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I may be wrong, but my understanding is that we currently rely on an abundance of cheap food, cheap transportation, and easy access to clean water in order to keep a higher percentage of the human species than ever before living comfortably. When these things become scarce (as former croplands fail and supplies of fresh water harder to find) the mass migration which results seems likely to create millions if not billions of refugees. This would be a major disruption to civilization in my view. Somewhat unjustly it seems many people in equatorial regions will bear the brunt of the impact of climate change - these are generally people who have contributed less to its root causes.

The reference to antibiotic resistance was dark humour of a sort, but clearly poorly executed. I was simply noting that if all the people are dead then we will emit far less CO2.
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On the other hand, Bitcoin had a couple years before any real clones sprung up of it. Ethereum will have clones on launch day.

Marketing and mindshare do come into play, but Ethereum is facing different dynamics.
Yeah, I think it's basically the same concepts but repackaged for web developers. You can tell from the names - "React", "Om" and "Flux" sound like the kind of things web developers might use, and "Domain-Driven Design" and "Command/Query Responsibility Segregation" sound like things that enterprise developers might use. Both sets of names are a way of marketing similar concepts to different audiences.
I agree, but we could use a backup planet anyway.
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I am wondering if you can add an external GPU via the mini pcie interface:

http://www.hwtools.net/Adapter/PE4C%20V2.0.html#Web-Shop
"are you going in the same direction? would you like to split cab fare?" is usually how it goes, depending on the local dialect.
Oh it wouldn't - and I think it's 7+ now too. The vast majority would be doomed.
What you mean by this? Why would having multiple implementations, each having some input by core devs, be a bad thing?
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Cool!

Have you looked at the moment.js manual ? They have a lot of really useful examples (I believe Arrow was inspired by Moment).
"On the financial side, I work for a company that destroyed the entire desktop side of things."

How does the disaster recovery plan cover complete loss of Internet connection or corruption of remote data?

Genuinely interested.
Khan doesn't teach by rote. That's why it doesn't fit in the education system.
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Can't even run Skype? That's a massive failure.

Hangouts is a deal-breaker for those who don't want the integration and privacy costs that come along with data from search, chats and email all integrated through a single provider. On top of that, hangouts doesn't even work in some parts of the world.
I'm curious as to what sort of applications you would be building (e.g. blockchain consensus systems cannot do I/O without using trusted parties) and why you're not already building them in the Bitcoin space.

As far as funding, mastercoin, counterparty, bitshares, and others have raised millions in pre-sale funding without a whole lot to show for it (some of them having already since abandoned their projects just to do the funding cycle again). While things being created would certantly be good, some skepticism is warranted.
In India, atleast with my bank, we get SMS notification for every purchase, I also got a confirmation call couple of times from bank when making purchases of large amount(relative to my normal usage). Also online credit card transactions in India have a password/OTP authentication.
In case any Uber employee is looking: scrolling on this page is almost non-functional on an iPhone.
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As a teacher parents who actually make contact and ask questions are really important. Please infect the other parents!
Apart from it's a couple of years old…

There are also a number of potential shortcomings and details missing from the study e.g. you've only got to look at httparchive.org, to see the dummy page isn't representative of real world pages, and then they used similar small pages for the other sites.

We also don't have any information on the TLS setup e.g. was it well optimized etc.

The study provides some interesting datapoints but would benefit from further research
I disagree. They're easier to annotate on a computer.

Then again I still use hard copies when they're not extortionately priced and postits for markup.
Interestingly, Hold Security, the firm that apparently discovered this massive trove of stolen records, has promptly offered a $120 service for those who want to see if they're affected: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/08/05/huge-pass...
By creating a separate network, you would lose interoperability with the original network, the security properties of having a large network with more mining hashpower and the network effects of the people already invested into and using the previous system.
When a plumber does a job, they get paid for it in full immediately. When an author writes a book, the income comes in a trickle over an extended (but in theory fixed) time period.

If a plumber and an author were to die young, the Plumber's family have already benefited in full from the results of work the plumber did before death, because payment in full was made immediately when the work was done. What you are arguing for is that the author's family should not benefit in full from the work the author did in life. Why is that?
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This is always the biggest concern. The smaller firms use 3G based connections anyway as they're mostly on the road. The mid size guys have ADSL and 3G back up. The big guys use leased lines with SLAs.

We have 3 fully redundant data centres and a separate archival site. Its cheaper to pay us for the redundancy than fuck it up themselves. Their data is better in our hands as we centralise their DR strategy. Previously their stuff was stored in infected windows laptops with no backups and at best tapes being taken home by staff (unencrypted). They can access it all and export at will too.
And on desktop too. Page up / page down keys don't work unless you focus the page. There is a scrollbar within a scrollbar.
LLVM/Clang and Visual Studio are not analogous... LLVM/Clang is a compliler/compiler frontend while Visual Studio is an IDE. You're looking for Visual Studio vs. Eclipse or .NET vs. Mono etc. in each case I think most see the no-cost alternative as quite obviously inferior. This weakens your argument a bit.
In that case, I'd be interested to read their literature around MDMA and compounds of the 2C-X variety.
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Fair enough, though I pretty much never annotate books.

Taking notes on a computer has never worked for me, either. I take notes on paper, then later scan them in.

When I help someone with a math/electronics/physics problem, I also use a yellow pad & pen. I cannot see any advantage to using a computer.

For writing significant text, though, it's a computer all the way.
That was one issue. Another is that the consensus protocol did not work in practice, at least not decentralised. The obvious problems were hand waved away with a promise to solve them later.

Another was that the open source software was not delivered on time and did not live up to expectations, especially not given the above. If Ripple the company went under, so did the network, and that is not really acceptable for a trustless distributed global currency.

Has Stellar addressed any of this or are we just supposed to trust them?
I do the same actually. Can't beat a pencil and cheap HP AIO printer/scanner. I tend to annotate errors in books more than anything - it seems recently that publishers have lost the ability to review books...
What I find interesting about aspirin is that no one really knows how it works (its "mechanism of action"). Its anti-inflamatory effects are a consequence of something else, not the cause.

In the book "Power, Sex, Suicide"[1], Nick Lane states:

"Curiously, aspirin is also a mild respiratory uncoupler; I do wonder how many of its more mysterious benefits may relate to this property"

He is talking about the mitochondrial respitarory chain. In this context, "uncoupled" means that the electron flow does not generate any ATP; instead, all the energy is dissipated as heat. The interesting thing is that uncoupling the electron transport chain reduces electron leakage ("free radicals") and less free radicals has been associatted with ageing and disease.

Will less electron leakage reduce chronic inflamation ? Who knows ...

Once again, the analogy with computer systems is pretty straightforward: If our back-end system is "inflamed" (read, under heavy load) due to incoming HTTP requests, uncoupling it with a message queue system will have anti-inflammatory effects.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Power-Sex-Suicide-Mitochondria-Meaning...

[2] http://sciencecases.lib.buffalo.edu/cs/files/dinitrophenol.p...
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Everybody said the same thing about spending bitcoin in the first place, and look how true that is. (Not at all.)
Is there a way to do that with Bitcoin and if so how?
I wouldn't just randomly start taking aspirin every day because of this article... Im sure the next big aspirin discovery will be "oops all that asprin is actually bad"
> There is very little incentive for a private drug companies to show...

Yes, but let's consider why:

1- Government regulation (patents) creates an artificial concept of property that prevents humanity at large from benefiting from scientific advances that could be much cheaper. The reasoning for patents is that they are a required incentive from companies to go through expensive tests. But guess what...

2- It's government regulation that makes the tests so expensive.

So the government tries to solve a problem, then creates a new problem, then tries to solve the new problem, then....

Every step seems reasonable and in the interest of the consumer, but the end result is still that a majority of people do not have access the the level of health care that is scientifically and technically possible, and not even close. But at least they are protected from a number of things. Maybe.

We demand a high level of scientific rigor to accept a medication, but we don't demand the same high level of scientific rigor to accept government meddling. We just take it at face value that the benefits of regulation outweigh the costs and this premise is never tested at large.
Don't apologise. Your view is held by a growing number of people who don't want their lives saved by medical heroics - only to live a reduced quality of life.
Do you realize how much more complex is the optimizing compiler part compared to the IDE part? My bet is that there are two separate sub-divisions working on them.

OK, let's consider only compilers, if you wish..)

Btw, GNU Emacs, which is another "miracle" of software engineering, is a good-enough IDE part for Clang. Together, in pair, they are, in my opinion, even more flexible and less resourse-wasting than VS. And (surprise!) cross-platform.
> The only thing they'll know about the person they are sharing with going in is that they are too cheap to take their own Uber ride.

Oh the horror.

I don't know if higher net-worth necessarily means that there aren't a good amount of those that are mindful of their spending (or cheap).
Sasha discovered whole families of psychedelics, and increased our knowledge of them exponentially (IMHO). He deserves the title.

That said, my Goddaughter has two Godfathers, so why can't psychedelics? I would honour Albert Hofmann with the title as well.
Yeah, but Facebook photos are shared explicitly by users with their agreement to Facebook use terms.
Java pretty much absorbed Joda-Time in version 8.
I've had a similar experience. At one point the radio was 90% Childish Gambino despite only having one of his songs in my playlist
And if i undestand this correctly, a "clone" could simply have better exclusive app deals.
I recently drove a Citroen rental car with a HUD display. It only displayed critical info: gear, speed, cruise control mode, and next gps turn.

This is just a gimmick. I would never, ever want it to display tweets or whatever distracting content, just because you can still see the road doesn't mean it won't take away your attention. Until we have self-driving cars there is no technology that will magically make it possible to multitask while driving...
So the schools are discovering that iPads are a toys rather than work devices? What a surprise!

Notice how all those teachers were "at first disappointed that they weren't getting an iPad". Really? If you choose the tool based only on its coolness factor, you'll hardly get the right one, especially for education.
Irresponsible advice.

Learn about them, and experiment with them if you want to, and research what the hell it is you're getting into before you do it.

Psychedelics are not magic, they're drugs.
Here is a repost of a comment I posted directly to the Ars Technica thread in reply to the author endorsing Agile/Scrum and expressing ambivalence towards telecommuting:

"That's 20th century thinking, Peter! Marshall McLuhan would be disappointed! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNhRCRAL6sY

Spontaneous collaboration can happen just as effectively with a remote staff, but you have to default all your channels of communication to digital ones.

Instead of a culture of shoulder taps, use IM.

Instead of a culture of hallway conversations, get the entire team on a permanent group chat.

Skype is one of the best tools for this, so it's ironic that the company which owns it isn't making the best use of its own tools! ;)

The guys over at Basecamp did a great book recently on how to do this remote collaboration stuff right called "Remote: Office Not Required" http://37signals.com/remote

It's a great read. I read it recently while on the plane to a meeting that totally could have been over the internet. The irony was not lost on me.

It's also worth noting that Agile/Scrum is not universally well liked anyway. In fact it's incredibly divisive. People who love it seem to really love it and people who hate it seem to really hate it.

For example, here's a site parodying the Agile Manifesto, asking the world to adopt something more modern: http://asyncmanifesto.org

And here's a much saucier (and perhaps less serious) take on the same idea: http://programming-motherfucker.com

TL;DR: Agile/Scrum is a management fad. Collaboration can succeed or fail using any methodology. All the blind praise the media spews for Agile/Scrum is arguably harmful to discussing what is and isn't effective management."

Original post: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/08/how-mi...
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> All that being said, for young children, an iPad is an irreplaceable educational tool.

IMO, for young children, the iPad is an irreplaceable brain-destroying tool. It's scary when you see a 2-year old glued to a TV screen playing a cartoon, completely detached from reality. Even scarier when they play with an iPad, then try swiping picture book pages and finally throw the book away for being boring. (Having said that, I also find it scary how much time teens spend oversharing on Facebook.)

Although I hated it at the time, I'm actually infinitely grateful that my parents limited the time I could spend on the computer when I was a kid (30mins/day, no GameBoy). It made me develop in ways that I never could using just a computer, and made me appreciate "real life".
>I guess downvoters are just upset about MS criticism,

As long as you're guessing, you can say anything you want. It does not have to be true.
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Blackboard is for the lecturer; it is easier to write formulas or draw diagrams interactively than with any digital tool. Plus the size; you can dump a lot of information without having to scroll anywhere.
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>> he gets a lot of credit for things he didn't do.

He found and published multiple, relatively simple synthesis routes for some pre-existing substances and many, many psychoactive substances that had never been seen before. He pioneered exploration into their effects and he shared the knowledge with the world, despite the censorious wishes of worldwide governments and law enforcement.

That makes him pretty unique and special in my book.
isn't this why equipment used to be administered with a hard serial port on the back? (I remember switches that need to be administered that way, from a few years ago).

It boggles the mind that hard coded credentials to flight systems could be exploited from customer facing wifi.

Sort-of relevant XKCD: http://xkcd.com/463/
What do you mean, "privacy costs"? Hangouts by Google, Skype by Microsoft. Either way, NSA has direct access.
Funny - I am just developing a Chrome extension that harnesses precisely this: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/livisitor/pafjcmmf...
Please don't share the link yet, it's still in beta.
Am I correct in saying "This isn't a new trial-based study; it's really just an analysis of available study data based on either (a) other previously published analyses of this type, or (b) an interpretation on follow-ups of clinical trials"?

I'm not used to reading science journals so it's possible that I missed something.

http://annonc.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/07/30/an...

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Inside Google, MacBooks are essentially used as Chromebooks with aluminium cases ;)
Great post. As a programmer who's also worked IT in education, most of this rings very true.

Can you clarify what you meant here, though? I haven't yet used Chrome OS in this capacity, and I'm a little hazy on where the security boundaries lie when it comes to centralized administration.

> It's only able to install things locally (and bypass administrative restrictions) if you really work hard to get around it.
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"Spontaneous collaboration can happen just as effectively with a remote staff, but you have to default all your channels of communication to digital ones."

So, if you handicap your local staff to use only a fraction of their communications capability then your remote ones are just as good?

Seriously - I've spent a large amount of time dealing with offshort staff and onshore staff, and staff both in the different buildings, the same building but different rooms, and staff in the same room - and having people sitting right next to each other makes a massive difference to the communication bandwidth.

The ability to turn your screen towards a co-worker, say "What do you think of that?" and get a reply three seconds later is _fantastic_ - and simply impossible with remote communications. (Where you can ping them on IM, wait for them to notice the message, start a screen-share, wait for them to accept, and then wave your cursor over the bit of screen you want them to pay attention to. It's effective, but it's nowhere near as fluid as pointing and handwaving.)
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So, Hangouts are a privacy cost, but Skype is acceptable? Have you ever paid attention to Skype's track record?
"Hello there noscripter!"

Well that's a red flag.
> Is there any way to verify these have really been sold? Is there any third party involved that can verify?

What do you mean? Just look at the blockchain address where the funds are being deposited [0]. I've done several buys and all of them showed up instantly...

[0] https://blockchain.info/address/36PrZ1KHYMpqSyAQXSG8VwbUiq2E...
Agreed. Google is very good at such pieces, and news sites surprisingly credulous at running them. Two that spring to mind: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/09/how-go... , http://www.wired.com/2014/07/how-googles-new-font-tries-to-a...
Right, I noticed that this thread was missing the standard reply from a suburbanite parent on how X is only for young, wealthy, single people with comparatively little life experience who have no responsibilities beyond their own selves, and how X would never really work for people with real responsibilities because X doesn't provide the benefits of: having a medium/large house vs. a small apartment, suburbs vs. the city, biking and public transportation vs. an owned car, something "disruptive" vs. something tried-and-tested, slightly unconventional lifestyle vs. somewhat conventional lifestyle...

No, you didn't actually say anything like that. But your post is pretty heavy with dismissal, as opposed to just saying "I don't think that this would work for my situation because A, B, C...". I doubt that something like this can accommodate even close to most people's lifestyle and needs, but there is no need for this "pff, only those privileged young people would find this useful" crap.
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Yeah, often I just wear headphones w/o any music playing. It not only cuts down on noise but also on people bugging me.
I can confirm that this is the corpus. I can also confirm that, even though the emails are all from mid-to-senior management, the writing style is very sloppy.
How do you know how the LLVM/Clang development is done inside Apple? Maybe they do use scrum, etc.
Hopefully we all "always" leave the best job we ever had. For example, the best job I ever had when I was 15 was working at deli. I left that job for my new "best job I ever had," which was at a nursery and garden center. Etc. Obviously, we can all step "backwards," too, but generally most people leave the "best job they ever had" most of the time they change jobs. Anyways! I guess I just laid down some downvote and/or trolling bait? Just bear in mind that what I wrote was intended to to be positive, uplifting, and forward looking. It's all about the journey. There is no "destination."
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I strongly recommend reading the "Remote" book. There are sections which detail why the "handicapping" argument you just made is a fallacy.

As for the workflow you describe being "impossible with remote communications," trust me, it's not! Just paste a screenshot into a group chat.

Often this is faster and more effective than physically showing someone a screen anyway, plus it broadcasts the info to a potentially larger group.

As for the "wait for them to notice" part, that's just bad collaboration and it happens whether people are there or not. If you're expecting your coworker to be interruptible, s/he can be whether it's IM or it's a shoulder tap if that's the expectation.

Meanwhile, in a big crowded open office plan, often times people are just as uninterruptible as remote is so often perceived to be. People put on headphones and strongly resist shoulder taps.

Whether you're all in one office or all collaborating over chat, success or failure is about proper communication, not which medium you're using.
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