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Impressive id went through development of Quake 3 with no version control.

When I was interning at Apple back in the day I had a side project of porting wolf3d to OS X, and it was the first occasion I had where I came to admire John Carmack's code directly. His game source code is something I recommend checking out to coders interested in gamedev.

Also, I have fond memories of poking around making DOS experiments in Borland C++ as a teen.

But speaking of version control — I guess that's just how things were done in the 90s. I read recently that not only was Final Fantasy 7 developed and shipped without it, but Squaresoft contemporaneously lost the final PlayStation source code and art assets. The studio contracted to port it to PC was supplied with a mishmash of non-final code and assets.
Best Buy made a come back by offering price matching.
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There's a billion bucks in Toys `R' Us that I can play with!
> DO other countries not use it because they are not a collection of geographically / culturally / and relatively-recently separate states that have united so there is little reason to adopt a system that fairly treats unique states in relation to a larger unified federal body?

There are plenty of countries with proportionally representative/popular-vote (or at the very least, mixed-member PR) models that are culturally and geographically diverse. Germany is the best example that comes to mind.

> The people vote in thier states, the states vote for the president. Without it, all 48 other states get railroaded by the 2 with the highest population. We have a representative democracy because that's not fair.

The alternative was shown in 2016. Trump lost the popular vote by millions, but won in three smaller states by ultra-thin margins. So instead of California, Texas, Florida, and NY dominating Presidential elections, we have Iowa, Pennsylvania, and Michigan dominating them. Considering that small states are already dangerously overrepresented in the Senate, it seems reasonable to have the one truly national official elected by true popular vote.

> We have a representative democracy because that's not fair.

This is wrong on two fronts. First, we have a representative democracy because southern states essentially held the Constitutional Convention hostage. Second, the truly "representative" part of government is already sufficiently exhibited in Congress. If you want empty space to have power, you already have that in the Senate (and the House, in which small states are also over-represented).
We actually have a vaccine for Lyme disease that was pulled due to the Antivax hysteria. I believe an article was posted here on Hacker News before, but here is a link to one otherwise: https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/science-and-health/2018/5/7...

We now live in a world where you can vaccinate your dog for Lyme disease but not yourself.
Nasdaq just released interview about Bitcoin SV (BSV) if you want to learn more about basic concept of original Bitcoin and what it does:
https://twitter.com/TradeTalks/status/1143588281340137473
patio11, if you're reading this, any chance you can comment further on Interactive Brokers? I've used them, along with Schwab, Fidelity, and Merrill Edge. From what I've read, IB used to have better execution than the rest, but now it seems like Schwab and Fidelity, at least, have caught up.

Is there any <grinning because I know this and the rest don't> reason why a savvy user would prefer to use IB in 2019 over the others? I know they have ultra-low margin interest rates, a linked debit card, and a share lending program, but am I missing anything? Are there particular tax-avoidance techniques one can use with IB's building blocks? I'd love to know more!
Huh? Sure, randomized control trials in humans have not been performed. But, there is no debate about whether smoking causes cancer. From cell-based and animal models to retrospective epidemiological studies, the data are clear. Smoking causes cancer. Do we need randomized controlled trials to "prove" cutting someone's head off causes death?
Don't belittle the point by calling it "privilege". I'm in the same situation as most Americans with employer-provided health insurance. The real cost decision, as I pointed out in another comment, is whether or not to get care at all, rather than to choose between Doctor A, or Doctor B who costs 5% less.

This is exacerbated by the fact that our insurance hides most of the cost variation from us anyway, and health care networks turn potentially cheaper care into probably much more expensive care. Writing this all off as "privilege" is a gross, lazy oversimplification.
Ballpark: say 16 8-byte fields for each transaction and 128 transactions per day, 30 years of transactions is ~180MB.

(to be clear I consider this a very generous estimate of how big this could possibly get)
OP_RETURN data can be pruned, actually. Miners/node owners can decide for themselves if they want to keep the data; eventually a market will emerge for such a service, but for now the blockchain is small enough that it's not a problem.
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I honestly don't care.

Maybe I'm already dead inside, but to look at what indoor/outdoor shopping malls and strip malls are, a concrete box with trinkets inside is less compelling to me these days.

Harp on about brand recognition and foot traffic if you will, but so what?

It's sort of like the DMV. There's a place where civilization conducts routine tasks of a given category in a certain way, and the name doesn't matter. Call it whatever you want.

I look back on memories of Toys R Us, and feel no pangs of nostalgia. With a hardened gaze of adulthood, I'd like to say that kids should be guided towards other things in life, and that Toys R Us stocked a lot of garbage on its shelves in later years. It will probably get worse with emerging technologies and trends in public sentiment.

If Transformers were popular toys during the 1980's, it doesn't mean they were a great idea that needs to be carried forward into subsequent generations.

If I had to take my kids into Toys R Us, or buy gifts, or do a favor and run an errand that involves getting something from such a place, a retail store front is such a joyless cookie cutter operation by now that names and brands simply don't matter.

So children today, if they form an association with a trademark, what then? It's not about that at all. It doesn't really matter. Over time, what exists tomorrow will be different from today. What Toys R Us originally was became something different later on.

People complain about destructive financial forces playing games toward unserendipitous ends, but in the death or Radio Shack and Toys R Us, I find that getting them back restores nothing significant. Another hole in the wall with familiar signage, and retail slaves inside parroting "do you need any help?" again and again. Big deal.
At least it seems clear how they came up with the name. Someone gets your kit, and they split.
Sounds just like Warren Buffett: http://money.com/money/5636661/buffett-wants-to-tax-rich-mor...

Reminder that during the time generally pointed to as 'the good old days' (the 1950s) the top tax bracket was 85% (!): https://web.stanford.edu/class/polisci120a/immigration/Feder...

Now, this doesn't directly translate to higher taxes on the wealthy (there are a lot of factors that go into effective tax rate) but it puts the handwringing around AOC's 70% top tax bracket in perspective.
This is a huge win for competition in health care.
I'd agree if we were talking BlackMirror S1-S4... If it was S5, healthcare would just be paid for after the tiniest bit of struggle and everyone would live happily ever after, the end.
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But how did you get past their current "40-point risk assessment that includes both machine learning and human review" /s

https://medium.com/@lisbethkaufman_82625/im-one-of-the-cofou...
There's a link to https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/investing... which discusses this: Vanguard is one of the two Right Answers(TM).

My experience with roboadvisors is that the pretty user interfaces encouraged me to save more. Your mileage may vary.
My recent encounter with this comes from healthcare. Healthcare companies love to brag that their "prenatal maternity care is 100% covered, no deductible, no copay."

Turns out "prenatal maternity care" is simply defined as the blood pressure, weight, and fundal measurements. That's all that bullet point means.

* Ultrasound? Well, that's different. It's a lab procedure. Yep, even the 20-week "standard" anatomy scan.

* Get a non-stress test done (literally just 10 minutes worth of heart-rate monitoring)? Then it becomes a "specialist visit." You'll pay for that.

* Get any bloodwork done? Even if it's for the mother's health and not trying to do some sort of pre-natal screening? It's a diagnostic lab procedure.

* Urine samples for pre-eclampsia? Diagnostic testing.

* Mandatory (state-required) STD panel? That's diagnostic testing, too.

Turns out the ACA requires "pre-natal care" to be covered, so bragging about it in the first place is just absurd.
There is absolutely no way the bad press they're getting is worth saving a measly 3430. HOWEVER, from this 1 point alone (and the thread from last year about the same issue with kitsplit), we can deduce that kitsplit probably has enough thefts that they can't afford to "pay off" all the people being stolen from.

Their claim that "99.99% of people aren't scammed" seems awfully smelly, as they could use their modest 20% cut from rentings to pay off all the people who are stolen from.
If it covers just sales and there's no complex requirements,you'd be up and going in a couple of weeks,maybe in 3 if there's lots of back and forth. However,if there are plans to implement CPQ or some integrations,then it'd be much longer. CRM can be self implemented, however if the company doesn't have a dedicated resource I would not recommend it, especially if there's any potential for growth,as it's very yeasy to make a spaghetti crm as well..
Please note this is hosted on the BitcoinSV (BSV) network, which is not the same as the Bitcoin network that we all know as BTC.

BitcoinSV has much bigger blocks than Bitcoin, which is probably why this idea is possible.

While the same idea could be applied for the original Bitcoin network, that is far more popular, it would be highly impractical as blocks are smaller and transaction costs are higher.

I don't want to start another big/small blocks debate but if this idea gets popular, I doubt there will be many nodes that want to host the insane amount of data that will be accumulated, and the incentives for hosting a full node cost-effectively is the main reason why Bitcoin blocks are small.

I also sense a malicious intention with the website not making any reference to the fact that this is not the BTC network that 99.9% of visitors associate with the word Bitcoin.
There's a lot of bullshit around art in general; it's not limited to modern art. If we only cared about the quality of the work, then a perfect forgery of da Vinci's style would be valued exactly as much as an original da Vinci.

I can't agree with the idea that art has to be technically difficult to be "real." If a simple, abstract sculpture gives me more joy than a portrait from a great master, that doesn't mean my understanding is defective. (Nor is yours if you disagree.) Meaning isn't limited to what the creator says it is, either.

People are obsessed with nailing down a precision definition of "art," and it always turns out to be "the stuff I like, but not that crap you like."
Not necessarily. The main example (that stuck with me) of AI in books I read as a kid 35 yrs ago was the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation. Now I think that was eerily prescient.
It's a platform that has multiple very successful companies riding on top of it.

The largest built a 20bn+ market cap co out of it, in 12 years.

SFDC is far more capable than people think.
The original flight sim team was disbanded in 2009 during the recession. They’ve since moved on to different companies.
> for example when a single drug company owns the patent on a life saving drug

Patents are a form of regulation. De-regulating would include voiding those patents. The government created that monopoly and all its attendant problems; there is absolutely no reason why it can't remove it just as easily.
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You could look at every other country that did it for the evidence you seek, provided you aren't limiting to the pool of evidence "in the US".
Salesforce has begun retroactively restricting the products you can sell if you're using their platform, which makes moving to Salesforce a very risky proposition.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/30/18645722/salesforce-ban-r...
Nobody in the shop was carrying a multitool? Must be Europe or California.
That drag-box UI does a great job of conveying the often-missed point that synthesizers can be very expressive instruments.
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I ran into a similarly infuriating issue with a hospital.

We have insurance. But we knew the procedure wasn't covered by insurance. So we would get the list price. We asked about the cash price. But they said we couldn't get the cash price because we have insurance.

They said that you cannot get the cash price if you have insurance because the hospital requires procedures always go through insurance if you have it. But we could lie and claim we don't have insurance. On the day of the procedure, they said, oh, if we bill it like this, your insurance would cover it! Sounded good to us.

They were wrong. So we ended up with the list price.
I remember Doom pushing a much higher frame rate than that with those specs. The real issue was that you needed L2 cache!
I think for usage like you describe, Robinhood is hard to beat considering you want to pick a single equity and buy/sell it. If the goal is to hold stock for a long period of time, what other brokerages offer on top of equities is their funds (some of which, I think, are also available to trade through Robinhood (?) but can also be traded for free on their own platforms).

The other thing you get with a typical brokerage that you don't get, as far as I know, with Robinhood is customer service.
I've heard it's possible due to poor diet, but I'm not vegan and even then it's very rare - AIUI your body stores some 2-5 years worth of what you need, so if you're low it's probably because your body isn't absorbing it. Which also means supplements aren't going to work for me.

Why it's not absorbed varies, I was tested for pernicious anaemia which is a relatively common cause but I don't have that. That seems to be the end of the line for investigations on the UK NHS, they pretty much just said you can't get it from your diet, it doesn't matter why, so we'll inject it.
> If you're having issues streaming Blurays on a 100 Mbps network, the speed of the network is not your problem!

Well, it COULD be the problem if you're not actually getting the 100 Mbps. I've diagnosed WiFi that should have a lot more headroom than 100 Mbps but still stutters on mid-bitrate 1080p. Signal degradation
Never, because it's kind of absurd to create an ETF for user payments, which is kind of to GP's point.

Unless of course you stand to benefit from the transactional data, which I'm not convinced this Calibra isn't a trojan horse for Facebook to get the data from.
Does IRS prohibit people from paying extra in tax if they want to?
Made an account simply to share that your post had an immediate impact on me. I was originally planning on canceling a physical therapy consultation I had scheduled to address the problems I inevitably have due to my software engineering job, figuring "It's not urgent, I should do more work instead, it can wait," but after reading your post, I decided to prioritize health and keep the consultation.

I'm so sorry for your loss.
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> We don't have a perfect system, but we have one that's been working for 240-some years.

What does that mean?

Just because we haven't had a military coup then our system is good enough and the should not be questioned?

I'm really curious what you and other people mean by that

You know people laugh at ours right? People laugh at our religion of checks and balances, since they don't accomplish that in the most optimal way. I'm not promoting any alternative, only pointing out that accepting its flaws is missing in the collective conscious in the US. Practically all attempts at democracy over the last 200 years contain patches seen as improvements over what the US created and mostly stuck with.
I ran into situations in the past where I send a link to a friend for Spotify but they don't have Spotify premium so the way I solved it is by always sending a link to youtube because all my friends have youtube for free. I only share casually though, for those friends who I share music links with I already know who would appreciate a Spotify link or a youtube link. Again, I only share casually so is not really a pain for me so I'm not willing to pay for it.
Alternatively: we can stop referring to these as medicines and treat them like iodized salt, fluoridated water, or cell phones. They seem to be completely safe in short and long term. They make people’s lives better. How do you tell articles like this apart from luddite stigma?
Shout-out to Nicholas Zachas (@slicknet, https://humanwhocodes.com). Thanks for the great JavaScript books, and praying you feel better!
Having worked in the industry (at a defunct brokerage with well known commercials featuring the owner/CEO in a purple helicopter), I would say this is a fairly accurate description of the industry's economics. Just like most topics in the financial world, the general public is left in the dark regarding the specifics...articles like this help shed a small light.

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>attempt a retrieval via brute force (hired guard etc)

This can be a very bad idea, especially if the seller isn't a thief but someone who unknowingly purchased the stolen property.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._J._Simpson_robbery_case
They may be a sucker, but there is still value in warning people and/or litigating to recover losses. We afford people the ability to make mistakes so that we can effectively learn from them, not simply to punish people for being imperfect.
You can buy the 97% version. Then a quick analysis (IR specter, NMR) will give you an idea of the contaminants if they are not specified by the manufacturer. Based on that you can take additional step to purify the product (extraction, chromatography, etc.) to the required level. The yield may not be perfect making overall cost a little bit higher, but this is really basic organic chemistry.
I like the "statistics" part in the Release notes :)
The nakedly partisan bullshit that gets upvoted on HN is disgusting.

Silence on the veritas Google expose.
You do realise that if you buy insurance and don't claim anything that's literally you paying for other people's healthcare, right? That's how insurance works. The only difference between that and the socialised national health systems around the world is that you also pay for the insurance company's profit.
I've not seen this in the decade of running it on dozens of machines. So chances are there is a bug somewhere related to your hardware or mixer configuration.
Nope. It might be just a form of virtue signaling knowing full well they won't get their bluff called.
Yep. It's the worst of both worlds right now. Either take it over fully, or devolve it to a pure free market system, with medicaid backstops.
What did you use it for? Let me guess: instead of Jira?
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If you took the total combined wealth of the wealthiest 100 Americans, you wouldn't be able to fund the federal government for more than half a year or so.

Taxing the rich sounds nice as virtuous political rhetoric but it won't effectively address poverty, just further erodes the liberty of private citizens. If you want to fund more social programs then tax corporations, like the oil companies and the large investment firms, like ExxonMobil and Goldman Sachs. Don't punish success.
Retool looks super neat but I'm wondering how it works in practice. Any experience here?
I saw him in person in london and he was asked about Bitcoin. As the last sentence of his answer he said and I’m paraphrasing: “If you’re asking about the idea of apolitical money [in relation to Bitcoin] I think that’s a fantasy”. I’ll try and see if he ever said something similar in other settings but I remember connecting it to what I was reading around the same time which was David Graeber’s Debt: a History book where he presents a similar anthropological-historical argument.
I hadn't heard of cameo before, but my wife and I went to a broadway show, she very much enjoyed one of the performers, and afterwards she looked him up on twitter and sent me his twitter feed to show me some tweet or other. On his twitter profile he had a link to his Cameo profile, and for $20 I had him send my wife a little video about that performance we were at, and to talk about the show generally. A couple days later she got a 45 second clip he recorded during intermission, he talked about the show, thanked her for being a fan, and was generally very gracious. She was surprised and delighted, and I felt like it was $20 well-spent.

So, while I'm super skeptical about the C-list celebrity market ($50 for Chris Hansen? Presumably to make a to catch a predator joke?), I think there may be an opportunity here for fans to connect with the long tail of artists and celebrities.
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No, Taxes are not voluntary.
> CPUs are more generic though

Which is exactly why you want to save the GPU for what it does best – drawing pixels.

> and pretty much every single GPU accelerated text drawing operation i've seen allocates permanent GPU resources (textures mainly).

Makes sense as a concern, and it's not something I've looked into. (I don't use alacritty.) On the other hand, how much memory are we actually talking about? On my system (total screen resolution 2880x1800), a typical terminal glyph has a roughly 14x16 bounding box; let's bump that up to 20x20 to account for padding. Stored as 8-bit RGBA, that would take 1600 bytes. An atlas of "hundreds" of glyphs would then be expected to take up on the order of hundreds of KB... which seems pretty negligible? A larger font, multiple atlases, or more characters per atlas would require more memory, but I still don't see how you get to an amount worth worrying about. I could be missing something.
"Food, shelter, and medical care are absolutely human rights" NOT IN 'MURICA they are not.

/sad sarcasm as some feel this way
On the other hand I hate apps that have user interface elements where you can select the text by accident instead of interacting with the element that contains the text.

Imagine what it would be like if a click and drag on a window title bar moved the window but a click and drag on the text part of the title bar just selected text.

Back in the Amiga days there was a nice little app that let you go into selection mode and then draw a rect around anything and it would pseudo-ocr it. Surely something like that exists on current machines, but I havn't seen it.
Honestly, I've never tried it myself. But the default piano sounds you hear on the Nord Piano are essentially multiple high quality samples, so I'd think that as long as you can sample your original synth sounds in sufficiently high quality, they should sound pretty good.
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