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It's quite hard to get numbers.

Firstly the reported trading volumes are about 95% fake. https://www.forbes.com/sites/cbovaird/2019/03/22/95-of-repor...

Then much of the thing buying is illegal stuff like drugs that doesn't get well reported. Wikipedia has "A reviewed 2013 analysis put the Silk Road grossing $300,000 a day, extrapolating to over $100 million over a year."

Coinmarketcap has daily crypto volume at $43bn a day

so say 5% is real that's $2.1 bn/day trading

and say drugs trade etc is $1m a day, that's a small proportion.

comission on those trades is probably about 0.2%*2.1bn= $4m/day

Regular retail business, not much https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19280689
I've been doing various sports on/off since I was a student (10+ years ago), mostly martial arts. There were some periods when I was out of shape, but in general I kept myself fit. I was never into lifting though, I could barely bench my own weight, and never even tried deadlifts. Two years ago I tore a tendon in my shoulder rendering me incapable of doing most MA things. While in recovery I started playing with free weights. A local powerlifter noticed me and told me that my numbers can win me local meets if I work on my form. So around January 2018 I started looking up powerlifting and went through two cycles of Candito's 6 Week Program.

Last June I attended my first meet and tanked it: failed all three deadlift attempts due to errors (not following commands, double movement, etc). I started working on technique and won the two local meets that followed. I cannot say I enjoy it as much as I enjoy martial arts, but at the moment I'm just curious to see how much my body can progress within my normal sleep/rest/nutrition regimen.
> because it would be American companies that would feel most of the compliance burden.

How so?
You seem to be just repeating the common narrative in US, which isn't based in any factual data.
A draft being publicly available does not in any way mean it has the influence of a highly paid, well connected lobbyist.
The point being that lobbying is highly effective, and the public has little chance of having it's voice heard.

I hear you say: 'the voice of the people is heard at election time'. This would be the case if the very same lobbyist didn't fund the campaigns of politicians.

If money can buy influence in policy making, that is textbook corruption.

The other part to this is that the current (American) political system is built on top of this form of corruption, it is an integral part.
I would draw a parallel to the Brazilian political system, which simply couldn't function without the corruption it is built upon. Of course the American case isn't as bad, but nor is it particularly good.
Half of cow meat in UK comes from used dairy cows. Every dairy cow has to give birth 8-12 times and over half of those born calfs are boys. As they are no use otherwise, they get slaughtered immediately after they are born for their tender meat. By eating diary of any kind you're doing as much harm to animals as you'd by directly buying steak. You're also doing more harm to your body as quality meat is better for health (still bad) than cheese.
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Congress sends letter to Google for details on Sensorvault location tracking
Ah yes those money grubbing philosophers.
Apple and Google have way too much power to determine what we can and cannot do with "our" devices.

If anyone at all, government laws should determine this, not 2 or 3 big companies.
An opt-out of this "walled garden" on mobile devices should be possible, like how System Integrity Protection can be disabled in macOS (if you accept the risks involved.)
I don't see how Quasar Framework is a corporate framework. Are you referring to the sponsorships that it's obtained over the past year?
> Draft legislation in Washington is publicly available. Anyone (including privacy groups) could submit a redline markup.

Yes, but that requires that people know about the legislation and care enough to be involved, and it is unlikely that they'll be more willing than Microsoft will because it will affect them significantly less.

> The EU created a heavy handed data privacy law because it would be American companies that would feel most of the compliance burden.

It turns out that American companies are disproportionally affected because there are more large American companies, which means the law will target them more. That's like saying the U.S. should drop out of environmental agreements because they'll hurt our local industry more–it's not taking into account the fact that it's our own companies disproportionately causing the problem the legislation is trying to solve.

> “Privacy” sounds good in the abstract. It’s like “think of the children.”

"Think of the children" tends to lead to mass surveillance and a degradation of liberties, while calls for "privacy" lead to…Facebook earning less money? Where are you trying to take this argument?
>We need to legislate by law rather than anti-trust and arbitrary corporate fines.

Why?

I live a modern life and I don't use Facebook or Apple.

There is plenty of competition, let these anti-consumer companies feel the pain of Markets. Or we will find out, people don't actually care about this.

I don't want the government to get involved in Apple, and ruin companies that I do use (Google, Snapchat, etc..)
Its some way to google-bomb a site, because the algo determinating importance by phone-numbers linking is still subvertable as it was 1999?
Not sure where you're reading that in what I said.
Android lets you sideload apps without jumping through very many hoops, if that's what you mean by being able to opt-out of the "walled garden".
It's on MSN. No one should expect quality or accurate or even on topic information.
I have probably commented this before, but the nommu support was merged all the way back in 2.5.46, so a mmu is certainly not a requirement for running Linux.

A 32-bit architecture is not really a requirement either, you just need a compiler that can be told to use 32-integer types and pointers. You probably also have to modify the compiler to generate accesses to your external ram for loads and stores.

The real thing preventing you from running Linux on 8-bit micros is the requirement of a von Neumann architecture (or something that looks like it). These small MCUs usually don't even have a way of loading code at runtime which makes it impossible to run any sort multitasking without interpretation.
>I feel like the lesson people should start taking here is if they publish for iOS

As a developer, I feel its my part to let non-devs know that Apple is evil to developers and customers.

It takes time for this message to spread, but I imagine in a decade, Apple will no longer be competitive in the Mobile/Computer markets.

You can only oversell a product for so-long, before people begin to notice.
Though I see your point, "exploit" is a better choice as the entire point of the article is to say China is unethical.
I don't know if it's 5g or not but I have 300-500Mb wireless internet in Boston right now. There's at least two companies doing it.
I don't know the numbers, or if there's even enough long term data to provide the numbers yet, but supposedly the lack of a combustion engine should eliminate much of the maintenance. How much is offset by other problems EVs have compared to combustion engines, I don't know.
I don't disagree, I'm against all executions. I'm just saying that if it was a quick beheading then I would say "execution" wouldn't be an euphemism like you've been saying.
Fwiw, I've taken to always using the Collins dictionary, it explains words in a way that's meaningful and not entirely dry to me.

I think it has some of these 1911 Webster qualities.

Collins on flash: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/flash
Yeah just start a competitor, the licensing alone is something like 3 million... There's very little competition in the space and I guess there are reasons for that.
https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/574
seems to say it will eventually support the same web extensions as the current Android Firefox, but the first release won't.
I'd imagine that a modern kernel has a lot of pointless fat in it and that the 5-hours figure could be reduced if perhaps only slightly, with appropriate optimization effort. It might even be useful to deliberately have such a super-slow (but reliable, since it runs on highly deterministic microcontroller-class HW) benchmark in the mix, as you would be able to make very precise and fine-grained measurements about how even seemingly-unrelated changes might impact performance within the kernel, whether for the better or worse.
Python gets 20% faster if you use `__slots__` on the Vector class which is created and destroyed millions of times. It's still the second-slowest, but it's a nice improvement :P
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Same with Russia. USA turned off GPS during the Russo-Georgian war. Russia went ahead to build GLONASS and it's military performance during the intervention in Syrian Civil War was much better.
> That’s a perverted view of the “public interest” as being diametrically opposed to corporate interests.

The goal of corporations is to extract as much money as possible from the public. So in a very real sense, they are opponents, even if sometimes their interests align.
It's a Wall Street Journal article rehosted on MSN.
>Other coins are clearly superior in functionality (except maybe the hash rate).

This isn't true, and the opposite is quite true.

Bitcoin is the only coin that seems immune from a 51% attack. Every other coin has a significantly lower threshold needed for people to commit a 51% attack.

Ethereum and other Blockchain coins are not 'superior', they use the same POW solution as Bitcoin. Often, another coin will discover a new way to make blockchain better, and Bitcoin adopts it later. When Etheruem failed to scale, I sold all of my POW alt coins.

The rest of the coins are centralized, which defeats the purpose of blockchain. Entirely useless as cryptocurrency.

I see a future for Bitcoin and Stable coins. I don't see alt coins doing anything Bitcoin cant.
https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/pull/1707

I will wait for Fennec...
Okinawan Japanese that had the long life span only ate 3% of their calories from animal meat (fish). And it certainly wasn't the shitty, polluted fish we get today.

All blue zones - areas with people living the longest - have similar diets. So you can eat meat and be healthy, literally one meal per month. That's it.
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> But where does this corruption stem from?

Honestly, I don't think there's a point in asking whether corruption is more a government thing or a private thing.

Corruptions stems from the same things trade does - more than one people, each having desires and something someone else needs. It happens when a person, through temptation or duress, decides to enrich themselves at the expense of the organization they're working for. It's a fact of life, and I think the only relevant question is, for any given organization, how is it structured to combat this quite natural phenomenon.
An interesting read!

Who is the author?
"trust" is not the same as "monopoly". Sherman Antitrust is already ahead of you on that.
Hope you guys manage to convince your wives to watch some sci fi!
I've gotten user donations from Bitcoin.

I've paid friends in Bitcoin and they have paid me.

I also got a Shift card, which is super cool.

My only reluctance with Bitcoin, is getting a mortgage in BTC. What happens if BTC hits 100k USD/coin?
That's good for EU on both counts. Unchecked corporate power is a bad thing.
I'd like to take your argument and apply it to the human species. In both cases, I think the good outweighs the bad.
Thanks for digging this up. Since I'm using an old fire tablet at home, ublock origin is a must. The web is literally unusable on such a slow device without it.
If the majority of people's stated reason for having children was to ensure the survival of the human race, maybe that argument would hold water.

But most people's desire to have children center around selfish things, like continuing their family line, or because their parents want grandkids, or because "that's just what you do to get to the next life stage", or because their religion pushes them to, or "John and Jane have such a beautiful child and I want one too", or because they want a small version of themselves that will love them, or truly foolish things like believing a child will save a bad marriage.

And I'm not even saying selfish acts are bad! People do selfish things all the time, and as long as those things don't harm anyone else, so what? But I wish people would give more thought to the social, financial, physical, emotional, and mental implications of having a child before doing so, rather than just taking it as a given that it's what they're supposed to do.

At least there are some people who have kids because they genuinely want to nurture, educate, and mentor a new human, but I'd be hard pressed to find someone who'd say "to ensure the future of humanity" is one of their top reasons for having children.
In what world being able to read offline messages is "frivolous eye-candy"?
What you’re describing is a cartel under competition laws. It would be hard to prove that Apple and Google are conspiring together against other market players.
During my master's I interviewed at EA in Montreal and knew about Ubisoft's presence there as well. It was always enticing as a career prospect. But to be honest I always heard stories about how horrible it was to work for video game companies during crunch time, and how that happens at least twice a year, and I basically made a conscious decision to avoid that industry. This was more than 10 years ago. And it continues...
Why wouldn't the application market for iPhone users be the relevant market? The EU didn't consider iPhones and Androids fungible when applying antitrust regulations to Android.
When there are 0 good results for a query, Google and most users don't care which bad results are served
Then you close your laptop and reopen it and you have to reconnect. Oh, you want it to automatically reconnect? No problem, you can automate identifying yourself to NickServ with a simple command like /NETWORK ADD -autosendcmd "/^msg nickserv ident pass;wait 2000" ExampleNet

Oh, a ghost session stopped you connecting as YourName and now you're YourName2 ? No problem, NickServ can kill your ghost session so you can get your registered nick back. Oh, you want to do that automatically? No problem, just download this script - a mere 10 lines of perl - and put it into your irssi autorun directory.

Easy, as you say. Anyone who disagrees has absolutely no idea :)
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Considering in ancient times, your location was well known.

Everyone knew if you left a village, everyone knew where you went.

There seems to be a short time, where human population has exploded beyond any ability to track everyones location. But then we got a really useful GPS and wifi system.

I don't mind if people know I'm on a freeway, I do mind if laws are bad.
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Epic gave them a nice excuse too. We could potentially claim it's not default and hard to do. But now Google can just point at the number of Fortnite players - see? works just fine.
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On the user side of things, I work at a large academic institution where I occasionally get unwanted contact (overly invasive, won’t stop messaging even when asked).

I totally get that at an office workspace, the solution here is HR. But this is a loosely federated place, and even in my own opinion the conduct doesn’t merit such a response. I just want to be able to mute people.
How many people have you met that tell you that they're having children because they want to ensure the future of humanity? I'd bet not many, if any at all.

What you describe might be considered selfless, most parents have kids for fairly selfish reasons. There's (usually) nothing wrong with that, of course, but let's not try to paint a rosy picture that doesn't exist.
are you using openvpn in tcp or udp mode? the default udp is pretty easy to block even if it's on 443, the tcp requires somewhat more DPI.
Apt create 20 years ago, it's using HTTP protocol almost everywhere even today. They should have redesigned the whole project and ban the HTTP completely IMHO. I'm using HTTPS even on localhost services when I have for example a project that needs Grafana and influxDB.
You can also go the LineageOS route in the meantime.
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TheLounge is very very limited. I will always prefer weechat to everything, but if you want a webUI, glowing bear is alright.

Like you, I've been on IRC since the 90s. I find that support channels are great if your question to the group shows that you've actually exhausted your options and need help beyond what you can think to search. Often the documentation is perfect, and if there is something someone doesn't understand, asking specifically about that typically yields a positive response (at least in my experience.)

One issue I've always had with IRC is the Founder choosing bad ops for their channel -- often based more on time-spent in the channel than actual ability to resolve issues with troublesome users.

I've always op'd a few channels and have chosen some of these people -- the type that view the cinnamon bun / status as something special or powerful, rather than the janitorial job that it is. This really sets the tone for the channel and can destroy it in the long run. Bulk the on-topic nazis in here. It's toxic behavior and should be addressed by the ops.

Anyway, long story short -- IRC isn't like it was in the 90s-00s, but its still going strong. The support channels are not a good litmus test for IRC as a whole.
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For some reason I find it totally demotivating. I don't feel compelled to get better at all. That makes me lazy because I just feel so anxious I have to do something else to distract myself and feel better. It also naturally makes me feel very reluctant to go back to whatever made me feel that anxiety.
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I don't know anything about the pros and cons of this bill. The fact remains that a corporation's interests are frequently not aligned with other people's and in the long run, the ability for corporation's to have this kind of relationship with legislators may do great harm to the Democratic process.
> before deciding to do my own commercial software, which was probably the best decision I ever made.

Just curious: what did you build, with your commercial venture/startup?
I've met enough powerlifters to know this isn't remotely true. A lot of people stagger out of heavy PL sessions in search of cheeseburgers. Lots of cheeseburgers. Hard powerlifting sessions can awaken a hunger that is grossly out of proportion to calories burned, which may or may not explain why many powerlifters can't see their feet. With a big enough back arch, you can bounce your bench off your giant belly!

I'm being flip - and I've also felt the same effect - i.e. "with all this effort in the gym, let's not act like a f*wit in the kitchen". But it's not guaranteed.
This is both irrelevant and wrong. It’s wrong because people do give a shit and these cities are trying to come up with a solution like limiting or completely banning certain pollutants like cars or burning coal etc. The air quality is constantly monitored since years and EU country’s have implemented quite strict environmental policies.

It’s irrelevant because even if people didn’t given a shit about pollution , wouldn’t mean that they should not give shit to other risks.
I'm an OpenBSD user myself :-) I love simple so I gravitate towards it. I'm also a plan 9 fan and tinker in 9front.
In addition to, not instead of.
Sounds like a functionality to me

edit: sounded a bit impolite. I was trying to point out, that just covering all needed functionalities doesnt mean anyone will use your product. Frivolous eye candy, ie the appearance is a key aspect for quite a few people. The issue is not that its dismissed as eye candy, but that being eye candy is an important point to look out for.
If you have to fiddle with config files to use irc, you're doing something wrong. Every client I ever used shipped with a list of networks, you basically just click the one you want, get asked for your nickname, click a button, enter channel name, all set for next time.
Let’s look at the article. Kasperky labs is trying to sell fraudulent “virus protection” and the apps are basically spyware.

Nothing of value was loss.

Almost all connectors are “proprietary” and require license fees.
> Work is optional. There are plenty of people who get by without it.

You must live in a very different world than most people do if that's the norm among your peer group.

> And for society to continue to function having children is actually not optional.

At a macro level, sure (though a slow, steady reduction in population over the next few generations might do the planet some good), but on the individual level, it's absolutely optional.
The “Easy as 1,2,3 steps” part of the video seemed like it was glossing over a lot of work. “Just add the roof” is a step that I wasn’t convinced by the video is trivial using your software.

If it is easier to use Cedreo you might consider copy like ‘other home building apps make you do x to achieve y but with Cedreo it’s just w and z!’
I suppose because every manufacturer has a monopoly if you limit the market to his products. 100% of Blackberry phones are made by Blackberry.

I believe that you can make this argument for Apple easier than you can make it for others because they make most of the product (i.e. hardware, OS, most of the services), but it's still a lot harder than looking at Microsoft with >90% market share of all PCs and agreeing that that's a monopoly.
You all have not met the hogs that I've met in PL, then. I've met people with trash diets (plenty of macros, obtained largely through cheeseburgers and the like) who are strong as hell. I love deadlifting (favorite lift of the 3) but the idea that PL is somehow a cure-all for bad lifestyles is pretty laughable.
If this works, it is going to put a lot of GI doctors out of business.

The guidelines for screening after 50, plus the ACA's provision that makes colonoscopy "free" has led to a large increase in the number of screenings over the last 20 years [1], and I suspect that a lot of GI docs are making out like bandits.

[1]https://progressreport.cancer.gov/detection/colorectal_cance...
This is not doing what you think it does. And it's the second comment where you are spreading your misinformation I've seen in this thread now. :( This tool is for people who want to send their emails via GSuite and their own domain. Not a lot of people in this thread want that, and it certainly has nothing to do at all with what is being discussed in the comment threads where you replied to.
> if you commoditize something that nobody cares about

I think cryptocurrencies are an obvious trash fire. I also think they contain all the elements (flow information asymmetry, bad price transparency and consistency, high technical volatility, and zero capacity for fundamental edge) that make it quite profitable to make markets in, i.e to be the house in respect of. Combine that with the general culture around cryptocurrencies, which I suspect is averse to litigation, and you have a supremely profitable business.

One need not love what they trade. (I do see an ethical issue with selling retail customers such products.)
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I don't even think that Apple users want the government to fix Apple, it's the App vendors that want a better position in negotiations and journalists are happy to help if it's "big tech company does bad thing" because it's trendy.