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The reason there are no generics in Go is because nobody has implemented them in Go (or presented a concrete proposal for implementing them, i.e. something less vague than "just do what C# did" while ignoring that C# is not AOT compiled). Thre are some monomorphizing preprocessors but they tend to punt on the interaction betweeen generics and the rest of the language.

I find the community's insistence that Go does not have them because they somehow make programming worse to be fairly ludicrous, when there are much more practical reasons. Obviously you can write useful code without generics (C does not have them), but that does not make them useless, or "cruft", or an undesired feature (unless you simply choose to believe that every single person complaining about them does not use Go): you can also write useful code without many other features that Go does have.
Not quite. If a bank is solvent but illiquid, they can get a loan from the central bank. This is the central bank's "lender of last resort" function.

So no, a good bank cannot be put under by a bank run.

We will probably never be able to say to which extent the big banks at the time of the financial crisis were still good banks. The problem there was that banks had a massive amount of assets that were indirect (i.e. whose inherent value relied on other assets) and that were structured in such a complicated way that nobody could assess their inherent value.

Before the panic, the inability to measure the inherent value of those assets was ignored because they could be valued according to their market value. With the panic, the market simply stopped doing anything, and there was no market value anymore.

The FDIC is orthogonal - it is an insurance of deposits (up to a limited amount) even at bad banks.
You can do this with google products:

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6103523?hl=en

You just have to touch the USB security token to have it release the key. I believe the idea is that malware can't really trick you into touching it, so it's more secure.
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You're assuming that the D-Mark would be as strong (or possibly even stronger) as it was back then today. Which is a bold assumption. As a matter of fact, nobody (apart from some utterly ridiculous right-wing politicians) even considerers this an option.
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For all practical purposes, they kind of appear to be:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_time
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> > while refusing to allow equivalent imports

> That very much is in citation needed territory, please give at least one example of how Germany is refusing intra-European imports in any category.

(Not GP.) You are of course right that Germany has not created import tariffs or other direct and illegal options. OTOH the German government has implemented numerous actions that indirectly had wage-suppressing effects (which per definition lowers imports and raises exports) in the last decade - to a degree that even the IMF(!) felt the urge to demanded actions for more domestic demand on multiple occasions [1][2].

The one notable exception is the implementation of a minimum wage law in 2015.

[1] 2012: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/imf-urges-germany-spur-domest...
[2] 2014: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-05-19/imf-urges-...

edit: here's a graph comparing income-adjusted wage development of the developed countries: http://nrt.revues.org/docannexe/image/1382/img-2.jpg
Yes, it's a very strange name. It's all renting and services, there is little/no sharing involved.
> Why are church donations paying for a building that often remains mostly empty most of the time...

Do you have any numbers for that? All the churches I know have activities and meetings all through the week, though not necessarily in the main sanctuary.

As for tax exemption, churches routinely do other charitable work, including things that would be called social work in other circumstances. In general, doing work the government would otherwise be responsible for qualifies a group for tax exempt status, even if with a different classification.

I suspect that if the religious tax exemption were revoked, the structure of giving would change, but churches themselves would stay more or less the way they are. After all, they predate the United States, its tax code, or the 16th Amendment to the Constitution.
Yeah, but unless you have massive disinformation, you can't create a panic on a solvent bank in today's world. The examples you use were ones where capital had been destroyed.
Yeah I found that to be a very poor part of an otherwise compelling argument. It eliminated their benefit of the doubt in my mind and made me think a lot harder about everything else they were saying. I still think the main points of the article make a lot of sense, and find the idea that they attempted to treat insolvency as if it were illiquidity particularly difficult to counter.
Fun fact: One of these stations can have almost 100,000 gallons of fuel in it. My cab driver this morning used to be a mechanical engineer working on gas stations in the US. Apparently modern filling stations typically have 2 (gasoline) or 3 (with diesel) 30,000 gallon tanks. The gauges by themselves might not be able to cause a big problem but I would hope anything that involved in the safety of the system is well-built.
Depends on quite a lot of details. But just by itself? Of course not. Though I wouldn't say it's the pinnacle of a voluntary transaction on both sides.

I'd also say that other business lose, in an indirect way. As well as the individuals that are now lured into transacting with a business that has failed or is more likely to fail in the future due to past performance.
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Gas holder time lapse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZpVojSJ09k&t=66
Absolutely. The project was doomed from the start, and the ECB and it's fondness for excessively tight monetary policy (given the situation) and utter refusal to consider the sort of debt-reduction-through-monetary-expansion any sane national government would consider even when faced with widespread deflation is a bigger deadweight on Euro area economic growth than Greece (which for all its staggering fiscal ineptitude, isn't particularly significant to Eurozone growth figures overall)
In addition to the libraries discussed on the linked page, have a look at Shapely: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Shapely if you're not already aware of it.

It's GIS-oriented, but in practice, it can be very useful even if you're not strictly dealing with geospatial data.
remoteStorage is an elegant solution in a lot of ways, but there are some problems:

* Apps written in this style have a very hard time being real-time collaborative. Maybe this will be solved by WebRTC, but it's a lot easier with a server component. (Sandstorm has several real-time collaborative apps, like EtherPad, EtherCalc, and Wave. Currently you can share these apps with other users by copy/pasting the URL; the sharing model will get more sophisticated eventually).

* You need to set up a storage server for the apps to use, or use one of the big providers that like to do data mining. You then need to connect the app to the correct server, which is extra busy-work.

* The permission model of these storage servers isn't terribly sophisticated. Often you'll end up granting the app broader permissions that you really want.

* There is, of course, nothing stopping the app from storing data to other places as well, nor is there any isolation between separate documents opened by the same app. (On Sandstorm, each document is a separate instance of the app in a separate sandbox which cannot communicate with the outside world without permission.)

Edit: Missed that you said you're working on RemoteStorage. Probably would have phrased differently if I noticed. Wasn't meant to be an attack. Sorry! (We actually like remoteStorage apps a lot in that they are often easily ported to Sandstorm. :) )
Thanks, I'm really happy that you like it :D

Regarding feedback: I read every comment on youtube and patreon message. If anything is confusing, doesn't have enough context to stand on its own, or goes by too quickly, please let me know! Or any other thoughts you might have.

I'm hoping to refine this format of screencasts over the coming year, and sincere feedback is surprisingly hard to come by! Any thoughts you have are appreciated.
This smells like a con in so many ways. I'm less curious about how it supposedly works than I am about how he managed to trick those researchers. He was on site, so presumably he could of had the opportunity for meddling with the experiment.
Hawking radiation is fake
For using black holes as a potential energy source, we have to find it first. There are a lot of potential candidates for black holes (binary stars, center of our galaxy), but we still haven't seen any direct evidence of their existence.
If you literally mean that Germany was richer in the time before the introduction of the Euro, then simple GDP statistics show otherwise - not surprisingly, as it was a long time ago. If you mean the Euro was bad for the German economy, I wonder why you think that? By removing exchange rate risk, the Euro has made it easier for German businesses to sell to other Eurozone countries.
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TheOtherHobbes used a bit of an ellipsis here. There is no outright refusal of imports by law, but there is a refusal to allow the kind of economic conditions (such as wage increases in line with productivity increases) that would lead to a balance of imports and exports.

As for citations, a recent comparison of the relevant metric, the relative unit labor cost: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/29/i-do-not-think-t...

It is evident that of all Eurozone states, Germany is the one that deviates the most from a policy of stability. Unfortunately, the deviation is in a direction that ends up with Germany in a position of power.
RA ended my love affair with touchscreens before it ever began.
This question might be hilariously naive... but why don't web browsers make signed requests, just as web servers make signed responses?

If I create an account on a website, then associate a public key with my account, shouldn't the browser be able to sign each request with my key? The website then wouldn't ever even have to deal with cookies or sessions as long as I was logged in to my browser.

Or better yet, if my key is publicly known and trusted, couldn't a website know who I am before I even create an account? It could skip the signup process entirely.
Good ideas, but make sure you hire a copy editor! "Let's" is short for "let us", like "let's go to the store." "Lets" is a conjugation of "to let" (i.e. to enable) like "Sandstorm lets you do XYZ."
Unfortunately, it looks like Philae is destined to become the poster child for the continued use of radioisotope thermal generators (RTG's) in spacecraft (especially landers).
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No, that would imply a linear cost per person
I'm not so sure of that. Greece might be a special case. Its a tourist economy with heavy social services and a retirement age of 58 with overly generous pensions; about 80% of one's salary. Its fraudulent on practically all levels of government. Its recent cozying to Putin is just more spit in the eye of the EU partners who tried working with Greece's debt issues.

While Italy and Spain aren't the shining stars of fiscal responsibility and anti-corruption, they're bush league compared to Greece's MLB financial shenanigans. An Italian exit would be a huge event, considering Italy's economy is bigger than Russia's. Greece is just a bottom feeder.

As a Greek-American is pains me to say these things, but Greece is just on the wrong side of history here. Its incredible how corrupt that country is. Its a clusterfuck of far-leftist nonsense that has no place in the EU. I could see a re-entry in a few decades after they've cleaned up their act, assuming that's possible. Expecting everyone else to bankroll Greece's generous pensions seems unfair to working Europeans.

This should also be a wake-up call for EU expansion. Taking on these corrupt countries is a major risk. I'm very glad they never got Turkey, considering its deep into a spiral of Islamic autocracy and has also lost its major economic growth around Q1 2014.
With respect to the business side that makes perfect sense. But as to their original direction when they were creating the distinct Polygon property, it's gone pretty far off-course.
Raise money as fast as you can so that you can turn around and pour money back into paid installs.

I'm not normally one to advocate raising money as the only way to do things, but the app store is ridiculously hard and you're going to need help.
Still looking into this. It's weird. It looks good in FF on my localhost, but I see what you're talking about when it's on the live server. EDIT: Fixed. It was a CSS bug
Great suggestions! I'd say "Sandstorm lets you install server apps as easily as you install mobile apps!"
The claims of cold fusion still seem quite dubious. I remember having a lot of doubts about that paper claiming "verification" of cold fusion, and given the behavior of a number of members of academic community, it isn't too surprising that you might find some academic somewhere that would be willing write sketchy papers just to get published. Until a big national lab gets behind this you may as well file this with N-rays: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N_ray
I think they already doing the same: applying the update at the next "reboot" car start, and it's unlikely that the downloaded update is hot-swapping the running code.
> I have looked into doing freelance work, but as I am self taught my CS skills are not as solid as other developers, and my design skills are just about average. I am more product focused, I try to work as closely to the end user as possible and clearly define what they need.

A couple of points if you choose to go the freelance path:

1. Very few clients will care about your CS skills. If you can develop commercially viable solutions that work, which it sounds like you can, you're ahead of 90% the freelancers out there. Dirty secret: a lot of people with CS backgrounds don't write beautiful code and couldn't architect a commercially viable application on their own to save their lives.

2. A lot of freelance developers are incapable of working with clients to shape product, and a lot who can don't like doing this work. The people who make the most money as solos are those who can craft solutions, not those who crank out code. So it sounds like you have skills and interests that would serve you well.

Good luck!
If you haven't seen it yet, check out the video at the bottom, too. It was shot days before the San Francisco of 1906.
Aaaaaand it's gone... They suffered a major network meltdown today: https://status.runabove.com/
They have a scale. They are not "discrete" in the sense that pixels are discrete because there is no grid (no orientation, no preferred direction, etc).

Think of it like the resolution of a microscope: you can only see objects down to scales of 1 micron, say. That doesn't make what you are looking at discrete at the 1 micron level. It makes it blurry (invisible, or in the case of space and time, non-existent) below that level.
That sort of thing completely killed any interest I would have had in CS. When it came about I already knew JS really well and the benefits of CS just seemed too minimal for learning a new language and dealing with bugs like that.
Can you use DMCA for non copyright issues? Also, DMCA is a US thing, does it apply in Canada?
This article perfectly demonstrates how talking about "PC" prevents good discussion about inclusion.

As it turns out, "PC" is a term developed to dismiss appeals to sensitivity and inclusion. And it's quite good at doing so!

So, if you care about sensitivity and inclusion, but focus on "PC", you're forced, like this author, to throw your hands up in defeat.

It's actually quite simple: if you realize that policing other's language is more often itself a form of exclusion/aggression, then you can clearly describe the scenarios the author relates as part of the problem, not as some failure of the only proposed solution to an unfathomable problem.
10 bucks say a reporter came up with that name initially
I'm sure that tracking services and ad companies would love signed requests.
> Nothing about Greece's current situation was forced on them.

What would you call the fact that the Troika has forced the Greek government to implement brutal and deadly austerity measures?

I mean, sure, technically Greece could have avoided this. If they had left the Eurozone in 2009 or 2010, they would now be in a much stronger position (after a brutal but short period of even more chaos). But that wouldn't have made the European elite happy, either.
> I'm not entirely sure what it is you're suggesting. The EU is designed to make us (Germany, France, etc.) more competitive. That unfortunately also means that countries like Greece don't profit as much (or at all, for that matter), but then again, nobody was forced to join to EU.

I'm suggesting that Euro (this has nothing to do with EU directly) can't survive if PIGS countries keep on loosing while Germany keeps on winning. Personally, I think it would be beneficial to keep the Euro and instantiate a fiscal union (like the US), but it's not up to me to decide. If Germany thinks it's in their interest to keep the Euro (and not have current Euro members exit the currency), it will have to think about other's interests as well. Ultimately, it's not a question if EU/Euro makes some countries more competitive (edit: relative to others) on this continent, but rather, if we stick together as a major global player.

> You do realize we're talking about the fact that Greece can't pay it's dues,

That's just because it doesn't control it's own currency. Otherwise, it could just devalue it, reduce the real value of its debt, and export more, i.e. normal monetary policy.

> There is no way any german is going to vote for that

The politicians will have to convince them, or do without the popular vote. It's not like the Greeks voted for austerity either...
Partly. I run a network of email newsletters which was inspired by someone suggesting I build a "Weblogs Inc of email newsletters" and the domino effect of branching out into related topics your existing user base is interested in has proven a powerful one.

Another win, which was also true at Weblogs Inc, is the ability to share technology and editorial talent. There are certainly major branding downsides to running 10, say, smaller publications versus 1 bigger one with 10x the traffic, but it's a workable model, if not a glamorous one.
I imagine that it's promoting each other and also centralize the non-editorial parts of running the network. Distributed content staff but centralized sales, technology and administration.
Economies of scale in sales, tech and business operations. Knowledge sharing, eg. distribution and audience development techniques. Increased leverage with 3rd party vendors, search and social platforms, etc. Plus the usual benefits of scale (cashflow stability etc.)
You can post your app to the Android subreddit[0] as long as your reddit account is more than 3 months old and you respond to any questions people have.

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And obviously it's much happier to have large scale war rendered less likely through economic interdependence and development (roughly 1990-now, with no signs of stopping), vs. mutually assured destruction (how large-scale war was largely prevented 1945-1989).

I wonder if humanity would prefer more frequent but less severe wars vs. less frequent but more severe; with nuclear weapons the frequency/odds were very low but the severity of any war existential. From a species perspective, there's probably a strong argument for even 10-100x higher "expected deaths" if it removes infrequent complete destruction from the possibilities.
Well, it could maybe be an opt-in feature, like when a site requests to use your webcam or microphone. A small prompt that the server is requesting to access your identity or something.
How about
4. Greece leaves the EU.

There could still be favourable trade agreements and some currency stabilizing etc. so it's not the end of the world, but it would be a wakeup call for everyone to treat their finances a little more seriously.

German yellow press also mentioned various social programs in Greece that can only be described as frivolous even by social state standards. It's harder to be sympathetic with the Greek cause if we're paying for higher welfare abroad than we enjoy ourselves.
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I was plotting 2 functions (the production function and the cost-of-production aka communication cost function) onto the same graph and looking only at the top-right part where X > 0 and Y > 0, in this case, X = number of people and Y = money (either produced or consumed). The production function, because of its sqrt(N), looks like a U flipped on its side. Meanwhile, the cost function, because of its N^2, looks like a regular U. If you have a U sitting with its butt on 0,0, and a U lying down on 0,0, and you look only at the top-right coordinate plane, it'd look kind of like the letter gamma tilted 45 degrees.

Regarding per-capita consumption and total consumption, if you have per-capita consumption, and you have N the total number of people, you can multiple per-capita consumption with the total number of people to get total consumption. If per-capita consumption varies with the number of people, then a bit of calculus is needed as you "integrate" per-capita consumption with respect to number of people to find "the area under the curve" which is your total consumption. But if the students have not yet learned calculus, I can see how it could be unfair to have them derive calculus during the test.
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Question: Did either of you try the demo?

(I know it was kind of broken under all the traffic earlier.)

Usually the demo is what makes people "get it".

It's been surprisingly difficult to find a sentence or two that describe Sandstorm in a way that is effective on everyone. For any text we use, different sets of people get it or are confused. :/
File for unemployment, yes. Clean up your resume and LinkedIn, fine.

Enjoy some time off? Not so much.

If I understand correctly, he (she?) said that he only had a 3 month runway of money. In that situation, finding a job had better be your full-time job.

I mean, look, take a day off. Take two days. Take even a week. Breathe. Look around. Do a couple things you've wanted to do and haven't had time for.

But don't take a month off. You don't have that kind of time. After your bit of down time, work at hunting for a job as seriously as you would work at a full time job.
I don't think that's what he said or meant.
I guess you have to define what a solvent bank is. I don't think any bank can handle a sustained run given their liability duration mismatch. So I am not sure what do you mean that you can't create a panic. Its always possible to have runs just not very easily.

The financial crisis showed that bank liabilities are really liabilities of the country that the bank incorporates in. So in case of Ireland, Greece, Iceland, it is up to the country to step up and backstop their banks. If a country can not, then you will have panic on a bank. And in order for a country to be able to backstop their banks, the debt of the country must be credible.