runtime portion) by means of streaming or broadcasting so that any portion of the Unity Software is primarily executed on or simulated by a server and transmitted over the Internet or other network to end user devices without a separate license from Unity. This restriction does not prevent end users from remotely accessing your Project Content from an end user device that is running on another end user device. You may not use a third party to directly or indirectly distribute or make available, stream, broadcast (through simulation or otherwise) any portion of the Unity Software unless that third party is authorized by Unity to provide such services.

Whether that's a change or clarification of Unity's intent is rather subjective.

[0]: https://improbable.io/company/news/2019/01/10/unity-blocks-s...

[1]: https://unity3d.com/legal/terms-of-service/software

[2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20180616042117/https://unity3d.c...
"There is joy in doing a hard thing well, in improving yourself"

Yes, which is why I'm confused. I'm not asking why people cycle instead of motorcycle, or don't go to the fish shop instead of fishing.

With fishing surely theres an upper bound on the size of the fish, the worst rod can still catch it, while showing superior skill.
Flash cells are analog as well - depending on the gate charge the resistance/current flow is different.

That's used for MLC/TLC.
I'm not suggesting changing the rules on downvoting as a solution. I've considered far more drastic measures!
Every comment and article written in the last century is copywrited.
Yeah, we do. You read the book and you hear the characters and see moving pictures in your mind’s eye.
> who's to say who is correct?

Someone who knows the economic growth theory better than I do. I have studied growth theory maybe 16-20 hours total. I'm not humble guy but I know I don't have the ability to join the debate and argue against. My hope is to learn the gist of the paper. In my comments I didn't try to argue for or against, I was trying to describe what the article is about.

Assuming that you are random guy in the internet who suffers from insomnia, I think your level of knowledge is even smaller than mine.

> If he decides to use the form Y = A^b L

That form is not his idea. It's very basic for all steady-state growth models. These models require strong assumptions like Cobb-Douglas production function, labor-augmenting technological growth and linear differential equation (only asymptotic requirement). To go trough all the assumptions would require a seminar.
Yes but what the law says and what law enforcement can prove are two different things.
But to be fair neither OCaml nor F# picked up any significant traction (at least not compared to Swift).
I would say the opposite, eve’s extremely boring game play only works for people focused on getting stuff.

PVP due to the permanent destruction involved must inherently be a rare or meaningless event. PVE similarly must involve winning 99% of the time.
Programs written in this mindset might be the number one reason why C has a bad reputation. Of course, if you just emulate what other languages automate for you, you should better write in these languages.

But in reality, why C is still the best programming language for large projects (IMO) is exactly that the programmer is allowed to choose a suitable structure, such that the program can fulfill the technical requirements. Other languages force the project into a structure that somehow never fits after a couple thousand LOC.
Embedded programing pay sucks compared to the web. I wouldn't do it. Just look at the number of web jobs vs system programmer jobs.
Don't let The Initiative's propaganda machine disguise it: At the end of the day the biggest coalition in the game blobbed a smaller alliance, having 10x their total characters in their fleets. Somehow this is a great victory? Doesn't add up to me.

Only thing this proves is that the problem of gigantic blocks rolling over everybody in their path now extends to wormhole space.
Blindly jumping to the altar and one-shotting the priest does of course take A LOT of attempts, but modern CPUs are pretty fast and NetHack is a pretty low-end game.

I can't help thinking of Phil in Groundhog Day coming up with new challenges as he spends eternity in Punxsutawney PA.
your comment was about FAANG, of which Facebook wasn't founded, Amazon, Netflix, Google were all in their infancy.

Maybe apple,
Regarding your first point: One possible implementation of tries uses an array with length "size of alphabet" to store the children of a node. So at each node it's just an offset into an array, not multiple character comparisons.

Of course your other points are valid. Thank you for your answer. So I gather the differences are rather subtle. I was wondering if I was missing something bigger.
Exactly. The other metaphor i see used often is you provide the scaffolding while they do the building.
You could just make separate accounts for separate sub-reddits. A single first post can be influential, see mimblewimble, bitcoin, linux, special theory of relativity...
"Larger company that is trying to keep startup mojo is special kind of hell - mostly due to ugly politics that emerges. You cant manage small group of people the same way as big one and vice versa."

My company is on that path. It's merging the bad parts of startups like overambitious deadlines and lack of organization with the bad parts of big companies like bureaucracy and lack of flexibility. Management seems happy but from a worker's point of view we have relentless pressure to deliver mixed with a huge layer of politics. It has become really unpleasant over the last few years.
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
> Please don’t take my word for any of this, it’s been researched.

Well, link the research, so I don't have to take your word for this.

> A classic example is rural interstate highway, when the limit will drop from 75 to 55 because of “population density” even when the density is far from the highway and not traffic-interactive, then sit their local law enforcement on the highway to selectively pull over out of town / out of state “speeders”. Let’s be clear - there is no safety element to this practice.

As always and in any case, bad actors are everywhere. But is that really such a common practice that you can just lump in all speed traps and just say "all of them are money traps"?
> Salt is an implement of suicide, for one.

couple comments later

> Dose makes the poison

sorry dude, you're manipulating and shouldn't get angry that i'm pointing it out
Latin labels on the buildings are very interesting. Because, we switched to latin in 1928.
The (old) MIX programs in The Art of Computer Programming by Knuth were often self-modifying, in the sense that they modified jump addresses at the end of routines to return to the right caller. (That is, they set the address to right after the call.)

The book chose that way to do it because it was standard practice at the time. It quickly fell out of fashion, though. Nowadays, we do it with a call stack, and each stack frame holds a return address. (Which is better anyway, since it allows routines to be re-entrant.)

The newer MMIX architecture (in some of the newer books) don't rely on such self-modification.
I have zero interest in playing Eve, but I do enjoy reading about these enormous in-game events.
Yep, it is. The directive applies to Hacker News.

And it will certainly be in trouble people decided to use it to post an entire Harry Potter novel and it becomes the go-to place to read it.

But Hacker News has moderators, and in practice, these posts are aren't likely to stay long, therefore fulfilling Article 13 obligations.

I'm pretty sure that movie quotes are not copyright-protected. And the last point in the article seems to be there to protects such uses explicitly.

As for the potential for abuse, I don't know, I am not a lawyer. But as I said before, it is just a directive, not a law, and it is incomplete. The spirit is all we have now, there is still a lot of work to be done on the letter.
press is reporting there won't be any changes and launcher will still show Destiny. Safe to assume D2 is on its deathbed so they don't have to stick around too long.
For me the takeaway is that Apple is _really_ serious about supporting the use of Swift outside their own ecosystem. After all XCode won't be using this, at least for a while, so clearly it's aimed at making it easier to use Swift outside their own tool chain.
Great overview. Have seen roughly this model used across multiple orgs with good success.
That source (published by the developers) is a primary source. Encyclopedias, including Wikipedia, are tetriary sources that are based on secondary sources and not directly on primary sources.

In other words, unless there are reliable secondary sources to base the article on, it is considered original research and is not a good fit for Wikipedia.

I guess part of the reason that new contributors feel bad is confusion about the goals and nature of Wikipedia itself.
I have the reverse experience : I did tons of technically challenging greenfield projects that were pretty much using my IQ, and didn't start building skills and work habits (the stuff employers actually pay for) until after I was made to also maintain one of the greenfield projects.

I haven't and will never be what people tend to call a purely maintenance programmer, but the parts of my job that interact with existing systems are more challenging, more important, and teach me more (from looking at the patterns in existing code) than the greenfield parts.

Where the misconceptions come from is it's easier to be "good enough" when you do maintenance, so a lot of people don't try to understand the existing context, don't interact with non-technical people, and don't stretch themselves to understand the business, because they mistakenly think their job is writing code.
yeah. I was ignorantly thinking of those that follow the law, are highly skilled and are welcomed into the country but didn't consider the folk who immigrate for economic reasons or refugees etc. sadly many will be prevented by a barrier if they have "the wrong type" of passport
In his defense, maybe at the time he wrote this it was closer to true and he believed it.
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For me, when I read an engaging book it's like my brain is seeing a movie of the events, complete with color, motion and even sometimes audio. There's nothing in my field of vision but my brain is stimulated in the same ways.

I also experience this when recalling vivid memories.
Just post on your own repository on github instead. It’s the new wikipedia minus worrying about deletionists and notability. Just a matter of time until non-developers become comfortable with it.
First comment here, been reading HN for a few years now (proper actively - I spend way too much of my day here). I also tend to mostly read comments without even opening the article they're commenting on first. I don't need to comment on anything on the web simply because I already know my own thoughts and if I want to discuss something that badly I can always do so IRL. There's also always someone with a similar opinion posting so I could follow that conversation if I wish. I fully understand that if everyone was like me it wouldn't work but the thing is they're not. There's enough people in the comments here and on the web as a whole commenting - and it's enough for me to read those and then discuss IRL if I have the need. I like reading what other people say so much that if I start participating I'll waste even more time on here.
nothing to say about ketones and krebs cycle? still going to insist carbs are essential macronutrient?

> take your [citation needed] practices somewhere else

i like this forum very much, specifically because i see how it's inhabitants react to your baseless claims.
Almost the same story, with some different dates, but I ditched my macs and am fully on NixOS.

I loved OSX and the stylish apps, but I noticed I was only using IntelliJ, iTerm and the browser most of the time. r/unixporn made me wishing Linux was a better fit for me, but I could not miss apps from Adobe or Affinity.

This was solved by setting up a vfio configuration, and now even the fanciest games run smoothly in my VM.

I still use an iPhone and iPad, but they are mostly for consumption, note taking and drawing.
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I meant in the list, not for buzzfeed itself.
Every time things like this happen, the bar for what is acceptable gets lowered. It's only going to get worse.