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I don't think it's a contradiction. You can rely on an accountable government to protect your bitcoins, and if you decide at some point they have become unaccountable then you can move your bitcoins to a different location without restrictions. It's just separation of concerns.
a peaceful actor like Google is able to compete in some sense with an oppressive warring state like Turkey.

What if it were more profitable for Google to side with the oppressive regime?

A trick question because we all already know what the answer is.
> I don't disagree, but if we want to actually help, we need to work with the world the way it is

...said the people opposing abolitionism.

Reality: to achieve moral progress, sometimes you need to eat an economic recession. Suck it up, buttercup.
r/btc was created long before Bitcoin Cash, as an uncensorable alternative to r/bitcoin, which is extremely censored.

Bitcoin Cash was created because Bitcoin didn't scale, not because of technical reasons. Instead they used a massive social engineering campaign (censorship, trolls and fake news) to block the development. Roger wasn't even involved in BCH back then.

This can be verified by anyone who cares to, and you'll see that the parent is still forwarding the same troll narrative.

They use newspeak with terms like "bcash" to try to distance Bitcoin Cash from Bitcoin. Because Bitcoin Cash is proof that their arguments against "big blocks" and the impossibility of hard forks were, and are, bullshit.
Didn't the parents that are suing exploit their kids for economic gain? Why should they now be rewarded with profit from a lawsuit rather than imprisoned for doing so?
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> I really hope this book has some discussion regarding Pulumi in addition to the normal Terraform discussion. My team switched over to Pulumi recently after using Terraform for a couple of years and it's so much easier to work with. It would be a shame if it is not at least included in the discussion.

Could you speak more to some of the ways it was easier to work with? How was the transition and what was the migration strategy?
One can argue whether Tymoczko's approach genuinely leads to understanding theory "from the ground up". His research is best understood IMHO as a worthwhile (in itself) "tweak" and generalization of a previous theoretical approach known as "Neo-Riemannian theory", named after Hugo Riemann's descriptions of tonal harmony (i.e. the general working of 'chords', or rather, major and minor triads). Seen from that POV, it's quite helpful. As a general description of what might go on in a piece of music (even "classical" music)? Maybe not so much.
If there are sanctions, wouldn't it be the demand being changed and not the supply?
I have used Emacs, Vim, CLI, and IDEA is much superior for code navigation. I still use Vim for text editing. It's a great text editor, but IDEA has semantic parsing, code generation, and refactoring capabilities that go far beyond what Vim or any other text editor will ever support. Do you not realize that IDEA has its own search and navigation features outside of the Vim plugin? Emacs can come close if you spend years writing customizations, and even then it will feel like a clumsy pile of hacks versus a modern, well designed professional tool, that just works flawlessly with 5 minutes of setup. Actually, writing plugins in IDEA can do things that Emacs could only dream of. Emacs Lisp is powerful, but JVM languages are arguably more powerful.
I also had no idea what client/server meant (at the time). My current oversimplified distinction:

Workgroup: I/O thru file system, clients responsible for locking, concurrency, etc.

Client/Server: I/O thru DB's protocol (eg TDS), server responsible for locking, concurrency, etc.

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As for what was lost, I spent way too long (10+ years) trying to figure that out, trying to fulfill the desire to recover the ADO (Access Data Objects) programming paradigm. I think I succeeded, more or less, and am currently reorienting my life to work on it full-time.
Actually its UK law that this descends from and it is only "related" works. If you where a semi pro musician google would not own the rights to your song's for example.

And it not copyright they "own" it - I suspect the tweeter is confused between intellectual property and copyright

Germany has this
http://www.mondaq.com/germany/x/645260/Patent/Artificial+Int...) which is similar its probably EU countries relay on statutory law and don't explicity put it into the contract so you would never know
This repo operation is YUGE, but the writer of the article is adding his/her numbers up wrong (and perhaps on purpose).

If I lend you $50 overnight, and then you repay. And then I lend you another $50 overnight and you repay, most market folks would consider this $50 in credit/loans, not $100 in credit/loans.
I found this site: https://www.thejazzpianosite.com/jazz-piano-lessons/ extremely helpful, if you haven’t already seen it.
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This feels like the episode of the The Good Place where they figure out the point system to get to the good place doesn't work because today's world is complicated...

>Michael uses the example of someone buying roses. A man hundreds of years ago got a lot of Good Place points because he grew and picked his own roses to give to his grandmother. However, when another man got roses for his grandmother, he lost points. It’s because he ordered them through a cell phone that was made in a sweatshop, the flowers were grown with toxic pesticides, delivered from thousands of miles away creating a large carbon footprint and the money went to a greedy CEO that sexually harassed women.
It's illegal in California as well (as the Twitter poster discovered when he actually examined the CA labor code).
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The sales people selling the investments can be very charming and convincing that they are much better than other companies. Plus a lot of the low cost options are very hands off so you don't have someone on the low-fee side arguing or driving around doing pitches.
I agree wholeheartedly with you here.

I'll also say that there must be a strong focus on reducing toil and building resilient systems, to begin with.
Edit: See jlmorton's correction below. Creation was indeed accidental. Leaving my comment unchanged.

When 401k-s originally started, it was considered ground-breaking in that it was a way for employers to use their purchasing power (or choosing power) to get lower cost management of funds. It was envisioned as a great thing for employees and employers.

But we all know that is now how new laws are created. A bunch of lobbyists from financial sector lobbied to create this new instrument, which in turn directs more money to them.

Any instrument where the employee doesn't get to control the management of the money is bad for the employee.

There is a similar situation with FSA (Flexible Spending Account). That is day light robbery. Employee has to guestimate how much medical expenses they have in the year. Estimate too little and you lose the tax savings. Estimate too much and the FSA management organization keeps the unspent money. What was originally deducted from your paycheck doesn't come back to you with a 10% additional penalty. No, the person loses 100%. FSA says the money goes to the employer to offset the management costs. This is like the real-estate sales person claiming the seller is paying them.
But what proportion of the Python interpreter's memory is consumed storing line numbers? How much slower will it run if it has to unpack the numbers any time it needs to use them? Does Python even store triplets of line numbers? (This seems unlikely to me, so to achieve any saving at all will require invasive code changes.) These questions could be answered with hard data, but the proposal has no data at all.
ER is important, but general account maintenance fees also count. I was quite surprised at how high Fidelity's are compared to Vanguard.
Well, that's not too far off from what probably happened. According to former Nixon domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman:

"You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities," Ehrlichman said. "We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."

Source:
https://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-...
Why is this question downvoted? I thought that was an interesting question.
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I'm astonished that I came to this thread and the top comment was a lengthy defense of Google. This behavior is absolutely unacceptable. "Standard industry practice" my ass. This is literally the "if your friends all jumped off of a bridge" argument. It's not okay for Google, and it's not okay for everyone else. Many wrongs don't make a right. I shouldn't need your permission to be creative on my own time. Employees do not exist to give their lives in service of your giant capitalist machine. Employers have zero claim to any IP generated in the employee's own time using the employee's own resources - end of story.
Hmmm. Now what am I going to do with my laboriously (and lovingly) put together zigbee2mqtt/HomeKit setup? :)

Seriously now, I see this as a good thing, if only because we're likely to get an interoperability stamp of approval of some kind.

Right now, and were it not for my using an Open Source solution for my Zigbee gateway, it would be impossible for me to hook up Hue, Xiaomi, IKEA and other devices to Homekit without a bunch of different gateways (because some Zigbee endpoints simply refuse to talk to anything other than their own peers).

I also hope that they manage to do this without going the Google way of having everything open up ports on your router (some of the newer Nest-branded stuff already knows how to talk to peers on a LAN, but the security model for Google/Alexa integrations is fundamentally broken for me - WeMo support excluded).

So far HomeKit can run _completely_ on-premises, with all devices interacting on the LAN, which is great (except for remote connections through the Home app to your Apple TV home hub, and Siri voice recognition to trigger scenes), and that is why I decided to stick with it.
Is this a reference to something? What does it mean for a country to obey google?
> The only reason you say that is that you haven't actually experienced Medicare.

I have experienced Medicare (along with pre- and post-ACA Gold level individual marketplace plans, small group plans, premium employer-sponsored plans, and Medicaid). The only system I’ve experienced which is better than Medicare was my state’s Medicaid system. Every private insurance plan I’ve had has been significantly worse in every metric—more expensive, less coverage, super stressful (imaging having a kidney stone and having to decide whether to spend $300 + coinsurance to go to the emergency room on a Sunday night or wait in excruciating pain until you can get an appointment for a $10 office visit instead the next day).

On Original Medicare with a Medigap plan I pay $377/mo in premiums and have 100% coverage for hospitals, doctors, surgeries, ambulances. There are no provider restrictions. The “coverage area” is the whole country. Outpatient services in hospitals is fine. There’s no arguing over billing, no copays, no coinsurances, no hassle.

Drug coverage is a whole different thing, but it sucks about as much as it did with private insurance—which it would, since Part D is just a marketplace of private insurers! Notably, though, any drugs I get in a clinic, like super expensive biologics, are covered under Original Medicare for that $377 premium.

What is your experience that makes you think so differently?
What's the obsession with the NYT specifically, in contrast to other news outlets? It made the post rather irritating to read.

I'm not American, so I feel like I'm missing the significance that might be obvious to everyone else.
I don't know. Lots of people learn to write different kinds of code at work. I also think writing code isn't domain specific as I've never worked in the same industry twice over 6+ jobs.

Seems pretty comparable
In what situation? In the case of Cobalt it probably doesn't.

In the case of rubber the big companies do provide better jobs for the families they employ than anything else, ensure the family gets modern medical care (as opposed to "witch doctor" care anyone not working for them gets), and the children do go to school and so have the ability to get a better job latter. The companies looks the other way in harvest season then families are taking their kids with them to work, so long as the kids are in school. Child labor for sure, but you can honestly argue that the children are better off despite that.

You can decide if you accept that as better or not, but it is a reasonable argument that child labor isn't always the worst possible.

Sadly I don't think in the case of cobalt the above applies.
To expand on the circuit breaker item above: Because most of the outlets in your home are split between two phases of AC, it meant that the X10 transmitter would only be able to talk to half your power outlets (and you didn't know which half ahead of time), unless a phase coupler was wired into your breaker box that would repeat the signal on the outlets connected to the other phase.
> I would never, ever join a company that didn't (in writing) allow me to retain ownership of my side projects.

OK that's fine, but doesn't everyone have this choice? Apparently google attracts thousands of top engineers with this clause. Lots of people agree to it, just because you won't doesn't mean it's absurd. Maybe you are absurd for calling google and their ideas absurd.
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Come on, I'm not putting anybody down. Just pointing out that you cannot avoid learning new languages anyway, since the exercises in the book requires you to design multiple different languages. It is basically a book about language design.
>Unions are often rent-seeking monopolies.

And so are corporations. Unions at least have the interest of employees as their central (espoused) tenant. There is and always has been a concerted effort between capital and the media to undermine that fact in the mind of the public. This is a huge contributing factor to the falling bargaining power of labor over the last 50 years. Don't fall for it.
They are actively working to make Home Assistant much more user-friendly. I suggest watching the "state of the union" presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc17q1Zn0Xs
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The problem with the CJR presenting themselves as neutral is that they are an interest group, and their idea of "honest" and the "public interest" is their business model being promoted.

And that's not peculiar to journalists. Virtually every corporation thinks they're doing a public good, since people are voluntarily buying their product or service.

But here they omit facts relevant to their claims, and the omissions distort the history they're presenting:

> In the US, radio began as a free-market free-for-all.

It did begin that way, but in 1934 the FCC was formed and explicitly regulated speech via the Mayflower and Fairness doctrines.[1][2]

It was then revoked under Reagan[2#Revocation], much to the chagrin of special interest groups like the CJR, and political radio exploded.

When political radio was deregulated, consumers got options outside of traditional media groups who lost subscribers and influence.

An honest recounting of the history is that the US has had regulations in the name of "fairness" and those regulations do in fact quash a lot of speech.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayflower_doctrine

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine
10 years in the trenches here.

Apple’s smart home protocol famously does not support multiple users. Amazon is choosy on what features you can implement (turn on alarms but not turning them off, locking doors but not unlocking them). Google loves using radio hardware no one else supports. Zigbee has delightful legacy security vulnerabilities and consortium drama.

I look forward to these groups putting aside their differences, coming together, and creating a new standard that combines the best of all these anti-patterns.
The satellite radio you have now is a receive-only system, but SXM is heavily investing in the telematics market as well. Soon it won't be.
I believe there are two main causes.

First, the massive issuance of treasuries used to fund the persistent and growing US budget shortfalls. As the big Wall Street banks have been tasked with buying up treasuries, massive amounts of liquidity have been siphoned out of the market. The Fed Will ultimately have to restart QE (in perpetuity) in order to fund the debt.

Second, hedge funds have been taking advantage of the repo markets, funding massive leveraged trades. Of course as the Fed pumps more liquidity into the system, these hedge funds will only ramp up their leverage. This is why Fed lending will be perpetually insufficient, because any increase in lending will just be used to support more and more leverage. It's like throwing paper towels at a water main break.
Right, every company in an entire country is evil. You don't sound horribly biased at all
A self-plug for my own HAP C library: https://github.com/andoma/libhap

I've been using it on a Raspberry Pi to control various things and recently decided to shape it up and release it to the public.
Exactly. It's presented as an exhaustive list, making it a false dichotomy:

"A situation in which two alternative points of view are presented as the only options, when others are available."

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/false_dichotomy
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If I remember correctly, the big Youtube issue were with the "recent" redesign that involed a lot of web components code using the Polymer Material Design framework. And Firefox just wasn't as performant with that (polyfills required?)

I've always found the old design better (just like reddit), so I disabled polymer for YT and got both more performance and better UX out of that deal.

To try it out, just append &disable_polymer=1 after any YT video url.
This is not standard practice in Seattle. Not unheard of, but not standard.

There are places you can work outside of the Valley.
This comment feels like a bit of a non-sequitor, but I agree. Cogmind is amazing, my own roguelike is quite abstract and a lot of the ones that really gripped me are not yer classic orcs and trolls.

If this is the reaction to the theme in the Rust tutorial that the original post talks about, that's because it's basically a port of the classic Python+libtcod one. It implements the same game, but walks the reader through doing it in Rust.

I (not OP but the author of the article and the Rust tut) wanted to use the same game & structure so folks can compare and contrast. A lot of folks are coming from Python or are familiar with libtcod. Plus it's trained generations of RL devs for better or worse.

If you do want to see roguelike creators experimenting, check out the annual Seven Day Roguelike Challenge[1]. Lots of absolutely amazing stuff keeps coming out of that, including most of my favourites.

[1]: http://www.roguebasin.com/index.php?title=Seven_Day_Roguelik...
Google spent quite a bit of money to run fibre in Louisville and then just abandoned the half buried cables. This kind of thing isn't unexpected for Google.
Why does one group deserve the “true bitcoin” moniker more than another? The bitcoin cash people can just as rightly claim they are the “true” bitcoin as the people squatting the “bitcoin” name.
> we've been told that the ever incresing sums of money that are put into the system are just a "short term" thing, yet no end date is ever announced

Short-term as in short-term financing, i.e. overnight lending.

Nobody expects repo to go away in the same way nobody expects interest paid on excess reserves to go away. It's a tool the Fed uses to manage the money markets. Because the Fed is the Fed, it's almost alway going to be the cheapest counterparty to borrow from.
For me it is the moderators and all the algorithms to keep the Troll’s away (that you first notice have a good effect after a long time usage, if you are looking for them).

Examples: Up/down-vote, flag, push down posts with a lot of discussions without new up-votes, republish posts that gets votes late...
They talk about reasons for choosing `--` here: https://www.xanthir.com/blog/b4KT0

TL, DR: There was discussion of using properties that look like `$foo` to define variables, but if they used `$foo` for variables, they would be unable to use it for future "variable-like" things. CSS custom properties behave differently from CSS pre-processor variables and they wanted to make that clear. Additionally, it’s to provide a way for custom properties to be used in any preprocessor.
I think RPA is the merging functional and technical, which is what all the debate is revolving around... Change can't happen without change
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This has always disgusted me. Civic duty is a foundation of representative democracy and we strip that right from former felons while talking about reintegration with society with the other side of our mouth.
It exists as a historic accident. It was not originally intended as a retirement savings program, but simply a way to help a small number of rich people avoid tax on deferred income invested in the stock market.

Though the program has become widely popular, it's still very clearly a giveaway to the rich. Not only are the wealthy capable of saving a larger amount, we also allow their employers to contribute up to $56,000. Obviously, most employers are not going to contribute $56,000 to their employees retirement savings plan.

Up to 80% of the tax expenditure of 401k plans is captured by the top quintile of income earners. The plans amount to welfare for the wealthy, and indeed the government loses more revenue from these tax expenditures than it spends on many welfare programs like food stamps.
The distinction between credit and debt is crucial here.
Well, why can’t they rightly claim they are “Bitcoin” and the current “Bitcoin” is the altcoin?
As a reader, I care about the quality of the article itself, not about whatever taint the site or author might have.
As a journalist, you don't get to determine importance because you don't what people value, who is going to read your stuff, and who they are going to tell about it. A large number of people think Kim Kardashian is the most important news. I think it's you who misunderstands.
Good example. The person who actually ended slavery in the US, Abraham Lincoln, didn't support abolition until the military advantages of emancipation became obvious enough that he could sell it to the people. For a long time he supported some slavery improvements, but specifically did not support abolition - which very much helped his political career and put him in position to emancipate.
They're considered one of, if not the, premier newspaper in the US, but have been falling down a lot lately.

"One one side, we have geophysicist Dr. Alicia Gomez to talk about the history of learning about the shape of the earth and its place in the cosmos. On the other side, we have Bob from the internet, who claims it's flat".

Edit BTW, good follow if you're interested in this sort of asymmetry and how it's playing out in many ways: https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu
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