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I think it would be easier if they just removed apps that clearly break the rules, like this one. I mean, there's no real reason an app would redirect support to an unrelated third party who didn't want to receive it, so why not just remove apps that do this? Same with any more apps that pretend to be from companies that actually played no role in development.
As an individual you are free to say whatever you please.

As the CEO of a large organization, you are not. You are the face and voice of an organization. You speak for its employees and you are accountable to its shareholders. You are held to a higher standard and your every word/action is scrutinized. If your shareholders are afraid that your speech/actions will hurt the bottom line of the company, you will be removed from your position.
That's a logical fallacy. I could repost anything you like to a subreddit you don't like; would that change the value of the thing you like?
> I am not convinced you have to throw common sense out the window just because you're dealing with a computer. The computer doesn't need to reject your attempts to, e.g., see other peoples' account information for you to know that's outside the scope of authorized use.

It seems you're advocating for the "I know it when I see it" test.

If this common sense is so common then we can write down what it is and make sure everybody is on the same page, right?

> What you're saying is that for the specific case of computers, that presumption should be flipped: you have authorization to do whatever you're not actively prevented from doing.

The practice is flipped. In practice you are actively prevented from doing anything you aren't authorized to do, absent some flaw in the server. Why shouldn't the rule follow the practice?
> am I the only one who thinks those persistent bars (usually with page name/logo, some "share" buttons to other pages, etc.) at the top of a page are the worst thing to have ever happened in web design? It's pretty much standard now and it seems that not that many people care.

If it's a page that'll take longer than a few seconds to read, I usually open up the developer console and delete the element. I have never once later wanted anything from the "helpful" pop-down menu and had to reload to get it back.
Has anyone else ever had the cord of their magsafe charger start sparking or catch on fire (as it burns through the insulation and rubber) right behind the adapter? I've had it happen with I believe three chargers across two different computers.
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That in practice it does not work as intended means it is bad law and needs tweaked. One way would be to say that all behavior "off the clock" and all attributes of a person not related to the job are protected. Another way would be to say nothing is protected. Right now we have a middle ground that plays favorites.
Still recommended reading:

http://members.shaw.ca/jeanaltemeyer/drbob/TheAuthoritarians...

The key takeaway isn't so much that the left/right spectrum is a horse shoe, but that in fact there are (at least) two independent axes, and authoritarian attitudes don't necessarily correspond neatly to left/right distinctions.

Although the book spends a lot of time looking at authoritarians on the far right, there's an interesting and useful coda about left wing authoritarians.

I've found it much more useful to ignore the traditional spectrum and look instead at the degree of scorn, hatred, support for social violence and exclusion, and/or support for direct physical violence.

Non-authoritarians don't support harm of others. Even revenge is uncomfortable.

Authoritarians make a point of conspicuous identification with power and authority - however defined - and reliably support verbal, social, emotional, and physical violence.

Self-identified political groupings are much less relevant than tone and behaviour.
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Ugh. The Brendan Eich issue was about freedom of association -- in particular, the right of Mozilla employees and stakeholders not to be associated with the bigoted groups (and their hateful TV ads) Eich was supporting -- rather than freedom of speech.

If you're still not clear as to the distinction, please see: https://xkcd.com/1357/
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I don't think it's such that the person in question doesn't want to share the knowledge, it's that imparting the knowledge is time consuming and draining.
As someone with a full beard, a father who wears a full beard, and several friends with full beards, what is the problem with them?
If it doesn't then there is almost no legitimate financial reason to buy a house. Nobody will buy a $200k house if chances are it will be worth $180-220k in 40 years before inflation.
I don't think specifying exactly which school, or even which "group of three" schools is really germane to the point being made. Probably "Ivy League" wasn't even especially relevant, but is a way to quickly state what probably was relevant, a "top school."
Despite the visual appeal of their products, Apple normally does a very good job with prioritizing function over form except in this case with the charger wire being so fragile and thin. I know I'm not the most careful and delicate person in the world, but the failure rate here is ridiculous compared to other similar products I own. The end of the cable gets frayed every single time.

Otherwise, Apple makes ridiculously durable products that I use for years on end. It's just weird that their charger's wire almost seems purposefully designed to break in this manner.

This isn't just a minor annoyance and monetary concern where I'm just annoyed at having to buy a new charger every year or so - there's a real safety issue here with this wire being so fragile - it could be both a shock and fire hazard.

Shame on Apple for ignoring this very real problem with their product.
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This is an interesting subject matter but he's a poor speaker. If his book is anything like this speech I'm sure it's long-winded and boring.
Yes, some people have good experiences, but it's still incredibly reckless. Chargers without proper safety features and which don't conform to electrical isolation standards could render your $1000+ machine worthless in a puff of smoke, or, worse, kill you.
Well according to that Vox article about that liberal prof who got censored (and links therein) linked by the parent comment, the following things:

1. works of Edward Said

2. works of Mark Twain

3. works of Upton Sinclar

4. works of Maureen Tkacik

5. Ovid's Metamorphoses

6. The movie Avengers

7. Debates about abortion

8. Some "Afrobeat" band that had too many white people in it

9. Some male professor who was "creepy" at a conference

10. Asking harassment victims for proof

And if I recall correctly from pop culture several months back:

11. The comedic act of Jerry Seinfeld

12. The comedic act of Chris Rock
Having a compromised machine on your network serves as entrypoint. The machine may also be part of a botnet which could expose you to questioning or worse by the authorities if the botnet is used in an attack.

neither is something you'd want, even if the machine itself is not used for anything critical.
Can they issue new money via debt? If no then it won't disrupt much.
Donald Sterling, 80 year old man in the early stages of Alzheimer's, has a private one-on-one conversation with a "trusted" person secretly recorded by that person, which results in his being banned for life from the NBA and forced to sell his team. To me that's literally one step away from thought-crime. If we had magical mind-reading technology that could prove Donald Sterling was prejudiced against black people, but he never took any actions[1] or spoke any words based on that, should we strip him of his team?

[1] I know about the housing discrimination lawsuit; I'm leaving it out of this analysis because the NBA clearly didn't care about it until the secret recording made Sterling a pariah.
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Thank you for posting this article. I've often felt the "walking on eggshells" phenomenon you describe, but I've never even felt able to call it out without risking being labeled an "enemy" of a cause. Seems you found a great way to do so.
Besides, what makes those subreddits "less than agreeable"? I think they're important. Social justice is cancer.
Honestly, I've never had the frayed problem with my macbook chargers, even with 2 years of use. However, I have had to buy 2 chargers since my original one because they will stop working after a couple of years. That's quite frustrating.
Could someone grade the explanation I gave my non-technical boss last week?

In the context of a regression analysis, I said, "P-values indicate the chance that the apparent effect of the variable is from random fluctuations in the data instead of the variable itself."
Considering those tax dollars go towards torture, murder, indefinite imprisonment, war crimes, genocide, illegal surveillance, and other tragedies I applaud any company which finds novel ways of resisting the tyranny of the united States government.
If you're interested in some technical background on the Telharmonium you might like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV34h-YCMbE
> The practice is flipped. In practice you are actively prevented from doing anything you aren't authorized to do, absent some flaw in the server. Why shouldn't the rule follow the practice?

Because it puts the burden on the property owner to secure their systems, instead of on the user to not behave in anti-social ways. In an ideal world, you wouldn't need computer security--people should just do what they're supposed to do.
Wow.I never gave much thought to Apple's magnetic connector till.The battery box does look like an ugly hack.But what I dont get is.Its magnets attracting.What and exactly what have they patented?
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Even that may be debunked it seems it's now down to 13ms and that number is only due to testing equipment limitations of 13ms. According to "Mary Potter, an MIT professor of brain and cognitive sciences and senior author of the study".

http://news.mit.edu/2014/in-the-blink-of-an-eye-0116
Why would you want to rule over something that you destroy in the process?
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> That in practice it does not work as intended means it is bad law and needs tweaked.

In what specific, concrete ways does it not work out the way you think it is intended?

> One way would be to say that all behavior "off the clock" and all attributes of a person not related to the job are protected. Another way would be to say nothing is protected.

Those are obviously potential rules, but I don't see that either of them is closer to any reasonable interpretation of the intended result that antidiscrimination laws are intended to serve.
From the article:

Problems with Apple's chargers

The ironic thing about the Apple Macbook charger is that despite its complexity and attention to detail, it's not a reliable charger. When I told people I was doing a charger teardown, I rapidly collected a pile of broken chargers from people who had failed chargers. The charger cable is rather flimsy, leading to a class action lawsuit stating that the power adapter dangerously frays, sparks and prematurely fails to work. Apple provides detailed instructions on how to avoid damaging the wire, but a stronger cable would be a better solution. The result is reviews on the Apple website give the charger a dismal 1.5 out of 5 stars.
The same site has a long article about Jobs' claim about the power supply. http://www.righto.com/2012/02/apple-didnt-revolutionize-powe...
> Did you even read the article mate?

Do you take everything at face value?

> His broker may have bribed the official, but his father most certainly did not.

Immigration is strict liability, so from the perspective of liability, his father did.

> 45k for an "expedited" green card, in 1995?

Good catch. I missed that. Makes me somewhat believe his father was just a fuck-up and not outright bribing.

> Based on what, his extensive experience of the US immigration system that he obtained in South Korea?

I don't know, based on maybe getting a second opinion before spending $45,000. Maybe based on the fact he'd spent years in Hong Kong and on H1-B. You don't need to know much about stereos to know you shouldn't buy them out of the back of a van. The author is quick to label his father an imbecile rather than a in-cahoots. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
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I'd probably be forever thinking Pl is Polonium.
I actually find Apple's charging cables to be pretty flimsy and not very durable.
Of course it is. The abilities of 'Anonymous' largely stop at LOIC DDoS.
That's a cached version of a different page (the home page rather than the blog aggregator).
JavaScript isn't executed if you use the SVG via `<img>` or CSS, so it's not useful in those contexts (you'd have to include via `<object>` or `<iframe>`).

So far as why it's not commonly used elsewhere, unless you've programatically constructed the whole image already, it's rather a pain to animate SVG. The markup spit out by authoring tools for any non-trivial image tends to lack the structure you'd want for animation. I suspect that's why we see JavaScript APIs like d3 used instead of embedded JS.

Authoring tool could spit out JS themselves, of course, but in all the contexts where JS executes you can basically substitute a full HTML document, and that will be more flexible and performant (SVG is not well optimized in most browsers, as the OP notes.)
No, it is not a 'serious' offence demanding payback. It happens all the time between nations. WW3 would have started a long time ago if civilized nations started shooting down each others aircraft that inadvertently or deliberately crossed borders for short periods.

Besides Turkish aircraft violate Greek air space all the time - so it extra-ordinarily hypocritical of them to state that they are guarding their sovereignty. Turkey had deliberately planned this operation with the F16's in the air and even a media team ready to capture the 'action'.

The only reason Turkey does this is because they are a member of NATO. If they weren't, Erdogan wouldn't have the guts to go anywhere near the Russians. Though the Obama administration officially supports Turkey, I don't think the NATO brass is happy about this.

Chinese aircraft violate Indian air space on a regular basis. Our fighter aircraft just gently escort them back, record the violation and sends the same to their designated military contact. It doesn't even make the official news.

No civilized air force shoots down another air force's jets for minor border violations. Ask any air force officer.
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> it ends up being slightly malicious or dismissive of other movements like feminism

When feminiism has become a movement against truth and against half the population, what do you expect?
I'm having a hard time understanding why p-values are so hard to explain without resorting to jargon... it seems very intuitive to me, and none of these examples really put it in context.

I'd explain it like this:

It's easy to lie with statistics if you take them out of context. Maybe I have an idea that drinking flouridated water causes cancer, so I take a survey and find that 40% of people who drink flouridated water develop cancer. That number is meaningless without knowing how likely it is for people who don't drink it to develop cancer, which is about 40%, so the numbers match up 1:1, completely normal. In this case, 1 is the p-value, and it gives you a starting point for developing an experiment.
Well it's their own connector too, not a standard like USB. Everything about it is likely patented.
I think this depends strongly on where you are.

I'm in the southeast, here a shaved (or nearly shaved) head and a full beard (if the guy can grow it, goatees otherwise) are incredibly common, and (mostly) disjoint from the skinhead crowd.
When you make statements that you don't know are true, but smart enough know that you profit in some way from people believing them, and you make no effort to find out the truth, you are a bullshitter. Jobs made a career of this sort of behavior.

On the scale of respectability:

1. True statements.

2. Keeping your mouth shut.

3. Speculating.

...

N-1. Making self-serving wishful statements as though they are facts.

N. Outright Lies.
Great question! What we offer is basically that - with a whole bunch more. We take automatically care of all the edge cases, trigger syncs automatically, invalidate CDN cache. Not to mention taking care of the whole deployment and hosting pipeline.
Using a magnet to connect to the device.

You can't just reduce something to its simplest component when discussing patents. It's the specific application that matters.
That's a fair point, but I'm not sure I understand the gist of the author's confusion. Any response I would craft would end up being a re-statement of the usual one sentence definition of p-values and Bayesian probability, both of which are already under discussion elsewhere in the comments.
The extreme of both sides of this debate, as illustrated in your post and in the actions of the most egregious student complaints at Yale, lack the nuance needed to find a healthy compromise. Those subreddits are "less than agreeable" because they advocate outlandish responses to perhaps slightly less outlandish beliefs.
I've come to think that if someone can't explain something well, they probably don't understand it as well as they think. I've heard people that fancy themselves experts on this or that software concept, and when trying to explain it use all the technical jargon they possibly can. It comes off as just regurgitating things they've heard before.

In other words, I suspect the scientists that couldn't explain p-values in an intuitive way, didn't themselves fully grasp the subtleties of p-values.
As a student at Dartmouth, I find this article to be extremely accurate and representative of the culture I've encountered amongst the protests here and (through conversations with friends) at other places across the country. As a white male, my friends and I are too intimidated by the Black Lives Matter protesters and their actions to try to initiate any sort of discussion on the matter in fear that we'll only provoke more anger and protest.
The interesting part is not why these people do this, but why they are winning.
While we're at it, let's try this one too: The p-value, if correctly computed, is the probability that data collected under different conditions actually come from the same distribution. My definition sidesteps the word "effect."
The point DHH made was much subtler than that. The words he used was "First, as long as your basic needs are met, the quality of your lived experience is only vaguely related to the trappings of material success."

I did a lot of soul-searching during my twenties and came to the same conclusion. Yes, more money can make a seemingly-large impact on your life. But the relationship is vague.

A Lamborghini only makes sense to buy if you can understand the difference between it, a Ferrari, and other similar supercars. A Tesla is only really useful if you have a garage to park it in that has a charge plug.

Plenty of people buy things that ultimately reduce the quality of their lives by introducing pains in the neck. They may take pride in these pains in the neck, but then the increase in quality is coming from the pride and not the purchase. One could almost as easily just buy something like Tesla stock if they're not quite up to owning a Tesla.

My soul-searching ended when I realized that it was moving through life's phases and stages smoothly and easily that was true joy in life. To take things simply and not go nuts with planning and optimization. DHH's philosophy really appeals to me for that reason, and it's no accident that I really like his web framework too.

That other, very long, post in this thread illustrates the vagueness of the money / happiness connection. Making money is almost effortless once you have the requisite social skills. Jobs fall into your lap, when you have a business, people fall over themselves wanting to do business with you. All you have to do is choose how much of it you want. It's not having those skills that will ultimately make you unhappy, not lacking the money. To make the money, you work on those general people skills, not on any one particular vehicle to dollars.
The point is that calling for his resignation was grossly disproportionate.

Depends where you draw the line. Many people feel that when Eich chose to support groups that were running bigoted TV ads (beyond simply expressing an opinion as to a ballot issue) he effectively crossed that line.
You are correct. In my argument I was pointing out about how things were at the time of Prop 8, which I think is around 2008. The gay marriage debate got much needed momentum in 2012. In 2008 even Barack Obama was not for Gay Marriage.
That's funny. They have 4 different connectors inside the package:
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Not a physicist either. But from what I understand from Lawrence Kraus's lecture 'A universe from nothing' is they found light bending(A phenomenon similar to gravitational lensing) around a massive start cluster, the amount observed and the mass in that area was insufficient to explain how that kind of phenomenon was possible.

When looked at from the perspective of Gravitational lensing[A phenomenon that bends light] there is some kind of aether 2.0 with a mass that causes the gravitational lensing effect.

Personally I think this is the wrong approach to work with this. We know that a cause c1, was the result of phenomenon p1. We are assuming another cause c2, which is very similar to c1 MUST also be happening due to p1.

It might very well be there is a phenomenon p2 responsible for c2.

We seem to be trying to state cause(dark matter) in terms of its side effect(phenomenon similar to gravitational lensing) without understanding what it actually is.
An excellent article. I hope people actually read it instead of dismissing it because someone influential on twitter doesn't like the fact that it doesn't fit a specific narrative. I'm glad academia is starting to wake up on that very specific issue. Good luck to its author, he is going to need it, because some people will be out eager to destroy his career.
I'm not sure why you're choosing to ignore the majority of what I wrote and complain about name calling. In summary: few of the philosophers you mention could be accused of merely playing around with word meanings; most of what PG says about philosophy makes no sense or is false. More specifics in my previous comment.
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> My favorite feature is the single, no-install, no-dependencies binary than works perfectly on all OSes.

Yup. Consistent on Linux and Windows is very useful for me. The python world are pretty good about cross-platform, but not as good as Go, and the ruby world has an attitude that might best be characterised as "sneering contempt."
He means the most common definition of truth is 'The best predictive model' (in the scope of the problem). I would add the principle of parsimony, truth is 'The simplest available formulation of the best predictive model'.

In both cases you cannot know that no better predictive models exists (and hence if your truth is absolute), even if you experimental error is zero (which is essentially impossible in most sciences unless you grossly overfit), since there may be unobserved phenomena as well.
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