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>If that's not a concern to you then disregard, if it is you may want to consider how your donations and purchases are being spent.

That is absolutely a great concern to me, but the fact remains that there are at least 10 homeless shelters and soup kitchens in my area funded completely by the salvation army.

While savers et al might be more supportive of the LGBT community, salvation army is literally putting a roof over hundreds of heads who call my city home every night, which is why I choose to support them.
Something I learned: K.I.S.S. is the most important principle in technology, but keeping technology simple while still adding value and utility is really hard.

Example: how can we improve on the design of the bicycle, but keep it simple? You could add expensive composite materials, design a new gearing mechanism, create new complex geometries based on wind tunnel experiments... all of those are more advanced, but complex; simple is a tough nut to crack.
Rosy or not, we need to plan when it happens. The only if we don't know is how bad it will exactly be.

And don't forget, that a very valid answer is "food chain collapses, causing mass starvation and death".
On a side note, I always wondered if Americans would be more aggressive trying to prevent global warming if these projections were in Fahrenheit, not Celsius.
Probably Neal Mohan on Recode right? The current public number is 500 hours per minute. But that number has been floating around for a while. It's probably higher now.
Facebook is notorious for not being able to control their platform and leak data for various reasons due to bugs and lack of due diligence (to keep at non-malicious).

If they become a bank I certainly would not put my money in there.
It's the human condition to think like this. We tried x method and were successful; therefore, method x is the right way to do things. No.. no there are a billion ways to do things and method x just happens to be one of them.
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Type systems exist on a spectrum. A rich type system is better at documenting your code than comments are if the compiler and it's type system are sound: the comments can be wrong, the types cannot.

A sufficiently expressive type system can check your logic for you. Push as much of your propositions and predicates into the types as possible.

Data types are better than exceptions, return codes, etc for the majority of unexceptional cases. Conditions and restarts are better than exceptions. Sometimes crashing is not an option when your computer is flying in the air with a human.

In addition to specifications -- often a bunch of boxes with arrows will not be sufficient. There are a range of tools to check your designs from automated model checking to interactive proofs. When the problem is difficult to understand on its own then the solution is probably even harder -- a good sign you should consider using one of these tools to make the problem clear and guide you to the right solution.
I took this comment at face value. It’s only a matter of time.
Impressive, I shall review.
How about this: Code can add value when it's a lot lower quality than we think it needs to be. Customers will pay for even a crappy solution if you are addressing the right problem. Don't over engineer. But also employ staff for the explicit purpose of gradually increasing the quality of codebases which need to continue to churn.
That's a clickbait headline.

According to the story itself, most Americans are on the verge of: "reducing spending elsewhere (26%), borrowing from family and/or friends (16%) or using credit cards (12%)."
Gorgeous? Are you deluded?

Heres a home in Houston with a mortgage around 1/4 - 1/5 the price of this SV shack with twice the space and much higher end furnishings. It's not even a competition. People in the Valley are totally mindfucked.

https://www.trulia.com/p/tx/houston/8114-brighton-place-ct-h...
Among many other great crimes, U.S. banks have stolen hundreds of billions of dollars from the poorest people through overdraft and bounced check fees. The banks own the regulators.

If regular people can just have a safe place to keep their money, without being actively exploited, that would be a huge improvement.
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I'll give feedback on as many emails as possible, but can't promise I'll get to all of them.

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I always found dog eyes interesting. Some dogs have eyes that very animal like. I grew up around Miniature Schnauzers and their eyes are eerily human. The biggest difference is that the iris is a little too big. Were it not for that, I'd have a hard time distinguishing their eyes from ours.

I find that to be rather astounding actually. Given the wide variety of expressions Schnauzers at least are capable of emoting, it's pretty amazing how easy it is for two unrelated species to communicate on such a level. They speak a lot with their eyes. Look closely, you'll be amazed.
Personally I have more trust into established banks as market makers than into unregulated crypto exchanges, when it comes to market making.

But we probably have to agree to disagree here.
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Which is still a valid solution.
How do you market your software to large companies?
I suspect that volatility may be a feature to money launders - not as ransomware transmissions or anything like that but justifying balance transfers. Not saying that was even an intention as opposed to ideology but to paraphrase cyberpunk the street finds its own uses. The fact there are innocent users is what makes the conspiratorial useful.

This is all read and theoretical - I certainly don't have any practical experience with either combatting or committing money laundering.

Anyway fine art and wines are infamous as pretextual transfer vehicles because the values are often so subjective - bitcoin swinginess serves the same purpose, especially if the hypothetical enterprises control enough to manipulate the market. Big assumptions of course that such a thing exists but it highlights who it could be useful to (intelligence agencies and organized crime - which are arguably largely the same thing to the host country - both break the law in pursuit of their agenda).

Anyway that form of laundering involves buy something at a lower/normal price and selling high. The selling high can be from having a contact buy it for higher with your dirty money. Of course open sales would be preferrable - not only because deals only between connections are obvious but some bonus profit. If someone not involved outbids or provides enough of a margin to be worth backing off all the better - you can move the dirty money another day.

If one needs to funnel clean into dirty do it in reverse order essentially.
I find a nice solid API can be turned into any sort of application front-end and is very testable (and in your case might help simplify any 3rd party integrations you might be interested in)
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1) As the article suggests - in order to believe the US story, we have to simultaneously believe that the Russians are the most incompetent actors imaginable. Read the article - take it up with the author if you, for some reason, still believe the US narrative.

2) It is certainly relevant that the US is 'covering up' Russian hacking (read: US hacking, masked as Russian)

3) The article was focused on the conflation of the hacking / collusion narratives. Relax.

4) Obviously, but in the modern era 'anonymous sources' is largely synonymous with 'establishment propagandists'

5) Don't be disingenuous. The article discusses the specific differences between the two well-defined concepts, and raises the issue that one is not the other, and misrepresenting what actually happened is suspicious: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/03/computer_netw...

6) That's how they work. It's not how they ought to work.

7) The Dawson article is explicitly about how the narrative takes shape and is pushed. The MH-17 reference is discussed and the issue is discussed in the comments underneath the article.

8) See above. Dawson's article is about propaganda tactics, not hacking.

9) See above. You're ignoring the entire thrust of the article, which is about how various issues and concepts become conflated into one sprawling incoherent mess that has so many internal inconsistencies you have to ignore obvious red flags in order to believe it.

10) The whole investigation is around electoral interference. Dawson's point is that the US routinely interferes in elections - and we actually have concrete, verifiable evidence proving it. We don't need to rely on an idiotic 'special counsel' to spend a few years discovering nothing and producing a pointless report.
In Python 2, if you need to, you can force people to use kwargs by defining the function in the form of

def f(*args, **kwargs):

and then making sure any params you use in the function come from kwargs, and raising an error if args is non-empty.

Python 3 has a nicer way of doing the same thing, that I can’t remember.

(Sourced from the book “Effective Python: 59 Specific Ways to Write Better Python”.)
At best regulations act as a moat keeping competition away the entrenched banks. As soon as the government comes up with rules the smart people at the banks find a way to get around it and make money. Startups don’t have the legal expertise and can’t compete.
And "just" 24 years over radio if there's anyone there to talk with ;).
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Forget it, SV types are deluded into thinking paying 5200/mo for a shack that would be demolished in most cities is a good deal. Can't reason with stupid.
You can just go to any online exchange and check the order books and history. How much more transparent can it be?
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You can't pay your rent in yen either, but that doesn't make it a failed currency.

I'd be pretty surprised in you could even get that cup of coffee for yen.
Whats non-feudal about states in this conception?
I also really appreciate that you can get started playing around without making an account.
Yeah - you're right. Well, assuming they have the motivation to know why they need to use styles in the first place.
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> If you care about the original timezone store that elsewhere

I think that was his point, that you should always care about the original timezone and thus keep it.
What would be really cool would be a URI spec for time, like:

time:2021-08-02/09.00.00/Europe/Berlin

time:2021-08-02/11.00.00/UTC

etc
fiberglass comes to my mind.
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Its not surprising, there are many people who are fb haters in this forum.
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I don't see much wrong with true or false as arguments. Beats having two functions instead of one which is his preference.
Bitcoin's price is governed only by market forces. There's no single algorithm setup by an exchange to determine it.
No it wasn't, certainly not beyond the basic PHP web app version in 2004. Plenty of Fish is more or less than only major app that had 2 employees at the time they were pulling in millions in ad revenue.

Facebook's ads business didn't even get off the ground until they had already begun to hire massively. Zuck's prototype and marketing might have brought in the users, but FB would be nowhere without its billions in ad revenue.
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Yep, same issue here (France).
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Langewiesche is one of the great narrative journalists of the last 30 years; a contemporary and colleague of perhaps better-known writers like Mark Bowden (Blackhawk Down), but I think probably the best of them. It's worth tracking his previous stories down.
>if you don't make enough money to get it, work harder

Ah yes clearly the reason people can't afford to rent or buy in SV is that they just don't work hard enough. Lmao did you graduate from the Ayn Rand School of Economics?
That had nothing to do with oversight and everything to do with the fact that the government can just print the money to save a bank - and it did so. That expectation itself caused reckless behavior of the banks - and it still does. People just don't fully grasp the consequences.

Also, you may say this "worked" in the US, but other countries didn't get quite so lucky playing that game.
Once I wrote non-prototype, non-throwaway code to start a large project. After about a month of work on that, due to a dead disk and my own stupidity, I lost all of it. It was throwaway code after all. I was about as upset and angry as I ever get.

Then I sat down and rewrote it in about a week, and it was much better the second time, and turned out to be the start of a code base that's still in daily use and evolving 25 years later.

The lesson I took from that is, don't write throwaway code, but given a chance, throw it away anyway.
PG had an essay about this same subject ~15 years ago about python (which was still up and coming back then). I'm sure you could relate it to a trend graph with early adopters, hitting mainstream, etc

http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html

Always excited to see more phoenix/elixir love
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You're right there, however I'm afraid the issue won't be density but a much different issue: Unemployment. [1] Reason this could be a worldwide issue is the opportunity cost. Can we afford not to have a billion or more minds on board to solve some of the worlds most pressing problems? China is trying its best to industrialize and capitalize on the growth. But many are claiming their tactics are almost neocolonialist. [2]

[1] https://mo.ibrahim.foundation/news/2018/african-governance-p...
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/magazine/is-china-the-wor...
The government is heavily lobbied by these companies, so essentially the government is mostly just these companies.
I would love to see a citation for 11 billion people not causing an environmental collapse.

At our current population 40% of insects could be extinct in the coming decades, and over the last 50 years 60% of animal populations have been wiped out: https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/22/health/food-biodiversity-repo...
Over the last two decades we’ve gone from not knowing if there were any planets in other solar systems to knowing that almost all of them have planets. We now know the second factor in the Drake equation is nearly 100%.

We don’t yet know the third factor yet, the percentage of planets capable of supporting life. But we do know about 22% of planets are small enough to possibly be rocky and are within the “habitable zone” of a star.

So a possible answer to your first question is that it’s likely 0-22% of stars have at least one planet capable of supporting life like that on Earth. This doesn’t say anything about moons or asteroids or the probability of life developing on a body that could support it.
I think the idea is you're going to be able to "Message" other people "money", Straight from the Facebook app/website. It also should work seamlessly across the various other social networks that are partnering in this.

There are other ways to do this now, but if they are able to do it right, this would generally be more convenient and widely available. I would assume fees will be low to start with. (Note that Visa and Mastercard are partners, so you can safely bet the fees will go up quite a bit once this catches on.)
The only thing preventing me from using bitcoin regularly is the need to account for the capital gains (losses) on every individual transaction relative to USD. One year's worth of itemized accounting for trivial transactions was enough.

Barring that, I'd be actively using BTC (or other cryptocurrencies) in the same mode as many people use Venmo.
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I've always agreed in principal, but fell short in practice until I started using Nix[1]. Nix makes it significantly easier to pull off by verifying the hashes of all inputs, eliminating non-determinism in builds (timestamps, usernames, etc), eliminating dependencies on OS packages/files/etc, and allowing you to pin to a specific snapshot of all packages. Pardon the evangelism, I'm just a happy user.

[1] https://nixos.org/nix/
You could just publish the book for free on internet
The argument is that a hypothetical benevolent ASI can't be corrupted like literally all humans can. Those people are likely referring to AI's as they appear in Ian Banks The Culture series.
Thanks for the pointer! This definitely should have been a link in the post. Oh, well.
That statement was clearly in reference to C#, which evolved from a beautifully concise language to now being a mishmash of every other style of programming (including the abomination that is LINQ).

Rust, though, suffers from being too clever, making it a language in which you can make concise, powerful solutions, but it can making grokking the code difficult, inefficient and error prone.

This is where our egos step forward and we announce that it's No Problem For Me, but we've all experienced a situation where we've leveraged a powerful language to do some amazing things, and then a month later it is a gruelling, headache inducing experience trying to figure out what is doing what, where, so we announce that we'll just rewrite the whole thing.
This.

I learned programming from doing C, and man am I glad I did. I thinm if my first language had been something like JS it would have been a major impediment.
This

And they don't even mention the assets or government/banks chosen for backing, just "highly liquid".

So much for transparency.
The whole island didn't have power for a few weeks, probably about a month.

Source: born and raised here
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That's a software vulnerability, not a feature. Also not related to advertising.
An implementation with buy-in across the entire ecosystem and language so that you don’t have some systems using threads and other systems using futures and other systems using different reactors, etc.

Also known as the point of the article.

Additionally, that implication is entirely of your own creation. The article explicitly lists many languages besides Go:

> Three more languages that don’t have this problem: Go, Lua, and Ruby.

Perhaps you just have an anti-Go bias?
Ah, I see. Interesting!
Voting, equal rights, courts, published laws and regulations, just to name a few.
404 in the UK.
I started with BASIC programs written on my TI-86 to automate math problems; they may find that a useful way to get started, and learning a little BASIC shouldn't be much more brain-damaging than learning Javascript.

I kind of have a problem with training people to "code" rather than teaching computer science; feels sorta like comparing a "wine and painting night" to a course in oil painting, in that you might shortcut to something acceptable-looking but with little understanding of how or why you did it. But they're kids and will probably quickly tune out during Dad Explains Linked Lists :)

Ideally I'd suggest starting off with some smaller guided exercises to get them familiar with the language, then work with them to spec out and implement a more interesting project. In my CS courses in college we implemented the minimax algorithm for tic-tac-toe and checkers, starting with a tic-tac-toe engine which just printed out its desired move and evolving along until we were displaying a checkerboard as it played along. Could be a good project for you since it's implementing something they're familiar with (board games), doesn't use anything weird like networking, and can introduce concepts such as recursion and complexity ("if we have it calculate the next move, how many possible moves are there? What if we calculate the next two moves? The next three?")
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With Elixir, you get all escapees from the Ruby on Rails community. They will work for food to avoid maintaining those horrible RoR 1.x and 2.x web applications that they produced in their earlier years.

It's a wisely chosen stack, indeed.
I'm reading the second paragraph of your first link which states "Nine million electric vehicles on UK roads might require 8GW of extra power generation capacity if people charge them when they like. But smart charging could cut that to 4GW, potentially less, according to National Grid’s EV lead, Graeme Cooper."

I don't think I'm confused about that - it seems pretty unambiguous to me.
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My plan worked fine in practice. Look at the lower loss rates achieved by Mosquitos and similar fast bombers. At that time, fighters had limited endurance at high speed and were barely faster than bombers, so a small increase in bomber speed could make interception effectively impossible. And at higher altitudes the smaller fighters had trouble even turning due to high wing loading.

Bombing accuracy was a moot point. None of them were able to reliably hit a target smaller than a city regardless of speed or altitude.
Mining isn't essential to cryptocurrency - all that is needed is cryotographic verification. It may be heretical to their ethos but that doesn't disqualify it even if the goals vastly differ.
I'm with Julio on this one. The triangle ought to be a diamond, with the integration tests being the fattest part. This is a level where tests can be at the component level, where they can correspond to specifications which are comprehensible to stakeholders (which helps keep developers accountable to focus test effort on things that really matter), and where refactoring of component internals do not require corresponding refactors of test code. This creates challenges, 90% of which are resolved by applying the same good development practices (re-use, abstraction, performance) to your test code that one is accustomed to applying to application code.
Intermittent 404s and 500s in NYC.
404 in Brazil too
I can imagine :)
I heard things are critical in southern India, apparently restaurants are closed, our offshore guys are working from home, using starbucks for toilets etc... is this true?