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> A developer’s skill is measured in one parameter: how well he writes code.

While this could be a valid viewpoint, one thing I’d caution against is that this type of measurement inevitably leads to the commoditization of developers. Rating skill on a single point will lead to “you’re only worth what this metric says you are worth” and eventually to constant competition between developers instead of cooperation. At least that’s the experience I had in such positions during my younger years.
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So you end up with most of the land being a private park for the rich inaccessible for the rest.
Bitcoin is meant to be a way of completing payments, not an investment. The use as an investment goes against its primary purpose.
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The issue is that stuff just keeps being added. There's always something new to disable. Mozilla talk the talk on community input but then bypass it for Pocket or TV show tie-ins.
I still will use adobe apps and the main reason is my university offer them for free. But I agree adobe’s subscription is an overkill for personal use
Crypto busted last year and that took a lot of people out of the system including the secondary coins (which was the main driver of bitcoin prices as people mined newer coins and exchanged them into btc). Btc is rising simply because it's the last man standing (sort of).
The hard part is getting the data together cheaply enough that you can sell it to consumers.
One datapoint doesn't make a trend, though.
Uber is a company that provides a highly useful service. Bitcoin is just a decentralized long con.
I didn't say I don't want to read it. I said, the authors gave away their bias from the get-go.

Their opinion still might be valuable.
I have had this happen to but it only goes to emphasize just how much we tune out during long drives. My use of autopilot is to have the equivalent of a back seat driver or co-pilot who is just a bit paranoid. Zoning out is something the AP system won't do but drivers can do.

I look at it this way, how many have been driving on a long trip only to glance in the rear view mirror and see a bridge behind you that you do not truly remember driving under?

I find AP reduces stress of the long drive while adding safety. I do not allow it to change lanes on its own nor do I use navigate on autopilot. Many cars have automatic cruise control, the type that keeps distances from other vehicles, some have lane keeping assist which does as the name suggest, AP is all of that with active steering. Plus the car can drive in some of the worst conditions that are tiresome for human drivers, like at night in the rain with the headlight glare of oncoming cars does not even phase it.

About the article, all those things they asked if people felt safe(r) doing with autopilot, well they actually are safer. People do it already with plain cruise control and regular driving with no overriding system doing the active driving. Do I suggest being inattentive, no, but to suggest it isn't safer with AP is silly. However saying AP replaces a human driver is just as silly.
I wouldn't say this behavior is part of intelligence, it's probably the first thing nature crafted in any life form. Unfamiliarity => move.
Bitcoin's value is incredibly volatile. That's not a good attribute for a store of wealth.
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Who cares what it's "meant" to be?
It also helps when you can print "Tether" out of thin air to manipulate the price until the media notices and you can get grandma and grandpa pulled into the scam.
> Bitcoin is an investment

Bitcoin fails every imaginable property of investment vehicles.
How is it better than gold? The primary goal with a store of wealth is price stability, and gold is way more stable than BTC. BTC is certainly better than many fiats but it’s still highly unstable. Most people who are buying it are buying it as an investment, not a store of wealth.
Many factors are working together to cause cycles around halvening points which result in price spikes.

Price action will inevitably cause a FOMO cycle again...
when the economy goes south in the next 0-2 years, the liquid/scarce safe haven will be very clear.
I suppose it depends on what we mean by newsworthy. To anyone who owns (or doesn't anymore, or thought about it and..) bitcoin, price is what they care about. It's a little dull as news though, since
all there it is a number, with all following words redundant.

The tech is perhaps the interesting part, since it evolves and has depth.

From my pov, neither are the most important part. Usage is what actually matters. That's both hardest to report on and perhaps most disappointing.. at least for bitcoin as a currency.
> > How would it? Prosecutors decide who to prosecute based on available evidence.

> You answered your own question!

The point is that they don't have to prosecute everyone. It's hard to not see this as a willful misunderstanding of my point.

> a two-step mental trick

Just what I'm thinking, but mirrored, actually.

> I believe it would be a different case altogether if you had "actual" direct proof

I think some people will never be convinced. Also, I'm going to stop responding to this thread. Without direct video proof, there's no way to prove the two are related.
Ignoring the volatility of Bitcoins, if you can convert your wealth into Bitcoins why not just move it outside of the country using the same mechanism?
The central banks of the Eurozone, Switzerland, Sweden, and Japan have set negative short-term interest rates, and in the U.S., the president has threatened to demote the chairman of the central bank if he does not cut interest rates. This may explain increased interest in alternative currencies.
Even loosing 90% is better than loosing everything to war, dictatorship, police.
> they were interested in open source, diversity, big data, artificial intelligence, and all the other buzzwords

I'm sure they were. Being interested in modern technology doesn't imply anything about someone's intentions.

> They all seemed like they genuinely thought what they were doing was helping people.

I've known and worked with several people that used to work at the NSA. I have no doubt at all that they believed they were doing important, helpful work. For many people, most of the time, that was probably true. However, even the best intentioned person will have a hard time actually verifying that speculation; by definition, someone who believed that the NSA's work was good/helpful probably also believes it's important to respect compartmentalization and not ask too many questions about things they don't need to know.

However, this is expected, because it's what most people believe about themselves. As Quark explained[1] about his own motivations as a smuggler, "No one involved in an extra-legal activity thinks of himself as nefarious. I'm a businessman, okay?"

> they were pushing the diversity stuff hard

I saw the same pro-diversity effort at the DOE. I wouldn't be surprised to see similar efforts throughout the public sector. None of this says anything related to the NSA's trustworthiness.

[1] DS9 s06e25 "The Sound of Her Voice"
Because I care about having true opinions, I completely avoid film makers that in the process of producing and sustaining strong emotions in their audience rely heavily on beliefs about the real world without caring much whether those beliefs are true or false. Oliver Stone is one of those film makers. (I never saw any of his films. It was possible to learn enough about them to know I wanted to avoid them by watching a few trailers and reading a review or two.)

I prefer for my filmed entertainment to be completely fictional rather than to try to "teach" me about reality. When I want to refine my understanding of reality, I usually read nonfiction. It is too easy for filmed entertainment to "hack my brain".

Anyway, US bombers were forbidden to drop bombs within 15 miles or so of Haiphong harbor, probably because Russian ships were known to visit there regularly. Hanoi was also off limits for the vast majority of bombing missions. The directives forbidding these things came right from the top, i.e., from LBJ. In fact, LBJ would involve himself in the planning of individual missions, giving instructions such as approach this target from this direction because if you go in this direction, you fly over a school.

I'm not saying US soldiers and US pilots never committed atrocities in Vietnam, but the leaders of the US war effort were certainly never unrestricted in their willingness to kill North Vietnamese (although they probably would've chosen to kill every North Vietnamese communist combatant if there were a way to do that without killing any noncombatants). Consequently, it would've been rational for the US to continue the war effort in Vietnam even after it became obvious the war was unwinnable.

George Friedman says that the reason the US spent so much blood and treasure in Vietnam was . . . Charles de Gaulle. When de Gaulle was the leader of France, he was telling the other Western European nations that the US could not be relied on to come to the aid of Western Europe if the Soviets attacked. So, the US stayed in Vietnam to show Europe that a US military guarantee means something. Note that in order to achieve that goal, it was not necessary for the US to win the Vietnam war, only for it to try to hard enough and long enough. In other words, it was rational for the US to continue the war effort even after everyone realized that the US was unable to win the war (because the real goal was not to save South Vietnam from communism, it was to save Western Europe from communism).

The leaders of the US war effort certainly did not explain this reasoning in an effective way however to the American people -- maybe because there was no way to do so without severely demoralizing US soldiers, sailors and airmen.
I was impressed.
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In Malibu they also try to close access to the beach with fake security guards and signs.
Its all about execution and delivery. I'm pretty happy to have left the old days of corporate committee projects behind to do my own stuff. I'm also financially better off.
We'd need Senate and House representatives that represent the bulk of citizens in the US and not those catering to the ultra wealthy's whims.

For that, people would have to vote out a lot of existing politicians, pick fresh faces, and cycle them out regularly enough to make it difficult for a few private interests to buy them out. For some states there are incentives to keep the status quo because it helps them (Kentucky and Mitch McConnell in recent news come to mind), so those cases would be difficult to convince to dump out their representative because they provide just enough support to their states to appease residents.

Overall, there just doesn't seem to be momentum of voters to achieve this and every attempt I've seen has failed. Some of this is likely due to the orchestration/organization problem: it's a lot easier for a few thousand billionaires to converge on shared ideas than hundreds of millions of non-billionaries.

Instead, people shake their heads and go with the flow while complaining about the state of affairs and ongoing trends that hurt their interests and growth. The end result is the continued snowball of wealth inequality we see. I often wonder if we've passed a critical point of recovery within our governmental system to fix this issue but I certainly hope not.
"Autopilot" is short for "automatic pilot" which is defined as "a device for keeping an aircraft on a set course without the intervention of the pilot."

If their "Autopilot" needs any sort of human supervision, either it is faulty, or tesla marketing is misleading. Either way, in case of an accident, it's tesla's fault - the name of the feature strongly implies that no human intervention is necessary, and talking about it with many pilot friends they all agree.
People lament the current state of journalism, because they feel "their journalists" aren't reputable, but the reputable ones aren't "their journalists".

There are journalists all across the political spectrum, from the extreme left to the extreme right. But everybody wants to see his opinion enshrined as "mainstream" by the New York Times or the Washington Post.

On the one hand, they place enormous value in those papers and their reputation, but on the other hand these papers only sell worthless manipulation. Something doesn't compute here.
So snooping on your neighbour gets more morally sound the higher your ladder is?
> What gave so much confidence to Jio to discount that much? Did their flavor of party come to power during that time?

Not sure what kind of conspiracy you're thinking of. Jio is actually funded through Debt financing. Many Indian and non-Indian banks have given huge loans to Jio[1][2].

1.https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/stocks/news/rel...

2. https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/banking/financ...
What technical development are you speaking of? I thought the Bitcoin community didn't want any modifications to Bitcoin.
The downside is the motherboard is pretty expensive. And I don’t think many people would buy a motherboard more expensive than the cpu on board. ASRock might offer a few more X570 mb with tb3, but I haven’t checked
That's Adobe's way of getting you hooked. It was the same for me at my college. It took me a long time to port my muscle memory to Sketch.

If I had an advice to give to my college self, I would advise not even starting with Adobe: if you're a designer and use their tools, the tools you need to make money with isn't even available for sale, you can only rent. So you might end up in a place where Adobe jacks up the price of Creative Suite by 10-100x per month after becoming dominant like Oracle, and you would have to pay your dues to their feudal fiefdom just to be able to continue your profession - else you'll starve. Not a great place to be for anyone.
The current HIG still says "Use an ellipsis whenever choosing a menu item requires additional input from the user", but doesn't elaborate on this. Even Apple seems to have abandoned their earlier conventions and mostly just resorts to "use an ellipsis if the control will show another window/dialog".

Apple's guidelines used to make it clear that (a) if the only additional input was a simple confirmation, it shouldn't get an ellipsis, and (b) if the whole point of the menuitem/button was to show a window, then it doesn't need 'more input', so it shouldn't get an ellipsis.

Both of these are violated by the Mac's built-in applications in Mac OS X, which is a shame.
Pila'a Beach closed by Mark Zuckerberg

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/17/mark-zuckerb...
Bitcoin doubled in price in a month, before Libra was announced.

Libra has nothing to do with the current rise.

But because the media works the way it does, Libra will be used as an excuse to lure people in and thus ending up actually affecting the price

Long term libra will be bad for bitcoin if it actually catches on imo
But having gold or offshore dollar bank accounts is better than losing 90%...
You can make an argument against the asset itself and it’s utility. But parent was arguing that the fact early adopters captured a majority of the gains makes Bitcoin evil doesn’t make sense to me. I’m happy that crypto nerds won this time over the usual suspects of VCs, family funds, etc.
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That just goes to prove what a misnomer Tesla’s “autopilot” is, since its core features are just lame assist.
What do automatic differentiation tools do for functions with integer arguments?
> Who gets to own the lands?

Common folks, hard-working, meek, idealistic folks; only when they're willing enough.

Middle class is the backbone of the world.
Does the same argument apply to SELinux? That the NSA can already compromise any version of the Linux kernel, or alternatively that the NSA has been fighting itself since the year 2000?

Does the NSA's endorsement of AES over 3DES mean that the NSA has had a backdoor in AES for decades? Does it make no sense to include actually-secure algorithms in Suite B?
Yes I guess that’s why the US is such a backwater when it comes to innovation and why we have so few successful technology startups....
Everybody probably has their own opinion on this but it doesn't seem like Libra is in competition with Bitcoin (since it doesn't seem like payments is what keeps BTC going), but legitimizes the idea of crypto-currencies in general.
I've been using http://sphinxsearch.com for many years. Why should I consider Fist?
JSON is usually mocked by people who don't get to use Javascript objects natively. The benefits aren't obvious or tangible to them.

XML is native to nothing. It's annoying to use everywhere.

UNIX tools just don't compare. Sure, they stick around, because sometimes they're the easiest tool for some job, until they aren't and you regret starting out with them.

In a few years, Javascript and Javascript-compatible languages are likely to be bigger than ever before. A whole generation of developers has been trained mainly on them. Billions of dollars have been invested into the ecosystem. Whether we like it or not, that's the reality. For that reason alone, JSON will stick around.
A related issue is also focusing so much on the tech (and often how well the product/service can scale) that you forget to do much marketing and end up delaying the product/service for months as a result. Or worse still, never actually finish building it at all.

Definitely follow the old get it working, then correct, then fast methodology, at least for projects without many billions of dollars in resources.
Someone on reddit suspect apple’s stance against Nvidia in this driver signing carnage is because they are not happy with Nvidia about cards in MacBook Pro
Really? Downvotes? (Come at me bros! I have imaginary Internet points to burn! :)

I am not arguing for/against socialism, nor am I arguing for/against particular policies. I am simply saying that Right-leaning politicians have been throwning around "socialism" to the point that in the US, for the general public, it's basically lost its meaning. This has been going on for decades:

* https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/06/20/republica...

> In particular, it analyses conservative Republican rhetoric and the strong emphasis associated with the socialist label, especially how the socialist label is employed as a critique against the New Deal and its ongoing political legacy – the modern American welfare state. I compare the difference in how conservative Republicans employ the socialist label in the context of being the majority party, as well as of being the minority party.

* http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1482196/
You mean wall candy? https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/1999/10/18/boob-raider
I'm not sure if you're purposefully trying to conflate legitimate stock market companies with the likes of Bernard Madoff Ponzi Scheme et al?

And are you trying to argue the VC industrial complex is the best and/or only method of developing large, useful organizations who develop products and services?
It doesn't even scale enough for mass adoption. Who said it shouldn't have any modifications?
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Mitch McConnell should just start putting corporate logo patches on his suits.
No, but I always find funny that geeks are so excited about the technology behind bitcoin but at the same time remain largely clueless about what currencies are, why so they exist, what is the role of a central bank, how currency adoption works, etc.
Market liberalisation has caused poverty to collapse around the world over the last 30 years
What value has Bitcoin et al brought anyone other than earning them "profit" because they were earlier in the Pyramid-Ponzi scheme - or at a low point before price went up and sold before the bubble(s) popped?
Same reason they are using DEB in Ubuntu at the moment: it's the one that best integrates with the particular OS.
While I agree with you on 1 and 2, I respectfully disagree on 3. The are many very efficient government programs that function as well as could be expected for such a large system. Voting in the United States, while not always perfect runs mostly clean and efficient. Government run healthcare programs across the world seen to function fairly well. It's not government that's the issue. It goes back to your initial points. Once you have a power imbalance created by either one or a small group owning most of the debt (money) in society, the power imbalance causes corruption. The solution is relatively simple but unpalatable. Once a group reaches a certain percentage, not a specific number, of debt above the median they get taxed more heavily with that money going either directly to the bottom or to programs that benefit all. The percentages are relatively easy too, break the groups into quartiles. The top quartile should not have more money than the next lowest quartile. If more people become wealthier the taxation automatically becomes higher to spread the wealth. To keep individuals from gaining all the power you adjust the number of people based on a bell curve. Those in the top quartile should be very rare, the and as those in the bottom. That's the entirety of the taxation system. It's based on owned debt. It doesn't matter what you spend your money on, or anything like that. Money gets efficiently spread to the middle class and on keeping the lowest portions of society from abject poverty. What the wealthy do with their money at that point doesn't matter because there's a built in check in the system. Punishment for hiding money would be brutal, if the wealthy want to leave, there's the door.
It abolished be pretty cheap to prove the easement by default or if official.
> Though nix also just wraps the FFI unsafe blocks.

So? How they provide safe APIs doesn't matter, what matters is that they are safe. If the C FFI API is always safe for all inputs, then wrapping it in an unsafe block is the right thing to do.

> but the interfaces they provide make it harder and less idiomatic to hook into libc.

The interfaces they provide are both safe and portable over pretty much all UNIX-like systems (MacOSX, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonflyBSD, Solaris, ...). libc interfaces are platform specific.
So the obvious question is: how many uneventful naps do we need to take before we declare that it actually is safe?
I don't care about the needs of Science the business.

Science the business should shut down, not of their own volition, but because the scientific community shifts away from for-profit publications and Science has the respectability of a tabloid.
I think the commenter is suggesting that sometimes the mobility of your store of wealth is more important than volatility. Hard to argue that gold is easy to move or store. People from the US and Western Europe are prone to forget how volatile the political and economic situation is for most of Earth's population.
What does properties mean, to you? For the sweetness test, the property is the way the compound (or its breakdown constituents, or the compounds whose formation it catalyzes) reacts to our bodies.

So you're trying to figure out how our tastebuds work, in response to a novel stimulus.
> Hopefully we can remove this in a few years time when computer architecture has become less unsafe.

Narrator: It hasn’t.
This is a pure clickbait article. Why bother submitting crap like this?