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A major issue here is that payment processors literally choose which industries, and which players will succeed. If your industry is deemed high risk by payment processors, you are fighting a brutal battle to accept customer payments. If you can't process payments, you don't have a business. Conversions will drop off a cliff if you try to switch them to niche payment methods like crypto currency, or even something like Skrill.

Even worse, the payment processors do not apply their own ToS unilaterally. You'll find some websites will retain processing, while you lose it, even though the reason is that your business model is high risk. PayPal is notorious for this. Their ToS will only be enforced in certain countries, leaving companies in places like China with PayPal processing while your company is permanently banned from the platform.

It becomes impossible to compete if you are banned from Stripe & PayPal while your competitors are not. If their own rules are not applied equally across your industry, they effectively pick the winners. Their platform also favors long-standing merchants in many ways.

First by providing them an account manager, second by essentially grandfathering in certain accounts. You'll find it very difficult to process payments in certain industries on PayPal, likely not even being successful in on-boarding, while sites operating in the exact same business have functioning PayPal accounts.

It's incredibly anti-competitive. These processors run such a large scale monopoly; there are so few comparable alternatives, I've seen so many people go out of business purely by losing their PayPal.
Yeah...there might be something to this idea but this article doesn't back it's claims with any evidence.
> I added a single 2.7G ubuntu iso - it took 5 minutes to ingest it (on a tmpfs!), and turned it into 45k(!) little chunks, wtf is up with that?

Ingest times correlate linearly with file sizes because it needs to compute the blobref (which is a configurable hash) for all the blobs (chunks as you call them). Splitting in blobs/chunks is necessary because a stated goal of the project is to have snapshots by default when modifications are done. Doing snapshots/versioning without chunking would be very inefficient.
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That site requires identification. So the owner of the coins is known by everyone with the dataset (which that will be shared with chain analysis companies), as well as the website owners and the trader you trade with. Pretty big set
I generally agree that coding can take a lot more planning than writing and the more experienced I get, the more I plan. I also like to occasionally run with the "write one to throw away" method, which is very much like splitting between writing and editing. It's just that the second version is less editing of the original text and more editing the original approach / methodology / process.

I so wish I could code stoned. I've never been able to in any meaningful way. I don't code inebriated anymore, but in my twenties it was preferred. These days I think my brain basically responds to inebriation of any sort as "why are you still working while I'm trying to enjoy myself?".
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> I don't think collaboration means that you can't compete with each other?

I just don't think there's much room for competition when one party gently keeps another in a chokehold. Klarna depends on Visa, but not vice versa.
Sure, which is why I said on account transfers. A Tobin tax wouldn't impact those, the one the EU wanted was for financial instruments. e.g. if you buy and sell a new financial product on average fifty times per day to take advantage of some weird quirk - because you can make 0.001% per trade this way, the Tobin tax makes that money losing and you stop doing it.

Is that a good idea? I'm not sure, and apparently enough EU states weren't sure that this never got past Council.

But even if it's a great idea and gets implemented it doesn't care about moving money from one account to another itself which is all we're talking about here.
Simon Wardley “system of theft” comes to mind. This is probably a good move. Keep on creating!
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Here's a photo essay that is somewhat focused on the same subject:

https://granolashotgun.com/2019/07/22/the-show-horse-and-the...

It was also discussed on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20497711
Thank you for writing this antirez, I think I'll remember it as a statement of some principles that I like to think I aspire to also: like many people here I guess, I would describe myself as someone who loves writing software, and in my own small way I've also tried to avoid being dragged into team/project management because that is not what I seek out of a lifetime involved with code. And, yes, I do like to think of writing code as a creative activity / form of expression. I also need to study your C code more! Perhaps I'll look at the early redis commits.
They are on a 6 week release cycle. Every 6 weeks they release the changes that are ready. Sometimes the changes are large, sometimes small. Over time, rapid releases tend to get new features out sooner than delayed releases. Don’t get hung up on the version number. It doesn’t mean this is a major release, it is just the 78th release in a series.
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The most interesting bitcoin story I read somewhere was about a Ukrainian living in the Russian controlled portion of the country getting out with his wealth intact.

The border was controlled by corrupt Russian guards that would steal things of value. You could pass the border occasionally to visit family on the other side, but it was risky to take anything.

He put all his wealth into bitcoin, memorized his wallet seed words like his life depended on it, crossed the border with nothing, and then regenerated his wallet on the other side.

I thought that was pretty cool.
In other words the recent moaning about the havoc Trump supposedly caused with his restrictive visa policies wasn't entirely accurate.

Who would have thought?
So you can draw photo realistic impressions of those memories? Come on now. I can visualise pretty vividly, but I know that my memory is conning me, the textures and details are the feelings of textures and details. If I actually interrogate the visualisation the detail is not there. It's like trying to read writing in a dream, you imagine that it's perfect because the feeling is the same, but try to actually read - the detail is not there.
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The point is that there are options available to you when you use i.e. a credit card to spend money, versus bitcoin. With btc you will never, ever have a chance of getting it back once it's spent or if someone takes control of your wallet.

To be fair, debit cards and wire transfers have a similar issue. However there are still ways to get your money back in some situations.
There's a bit more info in Norwegian here[1]. Google Translate does a decent enough job[2].

[1]: https://www.nrk.no/trondelag/posten-utvikler-sin-forste-hel-...

[2]: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&u=https%3...
I have aphantasia. When reading I also don't "hear" the words (although I am capable, if I choose, of mentally simulating auditory input in a way for which I have no corresponding capability for visual input). I think I read much faster than average and have extremely high reading comprehension and recall for written material.

Funny story: one benefit of not being able to visualize things is that I'm never disappointed by casting choices (at least as far as appearance is concerned) when a novel is made into a movie or TV series. My wife was "upset" that Jaime Lannister in the Game of Thrones show had blue eyes instead of green, because she had such a strong visual image of what he should look like.
Access your Evernote account(s) directly from any JetBrains IDE including community editions.

- View notebooks and notes

- Search notebooks and notes with various filters

- Add new notes/code snippets right from the IDE

- Tag notes to make them more
searchable

- View media data attached to notes

No need to context switch, stay in your IDE and still access your Evernote data.
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The biggest difference is bureaucracy and control/power it exerts. They have less of it, we have more of it.

They may seem chaotic, but they are more agile because there is no (or little) bureaucracy. In the US things are standardized and predictable but at the cost of inefficient bureaucracy. Over there they have inefficiency of variability.

Neither is good or bad, they just work differently and some people like one over the other.
Chromes development tools are good, but Firefox has also been doing some interesting things in this area recently. In some regards Firefox pioneered modern web development with tools like Firebug. I think developers sometimes forget that for most users developer tools are not a selling feature though. There are a number of things, that both Firefox, and Safari, do better then Chrome, from a regular user perceptive. As an example, download and bookmark management. All that said, Chrome for mobile is really excellent compared to some of the other Android browsers I used in the past. I use both browsers daily, and find things I like and dislike about both.
You are so right. Too much confusing and scattered information in the US. Do some reading on UPS training for their UPS drivers, No turn left, optimization,...
> Under China’s now-abandoned ‘one child’ policy, the authorities had long encouraged, often forced, contraceptives, sterilization and abortion on Han Chinese. But minorities were allowed two children — three if they came from the countryside.
> This is what evil looks like?

Yes, that is horrible
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1: as you’ve said, the quality of such completion depends on habits; if you’re just shifting to the browser, it doesn’t have the full details with which to do good completion.

2: strongly disagree; I use Firefox, and on the odd occasion where I’m doing something in Chrome, it drives me insane with things like its CSS editing experience, because it does things in what I find to be a much less native-feeling way, whereas Firefox’s behave in a mostly native way, so that things tend to work the way I expect. There are glaring problems with it (mostly around “completing” a whole new word when I press Space when that makes an otherwise valid value nonsense; I really should file a bug about that if there isn’t one), but I find Chrome much more painful to interact with. And what do you know, a lot of it probably comes down to familiarity and what you’re used to.

3: Chrome is a disaster for large numbers of tabs. On most screen sizes it’s just about hopeless with even thirty tabs, maybe as few as twenty, both for reasons of performance and because of its infinite tab shrinking folly. Firefox, on the other hand, can handle hundreds of tabs in a session with perfect equanimity (though performance will definitely be affected by that point).

On DuckDuckGo, I find it to yield good results most of the time, and it’s rare for me to reach for !g.

In most of these sorts of things, it’s much more about what you’re used to and know how to interact with, than any inherent superiority of one over the other.
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No, though that is a good one.
Not the best of articles, IMHO. It has too many broad statements and seems to be trying to be a "one size fits all" bit of advice.

I like the metaphor and agree with this sentiment: "the problem of understanding what customer needs, as opposed to accepting what the customer is asking for".

A few points:

1. The customer has a say in the requirements. They are often the domain expert. Even if they have no expertise, they need to be regularly consulted otherwise you still run the risk of delivering software that no value to them.

2. Understanding the business and eliciting requirements is often beyond the ability and scope of the software developer. These are the skills of a business analyst. Of course, developers can and do have these skills, but it shouldn't be assumed that they do.

3. Proper business analysis may lead to a solution that doesn't involve custom software. The article doesn't seem to allow room for this.

4. Implementation is often important to the customer. Many won't be comfortable to leave everything "below the surface" to the software developer.
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That was one of my bigger reasons for a long time, but last I checked FF's dev tools were finally comparable to Chrome's.

At this point I'm just blocked on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404042. I've seriously tried switching to Firefox a few times, and I really want to switch, but it's just not acceptable to have my CPU regularly pinned at 200%.
Yeah tell that to the music industry.
but why "ansi"? ANSI is only an encoding. You can have html that's in ansi, and you can have something like OP's that's not in ansi (eg. if you add emojis).
Last release was done on June 2, 2020: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/77.0/releasenotes/

The previous one was done on May 5, 2020: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/76.0/releasenotes/

And the one before on April 7, 2020: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/75.0/releasenotes/

More or less, one release per month. Hardly "every week".
Bitcoin makes the flow of money beyond the money-drop transparent. Every last morsel of the ransom is permanently marked.

Bitcoin has many remarkable properties, but permanent anonymity is not one of them.
Thanks Antirez, Redis powers my startup and we could not have done it without you ! You and your beautiful release notes essays will be missed.
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Phoronix paints a very different picture, especially in non-synthetic workloads[1]. Gravitron2 looks like a nice speedup over the first generation but either the optimization isn't there yet or there are areas which need additional work to become more developer/HPC competitive. That said, I'm thrilled we have competition in the architecture space for general purpose compute again.

[1] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=epyc-vs-...
Bitcoin makes it easy for people with a billion dollars in bitcoin to move it around (or any value).

There’s no way it’s then suddenly a cost effective way for normal currency billionaires to move money around. Converting that amount to BTC would require serious fees and resources.

So this point is largely moot to any wider discussion.
"The GNU Project" is not really a thing. It's just a list, and the list includes projects with varying degrees of connection to the FSF:

1. Some projects are owned and controlled by the FSF. All contributors have to assign copyright to the FSF, and the FSF makes decisions about appointing maintainers, where the code is hosted, etc. Examples: Emacs, gcc, glibc.

2. A much larger set of projects are not FSF-owned or controlled in any meaningful way. The maintainers (or former maintainers) voluntarily chose to associate with the GNU project, but didn't assign copyright to the FSF, and basically kept their own project governance. Examples: R[1], GNOME[2], GIMP.

3. Finally, many projects on the official list[3] are basically abandonware. They got started because someone thought it was important or useful to have an open source clone of some widely used piece of software, but they never got close to feature-complete, were never widely used, and the authors have moved on. Check the most recent releases for most of the software on the list - it's often been 2+ years since there has been any activity.

The projects that have moved to GitHub are all in category #2. The developers and maintainers of those projects don't necessarily share the antagonism towards SaaS platforms that the FSF has historically had, and they've moved to a platform with better tooling and a larger community. A few better-resourced projects that have stronger views on avoiding proprietary SaaS code have set up self-hosted GitLab instances. The projects I follow that have FSF-appointed maintainers have stayed on GNU Savannah, although many have GitHub read-only mirrors.

[1] https://www.r-project.org/about.html

[2] https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Resources/CopyrightAs...

[3] https://www.gnu.org/manual/blurbs.html
Of course it is, but it's the kind of bigotry nowadays some people evangelize as good (by redefining racism), and what the twitter mob encourages.
That's a good point. I'm so thankful none of this existed when I was young. I can't even imagine how terrible things would've been that would still be attached to my name now.
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I can certainly see why maintaining the dollar's position requires cultivating a reputation as a country that doesn't bully others or renege on its agreements. But again, what does that have to do with gun violence?
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Please don't. Not everyone uses these additional libraries or preprocessors, and it was a big hurdle to figure out what was actually being generated behind the scenes in the v1 docs.

A good approach is to show us what we need to do with no other dependencies (i.e. just as you're doing now with this h() function), and link to alternative syntaxes/libraries that may be optionally used instead.
I have resisted using anything other than Firefox since the IE days but I have been literally forced to switch to Chrome because of this issue on my work Macs and every time I checked, I was surprised to see that’s not implemented. Finally. Thank you Mozilla!
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Not saying 0.0.0.0 should be used in this case, but if you have data sniffing software listening on port 80 or 443 without your knowledge (or really any port at all, but especially a privileged port), you probably have much bigger things to worry about than some ad hoc PoC sending data there.
Wait, so you can just duplicate an app that has more privileges than your app, modify it, and run it to exploit it's access?

This is a pretty glaring security issue actually - after reading this, it seems like Apple's choice to track app permissions / security exceptions by the app's bundle ID and not its file path was a pretty big mistake.

I wonder if this is a case of iOS security engineers working on macOS, forgetting that app bundle IDs aren't enforced by a central install flow on the platform?
Faster than bitcoin, cheaper than bitcoin, easier to use than bitcoin, more reliable than bitcoin, far more widely accepted than bitcoin. Hmm...
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I can totally relate to this. In fact, just a few months ago I complained here about the steep entry bar for KDE projects.

Now, ever since moving to Gitlab not only was I able to successfully contribute, but I effectively became a co-maintainer of one of the projects. We also had some pull requests from some "hit and run" coders previously unknown to the project.

It's 2020, nobody wants to waste hours to learn how to contribute to an open source codebase. I can't think of a bigger deterrent than a complex, unorthodox approach that KDE had previously used.
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I think Hey is going to succeed, regardless of how well it differentiates with email, simply because we’re at the point where almost every single tweet from DHH is getting posted to HN.
Not quite. You can bribe the miners with your old private key if you act fast enough :)
Some tips:

Dress like a motor-cyclist. Wear a helmet and airbag suit.

This is probably also useful when traveling by airplane.

I have no data on the effectiveness, however.
I have some competitors in the UK who told me that if a single customer pays you from a frauded bank account, your entire bank account is closed permanently, and they investigate with the police.

They also assume you are involved in the illegal activity and you have to interview at the bank. All this for what can amount to a 20-50 GBP payment, and even if it represents <1% of your transfer volume.

If bank payments are going to become prevalent in e-commerce, this type of primitive reaction to fraud will need to improve drastically.
I also use Pocket a lot. Alas, I do wish that they had Kindle integration... As of now I use crofflr [1], which mostly works but is unfortunately no longer updated.

[1]: https://www.crofflr.com/
Computer Graphics; Data Science; and ML/AI are your obvious ones. Most engineers can benefit from it, because all you're doing is modelling systems; take a look at how Spice programs model electrical circuits as an example of this. There's a lot of math that needs an understanding of vector spaces to grasp the concepts. Most Lin Alg books and courses that are more geared towards graduate level students (so folks with the basic lin alg info under their belt) work on generalization, and it directly leads to some interesting applications in probability, graph theory, number theory, and a whole host of other more advanced topics. There's even whole programs built around solving things from a linear algebra perspective (see MatLab for example)

Linear algebra is just a tool that fits nicely in a lot of computer science and various engineering toolboxes.
It is here! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23689499
The most relevant research on car brands and models is probably the IIHS driver death rate data. It's not perfect since the populations are self selecting (cars aren't assigned to drivers at random) but within a particular vehicle class if you see a huge difference in death rates then that's probably meaningful.

https://www.iihs.org/ratings/driver-death-rates-by-make-and-...
From a paper I wrote on the downsides of using video for mediation:

"The most important element of body language is eye contact. “Gaze is vital in the flow of natural communication, monitoring of feedback, regulating turn taking, and punctuating emotion. The lack of eye contact shows timidity, embarrassment, shyness, uncertainty and social awkwardness. (Edelmann and Hampson [1]).” Having a camera on top of a monitor, as the vast majority of video endpoints and laptops have, creates the appearance that participants are looking down. If you do look up into the camera, you aren’t looking at the other participant’s faces. Seeing someone look down makes them seem disinterested or even dishonest. Our minds are programmed to interpret looking down as gaze avoidance. Of all the problems with using videoconferencing for mediation, eye contact is the real show stopper. Again, corporate room-based systems mitigate this with multiple
special cameras and other technological tricks. There are some solutions in the pipeline but they will take a long time to “trickle down to the masses.”

The solution I have settled on is to have a webcam on top of an external monitor set up far enough away that you can't really tell that I am not looking directly at the lens. It would be so much better if Zoom allowed me to rearrange the video panels. My perfect video conferencing app for mediation would allow rearrangement of each video stream and have a simpler breakout room functionality.