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The answer is so obvious I find it strange that Powell is confused.

Globalization.

No one is going to pay workers here more when they know that workers are getting paid $2/hr in China or Cambodia.

"If you look at the money supply for the US it has a pretty constant growth rate over the last 8 decades"

I'm not sure how you can come to that conclusion given it is common knowledge and fairly obvious that the Fed has been inflating the economy at absurd amounts to get us out of the 2008 crash.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BASE

I never said it was. I am just pointing out that the article says Github hasn't even turned a profit yet while the OP said they were profitable.

It says in the article:

GitHub, which has been trying for nine months to find a new CEO and has yet to make a profit from its popular service that allows coders to share and collaborate on their work.

You will get rate limited more severely the more downvotes you get.

I've also run into subreddits run by very biased moderators who will mark any stories as spam they disagree or competes with their friends. And due to the shadowban system, many people never realize it.

That's why I stopped submitting comments and stories on reddit. I only browse it now.

All I can say is that not everyone's situation is the same. If you have a small forum where a few hundred people post a few dozen messages a day, it obviously won't be a big deal. There are situations where the amount of generated information is much larger than that. Webserver logs are one possible example.

It isn't an impossible problem to solve, but the GDPR is a significant time and a money burden that will especially be an issue for small startups that don't have millions in venture funding to spend on this.

The problem isn't to delete 1 piece of data 1 time. The problem is different people demanding thousand+ rows randomly spread out in your database deleted every day that is the problem.

That would make it compliant but there will still be efficiency problems.

Databases such as Cassandra are made so that updating doesn't actually delete the old data until some time later so frequent updates will degrade performance and storage. Other databases that allow for immediate overwriting the data will cause fragmentation and thus performance decline and wasted storage until you compact (basically recreating the entire database) which is not something you want to do all the time, especially on SSDs.

Marking a field sounds to me like labeling and not zeroing it out.

"you could easily not switch to a CASCADE, but instead set delete=1 and mark every sensitive field with a special value"

Merely setting a delete flag is not compliant with the GDPR, that's why a cascading delete is necessary. Any programmer worth their salt knows mass random deletes and updates are extremely inefficient.

I am sure most of them are consumers and don't run their own websites.

The GDPR is even an issue for people running simple blogs and forums. Many public software for these don't even have the features for GDPR compliance.

And tell me, how exactly does this long list show that you won't be fined a ridiculous amount? Where does it say that if you only broke X out of Y rules that you will be fined Z less?

There's absolutely NO detail on how exactly the fines will scale DOWN other than to say that the fine could be as low as 10 million euro to 2% of global turnover. And it is filled with vague, totally up to the imagination terms like "nature, gravity and duration".

Do you really want to leave this up to the imagination of poor EU countries like Croatia or Romania and think they are going to care about making some random people bankrupt so they can cash in millions?

If the law does not prevent it, you can bet it will be abused.

How many business have been fined to death in other areas? I don't know but I am sure you won't hear about them. No one wants to be the guinea pig.

This law probably has the widest and easily enforceable scope out of any others in the past. That's what makes it different from before.

Ok close enough? Forgive me for not remembering the exact wording of the GDPR and taking the first result that comes up on Google.

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-83-gdpr/

"Infringements of the following provisions shall, in accordance with paragraph 2, be subject to administrative fines up to 20 000 000 EUR, or in the case of an undertaking, up to 4 % of the total worldwide annual turnover of the preceding financial year, whichever is higher:"

Proportionate how? That's obviously up to them to decide and they probably mean that large companies like Google will be subject to the 4% instead of 20 million euro. Are you going to bet your life savings that they will fine you 4k euro instead of 1 million euro?

Why would they bother to add the phrase with "whichever is higher" if they were even going to consider a fine lower than 20 million euro? Think about it. They don't care about the fine being proportionate to the downside, they are just worried about it not being strict enough to companies like Facebook and Google.

Have you even read the GDPR?

It literally says this.

"4% of annual global turnover or €20 Million (whichever is greater)"

Why would they do 4k in fines when they can charge 20 million euro in fines?

Looks like compared to other ddos vectors it isn't that bad, because you can actually shut them down yourself unlike snmp etc...

Any unsecured memcache server will also allow anyone to shut it down remotely.

https://github.com/649/Memfixed-Mitigation-Tool

This problem will disappear in days when people notice their memcache servers randomly shutting down unlike the other ones where you are out of luck if the ISP doesn't look at their abuse inbox ever.

Yup this article confused me as well.

The current stable release 56 just can't compare to chrome.

Apparently they have decided 57 is stable already but plan to make it official tomorrow.

From my unscientific testing, 57 is only as fast as chrome, while the nightly (59) seems to be faster than chrome. They should have waited until 59 was stable.

I would be using the nightly as my main browser if I didn't have experience with crashes and bugs with nightly versions before.

I think most people don't know this, but you need to download the nightly, NOT the regular version of Firefox (56 as of now) to see the speed increase.

The regular Firefox is much slower than Chrome still. The nightly is now noticeably faster than Chrome.

Presumably the founders didn't sell all their shares.

An IPO that goes up instead of down is much more likely to attract more investment thus driving the founder's remaining shares up.

No there isn't, that's why it won't work.

There is no research to even suggest that we are going to be able to synthesize one type of matter to another arbitrary type without expending an absurd amount of energy, making it useless to do.

The idea that you could do something like that is even more outlandish than having robots that could automate everything a human could.

Because resources don't last forever? Nor are they distributed among the land equally (for example oil,rare earth elements, uranium).

If you can even automate giving things away without worrying about people hacking/stealing/vandalizing your robots, then wouldn't it also be likely for you to spend all your resources on combat robots to take resources/land from other robot owners instead of wasting them on people that aren't giving you anything you want?

Microsoft was the Facebook/Google of that time, they had the most stringent hiring requirements.

Because it still takes effort to give things away for free and as a robot owner, natural resources, land, rare skills can't be automated away.

Filling cheap/temp jobs doesn't mean demand isn't weak.

If companies were truly desperate for people they would offer higher prices or even pay to train people to their standards.

I remember in the 90s, someone telling me that tech companies (even established ones like IBM) saying they were hiring anyone with a pulse, and that they were trained on the job instead of being asked for 20 years of experience with X, Y, and Z.

If you can afford to be so picky to only hire people that can answer absurd questions like why are manhole covers round or coding a minimum spanning tree operation on a whiteboard with 0 screwups, you do not have a very large demand for people.

The problem is, the plebians would not be able to get a job to pay for the goods/services no matter how cheap they may become.

If you had robots making everything you could possibly want, why would you bother selling any of it to people who don't have any land, natural resources, or rare skills? They wouldn't have anything you want.

Ripple can hardly be called an altcoin. The currency was all premined and seems to only be used by some banks as an alternative to ACH. You need to choose which nodes to trust, which can be a small set of easily compromised nodes. So once again you are trading speed for safety. It seems more like a distributed database with the cryptocurrency slapped on it to make banks think they are getting in on new technology.

> Once many of these channels are established you can start to establish a connection. For instance if I have 12 bitcoins in my own wallet I might keep ~1 BTC locked up to a connection to coinbase.

This is old news and all you are doing is giving up decentralization to coinbase. The alternative is opening a "lightning channel" to every store which in this case does not solve the slow transaction problem.