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When you say bitcoin-based, are you implying a pseudo-anonymous, black market? To avoid all existing laws and regulations it'd have to be, right?

One problem that immediately comes to mind with such a market is insider trading - how do you prevent that?
Which is exactly the point Zizek was making. You (in the guise of a so-called technocrat) say that your position is not ideological -- "contracts must be adhered to" according to you -- "while the EU technocrats talk as if it is all a matter of detailed regulatory measures" according to the article. Notice a similarity?

So, no. Contracts do not have to be -- and indeed, frequently -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_default#List_of_sove...
are not adhered to.

You wish poverty on millions? You wish social unrest? You wish the perpetuation of an unjust financial state of affairs then.

I've said this until I'm blue in the face, the €zone as it exists cannot function without fiscal transfers. That requires _political_ redress. Until that happens sovereign states within the €zone are not playing on a level playing field. Each state gave up a lever of power (sovereign currency) to join the club and a similar virtual lever must be established in return (fiscal transfers). Within the USA there are fiscal transfers. Between regions in sovereign states (Germany, UK, Spain, etc.) there are. The €zone has got to have them.

But nooo - "Pacta sunt servanda". That simple is it? Give me a break.
...or red hair, or blue eyes, which spread simply because they were so darn cute. They're only like 12,000 years old!
When I was younger, I was really worried about learning how to imagine, specifically in regards to music. So many musicians seemed to have started out at ridiculously young ages, and despite the fact that I had been plunking away at piano lessons for many years, I still couldn't hear any original music in my head. Then, when I got to college, I decided to do a side-major in music, just for fun. As I was doing my listening exercises (hours of analytical listening) and diving into the depths of music theory, I started noticing something in my head opening up. I could hear snippets of music... recombined from others I had heard recently, perhaps, but with definite original streaks to them. I was not actively playing an instrument at the time. I was not even composing. All I was doing was building a solid musical foundation. And just like that, after a couple of "aha!" moments, music was no longer a formless mist. It had structure. It had rules (that you could elect to break). Now that I could see the walls of my room, I could finally start to build on my own.

Anyway, my hunch (and reading between the lines of the article) is that something similar happens with art. Once you learn to intuitively visualize shapes in three dimensions, and once you develop a large mental "reference library" of architecture/landscape/characters/etc., you'll be able to create imaginitive new worlds without much effort. But without having that foundation, you're still stumbling around in the dark.
I'd say the comment was less inflammatory than perhaps justified.
Maybe not pure Python, but one of the best features of CPython is easy interoperability with C or Fortran. Python is the glue for hard-to-use but blazing fast numerical libraries. You can also write very fast code in Cython, which has basically the same syntax as Python.
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Pssh. Next you'll say drone strikes are somehow morally problematic because you can end lives by clicking a button to make dots go away.

/s
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Wikipedia gives $16,138 vs $18,863 and $29,209 vs $26,773 PPP estimated for 2015, so Slovakia is actually a bit better off.
Short sellers historically get a bad rap. If the price of something is crashing, anyone reaping profits from the calamity will make a good scapegoat. It's simple to argue that short selling might amplify market fluctuation.

It takes time and financial sophistication to understand that short-selling can be a healthy thing.
>> Oddly, the NRA seems more even more opposed to licensing than they are on restricting magazine capacity.

That's probably because licensing creates a list of who has them. They're afraid such a list will make it easy to take them away at a later date.

BTW, I kind of regret bringing up such a hot topic as an example rather than thinking harder for examples. Now I recall the attempt by media companies to get DRM into every A2D converter to plug the "analog hole" - that's technically impossible and it never went anywhere, but it's another example of the thinking.
Much riskier proposition because you have no idea of the timeframe of WHEN their positions will be divested. Your margin might get called before it happens and you lose or lose alot. With the long position buying the stock prior to its entry to the index you have a much more reliable indicator that you'll make profit.

Honestly the simplest thing to do is just monitor the big houses and whatever they do en masse do the same. Most giant purchases have to be announced and 10M shares aren't just bought on a whim.
Third party native modules are exactly the issue. Many database drivers (etc) are wrappers around native libraries that do not integrate with gevent; the ease of integration with native code is generally one of Python's great strengths. To use gevent you must pay a lot more attention to implementation details of libraries you rely on.
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Greece has tax incomes of what, $100bn a year? Why do you say they cannot repay their debts? I don't know the numbers, but I guess it is less then $10bn per year they have to pay.
> The M16, which the AR-15 is based on

Actually it's the other way 'round - the AR-15 came first; the M16 is based on it. Also, detachable magazines are often cited as another requirement for classifying a rifle as an assault rifle.
I totally agree with you, but I think the rest of Europe is looking for a quick fix that doesn't exist. The problem has accumulated over generations and we should be taking an approach that is designed to work out over a similar timescale, like the restructuring of German war debt in 1953 (in contrast to the self-defeating hard-line approach on WW1 reparations following the Treaty of Versailles).

only sane option seems an orderly default + Grexit. Sure, you'll likely have 6 months of crisis and a loss of confidence in the EU, but it's not going to be the end of the World...

I honestly think it would be the end of the European project within 1-2 decades. I am no Eurosceptic - on the contrary I've always felt very proud to be an EU citizen and been a supporter of full-on political political union and a fully federal Europe. If you'll forgive me quoting myself from another thread, I think a Grexit is like trying to deal with the pain of a hangover by amputating one's own head. Greece is the cradle of western civilization - philosophically, linguistically an in many other respects.

The political payload of a Grexit would be a tacit admission that capitalist/mercantilist considerations trump those of citizenship or political identity. I agree completely that we can't solve the problem by just writing off debt, as we'd be back in the same place in a few years. But nor can we solve it by opting for Grexit + drachma + devaluation, ie throwing up our hands at the fiscal problem and switching to monetarist tricks instead.

The EU has to stand for something deeper than a set of accounting principles, or it can't stand at all.
It's going to be hard to get used to having the function body 'less' indented than `def`.
For a JVM heap size greater than 32GB you should be using G1GC.

Tuning GC for Spark:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drmJDISLkf4

In the Big Data space we have dozens of machines all with very large stack sizes (I run mine with 250GB) and don't run into any major stop the world pauses.
> inefficient solution as a technical triumph

They were able to solve their problem in a single process balanced over 4 boxes without ever having to hire someone like you, despite your expertise.

Could they have increased throughput? Absolutely. It would have involved a different architecture with more complexity & time, and it also would have relied on skills beyond what was immediately available. I'm guessing their line count is around ~200 for the core functionality.

Can you share some actual technical points where they made an error? I would really like to see you demonstrate expertise beyond these uninspiring generalities.
Fair point. However, how do we know if that's better or not? Perhaps it's better for those who remain rational during a crisis to accumulate more wealth by enabling them to place bets opposite the stampede. When the next crisis happens, they'll own a greater percentage of the market, and will act to correct irrational behavior. By placing limitations on short selling, we are helping the irrational people at the expense of rational insightful people.

I dislike the idea of these market closures or limitations on short selling because it essentially implies that people can't be responsible for themselves and their own decisions. People have agency and can decide what's best for them. If that's following a herd or opposing the herd, so be it. Perhaps the world would be better off if our systems were designed to more fully embrace meritocracy, moral hazard, and responsibility for one's self.

My experience tells me that giving people more responsibility tends to help them grow: they make their own decisions and learn from them. Taking away that responsibility minimizes risk in the short term, but also minimizes growth and upside in the long term. Maybe this is true at a larger scale in our markets as well. Obviously it's hard to know for sure one way or another.
The world is connected beyond the point where it can function without China, the rest of the developed world is solidly hooked.
You don't suppose they have clients who would like to get in on a new speculative currency product from the ground floor?
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> some other kind of financial instrument that represents the right to the upside or downside

congrats. you have a few years of reading to do about how the world works before suggesting alternatives.
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0465/#choice-of-operator
I have also done it. None of the things you mentioned predict success. In fact, very little aside from basic hygiene is likely to predict success, which is what renders these purportedly meritocratic hiring processes so out of touch with reality.
There is complete consensus among economists that short selling constraints are a bad idea. The effect is simply to artificially inflate prices. Typically they're used as a political tool in situations where inflating prices is the whole point.

The Greek stock exchange is a different deal. The banks are closed, without a payments system I don't see how a stock market could operate.

As for the contracts you describe, they already exist in various forms (though not denominated in bitcoin): there are single-stock futures and CFDs, but the former are completely illiquid and the latter aren't a market of their own but usually a pass-through mechanism for regulatory arbitrage.
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So this would be a good way to prevent sea ice from melting? Just drop wood fiber into the artic ocean(near gjoa haven) sometime in late september, and then continue dropping wood fiber until february moving out in the direction of the aleutian islands.
> but reality gets a veto.

Are the Chinese working as hard as American workers? Are they productive people that produce a lot of economic output? If the answer is yes, then there is nothing reality can do for you.
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No, I completely understand that people aggressively generalize, and form opinions that support their own beliefs.

I will always challenge people to think hard about their own generalizations, just like I challenge myself.

If you are OK with calling people whores based on a contrived set of rules that you find important, that's your decision.
A whole bunch of them.

I am seeing a psychiatrist tomorrow; I am hoping he will refer me to a neurologist who will order an MRI. I suspect I have a brain tumour however I have had several CT scans that turn up negative. They don't want to give me any more CT scans because of the X-ray dosage but MRIs don't have that problem.

I had surgery for obstructive sleep apnea in 2008; it worked really well. I was lucky, it has a high failure rate. Since then I can comfortably breathe through my nose, before that - for my entire life - I could not.

Turbinate cautery feels just like having a hot soldering iron shoved way up your nose.

I am also mentally ill. Some people think my mental illness is the result of sleep deprivation however there are numerous other contributing factors. When I was diagnosed with Bipolar-Type Schizoaffective Disorder in 1985 the doctors were concerned my symptoms were the result of a brain tumour so they gave me an EEG, CAT scan and neurological tests.

I wanted to be a chemist at first, I was heavily into it. My parents encouraged it as Dad was once a chemist and my mother's father was a surgeon. Unfortunately Mom gave me a bottle of mercury. It is powerfully toxic but only when metabolized in certain ways; the actual liquid is mostly harmless.

But I spilled it on the carpet. I recovered most of it with an eyedropper however I spilled it several times - it's quite cool to hold it in the palm of your hand - so quite a lot of it got in the carpet.

Childhood mercury vapor inhalation poisoning might not kill you but it will screw you up in spectacular ways. Among other things my hairline is visibly receding in photographs starting from when I was fourteen years old. I was completely bald at 21.
> Those of African heritage commonly have Sickle Cell Anemia. While it is a crippling illness it gives one resistance to malaria; in much of Africa that enables one to live longer than those with healthy blood cells.

That's not quite right. Being heterozygous for the sickle-cell trait produces reduced symptoms from malaria (but not immunity), while being homozygous for the trait produces sickle cell disease and and, consequently, greater vulnerability to malaria (since malarial infection, in addition to its other effects, frequently produces sickle cell crises in persons with sickle cell disease.)
Without an alarm, I tend to sleep 4 hours a day. But this is provided I dont exercise. If I go to workout at a gym / Martial arts, I find I have to sleep 7 hours. But both these cases, I do not need an alarm to wake me up. I wake up about 5 minutes before the alarm is going to ring and Stretch in my bed. When the alarm goes I jump off the bed. I actually feel more energized when I sleep for just 4 hours. But I need a 20m nap in the afternoon if this is the case. My schedule is

(without exercise) - 10:30 PM to 2:30 AM
(with exercise) - 11 PM to 6 AM.

I would love to study more about the effects of sleep and how we can control it.
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Oops, I meant to say "It's even more distasteful if the one who has EDITED the question has also posted an answer."
We tried to make it with simulated Martian regolith at MDRS, but no go.
What does ETL mean in this context?
Do Continuous Views work with table-table joins, or must there always be at least one stream present? The documentation[1] doesn't specify.

If so, this could be an interesting alternative to RethinkDB's changefeeds, as RethinkDB doesn't support joins on the change stream.

[1] http://docs.pipelinedb.com/joins.html
I dunno, this is actually very reminiscent to me of how neurons (putatively) store information in their firing rates--at least in the short-term--before consolidating state into their synaptic weights.
He didn't actually mention oil. It was only the following (at 3:26 in the video):

- Fresh water

- Fisheries

- Forests

- Top soil

Top soil is certainly one I rarely hear mentioned. Beyond that the other three though banal are the most important so what else is he supposed to say?

There's a lot of news and Elon Musk / Solar is doing very well at trying to get people to move off oil. But I don't hear of anyone near the same scale doing things to to solve the Fisheries / Forests / Water problems.
It's great that the tools and services the article mentions are out there but I think the author misses the wide gulf there is between limits of what can be done in a garage or shared lab and the resources, time and capital to do things like synthetic biology and drug discovery.

It would be interesting to see where the DIY biotech movement could apply the biotech research tools and methods to where people are already doing home "biohacking". Could home brewers and fermenters gain insight into what's going on inside their jars? Maybe small scale farmers would be interested in quantifying the bacteria in their soil. Larger brewers are already using PCR to check for spoilers in their beer, could this be turned in to BaaS (Biology as a Service) and expanded, or trickled down to the home brewer?
This version of the document is different — arguably better —, it has links.
It's quite possible to be a prestigious bad scientist. Small-s science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.

I'd mostly pick Diamond over his critics, FWIW, but I'm pretty ignorant myself.
It's not an entirely serious position.
Happy to answer any questions about the process of writing a book! It's been a surprisingly fun side-project that brings in some money too.
Wow, this is excellent. The Oberon and Bluebottle OS materials have always been quite scattered, so someone putting them in a central index is quite convenient.

For those unaware, Oberon's main qualities are the fact that it's a full operating system written in a garbage collected Pascal-like language (actually made by the same person who initially wrote Pascal) which uses said language's module system to provide reusable/chainable interfaces throughout the whole OS, support for orthogonal persistence and most notably, its highly unconventional user interface that bridges the power of the CLI and the GUI together in this vaguely hypertext-like workspace where you can dynamically live program the UI itself through on-screen text that can serve as an entry point or continuation to perform all sorts of computations, things you'd normally write hacky scripts for. Closest analogue is Xerox's Cedar.

You should consider trying it and stealing a few ideas from it for the greater good.
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It really depends on the grogginess factor.

There have been times in my life where I was able to get about 14 hours of sleep a day. It would still take me a couple of hours to mentally 'spin-up' but once my brain was in gear the focus and acuity were amazingly productive!

There have been other times in my life when I've been forced to live on less than 5 hours a night and I was a complete zombie almost every 'waking' minute.

So, I'm with BillTheCat, I'd love to be able to sleep less but maintain the higher productivity level, that I can currently only get with many hours of sleep.
The NSA is also heavily engaged in industrial espionage.

What Angela Merkel has to say may be irrelevant, but having insights into trade deals before they are signed certainly isn't.
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A recent study found that those with blue eyes are predisposed to alcoholism. Doubtlessly that will lead to employment discrimination against those with brown eyes, as management types like to party.

I once read that every human society that had agriculture also had beer. We have had agriculture for roughly 12,000 years.
It's people who are either too stupid to know better or people that consistently feel they are smarter than everybody else, in either case they'll have a sense of entitlement.
if you are interested you should have a look at www.fullpliant.org also
Are you saying China is too big to fail?
N.B. The principle of TANSTAAFL in an evolutionary “pre-modern context” seems to pair well with the more recent theory of WGYHWGYT as a framework/mental model for modern dilemmas.

TANSTAAFL: “There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.”

WGYHWGYT: “What got you here won't get you there.”
Don't throw the idea of money under the bus. Money in itself is not the root of the problem. Money is a tool, an instrument -- let's keep that perspective clear in our minds. We can innovate in the money space (crypto-currencies, blockchains, and all that) if we want better solutions.

Somebody posted a G.K.Chesterton quote on this site a mere 6 hours ago that is apropos: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9845506
[But donkeys, I fear, will never be abolished.]

Look to how money is misused abused and try to figure out how we can remedy those situations. Much better :)
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Thanks for this summary, I've been struggling for the last few minutes to try and figure out what the hell Oberon was. That sounds awesome!!
Not only -fstack-check protects from this exploit, also
the new clang -fcpi checker in levee https://github.com/cpi-llvm and of course the old -fsanitize=address.

-fcps does not catch it.

I haven't checked -fsanitize=safe-stack yet, as my old levee build didn't offer that.
Somebody who makes a few hundred thousand people think differently about history is a great scientist.
If only it supported NLA...
No, I'm saying that if China fails we will definitely feel that in ways we probably can not even imagine. China is big enough to fail without us being able to bail them out.
Where did this come from ?

They DID do a crappy job at concurrency and it's fair enough to admit it. It's not personal sometimes it takes a few iterations to get to the right solution.
'Masculinism' has corrected almost all wrongs since time immemorial.
It has caused many of the too.
Maybe this is obvious, but what would be the difference between the new async / await def and the current @asyncio_coroutine decorator?

Or between the new async / await and the current asyncio?
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It's not going away anytime soon, unfortunately.

I get bothered by it regularly. I don't mind HN talking about it, because the people here are a bit different than the average joe, but...Over the last 3-4 years, i've been approached by three or four different filmmakers, some with fairly serious pedigrees, who were looking to adapt the AMA into a screenplay or documentary. I don't think its right to do that, for a variety of reasons, so I've politely declined. I did one podcast a few years ago that lasted like 3 hours, and just declined another podcast (Reddit's "Upvoted" series) a week or so ago.

Part of why I'm not too hot on talking about the whole Headroom thing is that invariably, people end up accusing me of being Max. Bleh. The guy who did the Vice/Motherboard article at one point even threatened to do as much. Didn't speak with him for months after that little stunt.
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