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OK, I kind of agree. I think "circular logic" is a very bad term here, because it suggests a mistake in logical reasoning, when in fact you just mean that the Nash equilibrium is only meta stable. Similarly, "induction base case" is bad because it again suggests reasoning, but I think here you recognize that and put it in quotes to show that it's just an analogy (and a neat one at that).

But I disagree that you need taxation as a bootstrap to get you to the equilibrium. Indeed, in the actual history of the US it was the backing by gold that established the dollar; initial taxation was minimal. Now that backing has been removed, and the dollar still functions. Then, I infer, you would argue that taxation has replaced gold-backing as the stabilizer.

Your penultimate paragraph is an interesting suggestion, but I'm not convinced. Could you point me toward some place where it was fleshed out? I can easily imagine a world where people keep writing new contracts denominated in dollars, whose street value is set by the process that I described. Where is the motivation for people to defect? One answer is that a new currency (like Bitcoin) comes along that has special properties that make it useful enough for people to absorb transaction costs and to start exchanging alongside the original fiat currency. Then things could unravel. And indeed, taxation could suppress this by providing additional friction like I mentioned in my original comment. But in the absence of such a new currency I don't expect the dollar to spontaneously start to unravel on its own simply because there are no taxes. People would continue to need a medium of exchange and the dollar is very good.
Nozzles are basically just a more efficient version of this, since they don't waste as much energy which would escape out the sides (it's instead contributing to internal pressure, which pushes everything out the open end more quickly). Burning rocket fuel expands it rapidly, which is essentially all a bomb does. The downside to a nozzle is that you have to keep the internal pressure low enough that it doesn't rupture. This is far less of a problem with an Orion-style ship.

Think of an explosion. They produce moving walls of compressed air that flings stuff around. Though this is just because it's in air, it's a lot of energy. The same amount of energy is still being released if you blow it up anywhere else. (ignoring bonus 'free' energy from e.g. burning the air itself)

Take the explosion out of air, and you still have a 'shock wave' from the material which made up the bomb, and electrons / photons / whatever else materialized from that much energy being released in a tiny space. And it's all moving very quickly.

When it hits your ship's back-end, it gives it a kick. Obviously far less than the total energy released (whatever % of the sphere of expanding energy which your ship covers), but still something. If the explosion is big enough, or close enough, you are still talking an immense 'kick'. And since you have no relatively-fragile nozzle (just an arbitrarily big, thick wall), the force can be many many times greater than a normal rocket.

So to make it survivable, you probably need a big ship and some kind of impact-absorber to take the shock out of it, and / or lots of small bombs that won't kill everyone due to acceleration. Or just get rid of the squishy humans and crank up the proximity / bomb size to whatever you feel like.
So we can expect our email to be protected after we've successfully lobbied for the establishment of a massive legal framework that protects it, then?
> I'm a bitcoin skeptic but not for this reason. If this were true than we would have never had a functioning currency until fiat money, but we did. (Since gold, ergo money, was a scare resource as well.)

Eh. Gold and silver were always being mined and lost, and whether they were actually inflationary or deflationary can depend on other things like population growth. (If the size of the real economy is growing X% but the supply of gold is growing <X%... And then you have things like the conquest of the New World.)
I think you did fine on the title.

Is there any data available on accuracy or is it still hush-hush?

Also, the design and mfg process for that chip looks real interesting. We keep
seeing more and more stacked designs showing up in the news.
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Btw Thomas, I wouldn't say you're wrong - of course you should talk to a partner if you can (my advice, independent of me). But many times, an associate can help figure out where to direct it, what the interest level is, and can be an advocate for your company (especially at an early stage) internally.
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You've managed to say what I was thinking.

I understand why people dislike websites like this, or the Diet Coke ads (men stripping their shirts off while women ogle) and I'd join in the criticism. But the ranting sometimes feels so overblown.
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He still makes some good points though.
I guess "registered on the radar" was too loose a term. More like "this is something Ben Bernanke thinks about when he makes decisions."
We've had hundreds [...] detonations

None of them intended to kill other people, which is kind of the whole point of the taboo, not the detonation itself.

Plus, currently there is a kind of informal moratorium.
"We should be courteous for one reaon only: because it's the right thing to do."

Digging deeper it's an ethics quesiton of whether things are right in and of themselves as "duties", or whether things are right due to their consequences, a classic debate between deontologists and consequentialists. Thanks for sharing your point of view!
That would make your do-re-mi problem worse, no? They're designed to be compact and visually distinct, and such mnemonics are really only useful at the very beginning anyway. I like the design, it's just a case of probably unconscious "English privilege".
not really, it can help in reading things faster&reduce errors and in this case the standard notation is just "wasting" some bits of information (the shape).

But, I, for one, am annoyed by the english language needing both grammatical structure _and_ a question mark to express questions ;)
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I understand that you are frustrated. Thanks to blogs and forums, it is so easy to criticize someone in public. But that doesn't mean you should. Perhaps, you should have spoken to the founders first about your complaints and concerns before going public.
Interesting. As a player of piano, woodwinds, and others I've gotten used to different systems of scribbling over the staff to convey something that's not metadata but not primary info. Well-tempered Klavier is a good bad example, there's all kinds of scribblings about what Bach intended, including argumets about incidentals (is a note flatted or not?) (and what's the umbrella term for trills, grace notes, flourishes like that?). It's actually much harder for wind and strings, where infinite pitch/tonality /attack/decay combinations are possible, e.g. lipping up or down on a single reed, squeaking, honking, sibillant, and I'm pretty sure there's no way to write down the loops i get on fretless guitar, bass and cello.

Also I've been trying to get used to Don Ellis quarter tone system, and work thru haskell school of music (fantastic book, for anybody interested not just in notations, but production, composition and capture(A/D conversion/DSP etc. Also shoudl read books by Gould and Read someday:

http://www.amazon.com/Behind-Bars-Definitive-Guide-Notation/...

http://davidvaldez.blogspot.com/2012/09/quarter-tones-by-don...

http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/?post_type=publication&p=112
Unique now, commonplace one day.

I really think we are seeing a shift in organisations - one comparable to that experienced after the in enticing of printing press in 1451. Europe went from a literacy rate of 2% to one of 20+ in a hundred years, and suddenly the trading companies and churches and governments were staffed with people who could read and write - and that changed everything. Literate companies out competed the hell of their illiterate counterparts. And the renanissance saw new forms of company, new trading horizons, enabled in part thanks to, well, letters.

Mozilla is an example of this new company - it is staffed by the code-literate and it is out-competing Nokia, Samsung, Microsoft and holding its own against google/chrome/android who are themselves arguably built of the same DNA

Code literacy throughout the company is important but it then demands other things - remote working is probably the biggest thing - it does enable hiring the best in the world, yes, but it makes transparency of decision making so much more natural that it will most likely become a default.

I think we shall see companies be I ing more open in their working practises, in their internal processes and probably in their balance sheets.

For the best part of a generation at least code literate people are going to be in massive demand as companies like Mozilla show that coding is a massive force multiplier for any company in any industry. And that is not merely going to be higher wages - when the force multiplier is big enough it will simply reshape the corporation around itself.

Mozilla does amusingly also show that the politics of human relations will never go away, but there is a elephant in the room now, and it's not going away till long after we retire - and coping with the impact of that elephant will be the defining characteristic of the next twenty years of organisational and intentstional change.

Software is not eating the world like tigers do - it is eating the world like oceans erode cliffs - re shaping the shoreline and the tides.
And I think it's a reasonable idea, especially for studying, practicing, or sight reading. I'm current struggling to map staff notation onto the guitar fretboard (I can play piano from staff notation, and play the guitar "by ear," so I'm trying to synthesize the two abilities), and I think this might make it slightly easier. For a lot of classical guitar transcriptions, or any guitar transcriptions that refuse to transpose (an octave), there is a lot of extreme ledger lines, and the shapes would help immensely.
Did you see Nasdaq's performance on Facebook's IPO day? I don't think there's an exchange in the world that can handle a serious amount of crushing volume (many times above normal) without some failure somewhere.
One particular that I can remember is this: http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/01/my-dream-co...

Just read the comments related to this subject, and you will see what I mean (lots of attack on them because the wish to remain male only)
The embedded visual cue to the name of the note, plus the proportional sizing, seem really nice to me. The sharping, flatting, and lack of ascenders and descenders I'm not so sure about.

You also lose the "wall of black notes" warning you of deadly fast notes up ahead. ;)
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True and that would certainly qualify under an 'edge case' scenario, although if you increase the number of threads I believe it should mitigate this particular issue somewhat (more threads open to do other applies at the same time). Obviously if you need to have dozens of long writes at the same time this isn't solved for.
One thing that you could do to build your portfolio fast is to not think that you need to write bunch of nice websites asap. Do a few very nice sites then write a bunch of small widgets, JQuery-esk do-dads with your own custom CSS,,sliders,faders etc.Put them all on a home page and format the page in a manner where it looks like you've done a ton of projects. On my homesite this is what I try and do. Whenever I learn something new I always think of a way to package it up into a small little one-off that I can put on my site. This way it becomes a habit and it's fun. Here's a psychological trick you can do. Find a really famous crappy looking website that everyone uses....like Craigslist. Then redesign part of it and show it to prospects. Open the conversation with "have you used Craigslist before?". Immediately you will get a "yes". Then show them the "contrast". That in and of itself can help make the sale.
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PostgreSQL uses essentially MySQL's ROW based format (that is, it replicates the actual table changes instead of the statements). If you use purely row based replication, you likely wouldn't see this in MySQL either. Of course, since TANSTAAFL, your network traffic between nodes is much higher, and the disk storage requirements grow significantly (for the binary logs).

Also, RDS doesn't offer anything but mixed format replication for slaves, and DRBD for HA.

The best middle ground when ROW based replication isn't an option is to check for inconsistencies periodically using something like pt-table-checksum, and fix them when they're found with something like pt-table-sync.

[EDIT] Can you please explain the downvotes?
In the days before computers, believe it or not, price reporting often ran behind. In the 68 'paperwork crisis' the NYSE went to a four-day trading week for a while to give back offices time to catch up. Capitalism survived.
Yeah, but women want to have fun. So the solution is get drunk, but be careful about who you hang out with. Thus the hair-trigger creepiness detectors.
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You're speaking of the third party doctrine, which isn't strictly law, more a collection of precedent, and has never been ruled to actually apply to retained email. If you read the 6th Circuit's decision, you'll see a number of statutes that directly contradict the 180-day provision, and which give an additional legal basis for the protection of emails beyond just an interpretation of the 4th as overriding the law and striking it as unconstitutional.

The IRS trying this would be a great benefit to us all, short of congress getting their act together and revising the ECPA, and the EFF would love nothing more than to take up the case. Considering that it has already been confirmed that Google is requiring warrants and Microsoft has taken such a strong stand while releasing their latest transparency report, it seems like we also have at least two corporate sponsors (and, actually, this is a bad position for most companies to be in, as many email providers can't easily figure out which Appeals Court their customer falls under. This exposes them to risk if they disclose email content without a warrant, which is another motivation to take the conservative approach and ask a court to decide if they have to disclose emails with only a subpoena).
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What do you mean? Combinators are great (even if implemented imperatively) until you really care about performance and isn't that what this rust discussion is all about.

Did you mean something other than combinators?
OT: I'm curious. Does anyone besides me have a tendency to get off by one on the values when playing from a written score?

I have a tendency to play a note and then my eye moves to the next note--and I take the value of that note as how long to let the prior note play before playing the next note.
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...which illustrates the inherent absurdity of the word "intrinsic." If allergies make some quality extrinsic, then doesn't the very existence of humans also make all qualities extrinsic? If humans are extinct, the apple can't even be eaten by any humans, so it must have no intrinsic value.
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Guitar tabs are simple and easy to learn, IF you're playing a song you already know. Most tabs I've seen just tell you which fingers to press down and which strings to hit, often excluding time signature, note duration, note intensity, rests, and other sightreading essentials.
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In the context of my comment, his whiteness and maleness are rough heuristics for the similarity of his product to Woody Allen and Seinfeld.
This is mildly annoying for composers, but it doesn't really matter for the players. They play the notes they see on the page. I suppose if they have perfect pitch it might be a bit jarring.
It's a standard part of musical training to be able to read a part written in either concert pitch or in your instrument's pitch, or even to be able to transpose on sight into any key. It's not easy but learning to do so pays off when you're on a gig and the singer insists on playing Lush Life in B natural.
I absolutely hate it when I'm reading an interesting article on a startup/company blog and I go to click on their logo/name in the top left corner and it...takes me back to their blog instead of their homepage!
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Back lift is awesome! You can setup a json server in 3 minutes tops. I have several apps I run off back lift and it is amazing! The developer heard that a class that I'm in used it and he flew in to talk to us about the app and to get our feedback. He really cares about his users' experience while using his material. I can't recommend back lift enough.
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"Your email is normally not exposed to third parties."

Except for the mail servers...
sure it would, but if one is trying to make a breaking change it's worth going all the way and giving up medieval names too, I think.
>But that's not what it means Constitutionally.

Sure, but I don't care much about the constitution. I care about what's fair and right. Constitutions can be changed and amended, especially if they were written 3 centuries ago.
> The US dollar is backed by US law guaranteeing that it must be accepted as payment for all debts

I believe this doesn't stop people from creating special obligations through contracts that are denominated in other currencies. It more means that if I run over your mailbox and a judge orders me to compensate you, I can use dollars.
Two thoughts.

Watch out for martyrhood. Indulging in it can definitely produce the kind of experience you describe.

But if you're sure that's not the problem, I'd suggest simply not associating with anyone who takes advantage of you. In a business context, this can mean "firing your customers", as someone once put it.
Like many have mentioned, this seems to add a lot of noise to notation. This isn't really demonstrated in the pieces they have on the site. I'd like to see what it looks like with something a bit more complex like a Bach Fugue. I feel like the rhythm notations, in particular, would become more difficult to parse as the rhythms become more complex.

Also, how do you notate tuplets?
The danger here is that their role can become muddled, this is a concern in every industry that has an agent model, in whose interest is the agent working? Good agents work for the talent, bad agents just try and get as much out of each deal as possible, word gets around...

In other news, I think that you mean per se
autoincrement only works on one database, and is not guaranteed to be unique across multiple schemas.

Depending on their schema and sharding techniques, it's probably easier for them to create the unique ids in the application than rely on the DB.
one thing would be to look at the paper, and also the quality of the telemetry they are getting from this.
I'd rather learn byzantine notation than this 'Esperanto' of music notation. (example: http://stanthonysmonastery.org/music/KarasSample-with%20head... )

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>The mainframe was an IBM 360?

Yes.
I'm very skeptical that this is an improvement (but kudos for thinking outside the box). Here's something that was intended as constructive criticism, but maybe ended up more as just criticism:

Removing the key signature is not a good idea. When playing in G major, the sharp accidental on the Fs is not put at the beginning of the line just to avoid printing it in the score. Rather, it fits there because when I play in G major, I put my brain in G major mode, in which case it would be distracting to have an accidental on every single F.

Similarly, writing a special symbol for each pitch seems it would get heavily in the way of transposing on the fly. The position already encodes the pitch, and the ABCDEFG names kind of get in the way of understanding the melody, which is more about relative intervals than absolute values.

And what does the little parenthesis on the length line mean? For half- and whole notes it seems to mean it doubles the length (a quarternote with one or two parentheses), but for sixteenth-notes it seems to indicate that it halves it (an eighth-note with a single parenthesis mark).

I also question removing the stem of a note. I have a feeling that is one of the stronger queues for reading rhythm. Spacing is not very important, and indeed especially in dense scores for solo instruments, that need to have few page turns, notes are often just spaced as tightly as possible.

The author also recognized that the beams on eighth- and sixtheenth-notes (e.g. in the left hand) are very important rhythmic cues, and replaced them with that horizontal thing with the arrow on the left. This is a bit hard to read though when there are no stems to link them to the note and the pitch interval is big.

The part about it being easy to write by hand looks good, and made me feel good at first. Then you realize that hand-written traditional notation is quite different from typeset one, just like handwritten text is very different from printed text. Drawing all the little balls and filling in the halfmoon C, up and down thingies seems tedious, when traditionally one writes a simple dot or a little slash instead of the note head.
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In the specific context of courtesy (or, more specifically, the context of wishing people a good morning), I think this more recent rabbi may have the final word, based on his experience at Auschwitz:

The rabbi, now in his eighties, told me in his gentle voice, 'This is the power of a good-morning greeting. A man must always greet his fellow man.'

The full story is here -- it's short -- go and learn:

http://www.hasidicstories.com/Stories/Of_Our_Times/good_morn...
In a similar vein, Usenix Security 2012 had a session called "The Brain" with these two papers:
https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity12/neuroscie...
https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity12/feasibili...

The first is only slightly related to this article; it uses implicit learning to train users to authenticate with secrets that they cannot recall consciously (and therefore can't be coerced into revealing).

The second is about recovering secret information from brain-computer interfaces, and though this seems very relevant to the proposal of authenticating via "passthoughts", neither of these papers seem to cite each other.

(The Berkeley paper is at http://www.kisc.meiji.ac.jp/~ethicj/USEC13/submissions/usec1...)