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> It isn’t known, even to some members of the consortium, how the coin will work or what their roles will be, people familiar with the project said.

Such a stablecoin still requires a regulatory approval process before roll-out.

Just as a reminder that there are open alternatives, GNU Taler would offer a more privacy-oriented stablecoin with an already clear specification, but has not yet been adopted by banks that require the regulatory approval. On the mailing list, the developer wrote that they work on the two missing features needed for approval (cross-device synchronization and an integrated backup solution).
How so? Can't think of a thing that's more a means to an end than sleep - you have to sleep to be able to live your life! Barring those who can call up lucid dreams at will[0], there's zero point in optimizing for sleep as a terminal goal. I mean, if more sleep was a good fundamental goal, then suicide would be an optimal strategy - we get all the sleep in the world when we're dead.

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[0] - somehow they exist and they don't use it as a personal holodeck to escape reality, which tells me lucid dreaming must be overrated.
How much CO2 will there be?
Yes. The biggest fans of Bitcoin have been all about the privacy and freedom of the coin but unless you have perpetually perfect opsec what actually happens is total information awareness. Everybody knows what everybody else is doing.
Another sad fact is the widely used Python libraries such as pandas are very poorly written from a usability perspective, it seems like all the naming conventions went out the window there.
I read the article and I am not seeing where you are getting that.

The article supports the claim that having government subsidies of the banks risk causes banks to take greater risks
This seems like a common idea. The Economist is arguing that it is important to keep capitalists liable for their investments. The Economist does not want the government to be paying for bad bets of the private sector. They are arguing for higher capital requirements and tougher regulation.
I'd look at any long term medication as a factor.

PPIs can definitely affect magnesium.
https://www.gov.uk/drug-safety-update/proton-pump-inhibitors...

On the other hand if your heartburn causes reflux then the PPI can help sleep. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24942514
Then your mistake is just thinking you'll end up in a financially better position by renting. Companies do things because they are profitable.

Also, I don't see how "being unable to sell your stuff because it's crappy and old and having to give it away for free" is worse than "being unable to sell your stuff because it didn't belong to you in the first place and is taken away as soon as you lapse a payment". Except of course in the former case some other poor person might still get some use out of the old and crappy stuff and in the other case some company is taking the (relatively new) thing and likely just shredding it.
Many of those connected appliances can receive software updates.

They probably thought "Let's put a mic in, it costs nothing, we'll add speech recognition later when it's ready."
> Find 3D models on Google Poly and use them in your game instantly.

Google Poly seems to be a place for uploading things made with TiltBrush or with a program called Blocks. First time hearing about the latter.

Will it be possible to load models from OBJ, COLLADA or other formats?

Edit: Originally I asked what about Google SketchUp also, but it turns out SketchUp was sold to another company in 2012.
“some people don't give animals enough credit (...) Animals are often very smart.”
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I think it's a lot less common for authors of packages to put them on to PyPi vs CRAN (mostly due to the absolute mess of Python packaging) so it doesn't surprise me that his searches turned up not much there. On GitHub there are those packages:

https://github.com/search?q=poisson+regression

I've not used Rcpp, but Pybind11 is pretty mature, and works well, so I'm not sure why he's saying it's under development; by the same measure there was an update to Rcpp last week, so that is too. He mentions Cython which allows you to compile Python code, but my main use case for that is exactly what he says - wrapping up C/C++ libraries, which is very easy in it.

"Python is currently undergoing a transition from version 2.7 to 3.x. This will cause some disruption, but nothing too elaborate."

This is pretty out of date; in Jetbrain's survey, 84% of devs had transitioned.
In classic logic the statement could be either true or false. But the statement "a sea-battle will be fought tomorrow" is neither. You can't say that this statement is true or false in advance, it's a prediction, it has only a sort of probability of being true or false.

The interesting outcome of the rejection of the excluded middle is a constructive logic (and math), where the proof that "statement is false is false" doesn't mean that statement is true (hence only the evidence of truthfulness could be considered a proof).
I have one golden rule: Where I sleep, there are no electronic devices. I am surrounded by techy stuff all day long. I want a break from all of it altleast 8 hours a day. I would never let a device track my sleep on a regular basis. Feels great, I sleep tight and feel restored in the morning.
How is it unusable? I set it up once and it works perfectly
Writing such a snarky comment? Oh yes.
I owe it to the boys who never came back
Oh wow. That is an internal combustion equivalent of electric outrunner motor!
ggplot2 is not just a package, it's an implementation of a grammar language and this is what makes it so hard to substitute. plotnine tries to mimic it and is good for easy stuff but still far behind what can be easily done with ggplot2.
IMO writing a better browser is not that hard. The trick is to just focus on reader view.

When you can click the reader button, it makes every website better. Reader view defeats modal dialogs and dickbars. Reader view renders faster than AMP, because it skips web fonts. Reader view always scrolls and zooms without jank.

Build a better browser by embracing the web as it was meant to be: the best document publishing platform. Let the other guys build the world's worst application platform with clippy and toast and the rest.
The history here, is that Opera introduced tabs, and they were cheaper in terms of resources. Tabs in Windows were cheaper than many windows. Then tabs became a sort of replacement for Bookmarks, because bookmark UIs are so so bad. That's my take on it.

Gnome 3, started out suggesting that it would be a semantic desktop, allowing groupings associations of activities. That fell by the wayside, so the best thing left is to use something like virtual desktops to separate projects/workflows. But then you are pushed into multiple windows likely with multiple tabs.

I use multiple browsers on multiple devices, and bookmarking isn't that nice. I see why people end up using browser syncing and end up in vendor traps. On desktop, I can easily copy paste urls. Perhaps into my own mini-shared db for read it later style groupings. On mobile copying URLS is hell for me.

Imagine throwing tabs away. If windows were cheap again how could you best use a Window manager to manage them? It feels like this should be at the heart of your desktop. It would need to be more than 'recently used/accessed'.

I have tried running Firefox with the bookmark manager open and the history, but it has been really poor performance wise, and it's just not a nice interface.

Looking at my tabs today, I have a small grouping of shopping tabs, of things I might be interested in ordering. From about three weeks back. I know if I throw these into bookmarks, and even tag them, they'll still be lost. I should probably have dealt with that there and then. I tend to build up tabs in Firefox, once I hit the width of the browser with tabs and they scroll it becomes UI hell for me. So I try to confine to about 12, but that's easier said than done. And as said I run multiple browsers, at least four on mobile and four on desktop. Throw tabs into the mix and it gets ugly. But if this was reduced to something like a simple list of URLs, with some grouping shared between machines that I could relaunch easily, probably in the same browser I was using previously they'd feel much more manageable. And less crufty.

Going back to the shopping example, that's task focused. And it might be accompanied by a few notes written in another app, and I might want to share that with my partner via email etc. Associations have to beyond one piece of software.
The article’s premise is mostly an arbitrary value judgement that a high number of tabs is negative in some way (“ridiculous number”). Notice that there is no concrete definition of what the drawback would be. There’s a strong element of rule-seeking and cleaning instinct at play. Not that there’s anything wrong with that ;)
Maternity leave is covered by deductions from salary for everybody. It's a part of the Income Compensation Insurance, the rate of IC is 0.225% of the salary. It is deducted from the agreed-upon salary and additionally the employer pays an additional 0.225%, so in the total 0.45% is deducted.

https://www.bsv.admin.ch/bsv/en/home/social-insurance/eo-msv...

https://www.ahv-iv.ch/en/Leaflets-forms/Leaflets/Contributio...

There are other mandatory insurance deductions. Let's say the employer and the employee agree upon a wage of CHF 7500 a month, then first the employer deducts premiums of 5.125% or CHF 384 and also adds CHF 384 on his own and sends the money to the compensation office where the employer is located.

From my own experience as an employer I know that the compensation offices are very strict and know how levy the monies even from small mom-and-pop shops with employees. They are also helpful, as an employer you can call them or visit them and do what is neccessary. It's an efficient and tightly organized system.
I see oarsinsync posted this comment:

>The downside is every single thing you do is logged and tracked against your card, and associating a card with an individual is just one MTR ride with facial recognition away.

Possible, although facial recognition seems to be used much less widely in HK than the mainland.

Perhaps police checkpoints are another concern: you might get stopped entering or leaving the MTR if your Octopus card shows you were at one of the stations where the protests took pkace. Although, isn't it easy enough to get off at Central (where the protests were not taking place) and walk over to Admiralty/Wan Chai (where they were), only 1-2 stops away?

Personally, I'd be more worried about discussing the protests via SMS or WeChat than getting there on my Octopus Card. Disclaimer: not a HK citizen.
Your face is now your boarding pass. And that’s a problem
> Please allow access on the next pop-up to discover address book users reachable from Riot.

Please don't say please to make people perform questionable privacy violations. How about:

"If you want Riot to determine which of your contacts also use Matrix and to easily enable you to talk to them via Riot, you can allow Riot to access your contact list.

Note: This will upload all your contacts' details, as stored on your phone, including addresses, birthdays, notes, and more if available to matrix.org. Here is the privacy policy."

Or something like that, whatever it really does.

Disclaimer: I like matrix :)))
I’m going on a limb here and may get downvoted. But I’ll say it anyway. This battle is over, and Python is now the standard for data science, just like git is the standard for version control. The mindshare, number of tools, and number of people that know and use Python is an order of magnitude higher those for R. As a new data scientist it does not make sense to start with anything but Python.
Power control is also a massive consideration - doing more than on-off basically requires semiconductors or wasting a lot of energy in variable resistors. Some old systems had two-speed control by swapping batteries between series and parallel.

One of Tesla's less obvious innovations is going beyond silicon to silicon carbide for high-power control: https://www.systemplus.fr/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/SP18413...

Milk floats lasted a long time as ubiquitous home delivery EVs. Maybe we'll see their return.
At least European driving regulations are made in a way that allows you to stop right in the middle of the road in case of danger, except for highways of course - where the problem is significantly easier.
At that point and in so many circumstances the crypto part is ultimately just a different kind of database. Databases and protocols are just boring... At least from the perspective of the person using the currency.

In general, who cares how Chase keeps track of my checking account? It might have this feature or that feature but when it is being used as it is there isn't much to be excited about. If you're Chase it might make life a little easier to choose one thing or the other but the rest of the world probably doesn't care.
I live here and I really don't see a strong and male dominated culture, no more than when I was abroad in countries without conscription.

It's especially not the case in jobs requiring a degree, because degree holders are way more likely to have opted out and done either the civil service or pretended they were unfit and pay an extra tax instead.

However I guess it can slow things down from a different angle because currently the only gender currently legally oppressed is men, since the law guarantee the same rights to all but forces men into the conscription. This can breed some resentment, especially since progressives regularly fail to address it properly.
What if the spoon didn’t exist yet? And people were just using the fork and knife.
> You mention "quality education in the trades and higher professions for example." - what percentage of the population got to enjoy that?

All the examples I gave were freely available even to the regular workers. I've spent enough time in Poland and Ukraine to know I'm getting this information from people who actually lived through this. Primary sources.

Most wouldn't go to university, sure, but that is also true of the west. Not everybody goes to university, some become labourers or take up a trade.

Free child care, free healthcare, free education. Even free psychiatric help (something we sorely need in he west). The quality of this varied greatly sure, but it was freely available. These are basic socialist principles that are practices even by enlightened western nations today (just not the US, obviously). These were pillars the USSR was built on.

The fact that it had colossal failings elsewhere does not detract from this.

> Can you give some specific examples?

I already did.

I'm not denying the system was highly corrupt and many people suffered, but you are denying even basic truisms that you could confirm yourself if you got out of your bubble or read some history books.

The things I am saying are not excusing the horrible things the system engaged in. It would be interesting if you held your own country to the same standards as well. It wouldn't come out as clean and shiny as you think.

You are arguing from the perspective of someone who thinks there was literally NOTHING positive about the system at all. You are deliberately ignoring what I am saying and your responses in this thread have been little more than "I disagree because the USSR was bad".

This is just pure fundamentalism and I'm not going to continue arguing with an ideologue. It's wasted effort.

I'm done.
I really recommend [Levelhead](https://www.bscotch.net/games/levelhead) from the creators of Crashlands. It is inspired by Mario Maker but I think it has a lot of needed improvements.
Thankfully, I don't get my information on world history from Wikipedia.

I read history textbooks written by actual historians and on this particular subject, I speak with people who lived through it on a regular basis and spend time in former Soviet states; they are my extended family through my partner.

You, clearly, have spent no time in any former soviet states and I'd wager you've never spoken to an Eastern European native.

I have no wish to continue talking to someone who can't post anything substantial.
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>Linux used to do its actual context switch in C with inline asm, and it changed to being in straight asm a while back.

Could you be a bit more specific, maybe a link to the diff e.g. THANKS!
> Operational Transformation (OT) is one of those algorithms, which have been evolving over time, as versions of it have been proven incorrect.

Source or explanation required.

Also, this: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.01302

I guess that you can argue for both sides :). But they are just different solutions. Basing on my experience and on what I read it is simply unfair saying that one is incorrect and other is correct (or one is better and the other is worse).
Yeah, that's way better - thanks. have pushed the change at https://github.com/vector-im/riot-android/commit/786bf017852...
> The only drug I do is sugar

(Anecdata) Which is a terrible drug for me, creating absurd and artificial peaks and droughts of energy, completely throwing me off. The worst part is during the low sections I have some craving that keeps me on my toes, like some raw hunt/forage impetus, making me even more tired. Overall low carb diet and skipping on sweet things entirely fixes it for me.
Oddly enough if you're corporate entity large enough you're doing better than the government. A friend of mine works as an assistant state's attorney and he says some of the cases are ridiculous when the well funded persons and organizations are involved; sometimes it's one man for the government vs an one or more entire law firms and on cases of important to public interest no less.
Our (german) underground cables are waterproof and bite-proof, the latter to varying degrees.
Earthquakes are an issue, but iirc they only tend to require a few splices, not a new cable.
Tabs are not bookmarks.

I can tell you exactly what made me use tabs instead of bookmaking sites: opening a bookmark means making a new connection, new round-trip, loading, parsing and rendering a full page. Having a page open in a tab means it's already there, in exactly the state you left it in. It will still be there if the Internet goes down. It will still be there after it comes back up. It will be there tomorrow, it will be there next week, after hibernating and waking up your computer a dozen times in between. It will be there even if the page is already removed on the server.

The difference between a tab and a bookmark is like between a book on your desk vs. in a public library. In the latter case, when you need it, you have to go there and fetch it - not only taking time, but also possibly failing, as it might not be there anymore.

Is it a perfect interface? Not really. What I'd really like would be this, + in addition a bookmark feature that actually freezes and snapshots the page I'm on - to get the same behaviour as tabs, only persistent. It shouldn't be hard for browsers to do, given that IME at least some browsers displayed this behaviour at some point when restoring pages after browser crash.
How far from that goal are they at the moment?
(LEAD) Moon declares full cooperation with Finland to nurture startups
It is not about being "correct" it is about being consistent. If you have 1,000 receipts with an X then it is good enough for the cc company.
The signature matching the card one is only used when the value of the transaction is high and rare enough.
i.e. not for daily groceries.

For more important manners a bank might check and tell you if your signature has drifted from the one you used before.
On the other hand they might move all your savings to a different country because of a fraudulent badly written letter. Banks are banks
Should it be performing turns in front of traffic coming that doesn't have time to stop?

> ... during lane change?

Apart from being more in the way, how does this differ from having to stop within a lane?

> ... on highway?

The article says its automated driving on the highway.
Sounds like doing the opposite of the thing you say you're not doing... corporate PR BS.
I mean the parent comment isn't wrong. Any trend based around exclusivity is bound to lose when the exclusivity inevitably spreads. Companies have to go way upscale to be able to afford to go super exclusive and you can only really do this with privately held companies. Hipsters are just one form of trend setters,I wonder if there's a chart somewhere that tracks different types of influencers and the markets that they influence. It seems like something someone would have spent money on making because of its inherent usefulness in sales and marketing.
South Korea, Finland to hold summit on peace, startups
We have used Sentry for a long time with JavaScript. The main issues for us are:

* Obese JavaScript code. We had to write our own custom code to log events.

* Aimed at large scale companies. We only have 1000s of users, and we care about each individual exception, but I think it is really aimed at consolidating large numbers of events.

* Meaningless percentages on data. Tagged data is processed, but the end percentage value has little meaning e.g. send through 1000 similar events, with 1 event with a tag with value X, and 1 event with a tag with value Y, and 998 with no value. Sentry reports 50% X and 50% Y!

But they have given us really excellent service, especially given we are not paying enterprise rates.

Edit: also we are not in a US timezone, which makes the UI weird. And I do love the email integration: have a bug, get an email, fix it.
2nd best over x categories is pretty good.
To me, there's not so much difference between batteries and fuel cells - one stores the redox reaction components outside the electrode/electrolyte setup, that's all. The advantage of hydrogen in this setup is the ability to pull oxygen from the air and then dump the reaction product.
I agree that "global" would be a better word than "central", but that doesn't really affect treelovinhippie's point.

> If you don't have central consensus you can't have digital currency.

From what I can tell, the Holochain developers agree with this: you can't have a single global currency without global consensus. Their approach seems to be: rather than having a single global currency, have a network of IOUs, trusted and enforced locally: https://medium.com/holochain/beyond-blockchain-simple-scalab...

Personally, I have no opinion on their approach, other than welcoming experiments, since that's what I find interesting in Bitcoin and the rest of the crypto space (and frankly wish it hadn't passed that stage yet).
This is missing the most important difference - deployability. R was built as a language to use interactively and does things like raise warnings for things that should be errors, requires an external package (packrat) for reproducible package management, and in general is foreign to most developers running operations. Python has good error handling, scripting and logging out of the box and managable package management, and is familiar to most developers and operations. Python has much better libraries for building general purpose tools (but fewer libraries for complex statistics).

I disagree with the "learning curve"; if you've learned other programming languages Python has a pretty simple and familiar core, and Pandas (while the API is an inconsistent mess) is well documented. Base R is quirky compared with modern programming languages, and the API is pretty inconsistent.

I also strongly disagree with the Tidyverse bashing. I'd say it has the shortest learning curve (especially for someone familiar with SQL), and is one of the main reasons I still use R today outside of deep learning - I find it much more friendly to work with than any alternative.
Hollywood and Hyper-Surveillance
> Good, we agree this is a pointless hypothetical which will never work. That does beg the question why even bring it up, though...

Well you're the person best placed to answer that, since you brought it up.