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“Apple Computer” wasn’t how anyone referred to the company, basically ever. Nobody calls it “Apple Inc.” today (outside of legal stuff, of course). But I doubt anyone called the fintech “Wise” before the rebrand.
Well.. Ethereum isn't very trendy anymore, that's true. But I still think it has tons of promise and they are making a lot of progress on 2.0. I feel like its amazing some people are thinking of giving up on it before 2.0 gets launched.

I did actually buy some DOT on Kraken today though. Because that also looks like an amazing project. And in the end, everything is basically a popularity contest. So regardless of technicals, momentum, or anything else, Ethereum could actually become completely uncool in X months or years. And PolkaDOT or something no one knows about could be what everyone uses. Maybe after WWIII its the digitual yuan for a few years.. but then the superintelligent robots take over a few years later and everyone has to use metashekels or whatever that human brains can't even comprehend.

libp2p looks really useful by the way.
Well, for the gas fees and scalability issues there's always avalanche [1] ...

I feel like there's a project that already solves most of ethereum problems now, but it's been slept on for a while.

[1] https://www.avalabs.org/
I think they're making good, solid progress. They should be rolling smart contracts with Gougen in Q2 this year, and indications so far are that they should be on time
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The data is already publicly available via government sites and app store. By making the data public through 3rd parties, government just made it easy for public to access it.
On the contrary, television advertisements have (rightly) always been viewed as inextricably linked to the content they appear between. As such, advertiser boycotts have been a favoured tactic of conservative organisations throughout the past few decades. For example, from 1982:

> For the second time within a year, the Coalition for Better Television is threatening a boycott of one or more companies that advertise on prime-time television, but this time without the support of its most prominent member, the Moral Majority.

https://www.nytimes.com/1982/01/28/arts/a-boycott-of-tv-adve...
FAA Tapes from Oregon UFO Incident That Sent F-15s Scrambling
"Last November, The War Zone posted an exclusive story detailing a bizarre incident involving an unidentified aircraft that transited the skies of the Pacific Northwest in the early evening of October 25th, 2017. What started as a radar target moving at very high speed over Northern California turned into a series of eyewitness accounts made by nearby airline pilots traveling northward over Oregon. Even F-15 fighters were launched to intercept the mysterious intruder that quickly became invisible to radar.

Now, through the Freedom of Information Act, we present what could be one of the most insightful instances of official documentation surrounding such an encounter that had already been confirmed to have occurred by both the FAA and the USAF. These materials include fascinating audio recordings of radio transmissions and phone calls made as the incident was unfolding, as well as pilot interviews, and conversations between FAA officials made in the aftermath of the highly peculiar incident."
why is the decentralization irrelevant?
How to get your project back on track
One of the most important lessons I've learned as an engineering manager is to mostly stay away from job titles for developers. There are not many things that sow discord than calling someone Senior when someone else considers themselves better (unless you have a very objective way of defining it).

Too many egos; people who think senior means 3 years of experience; and the idea that there is a clear boundary just make the whole thing hard.

Reward people with a salary that reflects their value to the team, give them feedback, encouragement and challenge.
They don’t fear jail for some reason...why?
Yeah I’ve fallen into this trap and worst of all, I’ve had my team fall into it and not find their way out.

Abstractions are a great idea, and Go has plenty of these (io.Writer is ubiquitous), but most business logic is dead boring and doesn’t need it.
That might be the goal. If you are storing private data for your users which should not be queried. You can have separate encryption keys for each user and keep their data on separate databases.
Goguen, which is phase 3 of the roadmap and gives smart contracts, is expected to be released in March 2021.

But sure, it's all taking very long.
Does mongoDB still use math.random to select 10% of errors and only report them, while 90% are ignored? Or did they correct this "behavior"?
At the risk of sounding like Stockholm Syndrome, why is this hilarious? If you want to work at a top tech company, the bar is much higher.

First round questions cover standard CS undergrad curriculum and second round covers the depth of his background. I'd say he's lucky his second round is tailored towards his (presumably Python) background instead of his interviewer's background. Other than the question about HTTP2/1.1, nothing seem too absurd.
I don't really agree with this separation of privileges between root and kernel... (and by extension, lockdown mode)

It seems to add a lot of complexity, and offers no real world usecases.

If you want a secure system, don't run untrusted code as root! If your evil code only runs as a regular user, there is no issue trusting hibernation, because a non-root user will never be able to touch the hibernation image. Even if you assume the non-root user has physical access to the disk between boots, you can use disk encryption and TPM to ensure they can't mess with it.
>Remember this is SARS-CoV-2. Where's the mutations and endless new strains of SARS-CoV-1? There aren't any, it was eliminated in humans.

I think this is only because it was contained in China before it reached the world. They had an excellent pandemic response and quashed it before it reached other countries.

This time around it had spread around the world before we even heard about it. It was completely predictable containment efforts would be futile.
And pirates!
Has America planned the mass killing of Chinese citizens?
>I don't know how you could possibly know all the bands in a city of millions, unless those bands are already well known.

There are not that many bands playing gigs "in a city of millions".

In my city (and several others I'm aware of) there are like 5-10 rock/electronic venues for example, and the usual 200 or so suspects play, with 20-30 of them being more well known.
Nano. High throughoutput, no transaction fees. Works well for years already.
Like Gavin Belsons signature Box 3?
Only Samsung and Intel have their own foundries and chip design. (outside microcontrollers )

Everybody else, is in the same boat as Nvidia. So this is the norm not the exception.

And NVidia is not in a mess, they are having record profits.
Out of all the options I've researched, the one I'm considering investing my development time into is Nano. 0 transaction fees, <<1s transaction times, already decentralized and a great community. It's a very polarizing coin (people either love it or dismiss it), but what won me over is that it's not built on promises: it does exactly what it says on the tin, already.
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Covid-19: Boris Johnson to unveil 'cautious' plan to lift England's lockdown
What are good examples of what you talk about in your last paragraph?
Revolut just raised their fees, FYI
The link is 404 now :/
Weasels are just as bad for egg raiding and explosive population growth after a beech mast rodent plague, but not as lethal for the adult birds.
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Oh stop speculating about their personal life and stay on topic.
Where were you born and raised?
Sounds like the typical 80/20 story. I submit the "other" 20% likely have a very similar story to yours, only with the numbers reversed.
I think it helps.

On the other hand, the UK has done atrociously. I think the core difference here is taking things seriously. Neither the UK nor the US has actually taken this seriously. Here in greater London, masks are still not really compulsory in shops or on transport. Meetings of large numbers of people continue etc.

The reason I like Aus as an example is that they are so similar to us (apologies if I'm incorrect assuming you're a brit, American or other anglo national): they're a democratic, Liberal, aging, right wing governed, capitalist, using English common law, mostly white, trading, federal, developed urbanised, nation.

What did they do that we didn't?

They took more action quicker. They actually enforced lockdown. They aimed to minimise covid numbers instead of maximising them.
As a dapp dev for work, I totally feel the mental fatigue of constantly fighting the ever changing tool, the broken libraries, the inconsistent errors management and the cascade of breaking changes any modify causes. It feels like js frontend framework madness x 10
4 years of research & dev. All has come / is coming :
- rich metadatas in transactions (done)
- token locking (done)
- native tokens almost on par with ADA ( on mainnet 05/03/2021 )
- Plutus & Marlowe ( smart contracts ). Testnet in March, mainnet early to late Q2, depending on testnet quality.
I wouldn't consider the British Empire to be 'cool' but I can appreciate that it was a phenomenal military and logistic machine. One tiny country conquered most of the world that was worth conquering. There's something impressive about that.
Well. Section 47 is a real delight, a diabolical inversion of the principle of locus standi. Increasingly, there are agencies and laws which say that "you cannot take us to court". As though writing it makes it somehow legal. Reminds me of calvinball.
Just in case anyone is considering taking the above as advice..

Everything is entirely correct. Focus on a great product. However, avoiding certification 'because noone cares' - is incorrect. People don't care until something goes wrong.

Correct, you can skirt standards and certifications, or buy CE ratings from less-than-reputable firms - but if something goes wrong - and you're unable to produce appropriate certifications - you open yourself to a world of risk.
Strongly support this suggestion!

Integrated CalDAV or at least subscribing to .ics calendars, since device would not allow for inputing new events.
I agree completely. I think for all the faults of the Australian government, they took leadership and made hard decisions and it paid off. The UK and US did the opposite: do little, do it as late as possible, ignore issues until ignoring them becomes impossible.
from Firefox PC works fine :)
Right after the Tether/Bitcoin bubble pops.
Fraudsters ditch big money scams in favour of 'silent stealing' during pandemic
> the Xinjiang situation was mostly a response to the non-stopping terror attacks in the region for the last couple of decades

The Chinese crackdown on Xinjiang goes back well beyond the terror attacks. There used to be a secular, non-violent Uighur movement for their rights, including Uighur communists who simply wanted the right to use their own language at all times and not Chinese, like the laws ostensibly allow. However, in the 1980s and 1990s the Beijing regime imprisoned many of those activists or sent them into exile. At the same time, Han settlers were entering the area even though it was clear that this would change the region’s demographics.

Once the secular and non-violent activism was shut down, there arose out of desperation new trends that were violent and/or Islamist. But that doesn’t mean the CCP’s policy of Uighur assimilation and Han settlement didn’t come first.
Many Canadian banks allow sending wire transfers online. For instance, with RBC you can send up to CAD 10K equivalent online for a CAD 15-20 fee. The UI is rather simple and they even have 2FA for transfers. RBC also has the more advanced RBC Express for online banking but I don't know much about it.

However, it's still worse than TransferWise. If a wire transfer is sent via RBC online, the actual amount received by the recipient is frequently $25-27 less which is supposedly due to some random routing fee (it's not possible to specify an intermediary bank in RBC online). As a result, the total cost of a wire transfer ends up being CAD 45-50. In TransferWise a wire transfer costs C$6 to send and the received amount is always the same as the sent. The UI is simple, and the support is helpful (never had problems with them).
4 years of doing it right and academically proven
> Tech behind Ethereum is outdated.

Well Eth 2.0 is applying the latest and the greatest in Crypto research to a real coin.

In terms of scalabliltiy Ethereum is already way past bitcoin slow transaction rates.
This might provide a slightly better "experience" (it's about 10x smaller, doesn't look blurry on Retina displays, and doesn't suffer from the "touchpad taps are ignored" problem):

https://floooh.github.io/sokol-html5/nuklear-sapp.html
I'm not sure if you're directing this comment at TransferWise or at companies in general, but I'll reply from TransferWise's point of view - Disclaimer, I'm an engineer at TransferWise, but this is my own opinion.

TransferWise takes customer support extremely seriously with an in-house team of support reps who are trained in all of our features. On top of that each team may have one or more CS "champions" who are the bridge between product teams and customer support. These champions usually know the product inside-out, and are in slack channels with the dev teams.

So when an issue is not a customer misunderstanding something, and turns out to be an actual bug, the CS rep will work with the engineers to find a workaround, and to get a fix deployed as fast as possible - all while the customer knows exactly what's going on.

Bottomline is that I agree that customer support is hard, and very expensive. But it doesn't have to be broken, and I don't think it is at TransferWise (well, Wise now)
I hope C++ at some point gets another frontend in terms of syntax. Languages should probably be specified in terms of abstract syntax instead of being stuck with a bad frontend like C++.
Okay cool. Let’s just make better tooling for existing languages.

...

Turns out that languages that are widely-used are difficult to make tools for because of all the pragmatic (real or imagined) tradeoffs that were made.

How can I prototype my tooling when it takes so, so, so much work to make the tooling work for a practical language?

I’ll just make a mini-language to prototype that tooling and then get back to the widely-used languages once my prototype has taught me enough.

...
> I am also completely clueless how to switch jobs as a manager. Any insights would be greatly appreciated.

I share my own (humble) insights right here, its a huge topic but I post regularly, you might find some of those posts helpful: https://techleader.pro/

> it just doesn't feel the same in terms of pride in technical achievement .. i.e. my coding days are over

Same for me, I had to learn to take pride in building successful teams and individuals, and not code anymore.

As an ex-engineer, the key "eureka!" moment I had was when I realized that management != leadership, and leadership > management. After that, I started to study "leadership" as a formal topic, everyone from Marcus Aurelius to Steve Jobs, as if I was learning a new programming language for example.

The combination of technical chops + great people leadership skills is very rare, if you nail that many opportunities will open up for you during your career.

Wish you well on your journey.
DeFI is yet another set of inflated expectations and bullish sentiment to attract even more investors. In real terms its not doing a lot yet.
Are there any screen-sharing VNC-like things that allow jumping via links from one server to another (the way that HTML links allow jumping from one document to another)?

I'm sure it'd be a security/usability nightmare, but wonder if it might be an interesting nightmare.
Native tokens(also part of Goguen) will be released on 1st of March but smart contracts in Q2
I think you are right, it definately helps. That said, us brits are an island we've had one of the worst performances. I think you want to be on an island AND have some leadership in government. That's what we have missed, no leadership.
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We have those in the UK too, to "check in" cafes etc. Pretty much nobody uses them, which is part of the reason the whole tracing effort was basically abandoned.
> The second killer app is NFTs, basically the exchange of art on the chain.

NFTs aren’t exclusively art. For example, I previously worked at https://unlock-protocol.com/ which uses NFTs to signify membership
So much "plastic" packaging nowadays (in the UK) is labelled with "Do not recycle" but no indication of what it's made of. This has annoyed me from an environmental point of view, but probably one should look at it from a health point of view, too. Perhaps those items are made from a material that the manufacturers know has potential health implications and that's why they're carefully not saying what it is?

Perhaps the law should require proper labelling of packaging material that is in contact with food just like it requires food ingredients to be listed. If manufacturers were to lobby hard against such a rule, what might we conclude from that?
> Entire industries have been built on top of JavaScript, from rags to the most valuable companies in the world reinvesting back into it. It’s getting mature, too.

This is a fallacy argument. Because other users it, doens't mean its good.
> But the consistent and rapid decline in daily cases since Jan. 8 can be explained only by natural immunity.

Why would "natural immunity" kick in this suddenly and effectively?

> Behavior didn’t suddenly improve over the holidays; Americans traveled more over Christmas than they had since March.

Yes, and then after the holidays they stayed home, so one or two weeks after the traveling seasons there were much fewer infections. I don't see why this explanation is dismissed.

Anyway, it's not so long until April, so we'll see soon if "Covid will be mostly gone by April". ("By" appears vague, but my understanding is that refers more to "at the beginning of April" rather than "at the end of April", could Americans confirm?) Of course even if it does disappear as suddenly as this person predicts, we might not be able to tell whether it was due to vaccination.
There are lots of non-gaming related apps that would be near impossible to use as a visually impaired person. Among them image/video editors most DAW (digital audio workstations) etc.
This is a great game but not many people know that The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy is also a book.
I am not making any decision for you. This is a free and open source project.
They are rolling them out in the next 2 months. I've played with their playground, looked at what they are doing and see little reason to doubt the planned launch will go well.
Agree. Sadly both solidity and all the tools around it feel like a pile of broken things over other broken things over a lot of things who where brought up in a few days and forgotten in the todo world, and no one has the time or the will to fix them.

The ethereum foundation should focus far far far more in tools implementation
This one is from Croatia, I can't trust any airquoted credible cases from western media on China, I've seen no evidence thus far and too much of this: https://i.redd.it/4ugpt0499ri61.jpg
Why are you comparing distro package managers to the Play store or the Chrome extension store? You should be comparing them to npm, pypi, etc. That's clearly the context of this discussion. No one is saying that the Chrome extension store does a better job than package managers. The language ecosystems do an amazingly better job.
Mine is now abundantly ExFAT
1996 C++ (when Java appeared) being used in MFC, OWL, Powerplant and CSet++, alongside Smalltalk in the gang of four book, definitely.
Research software code is likely to remain a tangled mess
Its bitcoin, there is no legal framework.
Depends on your definitions of cheap and large. Some banks are very good at FX in the 5,6,7 figure range. Others aren't.

Fidelity, for example, charges no fee but a 1% spread, which is a "hidden" fee.

FirstRepublic charges .01% (and thats because we are "small" by institution standards ~50k / transaction).

Most banks are badly set up for consumer size transactions, unless they are by default multi currency (Revolut and Starling come to mind).

The traditional banks may be "no-fee" - but some have charged as much as 2%.

Still nothing on the ultimate rip off - the foreign currency ATMs at airports - fee +5+% spread...
This is sensationalist.

It's based on net worth, not income. But net worth of billionaires is incredibly inflated by the way we measure it.

Bezos' net worth is based on the stock value of Amazon, and is based on taking the _highest_ price someone is willing to buy 1, _one_, share of Amazon and multiplying it by the amount of shares Bezos has.

No one is willing to pay 200 billion dollars for Bezos' shares, and saying they are worth 200 billion is simply false.

His net worth is dependent entirely on other people being willing to give him money for his Amazon shares, and that is dependent entirely on the value Amazon brings to its customers, or how willing people are to give Amazon money for Amazons services.

Now, if Bezos decided to sell all his shares for cash he could surely get billions for them, as Amazon is generating incredible value, but not 200 billion.
If you are a startup (which is not unreasonable to presume given this space) then do look at https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/observations-on-the-enterprise... for a better way of doing this.
> This happens despite the repeated, abject failure of this tactic over the past decades to help their cause

How do you measure this? Socialism hasn't taken over, thus it didn't help their cause? There are many factors at play, so you can't make and simple conclusions about a single strategy like this.
I actually did compare the retirement/disability payouts to one European country at one point (a Scandinavian country - Norway I think) and the US was comparable. Shocking I know. Sure the US doesn’t have the same extent of programs, but acting like US has nothing is just fake news.

And no, the education doesn’t cost $40k (that was my point) and the higher salary easily offsets the loans for a lot of careers.

And no, there are plenty of good paying jobs in the US, not just tech (I’m not in tech).
Is it the "top", though? If you get a job at Apple are you a "made man" at that point? Is your career at its peak?

I don't think so. I would decline a position at Apple, Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.

There are plenty of other companies offering problems at a similar scale that are equally as hard.
The first comment said Nintendo just forgot to switch on optimisations. If they didn't forget, but instead did it deliberately, then that is indeed a debunking.
There seems to be certain period after which horrible things become less horrible, even fun.

The London Dungeon tourist attraction has fun exhibits on medieval torture and Jack the Ripper (1888).
I've often wondered when more modern serial killers, rapists and atrocities would be acceptable.

[edit] in 'polite' society
Not if it creates a race to the bottom on energy production. The miner that wins is the miner with the cheapest energy that can scale.
You can't refute one extreme with another. How about increased meritocracy across the board among those involved in creation of the value.