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The Last Of Us series with the up coming 2nd installment, Unchartered among others are just amazing. There are amazing exclusives for XBox too. Way to go brother.
> lunch

Bitcoin fees are basically just the price you pay for having drugs delivered to your house.
India: That and possibly in future being jailed for holding crypto, a human rights violation IMO. People should be free to trade in general without government interference except when it causes harm to other people.
The remote agent was not Lisp software for Space Shuttles.

Remote Agent was a part of the Deep Space 1 space mission...
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Quick bootstrapping for auth, routes, serialization etc I guess.
Furthermore, were cryptocurrencies to become illegal, it would probably be similar to computer viruses; It's fine to play with viruses on your personal computer or in a lab, but it's illegal to use one "in the wild." So I doubt it would be as absurd as you claim.
Prefixing a word with another letter is perceptually different from slipping one in the middle, especially when the new letter is one of the four letters already in the name. What Google has done here would be more comparable to releasing a new utility called 'mkake'.

As the author of curl points out, it just looks like a typo. When it's this egregious, your only choices are to assume either incompetence or bad faith.
Sounds like a great way to fry your lightning and usb-c cables as the former has a mfi chip, and the latter has a pull down resistor.
if the distances between circles approaching another circle is more-or-less the width of the ball, the other balls will not affect it much.

+ The additional perturbations make the situation more random, rather than entirely based on the inconsistencies of the board design.
The future is already there. It's just not evenly distributed.
So Shadowrun/Cyberpunk 2020-2077.

They only lack of the extra-territoriality for their offices :)
You might consider the HiFive board. It's around 50 dollar, a more appropriate price for something to play around with.
Honest question: how is this different to a website having a means for users to buy tokens, and then either give those tokens to another person on the site or trade them with another user?

I can buy reddit gold and then gift that gold to someone who amuses me with a comment or a post, and the only difference I’m seeing is that reddit keeps my money and only gifts virtual gold to the funny guy. Is the only difference with Facebook’s Libra that when I give the Libra to someone else they can cash it our for ‘real’ money?

Apologies for the question if I am missing something obvious.
I think the points you listed are very understandable from an engineering point of view. On the other hand, there were also games that just looked like downright lying in E3. Not sure if thats acceptable specially when we are talking about experts in the industry are involved.

Sometimes, they feel just deliberate.
EA can continue to do that, because they have FIFA, which for them is still a major source of revenue that's not going away anytime soon.
Reverse osmosis is much more energy efficient than Humidification-Dehumidification.
That's what I read too and felt my brain break momentarily.
Mining is done in data centers. Get over with your 'everybody is a miner' mantra. It was never meant to be that. Check satoshi's early posts. Do you own research before spreading bullcrap
Interesting. What else, besides privacy concerns, could be at play?
It being crypotocurrency isnt the issue here.

The problem is that this isn't the same as a proof of work system - it is proof of stake - with the "burden" of proof put on facebook and its partners. This means that they can simply "create" currency with no oversight or proof of reserve.

In short, it works EXACTLY like a central bank, but it's not regulated. This is extremely dangerous for consumers.
that is why totally decentralised systems such as Bitcoin are important. Noone can firewall it
One practical way gamers can respond to this is to avoid preorders. That might work.
The oracle acts as a verification that the statement "Jane put 1M USD in fund X" is true, but anyone else can verify the data too.
The fund can be regulated normally, and will be subject to existing transparency rules on reporting its net assets.

Since any observer can verify when an oracle is lying, there is a disincentive in doing that (also, the oracles are sitting on a perpetuous revenue stream if they don't fuck up, and have no interest in scaring people).

Sure, the founders can change the rules as they go forward, but at the moment there is no reason to think they would create money ex aere just to cash a quick buck killing the system.
Is it too late for them to name it “Goorl”?
Are they afraid? What happens the next time the pound takes a massive tumble down (again) during a Brexit like event? People might decide to convert their money from pounds to Libra's. The Libra is based on a basket of currency's, much like the SDR governments use. It's potentially MORE stable than the pound. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_drawing_rights
Then Google should follow that pattern and call it glibcurl

Which clearly reads as "the g(oogle) implementation of libcurl"
You know, just because the ending is the same regardless of your choices doesn't mean they didn't matter. No matter what we do, each of us is destined for the grave, even the universe will end one day, but our decisions still matter even though the outcome is identical.

PS: I had no idea it was such a controversial statement to suggest that things matter even if the universe is ultimately doomed.
It's the supporting libraries. GraphQL itself is fantastic and solves so many of the issues that crop up when using REST, especially around excessive requests, extraneous data and poor transaction support. My team's core knowledge is in Python and Django so that's where we're most productive, even hamstrung by the tools, but with a bit more flexibility in timelines I'd probably go the typescript/node/apollo route.
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Former Google execs’ startup is using an AI-based app to solve skincare problems
Could be worse - like when MS added curl as a powershell alias. https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/pull/1901
Jetbrain’s Dev survey – spoiler – most of us are still using Java 8
Conspiracy theory time: Facebook knows they can't do this legally across the world. They're announcing it beforehand in an attempt to get permissions in like 10 jurisdictions tops, with a soft deadline that's going to be used as an excuse to get those permissions as soon as they can (or, at least, faster than they would otherwise).

For the other 200ish jurisdictions, they won't bother. Why act proactively when they can launch a currency, hope that it catches on, and then act re-actively once other jurisdictions with less power catch on to what's happening. Western governments will get what they want before the projects kicks off, and everyone else... well, who gives a shit about everyone else? Certainly not Facebook's shareholders.
I misread it, too. Ir's actually L-i-b-c-r-u-r-l.
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There’s Akka. Also Scala has Future’s. Both are very similar to green threads.
The hifive is marketed as an arduino-like, but at 320mHz it seems like it should be able to run a stripped-down Linux distro. Not fast, but if Linux can run on puny MIPS boards...
Sorry, we'll have to agree to disagree, and money does play a huge role when your living depends on what you create. The free resource gives you freedom to choose but you are disappointed when people do so, then what is the point of the free license you talk about?

Programming languages like Python and Ruby are also free software that come with documentation. Should books written for those languages also come with free license?
Yeah, the winters are still cold, but the weather is seriously unpredictable and it feels like the seasons have gone out of sync lately. It's definitely going to affect crops in the long run, and I suspect the effects are going to become a bit more apparent (rising costs of food in developed countries) in the next 10-15 years.

So, to answer the original question: Go somewhere you will still be able to grow/breed food reliably in 20 years, and where the local community is strong enough to support such production in the long run. Make sure you are able to contribute and participate to that community if/when the shit hits the fan.
I'd be very surprised if that was so. People move often between the two companies, and in my experience speak of each other quite positively.

More generally, I doubt any employee of a large tech firm has so much loyalty and devotion to their employer that they would take to the internet to undermine a competitor.
Nope, it's not that kind of ending. Kill all the robots or not, that's more or less it. Not that philosophical kind of game.

And if you want to see it like that anyway: Yes, we die, but our actions influence the people around us. People we help might help us later etc. None of that was properly covered.
FIFA, Madden, NBA2k, NHL, MLB, they have all the sports licenses.

I haven't figured out how they are still releasing a new game every year - they really should be releasing every season, or really, every team, as a DLC. The content is where it is at, not the engine.
Some context here: cronet is a high-performance HTTP/QUIC library. It seems to be promoted as an alternative to HttpUrlConnection and OkHttp for Android developers, with a Java API and implementation in C++.

I'd guess this bug is more about making it easier to use from C.

https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/connectivity/cron...

https://medium.com/@cchiappini/discover-cronet-4c7b4812407
Very true. I probably should've caveated that I don't actually think it's a good name choice, just that I doubt it was chosen to mislead / as an attack on (lib)curl. Given my own uselessness with naming things sometimes, I tend to be forgiving!
I get the impression from the article that no lawmakers had knowledge of the protocol. I hope Facebook does not plan to introduce this "sneakily" without taking into account laws and the financial issues this can introduce.

Honestly, I really hope this project is stopped as soon as possible. Facebook already has way too much influence in our lives. It controls news, messaging and relationships with others, and it has not been managing them in a responsible way. Why would anyone let this company control money too? What happens if Facebook causes a financial crisis? Who will be controlling them? Who will they be accountable to? What happens if Facebook goes bankrupt? Libra is a project with way too much risk for the benefits it offers.
Does this mean that QUIC and other protocols implemented by Chrome will be available through this Google library? That would be a benefit over existing cURL.
Ah, the good old BLUE (Best linear unbiased estimator). Had this in statistics and really really liked the proof.
I think you're overestimating the number of people who are vegan for health reasons. People who are health conscious don't choose burgers - whether they're vegan or not, and most vegans who choose burgers are looking for taste, not nutrition.

It's a false equivalence. Burgers are not healthy - and very, very few people are looking for 'healthy burgers'. People are looking for 'tasty burgers', which is why so much effort is put into replicating the flavour and texture of meat.
The intention of cryptocurrency is the public ledger ("blockchain").

Rather than relying on Reddit, for instance, to determine who owns what, everyone can check the blockchain to see for themselves.

The public ledger means that Reddit doesn't (in theory) control the ledger. Reddit couldn't go in and delete coins or give coins without payment. Reddit could have a large stash of coins though and be willing to buy and sell coins though.

Libra though is kind of really weird. It is a "decentralized" system but really the decentralization is just putting it in the hands of a small group.

That isn't totally a bad thing, but it definitely isn't a great thing. Look at 51% attacks, that is why having a small group of large holders is a really bad idea. On the other side though, the large holders are well-known so at least everyone would know for sure who is pushing around the network.
The TC article says that every Libra issued is backed by USD and other currencies in reserve. So, no independent monetary policy. This looks a whole lot more like full-reserve banking than a cryptocurrency. Are they calling it a cryptocurrency to avoid KYC requirements and other banking regulations?
That picture, while humorous, does cherry pick about 20 users out of an 8000+ group that literally anyone can join without invitation or qualification, some time after the pre-order period has ended.

I'm addition there's curiosity, the overwhelming desire to play with friends, and some people stream/review for a living. It's not like this was a coordinated effort with organized dogma.

Funny as hell for just an out of context picture though.
In your examples the first letter is different, the names do not suffer of the confusion issue, me and other people read the name wrong(our eyes or brain tricked us)
Appreciate the information regarding specs. My observations are from repeated exposures on east and west coast of US to Comcast cable connections, which are noticeably slower in the evening when there is more network congestion, and have terrible latency. Various speed tests give me only a fraction of advertised bandwidth, and even then, it won’t be sustained. It feels like they’ve programmed the system to allow new connections to have a burst of bandwidth, and then taper it down.

I have yet to experience a coax internet experience as reliable and pleasant to use as a symmetric fiber connection. I presume it’s because Comcast is overselling their capacity, because they’re Comcast.
So the logic is that people in Africa have smartphones but no bank accounts. Wherever they buy their phone credits (cash for a voucher in a corner shop), they could also buy Libra top-up vouchers? It must involve a cash transaction after all.
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Science and Politics should not be mixed, in an ideal world.

Once Politics jumps in, people become committed to a point of view. We want to be 'right' (at least so far as the debate is concerned) more than we want the actual truth.

Politics unfortunately costs us progress in this and other areas, sometimes. (But I suppose it is the best thing available.)
Thought Firefox was broken when I looked at the code samples, but then I tried it again in Chrome and thought my graphic card was going crazy. Turns out the author actually chose a font that looks like it's been printed on paper with poor ink, for the code examples. Would have been better for readability to leave the code examples to some more normal looking font, or at least just set `font-family: monospace` and let the OS decide.
Reddit Gold works on Reddit, and that's it. Libra pretends to be an actual currency, with which you can buy things.

There's also the issue of scale. Facebook is everywhere, if it controls our money it can become more powerful than governments.
It could easily be mistaken as a GNU implementation (ref glib, gmake, etc).
There’s no way either statement you’re saying ia true. Clojure is certainly not “incredibly popular.” And if you think many people are scared away from the JVM vs the BEAM, I don’t even know what to say.
> look around next time you go out there are cameras _everywhere_

In that case, the cameras can also capture which keystrokes are being typed.
Of course -- In most cases it's about texture quality and quality of the lightning effects, and I honestly believe many E3 shots are better because they're taken at a point where the game is done enough to show it off, but before the Q/A team started reporting stuff like bad performance on 95% of consumer hardware (or in Witcher 2's case, the Xbox 360) or that the game filled to much to fit on X discs.

I was just pointing out that CDPR retains their reputation based on the quality of their games, and not because they deliver a final product that matches gameplay videos presented at E3.
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The outcome is not identical because our choices throughout our lives impact other people and, potentially, get passed through the generations. This is why humanity is so advanced despite not having physically evolved much. The outcome is only “identical” if you only care about yourself.

Not really the same thing at all.
crurl and libcrurl look almost visually identical to curl and libcurl - to the point that many on HN genuinely misread Google's names to be their original counterparts.

Whereas your make examples are much easier to visually differentiate.

If curl was trademarked then they would have a strong case here.
The curl author writes in the linked article that Google has a right to do this both morally and legally. He should check with a trademark lawyer immediately since they don't have a right to pick such a confusing name and the curl trademark is probably strong enough to be enforceable even in unregistered form. (I'm not a lawyer and this is not legal advice, but I have been involved in administering and enforcing other open source trademarks.)
Not all-cash, rather mostly cash. They do have banks, but think of banking as a luxury in those economies, not a commodity. They're for well established businesses and the rich. For everybody else, banks can be really tedious to deal with. So unless they have the means, people tend to just avoid the hassle. Even simply opening a bank account can be prohibitive, forget about getting a credit card, even prepaid.

There's a variety of independent institutions that provide some services to fill the gaps. For example, telecom companies are often used as a medium to send money. There are also smaller, third-party or local financial service providers (formal and informal), that are more convenient for the short term, day-to-day way of life in these places. They can offer small loans, micro-financing, money transfer, and a number of other devices. And yes, currently they're the ones people generally go through to make purchases over the Internet. Fees are not always competitive.

One typical approach people understand very well in a day-to-day economy is the preloaded cards. For small amounts (think 20$ or less) people can go to their telecom card provider and purchase some fbcoins. But that's not the hard part of the equation. The hard part is to get the other side (the developed world) to recognize the fbcoin. This is what's at play here and now. If Facebook can show to the world, "look, Netflix and YouTube can now take your money", they'd have won a huge part of the battle.
This is exactly the problem with the culture that's formed around software and the security industry in general --- people are using the excuse of "security" to force other utterly unwanted and hostile changes, and then act surprised and angry when people don't update.

Doubly so when the advice given is basically "bend over and take it" --- especially when Mozilla has made statements like this in the past:

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2013/01/29/putting-users-i...

"Users should have the choice of what software and plugins run on their machine."

In any case, I hope NoScript is one of the extensions you're already using, because this is another vulnerability that requires JS to exploit. JS off by default already gets rid of the vast majority of them.
Sorry, what I meant was - even if Plaid has username and password, they won't be able to login, at least with BofA, they ask security questions, image identification etc
That scenario falls apart when the global poor don't have any money to buy FB coins, which they don't. Agreements with banks won't give the unbanked the free cash flow to play around with digital money or buy a bunch of stuff online.

I think they whole issue of the unbanked is a ruse. Facebook stands to earn more here by trying to convert regular consumers away from PayPal and debit cards and charge them fees for exchanging in and out of Libra. They'll also invite regulation in crypto so they can be the only one who meets the regulatory requirements and shut out the others. It's an end run around crypto without being one itself.
Developing countries aren't going to be too happy about this. If a large number of a country's citizens adopt this, it forces that country to lose its independence over monetary policy. Since Libra is not controlled by the local government, this is not a fixed exchange rate regime, it's effectively dollarization and can have far reaching consequences.

IMHO, the Libra is at the same time too ambitious (in aiming for full capital convertibility across nations) and too timid (in entirely giving up monetary independence). A libra-usd, Libra-euro, libra-inr, etc. which allows countries to retain monetary sovereignty would have been easier for governments to accept. But then, Facebook can't say it's a new currency and circumvent KYC and other local regulations. But who knows? Stranger things have happened. The euro is a currency without a state. Maybe the time has come for denationalizing money.
Better virus check that thing.
libcruller is available, is close enough to be clearly related and far enough away not to look like a typo. Also … mmm, tasty crullers.
Calling than A and B
Fair. But crurl is something my auto-correct extensions would assume I fat fingered.
My point is: The trend in financial services and payment systems regulation is going in the complete opposite direction of the kind of features that would make crypto interesting. Decentralization, Anonymization, etc are all things that the policymaker has been actively working to combat.
This is something I have been putting a lot of thought into lately. My wife and I have been fortunate to have lived in France, England and Spain over the past decade, as well as being regular visitors (+6x/year) to the United States.

The more places I see, the more I realize that the area of the world I grew up in, the interior of British Columbia, Canada or where my wife grew up in Alberta, Canada, are both better suited to handle the projected long-term adverse climate changes than anywhere else I've ever been.

With the use of greenhouses, their easy access to abundant fresh water and readily accessible energy I think they're both well-suited areas to long-term stability.
I was under the impression that the pioneering Xerox systems were written in Mesa, which was not even object oriented. I'd love to hear the real story as well.
don't assume malice when "we suck at names and the first dumb name seems to stick without a marketing department overriding the naming choice" is also an option.
It reminds me of what svg text rendering looked like in 2001 using IE and the svg plugin from adobe.
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Documentation to set up a simple macOS VM in QEMU, accelerated by KVM