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I've read the previous, very long, answer. Yes, it explains how the Maker system works, but it does not explain which parts constitute the Dai to USD peg. The price feeds track the price of Eth, which is used to set the price of Dai if automatic settlement is needed (something I learned from the resources you describe!). If that doesn't set the price of Dai, then what does? Are you suggesting it's an emergent behavior of the system as a whole?
We all do better when we all do better.
yes, just as I hardcoded my wifi credentials. DST can be hardcoded as the range of date that DST has been active historically at your location to automate that, baring discussions of abolishing DST or such.

https://github.com/heeen/vfd-clock

looking back at the code, doesn't seem like I handled DST though. I would probably use something like wifimanager now to allow dynamically configuring wifi and other things

http://heeen.de/proj/vfd-clock.mp4
There is a world of difference between an OS which last major release was well over a decade ago and now only receives patches every 12 months; and an OS that was released several years latter, is still under heavy active development and has several commercial distributions.

Just because something isn't "mainstream" it doesn't mean it's equivalent to a deprecated platform that's only supported on legacy iron.
Do you consider it difficult to survive as a startup while protecting the privacy of users?
In the absence of further information, a decent start might be to give each student with special needs (be they due to giftedness or disability) the same amount of effort or funding. At least in terms of federal funding (because it's easier to aggregate across the U.S.), one Google result[1] says: "The federal government does provide GT funding to school districts through the Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Education program. The funding for the Javits program is $12 million annually, which equates to $2.50 to $4 per GT student in this country." I think I saw an article saying the current administration proposed canceling it, but it seems that hasn't happened.

Meanwhile, in terms of special education: "Ever since its initial enactment, the federal law has included a commitment to pay 40 percent of the average per student cost for every special education student. The current average per student cost is $7,552 and the average cost per special education student is an additional $9,369 per student, or $16,921. Yet, in 2004, the federal government is providing local school districts with just under 20 percent of its commitment rather than the 40 percent specified by the law, creating a $10.6 billion shortfall for states and local school districts."[2] Well, if they currently pay about 20% of $7500 per student, that comes out to $1500-ish.

So that's a difference of ~400x. Not that I think the federal government should be funding such things, but given that it is...

[1] https://ednote.ecs.org/do-we-really-need-to-fund-gifted-prog...

[2] http://www.nea.org/home/19029.htm
This is a fundamentally "what-if" scenario so it's not going to be perfect math, but we can look for hints. To go from non-GAAP to GAAP, you can add the adjustments up. The biggest non-GAAP adjustment (around 2/3rds of total) is stock-based compensation. That $401 million in stock-based compensation really can't be repeated, and wouldn't have been so large if they had IPO'd sooner. The next big they spent another ~$250million on driver incentives, almost entirely on UberEats.

How much of their expenses are required for a theoretical rides-only Uber? Impossible to say; they don't break out spending by segment. But we can make some guesses. The rides product has now existed for many, many years. Did they really need to become a ~22,000 employee company if all they were going to do is rides? I would guess no. So the question here is really: how much of their current expenses do we think only exist due non-rideshare business? The autonomy program is evidently an expensive bust. I see a lot of scooter marketing, which we can tell from this report isn't selling. Food is growing but they're in 3rd place, and it seems like they spend a lot of money to even get to third. So really the question is: are >30% of their expenses due to the non-ride business? I would guess yes.
They could just not sell him the doughnuts. They know who he is, and they're not obligated to sell him 100 boxes of doughnuts.
I have been driving Hondas since 2004. Never had any needs to "work on them myself". Once a year I go for the yearly checkup/maintenance and that's it. And I rather love all the "smart" features in my Civic. I was surprised by how well they work.
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Frankly they're basically interchangeable. I'm not sure what you mean by a company "so blatantly bad" -- most of the drivers in SF at least drive for both Uber and Lyft. You can use either app and end up with the same driver, in the same car, offering the same exact experience at a practically indistinguishable price point. Uber at least seems to know people are mad at them and offer excellent customer service.

Now, that doesn't mean they're a good business of course -- they're probably a terrible business -- but that's a reason to use them, not to avoid them.

With that in mind, unit economics at both Uber and Lyft seem to be about the same, and both equally dreadful. Lyft never made some of the even worse investments (like trying to compete in mainland China without government support). Those days appear long behind Uber, though, for better or worse.
The EU even considers an IP address as personally identifiable information...
Reminds me of https://github.com/CIRCL/douglas-quaid which also use SIFT-similar techniques in addition to perceptual hashing
I think it depends upon the school system in the United States [1]. I was with the same group of friends starting with the 5th grade (9-10 years old) through 12th grade (18 years old, last grade before college). It just so happened that not only did all my friends live in the same school district [2] but also in the same school boundary [3]. And the high school I attended was quite large (nearly 2,000 students; 450 in my graduating class alone).

[1] Most school systems in the United States are vary by county to county. There's some oversight at the state and federal levels, but the higher up the government, the less oversight, generally speaking.

[2] I think it was the 3rd largest in the country. Large enough to be split administratively into three sub-districts.

[3] I was supposed to attend a different high school from my friends because of where I lived at the time, but the boundaries for high school shifted and I ended up attending the same high school as the rest of my friends. Strange now that I think about it, because of the three high schools in the area, it was the furthest one.
The arrogance and ignorance in some of these comments is astounding
(July 2009)
How are such meteoric valuations for companies with relatively smaller moats (Airtable, slack, etc.) justified?

Why can't Microsoft/Apple/Google throw $20M/annum in OpEx, clone these products and flood the sales channels these upstarts are going for?
> A follower count [on GitHub] of 2-10 is considered good and anything between 26-75 is exceptional. Any developer with 75+ followers is considered super amazing.

Super amazing at marketing themselves maybe, but I doubt GitHub follower count is correlated with programming skill in the general case (unless you are hiring Linus Torvalds).
Gon: Sign, notarize, and package macOS CLI tools, apps written in any language
It is a completely necessary action.

The National Intelligence Law of China, passed in 2017, demands that all its citizens "support, assist and comply with works on national intelligence", aka proactively collect intelligence for the regime. (Article 7)

(《国家情报法》第七条 任何组织和公民都应当依法支持、协助和配合国家情报工作，保守所知悉的国家情报工作秘密。 )

This also explains why Huawei devices SHALL be excluded from core communication networks of the free world.

Additionly, unless Jingping 11th go off from his power, the nation should simply be considered another Soviet Union, or even worse, the Nazi.
>used by criminals are smuggled into the country mostly from the Baltic states.

If you make claims like this, you have to provide a source.

Baltic states don't have automatic weapons or nades just lying around, nor does it have gun violence or gang violence problems.

All the weird gang-violence, nades being thrown around that happens in Sweden, acid-attacks in UK and so on.

This shit doesn't happen in Baltics.
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This is pretty racist to be honest. America took you out from a country where people defecate in the fields, yet you praise the resilience performing that action taught you. Why didnt you just stay there and continue doing it, instead of living among these self entitled brats that had given you a better life? Is it because you wanted to defecate on keyboards instead and produce the crapwate that everyone complaints about?
Wow that's a nice list! It would be even nicer to have some clear indicator for each course whether it is free as in beer, or free as in freedom (openly licensed and downloadable).

For example all the iTunes audio courses say "This course material is only available in the iTunes U app on iPhone or iPad" so limited as to whom can access.
> How fast is this train going?

Typically, the commercial speed of high-speed trains is about 300-350km/h.

> And you still need to get to/from the station.

Train stations tend to be located in the city center, not 50km away.

> At 200mph it'll also be a 3-4 hour ordeal at least, and more if there are stops in the middle.

Madrid-Barcelona takes less than 3 hours, and starts/ends near the city center (check Atocha and Barcelona Santa).

Unlike airplanes, the bulk of the trip is spent sitting comfortably in your cozy chair with plenty of leg room, internet access, electric outlets, no noise or pressure fluctuation, and a nice landscape to enjoy.
Right?! I was so confused when I was scrolling through my app list and saw this logo, I briefly wondered if I had installed some kind of social awareness app, I just had no idea what I was looking at.
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My personal goal is to become too big to fail. It's doable, I mean, it worked for Adam Neumann.
I believe your being down voted because it is common knowledge that food service legislation only applies to those selling food, and therefore intentionally doesn’t apply to dinner parties.
h/t to Mitchell Hashimoto (of Hashicorp) who wrote gon for signing and notarizing CLI binaries for macOS. It is also available as a go library for embedding in other projects written in Go. gon can sign and notarize binaries written in any language.
It's a really rather advanced use of typography (making borders) for such a simple machine that didn't even have parentheses. But yeah, it's plausible, and I like the authors theory that it was intended to be a vertical bar, but it was replaced with three dots to avoid confusing it with I and 1.
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Control over a voice assistant gives you a lot more than "just" a listening device in the room. It already has authorization for many actions inside the network. It's not that there are no other ways to achieve the same but this seems to be extremely cheap, easily exploitable, and with close to zero traceability.
First air raid in Human history
This reminds me of domestic flights in Thailand from Bangkok to Chiang Mai where it is common to see Krispy Kreme mules.

There are no Krispy Kreme stores in Chiang Mai but the people in Chiang Mai seems to prefer it over other Doughnut shops in the city. So, when locals fly up from Bangkok to Chiang Mai it is fairly common for them to take up a few boxes of Krispy Kreme for their friends and family.
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Well that's just a crock. You simply have to have a policy that says how long you retain backups for, and what you would do if you needed to delete PI if required to do so under GDPR.

It's not rocket science!
>Our mystery symbol was clearly intended to be typed, however the person transcribing incoming telegrams could just make a new paragraph on receipt of that code, rather than typing a special character. There appears to be no reason to ever put the symbol on paper.

Err, typing the symbol to separate paragraphs instead of adding a new paragraph would save space (and also paper) though...
The second point would be very hard to enforce because you could just house the patent within a company and sell the company.
That only holds true if electric vehicles are (very) different to non-electric vehicles. The jury is still out if that's the case.
You're being disingenuous. A channel needs to be already funded before a transaction can happen, with an amount at least the size of the transaction. So, to transfer billions, you need billions more to first fund the channel. A quick search shows that most channels currently have less than $100 in them, limiting how much you can send without prior arrangement.
Don’t feed a troll, expose it to sunlight.
Not really related but do we really need 4 different unicode symbols for the same glyph? It's not even like it represents different things - whats the difference between a tricolon and triple colon or the difference between a vertical ellipsis and a presentation form of vertical horizontal ellipsis (which is really a vertical ellipsis described with twice as many words?)

"

⁝ - U+205D tricolon

⋮ - U+22EE vertical ellipsis

⫶ - U+2AF6 triple colon operator

︙- U+FE19 presentation form for vertical horizontal ellipsis

"
I have very good memories from Windows XP. I moved from Windows ME (which was absolutely terrible) directly to XP and it was so much better. I even liked the overall appearance. But then I guess nostalgia and being less critical myself back then plays a role...
Windows XP running on the hardware of the time was much more responsive[] than 10 running on modern hardware.

[] if we don't count accesses to the disk, of course
We recently imported around 10,000 free MOOCs and categorized them with topics at https://learnawesome.org/
I’m too busy with my kids and my job to deal with it.
From the article linked in the sentence referencing the Koch brothers: "But in 2017, the group received $110,000 in funding from a political arm of Charles and David Koch". Both were alive in 2017.
> Why not state that it is a fork of OpenSolaris on the homepage?

Why does it matter? Ubuntu doesn't say it's a fork of Debian. Suse doesn't say it's a fork of Slackware. OpenBSD doesn't say it's a fork of NetBSD and FreeBSD and NetBSD doesn't talk about 386BSD either. Also I'm pretty sure Microsoft wouldn't mention OS/2 once in any of their Windows 10 documentation let alone on their landing page.

Pretty much all modern operating systems are evolutions, forks, derivatives, etc but usually they diverge enough over time to be their own distinct platform. So while their heritage is an interesting topic it doesn't actually explain anything about the OS and thus has no place on a landing page.

> Also the "next gen FS" is just ZFS, first released in 2005 (and they say software moves fast).

Because it's still a "next gen FS" and will be until it becomes common current gen with a new generation superseding it (software doesn't actually move that fast when it comes to file systems).

Personally I can't see ZFS superseded for a long time to come because the way we store data has changed (eg cloud services might use object storage such as S3 instead of large NFS mounted volumes) and thus the file systems ZFS was looking to displace have once again become "good enough" for most people.

I think it would take another seismic shift in how servers and infrastructure are architecture. Likely a shift away from proprietary clouds and towards open cloud computing standards -- if such a movement is even possible in a capitalist-drive world. But I digress.
To me it just reads as a filter for people who aren’t worth arguing with on the internet.
Is there some kind of consensus that bullies are predominately poor? Even if thats true on a quantitative basis, the bullies that count are the ones with social standing.
Many of the simpler maintenance jobs are not much slower to do yourself, if we're operating under the assumption that to get someone else to do it, you have to drive your car to their shop and then wait around or walk back home and come get it back later.
Solomonoff induction can make eventually good predictions about any computable environment, but:
While Solomonoff induction is limit computable, it isn’t computable, while logical induction is.

Logical induction can reach conclusions about what a system using a computable approximation to solomonoff induction would conclude. Actually, it can also assign probabilities to what full solomonoff induction would conclude.

Solomonoff induction cannot accurately model a world which contains agents who use solomonoff induction. Logical induction plays nicely with self reference.

Importantly, with some naive ways of attempting to do probabilistic induction on mathematical statements, if you give the system different facts in an adversarial order, you can cause it to alternate between being highly convinced that something is true, and that it is false. Logical induction solves this problem.

I don’t think solomonoff induction can be straightforwardly applied to this task. Solomonoff induction predicts what inputs it will receive, but this isn’t, I think, immediately well suited for assigning credence to mathematical statements.

I’m not sure how a halting oracle could be empirically detected?
Well, I guess if one believed that “this is like a halting oracle except only for the first 3^^3 Turing machines” and the like we’re substantially less likely than “this is a halting oracle in general”, which I guess seems reasonable.

Ok, I guess I can see that, sorta.

Not sure what practical tests you have in mind though.
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>hurts the smallest and weakest

No, fuck small companies playing fast and loose with other people's data.

The smallest and weakest is not the small company or website operator, but the individual consumer, aka me and you.

Complaining that your small startup cannot collect and sell data nillywilly is like complaining that you can cannot run a startup from your garage that sells homemade miracle cancer vaccines you have vicariously tested, but only on stray cats in your neighborhood.

On top of that, the actual big fines so far for the most part targeted big and/or well-established and/or serial abusers. The small companies only have been "inconvenienced" in so far that they now have to think about what data to collect, about how to collect it and how to get consent, about whom to share it with and about how to store it reasonably secure. Something they should have done in the first place.
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/08/01/157743897/can-...
> You don't need chargeback if you can claim your money and close the channel if thing you want to happen isn't happening, right?

And if the other person disagrees? Crypto falls down at the boundary between humans and the Blockchain every time.
Not quite; Google's rule is you can't _use their APIs_ to create a product substantially similar to Google's products.
> It's like in 20s-30s last century - radio was invented and democracy wasn't ready for it - and when crisis came the result was totalitarianisms.

Interesting. Can you suggest additional reading on this?

Thanks!
> Are you aware of any open source / crowd sourced directory of physical businesses

Yep that's OpenStreetMap! You could use Pelias for geocoding, OSM for the data. Why not offer for users to add the business to OSM if it doesn't exist?

I think Foursquare also has a directory, I'm not sure what their costs are though (and closed of course).
OSM source data is not the same thing as infrastructure owned by OSM Foundation. You can self host maps based on OSM with much flexibility (Though Mapbox is easier to use and now has easy-to-grasp pricing that also doesn't discriminate use cases).

Yeah, freeriders are a problem for OSMF raster map tile servers, but there is now no excuse not to use any of the above two solutions (self hosting or 3rd party APIs).
Show HN: GraphiQL Spark – allowing you to demo a schema without an endpoint
I wonder if it is the novelty factor at play here. it will be interesting to see if these effects last long term

EDIT: I found a company that did a six month trial and had the same effects https://www.prweek.com/article/1596231/pr-agency-implements-...
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In MySQL, never use “utf8”. Use “utf8mb4”
Someone at Krispy Kreme should be fired. Better business all around would have been to come up with some happy way to bring this guy in somehow. Publicity alone would have been ridiculously profitable: ie Free. Offer him a delivery franchise or whatever. Krispy Kreme actually said No to a delivery model that only needed tuning and some simple improvements. He essentially did a territory feasibility assessment for them. For free.

As a non-customer I now just think of Krispy Kreme as jerks. And the kind of business people who hate making money.
How can the ERP software development company help you improve your business?
There is at least one 'affordable' fNIRS device coming to market that looks promising, https://foc.us/fnirs-sensor/ There's a paper somewhere on using machine learning to help identify signal, this one is specifically about pain, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-42098-w Say for example you were making an insurance claim for neuropathic pain, this kind of information could be very important.
what about a right not to be manipulated (transparency of algorithms)
The usual reason for Unicode symbol redundancy is round-trip encoding compatibility.
To be completely honest, how this can give positive results is beyond me. Personally I use my free time for side projects except only for social events on weekends. If my work time was reduced to say 6 hours, or alternatively to a 4-day work week, I'd use more time on side projects which are the same in nature as my main job. I don't think that would affect my productivity neither for the main job nor for the side projects, it would just change the time allocation and therefore the amount of work done on each side. That's all. I'm in my early 50s and I just can't stop doing this.

While I can imagine a lot of people in the world would only applaud to any official reduction of work time, again, I just don't understand how that can increase their productivity at work.
Work is a queue of queues
The Secret World of Russia’s Cold War Mapmakers
It might not have "rocked" the data privacy world, but it is having an impact on how businesses operate.

A lot of businesses (big and small) were getting too cozy with collected data. With little regard to what was being collected and how long it was stored for. GDPR forced businesses to take a hard look at their data and ask some difficult questions, and I genuinely believe it has changed the way people look at data.

Personally, I was professionally shocked to find how some businesses dealt with data - If anything, GDPR forced common sense down some technologically inept management teams.
It is exactly true. Companies have been fined for not complying with law. Law does not require a “warning” of the sort being discussed.
...it doesn't just open up the Options menu?
Not to get into a protracted argument, but I do not see this as democracy (or capitalism). I see this as socialist top-down elements in a mixed economy.

As a comparison, you have councils (or soviets) deciding for people, how they conduct their economic activity - in this case, not allowing them to build apartments on land they own.

If you are hoping for a top-down control AND it be enlightened for-the-people AND democratically given this control, then you are looking at the wrong governing model. Especially, if you don't believe that top-down won't benefit at some point tiny interest groups.