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No, the State of Florida isn't protecting voting rights, your words. It is attacking voting rights.

For example, Florida passed Amendment 4 in 2018 which returned the voting rights of most felons after they'd served their sentences.

This amendment restores the voting rights of Floridians with felony convictions after they complete all terms of their sentence including parole or probation. The amendment would not apply to those convicted of murder or sexual offenses, who would continue to be permanently barred from voting unless the Governor and Cabinet vote to restore their voting rights on a case by case basis.

The state government wasn't protecting voting rights when it litigated the result. Indeed they are attacking the will of the citizens of Florida as expressed by their votes.
For a stable coin to actually work, it needs to be private and algorithmic. The only such crypto I know of, is Haven protocol. This is based on a fork of Monero the largest fungible crypto network, with a system of private synthetic assets on top. Things like synthetic USD, CHF, GBP, also gold and silver...etc. If you find this interesting, read more at https://havenprotocol.org/knowledge/
In said study, Facebook acknowledges problems with the study itself as do other researchers without a dog in the fight. Let's see an independent study show the same thing.
> Overall I get the sense that the government is still people/organization centric and cannot wrap its head around a future where reality is determined by computer code and people are bit players in the script.

Conversely, people in government tend to view crypto folks as senselessly computer-centric and unable to view macroeconomics as the result of human interaction.

There is no such thing as value without exchange. That's a definitional thing. Coins themselves are just numbers.
Sadly even vegetables aren't safe.

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WTF. I DON'T EVEN.

I have no idea what I just experienced. My PC fan spooled up to max speed when I clicked on the link and everything went all 2001 Entering The Monolith on me. I panicked, but I stuck with it.
> The places that can weather climate change well will be overrun by refugees from poorer countries that can't.

That feels like an argument to convince people to do something rather than what will actually happen. A bit like "there is no escape, FIGHT NOW!".
Oh wow, I had no idea! I've never heard of this. Thanks for letting me know.

I only knew it as the name of "Planet Mongo", the main planet in the Flash Gordon universe, an old science fiction comic that has been rebooted many times (which also had loads of extremely racist anti-Chinese elements)
I use qsub daily with sun grid engine. Other derivatives of grid engine and I believe SLURM also implement qsub.
I think they approached it from two directions:

One is that they broke down stablecoins into the following activities:

* Governance

* Management of Reserve Assets

* Custody of Reserve Assets

* Settlement

* Distribution

Just because one, more, or all of those functions are managed by smart contracts does not mean that the others cannot be regulated. Regulation may be the requirement to have regular contract audits for example and, in the case of Dai, the Maker Foundation would be responsible for adhering to those regulations.

Second, I don't think the writers of this paper perceive nearly as large of a risk from algorithmic stablecoins as they do institutions which claim to maintain asset backing in the normal financial system. The former have the transparency of the chain as a backing, and that transparency makes the currency peg safer. The latter have no transparency and regularly seek to obscure, which makes them extremely dangerous as they grow in scope.

DAI has a market cap of ~$6.5b and the transactions happen on chain. USDT has a market cap of ~$70.3b and has 0 transparency. It is clear where regulation should be focused.
> there is no central issuing authority; Dai is minted in exchange for Ethereum (and other cryptocurrencies), not fiat currencies

Its not fiat-stable, which is probably their focus. fiat-stable coins are basically crypto bank notes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banknote

Also,

> a future where reality is determined by computer code and people are but players in the script.

Corporations are "things" in a legal sense - but they're still managed by people, created by people and owned by people. DEFI contracts and orgs are still made by people, and sometimes also managed by people. You can probably be held liable and tied to your misbehaving contract.
I've never heard that, though I've heard the racist "loid" version.

Though I do love the dictionary definition of "mongo":

"Items found in the trash that can be salvaged."

Sums up my views of mongodb pretty well, actually.
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Re "Decentralized adwords": Yes.

Today, how much of your attention is spent between how many apps? I bet that the sum useful attention across many different apps exceeds attention on Facebook. But why does Facebook dominate performance marketing? How can these apps and their users find each other in a better way without aggregating into a centralized Big Tech company?

We're passionate about finding the answer to that. It has to start with making individual marketplaces run better by deeply understanding them.
I liked the brief analogy that that explanation made for a homotopy being like a “movie” of one path changing into another.
A trade secret, they claim.
Yes, yes. Here's the essence of that logic:

1. On taking: we should do it or someone else will
2. On giving: might as well skipt it because someone else will
Look, invoking "straw man" is a bit of a cliche around here, but to say:

> As an example, how seriously would you take an aircraft flight controls software engineer who willfully chooses to never learn how an airplane flies? What if they just claimed that their sole responsibility was to take flight requirements from “people who know how airplanes work” and implement code?

is highly disingenuous given that learning to dig into what needs to be built is explicitly laid out in the article as the opposite of memorizing acronyms about how one might build it, and:

> I think it is drastically foolish to defend the toleration of those who aren’t even willing to learn basics like how a computer works in the name of inclusivity, utilitarianism, or egalitarianism.

seems to me to be far out of left field given that the article in question isn't speaking in the name of any of those things, but instead comparing to the value of other kinds of knowledge and expertise. If you feel the need to invoke "inclusivity" in this conversation, that only speaks to your own mindset.

I would much rather work with people who are able to analyze what kinds of knowledge actually drive their getting better results at their job than with people who assume going lower on the stack must equal "excellence in engineering".
I too handle chicken like its covered in hydrofluoric acid mixed with methyl mercury.
Its still much too common even today - a 2002 casino fire killed two fire fighters and one employee due to locked fire exit:

https://brnensky.denik.cz/zpravy_region/zemrele-kolegy-uctil...

I pass that monument quite often...
It is ... complicated when talking in the context of "threads modifying states".

I am more thinking through "shared states" needs to be published after exiting a critical section [1], and other states are passed along from one critical section to another (either as copyable values, or immutable state objects). At least this is the easiest for me at the moment to reason about a piece of concurrency code.

[1] I am using critical section here to loosely describe a block of code needs to be executed together. It can be code between two yield points (in coroutine), a "task" object (in traditional task based scheduling), or section of code protected by a mutex.
How many fruit-related names are available, anyways? There would surely be a different lawsuit coming their way if they named it AppleDB. (ok, I admit this is a terrible joke)

If "Mango" can get away with it, I think it is very cool to provide a graceful path to open source tech.

I don't have much pity for the $33B company that promotes its mediocre semi-proprietary database to unsuspecting devs/students who don't know better.
Also no mention of FTX. Pretty surprising given their importance in the market.
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There is also plain ol' technical debt: Code that is overengeneered, unstructured or hacky because, when you wrote it, you were still exploring the problem space.

Now that you have a better idea of what problem to solve and how to solve it, you can restructure the code to be more concise and overall more efficient in reaching your goal.

I think it's advisable to clean up your code like that before publishing, just like it's advisable to clean up your git commits before pushing a merge request.
Everything you saw is still there in Alphaworld (aw 0n 0e 0a 0), quietly losing textures and sounds that were hosted on the greater Internet (GeoCities, in many cases.)
So better that more innocents be punished than risk any guilty going free? Truly, your love of the strictest "definition" of democracy is baffling, though I think most would vote against you.
Estonia is a member country of the European Union which has well established IP laws.

The chance of them being successfully sued for this is ~100%.
It is the government's job to translate abstract concepts to be people centric, simply because the world itself is people centric. Digital bits have no power unless they is a shared recognition of that power, same as a written contract, a book of laws, an election or anything else.
> a future where reality is determined by computer code and people are bit players in the script.

As opposed to a reality determined by physics? Perhaps you're referencing AI overlords? I suggest that you may not understand the purpose of states. Even algorithms are the expressions of people.

Perhaps you can explain what you meant in a way that I'll more easily understand?
USA doesn't even properly have northern latitudes: Seattle is southern north, not far north. Also summer sunsets are late, not early: day expands into evening and morning equally and there's no reason to regret them.
The supreme court has historically taken a more nuanced stance on this sort of issue than you.

Broadly speaking in the US everyone has many constitutional protections against the government restricting them in certain ways. When you become a government employee you give up only the most narrow subset of the protections necessary for the government to effectively be your boss.

This means the professors have a reasonably strong court case as mentioned by their lawyer in TFA.

See for example https://www.popehat.com/2013/09/05/ninth-circuit-clarifies-f...

> First a court must determine whether or not the speech is on a matter of public interest. Speech on matters of public interest are entitled to protection, even when uttered by employees; speech on purely private matters (like, say, a private and internal spat among employees) is not. Then the court must balance the employer's interest in an orderly and efficient workplace against the speech rights of the employee, taking into account things like whether the speech restriction is content-based (that is, whether it censors some viewpoints but not others), the circumstances of the speech, the strength of the employee's interest in the speech, whether the speech genuinely disrupts discipline and order and interferes with relationships, and so on.
I'm value-neutral in this comment thread, I'm just describing a.) how things are and b.) how the authors of this report are making assumptions about how things are. I can see plusses and minuses for both people-centric and code-centric approaches.

I get that it's pretty natural that people would consider it a bad thing for people to hand over power to computer code. It makes perfect sense if you consider yourself not as a person but as a collection of electrical impulses floating around in your brain, though. Computers are the same thing, they just transmit those electrical impulses millions of times faster.
Didn't happen whith hosts-based AB. Also no autoplay. Had to explicitely click on the play button in the middle of the still frame.

Besides that it looked like about 3 pages of empty white space, which I scrolled through to find the missing article.
DAI is not considered an algorithmic stablecoin, but an asset backed stablecoin. Algorithmic stablecoins like FEI do not seem to work as well as asset backed stablecoins.
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> I think it's extremely imported to come up with an alternative to the existing centralized systems; which I believe primarily exist in order to mitigate spam.

I think spam and abuse are definitely significant problems.

The centralized systems are like medieval walled cities.

They exist because, for an average individual, there is no practical way to live outside their walls.

It's difficult to run your own email server. But, while the technical challenge may be difficult, the greater difficulty is in preventing your email server from becoming a bot in a spam network.
That’s not quite right - they don’t have to believe that they’re undervalued rather that they are at least fairly valued.

Share buybacks aren’t a stupid idea for Airlines either. If they have too much cash on the balance sheet better to return cash to shareholders as a one off in a tax efficient way rather than pay a regular dividend that they have to cut when the economy turns down.
I mean what's the point of that other than to serve the very small number of people who own the resources to edit 'the computer code'?

The internet and computers, despite being very complicated tools, are still just made by humans to serve humans.

I suggest you ask yourself which humans want the outcome you described and why.
having built, and partnered with other, marketplaces, i can appreciate the product ambitions but am also a bit skeptical. in my experience the matching optimization problem is idiosyncratic (per market segment), and is likely beyond machine learning capabilities[0] to deliver long-term advantage, though perhaps enough short-term advantage is delivered to create a business.

[0]: note that google and facebook try to solve this problem broadly by seeing more and more of your behavior and trying to better infer intent with essentially unlimited resources, and basically fail at it.
Near's employer has since confirmed the story.
I really appreciate your video. Thank you for posting it.
> None of those actively today use/settle stablecoins publicly?

No but they settle financial transactions today, and the SEC is basically saying there should be no difference.
It's not the hardware per se. CoreGraphics on macOS/iOS utilizes the GPU for painting, which is much faster than software rendering. Cairo, used for the Linux GTK/WPE ports, is software based, and thus much slower, when painting large scenes.

Therefore for embedded devices using WebKit/Linux GTK/WPE ports we see a huge improvment with the layer based engine. Also macOS/iOS benefits though -- animations are even faster, and you don't easily run into problems, when animating parts of a complex document. It's shown in the video linked in the article at the end: > 20% frame rendering time improvement on an already quite efficient rendering pipeline (Safari / macOS using CoreGraphics on M1 machine).
It is all relative. Things like those that you mentioned are Tailwinds in comparison to a scenario where we have no progress. Tailwind of the problematic metaphor, a better one might be that we have made some Headway
I use OBS to handle the screen sharing because it is easily to misclick the wrong window that are not for public view. In OBS, it is binded to specific window titles and it is easily to edit out the black bar on the top of the PowerPoint that appeared in Zoom directly (without OBS). I have a few scenes set up this away and quicker to switch than doing it through Zoom itself.
Hi, I would love to hear more about your complaints regarding UX for general purpose programming
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No thanks, sounds too much like the matrix. This is the kind of irreversible action that could very easily destroy us. Before doing something like this I'd rather give up our modern lifestyle or reduce the global population by 3/4 with growth control.
That's just the stock market, not actual banking being halted.
im not sure what you mean by UX in this context, but julias ecosystem for scientific computing (in a broad sense) has been growing tremendously. this is the area from which it wants to unseat python. general purpose programming is secondary. whether it can i don't know. but i definitely dont think its a settled question. python is my daily driver for machine learning work, but i definitely think julia can overtake its place eventually
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Ah, interesting. Dai is mentioned several times within the body of the report, though, so it's implied that it's covered within the scope of the report.

I'm sure that the distinction will be lost on whatever press cycle or legislative output this report generates.
I wrote an NES game for my senior project for school. I used this site a little. What I’ve found is that after you get the initial setup complete and the basic concepts of sprites and blanking, you’re kind of on your own to figure out how to make your game engine.

Interestingly, you can see the same engines used across titles from the same company. Or at least close variations on.
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Tether was invented to provide bitfinex with banking services after the banks refused to deal with them. Not super surprising that regulators are treating this banking replacement as a bank.
Well, in their defense, I think they've actually done a better job of it than most. My kids have FB Messenger For Kids and as a parent FB is the one company who gets it right - as a parent, I get to green-light their friends' list.

Considering how many kid apps are based on whack-a-mole an endless list of user-provided content instead of whitelisting, Facebook's approach on this is a breath of fresh air.
You can just sick from vegetables too. In fact, as much as I think I should eat more of them it's frustrating how I have to check for rot and other similar things far more often then I do with processed foods.

I know when I make something with fruit or vegetables I'll go through, rip off all the black or dark parts, throw out any rot. Often if I see rot I'll throw out the entire batch. (one bad apple....)

And then, I have to force myself not to think about how people making salads for me (ie, at a restaurant) are far less vigilant.
Why does the month argument range from 0 to 11 in JavaScript's Date constructor?
Tether absolutely poses a large risk to crypto. If companies do issue stablecoins, they should have links to third-party attestations that verify proof of reserves like Circle (USDC) does.

Tether could end all of their "FUD" if they ever published such a report.

Circle's reporting: https://www.circle.com/en/usdc#transparency
(edited to change audits --> attestations)
> A WebKit version that unlocks hardware-acceleration for SVG is a game-changer, allowing to use SVG across the whole user-interface.

How can you show video in SVG?

What if you decided to build your entire UI in SVG, and then someone asks to add video? Would you have to rewrite your entire UI using a different approach?
FWIW, Debian uses dash as its default shell. It does not appear to have which as a builtin.
This is specifically referring to non-algorithmic stablecoins.

"Stablecoins that are purportedly convertible for an underlying fiat currency are distinct from a smaller subset of stablecoin arrangements that use other means to attempt to stabilize the price of the instrument (sometimes referred to as “synthetic” or “algorithmic” stablecoins) or are convertible for other assets. Because of their more widespread adoption, this discussion focuses on stablecoins that are convertible for fiat currency."
The gov could have a legal process to re-issue you a new token and invalidate the old one.
That's a bit illogical. They're not trying to 'absolve' them, as if somehow Facebook isn't bad because others are also bad. They're all similar (ly bad).

What separate's Facebook is their namesake product is too close to the source of controversy. Google's "public facing" products are things like search, YouTube, gmail, google docs. Amazon has 2-day shipping and prime video and such.

When people think of Amazon/Google they think of that first. Sure, they're doing all the same controversial with their products. But in my experience, the average non-tech person has more buffer for that, when there's a bit of separation between the brand identity and the bad behavior.

A lot of non-tech people aren't even aware that FB (Meta?) owns Instagram and WhatsApp - that's the kind of tolerance buffer that the other FAANG has for _all_ of their main products.

In this sense, the rebrand to "Meta" might actually work a bit.
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