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France to block development of Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency
I just use premailer[1] to automatically convert the email html I write to outlook compatible html 0.1 gibberish

[1]: https://github.com/peterbe/premailer
Might sound like a conspiracy, but yes, I think they are getting money. They are definitely not sending the entire browsing history of users (DoH) and even the contents (VPN[]) to CloudFlare and getting nothing in return... right?

[] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20927832
Perhaps because mercury used to be used in thermometers, and the liquid now used in its place is often coloured red (and still often referred to as "mercury").
Not everybody lives in the US. I trust my ISP. They are cool, and their handling of my data is regulated under the GDPR and other laws. CloudFlare? Not so much.
Only if you sell it for human consumption.

"Red Mercury: As used by the Ancient Egyptians to embalm their Kings"

Would probably get you the right demographic.

You do raise a good moral point though. Selling someone some red food colouring is 'just' fraud, selling someone a toxic substance that kills them may be further than the average fraudster is willing to go.
Great, competitors will leave the market.
Yes, because we're competing with each other. If there's 5 houses and 6 well-paid developers bidding on them you still have a problem.

(Pity the poor teacher, nurse, etc. who's just SOL)
Heathrow Pause: A Response to the Climate and Ecological Emergency [pdf]
Before that, there was the Quark X series. I still have a Galileo board running Debian.
No Netflix doesn’t. It’s a frequent complaint from producers of Netflix originals that Netflix doesn’t share viewership numbers with producers.

If you look at all of their published deals like with STARZ, NBC for Friends, Disney etc. you can see they pay one fixed cost.
That'd be something, people travel for 30 years to a distant planet, die four days later because something in the atmosphere we didn't account for and did not filter properly, or a crystalline fungus that eats away our suits.
> [...] because it may incentivize landlords to hike rent to maximum because they won't have have the flexibility to do that in the future if the market changes.

Relatively unlikely to have a big impact. Even without such a law they already have an incentive to raise rents as how as possible: profit.

Mostly the law should be a no-op.

I'm not sure what the argument is for why freedom of contract can't provide the "increase < inflation + 5%" provision voluntarily?
Maybe because of cinnabar

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnabar
No, you can’t do that day after day for any extended period of time. You certainly can’t with algo trading. The spread alone would cost you more than .1%, so you would have to make more than that just to be profitable. In 18 months of trading, what net return have you made?
> the NSA and KGB each run a server and content themselves with getting a sample

Which is already a lot better than getting 100% from simply spying on CloudFlare or serving them with "National Security Letters".
Mozilla is large enough that they could go over to the Zulip developers and ask nicely for what they need, and stand a good chance of getting it.
Points taken. Maybe the reviewers should be anonymous, but I still believe that making the reviews public after publication is a good thing (anonymized).

> The reviewer is known to the editor, so you already have some accountability there.

Yes. I think it is not enough though.

> That is your job!

Well, yes it is. But, assuming the author is acting in good faith, it is still possible to miss some references. You can kindly point out the references and ask for clarification as to why the material isn't cited. I may have gone too far by handing the arguments to the authors.
I live in Sweden, which is heavily rent controlled. Let me just say that this hasn't worked out. Rental apartment contracts in larger cities gets sold on the black market for larger sums.

Queues are over 10 years in many cities and there is no real way of getting a rental apartment in any larger city. This means people are pushed into buying a housing apartment which cost a lot of money and drives up prices a lot.

It's not viable or logical that an apartment in central Stockholm should cost as much as an apartment in a small village in northen Sweden.

Norway, Finland and Denmark all have more free market and it's much easier to find a rental in all those countries. I would advice against having rent control.
Wouldn't you lose tenants, if rent goes too high?
What about an ambassador?
This comment makes the most sense to me
Example - Ethiopian Airlines flies from Dublin to Los Angeles. Dublin is, I believe, a "fuel stop" since the flight originates in Ethiopia.
I admit I have some bias here being British, and just assuming the banking system won’t go under. I think if I was actually going to execute on this I’d end up finding a bunch of countries with well-established trust law and spread it between them.
Nobody in the UK cares about "protecting" rarely-discussed foreign opposition politicians like Herzog - they're utterly irrelevant to people objecting to heads of disciplinary panels defending unambiguously racist stuff like this[1] as "out of context" and demanding their reinstatement to run for public office

[1]https://www.thejc.com/image/policy:1.461236:1521729565/.jpg?...

Nothing demonstrates the nature of racism problem the Labour Party has quite as much as arguments such as yours that objecting to stuff like this is "reinterpretation" as part of a shadowy Israeli conspiracy to protect Islamophobes
It took a couple of paragraphs for me to realize what the article was about. I thought it was "Parasite CEO", that the boss is doing nothing while also stealing company resources.. arguably a somewhat common phenomena.

But it's about Parasitic Search Enginge Optimizations.
Scientists were not sure if it's safe to use Crispr on people, the chinese tried it and now we know that someone has tried it. - that's about all of the info in the article
>the chronically unemployed are excluded from the count

This is untrue. There are various measures of unemployment, each of which includes/excludes different factors. Believe it or not, some people actually use this data for work, and sometimes not including, say, people who aren't even looking for work, makes sense depending on what you're analyzing.

>Everybody is happy to agree with me when I say that China fudges their numbers, but when I say other countries are capable of the same thing they tell me I'm crazy

I know folks who work for StatsCan and the BLS. You should provide evidence before accusing hard-working people of corruption. There's nothing intellectual about pointing to random things and saying, "could be a conspiracy!" Yeah, anything could be.
> They could have made their own movie scenes but that would probably be too expensive so they used someone else's.

That's like saying when you copied part of the previous comment[1], you could have written your own quote instead. EFAP's whole point is analysing the movies we have seen; creating their own scenes is not just more expensive, it would be missing the point.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20388320
Ask HN: Any system architecture paradigm inspired by functional programming?
Email is so fun, every time someone comes with a new idea, someone pulls out an RFC detailing it. Dated 20+ years back.
Another Interstellar ‘Visitor’ Is Headed Our Way
It's not just virtual currencies, it's permanence and tradability, kids don't just buy booster packs and take what they can get, they trade cards in complex ways, in some cases gift them to friends who wants to play, and the stack of cards is a visual representation of how much you've spent, whereas in some games, PUBG Mobile for example, your cosmetics literally disappear after a fixed time and if you have many duplicates of a common item, you can trade them, but only for the in game currency that can only buy the cheapest forms of crates.

Also, depending on the platform kids can spend their parents money with no oversight if their parents don't understand how in app payments work, whereas most parents would never send their small child to a store with their credit card unsupervised.
>we can eventually reach a post-scarcity, totally automated, enlightened civilization

this won't happen automatically. it will have to be a conscious decision. how do you propose to get there instead of the dystopian future where things are infinitely more scarce for some and not for others which seems to be our default trajectory
> which is more than the populations of three mentioned countries (US, Russia and Australia) put together.

Not sure it matters, but only by a small margin is that true. 500M vs 515M.
Another aspect is that the physical items take up actual physical space. You have to store them somewhere, and you have to look at them, and you might easier come to the realization that what you are doing is completely ridiculous.

And for the sellers of these physical items they also take up space, shelf space, and seeing a large number of extremely similar items for similar games in one retail location, might also clue you in faster on how ridiculous the thing is.

The physical items quickly run into physical limitations, which is good. The virtual items on the other hand have zero limitations, zero rules, it's all just pixels and database entries, and the presentation of what you "have" can be managed, hidden, manipulated, so that you still think you have nothing and need to buy more pixels.
I kind of disagree with this view over salaries. There’s a lot of rules to bring a skilled worker from outside of EU. One in particular deals with how low can your salary be, which if I remember correctly is around 45~50k. The main problem I see is with poor countries inside EU. I remember a Portuguese girl in my previous company with similar role and experience making 30k a year, she left when while complaining about salary they said they could offer a 10% raise which would be an amazing raise for her. Same situation on the current company, this time with a Hungarian guy.
Neglected Risks, Financial Innovation, and Financial Fragility (2011) [pdf]
I have owned income property in San Diego for over thirty years, so I have a direct interest in this.

After looking at the details, this law looks OK for the present but if we enter a period of hyper inflation then it is not so good. The 5% plus inflation might not be enough since the government jumps through hoops to underestimate the rate of inflation. If we have 75% inflation and the government admits to only 20% inflation (for a hypothetical argument), then landlords will be damaged financially. I believe that sometime the government will inflate its way out of debt.
Many times when I see this kind of articles about cure for HIV and cancer I do some research, get to the page of the project that work on the cure and understand that we are still really far from getting to a point wherer there is a cure and it's just a marketing tricks they do to raise funds for their research

I support this kind of innovation and understand that the marketing buzz is necessary for the projects to raise funds

just keep in mind that those titles sometimes are pretty far from reality
Indian Economy on retreat, what to behold?
>but that's what we were talking about.

This controversy is directly related. You should inform yourself.

Canadian taxpayers spent $100MM evacuating Lebanese Canadians from Lebanon in 2006, many of whom were citizens but had never paid taxes to Canada. We now bill for extrication. Seems like a fair compromise.
Which sounds nice in theory, but there are the usual legal exceptions:

> The resolver must not retain, sell, or transfer to any third party (except as may be required by law) any personal information, IP addresses or other user identifiers, or user query patterns from the DNS queries sent from the Firefox browser.

> Transparency Report. There must be a transparency report published at least yearly that documents the policy for how the party operating the resolver will handle law enforcement requests for user data and that documents the types and number of requests received and answered, except to the extent such disclosure is prohibited by law.

> The party operating the resolver should not by default block or filter domains unless specifically required by law in the jurisdiction in which the resolver operates.

This doesn't really matter if you live in the US, but most of us don't.
> Nothing was stopping them from forming an oligopoly [...]

You are forgetting about transaction costs.

The new law does provide a Schelling point. (But I do agree that it's probably not going to be an important one.)
> I've heard a lot of Youtube creators complain about copyright detection but in every case that I can recall, they really did use somebody else's work and the algorithm correctly detected it

Then let me help you: https://www.eff.org/takedowns
Dani Donovan’s ADHD cartoons are a great read: https://twitter.com/danidonovan/status/1100414551932030984?s...

Also see “the sushi train metaphor” from Dr Russ Harris, a psychologist specialising in ACT https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tzUoXJVI0wo
I still pull Perl out when I get a chance.

Its nice for small scripts that people might use bash for. I do Python most of the time, but Perl's syntactic sugar makes it so much nicer for something like looking up a set of files matching a regex, moving and renaming them.
Yeah, for some reason the compass chips or Google Maps sucks so bad with orientation-showing. I suspect it's the latter, because Google Sky Map works great with my phone.
> new, previously impossible jobs.

like this? https://www.vox.com/2018/5/8/17308744/bullshit-jobs-book-dav...
But isn't Markdown a sugar on top of HTML? When something does not fit Markdown one is supposed to write inline HTML.
Zulip uses three classes of communication: Streams which are like IRC channels; each stream has named threads (users are encouraged to reuse or start new ones as appropriate); and private messages can be 1:1 or multiparty.

Zulip doesn't do anything with github other than the regex-based integration -- you can create links more easily, that's it.

Nothing avoids etiquette or enforces etiquette except people.

Muting can be applied to people or named threads.

Zulip defaults to full archiving of everything, and making it searchable as well.
When rents are high we should incentivize development of more housing stock. Increase supply until the market finds balance with the demand. Rent control has the opposite effect. It’s a disincentive to new development.
Maybe in ncmncm's circle they laugh at C developers, but trying to extrapolate that across the finance industry is not credible.

Performance at the sharp end comes from preallocating memory, reducing syscalls, removing PIC (drop the GOT), static linking (enable LTO), using LTO, using simd where possible, hand rolling important functions in assembly, cpusets, reducing network hops, attempting to get the program to fit in L1 cache, putting the code into the switch, moving to fpga, moving to asic.

There's loads more optimizations but almost none of them have anything to do with C++ over C.
If I was one of their shareholders, I would be happy instead, as they seem to have come out as the real good guys in the whole story (unless they were legally obligated for covering the mess).
The State of Linux Gaming in 2019
> 'mumble mumble privacy cloud evil stallman'

RMS was always right especially with regards to privacy.
Not just with each other but if landlords and real estate companies far more wealthier then us, which inflate the demand to a level that doesn’t make any sense. That’s why even earning a top 5% salary you still can’t afford a home close to city centers.
> They say it will be enabled only for providers supporting this. Do they mean DNS servers supporting DoH?

No, they say providers, and mean providers. They are starting their experiment with a whitelist:

* https://www.chromium.org/developers/dns-over-https

If you're already using one of those then Chrome/ium will change from "plain DNS" over to DoH. If you are not using one of them already, then nothing will change.
I suspect Apple has the resources to fight simple trolls?
A woman watching climate change
_Maybe_ you don't need that much CS per se (debateable, but an argument can be made); however you do need a lot of math coursework.

Also, it's far easier to grasp the basics of AI from a course than to reconstruct "basic body of knowledge" just from reading arxiv. As a matter of practical considerations, I just don't believe anybody can become an expert by reading only the research, without going first through the basic training. It's too damned difficult, too much work (and pointless, too - people did that work for you already and built great courses with the summaries, why not take advantage of that?
I use my pfsense router as a DoH recursive resolver, so while DNS is unencrypted inside my local network, all requests are protected when the enter the internet.
This reminds me of a sci-fi book I read when I was a kid called Rocheworld by Robert Forward.

They were going to the Barnard Star, but it had binary planets where one was all water.

Good book (if I recall)..
Go to those countries and get citizenship, then. What's the problem? Oh, it's harder than it looks? I wonder why.

The question no one here answers: why maintain a valueless US citizenship?
With ink (well, inky) I write an email using things like "row", "columns", "spacer" etc. and then a process converts those to HTML+CSS, then another inlines the CSS.

It doesn't seem much different to me.
Is there any special significance to the Collatz function, besides the sportive aspect of the Collatz conjecture being difficult to prove?
Yes, this is correct.

Additionally, massive cash incentives are being handed out in (at least) China [1]. This reward is given based on the impact factor of the journal, which means that excessive citation of your papers can artificially inflate the IF of the journal and lead to higher payout for your next article(s). It's a bit of a stretch, but it could have an impact if it is done on a massive scale.

[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608266/the-truth-about-ch...
Looking at the discussion here, i think there might be a problem regarding peoples frame of reference and vocabulary. What you describe applies to the US, in Europe your bachelor degree consists of 180 -240 ECTS (European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System), with 60 ECTS being equivalent to a year of full time study. The 180 / 240 ECTS are almost exclusively from your field of study. Unless you have a very specialized degree, you wont have any chemistry in your CS degree. The only exceptions for non-CS material is what fundamentals you need for your degree, so for example the mathematical background or scientific writing.
Many extremely smart people have made the point you're disagreeing to before https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6JYk5aCB4A and your reply is not addressing it correctly.

>Under intense enough competitive pressure, unethical actors outcompete ethical actors

This isn't what actually happens in reality because highly unethical behavior is distasteful to most people and for the most part people don't want to work alongside unethical people. Your river analogy has similarly flawed premises that make it hard to even engage with.
>Abstract

>We present a standard model of financial innovation, in which intermediaries engineer securities with cash flows that investors seek, but modify two assumptions. First, investors (and possibly intermediaries) neglect certain unlikely risks. Second, investors demand securities with safe cash flows. Financial intermediaries cater to these preferences and beliefs by engineering securities perceived to be safe but exposed to neglected risks. Because the risks are neglected, security issuance is excessive. As investors eventually recognize these risks, they fly back to safety of traditional securities and markets become fragile, even without leverage, precisely because the volume of new claims is excessive.
Simon Sinek: Applying the Infinite Game Mindset to Business
A vacancy tax is indeed a bit more complicated.

You hint at the easier solution: repeal prop 14 and increase property taxes. A lot. Problem solved.

(If you want to be a bit more sophisticated, look into land value taxes.)
Even if it's just for a PoC with a 1/5th chance of being actually selected in the end?
> If you have a Chromecast

Why the hell would anyone buy hardware from an evil spyware company such as Google?

Of course you can never trust a private corporation to do stuff in the public interest.
Scolp: Streaming Column Printer for Python
My point was that if each retailer has their own unique skus, no one cheap laptop would end up achieving high sales.
I don't know why people are downvoting you, there's surely a privacy implication with such tech. I'm surprised there aren't SDR-based occupancy detectors sold to thieves, that say if people are home or not based on BT/WiFi and in future U1 UWB.
Android does support DNS-over-TLS, and it does it in a way that does not break networks - whatever it gets from DHCP, it tries the same server with DoT first. Users can also configure their preferred DoT server.

Linux, or at least the glibc-based distributions, have a concept of nss_modules; you can configure whatever mechanism you want, some people are using DNSCrypt or nss-tls, for example. Systemd-resolved, with all the hate it gets, does support DoT. So do other local caching resolvers, like Knot.

With other systems, you would have to discuss that with the respective vendors. Vendors also discuss these issues with customers, and very few customers are fond of breaking their systems. Activism, as Mozilla has shown, is a good way to irritate a good chunk of your user base. The change would have to be gradual, and allow the local admins to be in control (like Android and Linux distributions do).
How does more housing not translate to more affordable housing?

Do rich people to afford that extra housing get created out of thin air?
It even has a predecessor from 1992, see paragraph 7.1.3 of http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1341.txt .
According to a CCC talk about DNS security, Mozilla is going to enable providers on a regional-basis by partnering with privacy-friendly non-profits.

DigitalCourage was one of the names mentioned as a potential EU-based DoH provider.
If your constructor news memory, then if you don't write a destructor, then nothing deletes the memory. You don't need to "opt out". It is hard to guess where you get this idea.

It is bad form to code memory leaks, so normally one doesn't. Instead, one normally allocates in such a way that the automatically-generated destructor frees the memory.

But neither case requires writing more code to "opt in" or to "opt out". It is the same in Rust.
Agreed. The connection is indeed encrypted and they are not currently logging queries.
There is all kinds of rent control over all Europe. In Stockholm is a nightmare. I tell you, 20 years to get a flat. There are other forms of rent control, that affects more or less. The economist Juan Ramon Rallo studied this matter deeply and he states that the only solution is deregulate construction (more buildings, higher) and no rent control, so tenants can rent cheaply without so much requirements to get into a flat.
What's wrong with uBlock Origin?
Markdown is designed to be readable without encoding it as HTML though, so is nicely readable on old email clients too.
I mean when I was a kid you'd get this sticker album for your favourite thing(be it football players, star wars, whatever) and I'd always beg mum to get me yet another sticker pack so I could complete my collection. There were always stickers that I really really wanted and yeah, the disappointment of going through a few packs and not getting what you wanted was very real.

I think ultimately, this is the same thing - just digitized. I don't really have an opinion whether that's good or bad, just that it's clearly aimed at kids to buy this stuff, just like the stickers were.