Caleb James DeLisle @cjd@mastodon.social

`#define !== !=`

Great solution for people who are used to writing javascript and then come back to C/C++

Madafoo's excellent work is here: https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns/pull/1168

Happy pull-day in #cjdns land, new UDP interface with auto-peering based on UDP broadcast thanks to madafoo, patches to libuv, make sure to rebuild fully. Will probably get some breaking changes before releasing to master...

PV economics went from being a joke 20 years ago to really good now. Consensus in the oil trading community is that the gig is up, PV/EV will replace them (so they frantically pump as much as they can while the price is still high). Green energy tech tariffs supposedly directed at protecting US industry, existed under the Obama admin as well. Thought: Perhaps Trump protection of coal/nuke caused by net metering causing massive price swings during sunny/cloudy times, harming grid profitability.

Perhaps the best way to understand news media is as an ecosystem selecting for the most coherent and seemingly descriptive narrative while staying vague enough to avoid ever being the object of complete ridicule.

tl;dr news media is basically a TV psychic

Wonder if GitHub MS acquisition has something to do with: http://copybuzz.com/fr/copyright/new-provisions-must-not-hamper-software-development-sharing/

Proposed EU law requiring content-sharing platforms to filter copyrighted content...

Brainfart:
Trump may be bad at international relations but at least he understands the problem. Practically every market in the world is protected by tariffs (including VAT) except the USA & American people are being crushed by a gamed system where they cannot earn, only borrow.

One possible solution could be a cap-and-trade tariff: every $ of goods exported = 1 credit, every $ of goods imported costs 1 credit. New credits issued by US gov in limited supply.

Just demonstrated a @cryptpad experimental branch using subresource integrity and code signing to deal with the problem of server providing wrong javascript.
You can checkout the branch here: https://github.com/xwiki-labs/cryptpad/commits/code-integrity but careful, it's very alpha...

@gme hey hey, what tweeter-connector are you using ?

The cost will be obedience:
* Follow US sanctions
* No projects with Russia
* No more trade surpluses with the US

The key question in my mind is whether the bailout will be handed to Merkel or whether it will be handed to Macron. I expect Trump will make his offer to both of them and whoever takes it will lead the EU in the next decade.

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Because If the EU disintegrates entirely, China will be well positioned to buy up the infrastructure for pennies and then use it for project their own geo-political influence. Better one subservient EU than 10 countries which are shopping between US, Russia and China for most profitable alignment.

Prediction: The Italians will not go quietly into the night, the EU will enter full on crisis and the US will eventually bail them out, but not for free.
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* Building nord-stream 2 with Russia which increases Russian influence in Europe and undercuts US LNG exports.
* Refusing to follow the US out of the Iran deal.
* Handing over infrastructure to China in their One Belt One Road project.

US elites are also disappointed in the way Germany has treated it's little brothers after the US built it, and the EU, post-ww2.

HOWEVER: Total collapse of the EU is not good for the US either.
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Though the EU and China are financial giants, the US is still capable of directing more capital than anyone else. And if someone is going to float the EU, it's going to be the Federal Reserve, just like in 2012.

However, there's a new sheriff in town and this bailout is not going to be free. And Merkel has been double-dipping.
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