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You are very much mistaken on that one. Those consensus meetings can not decide anything against the will of the users. In fact bitcoin core would hard fork bitcoin if miners agreed to mine too big blocks and nobody could dictate the users of either of the chains to switch to the other. The user is in full control which type of bitcoin he wants to use but as such forks cause insecurity in the market, consensus meetings are held, to gauge the overall potential for consensus on the available options going forward. The most recent changes like CSV are only activated if 95% of miners want them, which would not stop the other 5% from going on without that. And you can be damn sure about seriously controversial changes triggering a 5% fork if need be.

those were aquisitions by Google. Now a list of Microsoft:

Isn't it beautiful how OpenSource is the joker card of the underdogs? Google played it with Android against Apple, too.

In 2007 I did my diploma work based on AMD GPU cause it was better. In 2011/12 AMD was the standard for Bitcoin mining, yielding twice the performance than NVIDIA. Now, buying my laptop I ended buying NVIDIA. What happened to AMD?

As a tech fan, an on-off switch is too simple. I want to be able to adjust the brightness and "color" like the volume of my stereo. I never put my stereo to 100% because we figured out long ago how to do affordable loud speakers that are uncomfortably loud. Why haven't we figured out how to do affordable lights that can be tuned to uncomfortably bright? I want Caribbean beach bright as my 100%, with an "equalizer", to tune the heat/reading comfort/UV/color to my liking.

To me it feels like any advance in light bulbs is only on the lumen/watt scale. How long until we have a one million lumen broad spectrum LED configuration that doesn't cost a fortune?

Yeah, like 15 years ago I was on a legal seminary about how to deal with private messages at work. It's difficult. If you allow your employees to use certain means of communication for private messages, you bar yourself from reading them. If you prohibit private messages on that channel though, you have to enforce that.

As an example you could give employees 2 accounts on the company's email servers: [email protected] and [email protected]. If now [email protected] sent to [email protected] "lets grab a beer after work. Also check this link below. I guess it fixes the problem we had all week with our servers", as an employer you would have to warn and ultimately fire him over such transgressions of the rule to split private from work. The problem is that you are not allowed to read his private correspondence (grepping the backup for business problems like "where was that link again?") but you are allowed to do all this with his business mail. Not enforcing a split leads to the company legally loosing all access to all the correspondence.

Heart-warming story but too much praise for the government for my taste.

What are the opportunity costs of not shutting down this platform years ago? And of getting the train delayed by 40s twice a day for who knows how many passengers plus some minor costs like acceleration, meetings to change the schedule etc. Considering all this it would almost certainly be cheaper to provide her with a taxi at the train cost, maybe only to the next train stop. Maybe given the choice of getting a taxi twice a day or getting the compensation in cash, the girl would even have taken the money and moved closer to school.

For all the GPL-hate in this thread: GPL protects this specific implementation and not the algorithm. Even if the authors released this under GPL, this would only be a minor nuisance to getting this unicorn into all kind of products via re-implementations of the same protocol.

As long as you don't directly work with FLIF, cause tools don't support it, having the file browser's preview-feature work using FLIF would be awesome. This way it doesn't need to store n previews for the supported preview resolutions but could store just a flif of the max preview size per document (psd, jpg, png, svg, pdf) and then, when you seek 3 pages down, the system reads the first kB of each such preview to render it and reads the next kB to improve the images, etc.

Sure, for actual flif files you would not have a separate preview file.

Also no more .thumbnails folders

I imagine images appearing as fast as I can scroll, with enough visual clue to them to find images way way more quickly than with thumbnails today. As a start, thumbnails could use flif.

Apparently the brain-washing works well.

Interesting. How long between last and first meal?

(Apart from the individual case not being representative.)

I guess it's trivial what you say about calorie deficit but the trick is how to not devour that tasty something that you know is there in your fridge when your plan to eat less for a few seconds is only your second priority.

Humans get hungry after 4h of not eating with exception of when we sleep. So less sleep results in more craving for food but eating a ton, minutes after waking up results in hunger 4h later.

I wake up … with an appetite but usually don't crave for food for some hours, so that's a good chance to if not skip then at least delay a meal, so hopefully that day you go to bed with just two meals.

The opposite worst thing you can do is to stay up just a little longer to eat on your way to bed.

Oh, mercurial was my old love but due to peer pressure I'm now a git user. Always liked hg better and so happy to hear it's still vibrant :)

Lol. Funny to read you are in my situation 3 years back. Had joined a team where I did not at all trust that one guy but the others were ok. They asked me to join on an equal share basis and asked me to lead the dev team in Chile and relocate from Germany for that. That one guy came over for just the first month. I was not a beneficiary of the incubator and after a month in Chile, we had to found a company and that company was to be owned by only two of the four founders, with "that guy" putting himself at 50%. I brought up the topic in a skype meeting with 15 supporters and at the time I had figured that mentioning that I signed up for 25% of the cake might get people angry and "that guy" yelled at me he would fly down to Chile and kick my butt … anyway, long story short, I took my hat and our Chilean founding partner made sure I got my 90% reembursement of the reembursable money I had put in, and 100% of what I paid to our developers to make them good for what "that guy" and the other German partner didn't pay.

At the time, I was super stressed and worried and tried to document everything in case it will be of relevance later on.

Yeah, that was three years ago and I'm forever thankful for our Chilean partner that took a great financial hit later on when the startup finally went down but that I only heard second hand …

Anyway, I'm still in Chile and like it here.

Not all startups will be the next Facebook. Being in an incubator is not only a job. Make up your mind. Don't sign stuff against your interest.