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Hey, exactly what I commented about a few months back. Seen these ships at work, there are thousands upon thousands of them, and at night they light the sea like stars.

This article somewhat glosses over the ecological desolation that this is incurring as well - they're dredge-fishing marine parks, and the "trash fish" spoken about is mostly squid. They use great big boom arms with insanely bright arc lamps to attract them to the surface at night.
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Seems I was correct - the site is down. FFS.
> You can commit nearly anonymous transactions over long distances with it. It's value over international currencies is in proportion to the size of the black market transacted via BtC.

Eh, I think in the long run that will be more of a hindrance than a help, as it will give governments in many places a plausible reason to attempt to ban or limit its use (which would tend to lead to a vicious cycle of only criminals--however you define that--using it).

On a more practical level, I can't remember a time my credit card has been refused for local or international transactions (and any additional fees are largely invisible to me, the consumer). Paying with a credit card also carries certain advantages: If the goods aren't delivered, I spend 2 minutes on the phone and get my money back.

For the vast majority of consumers, the headache of converting local currency to BtC, learning how to use it, and finding a reliable escrow service will greatly outweigh the benefits of being able to buy drugs (especially as states decriminalize drugs). That keeps BtC firmly in the grasp of speculators.
It is still probably more relevant than the article, which is about a group that the article considers not that rich and living from savings (essentially upper-middle class older people).
How is that reasonable?
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An interesting look into the measurable effect of what some people may consider 'fringe' science, and others consider a part of their daily (nightly) lives.
I think it's important to consider that people interpreting benchmarks need to be skeptical and aware of the scope of the results: a lot of problems are as much from people overgeneralising results as from bad experimental methodology.
You must always take inflation into account in these comparisons.

$0.25 in 1970 has equivalent purchasing power of 1.48$ right now.

And $0.50 in 1985 matches to pretty much exact $1 right now.
That's why I think this is a design decisions in both cases:

In one of this products (etcd if I remember correctly) there was a clear statement in the documentation about this semantics, and anyway, who implements Raft knows that for reads to be consistent they need to go the same path as writes. In the Raft paper you can find a whole section about this.

If you check the paper there are the following clearly stated informations:

Leaders can't reply to read queries without doing additional checks otherwise the reads are not linearizable.

For the reads to be linearizable, the following two things must be performed by leaders.

1) Commit a NOP at the start of its term, which is not a problem from a performance point of view. The problem is "2".

2) A leader needs to check if it is still the leader before every read, and this requires to contact a majority. That's the performance problem of linearizable reads, because you need to pay a latency equal to the latency of the slowest reply of the N/2+1 acks you need.

However note that even linearizable reads don't require fsync() to be called, so they are still better than writes.
Now I want to know who was in the audience (esp. the two 'math' guys off to the right).
...and? What does that have to do with the current discussion?

You are partially correct but by and large the UNSC members are the key levers globally.

Regardless, the UNSC comment was to indicate that Russia is very much considered a peer of the USA. If they are not to be compared/contrasted then the debate is meaningless.
thanks. This is interesting - you should write it up as a formal algorithm and publish it, so that it could get some eyeballs.
You are dick. Honestly.

Given your technical position you are clearly not a moron, but in regards to non-technical matters you sound like a child. Seriously, just shut the fuck up and stop embarrassing yourself.

You know you are losing an argument about nutrition when you resort to UNIX commands as an insult.
How does the DPL benefit those who have no patents of their own? Copyleft is designed to benefit users above all else, even at the inconvenience of developers.
Could you elaborate on the capture abuse ?
Just seen this - nice links.

It seems the story is indeed disingenuous. Thanks for posting.
Such a system should obviously only allow a voter to prove to themselves
that their vote was counted incorrectly. Some part of the secret would have to be retained in the voters memory in such a way that the voter can claim to others that they have voted in any way that they choose.
Wow, I listened to the first six minutes on your recommendation and was pretty put off.

The speaker mocks his audience of Microsoft engineers (like not in fun, he is really saying their culture sucks).

He is dismissive of "reactive programming" as nonsense from architecture astronauts, without giving a remotely fair description of what it actually is. His straw-man of "var x = 10; println(x); x = 42; println(x)" is not reactive, because "x" is not a function of other mutable state in the model. I've never heard of reactive programming until five minutes ago, but I can tell this just by reading the Wikipedia excerpts from his own slides (and a little follow-up reading confirms this).

I'm all for rabble-rousing, but if you're throwing punches you should know what you're talking about.

At 17:30 he makes a joke about a Steve Jobs function that says "iPhone", "iPad", "iCloud", and then "terminates naturally". Holy bad taste.

EDIT: others have pointed out that with extra context this is more obviously a self-deprecating and good-natured shtick.
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Estonia (which has internet based voting) solves this by letting you check your vote on a different device but for only a short time period.

The thinking is that even if someone has managed to compromise, say, your laptop (e.g. through a specially constructed virus) to secretly switch your vote to a different party, then they'd also need to be able to compromise your phone too to persuade an entirely different piece of software to also report your vote back to you wrongly. Not impossible, but a much harder task (especially as you'd need to manage to do it for everyone, or else there'll be a big outcry from the large number of people who notice a discrepancy).

Being able to prove you voted that way during that time period doesn't really matter, as the system already allows you vote as many times as you like, with only the last one being counted. (i.e. if someone tries to coerce you, or buy your vote, you simply vote their way, and then, when they head off to the next person, log back in again and vote the way you originally wanted.)
What was gold's inherent value to industry prior to 1930 or so?

The fact that gold now has industrial uses makes it less suitable as money or a store of wealth than it had been for thousands of years, because saving/hoarding/speculating artificially reduces supply and increases its cost.

I can grant that people might be more trusting of bitcoin if it had some kind of intrinsic value to insure against collapsing 100%, but realistically it wouldn't be more than a tiny fraction of the market value, anyway. And as with gold, those other applications would be more expensive than they ought to be.
We're fracking at a couple thousand meters right now, I'd say 700km is a decently-sized buffer.
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>> An inflating currency would never catch on. It's a hot potato situation of "I don't actually want to own it because it's decreasing in value. If I do have some, I want to dump it on the next sucker as fast as possible to minimize my losses."

That sounds like a great currency. Not a great asset, or investment, but a great currency, one that is useful as a medium of exchange, not something people can just sit on and expect to get rich from.
These coins should be removed from the blockchain in a protocol update agreed upon by everyone.

No government should be making money this way.
Just had a little glance (I'm on my way out the door), but if it's possible to construct arbitrarily large lists (as seems to be implied by the availability of e.g. "range N" for any N, how can you guarantee that e.g. "sum large_list" can actually terminate within the time bound set by the frequency?

Also there seems to be no actual proof of safety of the language's semantics (are the semantics formally specified?), but perhaps I missed it.
It's not. But it's not like the US Justice system is not known for its acting grossly out of proportion.
One real example is the Netherlands and the rise of Philips: http://books.google.nl/books?id=sfoujAT3b_YC&lpg=PA104&ots=B...
When you say that he's mocking Microsoft engineers, is that because of the Visual Basic comments? Because Erik actually enjoys VB and was responsible for adding some features to it. He's a former employee, so there's context...

And I don't think he's being dismissive of reactive programming, he's dismissive of that definition, which is too broad. He was one of the main proponents of Reactive programming inside Microsoft.
It sounds very nice but the whole user experience and feel of the apps looks very substandard. Even my Nokia phone of 2008 had better and more useful apps.

Supporting something and using it in real life is two different things. If you have really used Firefox OS, you will never want to switch to it, unless you want to experiment with it. It is not even a good match to the low cost android phones.
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But if you read the link, they aren't selling DPR coins, but the ones seized from SR
Allen Downey also has some awesome other work, and his Bayesian statistics made simple talk at PyCon was a good one (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_sIDLVisvA)
Only when increased supply doesn't cause an even higher increase in demand. There are some examples of this in history, although they are few and far between.
Why concentrate power at all? How about we disperse the power, so that the power one has diminishes outside his nation city (size of which is determined approximately by how much one can move in a day). And limit power so that you cannot cumulate it to achieve anything globally drastic unless lots of time passes, or most of people have same need.

Rather than having indirect power that can be stolen, people need direct local power that has consequences with transparent effects.

Big nations, and corporations, we allow them to exist, and some of us, sometimes myself, think they are good for us. It just makes me sad how passive and accepting we are in this regard, and how current culture enables small companies quickly rise to into position to serve yet another brand of Soma.
Isn't money made out of special counterfeit-proof paper? Making that paper valuable since you could use it to make money?
Barehanded boxing is not worse.

One of the reasons for the excellent track record of safety in Mixed Martial Arts is the lack of reliance on heavy padded gloves.

A traditional boxing glove spreads the impact across a wider area resulting in greater likelihood of brain swelling and life-threatening injury.

Lighter gloves or bare knuckle impacts result in less internal swelling but greater likelihood of skin tears, cuts or out right deflected strikes.

Other myths you have posted -

If anything, the evolution of humans as bipedal creatures should have made the legs into the weapons of choice

Nope. Bipedal animals, particularly humans, are not evolved for effective lower leg striking. It takes years of training to be able to throw a kick which balances effectiveness, accuracy and power versus the risk of leaving oneself vulnerable.

You throw a kick and I will try and gouge your eyes out with my thumbs by grappling you. Let's see who has evolved the greater defence.

While the most direct way to hurt someone is actually a straight movement towards someone

Again, most martial artists and boxers will agree that an effective straight line jab is far less powerful than a hook or uppercut thrown with precision to the lower chin, lower jaw or temple. Very few knockouts ever arise from a straight line punch.

Even gated martials arts such as Wing Chun advocate coming in at an oblique angle whereever possible.

IMHO, the most ideal strike a human can give without injuring themselves would be from the shin or heel

In close quarters the most effective strike you can deliver to a standing human opponent is a knee strike or elbow strike. It takes repeated shin strikes in Muay Thai to weaken or disable the upper thighs or ribs.
As someone of "the anti-capitalist / left'ish wing ilk", the problem with my dear comrades is often that they get a little bit too excited about things like Twitter, which leads them to forget that

a) Twitter's job is to make money; carrying your latest 140-char call to arms 'normally' helps, but if in some circumstance it doesn't, they won't

b) Corporations (and actually, at the end of the day, all capitalist enterprises) are by definition reliant on the state, so you would expect them to compromise when the merde hits the fan.

So, colour me unsurprised. Yes, in theory I would like Twitter to stand up to oppressive state regimes. My political beliefs are as they are, in part, because I know they won't.
When Erik mocks reactive programming I believe he is reacting to the Reactive Manifesto (http://www.reactivemanifesto.org/) currently being pushed by Typesafe and others.

My reading and feelings concerning the Manifesto mirror Erik's so I enjoyed listening to his mockery of it. I didn't really notice the MS bashing.

The issue with the Reactive Manifesto is that it is largely waffle. There are styles of programming that account for time, such as functional reactive programming. They tend to have formal definitions, or at least concrete implementations, so one can make objective statements about them. The Manifesto on the other hand is vague and full of platitudes. It's great for the Pointy-haired Boss, but there is little of substance than one can discuss in any objective manner.

[Update] I can understand how it's off-putting to listen to the presentation without this background.
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I like this. I would also like a toilet that analysed my waste and tell me things.
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Please stop.

(It is disappointing that the comments between you and dasil have not been downvoted)
tl;dr: Languages offer ways of composing side effects. Delay is just another side effect and "reactive" isn't that special.
$200 000 seems to be a big anti troll bid blocker. But i bet someone is going to get rich and buy them way below market price.
I don't know how much time nostrademons spent in Haskell, but he wrote a nice tutorial for it: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Write_Yourself_a_Scheme_in_48_...
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As long as you are not born into corporations and free to "leave" one and "join" another one they are vastly better than governments.

The problems start when governments and corporations merge.
> 72

The point was "industry standard", and to be pedantic USB is a serial protocol.
Also USB wasn't "championed" by Apple, in fact they weren't even in the original group of designers (IBM, Intel and Microsoft were though). It had broad industry support from the start.
Erik is a little trollish when expressing his opinions. From what I noticed, he loves flames. People either love his style or hate it. I guess you're in the later group - personally I don't mind when he's mocking something I care about, because from what I observed, he's always joking or half-joking and he'll say the opposite of what he just said in a couple of weeks.

> He is dismissive of "reactive programming" as nonsense from architecture astronauts, without giving a remotely fair description of what it actually is.

That's because his presentation is from React 2014, so he can fairly assume that the audience has some idea of what he's talking about, because "reactive" is the freaking topic of this audience - http://reactconf.com/

> if you're throwing punches you should know what you're talking about

Well, he kind of does. He's one of the architects of Reactive Extensions (Rx) and now he's contributing to RxJava. I don't agree with many of his opinions, for example I think they made design mistakes while architecting Rx, but he's OK in the knowledge department ;-)

> At 17:30 he makes a joke about a Steve Jobs function that says "iPhone", "iPad", "iCloud", and then "terminates naturally". Holy bad taste.

He also makes the same joke about himself - was trying to explain how streams are terminated, either naturally or by error (the joke on himself was that he was fired, i.e. onError).
I switched from the orange zte phone. Most of the apps I tried had similar issues.
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At very least, these guys

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The length of all lists is known at compile-time. So, yes, you can do "sum range hugeNumber", but the compiler will tell you that your program can't be run at the correct frequency. (The possible range of the `hugeNumber` variable is known to the compiler, so it can know the maximum size of the list you are asking.)

The compiler can find out the range of numbers and the lengths of lists using static analysis, because SolScript is such a "restricted" language. Functional programmers would probably dump all that information into a type system. We call it "dataflow analysis", but I think the end result is the same.

Note that, all of the static analysis is done on the dataflow graph underlying a SolScript program. In the dataflow graph there are no "functions" or "classes"... The static analysis is much simpler because it is done on something more primitive than the language itself.
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> In the future I imagine [...] MD5 hash

> Even within the tech industry, tooling moves at a glacial pace.

Oh the irony...
I don't think so. In WebOS there was a Web App Runtime[1] but not the whole stack is built on top of web. Contrary to Firefox OS where the device boots into a web browser, so there is no notion of 'Compiled' or 'native' apps.

[1] http://siliconangle.com/files/2011/12/webos-architecture.png
> When you say that he's mocking Microsoft engineers, is that because of the Visual Basic comments?

"In Redmond, like a lot of people talk about code but don't write it, so I think Microsoft can only come back if, you know, they start writing more code."

> And I don't think he's being dismissive of reactive programming, he's dismissive of that definition, which is too broad.

The definition seems pretty reasonable to me. It immediately resonated with me; it described a principle I had been trying to achieve in some code I was writing recently. The idea of having changes automatically propagate through your model as a data-flow network is a pretty noticeable contrast to other ways of programming.

> He was one of the main proponents of Reactive programming inside Microsoft.

Yeah I guess I don't have this context. But without it, the talk just rubbed me wrong.
Well, the sort of obvious explanation is that amount of BTC in active circulation is much smaller than bitcoin proponents claim.
so it's perfectly fair to profit from selling drugs that kill people, but when the profits from illegal activity are seized, the public shouldn't be able to reuse them?
> Well, he kind of does.

If he has that much background I would expect him to know better than to give such a poor example when he's trying to make fun of a definition as "dilbert-esque."

Tongue-in-cheek is a fun style and I totally get that, but if you're taking unfair hyperbolic pot-shots I think it should be at your own expense, not other people's. But that's just me.
And Firefox OS has the same problems: bad performance and memory management, no apps, slow hardware.
> if you're throwing punches you should know what you're talking about.

Ironically, I think you completely missed his point, probably because of an unfamiliarity with his background and history. He's not dismissive of reactive programming at all, quite the opposite! For example, he gave a course on Coursera about Functional Reactive Programming with Martin Odersky and Thomas Kuhn[0].

So my take on it is that he's just making fun of himself and his friends in a typical blunt Dutch fashion. Which of course doesn't work if you don't know the context.

[0] https://www.coursera.org/course/reactive
> My definition of "rich" is being able to do something (fund businesses) which you fundamentally can't do while earning a salary.

I think most people have a much simpler definition of "rich": never ever having to work for someone else (employers or customers).
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Perhaps the point being made was that the individual motives/goals of the employees are irrelevant to assessing the overall motives of the company as a whole. Personally I'd say it's whatever the CEO's goals are, but shared agency is a weird thing.
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If you place the USA as innovation leaders in the modern world, you make it very difficult to present an example under similar conditions. You can go back in History, though. Countries involved in world discovery in the 1400-1600 were absolute innovation leaders and required no patent law.
I remember in the 90's there was a conspiracy theory going around that the 'global elites' had created a massive submarine base - in the middle of the Amazon jungle, i.e. hundreds of miles from the oceans - specifically to use as a survival plan in case of a massive flood. There was even a site dedicated to the 'discovery' of photo's of the massive submarine, taken from a light airplane which crashed .. the camera was found and later the pictures were made available.

I wonder if the author of "Flood" had heard of this theory and incorporated it into his book. Try as I might I can't find any details about this jungle submarine base any more - seems its been wiped off the 'net.

Another thing I thought of is the Cataclysm as described by Szukalski, that weirdo. He posited that every 64,000 years, the Earth undergoes a massive upheaval due to "Gravity heat" which busts open the Earths' core and releases massive amounts of water from within. Now that there is actual scientific evidence of this whacky theory, I'm starting to get a bit more interested in finding that jungle submarine base .. ;)
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Cool, I'm totally open to the possibility that I missed the self-deprecating shtick from lack of context. If so, mea culpa.
Brilliant precendent you're trying to set here Einstein.
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I think you're supposed to split your logic in enough tiny functions that each really only has success or fail outcomes.

I haven't tried it though.
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