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Banks would go under en masse if they were not bailed out with printed money or bailed in with depositors' money. Regulations heavily protect banks against competition: safer, nicer banks and new disruptive tech like Bitcoin.
Thanks for sharing this article, I don't know why I hadn't heard of this.
It's pathetic that it takes illegal leaks for the public to know about this type of surveillance, then we jail the leakers/whistleblowers. Shouldn't this type of thing at the very least be a voting issue? They really do want to know what every American is doing all the time, terrifying.
Bruce Wayne had it covered.
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The point is that it is a data dump of emails and there is no reasonable reason for anyone to believe there is credit card information in there. I'm not sure why anyone should expect Wikileaks to scour the materials for this sort of thing. They only seem to redact in life-and-death sort of situations.
"Anyone who doesn't know that should blame only themselves, not the system or the employers."

Since these kids were literally wearing diapers, every single authority in their lives has told them: Go to college. Go to college and you will get a good job. Go to college and you will have made it. Go to college and you won't flip burgers. Go to college and you are a success.

"In the 21st century, one of the best anti-poverty programs is a world-class education." - Barack Obama, State of the Union 2010

"Does The College Major Matter? Not Really" - New York Times editorial (http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/29/does-the-colle...)

"Your College Major Is a Minor Issue, Employers Say" - Wall Street Journal Careers (http://blogs.wsj.com/atwork/2013/04/10/your-college-major-is...)

(etc, etc, etc, you can go on forever)

It is the height of audacity to lie to a child, literally every day, for literally twenty years, and then blame them for not being cynical enough to realize it.
Additionally, I don't understand why mandatory sentences aren't considered a blatant violation of the Constitutional separation of powers. Was it really the Framers' intent that the judiciary's traditional sentencing discretion could be overruled in this way? Maximum sentences are one thing, but Draconian minimums are quite something else. I wish some judges would simply refuse to impose them when they are obviously unjust, even at the cost of their judgeships. And yes, if the Eighth Amendment helps them do that, by all means let them invoke it.

I gather that at the federal level, minimum sentences are now once again considered recommendations; but that hasn't filtered down to the states yet.
Seriously? You're implying you're disappointed in yourself for not being on the Forbes list by 28?

Build something awesome for the sake of building something awesome. Fuck being on a list of manipulative assholes.
If that's true then: awesome.
I posted another comment to this effect, but "a long time" is a concept that I think has become distorted in our culture.

If you or I got even 6 months in jail for stealing a wallet, I am pretty sure it would feel like "a long time."

This business of decades or life imprisonment for property crimes is draconian, we have just collectively lost perspective.

IMHO.
If only life were that simple. I've been trying for the last 15 years to find a balance between what is practical and what doesn't make me want to kill myself, and I have yet to find a solution.

My last degree I decided to err on the side of "practical" and got a degree in higher ed counseling - a broad and growing field with tons of opportunity. It was the closest thing to my interests that had practical application. I had some misgivings, but didn't see any other "practical" alternative. So instead of going the sociology-type princess route, I went where the jobs were.

During my internship I hated the job so much I began getting insomnia and a variety of other persistent ailments. After graduating I was so burned out I could barely do anything for 3 months. Now I work as a barista making the same exact money I made prior to starting college 7 years ago.

Sometimes the choice is between something that makes you sick and something that has no "practical" application. Sometimes what you are most passionate about is not what is valued by your culture.

I'd think about that next time I judged someone who decided not to follow the crowd towards a lucrative or middle-class values type of job.
True, but bear in mind that elder/end of life medical care tends to be especially expensive, so I think the total is realistic.

I don't find it so odd that cost varies - consider land price, cost of living (for prison staff), heating (much more expensive in northerly latitudes), and so on.
Bitcoin might be the grease that enables the seriously broken parts of our struggling world economy to slip through the entrenched tax collectors and let the actual consumers reward the actual producers.

Bitcoin requires middleman, just like credit card processors. It also is significantly easier to trace than current financial systems, which don't assign digital fingerprints to units of currency. Bitcoin isn't going to let the world economy "slip through the entranched tax collectors." Bitcoin is a tax collector's wet dream.

I've met with quite a few Treasury lawyers who work in their policy office. They're so giddy about the prospects of actually being able to trace income from start to finish, including across borders, that they've formed an internal task force to see what they can do about spurring adoption of Bitcoin or other similar digital currencies.

Bitcoin gives them first-world tools that completely bypass their local currency.

In many nations, you can already do that. In the US, businesses must be willing to accept USD for their services/products but they are free to also accept any other currency they wish. At the end of the day (or more accurately, their fiscal year), their books (and taxes) must be converted to USD for determining their taxes.
Very interesting stuff. Thank you for sharing. What readings would you suggest for someone who doesn't have a strong understanding of banking/financial systems?
Well hopefully those jobs will be automated soon enough as machine vision and robotics rapidly pick up pace.
On the other hand, applications also "benefit" when the system updater introduces breakage (library incompatibilities, regressions).

To be clear, D can use the shared C libraries of your system just fine since the beginning.

When D people talk about shared library support, they mean: create a D shared library, which is used by C/C++ code. The tricky part is stuff like initializing the runtime.
Why not? It is one of the consequences of removing labor rights. It's a difficult balance: too many labor rights will stifle the economy, too few will stifle the worker.

I am happy that in most European countries workers are entitled to a 40 or 48 hour work week, plenty of holidays, and paid overtime. Because life is not only work...

One area where more flexibility is required in Southern European, and even Western European, countries is making it easier to hire and fire an employee.
I never would have thought myself a socialist, but a basic income (guaranteed payments from government) seems to make so more much sense in this context.

You could scrap the minimum wage, scrap labour laws basically (?), at least from the point of view that if someone was let go they'd still be looked after, so it's more about finding the right fit. If someone gets fired 6 times in a row until they find a job they really do well in then so be it.

Basic income sounds a bit socialist, but it actually lubricates the hell out of a capitalist economy.
I know this may be a bit off-topic, but since we're discussing HTTP/2 already, I can't help but wonder. The recent attacks (BEAST, CRIME, etc.) have all relied on being able to build an oracle from (sent) body content and uncover header elements. The attacks only get better in time, so I expect to see even more attacks like this.

If we're going to overhaul the HTTP spec in any case and go for framed messaging - why not go for separate header/body compression AND separate encryption keys? As far as I understand, that would block the whole family of attacks. Separate compression contexts would prevent the attacker from building an oracle from body to attack the header. Separate keys and encryption contexts should prevent padding and mode oracles against the header.

I know crypto is hard, and I know there would be devilishly tricky details to figure out. So I have to assume someone has already thought of this, has had it vetted out for flaws and then discarded the idea.

But if so, why? Apart from requiring at least twice the key size in negotiation (compute oversized shared key, split for header/body and likely HMAC keys), are there any other obvious or non-obvious technical reasons not to do this?
Its actually a pretty small part of the UX as the guy pointed out here:
https://plus.google.com/113371030751322342143/posts/5akNbY6A...
> So what is a reasonable punishment for a serial rapist?

Forced placement in a facility for treating mental illness until his doctors determine he is sufficiently well to be reintegrated into society, followed by a public-service program as societal (note: not personal) recompense for his actions. That would be after the first time, though, not the third. Because this person needs help and is plainly not getting it--and he will never get help in an American prison.

But because enough people are more interested in vengeance than justice--and your posts pretty firmly demonstrate that you're in that camp--it will never, ever happen.
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Imagine waking up with hangover after a Friday night at the bar and finding your drunken ramblings at the top of Hacker News.

Nice message though OP. Follow through on it in the morning!
When doctors start joking about giving out .22LR zip guns to inner city 17 year old drug addicts, and funeral home directors start encouraging people to drink poisoned water , maybe then your parallel will ring true ...
> Don't hold your breath.

Bad news ever since the TSA confiscated my toothpaste.[0]

[0] Yeah, it was actually a thing.
It's using Typer, a very jQuery plugin.

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I just bought a copy. Can't wait to kick screen to the curb.
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Coinbase is only licensed as a money transmitter at the federal level. In order to legally provide money transmission services in any state, it must also acquire a license in that state. (Under international and federal legal conventions, digital services performed by software are treated as rendered in the customer's location, so Coinbase would need a money transmitter license in each state in which it wants to do business.)
ah quick edit there. I'll leave my response below. We can agree to disagree, but let me make a few more points first :-) I'll be civil I promise.

He didn't get life for stealing the truck. he got life for stealing the truck in addition to the 2 other convictions. It's also not "any severity," but felony level severity. You can argue that the line in the sand has been drawn in the wrong place, but the line in the sand is for bad offenses. Stealing a chocolate bar is not a felony, it is a misdemeanor (pretty much everywhere as far as I can tell. Generally speaking, shoplifting is not a felony until is it several hundred dollars worth, usually $500).[1]

You can argue that the "felony" label is too broadly applied to things that aren't "that bad." You can argue that life is too harsh of a punishment. Those are reasonable arguments. But in general, felonies are "severe" and not comparable to speeding tickets or chocolate bars.

>Realistically if the first two strikes were horrendous the person would already be put in jail for life and a long time. There would be no opportunity for a third strike. By your logic, the courts got it wrong the first two times and now they are getting it right with the life sentence.

I'd say it's more along the lines of we'll give you a couple chances, but only a couple. 1, go to jail for awhile and think about what you've done. 2, I told you not to do that and you kept doing it anyways think about it longer. 3. Dude, seriously. We warned you, and now we've had enough.

Some felonies on their own are in fact worthy of life. Murder someone and you generally get life. They idea behind 3 strikes is that on their own maybe they aren't worth that long of a sentence, but they are bad and we gave you several chances.

>Also, I am sorry, personally for me 20-30 years in jail is as good as life.

perhaps. how about 10-15? I have no idea what the "right" amount of time for any crime is. All I'm suggesting is that it isn't that unreasonable to have that time scale for people who repeatedly prove that they aren't being productive members of society.

[1] - http://examples.yourdictionary.com/what-are-examples-of-felo...
Burglary is punished so severely because, like you said, the end result can be much worse than just stealing property. Can you honestly say that chances of speeding causing any harm what so ever are comparable to chances of burglary turning into an assault, rape or murder?
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Bottom line: today, there are simply too many educated potential laborers to expect jobs to keep up with demand.

Maybe. It would be interesting to think of the consequences of having a situation where there are systematically more laborers than work.

In theory, this means that everyone can work less, or perhaps not even work at all, while we are still able to produce enough food, etc. to give everybody a reasonable life. In practice we seem to end up in a completely different situation: those who have work are rich, those who don't become very poor.
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I think this quote is worth thinking about, which is why I put it here. A bit of a non sequitur, perhaps.
Coinbase is not licensed anywhere.

It is registered as a Money Services Business with FinCEN, which is a signal that its officers, directors and investors are aware that state licenses are required by law for the business they are in. That's different than having a license, however. In the United States, there's no such thing as a federal money transmission license unfortunately.
I'm afraid I have to call BS on the ol' "Blame Harper" schtick. The Conservatives, Liberals, and NDP all have exactly the same platforms and would likely be doing exactly the same thing if in power. Canada's political parties have stopped running on the merit of policy and are running purely on the basis of personality. It's really starting to annoy me.
> But why care about me, or people like me, perhaps I'm unique. It feels like Rust was designed for people as smart as the authors to use, and there's not a thing wrong with that. Myself, I prefer a small language that I can 'keep in my head', and build from there.

Rust was not designed to be difficult. It's designed to be as easy as possible without sacrificing the goals of memory safety and data race freedom. Building on a foundation like those of those other languages would result in a language that isn't safe or uses global concurrent GC.

> But please don't take offense to the assertion that the language is pretty complex compared to Go, Ruby, Python, or C.

I think that Rust actually has simpler semantics and fewer special cases than all of those.
It doesn't matter, each of them would do, no matter how niche if you can become really good at it.

...but if you can learn only 1 programming language, you won't.
People will lie to you, that's how people are. It's your parents'/family's role to guide you. Furthermore, as I took the article it's even the bright and "oh so special" younglings that cannot find a job. If they are so smart they should realise that something is wrong.

If you believe everything you're being told without thinking about it and/or making some research of your own then it's, again, your own fault.
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You are suggesting that everyone who has ever committed rape is mentally ill. That seems like a stretch to me. I'd suggest there are a lot of people that are simply bad people who like to have forceful sex with someone who doesn't want to have sex with them. I also don't think all murderers are mentally ill. Some people just have a motive and are willing to cross a line.

I'm not interested in vengeance, and nothing about my post suggested I am. I don't want people who are a danger to society to continue to be a danger to society. If I was one of the people interested in vengeance, I'd have said something like they should get raped repeatedly with a broom in prison. I didn't, I just said they should be locked up. Nothing vengeful about that at all. I just want them to not be near my loved ones.
My only issue with something like this, since no one is "in charge" of an account people will fail to remember their wallet or password. If they put large amounts of money and by chance they cannot access their wallet for whatever reasons who is going to give them their money back or is that money gone forever? Doesn't that also mean eventually we will loose track of a fair number of bitcoins?
It shouldn't be the standard way of managing memory; it should be a part of the toolkit. In order, it should look like:

1) Stack allocation
2) std::unique_ptr
3) std::shared_ptr

You should be properly thinking about onwership semantics, and unique_ptr should be the default, not shared_ptr.
> what I mean is this - we all knew that the rb tree implementation of stl wasn't that hot, neither was its sort (note - this is 7 years back), however that library enabled a c++ project to be jumpstarted in significantly less time than building everything from scratch.

It's not that simple. You can't start with a language that lacks memory safety and add it later. Nor can you start with a language that uses global concurrent GC and try to reel it back in without losing safety. C++ is in the former category and I think there is no way for them to add memory safety at this point. Languages in the latter category really have no way of going back on global concurrent GC; the entire ecosystem is built around garbage collection.

Safe manual memory management is balanced on a very delicate precipice. You must carefully design your language around it for it to work. It is not something that can just be added later, like a faster red-black tree algorithm.
As I said, if you want to do what you love, then go for it. But please don't whine and cry that no one wants to pay you for it if it's a skill that's not highly valued by the industry. As I said in society sometimes you need to clench you teeth and do what has to be done. Then in your spare time you can do what you love.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love to live in a world where everyone could do what they truly love but taking into account human nature I highly doubt such an utopia is possible.
It is an institutional and social problem.

Institutional, because there are endless bureaucracy and taxes you have to fight until the company if finally up and running.

Social, because in many European countries you are only allowed to fail once. Where in US, failure is seen as a mean to learn from the mistakes for the next company, here it is seen as a failure to be an Entrepreneur at all.
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You example is about bugs in Facebooks own application. This D bounty program is more like Facebook throwing some money around to support an Open Source project they use.
Being "willing to cross a line" is mental illness. It's the fucking definition of antisocial personality disorder. Get them the help they need, train them to be productive members of society (like we should for everyone), and guess what? The problem goes away. You will certainly have an incurable segment of the population who, after actually being treated by professionals and educated, cannot integrate with society--but it's not going to be a third of the population of black males being locked away for at least part of their lives and being primed for further criminality by their experiences in prison.

Putting someone in a concrete box where one's safety is utterly left up to chance is nothing but vengeful and retaliatory. It is designed to inflict misery and nothing else. It saddens me that this obvious fact escapes so many of my fellow Americans but I've become resigned to the fact that those of us with privilege are just kind of shitty human beings when it comes to anybody unlike us.
also, fwiw I probably agree with you that the line on felony should be moved in some cases, specifically related to drug offenses. I do think that many of the things in the article should very much be felonies. specifically the breaking and entering and the "inadvertent killing" seem reasonable.
I find this really interesting, but I feel like publishing it is a bad idea. The TSA could just use this as an excuse for more absurd policies, or worse someone could actually try some of these things, which they wouldn't have figured out on their own. Only a very small risk, maybe, but for what benefit?
There are many jobs that you won't even be considered without a degree.

Her example is one of them. In most European countries, nursing is a degree that shares part of the education with medicine.
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I don't find it odd that it varies, just that it varies so wildly. well over 10x seems unreasonable. If it is an area that is that expensive, perhaps it makes sense to transport the prisoners a bit to a less expensive area.
I agree actually—I'm not a huge fan of sigils. The GC sigil (@) is being removed, bringing us down to ~ (pointers) and & (references).
Your talking potentially "unsafe" vs somewhat likely hazard.

Most of the "danger" comes from poor isolation. The skin resistance is too high for EEG to cause major problems. I realize the actual standards have requirements that are detailed and somewhat strict.

The difference is that ECG has sensors that can directly put current through the path to the heart so the risk is higher if there is a worse-case ESD latchup. 5mA is enough to stop a heart in certain conditions.

EEG isn't ECG or EMG and have different characteristics even though they seem vaguely similar.

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Giant who cares about overpriced houses mate, Jesus if buying and selling houses is your idea of fun no wonder you're depressed
Sorry man, priorities - you got them wrong. Who cares about a few credit card numbers or "personal love notes" when we find ourselves living in corrupt "democracies" that are about to crumble pretty much all over the Western world.