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>This is complete misunderstanding of how this works. Inflation does not increase the real return from stock markets. Inflation erodes also capital. Capital must work just to stay still.

I think you made a basic mistake there. The assumption you're making is that the inflation is spread over every single citizen. In reality there is no reason for that to happen. It is equally possible for all inflation to happen in the stock or housing market which is inaccessible to the average low income worker. Therefore the one who is staying still is the low income worker.
It does now, so I guess someone has added it. :)

Which reminds me of 10+ years ago when I worked for a consultancy and often on site with one of its main clients. Both were originally Finnish but by then very large multinational enterprises.

Occasionally whilst doing some archaeology investigation of some internal libraries or old systems you encounter an ancient Java (or worse) library using Finnish class and methods names.

Usually confused the heck out of all of us as there never were a Finnish speaker on any of the projects I was on, and I was there for 6 years. But as much as a decompiled java program you can guess what it does, though not what it intended to do...

Using non-English in programming may have made a little sense when they were a smaller Finnish only company, but 10+ years later, many mergers and acquisitions etc and it really did not make sense any more .:)

Considering the offices I worked for them in Oslo, Stockholm and Copenhagen the development teams was all a mix of nationalities (Scandinavians, English, Belgian, Italian, Polish, Indian) using anything but English would have been silly by then.
A local enterprising person starts an "exchange bank" that purchases Libra from an "authorized reseller" that is able to mint it by paying money to the Libra Reserve and sells Libra to locals for cash. There are as many ways for them to make a nice business out of that as there are way to make money as a bank, since it basically is one.
You are describing roommates/co-ops.
I'm happy for her, she seems to know what she wants. I'm grateful my parents prioritised me, and that I've followed the example in my career choices.

Good luck lady, and good luck kids. We all bumble through this life as best we can, hope it's good enough for your family...
This is like when you have an issue with Firefox.

Disable all your addons and create a new profile...
You are abusing trust - now it's going to be the jstrieb.github.io who is serving malware, and since his system serves whatever JS I provide by design it becomes a very effective XSS host.
Visa and Mastercard settled a price-fixing suit just last year. "They're not going to collude because they're competitors" seems like a very odd argument. Colluding while pretending to compete is the central thing that makes that sort of behaviour illegal.
In my elementary school, we used a French version of Logo Writer along with a French language special purpose library called Caméléon to learn robotics programming.
2021 CO2 targets would generate €34B euros in penalty payments within Europe
Things Not to Do If You Want to Make Friends on Medium
They want to sell electric bikes, so they found an obscure point of view from which they may be preferable to the ordinary one. Ignoring the obvious points of view from which they are not - health disservice to the rider, battery tech non-monetary costs, increased electricity consumption of the owner.

Electric bike has its legitimate target group - elderly or ill or handicapped people. If you're fine, get that ordinary bike and build some form.
I'm not sure a project manager is the same thing as a manager. Is this person your direct report?
Exactly! Why is that? Part of it is lower income per capita, sure. But Facebook and friends did the math and it turns out you can increase that ARPU quite a bit if you give them a way to actually pay for things online, which they largely lack at the moment!
Those are not hard facts.

Progress isn't the same as a satisfactory situation. Anyone who has tried working in China knows exactly what the problem is.

If not for Trump we wouldn't even be having this discussion and China would now have more or less complete domination on large parts of western infrastructure.

I have no idea what make you think that you are making any kind of argument here. It's a known fact even by the EU that china is not giving us access to their markets and har not actually securing IP and are in fact forcing it onto chinese hands.

That's not something I am just making up it's at the heart of the conflict.
> E-bike riders likely to travel much faster.

I'm not sure that is significant. In most countries e-bikes are constrained not to exceed 25 km/h when under power. I've commuted by bike for some parts of my life (I now work from home) and I usually overtake e-bikes unless I'm climbing a pretty steep hill.

On the other hand your second part is probably correct: I recall reading that when Canada started mandating helmets it had a negative effect on life expectancy because people were using bikes less and that had an impact on cardiovascular health that exceeded the increase in safety. So you might be right that the increase in usage overweights the change in efficiency.

On the other hand I would never leave a bike that is worth more than 100 euros parked outdoors on a pole in most European and American cities even with a decent U-lock. Add to that weather and electrical components and you end up with something you can use only if you have an indoors parking.
The Need for Strong Encryption
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>I wish they would do more so their products are as close to 100% recyclable as possible.

Recyclability fundamentally does not matter. If we eventually run out of aluminium or cobalt or whatever else, we can use landfills as mineral mines when that becomes economically viable.

What we really need to care about right now is CO2 emissions; in that respect, smartphones represent exceptionally good value. Including the energy used to charge it, an iPhone Xs results in 70kg of CO2 emissions over its lifespan. The average American produces 16,500kg of CO2 per year.

A smartphone feels like it should be really bad for the environment, because it's expensive and shiny and new. It actually does less damage to the environment than half a tank of gasoline or a few meaty meals. Turning down your thermostat by 2 degrees feels insignificant, but it could save as much as 1,000kg of CO2 per year.

https://www.apple.com/environment/pdf/products/iphone/iPhone...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...
The article is a lot more substantive than the headline, but the frame that inequality is the problem will lead to 'solutions' that do not solve the real problems.

The root problem here is clearly that living standards are at risk of dropping. That is not necessarily linked to inequality - inequality can rise in tandem with living standards. The policy tools that raise living standards are not the same policies that promote equality (the experiences in the 20th and 21st centuries suggest quite the opposite).

If people became rich relative to their ability to raise living standards - which is the main line of defense for capitalism as a system, by the way - then we expect higher inequality because the people who figure out how to raise mass living standards by small amounts should become disgustingly wealthy. The problem is that current policies are making people rich who aren't productive members of society. They are making idiot bankers rich who set us up for things like the '07-'08 financial crisis, then bailing them out when it looks like the market might call their bluffs.
Well, as I said, it contains a lot of stuff other than Mahjong ;)
The primary risk is to the GitHub account holder.

First, it's not hard to imagine that someone might try to get their account banned for a GitHub terms of service violation keeping in mind that GitHub holds the account owner accountable for content in their repository. This is true even if that content is from other account holders they've given access to their repository. In this case, anonymous access is intentionally being provided which could of course go very, very, very wrong.

"You agree that you will not under any circumstances upload, post, host, or transmit any content that:

is unlawful or promotes unlawful activities;
is or contains sexually obscene content;
is libelous, defamatory, or fraudulent;
is discriminatory or abusive toward any individual or group;
gratuitously depicts or glorifies violence, including violent images;
contains or installs any active malware or exploits, or uses our platform for exploit delivery (such as part of a command and control system); or
infringes on any proprietary right of any party, including patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, right of publicity, or other rights."

https://help.github.com/en/articles/github-terms-of-service

Understanding what the tool does, GitHub might be forgiving on the ToS violation front. The problem is with the second scenario: law enforcement. It's very likely that in a lot of jurisdictions, law enforcement, prosecutors, etc., wouldn't initially understand what's going on here and even if it can be explained to their satisfaction, I think very few of us would like to spend a night (or more) in jail while attempting to explain.
> There are more than a few people, especially among the cultural élite, who still publicly regret the fact that Germany sent Einstein packing, without realizing that it was a much greater crime to kill little Hans Cohn from around the corner, even though he was no genius.

-- Hannah Arendt
What do you even mean by “passive feedback”? The only things I would (grudgingly) give that description to are available to governments and businesses alike.

> volume of transactions matters quite a lot

Why? I only see a reason to divide between “lots” and “not much” (a spreadsheet vs a census) rather than anything more fine-grained, otherwise fridge manufacturers would be meaningfully different to Amazon because they sell so much less.

> Companies like Amazon, Walmart, and many more, solve problems at a scale and difficulty far exceeding any government

I think you’re radically underestimating the scale and difficulty of government. For one thing, governments have to balance the interests of all the businesses which operate in their jurisdiction against not only each other, not only against national security, but also against the interests of those working for those businesses and the consumers and any externalities of the products and services.

> without a compulsory 42% draw against the population.

The figures I’ve seen put German tax revenues at (2014) €593 billion from a GDP of €2.938,6 billion, or 20.2%. I pay more than that because I am well paid, something something whales something, it doesn’t bother me.

Then there’s the matter of what counts as compulsory: Amazon sales fees seem to be “the average seller paying 15%”, but they also have enough profit margin — effectively though not literally a tax on the employees, because it’s wealth the employees created but don’t get — for Bezos to gave his own private space race with Musk.

You might reply that this isn’t compulsory, to save time I repeat: I chose to move to Germany, my taxation in any particular nation is not compulsory because I can move away if I don’t like it. Therefore any argument along the lines that “business fees are not compulsory” also applies to taxes.
The World does need a easy to use system to do cross-border payments. US clients often say “can’t we use PayPal?” while it’s often a major pain in the ass for the receiver outside of the US perhaps Europe. Bank transfers are somehow very hard for a lot of people. So yes, I do see something that can give me money in my bank / hand easily across borders succeed. Jay because the alternatives suck.
For me the headspace app worked wonders. It’s really only ten minutes a day to get started. Ten minutes, a comfortable rest and no interruptions. You don’t need more.

You can always go to other programs later.
The end of the article makes clear that the 34 billion in fines would be only if the auto manufacturers didn't make any changes from present production, but the article still makes clear what pressures they are under to switch to electric cars.
Sounds like another case of Apple doing things in a nonstandard way for little reason, getting the security wrong, and paying the price. A while back, their iMessage system was found to have rather serious security issues. Same same.

'Not Invented Here syndrome'.
LazyDocker – Manage Everything in Docker
And limit Hold-'em, although I found it pretty easy to beat consistently.
Yeah, what most people don't know is that AC is a great dehumidifier along with cooling. The air gets pretty cold right when it passes over the coils. Cold air holds less water, so a lot of humidity drops out as condensate. A lot of cooling power is actually consumed by the vapor->liquid transition of water in the air. This is why it's very important to have a well sealed house when using heat pumps/ac. Letting more water vapor in is just as bad as letting in warmerr air. Once the humidity is lowered the AC unit doesn't work nearly as hard to cool air

The cold feeling is two fold. The lower humidity helps almost as much as the temperature drop in humid areas.

Heating doesn't cause the water vapor phase transition so sealing out humid air matters little for efficiency. This is why many older buildings have higher cooling than heating costs. Sealing is just as important as insulation when cooling
Ports have always existed. The change was to stop people writing "effect modules" which were the unsafe version of this where you could run arbitrary JS.

The upside to this is that because ports work by message passing, it means that all the language's guarantees can be held even when using them, and packages can't do anything without you knowing about it.

The downside is it is a lot more verbose and awkward. In my opinion, it also makes community contribution to the standard library a lot harder.
Distinguish Hard Brick and Soft Brick.
"But if you invest a lot of money, you can designate universities or nonprofits to vote for you on this council. So, in effect, the more money you invest, even though you may not have direct power over how the association functions, you can still have enormous influence on the voting blocs of what would in essence be a new international currency. I’m wondering what—"

https://www.democracynow.org/2019/6/19/big_techs_war_for_you...
I believe elliptic curves aren't broken by factoring. You might be confused with shor's algorithm. That is a quantum-algorithm that breaks both elliptic curves and RSA.

It doesn't break elliptic curve crypto by factoring numbers. Instead, it breaks them by solving the discrete logarithm problem.
I always found this interesting about my junior developers.

When I teach a new concept, I can instinctively tell who will listen, apply it and be able to move on to tougher concepts while understanding that some of them will be hard headed and will have to be beaten into submission.

One day, I got fed up with one of them (he kept trying to parse JSON by splitting the string in Java), and told him I would honestly use GSON to parse it because I'm lazy. I could see it click in his mind, as he realized writing a small JSON schema in Java was easier than his convoluted 12-step if statement chain (he was performing the string splitting based on the URL he was doing REST requests against). Now I call it the 'laziness as teaching' tool.

1) Admit you're doing it because you're lazy

2) List the set of items that need to be done in the new lazy approach

3) Contrast it against the previous method

4) Watch it click as they realize their way is so much extra work.
I don't get this stance. What's preventing cyber punks to set up their own messaging system and information sharing system ? IRC, XMPP, matrix, diaspora's offsprings, etc... The tech stack is here and fun to play with.

Now, everyday people might not be interested or up to it but they weren't twenty years ago either.
I don't know what you consider a deep part of programming language design. E.g. I would consider prototypal inheritance and non-lexical scope to be deep language design mistakes in JavaScript. But even beyond that TCL is a particularly elegant design (rather lisplike in a way) - e.g. Guido van Rossum cites it as an inspiration.
If you don't know English (a lot of people) and you are writing a script for a web page, you would use your own language.

Although compression tools replace the majority of symbols with short Ascii symbols, so it may not show in the final packed code.

It looks like the closure compiler emits Ascii only, using escapes for Unicode symbols that are not transformed.
stifles mad scientist laugh idle, extremely specific curiosity
Each wireless point-to-point hop will add about 10ms.
“You’re right. That’s okay. I’m here to help you figure out how to make it better.”

No. It's just not realistic. In today's company your manager will say that to you then slate you for the "bottom 10%" category and you'll receive decreasingly subtle signs that they want you to leave. Companies don't actually train, reinforce or develop employees anymore, at least not for more than a few weeks.
Inheritance makes some sense, but composition is much, much easier to understand and work with. Inheritance has well documented problems that composition does not. It’s not so much about being object oriented or not, at least not directly.

I could elaborate, but others have said it better anyways.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_over_inheritance
100mbps isn't unreasonable to expect out of the gear, but I don't know what they get in practice considering the high RF noise environment.
It’s only surprising if you adhere to the cartoonish villain theory of the Koch brothers. They are more intellectually consistent than given credit for and have funded advocacy for criminal justice reform, i.e. abolishing unnecessary incarceration, not exactly a hallmark right-wing policy.
I don't doubt that some kids are shitty and sneaky, but taking more aggressive measures should be in response to a complaint and time limited. Kids have human rights too.
This article is five months old..
Just to note: the $270M is not for the reserve but for maintaining the network. The reserve will be created when people will on-ramp.
We are talking about a global currency. Libra the thing we are talking about. If you dont need facebook at all for that I stand corrected right? If facebook does not have a monopoly on some critical aspect of it I could care less. tell me now so i can just ignore this story along with all the other crimecoins and extortion tools.
Yeah I'm getting a frustrated feeling like the entire ""+"" debate in Java all over again.
You’re merely goalposting Scott “Quantum Computing Fists of Fury” Aaronson’s trilemma. If you have proof that quantum computers are physically unrealizable, I’ll happily help you publish that paper. There’s no way my brother could belittle my lack of education if I had a Turing Award or Nobel Prize, or two.
I made friends with many people who came to Canada to study including Iran, India, China, many parts of Asia. I asked a lot of them over the years about their plans. A very common response was that they came to study but have grown to like it here and because of co-op (paid internships) they developed connections and want to stay. Of the five I'm still in touch with, four are still here on work visas and one of those four is weeks away from citizenship.
The trend described in this article was written about by Buckminster Fuller in 1938, except he called it ephemeralization [1].

Paul Graham wrote an essay on the same subject (iphones and ephemeralization) in 2010 and, unlike this piece, made reference to Fuller's early identification of the trend. [2]

Im my opinion, ephemeralization is a better descriptor of the trend than dematerialization. Bucky was an extremely careful user of language, to the point of coining his own words when he didn't feel any existing words served his purpose. I think he was right to not use dematerialization to describe the trend because it is manufacturing where you are not removing material (dematerializing it), rather you are simply not using it, or using less of it, in the first place.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephemeralization

[2] http://www.paulgraham.com/tablets.html
Gen – AI Programming Language
See if there's a Shambhala centre (https://shambhala.org/) or another place that has beginners group meditation sessions near you.

The sessions will likely be longer than what you’re used to. But there's less chances for you to bail out and you might grow to have a deeper appreciation for it so you can stick with it.
So, about the same as the Steve Jobs Apple then?
Intent matters. If you are breaking encryption to steal stuff, that is (and should be) illegal.

I think the real question here should be whether it is immoral though, because it is trivially illegal. Consider the DMCA and penalties for circumventing DRM.
Heck, if you are decrypting stuff that is classified, intent might not even matter.
High time Singapore employers ditch ageist attitudes towards older workers
With the caveat that I have nothing to do with ligo and so don't know much...

I think that during this ligo run (it just turned back on in April-ish) they expect to find roughly 1 event per week. So this will be fairly common! [1] is a nice summary of what they have found so far.

For people here interested in the engineering side of LIGO, it is absolutely mind blowing. The effect of the gravitational waves is tiny (fractions of the size of a proton change in length) and so there are so many things that need to be incredibly tightly controlled for. I went to a talk on this a year or so ago, but can't find the slides... Here's a summary [2] and the wikipedia page also has some info.

1 - https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ligo-virgo-made-5-likely...
2 - https://www.engineering.com/Education/EducationArticles/Arti...
In an effort to democratize and advance the field of artificial intelligence, MIT researchers have announced a new programming language designed for computer vision, robotics, statistics and morel.

Gen aims to take away the complexity of equations or having to manually write code and enable researchers of all skill levels to create models and algorithms for AI.
You have given this much thought care to elaborate?
Just for context, 100mbps is fast. That's like local wired LAN speeds from 15 years ago.
There Are 6 ‘Strongest Materials’ on Earth That Are Harder Than Diamonds
I think the same for programming languages. For example, all old LISP programs were capitalized. Nowadays we call it lisp and everything is primarily lowercase (Not Even CamelCase). It's pretty rare to see capitalized lisp code these days.

Here's a bit of parody code I wrote on the subject. https://github.com/ksaj/Capitalize.Lisp

(protip: It doesn't do anything the comments say it does, even though the results appear to.)
Do you have a source for such a comparison, everything I have seen is all real prices. I know rent and college had gone up about 50% in real prices and some things like food and high end electronics have gone down.
Honestly, your comment seems like intentional obfuscation of facts.
The media spins this click bait narrative that the asteroid will make everyone on Earth rich, but that wouldn't happen. If that much gold was brought back from an asteroid it would crash the gold market and hit prices drastically. So in fact anyone invested in gold would lose wealth. And a lot of it.
The moment you have spent from an address, you have revealed the un-hashed key, which you could break. Best practice is never to re-use address, but I'd wager there are many deviuations from that.
I'm not sure how much bitcoin that has moved in e.g. the last year is in addresses for which the private key is known. Would be a cool thing to check out.
The existence of Libra does not negate the existence of real money.