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Sharing an Easy ROI Calculator for Compound.finance
For those of you who are DeFi users, I’ve created a webapp to track the P/L your investment and borrowings on Compound.

The tool works out your net position and breaks down your ROI into what is driven by price movements (leverage) and what is driven purely by interests.

It should be pretty self-explanatory – just fill in an Ethereum address and the tool will analyze the blockchain, rebuild the investment history with Compound and calculate returns in aggregate and for each token. I’m calling a bunch of external apis to get prices, so the analysis currently takes a couple of minutes to load.

I built this as a side project and I hope you will find it useful. I’ve checked the numbers vs. a test accounts and they look ok, but please consider this in beta and please let me know if you think they are not.

If you decide to give it a go and have any feedback let me know what you think!

https://www.comproi.com/

Example of analysis on a public address: https://www.comproi.com/address/0x0d5926184e886db1a736d88f0fb257be3f99ebd5
PCI Express on the Raspberry Pi 4
From what I understand, all transactions. It's very hard to enforce between individuals, of course.
Not a question, but just a suggestion. You should probably have an AMA on reddit. They seem to be more vocal on this deal.

https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/cb0qac/ibm_clo...
-> Can we throw exactly the same number of math (micro)operations into the spin loop?

-> Can we just make sure the exact same operation operations occur?
That's where I will end but it makes me sad because my 2013 Macbook Air is without a doubt the best machine I've owned in my 20 years as a software developer. Everything about the hardware is pleasant and I mostly like the OS. I would love to just carry on but as it is currently, I find myself researching alternatives. That is time I would rather spend being productive.
I'm sure this was covered on Futurama once.
It's too general a question to answer. It depends on the type of customer, the type of service, the price, how long users need to try it to know they're ready to invest etc.

Multiple payment models exist because there isn't one that suits every SaaS business.
It's the old way of doing it though. Pre washing machine clothes wash tended to be underwear only, and brush and air the rest. Partly because washing was a more brutal process - boiling, wringing etc that the outer layers couldn't handle.
Silicon Valley Culture
not even close in processing power of a 4 year old

Sure, but in most developed nations, you can't force 4 year olds to work even individually, let alone wire them into an array against their will.
Depending on the product, i would suggest option 1 or 3. Maybe you can find a limitation for the free (lifetime) version, where the free users can help you to get some traction. (Like trello.com does)
Soros, Koch Partner to Launch Foreign Policy Think Tank
For 40 Years, Crashing Trains Was One of America’s Favorite Pastimes
For the two people who might not have seen it yet, here's that fabulous joint interview to Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, where they recount the story of the (missing) floating point routines in Woz's BASIC for the Apple, and how Microsoft came to rescue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LUGU0xprUo#t=14m20s

The whole interview is fantastic.
Fully agreed on the last point (and the hypothesis that this is one of the factors driving the ridiculous "talk to the cloud for everything" design pattern in IoT.)

Seems the current push is making certain legitimate use-cases not just hard but pretty much impossible. Such as providing a local web server that is independent of the public internet.

Devices used to provide embedded web pages as an easy way to show config options. This seems to have become completely impossible: Even if you'd jump through all the hoops of generating a unique subdomain and certificate for each device, you'd also somehow need to update that certificate on that device. So your (possibly fully local) device now needs internet access for the sole reason so the browser does not refuse to display the local configuration page.
Let us be clear.
Running a local helper agent that accepts properly formatted requests (includes authn/authz) to provide a valid expected functionality is a perfectly valid architectural choice for a full-fledged desktop computer and we shouldn't throw out this capability.

The mistakes I see here are:

- UX Dark Patterns – making uninstall hard/duplicitous

- Helper process having security vulnerability - unauthenticated requests, providing unnecessary privileged operations like update/reinstall etc.

- Providing the control of participant video on/off to meeting host

- Not acknowledging the mistakes quickly and fixing them fast. Being defensive and using 'others do it too' excuse.

Also, in an internal fight for resources/prioritization and just plain philosophical alignment between security vulnerabilities vs UX funnel optimization (reduce number of clicks), in a company like Zoom, I am not at all surprised that UX side own always and security side lost and it took public pressure the shift the balance. Anyone here who has been in this situation knows what I'm talking about.

Unless the cost equation changes, it is hard to get business users to change their priority – from their perspective, they didn't understand what the heck their internal security guy was talking about.
It would have been one person/security-team who they normally don't interact with. So why will they listen to that guy over the UX Product guy who they interact with daily, who they see as the one who built the hockey stick growth in their customer NPS scores and that guy wasn't happy about adding the extra click back.

So, only workable answer I see is public outrage like this (still not very scalable or consistent) and better yet, legal protections/regulations that make it extremely expensive for companies to ignore this stuff.
> with ranked choice voting the stigma of voting third party is removed

That is a myth. Instant Runoff Voting does not eliminate the lesser evil (spoiler) problem. See this explained by a math PhD.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtKAScORevQ
Are suicide rates different for different groups of people, e.g. employed adults vs unemployed adults?
You really think drug companies do either of those things adequately right now? That's a hoot.
I'm building it, and would love to hear your feedback: https://blog.photostructure.com/introducing-photostructure/

I've got a desktop installer you can test now. I'm working out kinks with snap and docker builds currently. If you sign up via email I can send you instructions tomorrow.
There isn't a 1-size-fits-all solution to this type of situation. Giving the company a reasonable time[1] to fix it is a good guideline to start with, but determining the best approach to use requires making several judgment calls.

Is the exploit already being used in the wild? Should affected users be doing something asap to protect themselves? How quickly could someone transform your disclosure into something malicious? How much risk are we forcing the users to bear while we wait for a self-imposed arbitrary time limit to expire. Is there an actual benefit to be gained by delaying public disclosure? (Is the company using the time responsibly to implement a fix, or are they denying the problem exists?

Handling a public disclosure meas adapting to the specific risks of the situation.

[1] I would say 30 days is more appropriate, with the option to delay the public announcement if the company has handled the situation well and is working on the fix, but needs more time for a legitimate technical reason.
There is no them.
Perhaps out of place but why are you consistently calling Woz "they"? I'm not a native speaker and it sounds very weird.
> This is the POV of the OOP-ist, but it is not necessary and it is limiting.

How is it "limiting"? And if you want proof, look at the untyped lambda calculus - there you find data types defined entirely in terms of functions - pure behavior! (For example, the Church natural numbers are defined by the behavior of iterating some arbitrary function exactly n times; the Church booleans by taking two arguments and returning either the first or the second argument (which in turns makes it possible to define if-then-else, a sort of pattern matching); and so on and so forth.) It just so happens that this behavior-focused encoding is enough to express arbitrary programs - which is the opposite of limiting!
Simple Implementation of CycleGAN-Based Image Converter
Current reality is depressing. It’s not like he is distorting it for profit or anything.
Woz did a gnomdex talk in 2004 describing the power of exactly that; having the whole system in your head and being able to optimize because of that connectedness in one mind.
It doesn't seem quite the same, but your comment strongly reminded me of https://www.econlib.org/an-epic-example-of-wealth-destructio... .
I think we should be teaching how to care about the clothing properly kids in school. I have learned it myself and I am sure I am doing it completely wrong.

Unfortunately, various industries don't really want you to know. They want to sell you more stuff.
I think the question should be 'could we survive' by turning up the thermostat... I'm miserable if it falls below 72 (I used to be hot all the time, had surgery in 2012 and now I'm always cold), but in the winter I set the heater to 64 and just bundle up. In the summer so far we've had the furnace off all summer except when my wife was baking up a storm for a birthday party and needed to keep the atmosphere cool for the cakes and because she raised the indoor temp 20 degrees.

We live by the mountains and luckily face the sun in a way that our indoor temp runs about 10 degrees less than outdoor w/ the windows up. If we started getting 90+ inside I might decide to turn on A/C, but so far it only gets to 84 this summer, and it's not so bad in the basement where it's closer to 74, or in front of the window fan in the living area.

If society as a whole could just choose collectively to set a minimum thermostat threshold of 78 for summer and 64 for winter, I think that alone could have a drastic effect on climate change. Freeze or sweat a little and be a little uncomfortable? So what deal with it. It's life, but we don't need to go to extremes and freeze/heat a lot or past what is bearable. If we can't mentally function as a result and do our jobs then we need to alter things.

We might even find ourselves and bodies get 'used' to the new temperatures. People in phoenix wear parka's when it drops below 70, because they're accustomed to a different temp and it feels unbearably cold to them.
There’s a video of him being asked who his professors were at Caltech and MIT. He names two people, one was from a community college and a high school I think.

And he doesn’t explain the science in a detailed or verbose way.
For us, it is a taxable event, it is pretty clear.
Segmentation: A Beginner’s Guide to Targeting People Who Care
The only form of harassment mentioned in the article is allocating employees to positions they don't like. And from the description of the positions, none seems particularly terrible. It's not like if they were asked to clean up a septic tank. And as others mentioned here, it doesn't seem to be a particularly high suicide rate for France either.
Do you have any proof?

The US authorities have literally shown in court they have vast sums backing tethers. Bifinex itself is a money printing machine.

I'd love to take some serious 5 figure wagers with the people who say this stuff. Because they've been saying it for years now and have been consistently proven wrong.
Certainly. And for men vs women, old vs young, and others.
Each button has a unique code. It's packetized as usb or Bluetooth & sent to your pc. That's it.
I think most likely the government’s not involved. They’re just individuals being scammed by unscrupulous people. There are certainly counter intelligence aspects and perhaps secret testing of technology but neither are primary to the claims of ‘disclosure’.
(which the previous doctor ruled out without testing)

You literally said in your first paragraph that he ran tests.

Then in your second paragraph, you wrote that they tested for viruses, which is generally unheard of for respiratory viruses.
They would not have cell membranes with phospholipids for one thing.
> the emergence of an intelligent, technologically capable species (i.e. humans) is a relatively very recent occurrence in Earth's history.

Citaton needed.
Very nice article! Explores all the tricks I know of, and a few more. Never heard of the execute_values before, only a bit (3x in the example) slower than using copy but much simpler code.
Companies often hire new employees instead of retraining existing ones.
You’re in luck: https://idlewords.com
Buses and backpack won't expose you to different culture. Esp, in a country as big as the US. Unless you live close to the southern border, you won't even be exposed to people speaking a different language, which is an important thing to experience.
Full-spec cables are only $30+ because that includes a premium margin for being full-spec, as a differentiator.

If all USB-C detached cables had to meet full-spec then there would be price competition.
"Family friendly 1980s style clicker game with nudity" uh, what?
Let's not forget that, at least in the case of New York, mass transit was deliberately pushed out, in pursuit of some kind of elitist pipe dream. The more I read about Robert Moses, the less respect I have for his legacy.
That website also claims Californium is used to make jewelry. Personally I have my doubts about that
shouldn't the community have some input into whom the community lets in though? It appears to be very top down and exclusionary rather than inclusive, im not sure how well that will work in building a social network.
In my case there isnt anything I didnt expect. Also closing the apps that were running e.g. RabbitMQ actually stopped the webservers.
Photons do interact electromagnetically [1], just not in the same direct way as gluons.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-photon_physics
Would millions of minority citizens interned in "re-education" camps count as "trifles" in your estimation? Because a lot of people internationally are not fans of that, and it's hardly a matter of pride or power struggle. It's an authoritarian government mistreating its citizens without due cause. That's exactly what HK people are trying to prevent happening to them...

The old guard, many immigrated from the mainland, strive to one day democratize China. Hong Kong's youngsters say "screw that, let them keep their dictatorship, we just want to be left alone with the freedoms we've got"
This assumes the price of bitcoin is not manipulated, specifically by bitfinex and tether. Both may go down together when more news of manipulation comes out.

At this point, I wouldn't recommend going near any of the current cryptocurrencies, for any use.
Interesting but your thought experiment only "proves" that the likelihood for something that can replicate itself to emerge is far smaller than the likelihood that that something eventually evolves into something extremely complex. Nothing more imho.
Illumos Makes Me Nostalgic
> It was secretly installing webservers that dont even remove themselves when you uninstall the app that makes them scum.

To be fair, dragging an "app" to Trash does not constitute un-installation. It was a poor design decision to implement features using a local web server, but let's not be so quick to attribute covert, malicious intentions.
There are reasons why it will be difficult to write a GUI for rsync:

1. The 80% use case for rsync is a carefully crafted pre-set script that runs in a crontab, not as a one-off thing that you select options for and hit "run".

2. There are so many switches and options that you're not going to be able to model them all in a coherent manner without overwhelming the user.

3. The price of failure is data loss, which means that people will either be afraid to use it, or foolishly lose data and then be afraid to use it. A dry-run mode helps, but is not a panacea.

What you need is a multipart system:

1. A set of vetted recipes with good, succinct descriptions of what they do, why they're useful, and where the cliffs are, and a program to apply them for the specific user.

2. A design GUI that helps guide you through the process of building your own recipes.

3. A runner for running your recipes from the command line, so you can crontab it (if the recipe system doesn't generate self-contained executables - scripts or whatever - that you can just call directly).

4. A runner for running or testing your recipes in a GUI environment, for the 5% of times you actually need this.

Trying to mix more than one of these parts into a single program is a UX mistake.
That's not a bug, it's a feature! The server can "seamlessly" (surreptitiously) re-install the app when hitting one of their "join room" links.

At least some of the reason for putting it there in the first place is so it can hang around and be insecure in case they want to use it later.

The really insidious part is that users who uninstalled it previously won't receive this update removing it now. And a vanishingly small percentage of those will see this and respond by removing it.

I certainly won't ever hit the install button on a video conferencing browser extension ever again. If Zoom was doing this I have zero confidence in
I think that is a bit of an exaggeration in as much as there were plenty of other designs under way, with at least Commodore and Tandy hitting the market at the same time as Apple reached any kind of volume, and a multitude of small volume designs around. If Apple hadn't been there, people would have just bought one of the others.

E.g Commodore's Chuck Peddle was part of actually designing the 6502 with Bill Mensch, and went on to lead work on the PET which reached the market about the same time, and Commodore machines outsold pre-Mac Apple machines by a substantial factor from the very beginning.

The early Apple machines were too expensive to get the same reach, and never penetrated many markets at all (I'd never seen one in person growing up in Norway until the Mac - it simply wasn't a thing there, same as in many other European countries).

Woz's designs may well have been influential in some parts, but e.g Peddle spoke to Woz and Jobs when peddling (sorry) the 6502 to them, and was subsequently very dismissive about them, so the Commodore team explicitly went a different direction because Peddle saw their approach as too hacky and decided to build his own instead of considering licensing theirs, and so he's one of few people that have designed a computer from the CPU itself and up.

While his assessment of Apple will have to stand for Peddle's personal opinion, the point is that Commodore as well as Tandy/RadioShack machines would likely have hit the market at the same time irrespective of Apple, and in many markets they - especially Commodore - totally trounced Apple in vokumes anyway, so while I know Apple was influential to some, I really don't see any of those tree taken out of the equation changing things that much.

In fact to me my primary interest in the early Apple machines is because it's like a window into an alternate past that's just totally foreign to me because to me early Apple was just not a part of my childhood (my friends all had Commodore, Spectrum, Atari or Amstrad machines with some poor soul stuck with a Tandy; the mix varied greatly by country, but Apple was in very rarely in Europe, with strong sales in only a handful of countries), and it's fascinating.
What is surprising to me is not just that it's always DNA, but that it's always translated in the same way (codons to aminoacids, and the mapping function is fixed). Is there any simple reason for that?
Predictable, Passphrase-Derived PGP Keys
Tor is identified and blocked reliably, whether using bridges, relays, or anything else.
I mainly blame the doctor for not testing for strep

Strep has to be cultured. In the meantime, the care you were given was absolutely appropriate.
Impossible if you have any skin conditions. I suffer from eczema (fortunately mild now, but in the past I was seriously considering suicide), and one of the things that reliably trigger a flare-up are unwashed clothes covered in dust mite excrement. Neither sun nor cold will help with that, only good old washing.
"History of Earth"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Earth
Proponents claim sticking them in the freezer kills the germs. I’m not sure I’m convinced - I’d love to see some research om the topic.
So basically personnel can't access the reactor and engine compartments from the life support units, the sub has to surface. Here's a bigger version of the same diagram with readable text:

http://www.hisutton.com/images/Ru_Losharik_Cutaway.jpg

Skegs, hydraulic manipulator, no weapons. It's clearly ment to tamper with undersea cables.
Because these are extremely subsidised. Besides that, those airlines use every dark pattern in the book, so most people end up paying significantly more.
I have never heard of James Bowman before. I’ll look into his writing some more.

Would you mind pointing me to some more of these interesting writers?
Qubes OS is an operating system which pursues exactly these design goals, and unlike iOS, it is free and open source.
Thanks for staying awesome :)
“Close to 10%” of Autopilot software team reportedly departs after shakeup
If we succeed, it would be the most important breakthrough in the history of humanity, and would have very deep existential implications. It wouldn't definitely rule out a supreme being as the creator of the universe we live in, but it would make the gap between us and that being much smaller than millions of people on earth believe now.
http://archive.is/CPhan
Ryanair,which is pretty successful business, is essentially a flying kiosk. The tickets are cheap but you pay for everything else.We had a company trip from London to Ibiza. Throughout the entire flight stewardess hasn't managed to wheel out the trolley with drinks,because there was a constant queue of 10-15 people buying alcohol. An average pub on Friday night doesn't sell as many drinks as they did on that flight. They also make tons of money from car rental,hotel, insurance referrals and many other upsells. No one in his own mind would otherwise think that running a plane that costs tens of millions of dollars with tickets worth €9 can be profitable.
They just pushed a commit which attempts to give you some credit[0]

> Note that using this **project for commercial purposes
or change of licensing terms must be agreed upon with**
[uJ](http://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=12.%20uJ%20-%20a%20micro%20JVM)
developer **Dmitry Grinberg**.

And they've added your licence back into a few header files.

* 2. uJ cannot be used in a commercial product/service without first obtaining
* permission from me (dmitrygr@<redacted>).

[0]: https://github.com/Samsung/uJVM/commit/6f705aa2b2e46ca5e43b2...
Helper agents are dark patterns.

Unless installing an always running service on my device is directly related to the intended functionality of your software, setting one up is unwelcome and deceptive. Especially when it is done to work around existing security controls.
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