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> Is it a coin where work on the coin/it's promotion is rewarded with more coin?

Gitcoin never did an ICO and doesnt have a token. During the 2017 ICO craze, we opted instead to just focus on product/community.

Our network supports any ERC20 token or ETH. Here are the top ones on the Gitcoin network https://gitcoin.co/leaderboard/tokens?cadence=all&keyword=al...

More on why we didnt do an ICO at https://gitcoin.co/not_a_token
> I crave the experience of working in a restaurant. I did full-stack back-of-house in busy kitchens and it sure beat sitting around pushing buttons all day. I just haven't been able to afford to do it for the past ten years because building web sites pays so much better.

Same, I'm an ex-founder in Fintech, I've worked for big multi-national corps, and have a background in Health Sciences. And the satisfaction you get the rare times things are 'good' in Kitchens is perhaps the most satisfying things I've even experienced in my entire Life.
The comradery amongst your fellow cooks can be petty deep, my old team still keeps in touch with another during Corona and we're trying to help where ever we can. Its a sense of community that extends beyond one's Team, too. I personally have met lots of owners and cooks during these shutdowns and we often have conversations about the business and Life.

By contrast, I don't know my neighbors, and barely talk to my house mates.

The taxing part is the high stress, low pay, long hours, and a very precarious Life over all due to the widespread alcohol/drug abuse.

I've had to save up to come out of retirement from cooking after my time in Europe, too; I took it pretty far this time, I got to interview at SpaceX, did a week a the Mars Desert Research Station and worked at Kimbal Musk's flagship restaurant this last run.

So, while I wish I was at SpaceX right now the realities don't allow it and won't for an undetermined time, so upon reflection I'm pretty satisfied with my culinary career and think that I have done all I could and gone further then I realistically thought I ever could.

@Maxwell: Let me know you want to collaborate, I'd like to be able to work with someone who wants to return to the Kitchen.
Cute analogy. In fact, one said: you're not me. And the other ultimately said: I'm Raku.

In case you didn't know: Perl 6 has been renamed to Raku, using the #rakulang tag on social media.
anyone have the link to the original video?
A decentralized identity system that works will be a very significant component to the dweb stack.

But people that have experience building decentralized protocols will tell you that it's a very hard problem to solve, for many reasons.

This is an engineering community, so I believe that it's important to focus on things that exist today. Not on speculative solutions.
Yup, really very good, especially the physics ones.
Eh, it is the same for Poland. Even relatively minor criticism is immediately assumed to be a deliberate attack on the ruling party and so proponents of the current government descend. I am not ruling out paid supporters, but besieged castle defense is a well known tactic for politicians. Case in point, coworker is Indian, and not overly pro or anti Modi, but you can't say a bad thing about him without surprinsingly strong defese. Something about doing it for India's interest. It is an argument.
> The hedge is not your primary investment. It is an insurance policy. Crashes happen several times over an investor’s lifetime.

The more frequently they happen, the less valuable such insurance is, especially one that has such ruinously negative returns. (I'm not clear if that's -25% compared to a S&P benchmark or an absolute -25% in a period where the S&P is up like 200%+, but neither way is flattering).

Note, of course, that Taleb makes all of his money from books, and that the funds he actually ran all seem to have closed ignominiously and gone down the memory-hole - despite 'black swans' like 9/11...
Yes, that was the one, on the Manchester line.
And Elon will argue that's against his First Amendment rights, correctly so imo.
A novel telescope concept designed to image large and extremely faint structures
From what I've read it's the opposite effect. Wearing masks has a greater effect on reducing propagation (R-value) than expected.

https://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(08)01008-4/ful...
> Computer science pseudocode uses notation kind of like that.

Does it? In my time at the university, assignments in pseudocode were usually written as

x <- "Hello"
Started as a solo developer, spent 10+ years to grow it into a small business with 40 employees.

The hardest lesson for me was that at the crux of it, business is all about scarcity. There is no other magic out there. A great question to ask yourself is: How many people want what I sell and how many people are already serving it.

Business is about being in the right market with the right product, and then differentiating against all other players in the market. Once you figure this out, you will solve most of the operational problems.
I don't, and that's half the problem :-) If I did, I'd probably remember enough perl that I'd have never bit the bullet and learned awk!

To answer the serious question, it's often enough for a first order solution to any problem where you have line and field separated text. Pulling instances of "something weird" out of log files, for instance, is a great use for awk, especially if the fingerprint of "something weird" is scattered through fields in a line in a way that makes grep cumbersome. Or if it spans a couple of lines, especially if you're dealing with a log from a multi-threaded app where there might be irrelevant lines interleaved with the ones you care about.

I haven't written much production-grade awk, but I've often used it as a tool to understand a problem well enough to write a production-grade solution to a problem or fix bugs in application code.
I feel you; if it helps, have you considered that this maybe raises some 'red flags' about the job itself? Maybe you dodged a bullet there...
The GitHub repo (MIT license) is at https://github.com/dmliao/strike
Ex-Green Beret led failed attempt to oust Venezuela’s Maduro
https://www.heavybit.com/library/
They won't be able to elaborate - and if such a law did somehow pass, it's against a person's First Amendment rights.
In what major city or urban area have restaurants been competing on price during the last two decades ? In fact the prices seem to have gone up consistently far above inflation with the dominant cost component being rent, local taxes and services.

Profitability is low because consumers reduce visit frequency and money spent per visit as the prices feel unjustified for value served even when priced at meager margins above cost, this in turn puts pressure on owners to make more money per-item further alienating consumers.
I used to be in the camp of finding better workflows with these tools. I ended up just gardening them,losing time elsewhere.

Now I just prefer the simplest dumbest tools possible for specific use cases. Notebook + sticky notes for task mgmt, GitHub repo for code snippets, simplenote for private information, Google docs for collab
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5BZ09iNdvo
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I’m a bit confused about the privacy issue here. Isn’t the (alleged) commenter’s full name and address published along with their comment in the public filing? If the commenter’s address is already published what other information can be gleaned from their IP address? Is the fear that someone could use it to piece together a person’s web history?
I still listen to most of my music in Spotify. But I will buy the album on Bandcamp to give the artist of albums in heavy rotation fair compensation.

It is great Bandcamp has flac, et . But I don't enjoy going back to the days of managing media on a filesystem and syncing between devices.
Concur. A long time ago I spent a full day as a professional engineer trying to figure out why a microsoft Excel formula wasn't working. Turns out that the default MS Excel order of operations was not PEMDAS, it's PE(M or D)(A or S), where 'X or X' is selected based on which operator comes next from left to right.(1) So frustrating. Always use parens.

1. https://edu.gcfglobal.org/en/excel2013/complex-formulas/1/
For someone who never looked into the complexities of clinical trials, I thought that was a detailed and informative answer. It seems the key point to take away is, “The amount of noise in human clinical data can defy belief if you haven’t seen it in person”. :)
Fictional Debian dev A: "Why do we have /etc/debian-release? Can't we have a release declaration file with a neutral name, like maybe /etc/os-release, in a format that all other distros can adopt?"

Fictional Debian dev B: "That's how we've always done it. Plus if we touch it it might break some guy's script."

It may not be exactly cargo culting, but at least an adjacent concept.
What bugs me the most is that the government either doesn't really want to know who's interfering with the democratic process or they know and they're not telling us.

The former implies extreme ignorance, the later implies agency capture to the point the FCC is no longer a public institution.
> The definition of people losing faith in a "corrupt
> judiciary" would be mass protests, street judgments.

Absence of "mass protests" isn't gauge of things are normal. To take an example there weren't any mass protests during Stalin's reign in Russia. Also it is not that there aren't "street judgements" in India, there are many incidences which don't reach the courts. For example despite illegal still there still exists "Khap Panchayats" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khap)
It's idiomatic to use it for comparisons with the value `None`, which is a singleton so it's always that one.

Other than that, just don't use `is`.
I agree it's a hard problem to solve, and we've got no illusions about that.

This post (also, coincidentally by Vitalik) talks about different levels of collusion (from unsophisticated to sophisticated) https://vitalik.ca/general/2019/04/03/collusion.html

Gitcoin's approach thus far has been to stop collusion from unsophisticated actors, then progressively get more organized (as more money gets involved, and as we learn from each round) about stopping collusion from more sophisticated actors.

This thread talks about some collusion that we founnd in Round 5. https://twitter.com/owocki/status/1250097472694702080
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Likewise - we use Figma at our company and it genuinely is an amazing product.

Also highly recommend ProductBoard. Fig + PB + Jira (yeh I know) can be a powerful pipeline.
Curious - what are you guys using Rust for?
he also interviewed Knuth, one of the better ones as well IMO!
I would consider the scenario where it was not just 1 person/group, you could have more then 1 person trying to cheat the system in favor of his favorite tribe or even just trolls practicing their scripting skills.
This. It's often a good enough tool for solving problems that technically require a specialized tool. Except learning the specialized tool takes an order of magnitude more time than iterating on awk to get a good-enough solution.

I'm not proud to admit it, but I've used awk in a couple places where I should have properly used `expect' instead. Except, I don't know expect well and haven't gotten to the point where it was worth the investment in learning it.
I read 3-4 sources and none linked to the video[0] for some reason.

Anyone know how these are made? In many ways it reminded me of the MongoDB is Webscale[1] one - is there some kind of popular tool or framework that is used to make them?

[0] https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q5BZ09iNdvo

[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
There are any number of lacunae in the Indian system:

- No codified tort law.

- Most things are done through Criminal Law, even many of which are better dealt with through Civil Law.

- Ineffective perjury provisions.

- Lack of Jury system with requirement of unanimous verdict.

- Lack of recourse against wrongful imprisonment.

- No Miranda act like right to remain silent. That is the right against self incrimimation is weak and ineffictual in India.

- Death Penalty still remains.

- The police does not operate as per the Peelian Principles.

- Lower courts are rubber stamps, they never refuse prosecution.
Google docs also has options to export to markdown.
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Yes or no? I didn’t read it
I joined a startup 6 years ago where the CEO has been extremely transparent about all business decisions over the year. I've learnt a lot from that.
Pedantic point: The whole "reading the bible in Latin" is a very Catholic thing (and maybe Orthodox?). The Protestant churches I've been in has read from the bible in the native tongue, and it was indeed one of Luther's criticisms of the Catholic church.
You'd like this related discussion from way back when on https://42floors.com/blog/startups/i-dont-know: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7334671
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Another data point: In British Columbia, extended care facilities have 20% of the cases but over 60% (70/112) of the deaths.
Does it not benefit the current administration?
would it be better if we have 'static-typed stack-based language'?
But it seems stack based language only support numbers... Event string is treated as chars, which are the same as ints, which is hard to 'type check' statically?
At a broader level, taxes.

When it comes to workers, the deep economic thinking is that money isn’t something that drives performance. When it comes to the back-scratching world of corporate governance, cash is king.

The public sector demonstrates that you don’t need to pay excessive salaries for many types of executive workers. The most senior generals in the military make $300k. The most senior executives of government agencies tend to make $150-250k depending on geography. The no-name CEO of some small hospital network makes $3M.
I think your title sells it short...

"Why nomadlist has a non existing japanese city Dorobō ?"
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And try any small German town and it will be cheaper.

Zurich being in Switzerland which has one of the highest costs of living in the world is not really a good comparison. It's like saying "beer in X is cheaper than in Norway" - it will nearly always be true ;)
Yes, exactly, knowing they’ll be smoothed is a big difference, it leads to different choices. Looking at a smoothed surface during the modeling process is an even bigger difference than looking a mesh all the way through. Knowing how they’ll be smoothed is important. What about creases? What if you want a creased edge smoothed and it’s part of two separate mesh groups?

You can subdivide polygons without smoothing them, and people still do polygonal modeling without planning for subdivision, and produce models that aren’t intended for smoothing and wouldn’t smooth nicely, so it is important to be clear in your language that you’re talking about a subdivision surface and not just polygons. Why the resistance to just saying subdivision surface, since that’s really what you’re talking about? I agree with a lot of your points if I replace “polygons” with “subdivision surface”.

My issue with what you said far above is the claim that smoothed surface representations require extra tooling, and you claimed that “polygons” don’t have these issues. The problem with that is that a subdivision surface is a curved surface representation, and it does come with extra tooling. Just because it’s easier than NURBS, and just because you get to use a lot of polygon tools, that does not mean a subdiv workflow is the same thing as a polygon workflow. Hey it’s great if the tools are getting so good that people confuse polygons with subdivs. Nonetheless, a pure polygon workflow can mean things that aren’t compatible with smoothing or subdivs.
this is game changer
Great post. I didn't know Fred had a blog. Fred's writing style never ceases to amaze me. His book on property based testing in Elixir was a better introduction for me to Python's Hypothesis than any of the other tutorials I found online on the topic because it made me think about discovering properties of my code. Would recommend it to others.
This type of rating system is always disappointing. Candidates and interviewers each have different ideas of what expertise means -- I guess because there is no real context around the question. Maybe it's a trope to say, but it seems like competence and likelihood to rate oneself an expert are inversely correlated (barring hubris or real expertise!).

I used to ask candidates to rate themselves from 1-10, e.g., in database performance analysis, and often would get people rating themselves a 9 or a 10 without being able to articulate anything about the topic. It just seems very meaningless, since we were going to have a discussion anyway -- and the conversational part of the interview is more revealing, in any case.
I hadn't run across that one yet. Thank you!

The risk of that seems to be if CSV allows embedded escaped quotes in a quoted string. Does it? I don't know. And CSV is pretty loosely defined. For most people it's probably "whatever Excel emits or ingests".

And I think that's why we're on the same page about pulling out python and using a module where somebody has explored what the corner cases are and dealt with them for us already.
IMO, it would be great if 'cut' could accept more than just a single character for delimiters.

e.g. a regex or even a shell-style pattern match would be very useful. `cut -d ' +' -f2` would get rid of the need for 'tr' in your example.

Even just allowing >1 char delimiters would be helpful. A text list like 'foo, bar, foobar' is too much for cut, but it would be fine if cut accepted parameters like `cut -d ', '`
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Not only that but does he even have a clue about the DDS and USDS for civil and military digital transformation groups, where they select a lot of people to fix the issues he's talking about to embed in areas and build solutions? A lot of former SV people (they brag about ex Googlers) so this comes off as pretty funny and tone deaf by Schmidt but whatever. Why support existing transformation structures when you can fix everything in one day under a tent (to paraphrase his own words, if they are even accurate)?

But I'm equally mad at not wanting to fix boring infrastructure first, like parent said. I see a lot of high quality transformation efforts, albeit anecdotally, in the military. Can we focus on the more boring civic systems, lest we find out that not only COBOL unemployment platforms are in trouble?
Conversely, I tried Spotify for a while, and I won't go back to a catalogue that I have no control over, with curation that is spotty at best and non-existent at worst, and where albums can just disappear for nebulous licensing reasons.

I have a catalogue of music that belongs to me, which I can sort and curate and manage exactly to my whims and desires. It's a matter of quality over quantity.
I can’t really imagine a mechanism by which a mask would still let the same cloud of particles from a cough disperse in exactly the same way, but uniformly remove 70% of them. Surely if it is blocking that many particles it’s also disrupting the spread of the remaining particles. Or it could very well be the opposite of what you’re saying, maybe blocking that 70% of particles is enough to stop even more than 70% of the transmission opportunities. That wouldn’t be crazy if the spread is mostly via large droplets (most likely to get stopped by a mask) rather than aerosolized particles, which has been suggested.

I think your argument is that it’s just not scientifically proven, but we have to make decisions today with the best information we have. Wearing masks still appears to be a good idea, has very low cost, and has been shown to help for a long time for all kinds of respiratory diseases.
> So, bacteria indeed appear able to initiate and accelerate the dirt-making process.

But the description of the process is as much or more interesting than the result.
During the Corona lockdown, Devdutt Pattnaik shares stories from Indian, Abrahamic, ancient and modern mythologies. Unusual and uplifting stories that help us learn and appreciate life in these difficult times

He does this1 hour session everyday at 4pm India Standard Time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZpjdaHJdSw
Prediction literally means "spoken and/or written beforehand" so one of differences between the two is the former is in a shareable format, and the latter is thought that could, but doesn't have to be shared. Of course once it is shared and then subsequently occurs, it becomes a prediction and not just personal knowledge.

Another difference is that a successful prediction can manifest through a fluke, coincidence, probability of less than 1, or hindsight editing of claim, whereas "knowing" is a probability of 1.
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It’s a balance between competition between each other and solidarity against the outside world.
The truth is that egomaniacs tend to be the ones who get all the fame and glory. Just look at Musk, Trump, and anyone else who's managed to acquire a massive cult following.
Can you provide any evidence of this? I certainly don't see any in the literature, which I follow closely enough to keep notes on subjects like this.
I'm sorry without some citations this is still handwavy bollocks.

Energy does have a conservation law. Entropy does not. Not does information, complexity etc.

I majored in phyiscs, I'm familiar with these terms.

Grand parent post made no indication they were talking about essential complexity when they made their bold assertion about how it's conserved like energy.

I'm also not aware of any formal or precise way of measuring "essential complexity". Not in the way we do for energy or entropy.
In the cases where they aren't worth it, you're hopefully also using a language that gets compiled and they're just optimized out.
I know how to make this work, but a bug like this would be hard to spot.
> ...upsetting that position may not end well for those that really only do four hours of actual work during an 8 hour day.

One of the great shocks in my life was finding out the sheer number of employees to which this applies. The most obvious places were the various BigCo's I worked at, but it applied almost anywhere.

Now just the drudgery and pointlessness of much of their work made me sympathetic to their slacking-off, but it was the constant anxiety of appearing busy that made it seem truly miserable.

At some point in my early twenties I'd had both the high-pressure, still-smelling-of-fries-after-a-shower type of experience of working at McDonald's or various restaurants, as well as the experience of sitting in the office with various just-below-board-member managers of one of the major insurance companies here.

Aside from the possible issues resulting from the physical strain, and having to live more frugally, McDonald's struck me as preferable to the latter (but neither seemed like any kind of world I want to live in or actively maintain, if possible).

I don't know if this is a personal thing, but I would go for a job where I need to focus and work over a job where I need to pretend to focus and work anytime. And most office jobs seem to have more of the latter than I can imagine anyone tolerating.
Would love someone clever’s opinion on this too.