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I find it easier to trace errors in DrRacket than racket-mode, but use Emacs for 95% of my Racket coding
Can Osso act as an IdP or are there any plans to build this in the future?

I've been struggling for a long time now trying to find a good IdP I can use to integrate with my existing user database.
How does a blockchain ensure they ship the materials I requested? Did they harden the metal properly? Were the electronic parts purchased from a reliable supply chain so I don't get reclaimed ones? Did they use the right PSI steel? Did they test to known and documented quality standards, or do they ship me the ones that work, but fail quality checks that they reserve for their big customers?

I have manufactured a lot of electronic and physical products, and have had a lot of supply chain issues, but not one of them would have been solved with a blockchain.
Immutability of past transactions is just an artifact of an append-only database. Blockchain gives you nothing that an append-only database couldn't provide for that guarantee. Combine that with some server sharding, and there's not really a point to having blockchain do anything at all. The wholly designed inefficiency of "mining coins" is not necessary to having a distributed ledger.
> In code we trust, and code is law.

Which means any and all bugs or exploits are also law. And we know for certain that there will be bugs and exploits, which is why smart contracts are such an exceedingly daft idea.
My apologies regarding the Florida study; I only intended to address the references you had to UK ballots, given the context of this thread.

On the Florida study. Perhaps I've misunderstood, but it read to me like the punchcard system was worst, followed by ballots scanned by a computer at the precinct, then "other", which is the two counties using other system that sound quite different to each other. It wasn't clear to me at all that they had any sort of rating of how many inadvertently spoiled ballots came from hand written, hand counted systems vs others. I'll readily admit that I'm not any kind of statistics expert though, so the study wasn't straightforward for me to follow.
Is this because of the potential threat of a dollar squeeze? Seems like the market is too deep for that... Or is it just about the impact of volatility and the cost to the system of covering positions?

Why on earth are all the comments about her speaking fees? That paragraph was totally superfluous in the article.
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> If you can't trust the government then what are the chances they'll buy into using a blockchain that takes away their corruption powers?

OK well I can't speak for Asia or Africa but I am familiar with the Americas...

Aside from the fact that governments always look for PR campaigns that make them look fair, they also know they aren't going to be in power forever, and they suffer (get fired, thrown in jail, you name it) when power changes hands. If you can insulate the financial system from those shocks then it's beneficial for both parties because they each protect their financial downside. Also, the country as a whole grows when markets get healthier and can attract more investment. That's good for everyone.

It's not that you can't get the government to set up and use a particular system. It's that individual corporations within the country affiliate with a particular faction/party and try to bend the system to take advantage of other participants. The corruption happens under the skin. You can establish a competent central actor but you can't trust him not to bend the rules, like a horny professor when an attractive student with a B asks for a low A. The third world is one big hackathon for the misuse of institutions. Look at Morales' successful efforts to wriggle out from the grasp of term limits; he went to the Supreme Court and asked his buddies there to declare him eligible due to "human rights." He didn't say "I don't care about the Constitution," even though he wanted to violate its rules. They don't want the institution to look like it's crumbling, even when they're the ones chipping away at it.

If you elevate the exchange to a multinational blockchain then you have competing factions, lots of ebb and flow, and the potential for outside participants. And you get the "i don't have to trust the others" aspect of blockchain.

The whole point of developing robust systems is to make them failure tolerant in the face of perturbations, so we should apply them to the perturbed applications instead of building blockchain for rideshare/dildoes/whatever that helps nobody with an actual problem.
> "We do think Osso is open source by common understanding and view the BSL as a fair model that places no restrictions on good actors - the license is intended to protect us from copycats profiting off our work, while allowing anyone that needs to integrate SAML into an app they’re building free reign."

The common understanding of open source is that source code is available, redistribution free, and derivative works are allowed.

MariaDB specifically states that BSL isn't open source:

> "We have not certified BSL as complying to the Open Source Definition by the Open Source Initiative (OSI). However, all source code is available from the start and most of the OSI criteria are met. As long as the software is used within the usage limitations, it’s free to use at no cost."

Open source = no usage limitations.
History of second hand cars. (Repairs, accidents, maintenance, original options, paint, etc)

Currently, there are various parties that try to collect this info, but it's still full of holes. Plus, it's not a single party, even for the same area (eg EU). It gets more complicated for import/export.

Let's say you can "solve" this by having a single worldwide party that handles it. Do you really want such a monopoly? How much will you pay then to get the data?

Why not solve it with a ledger protocol?
Do you know any good resources I can read up on this?
There are some elements of something The_Donald-like, but it's true that it's
not (yet?) the same thing.

They push a lot of very strong and completely unsubstantiated conspiracy claims
in particular, and they'll quickly accuse anybody dissenting of being a shill or
having an ulterior purpose.

Here's a good example I think:
https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l93d18/gme_...

This is good OG WSB content, written by one of the users that was in on the play
from the very start.

But there's the problem: since he knew what he was doing, he managed to sell at
the right moment and make huge benefits. That doesn't fit the narrative nu-WSB
wants to push. So this very good old-school WSB post can't even get half a
thousand upvotes.

Meanwhile post some vaguely conspirationist anti-wall street article and skyrocket
to the top of the frontpage.

So yeah, it's not The_Donald, but there's definitely this strong anti-system, populist, "everybody is out to get me" conspirationist, fact-adverse mindset that you find in these types of communities.

Note in particular that, somewhat ironically, WSB calls itself "4chan with a bloomberg terminal", so it seems fitting that it's following a similar trajectory of ironic edgyness turning genuine as new people get in and take it at face value.
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Steve McConnell is great. Of the "Code Complete" fame. I recently read his "More effective agile" and it's a great modern introduction to Agile. Lots of actionable advice.
>I read 203 books in 2019.

That is really remarkable! Can I ask how you go about selecting what to read? Compared to the ~20 books I read every year that seems like an absolute firehose. I wouldn't even know where to start assembling such a long list.
So the intent of the license is to prevent copy-cats from using Osso's source to run a competing business. We certainly intend for you to be able to authenticate external customers in a SAAS app. IANAL but the license text hsa been vetted by an attorney.

Is our intent with the license enough for you to consider it appropriate for us to call this open source?
why are you collecting GPS data?
>one of the characters eulogizes George IV’s reign as “holiday time for people intent upon promoting the greatest happiness of the smallest number,” notes scholar Winifred Hughes.

This seems rather applicable to now as well.
It is fine to buy a few things from an untrusted supplier off Amazon. It is a whole other issue to run production based on unreliable or untrusted suppliers. I have yet to ever see a company serious about production that would do this.

Are you in production? Or just think this is a good idea?
We love Intelligence Squared. It's one of our favorite 'competitors', along with Munk Debates!

You're exactly right: It's not obvious at all that Jason's response is coming soon. And it needs to be. Thanks for the great suggestion.
Auxon also looks like an interesting company.
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Looks great - seems similar to letter.wiki

I am skeptical as to the degree to which new platforms can help with the fundamental problems with the "sense-making apparatus" in our societies. Very few folks seem to be aware of the extent to which the news media, and by extension, their own assumptions about the world are broken or skewed.

It is common for even intelligent folks to dish out quips like the "bullshit asymmetry principle", without accounting for the possibility that their own framing of the world around them may be akin to Plato's allegory of the cave.

So even if we create new platforms, if some hypothetical person like Mr. Cucumber on the new platform makes a compelling, well-reasoned, well-researched case in favor of, for example, restricting immigration, the formula for discrediting this person is to cherry pick the profiles of some people who are sharing their content. If you find any references to some fringe topic like Q in a cherry picked sample of 100 people who shared the content, you can associate this person with those people and discredit the entire thing without having to attack their arguments. Those followers need not even exist, they can be made up. Before you know it the next trending topic will be "Who is Mr. Cucumber, the new darling of the alt-right?". That's the end of anyone ever listening to them again.

This is just one example - there are many such strategies employed online contemporarily and they are very effective. Inoculating against this kind of bad faith tactic is necessary to see any kind of progress in many spheres. Our societies all around the world stagnated for decades, even centuries, under these tactics employed by the prevailing orthodoxies. The current state of the Internet has allowed a technologically leveraged version of these tactics to prevail today.
And on AMC covered by their shares too it looks like. But the article title and comments here made it sound like they were the same short selling hedge funds targeted for squeezing by wsb, when the truth is more complicated.
I don't think it's a grey area. They could show you ads in the HTML, they choose not to, and instead choose to let outside companies execute arbitrary code on your machine to track you. "Sites want you to go to the full URL so someone else can track your web use" sounds way less innocent and, to me, downright hostile. No one should feel morally obligated to allow that to happen.
Heck, many ISP modems (which are not only modems but also routers and wireless APs) are of Chinese manufacture.
As a former consultant, payment issues are rife everywhere. The startup issues you describe I’ve seen cross cultures. My last company decided to no longer do work for startups because of their shaky finances and sketchy practices.

The big companies have their own issues too. I once had a large client decide suddenly “we decided not to pay our bills in December” - all to make the CFOs numbers look good. Of course our direct customer, the group we worked with, was just as aghast as we were about our non payment. But it was pretty much “we dare you to try to sue us” from procurement. Our direct customer worked tirelessly to get us paid, to no avail. They did eventually pay in January, but it created a cash flow headache.

For this reason (and some other ones) I accepted I’d rather be an employee with reliable paycheck and benefits than the difficult conversation about late payment always looming.

Also I’m not sure it matters, but NYC has a specific law that protects freelancers specifically:

https://www1.nyc.gov/site/dca/about/freelance-isnt-free-act....
I think this analogy would be better as playing poker with an enemy and a seasoned pro. You relentlessly raise, trying to draw your enemy into over bidding, even as you both lose money to the pro.
I am Okay with death not necessarily because of my views on free will being an illusion (which I think it can help people cope with death), but my far more potent though on death is that I see it exactly as before I was born. I do not remember before I was born, and therefor I'm just as likely to not remember my death, but one thing is for sure.

I can enjoy whatever slice of infinitesmially small time I have here on Earth, or I can not exist faster than what nature is trying to do to me. I'll continue to exist for as long as I can simply to spite it all and make my time here as long as possible, even if ultimately I would later realize I would have liked to end it sooner, I simply have made this a resolute position I will not falter on and will strive to find a way to make this existence as pleasant for me and others as I am physically and mentally capable of. Who knows if I will succeed, but I'm gonna try my hardest to be like that.
First of all, there is no such thing as a free market, certainly not in the capital markets. There are mountains of regulations covering stock, options, futures, and debt trades. Trading is routinely halted on various securities in extreme circumstances. Insider trading is restricted, and the restrictions become more significant for higher level management. Companies are required to report certain information to the public.

Markets exist to solve problems of valuation and capital allocation. Pump-and-dump schemes distort valuations in very extreme ways and work against the purpose of equity markets. That is a basic reason why they should be banned. Another reason is that scams introduce unnecessary risk to someone making an investment decision; ideally investors should only focus on risks related to a company's business, not the risk that the information they were given about that company is false. The extra risk will drive away investors and the result will be less capital available to otherwise promising ventures, which again works against the goals of capital markets.

It is not really possible to restructure markets in a way that would avoid pump-and-dump schemes, because the problem with a pump-and-dump scheme is not actually related to the rules governing the market. The problem is that the pump-and-dump scheme involves deliberately spreading false information; yet it is equally possible that investors hear true information and rush to buy, and the market should allow for that situation.
Despite the site where this question is posted: The products where good and finished. Ahead of time. No code, low code and more. 4gl was is called back then. It failed due to not embracing web development fast enough imho.
One thing I haven't seen answered but which I think would be enlightening is, how often do DTCC collateral requirements change such that trading in the stock is restricted? Although the answer may throw more fuel on the fire if it's a rare event.
Whenever this topic arises, I always find myself returning to the idea of 'hire lightly, fire lightly'.

That you can 'measure talent' by arbitrary nonsense like whiteboarding or regurgitation of CS curriculum has been demonstrated as a fallacy so often that it should be understood by now--but it isn't.

So: change the shape of the talent pipeline. Hire lightly, give them a chance, evaluate, learn. Fire if necessary. Sure, go ahead and look for patterns and potential metrics, but don't overthink it.
I would rearrange your brain if you had cancer and I was capable of removing it.

One day we will do the same with thought cancers and viruses I am sure.
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It is unfortunate that it's so tough to track RSS viewers. I'm always tempted to convert the feed to cut-back version just so I can see what posts are actually popular.
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I got a good chuckle out of your technical reviewer: "Alejandro currently works in the GPU Software group at a leading consumer electronics com- pany based in Cupertino, California." I wonder where he works? ;)
I have been building an RSS reader for developers called diff.blog. It has been growing steadily over the last 2 years and crossed 1000 users recently. Would love if you folks could give it a try and give some feedback!

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I still find YouTube's feeds useful (though not ideal) because I can get updates for a handful of channels that I want to watch instantly. If I just go to their site I have to go to every channel to see if their are new updates, or hope it shows up on the main page (which it may or may not do, half the time it just shows me old videos hoping I'll rewatch it or randomly suggests new channels I don't care about because I watched a single video on that topic so obviously I must only want to see that topic for like a week). Just knowing "your author published a new video" instantly without having to do the YouTube song and dance is pretty nice.
Looking at it's volume, and whether or not it is biodegradable.

People have already pointed out that plastic bottles are recyclable, to which I respond: so are AirPods. They're both made of plastic and other materials that can technically be recycled. The problem is, in both cases, it is cheaper for companies to source new materials than to try and recycle the stuff that ends up in our blue bins. So they all end up in landfills eventually, often overseas in countries willing to take our "recyclables" off our hands in exchange for money.

I switched from buying beverages in 2L plastic bottles to buying cans, and I think the positive impact there greatly outweighs the negative impact of tossing my earbuds in a couple of years. The aluminum is infinitely (and easily) recyclable, unlike most plastics. The cardboard the cans come packaged in is renewable and biodegradable.
Howabout Gundam? Angsty teen/preteen protagonist trope can get annoying, but I'd classify a lot of UC Gundam as pretty "hard" SF. Granted there are some deus ex machina type elements to it (psychic newtypes, Minovsky particles, etc.).
RSS it's a great reminder that the web can be federalized but standard at the same time for readers; and not a big centralized monolith like Medium, Facebook, or Twitter.

Kinda the opposite side of social media where an Machine Learning algorithm selects items for your feed of what in the best interest of the metrics they try to improve (retention, CTR, etc).

One of the things that I will be always be thankful to Aaron Swartz.
And that's always step #1. This type of content (DIAMOND HANDS HODL TO THE MOON APE STRONGS!!!!) is easy to spam everywhere, so more reasonable people are driven away or drowned in the noise.

Even if the userbase is bipartisan these extreme, emotional takes are guaranteed to take over by sheer volume unless the moderation steps in hard. I can't really blame the mods for failing to do that at the moment though, if I were them I'd probably have closed the sub temporarily...
> Berlin is a city state in Germany with is own local government.

Germans will know that Berlin city doesn't have this kind of money lying around ;)
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I work as Software Engineer but LibreOffice is my first-choice for any Office related task, both at work and at home. The CSV import/export is far better than that of MS Office - and Docs for that matter. Which is exactly what I need, Spreadsheet is the most common tool I need at work. But I also use the other tools, not that often though. Most notable IMHO is the well-working PDF export in Writer that predates any built-in PDF export in Office or Windows by years.

But yes, some "normal" tasks take a few clicks more than in MS Office when you're not used to it. The look&feel is really different and the UI still make this 90s-OSS-hardly-works impression - which is unjustified. On the other hand it is far more powerful than Google Docs and I can check in the files in git which is not an option for Google Docs. FWIW I think there's an online version of it as well now.
When German ok'd the NSA doing it for normal German citizens I think they just assumed she'd be exempt.
Why would any part of the media even want to do that? This is a classic man-bites-dog story, and is being treated as such everywhere I look.

I'm seeing it implied fairly regularly here and on Reddit that journalists are somehow anti-WSB, but I just don't see it, and I don't know why it would ever be the case.

Maybe people are mixing up market analysts (who work for financial institutions) with finance journalists (who work for news organisations)?

Maybe people think journalists are afraid of losing valuable sources in big banks if they don't denigrate the day traders (even though all those big firms also made a fortune in this mess)?

What am I missing?
We don't have definite plans to build a full-featured IDP, but we did build a Mock IDP we use in CI, QA and demos that could possibly be a starting point for your purposes? Other OSS IDPs include Keycloak and Gluu Server if you wanted to check those out!

https://github.com/enterprise-oss/sinatra-ruby-idp
https://www.keycloak.org/
https://www.gluu.org/
The problem here is that Apple makes a lot of money via scam apps (which have outrageous weekly subscriptions like $19/week or similar)

So I do not think Apple will do anything here...
Pong uses discrete logic gates and no microprocessor for its game logic and graphics. It isn't comparable to much else.
of course it's all possible. but chances are you aren't as bright as you think and just as the other 95-97% of retail investors (actual number based on studies) you won't outgrow the s&p500
It's maybe also worth pointing out that if the same salt is used for each password, then an attacker who can leak the hashes after creating their own account (with a known password) can try brute-forcing the salt.

If the attacker hasn't seen the code, they won't know whether the salt is prepended, or appended, or both to the password (or if there are two salts), but the amount of computation needed to try all possible salts is roughly equivalent to the amount needed to crack a single well-chosen (unsalted) password.
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IME, what ends up causing issues is the fact that the component calling useMachine can rerender with new state/props that the machine may depend on, causing the machine to sometimes have an outdated view of the world, since its own internal state management (for things like the "state" itself as well as context, guards, other functions) is not fully synchronized with React.
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>... and have the senate adjudicate, which would be decidedly not great.

Why not? Sounds like it's roughly tantamount to giving the cabinet the power to impeach the President. Given the natural restraint on that power in that the cabinet is appointed by the President, I'm not sure I see any problem there.