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The “Big Lie” was the lie itself — it could not be publicly disproven under the Nazi propaganda machine, and therefore provides a cover story. Nobody really believed the cover story, but they were also too afraid to find out the truth because they knew it would get buried (along with them and probably their family). Such is the power of the “big lie”.
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It is imposible to anonymously buy or sell bitcoin now. If you buy Bitcoins and send them to "censored" people you will be caught immediately and possibly punished.
"Tainted" bitcoins will be traced and will be unusable in Germany.

This new law will also make sure that "censored" persons can not convert bitcoin to fiat. For them bitcoin will be worthless because they have to pay their taxes in fiat.

If this is a blueprint for what is coming in the rest of the world, bitcoin is over. It is now worth less than Gold, because Gold can not be traced.
RDP uses a single port so opening a port on the public IP NAT for RDP is trivial, however it's always best to hide RDP behind a VPN. This security rule applies to pretty much any remote access protocol, which you should avoid having listening on the open Internet.
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I can see the sarcasm in your post, but as someone who's just moved to Germany from a more ... bureaucratically modern ... country, it is enough to make one cry. The only digital part of my tasks so far has been that I had to send a document by email after travelling 800 km to perform a needlessly face-to-face task which required a followup.
I don't know, smells fishy
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... And extremely effective morale suppression of their foes, which is an excellent force multiplier for the armies of Mordor
I will definitely read this book. I recommend Leadership is Half The Story.

https://www.amazon.com/Leadership-Half-Story-Followership-Co...
The punishment is that foreign exchanges will refuse to do business with Germans.
but you're still wrong - this decade ends at the last moment of 2019..that's the agreed popular opinion - didn't you even read the Wikipedia link?
And yet these corporations behave as if it is the law.
Or where we have to heat the house most of the year. I think there's a small part of all the houses that requires neither heating or cooling.
Bloomberg is founded by a billionaire with a vested interest in... whatever he has an interest in? Washington Post by Bezos as well. Should we ban all of this so-called “independent” media from HN?
I think this is way too much content for a single course. But well, it's an interesting idea, it just has to be filtered so the students learn something in enough depth to apply it.
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And who defines excessive? If you happen to be talking about CO2 emissions, the level in the UK (1% of total emissions) has been reduced to that last experienced in 1890. Aside from CO2 what's the problem with energy consumption in itself? There are plenty of people in the UK who have a financial problem in keeping warm in the winter. I see a figure of 4 million from 2016. That's not at all likely to get smaller as renewables push up from providing 22% (inc. non carbon) of the energy demand in the UK at present.
https://gridwatch.co.uk/
although subject matter expertise and whatever goes under the rubric of "critical thinking" these days is highly correlated, there is still a common sense approach to logical, analytical thinking that might fit under the umbrella of critical thinking while not being domain-specific.
Out of curiosity, why did you assume the team lead is a "she"? OP always used "they", would have not been easier to just follow the initial convention?
>> we should come up with a new short term for cryptography

Or neither of them should be shortened because these are compound words and the meaning of the first "hidden, secret" is too broad to represent any of its compound derivatives.
Today's "Big Lie" is simply less overt than that spread by the Nazis, and most people simply don't hear the dog-whistle of anti-semitism behind phrases like "New York liberals" or "cultural Marxism." But the modern day belief in a conspiracy of "globalist, left-wing elites" controlling society, academia and the media is just another, softer iteration on "the Jews" doing the same.
It is ludicrous how few economists are willing to take thermodynamics as a limiting theory to the economy when it's so critical in finance and science.

Not as crazy as the fact ISLM doesn't capture private debt, but still a huge problem
Hello Dragan, being able to easily scale to many GPUs is often important for both research and production.

To be honest, I use Common Lisp much more often than Clojure, and I have several times wished that you had entered the Common Lisp world instead of the Clojure world ten years ago so I could more easily use your work.

I believe in REPL based bottom up development (Lisp, Haskell, and Python) so I think the most value from your work will be in supporting interactive machine learning development.
Just a few decades ago the western society expected girls to be better in math than boys, and both complied. It got reversed around the 50's and 60's.
You pitched them a way to make less money?
Very much this.

I live in Norway. While I'm below the Arctic circle, summer nights are bright. I don't need outdoor lighting to read as the sun goes juuuust below the horizon. This time of year, days are short and the light intensity never really gets all that bright. I don't have issues with any of it - and I'm an immigrant.
Siblings are kind of vague about what these project actually are imo.

NoVNC: essentially a web page that presents a VNC client that connects to a VNC server over websocket. Part of the noVNC project is a websocket proxy to vnc that you'd run on the machine with the VNC server; or another machine somewhere either within the network or external internet. In either case the proxy has to have access to the VNC server'd machine so not really good for NAT or restrictive firewalls (although you can work around with port forwarding and setting the VNc port to a well known port).

Quacamole: Also presents a browser client for VNC (and RDP) but Guacamole is designed to exist as a standalone service on an external nextwork that proxies into private networks. It proxies the protocol (VNC or RDP) I don't think it tunnels through websocket. Here I mean Guac to private network; Guac to browser is surely tunneled over ws.

So very similar functionality.

In either case the machine to be accessed must have a VNC server (or enable RDP) and access to the open internet on a non standard port (ie likely blocked by company firewalls), to access that machine. Neither work for restrictive company intranets :)

So if you're trying to setup guerilla access to work desktop, and you don't have admin access to install TeamViewer, there aren't any options that I've found.

What both of these enable is accessing your private desktop from anywhere with a browser.
IE6 was the best browser by far when it was released.
We got IE6 partly because of that: why to work on something, that is the best in the market. So the team was disbanded.
When alternatives started to appear, one of them, and quite popular in some areas was Opera–also closed-source browser. Despite being closed-source they cared a lot about the Web Standards and many of the biggest advocates worked for Opera.
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I use a supervised learning setup (although with a custom loss function).

The kind of data augmentation I do is adding different candles sizes. I validate with 5m candles, but I train with 2,3,4,5,6,7m ones.
I also sample more frequently more recent data. I train jointly with ~22 symbols, but in each X with those symbols, I randomly set some to 0, some I invert their price, some I invert time-wise. This helps generalization for some reason. I tried many kinds of noise, but what I described above is what I found to work best in my case.

I have a more ambitious idea to generate synthetic data using self play: have a bunch of agents trading one against another. This create new price data I can train the agents with, and repeat (this self-play training scheme would be similar to what DeepMind did with AlphaGo/AlphaZero). The issue with it is the need to tune the parameters exactly so that the resulting synthetic data is realistic enough that I can tranfer the agents to real data.

For example, during self-play, should you have only trading agents or should you add "retail traders" that buy during bubbles, "normal buyers" that buy only below, sell above certain prices, institutional buyers that randomly move the price a lot in a given direction. This is a lot of parameters to get right, and it's an optitization problem on it own. You could treat this a as two-fold optimization problem such as in this paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.02513.pdf, but it gets tricky very fast.
An API backend + UI front-end consuming it is the perfect solution, it is the only sane thing I ever came across. Stop trying so hard to shoehorn old bullshit over it. It took us decades to settle on this, please leave it be and focus on more pressing issues. World hunger or something.
Corporations often need to grow just like countries (with their GDP, which normally leads to tax income growth) in order to outgrow their debt. They're also affected by inflation and the resulting increase in costs. Our whole economic system is driven by debts, if we want to stop growth, we should first learn to live with deflation and then see what happens if we make debt-financing investments and expenses/consumption hard or impossible.

Logically, this would never work if other countries don't do the same.
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Kaisers new med school will be tuition free. NYU on the East coast. A bunch of others in between. The military will also put you through med school with a service commitment.
Yes, that's what I was trying to say. The "Big Lie" is not a cognitive bias, it's itself a lie. It's a myth Hitler either invented or popularized. So I don't follow how it relates to the topic under discussion.
Sure, individual humans will cope with change the best they can, but in the absence of coordinated effort they’re just refugees.

Refugees aren’t bad people, but they are desperate. They will not abide by your country’s rule of law if it means they starve as a result.

The global political environment is actively hostile to coordinated climate action. Without that, we’re just going to see a series of uncontrolled crises spilling over into neighboring nations as countries fight over limited and shifting resource patterns.
> Warren Buffett likes to regularly point out that the Fed's rates act like gravity on stock valuations. The lower the rates, the less gravity. The same is largely true of how housing is affected by the Fed's rates. If you want to absolutely crush housing prices, push Fed rates back up to where mortgage rates are at 15-20% again. What that all really means is, the lower the rates, the more asset valuation inflation occurs. It's just that for amusingly convenient reasons (ie to pretend inflation is lower than it is), most economists like to pretend that asset inflation doesn't count as real inflation in their models.

I know what you're proposing will be very unpopular but I have an idea that will be even more unpopular: a federal property tax on land + buildings at (five percent of property valuation) per year. There will be absolutely no exceptions for anyone. Everyone must pay. This money will mostly go back to local governments, toward infrastructure and utilities (mass transit, water, electricity, fiber Internet, sewage, garbage collection, education, ... ideally automated as much as possible) and a portion will go to supplement VAT to pay for supplemental universal basic income (in addition to the freedom dividend) that more than covers the new property tax on a one bedroom somewhere in the continental United States (so not necessarily midtown Manhattan).

The key difference in what I propose is the lack of exceptions. Everyone must pay regardless of whether it is a strip club or a church. You don't pay, you get evicted within fifteen years or however long we decide. I recommend eviction should happen when unpaid taxes reaches 100% of property value.

My Hope is that this will absolutely crash the housing market and stop this irrational speculation in the housing market.
That's a good point. I left out a concept of constraints. For example, it has to be written in the same language as our other applications. But if it's not different enough from an existing application just copy the existing application and don't call it a greenfield.

Or let someone burn their turn by copying the existing application but making minor tweaks and changes. That could work just as well.
> You could also (ab)use electrical engineering students, might take a bit longer though.

It would take longer to train them, PCB design isn't taught in much depth to undergrads at least in the US.
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Sure but that’s not a rational way of approaching it. The question is wholistic, what is the total harm to society in criminalizing this behavior and enforcing it to such an extent? Humans are dreadful at dealing with things that are unlikely to happen but carry substantial consequence.

Case in point, according to Schneier, many more people died because they chose to drive instead of fly after 9/11 (and the increased airport security theater) than died in the actual incident. [1]

You could make the same case, what if it was my family in the towers? My heart goes out of course to those people but the decision made as a result was not the right one for society.

[1] https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2013/08/our_decreas...
Inflation is the opposite of cheapening, so I don’t see how that can be.

What you may be feeling though, and what isn’t calculated in any numbers, are the increases in volatility, which is itself a cost. The volatility of not living in the few economically burgeoning regions, the volatility of having to keep moving up the ladder or else falling behind, increased years of education and loans for what may or may not be a lucrative career, etc.
Welcome to Germany (in all seriousness, if nobody rold you yet, welcome!)! I still remember when the local admin office was so proud to to go digital by offering online reservations for appointments. After at least two years of discussions. Portal looked already old in the early 2000s.

When I first heard a politician announce that at a start-up conference, I had to double check that really talked about the implementation and not the law to be in force. And the guy was the (deputy-) head of parliament's digitalization council. Not sure just how the German government, and society, think a digital world is going to look like.
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Why is this being downvoted? Did Scott Adams get cancelled or something?
The really sad part is all the missed positive externalities. Think about what could happen if a few companies owned up to it and said "hey we'll let you have one day a week helping children with their homework or working on a shared vegetable garden or... or... because [insert outreachy marketing speech]"
Did you do any market research? You can very easily go to any store and still buy dumb TVs. I don’t know where people get the idea that 100% of tvs are smart tvs, but that is false.
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Ok, I'll try Dang.
It's just a matter of personal preference. Videos are good for some and text for others. It's good to have choice and understandably frustrating when your preferred choice isn't there.
I think it’s because Goebbels said something along the lines of “a lie repeated often enough becomes the truth” in reference to the Big Lie.
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> as a women

Sexist.
Using a throwaway since I don't want it tied back to me irl.

Hey there's already been a bunch of comments but I've been through similar situations where I feel like I'm carrying the world on my back and no one appreciates what I'm doing and secretly (or overtly) makes me think I'm doing a bad job.

I've given in to burnout twice and while I don't regret leaving those jobs I was surprised both times but the outpouring of support that I got from everyone at the company, especially the people I thought didn't like me/thought I was doing a bad job.

It might just be that your organization (or team lead) is bad at taking time to recognize when someone's done a good job. It's common practice to reward good work with "autonomy" but in fast paced environments that can turn into only popping into when someone is doing a bad job (or a job the manager feels could be done better).

Obviously I don't have all the details but I would try to sit down with the cofounders and let them know how you feel. I did that at my most recent job and was given 3 weeks off and a raise. I feel weird giving this advice because I don't do a good job of following it myself, but you should try to be as upfront with what you need as possible. If you are serious about leaving you literally have nothing to lose as long as you do it in a professional way. A lot of the time people have no idea what kind of situation you're in and will be happy to improve your situation however they can once they know you're struggling.
The Nightmare Stacks by Charles Stross includes (spoiler) an assault on the city of Leeds in the UK by a combined arms Elven battle group. The elves have Battle-tested air-land integration doctrine that sees them using their dragons in a close air support role. The elves use other magical means for ISR of the deep battle. Stross’ elves are somewhat more waffen-SS than Tolkien’s
Anti-anxiety medication doesn't seem to be working for me, but I am having a hard time figuring out what to do next with my psychiatrist. It's not as if switching medication is somehow better than sticking with something that's of unknown efficacy. Ugh.
Interesting it wasn't in the UK which has just done that
Put the Guac instance in a public subnet with appropriate security group rules. Put the target instances in private subnets.

Add a NAT in the public subnet so that the target instances can get security updates and install new software.

It's not perfect but it works.
He did not claim they were exclusive.

Your comment is an example of the fallacy fallacy.
Depends how you look at it. Perhaps - since it's often claimed it's our fault that they're poor - we're preventing it by keeping them poor.

For sure, economies with 1b+ population could have problematic consumption if they developed quickly, like India and China.
You might like it or not (definitely not), but because Excel is unparallelled when it comes to spreadsheet software.
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Normally we use the term "evicted" to imply someone with a lease no longer gets usage of the property; but in this case, these people own the property, so what are you saying happens then? Does the property get given to the government, who then... sells it? I am not complaining (yet), I just want to understand what happens in your mind after the "eviction" as the term isn't clear for me in this context.
I was indeed wondering the same: a new render engine seems like a huge and risky investment (even Microsoft gave up on the existing one they have, that says something). If it really is from scratch, it probably just supports only the most popular features, which would cut complexity and give a large performance boost by itself.

Alternatively: Chrome 1.0 was also super fast compared to the competition. And I remember switching from a full browser on Android to my custom browser that was like 10 lines of code around a webview element, which was really an order of magnitude faster. If they modified an existing render engine and wrote their own browser UI, that could also deliver this speed boost.

So this seems relatively doable to me, but you get fewer features.

Let's see if they make this available for a broad audience and if, in five years when they accumulated all the features, it's still faster.
What you are referring to is called biflation. Unfortunately in the current economic climate things that actually have impact on quality of life (housing, food, etc) are becoming more expensive while electronics and other things more on the cheap entertainment side are getting cheaper.
Unless births are also somehow limited, limiting GDP growth will eventually cause large amounts of poverty.

Nobody wants to admit that the only real way to limit energy consumption is a horrible dystopian future.
You are mainly talking about compile time checking. But due to the weak types in Java, you’ll end up with uncaught compile and runtime errors.

I’d look into a strong type system like Haskell, F#, shoot even Rust will help in large refactorings being easier
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> Your growing pile of wheat incurs increasing storage and maintenance costs over time.

That is quite neglible. The barn will stand there wether there's any wheat in it or not.
> being able to easily scale to many GPUs is often important for both research and production

An interesting feature of these Clojure libraries is that you can (easily-ish) combine even multiple GPUs from different vendors - Nvidia AND AMD AND Intel, in the same process. You can even combine CUDA AND OpenCL. This is something that, it seems to me, is not even supported in Python, or at least it is not easy.
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"To reduce energy use, jump off a bridge"

This ideological nihilism creeping into the public consciousness is becoming problematic.

There are far more reasonable approaches to all of our problems.

- As energy gets more expensive, the 'value' (really just price) of products goes up, thereby increasing the GDP. So his logic is not there to start.

- GDP growth is not entirely dependent on natural resource extraction, it's actually mostly product and process innovation.

- There are immense supply side opportunities available right in front of us in Nuclear - we've not invested heavily in R&D in 30 years due to populist blowback. And guess who was leading the charge against Nuclear? The Greens. Greenpeace 'saved the whales' and 'killed nuclear', it should be noted it was founded by people who knew nothing about Nuclear, and the some of the founding leadership have ironically become 'pro nuclear'. Today France is 85% nuclear, well within striking distance of being carbon-free in terms of electricity production, that will die due to failure to re-invest in the subject. It's contentious, but within reason.

We can have our cake and eat it too, we just have to be smart about it.
I was just about to say the same about organ donation status.

I am very thankful my Kidney donor and to all the teams that support me post and pre transplant.
Fictional battles that are worth to be described in detail might often directly involve the main characters or influential persons and therefore it might be out of question to bombard the battlefield and kill everyone. (wellll... at least as long as you are not G.R.R. Martin and turn everyone and their direwolve into a main character or do not care if a main character dies. When killing main characters, it certainly helps if you have enough of them which brings us back to the first point).
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Well, Bloomberg probably has some actual cash. The crypto guy has a bunch of tokens he needs to turn into usable money. So he has a interest in keeping the price up while he slowly exits without crashing the price.
Now with USB-C PD you can just plug in an external battery to just about any laptop.