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I'm just saying that tether has worked for years, and the peg seems to be still there. All those years also people have been saying that tether will lose its liquidity any moment. Might be but tha market data says what it says.

As I said I haven't used tether and highly probably will never use it - I don't have any use case, bitcoin is enough for me. However if I had some use-case for moderate amount and months of timespan, I would probably use it (depending of course on other alternatives - AFAIK USDT is de facto "USD coin" on many exchanges).
Not seldom can you measure how unequal a society is by the bizarreness of the leisure time of the upper classes.
Blowfish predates the AES (and I believe he designed this one solo), Twofish was an AES finalist, and more recently Skein was a SHA3 finalist. I'd say his crpyptography credentials check out.
What did you think it's age was?
That's pretty harsh, given his contribution to the field.

FWIW, I met him briefly at a developer conference in Norway a few years ago, and he actually seemed quite humble.
One thing that might be useful to you is to play around with something like FreeRTOS. A simple os for micro-controllers.

What is useful about that it's simple enough to understand the various parts and how they work. Long time ago I ported µC/OS to a new microprocessor. It was very instructive.
Other people may say that photons are just mathematical tools that we use to describe fields. :-)
> Another risk is that, after I've invested a lot in Dark, you increase your prices, and I can't switch because I'm dependent on your product. The switching cost would be rewriting my entire code base (my biggest investment).

This would also kill the company.

We are actually looking at ways to mitigate this risk, as we do agree that being locked in is a real risk. We also have to provide sustainability to the business, as Dark failing as a business isn't helpful for our customers either. We're thinking about this, but nothing concrete yet.
Is there a line between where light neither escape or get swallowed. Simply just stands still in perfect balance between being pulled and escaping?
Your comment makes me think of the premise behind Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

Judge Doom: Several months ago I had the good providence to stumble upon this plan of the city council's. A construction plan of epic proportions. They're calling it a freeway.

Eddie Valiant: Freeway? What the hell's a freeway?

Judge Doom: Eight lanes of shimmering cement running from here to Pasadena. Smooth, safe, fast. Traffic jams will be a thing of the past.

Eddie Valiant: So that's why you killed Acme and Maroon? For this freeway? I don't get it.

Judge Doom: Of course not. You lack vision. I see a place where people get on and off the freeway. On and off, off and on all day, all night. Soon, where Toontown once stood will be a string of gas stations, inexpensive motels, restaurants that serve rapidly prepared food. Tire salons, automobile dealerships and wonderful, wonderful billboards reaching as far as the eye can see. My God, it'll be beautiful.

Eddie Valiant: Come on! Nobody's going to drive this lousy freeway when they can take the Red Car for a nickel.

Judge Doom: Oh, they'll drive. They'll have to. You see, I bought the Red Car so I could dismantle it.
Are you aware, that in the real world, there are never all the conditions exactly known?
Why are there no other human species (anymore)? Because there was no room for them anymore and they could not compete. In the same way, it it very well possible that life utilizing other genetic code got stamped out (early on).
Mixing code and data, right? I think the downside here is if you tried to install another hook it’d fail because the LDE wouldn’t be able to make heads or tails of the address. I suggest embedding the value into something with an imm64 argument (mov?) so that LDEs can handle it.

I guess also though, at ~16 bytes its probably deep enough into the function that it may no longer be position independent, or hell, maybe the function isn’t even that long to begin with.
Let's not forget that they have control of Hulu now too, although they're still waiting for CNBCUniversal to relinquish their 33% to them before they completely own it.

If the previous are the Infinity Stones, Hulu and Disney+ (and ESPN+) are their Infinity Gauntlet.
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> Unless the cost equation changes, it is hard to get business users to change their priority

With GDPR getting teeth (see recent fines of BA and Marriott) for security breaches, I think this is the beginning of that cost equation changing.

But also bear in mind this is a company who have someone with the title Chief Information Security Officer. If alarm bells didn’t start ringing for that person when this vulnerability was reported, then they likely aren’t the right person for the job. Especially as Zoom have customers in the EU so that person is also likely their nominated Data Protection Officer and should therefore be well aware of the privacy requirements imposed by GDPR and the penalties for a privacy breach (which someone secretly recording webcam footage would surely qualify as).

As for local helper agents accessible from the internet, you only need to browse google project zero to see what a bad idea that is.
Flow chart is really cool!

I wonder what the biomass used for transportation is?
Extremely tightly coupled. That's kinda the point "what can we do if we don't have to couple dark to anything else" (eg editors, other languages). I can't imagine how you'd couple Dark to another language, but I also don't see the point?
People died and were maimed so Crush was fired, but then the company realized people enjoyed it and could still profit off these spectacles so they hired Crush back.

One engineer warned that they locamotives would explode and they shunned him as a debbie downer naysayer.

Doesn't seem that far off from today where profits trump safety and any reason that stands in the way is ignored.
Oh yes, quantum electromagnetic quantum field. Just add "quantum" and the discussion is over.
It’s all, cough, implementation dependent. You can run two VideoBIOS implementations, and chances are only one will install an int10h handler, but both will set up the registers and whatnot in the GPUs.

My AMD TAHITIs for instance need VideoBIOS to start some form of thermal management loop - otherwise they just run full-throttle on the fan.

Then whichever card prevails (BIOS has the ability to select the initialization order) becomes the boot display device.

X11 has some (generally working, for well behaved GPUs) emulation of this environment, so that the GPU can initialize late, and even reset under X control. This is how sane cards can work under headless ARM etc.

Now, some manufacturers assume you get something like SSE or MMX - VideoBIOS spec technically mandates 386 instruction set only.
That crap gets badly emulated.

On top of this, drivers can sometimes reinit anyways, from native kernel code. If that happens, the VideoBIOS concerns are moot.
Can we not just install better filters in our water treatment facilities?
That depends on the product being taxed.
I learned this in econ101 that the price elasticity of demand determines who bears the bulk of a tax. I don’t have references in my old textbooks handy, but here is exactly the same concept as I learned it[1]

Basically, if demand for a product is inelastic (eg. cigarettes, insulin) that will pretty much be 100% passed on to customers by the business. You can see the supplied link for examples where the seller has no choice but to eat the tax (or most of it) or people will just stop purchasing.

[1] https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/microec...
Did you even read the article? 40.000 people went there.
Fundamentally I think both XRP and Bitcoin are equally worthless tokens with little practical use. However, XRP at least doesn't waste a huge amount of electricity in the process of sending those tokens around - and it does so instantly. That's a consequence of not being fully decentralized and trustless. Another consequence is that it isn't vulnerable to a 51% attack or a 33% attack.

Of course the market says both of these tokens are worth billions in market cap. It treats it exactly like a cryptocurrency, feeding on the cryptocurrency hype. Clearly the market doesn't value decentralization to the point where XRP is shunned.
“Areas that never need air conditioning” covers most of the Uk, and with a slight tweak to the wording you could cover all of it - and the UK is the BBC’s target market.

(I’ve never felt the need to wash jeans more when working in air conditioned UK offices. Maybe it’s the humidity.)
Interesting story, though I can't say the practice is celebratory. I think there's too much waste in the world, starting from such events where things are like...getting crushed for fun, ending tot he food restaurants throw out. Yet it's an interesting phenomena about the train crashes
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I hope they don't add Jupyter notebooks to the syllabus. One day we'll wonder what went bad and whole programs are written in a single module/file :)

Jokes aside, Jupyter and relevant projects are great tools but they drive programmers towards wrong paths.
Indian Chndrayaan-2 is ready to land on the moon in next week
Great!

I was thinking about using a SMT ribbon cable connector because of the limited available space, but apparently it won't be an issue if you raise the board high enough?

Anyway, if this project ever goes to batch-production, make sure to update your blog when the funding campaign starts!
Because the business model of reselling keys is built entirely upon a combination of fencing stolen goods and encouraging people to violate the terms of service of the stores they're buying keys from. There's no legitimate market here, and thus no business model worth protecting.

Remember, we're not talking about the equivalent of selling used digital games. Once someone redeems a code, they can't resell it.
Just leaving them in an airy place already works. I once forgot my sweaty (school) sport clothes in my bag over holidays... When I noticed it after a few weeks they didn't smell of anything anymore.
Doesn’t kill everything. Puts bugs in stasis, drops evaporation of smelly compounds. Smells will return as bacteria recovers outside the freezer.
Sundiver is a recommended read in that regard ;)
For anybody interested in PCI Express on Arm there are already boards with PCI express connector, like
https://store.pine64.org/?product=rockpro64-4gb-single-board...
You just want to kill the bacteria that cause smell, not necessarily sterilize your clothes.
Fucking cloud shit
Aha, do note that sarcasm mostly goes down badly on hn, because literal people, and jokes historically frowned upon.
Technologically superior? The Omni implementation is being dropped by binance because it's so slow and expensive and they're using the erc20 token instead - exactly what USDC uses
Briars. Insects. Safety regulations. And despite the many catcalls from attractive women my fashion advisor says the boots and jorts look is just so two-thousand-and-late.
The fact that gauge fields have redundant degrees of freedom should at least be a strong hint that the fields are not the fundamental description. ;)
Another way of stating this could be "transport is a policy question." How cities are built and what transport infrastructure they're built around.

Im fairly sympathetic to the overall aims of this article. I think a transport system more similar to those in the Netherlands makes for better urban landscapes.

But... this habitual style of treating everything as a conspiracy, built around a personified enemy ("They gave legal force to a mind-set—let’s call it automobile supremacy—that kills 40,000 Americans a year)... this way of thinking isn't doing us any favours.

In day-to-day political conversations and articles, it's mostly just formulaic and lazy. Name the conspiracy, point to vested interests that have been influencing policy, find a link to established personifications of evil.. big oil and segregation, in this case.

I'm not saying we should never think in abstractions... but there is a formulaic pattern here that's old, paranoid and harmful.
Ethanol produced from biomass mixed into gasoline or diesel.
Raw denim folk can get religious about not washing their jeans. Sadly freezing doesn't help if they smell, they might feel fresher after taking them out, but the funk will be back as soon as they thaw.
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They are mixing apples and oranges indeed.
Not saying people shouldn't wash their clothes, but that flower (or other) smell you seem to find pleasant isn't pleasant for everybody. Don't know why, genetically probably, but I really dislike most synthetic smells. It's also not just the smell but also the fact it's constantly there, sort of annoying me. I'd rather have people wash their clothes using water (lots of clothes don't seem dirty enough to really require soap, as far as I can tell) and then hang them outside to dry. Though I realize that is not an option for the majority of the population. But it would me nice if most of those products would smell less, or if at least people would use less. It's not because the marleting department of a product decides X is the right amount to advertise, that it's also what is really required,.
Think hard before introducing a free plan. People invest their time in your product, so may (i) introduce a support burden, and (ii) be unhappy if you decide to start charging. It's not an easy two-way door.

People who submit their credit card are serious about trying your product. This is partly through selection bias (only those who are serious will sign up) but the act of entering a credit card also encourages people to be more serious about trying out a product. (This could be because they want to feel consistent: I entered my credit card, so I must be considering this product seriously. I'm considering it seriously so I can't just not bother to log in during the free trial.)

I'd go for 2 to start with. It is likely to maximise trial->paid conversion, whilst reducing # trials. This will be easier for you to manage (in terms of support costs and customer discovery), and it keeps the door open for the other options later.
I want the majority of the road network roofed with turf into a long hill with occaisional exits, or lowered and moved completely underground.
Sounds good to me. Do you have PostgreSQL integration?
Thanks for the information. I’ve been really curious about this with the incoming ARM dev boards that have full PCI-e edge connectors.

Pretty fascinating that X11 of all things is dealing with Video BIOS initialization, though. The sheer amount of functionality that was overloaded into X...
https://store.avantek.co.uk/arm-desktops.html bit pricey but it exists already
It's sad that the myth of freezers killing germs is still a thing. I wonder how many deaths (or at least general "health incidents") per year are a consequence of this. The fact it's from BBC and they quote _someone_ that's apparently a professor (they don't even mention the profession, just some "head of fashion design curse", whatever that means ...) will make many more people believe such false claims and spread the myth and the implicated problems it brings even further.
Atleast things were "planned" in the US.

In my country (India), there is hardly any planning -- empty land == lets buy and build a building. No regulation even on buying cars, keep on piling and spend an hour or two for a 8 KM ride home from your office.

There is no incentive to use public transport. There is no special lanes for public transport. No one follows the "lane rules" either. They(us) got enough money to buy a car but no sense on how to use them properly.

And note that cars much costlier in India if you consider PPP. Its horrible.
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That article comes so close to defeating its own argument it's painful. If that land wasn't protected with zoning, it would have been built up long ago into a typical sprawling suburbia – the opposite of what they propose. So if it had been unprotected in the past, that would have been bad. And if it stays protected that's bad because it's underused.

It is only this short sliver of time that is today that this land should be developed into their dream city. That will somehow miraculously withstand the test of time.

No, it won't, that's just greed and narcissism – thinking that we're so special today that we deserve to have that land unprotected for us but doing that for either future or past generations is a mistake.
Coincidentally, the SmarterEveryDay YouTube channel also posted [0] a video where Destin visits the mentioned repository. The organization system is fascinating.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxZ_iPldGtI
The opposite of the ad hominem also applies. Why is she eminently qualified to provide the correct answer to this particular problem?
Point being where is the line? How high are the stakes (bridge: say 20 human lives at any time, very important). How dangerous is it really? (10% chance of fire per year: extremely high). Then you combine those two and see if they match.

Everything has a limit. Otherwise why do you trust your compiler, your computer, your eyes, your sanity?

Be careful with a word like malpractice, and analogies that suggest blithe endangerment of human lives. It doesn’t leave a lot of room for honest engagement and suggests you either don’t understand the human mind, or the value of a human life.
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The main problem described as modern clothing releases microfibers during washing. Why not just move to natural fiber as humans did for centuries?
Cotton doesn't have the same lingering looking lasting effects.
But this is the nature of UFO! They're always zipping about in the gray area of "barely detectable". If an object is easy to detect, it's also easy to identify with our array of sensors. If it's not detectable we don't know there's an UFO. So we'll always puzzle over grainy footage and blips on the radar.

These cameras are going to clear up some of the mysteries we've seen in the past. But they are going to find more, further out.
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Who's to say that this wouldn't also attract crowds today.
Not the OP, but I had eczema that required regular steroid cream treatment. It did get somewhat better in my twenties, but it wasn't until I started experimenting with different lotions and moisturizers that things got a lot better.

In general, light lotions with glycerine seem to work best for me (they even taste slightly sweet). Finding Palmer's cocoa butter lotion was literally a life changer though - I apply a thin layer after ever shower, and I finally know what it's like to have normal-people skin in my thirties.

I know exactly what you mean about quality of life. It sucks when your skin is bad; _everything_ feels continuously uncomfortable. I'm not sure the same thing will work for you, but I really would encourage you to experiment with different moisturizers. Work out what's different about the better ones, and iteratively improve from there. I thought they were basically all the same, but they're really not!
Suburbs, sure, but do malls really favor cars? Where I grew up, the mall was the only place where people would walk from one store to another instead of driving. I’ve also been in plenty of urban malls that have excellent public transit connections and are situated on busy pedestrian streets.
Tony knows the chance of head 99 times in a row is enormously smaller than the chance he's being played for a sucker.
I've always wanted to crash two double decker buses head on.
The point is this: "Assume that a coin is fair" ... "the coin gotta be loaded"

In the example, Fat Tony is wrong because he contradicts the initial assumption. However, the example is unrealistic because, initially, you don't know if the coin is fair or loaded. You just flip it, see 99 heads and then conclude, with probability very close to 1, that the coin is loaded. (You could still be wrong, but likely aren't).

So in a realistic scenario, Fat Tony would be right, except that the scenario was intentionally set up to be unrealistic.

(edit: typo)
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Assuming UFO != alien, then this is definitely interesting. There are definitely atmospheric phenomena we know little or nothing about. Sprites, elves, jets, ball lightning and so on. More data on that would be exciting.

2019: "Quick get my worst camera so I can snap this UFO!"
I only have to deal with localized eczema flareups - when they happen they always start with small blisters forming on my middle or ring fingers, and was more frequent on my right hand. Probably very small compared to what you have to deal with, but when it first started happening over 20 years ago, it took some heavy steroid creams or ointments to control.

Over the years outbreaks have become less frequent, and now when I start to feel the tightness that would signal an upcoming outbreak can be alleviated with normal moisturizers and if it does get worse, it just requires frequent moisturizing rather than steroids.

As far as I can tell, over time the immune system continues to evolve. I can't promise the same will happen to you, but it is possible. Other allergies can be similar - especially generalized allergies - they seem to sometimes get worse or better without any real change in exposure to allergens.
> Considering all “solutions” to the “problem” of climate change involve a radical remaking of society, it’s not unreasonable or unserious to ask for more data.

We need to replace our energy sources with renewable and/or nuclear ones, we do not have to radically remake society.
My personal favorite is "closer to truth".

It touches on everything - math, biology, religion, philosophy, physics.
Jayz2cents - lots of info and tutorials on custom PC water cooling. Last year I heavily binged his videos and built a custom rig with a custom loop. It's great fun.
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> I'm just saying that tether has worked for years, and the peg seems to be still there.

But traditionally in finance, when things go wrong everything is fine for a few years then everyone loses all their money.
I wonder if clean up was part of the costs. I imagine there's quite a few parts that are difficult to move without heavy machinery. Or did they just leave the wreck and tracks as is? If so are there any of those crash sites still visible?
Eh? Maybe it was different in the West but in India everyone without washing machines would still have their clothes hand washed.
What I've always found wild about gravity and photons is that gravity produces the same proportionate effect, i.e., acceleration, on them as it does normal matter and the only reason the sun and planets don't render light nearly unusable for sensing by utterly distorting the light's path is that it travels so quickly it doesn't spend any significant amount of time in a gravity well.

I don't think I'll ever fully wrap my head around the kind of numbers that implies, that when light is at approximately sea level it is accelerating at 9.8m/s^2 toward the core of the earth and the only reason it doesn't all get dragged out of the air and to the ground is that it moves too fast to notice.
The website seems a bit broken (in Firefox 67):

- "Log in" link does nothing

- this green link(?) also does nothing https://i.vgy.me/D0oGjd.png

- the Pricing page is empty https://i.vgy.me/17yhiD.png (it works in Chrome though)

- the newsletter form layout is broken https://i.vgy.me/P4qtHn.png (seems okay in Chrome too)