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"That's how democratic access to money policy works; we vote, power realigns in accordance with our votes, and a few years down the road, we do it again."

And therein lies a problem. Under a system like this, policy is geared towards affecting the short term in order to affect the next election cycle and no heed is given to how things play out in the long run.
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Yes, there are parts of this community very uncomfortable with things they do not understand or agree with, and are very quick to argue or dismiss rather than try and see the value of the contribution or different point of view. Reddit went through the same shift as it became more popular.

There is hope: one of my best received comments was a gentle chiding of someone who had belittled someone's comment.
Yes, there are parts of this community very uncomfortable with things they do not understand or agree with, and are very quick to argue or dismiss rather than try and see the value of the contribution. Reddit went through the same shift as it became more popular.

There is hope: one of my best received comments was a gentle chiding of someone who had belittled someone's comment.
This is something I'm constantly struggling with as I try and teach myself OpenGL. Tons of tutorials available, but many have little context or explanation about what it is that they're demonstrating, and I keep finding them via Google searches for how to use a specific function. I'm almost never trying to do what they're doing, just having some small degree of overlap. I've got a copy of the Red Book, and it's pretty handy, but man is that a big pile of "well, this is pretty close to what I want".
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Matt Ridley is one of the best science books I ever read.
Any claim that someone waived their constitutional rights by clicking a button will collapse under even the most mild scrutiny.
> If you're the only one using daisy wheel printer then it won't be hard to figure out where the daisy-wheel-printed document came from.

Yes, that's also an issue I'd considered.

> Also, it's hard to print convincing counterfeit currency using a daisy wheel printer, which is the main thing the government wants to stop with these tracking dots.

Yes, but that's not why anyone is worried about it. The problem with tracking dots is they mean you can connect documents by the same person.
I think it was meant as sexual thing, as the preceding (leech) and the following (freedom fighter) terms are not sexual, nor necessarily even human, in nature.
The universe must bend to my desires?
I absolutely agree with your point when considering bitcoin as a currency / store of value.

It's important to realize that bitcoin is two things:

- A decentralized payment network

- A store of value

Whether it has merit as a store of value has yet to be seen, but bitcoin has already proven itself as an innovative payment network. For this purpose I believe your argument is less important - the underlying invention of the blockchain can now be duplicated in other competing networks (altcoins, sidechains) if bitcoin itself does not prove satisfactory.

In future I believe bitcoin governance will look more similar to how the internet is governed today. For now, I think we have established that an unaccountable foundation is not the best structure.
Does it come with a free spurious patent infringement lawsuit over replicating the API of software its vendor previously released under the GPL?
The OP is talking about the reference sources, not .NET Core (which is an unfinished effort, btw).
As I mentioned (typewriters, Stasi)

In the old days they'd magnify the printout and compare the characters to the prints that the manufacturers had given them.
When used in conjunction with leech and freedom fighter that doesn't even make sense. You have a particular interpretation of the term in your head, but that doesn't mean that's how it was intended to be taken.
I work in enterprise world, as such, my mobile development experience is mostly on side projects, across all the three major platforms.

Did a project at work with Cordova, it works, but it is only usable for CRUD type of applications.

As for hobby projects, a few multimedia ones with SDL, which was ok since nothing more was being used besides OpenGL and touch input.

Tried to use Qt/C++, only to discover it kind of works, but even with all these years of talking about mobile support, Qt is pretty raw. Lots of native API wrapping is required or only available in the commercial version.

Xamarin is quite appealing, and even with the usual HN complaints about their prices, they are actually not much different from other commercial solutions for the mobile market.

Personally, I am using C++ for portable logic, together with the native UIs in Java, C#, C++/CX. However due to the pain it is to use the NDK, specially now that Google dropped the ball, I am thinking about focusing on just one platform.

If I would be doing this at work, maybe Xamarin would be the solution to go.
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So what if I want to dynamically create content? Limited to using this as a sort of cdn edge?
Yes, especially for the IO code, which is C# code p/invoking into Windows kernel APIs.

Mono project has been mainly pulling Microsoft's code that is managed, which is the one that should run in any OS unmodified.
It was a little tongue-in-cheek. See, I'd seen the absence of tracking dots mentioned as an advantage of impact printers. But there are some fairly obvious problems with that.
>Distributed currencies like bitcoin deny that control to a centralized authority.

What is the minimum number of people you think it would take to decide on a change to some rule of bitcoin and have enough combined power to force the change through?
Agreed. I think CL is still an awesome platform.

There are however things which can't be affected by packages, without a total rewrite (like Shen). Things like parametric-typing, and adding synergistic mechanisms with define-compiler-macro and inbuilt optimizations, would be extremely useful.
Ok, yeah, I meant post-tangible currency, but that's just a mouthful.

I was using the English vernacular version of "cash" to refer to stuff you can touch, not the specialized bookkeeping meaning (which could even include diamonds or some artwork in certain situations).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash

I will admit though that the price I set for "knowing everything about my transactions" is roughly around 1% cash back, so as a volunteer to the panopticon, I can't raise too much outrage either way.
Estonia has little natural resources, a small population, an unstable neighbour and it is a bit at the periphery of Europe. They have invested a lot of effort into becoming strong in Internet. This is one example of those efforts.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/apr/15/estonia-us...
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Perhaps, with someone who is trying to forecast the future, some people are going to get it right.

But what about 3-5 year olds who accurately say they are a person from a previous life, and go into details that only the person would remember? Are they just making "lucky guesses"? How many correct guesses does it take before its something more?
I'd honestly be surprised if that broke this time around. Every extension I've tried in VS2015 worked fine. Some I had to fight with (VSIX manifests with too-restrictive versions), but it's mostly just drop-in-and-go.

They do run side-by-side just fine, too, FWIW.
Invoking nondeterminism doesn't make the thought experiment easier, just more complicated. From http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=30 :

>(Incidentally, don’t imagine you can wiggle out of this by basing your decision on a coin flip! For suppose the Predictor predicts you’ll open only the first box with probability p. Then he’ll put the $1,000,000 in that box with the same probability p. So your expected payoff is 1,000,000p2 + 1,001,000p(1-p) + 1,000(1-p)2 = 1,000,000p + 1,000(1-p), and you’re stuck with the same paradox as before.)

Even if you have "free will" and your actions are semi-random, that's not different than flipping a coin to make your decisions.
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I see it in a similar way and think about it in the following two steps. First convince the predictor that you will either choose AB or B - and he will always predict exactly this - then actually choose either AB or B, but both choices are not necessarily the same. Of the four possibilities you can safely ignore AB-B because it is worse then unproblematic AB-AB. If you want the million you have to convince the predictor that you will choose B and that means you have to either do B-B or B-AB.

But you can only perform B-AB if you manage to fool the predictor and especially you can not do B-AB in a deterministic universe without free will (let's ignore that you don't even have control over the first step in that scenario). B is definitely the right choice in the first step and then changing to AB is the best choice in the second step, but whether you can actually do this depends on your stance on free will and the like.
I mean, now you're just creating a moving target.

I think you are intent upon maintaining the paradox, whereas I was just pointing out a loophole that allows a better outcome without resolving it. Gordian knot and all.
This happens to me as well. Here is my experience and interpretation.

Before I turned ~20 years old, I was able to remember almost everything from a book, except exact numbers and foreign names. Along with getting older, I could remember less and less. However, I feel a good book has greater and greater influences on me. It makes me think more, gives me more perspective, makes me realize more how little I know and understand. I paused more often to think what I just read, instead of just browsing through the book.

This also applies to technical books. Take books on programming languages as example. When i was young, I could remember most of its syntax after finishing a book on a new language, and I could jump into writing a program using the language that could actually be compiled and run. Now, I cannot remember much about syntax, but I feel I understand more about the new language, in term of its design, internals, pros and cons, etc. When I am ready to get hands dirty, I have to keep checking manuals for syntax.
Maybe not first class, but I think Microsoft's eaten a bit of humble pie (ala IBM ~15-20 years ago when they started ramping up Linux efforts) and generally playing nice.

Who ten years ago would have imagined so much of .NET would wind up MIT licensed, not just some 'shared source' malarky, on Sourceforge's ~2015 successor?

This isn't the Microsoft of the Halloween memos anymore.
It'd be particularly ironic if Harry Dexter White nearly single handedly won the Cold War for the US while spying for the Russians.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Dexter_White

But you're right, I don't think it's completely far fetched.

On the other hand Bretton Woods probably wouldn't have had the same effect with just any global currency, the US did have a few perks (intact infrastructure, great mix of labor and capital, rising consumer class, demographic dividend, etc.)
People tend to confuse the odds of two arbitrary strings colliding with the chances of a set of strings having a collision. 32bit space is not that big, and you have to take into account the birthday problem.

If you do out the math it turns out there's a 50% chance of collision after only 77,163 hashes.

http://preshing.com/20110504/hash-collision-probabilities/
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Seems like a specialized consulting firm that gave advice on how best to craft and present your privacy policy (which as the article explains some laws stipulate conditions or items that must be presented to end users) based on jurisdictions would do very well. A lot of up-front cost in legal research which could then be amortized across multiple clients.
I am actually developing an iPhone right now with the intentions of solving this problem. Email me and I can tell you what I am building - maybe you have some ideas for features that might help: joseph.misiti@gmail.com
“why getting hit in the head wrecks brains” well that could be because the brain is… inside the head
I guess that's kind of my point. Currently there is no way to divide up a millionth of a penny. Also psychologically I'd rather have $5 than 5/1000 of one.

Also you didn't address my point that rather quickly there would be people with no money. If you did subdivide the pennies I don't see how that's any different than printing more money. It's just what side of the decimal point you want to be on.

Subdividing pennies might be more dangerous actually because presumably you could only do it by a factor of 10. Would we say that on March 31st a dollar is worth 100 pennies but on April 1st its worth 150? Or would we just add another layer of 1000 micro pennies equal one penny? At least with current inflation they can introduce new dollars as they need so inflation is controllable. In your version its not controllable because its mandated by access to the currency itself.
It helps to have something like HTTP Switchboard[1] installed on your browser, with per-domain rules. When I click the result, I get a white page since HTTPSB blocks the CSS/JS/cookies etc by default on domains that I haven't explicitly whitelisted.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/http-switchboard/m...
Thank you! We were hesitant to use QR codes because there is so much friction with its usage. But I love the augmented reality idea, using T-shirts would be a feasible way to make AR interactions work.
It's assuming you'll still experience the perception of having a choice. It predicts your actions but doesn't tell you, how would that be different from choices you're making if you actually did have free will (in both cases you say "I think I have free will" whether or not you do)?

Since you have imperfect information about yourself (this neuron talked to this neuron by these rules) you don't attribute the cause of your own behavior to anything other than "I did that".

I think the example from 1.3 is much more clarifying than the one-box vs two-box problem, there's no "predictor" involved
"But I don't think of you."
If you're looking for the in-depth technical detail of IPFS, you really want to read Juan's paper on it:

https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs/raw/master/papers/ipfs-cap2pfs/...

I've explained IPFS to friends in the past:

Imagines IPFS as running Git where all of the objects (files, directories, commits, etc) are available over a BitTorrent swarm. All files are accessed via their checksum so they have cryptographic integrity even over insecure networks. Then imagine you can mount it as a file system or browse it via HTTP, and run your own node to seed files.

Popular files will be seeded by more people, making them quicker and more reliable to access. As long as clients are still requesting a file, it will continue to be seeded even when the original publisher goes offline.

Pitching a developer product is hard. Traditional marketing advice encourages you to pitch value because the implementation details are usually not important to your customer. Developer products require a more delicate balance because ultimately we have to work with the technology and want to understand what its real limitations are.
A similar/complementary product to look at (Windows only) would be Spyware Blaster - https://www.brightfort.com/spywareblaster.html
When I earned my undergraduate degree in Physics our Modern Physics professor had us read Mr. Tompkins in Paperback by Gamow.

This was in 2006.
I don't think the Internet is doing anything good.

If you have a wide reading, you'll quickly realize that you can easily predict the positions taken by articles, by simply looking at the outlet publishing it.

No one cares for the truth, or for the middle path.
I have friends who are involved in Washington State's exploding cannabis industry. There is a lot of money flowing now, a lot of new jobs being created, an absolutely breathtaking number of new businesses forming and doing trade. Whole new organizations and power structures are forming, because people voted to make this OK.

The same thing's going to happen in Oregon, when our legalization starts rolling along.

Watching an industry move from mostly-black-market (excepting the medical marijuana scene) to exploding with life and all on the level--as one example--it makes it tough for me to accept that voting does not substantially matter.

(The other example I bring up is the Affordable Care Act. I can now buy insurance out of pocket that caps my annual expenses at around $6000. Huge improvement over the old status quo for me and other independent professionals. I'm pretty sure that, had McCain won in 2008, that we wouldn't have anything like McCainCare. Another place where voting has lead to policy that has improved structures of power and trade.)
>“Money doesn’t mean a ton,” Mr. Edelson said during an interview in the lobby of the Four Seasons hotel in San Francisco, wearing a watch whose face was loaded with diamond flecks.

Well played.
Users care, but the information asymmetry between seller and producer has never been as big as today. Most consumer do not know what they eat, what they buy, what agreement they sign, or what the things they interact daily with do.

That is a lot of unknowns, each demanding that the consumer is 100% aware or they are responsible for the result. This then leads to apathy, where we care and not care at the same time. A culture that makes people feel that they do not possess the level of skill required to confront daily life is a bad culture, creates depression, and is general bad for society at large.
Let's say a person is faced with Newcomb's Problem every day, and its decision is made public every time.

If the person has always taken B, then the Predictor will probably guess that the person will take B again, and therefore place $1,000,000 in B. By always choosing B, the person "wins".

If the person doesn't always take B, then the Predictor probably can't guess what the person will take, and B will be empty. By taking A and B, the person can only get $1,000.

The mechanism of Trust is exactly this. Whenever you're faced with a question, lying (to your advantage) will always increase the odds of a better outcome (like taking both A and B). However, that trick doesn't scale, and you can't use it anymore once a lie is discovered, once trust is lost.
Isn't the whole topic stupid?

"All ravens are black" - "Here is purple one, freshly painted."

You can rarely defend proposition that "All X are Y", because it's usually pretty easy to forge X that barely passes and is not Y.

Except for elementary particles maybe. Everything else is forgeable.
Today's ethical company that collects more information than needed but uses it responsibly is tomorrow's acquisition of choice by the less ethical mega-corp.

These are not people, which you can have at least some hope will maintain some similar level of behavior across their life, these are companies, which are only constrained by the current leadership and the law. In this respect, leadership changes far too easily for my tastes.
So if I listen to a person speak and deduce that they are Marathi without telling them I plan to do so, I should be punished?

Suppose lady has a conversation with me and deduces that I'm a man whore (happened to me a couple of weeks ago). Should she also be punished?

Or is it merely the act of making deductions with math that should be punished and prohibited? So if I use intuition and heuristics it's fine, but if I mentally apply Bayes rule I should be punished?
Well, if you need a central source to store and provide the state or content then it's not distributed anyway. The notion of developing on a distributed system is a whole different paradigm than traditional web development.

Otherwise, JS is JS no matter how its received.
Tell that to everyone who's been wrongfully sued. There's no connection between "the straight and narrow" and the law industry. When you have rooms of people brainstorming who to sue next for the most money, sanctimony isn't merited.
They ask the server to fetch this URL. The client doesn't upload it.
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I think the economy is something we can revisit every couple of years, to see, do we still like the direction it's going? Should we keep the old people in, vote for new people?

Maybe 4 years is too short a time to revisit the question. Maybe too long. I don't know if 4 years is the best length of time, but it doesn't make sense to make it too long a period of time; we've got to have a chance to change course every so often.
Ravens are defined by their species, since there are albino and leucistic ravens which are still considered ravens (and can interbreed with other ravens and produce viable offspring.)

Ornithologically, this is interesting, but other than for the definition it doesn't have any bearing on the philosophical point.
Good old fashioned bash. zfs is newer and probably better, but you use what you grew up with.
This looks very cool, but I'm wondering about abuse. I watched the video and did some followup research using Google and couldn't find anything covering how to handle abuse within IPFS. While I'm sure there will be a lot of photos of cats and wildlife videos it seems that this solution would be ripe for abuse by the seedier regions of the web. If I'm participating in IPFS how do filter for or stop illegal content from being saved and hosted by my node?
I am so happy that A Brief History of Time did not make the list. I tried to read it several times and never made it through, because he glosses over so many things, never providing sufficient reasoning.

I highly recommend The Age of Entanglement, one of the best general audience books on quantum physics! Quite a page turner!
The precise same thing as when the Bush administration was accused of "sexing up" its claims about Iraqi WMDs.
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Since you're using yourself as a data point, I paged through your comment history looking for your grayed out comments. I have to say that your grayed out comments were all well deserved. They are a very small minority of your comments, but they are comments that generally involved ad hominem attacks and/or gratuitous negativity that did not add to the discussion. I would say the downvote system has worked well in these cases.
Very misleading headline.

The article states a food budget of $1 a day. That's, well, not terribly difficult to achieve, especially for short periods of time before low levels of malnutrition start to manifest their symptoms.

I can't speak for the US, but here in the UK, you would be unable to live in a tent or van for that much. I would even go so far as to say that being homeless on $1/day equivalent (e.g. count any gifts at their market value) is impossible.

Why is this important? Because the debate about income inequality seems to often make its way towards these sort of bikeshedding arguments about how the poor spend frivolously, ignoring the fact that a cable subscription is really rather irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.
We decide how central banks work by electing a new president, hoping the current chair expires during their term, having a new chair approved, hoping the new chair has the authority to and does implement the policies we want.

How is that better and more likely to happen than allowing 51% of the network to just adopt a new protocol and cut out all the middlepeople?
Thank you so much for the link. Running bcdedit on Windows did the trick. Who knew it was possible to let Windows fix the issue it caused.

I can now finally press my power button and walk away knowing it'll boot into Ubuntu in peace.