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How long would it take the cryptocurrency miners to use all their hashing power to find the deterministic key that generates the content of libgen?

That might be an easier solution than trying to achieve minimally sane copyright reform.
It's not that simple or we would have it already.

Rail is expensive to build and maintain, and stations even more so. The lack of freedom of a car means the train must stop where people want to go and this creates a lot of complexity in how routes are connected, the size and number of trains, service hours, total throughput, ticket prices, and most critically having effective last-mile transit so people can actually get to the station to use the train.

Ride sharing may fill that last-mile today but overall the US is too big and spread out both between and within cities to for trains to be as viable as they are in Europe where everything is much closer together.
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Under the big arrow next to the "Not now" button is a "Never on this site" button, of that's what you mean. Otherwise there is the settings item (which, admittedly was added recently)
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and the problem was solved once and for all....
> Downgrading the prompt to a non-popup icon in the address bar unless it follows a user action sounds like the perfect balance.

Agreed. If it's in direct response to a user action (a sync response to a click or a tap on an element smaller than 300x300px, for example), I think it's perhaps more legitimate to have a more visible indication, like a strip across the top. (I'd want the element size constrained to avoid issues with sites adding `onClick` handlers to the `<body>` element or similar.)

> Actually I think it makes sense to persistently show the notification icon in the navbar once the permission has been granted (same with mic, audio, and anything else) providing a quick glance at any privs that have been granted and an obvious way to revoke them.

I believe Firefox already does this. It also shows you privileges which you've explicitly denied -- for example, if you disallow location access, you'll see a slashed compass next to the (i) button in the Awesomebar.
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I think the code length restriction is a great way to distill a game concept into the "core fun", which is what more people should be focusing on when making them IMHO.

If you go on say /r/gamedev, you'll see all kinds of posts of people stuck down rabbit holes of negligible design, like how to make the best hair physics. A lone developer could spend a year's worth of free time implementing things that don't make the game any more fun or complete.
Why the down-vote? Isn't the absence of Google a more totalitarian form of censorship than some access to Google?
Functional programming is hard, it's hard to have pure functions which don't mutate anything in a system, there's always state somewhere.

Businesses also like to isolate and manage their state in certain areas. OOP more accurately reflects this.

Although functional programming is becoming popular when scaled-out, take for example lambda functions or docker containers, which generally don't use state and nicely suit the functional programming paradigm.
Yep.

I enjoy music. I can appreciate both huge budget years-in-the-studio album recordings, as well as three young jazz players in a small bar who've not even rehearsed together bouncing ideas off standards.

I'm glad the OP has found a niche they're happy to create their art in. Good on them. (I bet I wouldn't much enjoy working at Blizzard either, in spite of the amazing games they're capable of creating.)
>How long would it take the cryptocurrency miners to use all their hashing power to find the deterministic key that generates the content of libgen?

Could you not simply hash the content of libgen to find said key?
In 1961 Yuri Gagarin of the USSR would become the first man in space. The US would follow shortly thereafter. In 1962 in the USA Kennedy was giving his 'We do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard.' speech on getting men to the moon. 7 years later we'd achieve that - landing on the moon while broadcasting the footage live back stateside. At about the same time these events were happening, people were literally starving to death in China by the tens of millions as the country attempted to migrate towards a socialist society. Having put that aside, they would eventually become the third country in the world to put a man into space... in 2003.

The point I make with this is that you need to judge China in the context of China, and not in the context of e.g. the USA. And their evolution so far seems to be following a metaphor of a child - absorb, mimic, create, overcome. And perhaps most importantly, they are also doing so mostly independently. Countries like Japan and South Korea have also experienced rapid development (though this was again, quite a long time ago) but these periods of development were in many ways externally driven which can end up ultimately retarding potential. China's has been internally driven.

China's already starting to push ahead in a variety of areas. Even things like this [1] (horizontal skyscraper) are just phenomenal and, to my knowledge, unprecedented. They actually have an immense amount of really interesting and novel engineering going on in China in general. They have the world's most productive hydroelectric system, tallest bridge, longest railway tunnels, largest radio telescope, fastest commercial trains, etc. One general point is that they have a population of 1.4 billion, with favorable aptitude distributions, and a general social view of prioritizing excellence above all. It's not hyperbolic to expect them to trend towards becoming the world leader in practically everything should the current trends in development continue.

Doubting China is not something we should do. And indeed I do not think we are. NASA, for instance, recently received a nice fat boost to their funding and I think China's recent list of growing achievements in space are playing a significant factor there. You have to keep in mind when you see things like this. This is not the culmination or end of the Chinese space program -- it is the beginning of it.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMMpolfy3GU
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Where would you want the light to fix this? Somewhere else you could wear it on your body? Torso, thigh, ankle?
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> In practice, you wouldn't really need to have a metric for the blue team

So the metrics are BS, and the company is really being run by subjective intuition, for which th metrics merely provide an impersonal rationalization.
If I'm following this analogy properly it sounds like your wife is telling people what to do but not the why. The good grades types got their grades by following instructions and not questioning authority and generally staying out of trouble. The bad grades people aren't necessarily stupider, but they spent a lot more time on non-academic activities (sex, drugs and whatever replaced rock'n'roll), and avoid anything that seems like pointless busy work. They will look for shortcuts and skipping certain steps is part of probing the system to see what's really necessary and what isn't. It could even be the case that your wife is circumventing their learning process by catching missed steps early, before they can discover the why.
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If a website presents a pop up to me asking if I want notifications, I click yes then I click block when the browser dialogue appears. No more notification pop ups on that site.

I realize I can categorically block all notification permissions, but there are some sites where I want to allow them.
A trading bot is a money-making machine and so is Facebook. What's worse, a "headless" machine that is directly manipulating buy/sell orders to feed off market inefficiencies, or a machine that lures humans in, then converts their attention and time into money?
I actually mind those a lot less, since these prompts can be used to properly set expectations about how the notification permission will be used.

Or at least, I mind these a lot less in theory, since it feels like they're rarely implemented this way. It's a golden opportunity for app developers to explain why they want to send you notifications, what benefit you'll get from it, and how often you should expect to be notified, and recipe sites are using it to trick you into effectively signing up for a mailing list.
I bless the trains down in Africa
It's likely, however there are other considerations. Flexibility. Workload. Work-life balance. New management style. Etc. I wouldn't do it automatically, but for the right position, definitely. I haven't gotten a raise in half a decade and each year benefits are going down. But work life balance and flexibility are really nice. So it's a tough call.
Been doing back end for 13 years, and I try to visit a programming conference or two a year.

I think on average back end churns slower. Every year I'll hit a conference, and hear about the latest and greatest, but only a fraction of that stuff sticks around, and gets integrated.

I believe most company's won't swap language/framework/libraries until absolutely necessary. So the adoption of new things you might see at a company is much slower than someone who job hops every 3 years.

The company I am at now, had a C++, cout << "<html>..." version of the site for 6+ years. The version that replaced that is a younger language with a MVC, but it's already been 9+ years since that was implemented, and it'll probably be a few more years until anything else supplants that.

Another thing that I think affects front end is the browsers. I don't know the stats, but I believe that Chrome/FF/Edge release more features, experimental features, and bug fixes per year, than your average language, or OS. This cascade of releases in turn effect front end code, and libraries. It's a wave pool, not a ripple in the pond.
You've been a passive observer for a long time. Psychiatrists usually see their patients for a few minutes when they're at their worst, and have no perspective on how the patient actually does on a day-to-day basis. They haven't observed the patient between 'episodes'. You can help fill in the gaps in the psychiatrist's profile of your friend.

> but stress got to him and when comparing to when he had his episode

Stress is the major factor in most of these conditions. My recent comment about the Quakers and their asylums [0] is relevant: most of their patients got better with nothing more than 4 meals a day and the expectation that they could recover if given appropriate support.

Malnourishment is the other major factor. My friend's involuntary treatment provider eventually did a genetic test that found she can't turn folic acid into folate. Getting supplemental folate has made a big difference for her misdiagnosed "mental" condition. B-vitamins... eggs... more coconut oil, less vegetable oil... fewer grains, more fruit (juice, apples, etc).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19243417
Right now we are focused on diagnosing cancer earlier and identifying the most effective treatment options. Generally speaking, the earlier a cancer is detected, the better the chances of survival.

This study demonstrates that we can distinguish tumor tissue from healthy tissue based on the immune receptors present in the tissue. Our hope is that we can then search for tumor specific immune receptors to determine if a patient has cancer, perhaps before a patient shows symptoms. In fact, we are working on this right now
Because programming languages are practically irrelevant in making products. They are only important to developers. In the last thirty years of programming I have yet to see a project fail because of the programming language or code quality. More often than not it is because someone made something that no one wanted. From a reliability stand point Windows has always been a nightmare. It is still one of the best and most successful products of all time. It could be written in Urdu and no one would care.

What about developer productivity you might say? Yes a consideration - one of many. The last 20 years of language design has been focused on making people uninterested in programming programmers. That is what frameworks primarily accomplish. They waste memory and processor resources - are difficult to use in ways outside of their design. But any person can pick up rails for dummies and type gem something and presto a website. Believe it or not I think this is a good thing.
CRDTs allow multiple concurrent mutations to the same data. If it's just between a single client and server then there's no need for this. There are some databases that are now using it for replication though.
I think it's fair to say in France that something will "strictly forbidden" (formellement interdit) and by and large ignored, except when a real problem arises or an example is to be made.
Also as a vegetarian, there is a clear difference in the earlier veggie patties that Burger King served—Morning Star possibly, not these—and that of a regular whopper meat patty.
Does it have to accomplish anything? Isn't it OK with you to do something for no other reason than is fun?
Too late to edit my previous reply, so I'm adding this parallel one.

> All economic growth comes from money moving somewhere.

No. No it doesn't. All real economic growth comes from more things that people want being produced. It results in money moving somewhere, but the money moving isn't the real growth, nor is it the cause. It's the result.

To adapt an explanation from Thomas Sowell, take beach houses. There's more demand for beach houses than there is supply, so they tend to be very expensive. I can't afford one - I can only rent. But if we gave everybody a bunch of money, there still wouldn't be any more beach houses. All that would happen is that beach houses would rise in price, because now there would be more money chasing the same beach houses.

This misunderstanding - thinking about money instead of about producing things - leads to the idea that you can cause growth by moving money around. Sometimes you can - when the demand is actually there, and the economy has the capacity to produce more. Well, in this situation (UBI), the demand is definitely there. The poor genuinely need stuff, lots of it. But even so, adding more money won't cause the economy to produce more unless it has the spare capacity. All it might do is redistribute the things that are already being produced. (And that may be fine. If we want to say that the poor shouldn't starve just because they're poor, and that the rich are going to have to make do with less so that the poor don't starve, there's a case to be made for that. But that's not the same as growth.)

So the question might be, how much spare capacity do you think there is in the economy, and why do you think that?
It still boggles my mind how over engineered that prompt is in Firefox [1]. And glad to see that the new prompt follows Safari’s simple “Allow / Disallow”.

[1] Of course I got into a shouting match on Twitter about it some time back: https://twitter.com/dmitriid/status/920293887746433024 and https://twitter.com/dmitriid/status/920373234104700931
Why are they so expensive then?

Here in New Zealand, I can drive most places cheaper than I can take a train. That's one person per vehicle vs a train car full of people. I just can't figure that one out.
You can ship a car with an engine that goes 0-60 in 10 seconds. Then you can ship the next car with an engine that does it in 7. If you try to develop an exact thing by an exact date, you're bound to either ship something that's broken on the date, after a lot of heart-ache, or to ship something that works late, after a lot of heart-ache. Then, good luck getting your people to make the next product better. All the cards were played; all the bridges were burned; and you got a shitty product.

Instead: let's ship the best working car we can by <date>! And here's why that date. Who has ideas for how to get an even shittier completely working first-iteration done six months before that? Now, go figure it out and make it happen. I trust you. (To self: and I'll trust you even more as I see each shippable iteration that you enjoyed making.)
Didn't the US car companies actively lobby against and destroy the budding streetcar transport in most cities? I admit its not exactly rail, but you do have trams / streetcars in many European cities too - like Amsterdam. I would think they would be a much preferred public transport option than everyone driving their own car.

Culture is not something which happens automatically - sometimes its driven by corporates, and the stronger the incentives for the corporates, the harder to resist, until the only one capable of doing so is the government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp...
The Hyperloop idea is over a century old and has never been viable yet, and never will be until construction and energy costs drop by magnitudes. It definitely isn't feasible in any place where a regular railway doesn't already work.
> It has NEVER EVER EVER been on the consumer to know who has a license to sublicense and who doesn't.

Exactly, it's been on the seller. In your Walmart analogy, Getty is Walmart, and if it's selling licenses to things it doesn't have a right to sublicense, it's committing fraud, just as Walmart would be if it were selling things it didn't have the legal right to sell.

Getty's MO in defending against such suits thus far seems to be that, since the images are in the public domain, no one has standing to sue them, not even the people who originally created the images and put them in the public domain. That strikes me as a candidate for a new definition of chutzpah, to say the least.
A strong requirement for interoperability appears in the 21st Century Cures Act of 2016. The ONC is now in the process of writing regulations to implement that law.

HL7 has had open standards for moving data between systems for 30+ years. But actually building those interfaces takes a lot of work. Every EHR has its own propriety internal data model so there's always some data mapping and conversion needed.
Bicycles are quite the pollutant
You can't "care about ethics" if you care about something like taste more. That's like saying you care about the ethics of not stealing, but you care about having an expensive stolen thing more. You just don't care about the ethics.
If you are vego for ethical reasons then yes, every time its bad.
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Source? My understanding is the 8% would also include people with just family history.
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An honest bug report for the recent Boeing fuckup would be even worse. They deployed unconscionably shitty software (MCAS system) that killed a total of 346 people in two perfectly airworthy planes.
I've thought before that transforming our soft grey matter into gold is basically what the Rosicrucian alchemists were on about.
There is one more reason why the acceptance rate of notification prompts is low (3%), other than the two points mentioned by Mozilla.

THAT reason is that simply people do not want to be notified. They value their attention in these times of constantly being bombarded by attention seeking prompts, ads and notifications, that if asked, people surely chose not not being bombarded more.
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Here is how it looked like. Donkey Kong has dual screens. Most other games only one.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Ni...
So, not mixing cars and bikes together would be a win-win.
People write laws. They're generally lobbied for.
I can't connect to this site (blogspot.com), ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT

So, I can only comment by the title.
> The NYTimes was created by one of the wealthiest bankers for christ's sakes.

Modern example: Jared Kushner's father Charles bought The New York Observer just to get good press about himself to counteract all the illegal stuff he was doing (and was convicted of).

Kushner is now running the Trump White House, and is married to Ivanka Trump.

That's the "free press" for you!

Now let's see…who owns the Washington Post again?
can't tell if april fools or awesome thing. lol. definitely don't release this kind of thing on April Fools Day. Awesome idea though and I'd love to see the implementation
When I had an accident in Dallas in 2012, the specialist at Baylor general had a foot pedal-activated recorder (one of those micro cassette tape deals), and then sent off his recorded notes to be transcribed. 1970s technology. Seemed pretty effective.
It's funny how Fortnite which is owned by Epic which is owned by Tencent is turning out to be the 21st Century's new Opium Den.
I would expect there to be basically none. Most of the journals that people are after their university still pays for access for. Failing that, they email the author and get a copy directly. And if that isn't possible, there are a few people with wider ranging interests or wider ranging technical skills who know about sci-hub and libgen, and they will pass out the new domain name as necessary. Or even convince the department's IT to use a non-French DNS provider as the DHCP setting.

Sci-hub and LibGen are services that those of us outside a university or at something besides rich research universities depend on more.
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> It's an Impossible Burger, and left undersaid is that it's a fast-food burger.

Since it's right up front in the headline that it's Burger King,I don't think the fast food part is “undersaid”.

> I just don't see the point, vs a high-protein high-fat patty made of bean or soy protein isolate that tastes good in it own non-fake-fast-good-meat-burger way.

If you don't see the point of fast food, you can, I hope, at least see that lots of people do.

And since there are people going off meat for environmental or ethical reasons, providing them an open which is both attractive in taste to their current palette and fitting with their existing lifestyle but for the change they are deliberately making seems to have obvious value.
everyone is a bad actor, including the browser makers

zero confidence