Can you recommend and (1) books and (2) online lectures/courses on proofs which use Coq? Thanks!
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> In employment law, constructive dismissal, also called constructive discharge or constructive termination, occurs when an employee resigns as a result of the employer creating a hostile work environment. Since the resignation was not truly voluntary, it is in effect a termination.
First, copying Chrome's UI.
Second, forcing Brendan Eich out.
These days Mozilla comes across as a bunch of whiners and activists rather than a technology company. Maybe Rust will be successful but I don't want to be part of an ecosystem where straight talking and free thought is banned. Do you want to submit a pull request and be told not to use gendered pronouns or avoid using certain words because it makes people feel unsafe? That's the kind of world Mozilla occupies.
>Cecil's apparently illegal death is tragic, but many people have asked us if any good can come of it...
People have asked if they can support our work through donations – the answer is yes, urgently, and we rely entirely on philanthropy. Donations could support the purchase of more satellite tracking collars, support of our field vehicles and field staff, also, very importantly; we train wonderful young Zimbabwean conservationists, bringing some of them to Oxford on scholarships for world-class training in conservation.
It costs us approximately £150,000 pa to maintain the lion project at its current level of excellence, and in reality we need to expand it, to study and conserve lions over the entire landscape that spans western Zimbabwe, Botswana and Zambia. We can do this only if we secure funds. To give you an idea, each satellite collar costs about £1,500, with an annual fee to download the hourly locations from the satellite of £500. We need £20,000 pa to keep our anti-poaching team in the field, cutting illegal snare wires. To bring a Zimbabwean student to study conservation in Oxford on our world-renowned Diploma course costs £15,000. We need four wheel-drive vehicles, tyres for them, fuel to run them – so no donation is too small to be helpful.
> The number of applications from undocumented immigrants ballooned to 687,000 as of June, and immigrants in California illegally have outpaced other recipients. Of the 759,000 total licenses the DMV has issued, 397,000 – or 52 percent – have gone to the undocumented. More than 1.1 million undocumented immigrants have taken the written test, and another 436,000 have taken the driving test.
For now.
A block size stuck at 1MB as transaction volume grows will result in a fee market, eventually making Bitcoin impractical/not so competitive for daily use as P2P cash...
...resulting in transactions being pushed off-chain onto centralised and regulated payment hubs (lightning, sidechains) which will most likely turn out to be just as "evil" as PayPal.
> "mining data on their health, home loans, credit cards, places of work, neighborhoods, even how their kids are disciplined in school — all to document “inequalities” between minorities and whites.
... to make “disparate impact” cases against: banks that don’t make enough prime loans to minorities; schools that suspend too many blacks; cities that don’t offer enough Section 8 and other low-income housing for minorities; and employers who turn down African-Americans for jobs due to criminal backgrounds.
...Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing database, which the Department of Housing and Urban Development rolled out earlier this month to racially balance the nation, ZIP code by ZIP code. It will map every US neighborhood by four racial groups — white, Asian, black or African-American, and Hispanic/Latino — and publish “geospatial data” pinpointing racial imbalances.
The agency proposes using nonwhite populations of 50% or higher as the threshold for classifying segregated areas.
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HUD plans to drill down to an even more granular level, detailing the proximity of black residents to transportation sites, good schools, parks and even supermarkets. If the agency’s social engineers rule the distance between blacks and these suburban “amenities” is too far, municipalities must find ways to close the gap or forfeit federal grant money and face possible lawsuits for housing discrimination.
Civil-rights groups will have access to the agency’s sophisticated mapping software, and will participate in city plans to re-engineer neighborhoods under new community outreach requirements."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/a-note-about-our-coverag...?
Only fair to hear it straight from the horse's mouth:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/04/16/t...
This is clearly nonsense, otherwise there wouldn't have been a grassroots campaign to remove Ellen Pao from her role.
If Sam Altman honestly believes that Ellen did a "phenomenal" job, he should reconsider his own position at YCombinator.
But DigitalOcean is a US company... why not choose a local Dutch provider?
10 years later we keep getting told not to write software for the huge Android market because iPhone owners buy apps unlike those cheap Android users.
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- Did you accept payment from companies to lobby for 20MB blocks?
Oh please. Conspiracy theories, now, Adam? My position has been consistent for years. I don't care whether the figure is 20 or something else (looks like it'll be lucky 8 instead), but I have always been clear that the limit must rise.
But for the avoidance of doubt: the answer is no.
Gavin is paid by MIT. The MIT deal gives Gavin complete independence.
I am currently self employed and most of income comes from a client that is actually interested in Lighthouse. Luckily they have given me some leeway to do general Bitcoin development as well, which this business falls under. I would much rather be working on Lighthouse than this, and so would they.
But seeing as you've gone there - let me flip this around. Blockstream has a very serious conflict of interest in this situation. I am by no means the first to observe this. You are building two major products:
1. Sidechains, a very complex approach to avoid changing the Bitcoin
consensus rules to add new features.
2. Lightning, a so-called "layer two" system for transaction routing
The problem is that rather than letting the market decide between ordinary Bitcoin and Lightning, you are attempting to strangle the regular Bitcoin protocol because you don't trust people to spontaneously realise that they should be using your companies products.
I know that many of you guys had these views before joining Blockstream. I am not saying you are being paid to have views you didn't previously have. I realise that birds of a feather flock together.
Regardless, that conflict of interest DOES exist, whether you like it or not, because if you succeed in running Bitcoin out of capacity your own company stands to benefit from selling consulting and services around your preferred solutions.
With respect to user rights: all the polling done so far suggests users who are paying attention strongly support increasing the block size. For example:
Q: "Should the bitcoin block size be raised in the next two years" A: 92% yes
http://www.eater.com/2015/4/20/8456861/tartine-bakery-merger...
"San Francisco's beloved Tartine Bakery, which was founded in 2002 by baker Chad Robertson and pastry chef Elisabeth Prueitt, has merged with Blue Bottle Coffee, the Bay Area-based roaster and retailer. ... The news comes just over one year after Blue Bottle Coffee — which was also founded in 2002 — raised more than $25 million in investment funding. In 2012, the coffee company raised $20 million to focus on expansion."
http://recode.net/2014/01/29/blue-bottle-coffee-gets-caffein...
"Blue Bottle Coffee, the specialty roaster that has become a favorite of hipster techies in the San Francisco area, has raised $25.75 million from a range of high-profile Internet players and also Morgan Stanley Investment Management.
Blue Bottle said it will use the funding to “expand retail operations, improve internal training programs and further develop its quality control department.”
This is Blue Bottle’s second round of funding, having previously raised just under $20 million in late 2012 from a range of high-profile entrepreneurs and VCs. Those include Google Ventures, Index Ventures and True Ventures, as well as Instagram’s Kevin Systrom, Twitter and Medium co-founder Evan Williams, investor Chris Sacca and skateboarding star Tony Hawk."
Connectivity (existing) - WiFi, power outlets at every seat
Platform - Android fork in partnership with Panasonic
Storage - SSD
Video - full capacitive touch monitor with 720p resolution
Audio - "Dysonics is encoding Red’s content in order to create a 3D sound experience over headphones"
I'm sure Apple employees use Google.com to search the internet every single day, which creates revenue for Google...
Or are services from Google.com banned on the Apple campus? Does anybody know if this happens?
Apple continues to refuse acknowledgment of the existence of a heterogeneous computing environment. Many people who do not have access to an Apple computer will not be able to watch the stream. Contrast with Google who stream their keynote on YouTube. So rather than being inclusive, the company is being exclusive.
Yet Tim Cook, with regards to diversity of employees, believes "It's the future of our company... I think the most diverse group will produce the best product, I firmly believe that."[1]
Does Tim Cook not see the irony of his posturing? How can he produce the best products if he and his employees are hired to reject the reality of the technology world around them and enforce isolation rather than encourage interoperability?
[1] http://mashable.com/2015/06/08/tim-cook-apple-diversity-wome...