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Could you please elaborate on how the political leaning of the government could affect this situation?
I find it unlikely that any corporation being banned would have any substantial impact in an election. After all, we’ve elected some really awful people with far worse policies. The UK voted leave. I doubt they’ll vote to defend Facebook, after they blatantly flout UK law. I’d expect that taking a stand would actually win the party in power more votes.
Nothing like this... mainly i want to know for my personal benefits like... am I productive or not?!
No the two conflicting statements are.

1. Go doesn't have generics because the authors didn't have strong grasp of type theory.

2. Go doesn't have generics, not from a lack of knowledge, but because the authors' real world software engineering experience had shown to them it wasn't important.
Because moderate inflation can very easily turn into high inflation or out of control inflation if left up to imperfect humans.
give reasonable deadlines and ask them to meet them.

any of the metrics you're asking about are useless for measuring developer productivity.
Are they going to plant the Palestinian flag on the moon?
If the rationale is privacy this is probably not the algorithm you want to use, especially if it's possible to force the generation of multiple random points (e.g. by refreshing the map). If you're using a circle with a fixed radius just 3 points would be enough to exactly locate the center. A variable radius could take more, but since the distribution is uniform each additional point would significantly improve the precision.
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Likewise a right wing government could also choose more protectionist measures by blocking Facebook in favour of a home-grown solution. Much like China and a few other countries in the world...

You can therefore argue that Facebook depends upon there being a stable centrist/liberal government in power.
And blackmail is also not allowed, so that's covered too.
Why would anyone ever be okay with this? Regardless of the country or soft the culture is - this should never be seen as "okay" or "passive" in any way.
Maybe the phone company responsible needs to have its licence revoked without compensation.
I assume you're aware already, but if you are not, they are launching Classic this summer.

You also have private servers of all expansions.
Some of my very favorite moments in videogaming ever occurred during the EverQuest closed beta. That game was so great. It would get dark at night, to the point where if you didn't have a torch (which cost money) you'd be bumping into the trees in Kelethin in pitch blackness, and shortly get taken down by monsters. I remember spending nearly half of my time playing that game just waiting around in the dark by the town torches of Felwithe or Kelethin, chatting with other players and waiting for the sun to rise again so I could go back out into the world. That game didn't even yet have a minimap, so when you got lost, you got LOST, and it was especially bad when the sun started going down and you still couldn't find a safe haven. The areas were big too, so you'd be playing for hours until you finally started learning how to navigate them. I remember downloading maps and printing them out, and referring to them when I got lost in game trying to figure out where I was.
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Yep. My calls with personal identification number are absolutely in there, with list of 10+ medications, and medical history including genetic disorders and other things.

Imagine becoming a public person in the future with random russian mobs blackmailing me based on me and my family's medical history.
Is there any basis for DC gaining statehood? Where is it coming from besides random grumbling.
Payless Shoes is particularly egregious -- they have huge signs that say "BOGO" but then the fine print says... "buy one get one half-off." And their employees are apparently trained to say "buy one get one" until you arrive at the till.
Update your profile here on HN with some contact info, you might get a lead from this post alone.
You're going to do a demo of a network connected device in a new place? Bring your own network. If you can bring all the parts with you, that's even better -- a self-contained system that has no external dependencies is best.

If you absolutely need network connectivity, bring a cellular-wifi hotspot that you've already tested. Talk to the site organizer to find out what cell networks work there, and if you need to, buy a SIM in advance.

If you don't have an IT organization, you are the IT organization, so be a good one.
213 or 21.3? (link didn't find peers)

A 4k bitmap is still only 28mb.
> On a previous project we needed to show markers on a map to indicate there was a property, but for privacy reasons we wanted to show the marker on the map close to the property but not at the exact location of the property. So we needed to generate random points within a fixed distance of the original point location

This raises a couple of interesting questions.

1. How do you stop someone from finding the actual property location by querying that map a bunch of times and averaging the positions returned?

2. Are there any negative consequences for the people whose property a displaced marker ends up on? For example, if someone is using the map lookup to find the home of a rival gang officer in order to do a drive by attack, and I happen to live down the street, I really don't want that marker showing up on my house.

Rather than a displaced marker, maybe divide the map into rectangular or hexagonal regions, and just highlight the region containing the property.
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And extremely censorious.
> Why would I pay middlemen (banks) when there is no need to? Also why would I trust them, when there is no need to?

Payments are only relative small function of financial sector. Much more important is to act in credit markets, i.e take deposits and issue loans. How did you think that crypto removes need for fees (interest rate) and trust in those applications?
To follow up on it, EA isn't even terrible on having the studios make relatively great games. A quick look at the skyrocketing success of Apex: Legends, announced _at the EA call_ on Feb 5th, has already surpassed 25M accounts and 2M concurrent users.

They need to focus on what's made them most of their money over the past years, game sales for series games (FIFA, NASCAR, etc.) and great first-party titles that aren't on a rushed release schedule. Apex is a great example of the latter. Nobody knew it was coming, and it ended up being a polished game that will probably make EA a significant portion of money.

Disclaimer:? I play Apex, and legitimately enjoy it. I also play Anthem, which although not the _best_ game in the world, is still of pretty high production value from what I've played.
That is a false premise. For a crypto to be valuable it needs a network of actors who agree on its value. Looks at bitcoin for example, its bar the most valuable crypto network yet there are many options that a technically superior. However, has first mover advantage and a large network of believers.
Most of us involved since early times ( <$1 / BTC ) were intially attracted to the libertarian ideal of a decentralized currency. Like gold, it's truly yours, and nobody can take it from you if you control the private keys.
The simple fact that you ask this question tells me you don't live in india, where a few years ago the government straight up deleted quite a lot of personal wealth by declaring the two largest notes worthless with mere hours of warning:

http://time.com/4567605/india-currency-change-queues-delhi/

The original statement was:

> I think there's value in reducing the politically privileged's means to dominate their power over the general populaced

We can argue whether there's value in that. But if you're asking /how/ bitcoin et al can do that, the answer is that it removes direct control over the currency from nations and parliaments.

They may still be able to wield indirect control through a variety of other means, but that /is/ less control than simply being able to declare 500 and 1000 rupee notes valueless.
Yep, I give them a shout-out at the bottom of that post -- using capstone to instrument system call sites at runtime is great (if a little crazy).

I didn't actually realize it was an Intel project. I wonder how it stacks up against Pin.
> Isn't this is a strawman? Most arguments in favor of generics in this thread and elsewhere are well informed and people just want safer code...
> As you said, you can already have generics using unsafe solutions. Some built-in types have generics. Most people just want this type safety.
> interface{} does feel like a temporary and clunky solution for people used to generics.

It's not a strawman; I run into this tired argument too often, so I wanted to call it out to avoid the predictable digression. There is a strong case for generics and I empathize with "`interface{}` is clunky..."; I just want a debate that recognizes the tradeoffs.

> I don't get this argument. Why are generics more complicated than other features? Has this hypothesis been tested?

I don't think I made the argument that "generics are more complicated than other features". My argument was that Go code is boring and predictable (consistent). It stands to reason that boring, consistent code is easier to read and understand than novel and/or mixed-paradigm code. Generics increase expressiveness, which pretty much by definition means fewer rails to keep code consistent. I'm not arguing that Go's current feature set strikes an optimal balance between expressiveness and consistency for all problems; however, it does do a pretty good job and we should count the costs as well as the gains when considering a new feature.
seccomp is a robust way of restricting a process's syscalls so that it can only do what you allow it to.

syswall is more of an interactive tool (similar to systrace as mentioned in another comment). The goal is not to replace seccomp (it's certainly not meant to provide complete security), but rather to allow users to reason about what a process is actually doing. For example, allowing users to see if a new version does something different from the previous, perhaps meaning that malicious code was added unexpectedly.
> Intuitively it seems like due to the nature of military installations, it makes sense to treat them like an extension of the home country - but I'd be curious to see if other countries approach it differently.

As silly as it might sound: There's no country to actually compare it to because the US is pretty much an outlier in terms of scale and intensity of their military bases on foreign ground.

That's also the reason why the US military building McDonalds in the middle of the Iraqi desert, during an invasion, became pretty much a meme encapsulating the whole of US foreign policy.
May be. However lawmakers don’t roast oil execs. It seems to me like there is a lot of kabuki theater here and if law makers want to do something to improve social media, there are better ways to get Zuckerberg to co-operate than this method
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Stockholms landsting. The landsting are absolutely disgusting when it comes to handing out important tasks to private companys.

I have _REALLY_ serious info in there, and so do members of my family, that can not get out. But it's effing public, and the CEO of the company responsible is handling it like an asshole and Stockholms Landsting will just add it to the pile of fuckups.

It would literally take less than a minute for a red team with IP adresses to find this out, if they ever so much as cared to consider IT-security. Why doesn't the local government force subject the companies they hand contracts to to that?
Yes! Felt like an actual adventure and less of a roller coaster on rails.
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> I’d come to appreciate that epistemology is the root of all Philosophy

I'd say most of the societal disagreements we're having right now are largely rooted in epistemology as well. Rarely are low level details discussed, and rarely is the truth of the "facts" scrutinized or examined at a level where we could gain some genuine confidence that what the general public, politicians, and & news media thinks & repeats is true, is actually true.
It's a very good question. There's an interesting argument that the greatest value is not in the ledger, but in a mechanism for reliable, unalterable history: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/05/25/blockchains-never-forg...

It's also worth considering that crypto is effectively the greatest experiment the world has ever seen in free banking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_banking. Hypothetically, this could be done with paper+metal currencies, or centralized digital currencies; but for whatever reason, crypto is getting a regulatory pass where past "experiments" have been shut down hard by states who claim a monopoly on issuing currency, for better or worse.

Rather than viewing blockchains through the narrow lens of "Money 2.0", I think it's more relevant to view both money and blockchains as social technologies to solve coordination problems, and then inquire about those technologies' performance characteristics, incentives, externalities, and moral hazards. I think there's longterm potential for blockchain use cases to find traction; but at the same time, it may be that centralized solutions simply achieve superior results, in the same way that Amazon out-competes mom-and-pop retail, and Netflix out-competes buying DVDs. (The market lessons of the last twenty years seem to indicate that consumers value cost and convenience vastly more than abstract notions of freedom.)
Disney's perfectly happy with EA's treatment of the Star Wars license, so what could be wrong? /s

EDIT: Downvote away, but that is Disney's public stance on the topic.
Phone company?

It's the comapny employing nurses receiving the calls.
I agree. In EQ things felt like an accomplishment. And having a significant penalty to death, I often experienced palpable fear in places that newer games haven’t been able to replicate. Those experiences cemented my best memories from EQ in my mind. Heck, I still have memorized the run from Freeport to Qeynos — which was quite perilous for a young level 12.

Speaking of gear, my fondest memory was a 9 hour camp for my toon’s Golden Efreeti boots. When they dropped I was so elated and so happy with all my friends who stayed that long to help me get them.
YC invests about 120k at a minimum, doesn't it?
He is one of the Unix figures at Bell Labs (although a late-joiner, being younger), he designed UTF-8 with Ken Thompson, and worked on the Plan 9 project, before joining Google. That's probably more than most of us will ever achieve.
Without a small block size you would end up with a centralization of nodes onto datacenter servers.
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Loans, money transfer, storing your money are all things that can be replaced. Seems like a decent chunk.
The MPs obviously talk about a leader from a society point of view, not the leader of a corporation per se. Someone making a ton of money for shareholders is not necessarily someone that's viewed with respect in a society.
Well the five eyes, Chinese, Russians, Israelis, French and many private actors are doing this all the time anyway. May as well see what happens if a Democratic government tries to do this for a positive reason.
Interesting to think about whether state actors already have such technology.

If they did, I bet it would be used for automated "troll farms".

Like weaponized malicious ELIZA, it would have fake user profiles reacting to keywords, spinning suitable counter-argumentation and/or lies for as long as it takes to change opinions and perceptions, relentlessly, day and night.
The article doesn’t really mention mobile gaming which is a big factor in the attention economy, whether PC/console gamers like it or not. I think companies that handle mobile gaming properly will be at a serious advantage.

I think Supercell is one company that does well in this space and understand that attention is a commodity. I’ve been playing their latest game Brawl Stars, and I although the graphics are a bit cartoonish for me, I can see the genious behind their design decisions: the game combines several modes that are simplified versions of today’s popular genres, moba and battle royale. Each game session lasts no longer than 2 minutes and it’s continuous real time gameplay. There is no waiting, no searching for opponents, no setup. You just pickup the phone and play. These 2 minutes of gameplay however are very engaging and fun.

This is the kind of sessions a lot people will be looking for in today’s world.
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I read of a clock tower several hundred years old that was in need of repair / replacement and construction workers realized to match the wood the trees they’d need were thousands of miles away and extremely rare. When they started asking around to see if they could source it with substitutes the groundskeeper said that the tree they needed seemed familiar and brought them to an orchard a few hundred yards away. For generations, a small orchard was maintained from the time the project was started for the day when the timber would need to be replaced.

We don’t do this normally in most homes around the world, but families of multi-generational wealth seem to be able to do something similar with their homes because they both have means and will to build an estate that lasts centuries.
> Bitcoin is a technical embodiment of some of the Fifth Amendment (due process -- protection against deprivation of property, ...)

How is it in any way different than having money in your bank account? If the government wants to, they can decide to take all your money from all your account, but they can also decide to throw you in jail until you hand over the keys to your Bitcoins. In the end there is no difference.
This article had me all excited until they got to the benchmarks. Hopefully this is just some design deficiencies and not something terrible like running a BPF bytecode is just plain slower than a couple of context switches.
Can you give an example of file to database and API to database?
As long as the file is a CSV, there are tons of tools already to import them into a DB, isn't it? Are you talking about unstructured files here?
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Yes, it's the case in practice: I've written a lot of @nogc code. Some parts of the standard library require the GC, but not all of it, and the parts that I usually use are fine (std.algorithm, std.range, ...).

Since allocators landed, it's been a lot easier, and I've written a library that does C++-style smart pointers for D:

https://github.com/atilaneves/automem
If you did pass out from drinking, even if you realized that it was a bad idea before anything happened, you deserve the DUI and don't deserve to use a car, I would hope the police don't just let you go free because you were carjacked.
> And this is exactly why it needs regulation.

Regulation is a farce. It requires a body from which the regulations are spawned/enforced, and no such body is incorruptible. History shows us this time and again.

Hell, look at the example that you gave. Oil monopolies were come down upon hard in the early 20th century, and to what end? It's still a firebreathing monster of a corrupt economics.
And it's not objective — one person's "education" is another person's "indoctrination".
Luckilly you won't be installing BGA parts to begin with using a soldering iron at home.
Humans are not angels.

We need government precisely because humans are not angels. We need someone to restrain human tendencies toward violence, toward fraud, and so on.

But as you point out, the government isn't composed of angels, either. So we need the government to restrain the people, but we also need to restrain the government.
Investors see something like Fortnite making crazy amounts of money and ask why your game isn't generating that revenue. It's not rocket science.
Apex is a great game. Throw in some force powers, lightsabres, and holocrons, and you suddenly have a great Star Wars game.
OP could have just been saying American lives talking about attacks on American military areas. In which case you assume it is American lives. There’s no way to tell if they were caring more about American or western lives like is an unfortunate case a lot of the time.
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It's a difficult choice. In a way, you can see it as a free pen-test on your network.

I don't even think it's a case of trusting them, because if they get access to webcam data or something else that they shouldn't, assume someone with less well-meaning intentions can and has also done so.
Ah that's the reason you exert the maximum pain at a high enough level - then the phone companies will take security properly and enforce it on third parties.
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I think it might have something to do with a combination of free to play and no matchmaking.

Once a BR has saturated the market, the percentage of new to experienced players starts to drop. I think most players will reach a skill peak and the game starts to get harder faster than they are improving. This can be frustrating, and since newer BRs have a higher percentage of less skill players they feel easier. With no money barrier, the players switch.
Addresses do not necessarily correspond to people or institutions. Those 4% of addresses could represent any number of holders. The other 96% of addresses could be someone's buggy script gone wild.
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> Ok, well i just said it, so somebody did.

Don't be obtuse, nobody ever said "Generics are a cure-all".

> There is no difference whatsoever between the same function duplicated with different types.

Yes there is, it's called polymorphism.
>actually banks have failed in the past, this infrastructure not yet

Man, what are you talking about? There's a new "$100 million in coins go missing" story every 6 months.
Again, nothing stops you from keeping gold under your bed. The reason people don’t do this is because most people don’t actually need, want, or care about having absolute control over their money. And the probability of your home being robbed is much higher than that of your bank (and the FDIC) becoming insolvent.
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Interesting that most voters on the page believes that zero swap is a good thing. Taking a quick look at my own servers and desktop usage it fits perfectly in table 2, ie. the same as the authors and Fedora's recommendation.

In what situation would you be 100 % sure you could never run out of RAM or would rather have an OOM situation than using swap? Seems extremely counter-intuitive to me.
When I worked as a dev in an agency - I _hated_ with a passion anything that felt like it was tracking my time or productivity. It made me not want to be there and made me felt like the time I spent figuring out how to do my job was wrong. Maybe I'm being oversensitive, but it just felt so untrusting.

Working for myself I use Harvest. Start the clock when I'm working on something, stop it when I'm not. That gives me a decent idea on how to charge for what I do.
What happens on Day Two?
That's a classic "orphan copyright" situation.