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why aren't people printing their own money?

a more serious answer:

1) The printing process is pretty difficult. There are multiple things you have to get right

2) There are people making fakes, most of them not good enough to pass as real cards.

3) The main point of having the real cards is to play in tournaments, where this stuff is enforced. If you are just playing with friends or trying out decks before settling on making one, it is common to make proxies of the cards you want.

4) Well made fake cards, like fake money will do Bad Things (tm) to the internal economy of the game.
You do realize that the most valuable company in the world does not compete on price? Are the millennials all on Android junk?
The "free market" failed when telco companies started flexing their monopoly muscle to punish their competitors. In the U.S. we have a rich history of regulating monopolies, and these companies brought it on themselves with their inability to behave like good corporate citizens.

"Free markets" should be limited when they obstruct the liberty of the majority of the public or limit competition on a massive scale. This creates deadweight loss which is an economic net negative.

Imagine if, six months after moving to a new house, your electricity bill doubled because you were no longer in the "promotional period." Your electric company claims there's a free market, because you're free to install solar panels. Comcast et. al are no different than other local monopolies. Their claims of providing a "vibrant and innovative" broadband market are laughable when you look at the far superior state of broadband in other countries.

The cable companies were acting like a cartel of corporate thugs, they openly defied the government's ability to do anything about it, and they got served a massive dish of justice. All because the people spoke out and pushed the government to act in their interest. This is a great moment for American activism and democracy.
There have been a lot of attempts, including a recent wave from China. However, there are unique features about how the cards are printed that make it difficult to reproduce: cards bend in a certain way, use a proprietary font, have a strip embedded between the layers, etc. High quality fakes can fool some people, but not usually those who can afford to fork over hundreds or thousands for the really valuable cards.

(not to mention if you use fakes in sanctioned Magic and are caught, big penalties can ensue)
That's a good idea, I'll give it a try the next time I touch the code =)
> It would be an interesting research project over time to see if a culture of decent, respectful relations and manners led to the same or better VC investment returns.

What has to happen is there has to be near unanimous backlash against loud b.s. talking assholes. Silence and pause often is interpreted as agreement.

In other words unless the environment of respect and normal discussion is not defended it will end up being dominated by a few assholes. I've seen in this meetings most often, you've seen it too.

They dynamic is often interesting to observe. Get enough people in a meeting and you'll see it. Normal meeting agenda devolves into bikesheeding and the tempers get hotter over which color the buttons should be. Those in charge will always say something. Because if they don't they often can't justify their leadership position. There is a little part of the their brain says "How can I just sit here. I am paid 3x these people, I am supposed to lead, I better say something forceful and impactful". -- "No, no, the button is the wrong shade of green".

It is also interesting how there are "body languages how to own the room and project confidence" tips. Stuff like "Lean forward, extend the fingers if your hands, touch the tips of fingers of one hand with corresponding fingers on the other hand". I saw someone try those tips ones. They were just going through a list of those things, because they've probably read them in book. It looked very artificial and forced, and instead of projecting confidence it projected, well... the opposite.
Quite possibly Music Maker: http://retro-treasures.blogspot.co.uk/2007/11/commodore-64-m...

Though there may have been other ones too.

There were certainly lots of "piano" programs that used the keyboard that mostly would work with the same overlays.
The Guardian Publishes a Pretty Amazing Whisper “Clarification”
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It's only 5 paragraphs total.
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Ask HN: How do you feel about optional dependency injection?
Often when writing a library I feel the need to make things simpler for quick and small projects and provide a way to skip verbose dependency injection for non-optional dependencies. I do this by using a non-injected default instance if no other dependency has been provided. I started calling this "optional dependency injection".

I haven't found anything about this approach so far. So I figured I'd ask you guys how you feel about it. Would you consider this good or bad?

Example in PHP:

public function __construct(Cache $cache = null)
{
$this->cache = $cache;

// Create default cache if none has been provided
if (null == $this->cache) {
$this->cache = new SomeCache();
}
}
Founder of a bunch of organizations that have done what exactly?

I like his writings, both fiction and not. At one point, I was I guess, kinda of a fan, and I wanted to look up what progress he'd made to his self-assigned goal of Friendly AI, and I couldn't find anything besides a few cute papers.

I was unimpressed. No doubt Eliezer is smart, but contrary to what he seems to think, there are hundreds of thousands of people in the world just as smart, though maybe in different ways. In the scheme of things, he's not that unique. I think Eliezer's ego would be appropriate for someone who had made some progress in those goals. Presently it's a little cringy ..... but I still hope he surprises us.
I also can't give a short summary, but one thing about the book struck me: it's a very egoistic book.

He describes in the very beginning that his reason to learn these techniques was to find out how he can get his wishes fulfilled, easier and with less friction. His conclusion is that seriously caring about others wishes and wants is one of the best ways to do that. He also tries to do that without being manipulative.
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I think you are missing his or her point a little. They mean that some management explicitly encourage a culture that believes that "free pizza" is worth as much as overtime, or that a ping pong table is worth as much a meaningful equity stake. You couldn't do this to lawyers or accountants or doctors or other "professionals" because they would see through it in a heartbeat.
That creates a substantial window during which you could lose the second drive.
Who are your clients? What industry? Is there a centrally-important program they all use that requires IE8 or WinXP, or do they just have a massive fleet of XP machines and not want to upgrade?

As a software vendor, I used to have a lot of trouble getting my clients to switch away from IE, but I feel like that really has been changing. My clients are large GC firms and other kinds of construction companies (infamous for being behind the times when it comes to technology) and I had >80% of them on Chrome 6 months ago. Have you tried telling them that even Microsoft dropped support for WinXP and IE8 a year ago? (I think it happened last April.)
I remember reading Paul's original piece in the NY Times last year; a touching piece on how at any given moment, everything can fall apart. A few weeks ago, his latest beautifully written piece in Stanford Medicine Magazine came out along with a moving video about his painful journey with this cancer. He had setbacks during his latest round of chemo but he pulled through and it seemed that things were at the very least, maintainable especially given the severity of this cancer.

It was indeed a rude awakening a few days ago to find out via Twitter how Dr. Kalanithi had passed away. It seemed sudden, in your face, powerful, painful and relentless especially related to a man I have never met.

It shows you that disease, life, and ultimately death does not discriminate against anyone and can hit at anytime - even those who work day in and day out to heel others. It shows how precious, fragile and relentless life truly is, how lucky we are to be here, commenting on the latest Macbook or tinkering away at our projects. The world and time, like Paul said, doesn't stop for anyone, it just keeps going. And it's best to go with it and try to make the most out of what you're given.

If one can learn anything from his journey, and his eloquent writings, it is that we must always move forward at a constant rate and be grateful for each day, pursue it intelligently, happily and full of energy.

Our time is limited and when you see such a tragic case of life (and death) unfold before you, for many via the Internet - you stop for a second and think - but hopefully, only for that second as time just keeps ticking away.
Exactly. Otherwise the same note played over and over at an even tempo would be "sticky" (which is nonsense).
Don't you think they consider the people they hire to be "the best"? Do you think being "the best" and being an "insider" are mutually exclusive?
i never knew this, thanks.
Embuggerance is already in the Macquarie Dictionary.
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as a millenial, i enjoy the word "millenial" because it's a great way to know when someone is about to start talking out of their ass.
Best MOV Player to Solve Quicktime Not Playing on Yosemite
As the article says:

* It will only appear for sites you use regularly
* It will only appear once per site, ever
Nope. It's built on Django
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Thanks for the feedback! We will change it :)
Posts without URLs are penalized, so you might want to repost this as a link to your site, then add the above text as a first comment to the new thread. Good luck!
I wonder if there is anything in statute or precedent that prevents this from being applied in the United States. There should, of course, be a minimum fine because it is possible to live without "income."

For instance, driving 15-20 mph too fast might be fined at 1% of your annual gross income, or $150, whichever is larger.
How to play Frozen movies and transfer them on non-Apple devices
Ceph isn't ready for production. GlusterFS is, and it also behaves more like a file system, while Ceph is more object storage. They serve different use cases but GlusterFS is more general purpose I think. No MDS required, scales fairly linearly. They're using it at Facebook with XFS and Btrfs underneath depending on workload. At home you can build little ARM gluster clusters, so it kinda even scales down!
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/...
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@all - Hi again. We're planning to add categories and tags. Any suggestion on what categories and tags should we add? And do you think splitting the site into subdomains makes more sense or using categories and tags is enough?

Thanks in advance.
The Gell-Mann Amnesia effect, coined by Michael Crichton.
You're not wired in 24 hours a day all day? Pfft, casual.
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>> Strangely no one chooses to go home

The ones that go home, don't get caught, and so you don't hear about it.
The problem is due to a common misconfiguration. Consumer drives have longer recoveries potentially, upwards of minutes, trying to recover a flaky sector. The OS sees this as an unresponsive drive, and eventually does a link reset. This is 30 seconds by default on Linux, not sure about others. The link reset prevents the drive from reporting an explicit read error along with the affected sector LBA. That information is needed for RAID to know what data to rebuild from parity, send that up to the app layer, and also send a good copy back to the sector that reported the read error. So eventually there's an accumulation of these, and in case of a drive failure and another drive that produces a URE, poof, imploded array. Now, you can recover from this, sorta, but it's tedious and requires a sort of skill to do it. So most people give up. Ergo RAID is not a backup. Backup your RAIDs. And make sure drive SCT ERC is shorter than the kernel's SCSI/ATA command timer. Ideally shorten the drive timeout. If that can't be done (consumer drive) then increase the kernel's command timer. Both of these are per device settings.
Australia has more or less exactly the same point system except (I think) points are nation wide. I would say that the cooldown periods are statistically forgiving though. You recover 4 points every year and most fines are 2-4 points.

It's generally only pretty extreme cases (as the GP points out) that cause a license to be completely suspended (and even then it sometimes doesn't stop people driving anyway). Hence the GP (and me, personally) agreeing with income based fines as an actual deterrent.
Are there non-Quicktime mirrors? Chrome doesn't even tell me I need Quicktime, the video just doesn't work at all.
Wow dude, not only is using someone's quote on your website without consent pretty unclassy, using their employer to add legitimacy and make it seem like they're speaking on behalf of the company is just not ok at all.
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Huge Dominion fan :)
I'd recommend watching "Alone on the Wall" posted here if you want some sweaty palms: https://youtu.be/YjMVlGx7g84

Alex's skill seems beyond human. I hope he's with us for a long, long time.
One weird thing I notice is that most articles in mainstream media seem anti Ellen Pao. Not this one, it is sort of neutral but most are. I wonder why this is. I figure in trials like this coverage should be more neutral - it isn't like she is a murderer or something else that people usually prejudge negatively.
What's at Stake If Uber and Lyft’s Labor Models Go to Trial
I disagree with the assertion that the main advantage of relational databases is to save disk space.

The main advantage of the relational model, as with any solid method of abstraction, is to save developer time and enable stronger use cases by providing a provably correct way of reasoning about data (predicate logic, relational calculus, etc.), which you do not get with NoSQL.

Unlike, say, functional programming, it's also quite easy to teach the relational model properly to complete beginners (like non-technical finance department staff) in a matter of days or weeks, which makes it a uniquely high ROI paradigm to add to your company.

I strongly recommend reading through at least the latest book by either Edgar Codd or Christopher Date.
> His books taught me to approach the world with a twinkle in my eye and a smile quick to come out -- a good change from the cynicism of my teens.

I know what you mean. I think you'll enjoy Diana Wynne Jones then, who along with Brian Jacques and Terry Pratchett helped me through some depressing times, with their charming worlds and characters who were refreshingly devoid of malicious cruelty even when playing the villain.
Where I live, you can be fined $1000 and confined for 1 year for misdemeanors, including many driving offenses such as exceeding 85mph or 20mph above the speed limit. These punishments can be dealt by the District Court, which is not a court of record and the processes and standards are very relaxed. In this lowest court, these driving misdemeanors are prosecuted (on behalf of the state) by a police officer, just as a non-criminal traffic ticket ("infraction").

Sentencing judges already have the opportunity to impose fines and consider the defendant's means when deciding the amount to be levied. I would personally say that "$1,000 is not a lot of money," and that if a $150 fine for 85mph (reckless here) is appropriate for a person earning $15000 p/a then that actually favors $1000 for a subject earning $100k in an ends of justice/deterrent argument. Maybe more than that because the $100k defendant will be paying from a discretionary budget, not the money for food/rent.
Sometimes I joke about people and someone corrects me telling me what a douche I am. But lately I've started thinking that maybe It's easy for me to say these things because just because I say someone for example looks a certain way does not genuinely mean I think that person IS that way.

And then when people correct me, they are actually reacting on their own prejudgements and projecting it on my joke.
Taking a Look at Practical FRP
"Independent contractors are generally treated as workers who serve multiple clients, have a high level of control over their work, and complete specific jobs over a limited period of time that fall outside the usual scope of their current employer’s business."

By the definition looks like Uber and Lyft are in serious danger.
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Simple solution for the rich: Hire someone to drive for you, cover any fines, then rotate them when they get too many tickets (and a suspension risk).

And actually, with the flat fines that currently exist do any rich people do this right now?

http://xkcd.com/1494/
He only needed to kill people because he fucked up his opsec. Imagine if the person that was blackmailing him was an agent. If so, game over. Hence, he should never have allowed anyone to get into such a position.

That said, as far as damage control, he had no choice it seems. If the blackmailer really was going to turn over many innocent people to be prosecuted, well, it was probably the morally correct thing to do. (Assuming negotiations for a payment or other settlement didn't seem feasible.) It's not like he was out trying to murder random people or competitors. He was protecting many innocent users from potentially having their lives destroyed.

I dunno about everyone else here, but that feels like it'd be a heavy burden to have to choose. Sorta like shooting an informant that's gonna leak info on a bunch of refugees. You know the informant might just be trying to get out of his own mess, or getting a safety package setup for his family or whatnot. But if you let him have his way, many people will be tortured. As sad as it is, what else can you do in such a case, even if it was your fault in the first place?
His video on risk is quite good as well: https://vimeo.com/84716329

I really like his differentiation of risk and consequence.
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Agreed, solid product.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDAP9OWtQro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijex5274t_c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibklpzKai-o
Entire New 13-Story Building Tips Over in Shanghai (2009)
Looping animated gifs are just a very, very inefficient means of communicating. It would be very easy to follow this one if you could have it start at the exact moment you fixed your attention on it, but the looping means you come in halfway and it makes absolutely no sense. I had to sit and concentrate on it for a couple of loops just to determine the starting point of the "story" it was telling, and once I figured that out, it still took a couple run throughs for me to comprehend what it was trying to show me. Maybe I'm just stupid, but I wish this trend would go away.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9192637
It's more about a demonstration of Apple's craftsmanship.
Most people don't know what they're doing or don't possess enough knowledge to take good decisions on most subjects. Democracy is a stupid ruling scheme.

I understand the basis of democracy, but you can't ask a lumberjack to legislate deforestation.
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I find it a little amusing that the example is a site for people at a 2 day conference, but the banner will only appear if you visit a site on two separate days. In the real world this would be showing a banner saying "Install our app!" on the final day of the conference after it's lost most of it's usefulness.

Great technology and potentially very helpful, but not the best choice for an example of where you'd use it.
Yes. Most people don't know this, but there's two certifications for "getting paid as a pilot" one is the commercial certificate, the other is the airline transport pilot (pilot vernacular is to say "she/he's an ATP"). So when you think of "commercial air carriers" those are ATPs. People who fly cargo, certified flight instructors, many charter pilots, etc have commercial certificates.
Epic Google snafu leaks private whois data for 280000 domains
Scientists Have Invented a Shapeshifting Metal for Our Robotic Overlords
I suggest letting developers to specify projects they find useful to be included in this cold storage.
Bacteria Are Already Making the Best HIV Treatment in Nature
It would be quicker still to go to their Manchester office and get a copy from there! (Plus I believe they plan to have boxed copies when it comes out.) CIG now have offices in Manchester (aka Foundry 42); Germany (made up of many former Crytek employees); Austin, TX; Santa Monica, CA. They also use third-party studios in Montréal (Turbulent) and Denver, CO (Illfonic, formerly known to the community as [REDACTED]), as well as Moon Collider, who write the AI middleware Kythera. Plus various 3D artists who do contract work for the project. I think they're past 300 people working on it, including people who aren't directly employed by CIG.

This is quite possibly the most ambitious game project in history. It's got a team to match. And a total filesize!
I was thinking about describing the german system, but interestingly there's a very elaborate Wikipedia article summarizing the schemes used in many countries:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_system_(driving)
And as soon as everyone starts using s/he, bigender people get annoyed that heshe wasn't used. It's language...it's difficult to get everyday usage "normalized" into a different direction.
One of my favorite quotes - thank you Alex:

"There is no adrenaline rush. If I get a rush, it means that something has gone horribly wrong. Because the whole thing should be pretty slow and controlled. I mean, it’s mellow."
I never said anything about the competence of the staff, it's just the politics. Also I'm not talking about insuring against the bug, but meriting a bug (or any work) based on the difficulty/impact.
I'm wondering about the "can't zoom" bit. I can't zoom on many websites - because Mobile Safari has sold out control to the web developers, instead of acting as my user agent.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9083849
It will not devastate the sharing economy. It will devastate the "sharing" economy where you try to bypass government regulations by pretending you are not some kind of service.

There are a lot of ways of people to share car rides, small jobs - just not so easy to heavily monetize.
i think people have a lot to learn from alex and shouldn't just dismiss him as "inhuman". i think it's important as a human to commune with death. i grew up with someone like alex. we hung out every day, and following him forced me to constantly push my limits of fear. i grew immensely as a person thanks to him.

the most profound experiences of my life have been in moments where i could've easily died. i wouldn't want to live if i couldn't do things that could kill me.
Sure, but I think this is more of a concern for the non-aluminum models, where the case is substantially more expensive.
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