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It has not been around for 2000 years, more like 1200 years in common use in parts of the world.

I almost always have noise cancelling headphones and my colleagues ping me on Slack, "got a minute?" and when I'm ready (often instantly, sometimes not) I roll over to their desk. Decent compromise.

> Air conditioners can contribute to heat waves by blowing hot air out into the city. Never heard of this before, quite interesting.

Regarding Civilization or savagery, which is this: Then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright calmly asserting that U.S. policy objectives were worth the sacrifice of half a million Iraqi children:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RM0uvgHKZe8#

I live in a house and each bin is emptied bi-weekly by a regular garbage truck. The two front-most compartments are actually not fixed to the bin, so the bin is lifted up, the front-most part is lifted and emptied (in a vertically split compartment), then the rest in another. (I used to watch this with the kids a lot...)

Apartments often have a similar setup but with one large bin per category in the basement. There is also another system where you are supplied with color coded garbage bags for each type of waste that you then throw in the same bin.

> Additionally Sweden is tiny. Trash there is brought to local recycling centers with 6 to 8 or more different bins

Actually a lot of homes now have these bins: http://blogg.tyrens.se/avfallsblogg/files/2017/10/Fyrfackska...

Recycling is simply made very convienient. I never transport my trash more than 5 meters. There's even a box for light bulbs and batteries.

GP is talking about humans who left later but arrived earlier.

Resolving conflicts between third party typings from DefinitelyTyped has cost me a lot of time over the last couple of years. The typings we use are maturing a bit, but at one point someone merged a completely unnecessary refactoring of the React types that caused compatibility problems for months until all other dependencies were upgraded.

Using yarn.lock means it never breaks unless we specifically choose to upgrade though, so it's still worth the increased productivity and safeness from TypeScript, which is awesome as a language especially combined with VS Code.

> Ask most Web developers about the biggest pain point in Web applications today, and they will likely tell you that Web UI is their biggest time sink.

I would say this is equally true for most native app developers.

Which type of cryptography investments do you think readers will confuse this with?

People are looking to solve some of those issues with other currencies. Not sure if any of the current iterations are good enough, but one example is Nano https://nano.org/en/faq

> With Bitcoin, for the first time in history it’s possible for anyone with an internet connection to quickly and securely send any amount of money to anyone else, anywhere in the world (or even Mars!), for low or zero fees.

> And this isn’t just theoretical. It happens every day on the Bitcoin network.

I'm not 100% convinced about a wide spread adoption of decentralized cryptocurrencies, but if it is to happen it will be a coin with low or zero fees. What OP is not honest about is that there are no transactions on the Bitcoin network with low or zero fees.

It's not true that Scandinavian countries are homogeneous. 30% in Sweden are either born abroad or have at least 1 parent born abroad. Even more obviously have some non-Swedish cultural background or influence.

With PoW you use your money to buy mining equipment and you will get more money, and voting power. With PoS you buy more of the currency with that money instead.

Promote the view that you do not deserve to get instantly killed just because you are a criminal, even if you are violent. Because many people believe this is fine, they seem to accept "mistakes" where a non-criminal is killed as collateral damage. But neither is reasonable in a civilized society.

I switched from Linux (KDE) to Mac about 5 years ago, with some attempts to switch back.

I recently got a laptop with Windows for some gaming for the kids, and I feel Windows is actually less polished than Linux with KDE. Restarts, weird issues with multiple users, sudden switches between Modern UI and something that looks the same as the Windows 2000 I last used.

I really wonder when Windows will be usable enough for home users...

https://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMarkets is slightly less terrible, but doesn't go in much on technical details

I respect that everyone does not want it in their browser, but you could also say that about developer tools, screenshots, even bookmarks are not "core browsing". By this point Pocket is just another feature, fully owned and developed by Mozilla.

It would be an interesting experiment to extend Vinmonopolet since the infrastructure and culture (restricted opening hours, no advertisements, etc - at least that's how it works in Sweden) around it already exists. This would be different to other countries where you probably would have to trust for-profit actors to handle it well, or implement a monopoly from scratch.

What's wrong with Pocket?

I found it notable not because of the Bitcoin transactions themselves, but because of the implications and possible effects of news like this.

You could consider it a crime to help facilitate actions that can be a danger to the society and individuals, like others have explained elsewhere in comments. This would be similar to unregulated lotteries, ponzi schemes, smoking bans, etc.

I definitely don't agree about criminalisation of cryptocurrencies (which also didn't happen), but there are valid points that are not only about stealing wealth.

It's really cool that many torrents that are over 10 years old are still seeded.

I don't think law makers ever expect a law to stop a criminal behaviour. Making it more difficult (remove apps, shut down web sites) is likely to have some impact though.

Maybe in the distant future, but currently USD is the USD of Bitcoin

It's not very good as a medium of exchange due to the high transaction time and costs.

There is a theory that a recent bump in Litecoin prices was due to traders wanting to move Bitcoin between exchanges and Bitcoin is too slow.

al-Qaida is also present in Syria in the form of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, previously Nusra Front. They have Afghan veterans in their ranks, but do not have the same level of sofistication and standardization as the Islamic State.

It's not obvious exactly why the IS is different, but I doubt it has anything to do with American influence. Other rebel groups in the Syrian civil war has had direct American training but they were highly undisciplined and ineffective.

For a more detailed story on how they ran their manufacturing, regarding armored vehicles in particular, there is a fascinating story about The Workshop

> The facility would perform a wide variety of overhauls and upgrades on nearly all types of armoured fighting vehicles in use with the Islamic State, ranging everything from installing multi-spectral camouflage on tanks to the up-armouring of AFVs and even constructing modular turrets for installation on four-wheel drive vehicles such as the Toyota Land Cruiser.

http://spioenkop.blogspot.se/2017/08/armour-in-islamic-state...

That blog has several really interesting articles about DIY armour and fighting vehicles.

This will help if you don't want to run a monorepo, but many in the industry consider a monorepo suitable for their organisation. The biggest blocker with Gitlab in my opinion is not being able to only run a job if some specific folder was modified (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/19232).

> The government has no power to prop up the value of the USD if the world decides it's worthless.

The US government has plenty of military power that it can and does use for this exact reason.