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At first I was optimistic that with all the popularity of the RPi, someone would eventually be a hero, but the fact that apparently not a single leak of the full datasheet has occurred after all these years also tells a lot about how Broadcom operates. Even the usual neighbourly Chinese forums are noticeably devoid of Broadcom information --- not as in "taken down/DMCA'd", but as in "we just don't know anyone who has access and is willing to share".

Then again, forgive me for generalising, but the RPi community has always appeared to me to be comprised of mostly "new school" "hackers and makers", with very few from the "old school" "hack-and-free" culture. They haven't had to deal with the anti-open-source attitude of Broadcom and the unavailability of drivers. They aren't the type who think things like electrical specifications for GPIOs are important (the last time I checked, they were officially unavailable... and anyone asking on the forums was responded to condescendingly or misleadingly by the officials.) They just don't know any better. It's not surprising then, that a large part of the community is actually praising BRCM for making the RPi possible.
Bunch of examples here:

http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/content/37/suppl_2/W28.full-te...
Further, IOS developers use proprietary Apple technology to develop their apps... So with that in mind would Wal-Mart not be more guilty of anti-trust violations than Apple?
What's good @dhruvp, I see that we have 6 months in total to complete the course. Does that start from the time of sign up or when we actually start the course? I ask because I'd like to take advantage of the great price but I know my workload won't permit me starting for at least a month.
Indeed, these kinds of “staples” have made up the bulk of calories in pretty much all peasant diets around the world for the past 5000+ years.

Not just rice and wheat, but also including oats, barley, rye, maize, quinoa, potatoes, yams, manioc (a.k.a. cassava, yuca), taro, plantains, soybeans, peas, lentils, chickpeas, beans, etc.

Reliance on staples is the main reason that agricultural societies tend to have substantially shorter stature, shorter life expectancy, and more health problems than hunter–gatherer societies.

In recent times, the biggest problem is sugar though. Modern people consume ridiculous quantities of refined sugar in processed foods, fast restaurant food, soda and fruit juice, etc. Consuming large quantities of alcohol also isn’t helping anything.
Walmart doesn't also have the ability to make buying the good from somewhere else inherently more difficult. It would be the equivalent of Walmart paying someone to stand in front of Target stores claiming to be an expert on the product you want to buy and saying "You know, the Target version of this product is very unsafe. You should really, really consider getting it from Walmart. I'm going to body block you from entering the store because I'm worried about you buying it from over there."

What do I mean by that? Gatekeeper.
You can buy HDDs for $20 / TB. There are companies with millions of TB. Unless SSDs can meet that price point, HDDs have a very comfortable place in society.
Actually, the law defines monopoly or market power by whether a firm has pricing power (the ability to raise prices without sales moving to a competitor) for its goods. If non-iOS apps aren't competitors to which people move in response to price increases for iOS apps, then they wouldn't be the same market for anti-trust analysis.
I think there is a difference, though: I'd imagine Walmart would buy a certain amount of copies of your game, and they would negotiate their purchase price, squeezing you as much as they can. Then they would mark it up and sell it on their own. If they see that you are selling it for half the price on your website, then that gives them a stronger purchasing argument to lower your price.

Apple, on the other hand, is imposing restrictions on which price you must sell it to third parties, and, that, I think, is illegal.
That's not comparable to a salary negotiation for an engineer.

As a technical stakeholder, everyone has a voice of some sort. The architects may have more weight, but your opinion is based in your professional knowledge and work. In a salary negotiation, there is a lot of information asymmetry -- the employer knows the budget, probably knows the market better and knows the cost of fringe benefits that you do not, and has less to lose.

IMO, semi-transparent scales work best. They also avoid many discrimination issues. If you want to have financial incentives, use bonuses.
Looking at a negotiation in isolation doesn't translate well to the real world.

You don't need to be an aggressive person to be aggressive in salary negotiations.

Being aggressive once or twice a year in salary negotiations with your manager is not going to land you a reputation as bossy.

Edit: or are you saying the parent was suggesting that being aggressive in the workplace itself is the best/only way of getting ahead?
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The benefit of ssd is that you can almost exactly predict when a ssd will fail.

You know the read and write IPOs. You know when they fail.
The current ACA wants you enrolled before being diagnosed, obviously. The stated goal is to have EVERYONE enrolled, always. So when a diagnosis occurs, you should already be in the program because everyone is. And if they're not at this point, they're degenerate sponges living off society's good will with no sense of honor, self-respect, or personal responsibility.
What exactly isn't comparable? A 5TB 15mm 2.5" NL-SAS drive is about $250. The "16"TB (it's 15.3TB) SSD you reference is about $10k. The cost per TB of NL-SAS is SIGNIFICANTLY lower, and still absolutely has a place for bulk data storage that doesn't have performance requirements.

Ohhh, I get it, you're now modifying your original post to look like you were aware of enterprise storage. Got it.
> Gin is legal today, and it is not causing social collapse.

Gin isn't legal the way it was back then. It's only sold in stores and places with liquor licenses, it's heavily taxed, and there are all sorts of rules surrounding it. If in we had gin carts every twenty feet hawking it at kids and the homeless and it only cost a few cents per shot, I'm sure we'd have all the same problems.
You make it sound like there was an alternative, which at least at design-time, there wasn't.

On top of that, other vendors have pretty much the same problems. Take Intel's stuff for example. It doesn't work without a BSP and you can't even boot a system and have it on for over 30 minutes without a running Management Engine.

Qualcomm, AllWinner, Marvell, Ti, they all make ARM SoC's and they all need their own BSP's to work. Broadcom is not unique in this.
Self-contradiction:

"[the factory's] closure will significantly reduce the company’s HDD output"

...but a few sentences later:

"the plant no longer makes products"

How can a plant that no longer makes products would reduce the company's output if closed?
No, Wal-Mart will demand with it's Buyer agreement that you not sell the software elsewhere for less, using language that will look remarkably like Apple's because again this is how store's work.
I wonder sometimes whether the good negotiators who make 250-300k/yr realize that some percentage of the premium they're paid is taken out of the hides of the bad negotiators.

Like, it clearly must be, right?
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They can. I had a set of Crucial SSDs which all contained the same firmware defect which took them offline after X hours of power-on time.

I also had a RAID 1 array where both SSDs failed within a couple days of each other (due to wear). That was a rude surprise. They were only six months old.
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> Sadists.

You meant masochists?
The serious explanations I've seen focus on interest more than talent. Women just aren't that interested in programming computers, even when they have the talent (on average, with many individual exceptions).

Programming can be social, though it often isn't. But the basic job is changing machines. While in law the task is to affect people.

In my "things you can't say" speculation, I think the socially awkward guys on the spectrum who dominate the profession are not very attractive for women to be around. Being the only woman in a room full of men can be quite different depending on what kind of men.
AllWinner comes to mind; here's one of the more well-known RPi-ish boards using them:

https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/open-source-hardwa...
Prices could be lowered by a store that takes a smaller commission, while passing the same amount of money onto the developer. That would lower prices for consumers without hurting developers. Or there could be commission tiers that mean that the more successful the app the greater percentage the developer gets.
No, Broadcom is quite unique in requiring blobs to boot. There are plenty of SoCs that are functional without firmware blobs.

Generally there are issues getting the GPU working well without firmware blobs but other aspects work fine.

Check out the Freescale part used in Bunnie's Novena laptop for example.

This is also the case for TI parts and the other manufacturers you list. Broadcom is somewhat unique in requiring a blob to even boot the system.
Yes, but they do that as a buyer: you have to sell to them at the most favorable price. Then they will sell it at whatever price they see fit. If they want to bundle it for free with a toaster, they do not force you to do the same. Apple, on the other hand, tells you: your sales price to a third party cannot be lower than my sales price to a third party.
Not that it matters (Republicans want to throw it all out), but two other things that come to mind:

- a cap on profits on insurance companies, enforcing that a certain amount of revenue is going towards client coverage

- Allowing people up to the age of 26 to stay on their parents plan

There's a couple other bits like this as well.
Private communities?
The reason they chose this Broadcom part is because they could get it cheap from Broadcom (founders have an association with Broadcom).

So, basically it was a political choice to use this part. I think it also helped Broadcom sell a part which wasn't hugely popular.
t0: Client A sends message (1) to Server for Client B

t1: Server sends message (1) to Client B

t2: Client B fails to decode message (1) due to an outdated key. Sends failure notification to Server

t3: Server sends rekey notification to Client A

t4: (usually <400ms or >1 second) Client A sends rekeyed message (1') to Server for Client B

For t4, if the Server notices the response from Client A came faster than a user could ever have seen and responded to a notification, it now knows Client A is more susceptible to a MitM attack. If, on the other hand, Client A takes an appreciable amount of time to send the rekeyed message (say, 1 second or more) then we know that either there was a network latency, or the user had to respond to a rekey notification before the message was resent. We should be more careful about launching a MitM attack on this class of user.

So, without changing the actual _actions_ that the Server sees, but just the pattern of the timing of those actions, we're still leaking important information.

Note: all numbers completely made up.
No, I mean that the ability to make an "affordable" car is hampered by excessive regulation. In real dollars an entry level car today is 18% more expensive than the same car in the 80's primarily due to additional safety equipment and a lack of 'economy' SKUs. For example, try to buy a car with only the required safety equipment, manual transmission, manual locks/windows etc. Very hard to do unless you go out of your way.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13394900
Anyone know how it detects the system time is wrong?
There's only one insurer in the "marketplace" in Alabama. One hell of a market.

The preexisting coverage mandate will need to be re-engineered because it's in direct tension with the fundamentals of insurance. Wide open and the system is just cost transfer.
Allwinner's been known to play hard and fast with the GPL and LGPL, so I'm not sure I'd cite them for being better about open source.

cf. http://linux-sunxi.org/GPL_Violations
That's not forcing you to sell for free, that's preventing you from undercutting, they are completely different. What Apple is doing is exactly what Walmart does: you agree to not undercut the price here elsewhere.
Good to know that this is finally there. I would rather use Safari than a browser without OS sandboxing (which is a no go for me personally).
I'm not sure why you got downvoted for this. I had a similar idea - what if the phone could run a faster, leaner version of Android by ditching backward compatibility? Or perhaps they have really focused their team on performance, or lowering power consumption, through software improvements.

Granted, the article seems to focus on AI mixins, but "it runs 90% of the top 1000 apps, and all of the most popular ones, with 30% better battery
life" could be compelling too.

I know very little about Android, but I thought your comment has some merit.
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> Interesting, isn't it, that you've panned the other Anglo nations because of what amounts to a relatively small amount of censorship of literature, but don't pan the US, where there are a number of significant political offices you cannot legally hold if you're an atheist

There is no legal obstacle to an atheist holding any political office in the US (federal, state or local). Now, in many of those cases, it can be a political obstacle – many people won't vote for an open atheist – but there is no legal barrier. Attempts to restrict political offices on the basis of religious belief (or lack thereof) are clear violations of the First Amendment.

By contrast, in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK: Roman Catholics are legally barred from holding the office of head of state (King/Queen). Suppose, hypothetically, Prince Charles wanted to convert to Catholicism–then by doing so he'd automatically cut himself out of the line of succession.
It sounds like you are saying this project's true motivating objective is to advance the author's personal beliefs about "UX" and to see wide adoption of this philosophy as embodied in some particular software. That he chose to use a large, politically-connected, centralized social media^W^W ad sales company as a distribution channel ensuring wide adoption by default. And that the author would make any trade-off in order to see wide adoption.

Should we be surprised?

If I am not mistaken the crytography here is compliments of djb. (Best "UX" designer ever, IMHO.)

The Signal author's contribution is only a protocol and some "UX". His programming language of choice was Java.
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> Is it because we're all making those sweet 1% salaries in tech?

Probably. People need to realise it's not the normal state of affairs, nor will it last forever.

Where I live, everyone was making 6 figure salaries out of school working for oil companies. Now unemployment is over 10%, and every single person my age who worked for an oil company was laid off, most are back to being bartenders and servers with no future in sight. Many are in tons of debt, a few on the verge of declaring bankruptcy now that they have a car/house/whatever they can't afford anymore.

When you look at economies in the western world as a whole (take out a few boom towns), it's pretty dreary for our generation (I'm on the upper end of what's considered a 'millennial'). Globalism and automation have decimated entire industries, where jobs still exist wages are being driven downward, inequality is increasing, leaving the 'working class' to struggle.

We'll survive, but the future won't look like the past, we'll have a lot less than our parents did (comparatively speaking). No single salary supporting an entire family with 2 vehicles and a single-family home. More like dual income, 0.5 vehicles and a tiny condo.

It's not the apocalypse, but people need to start listening to economists, open their eyes, and boomers need to take responsibility for the shit-show they've created.

Also, as an aside, every single left-wing party in the world right now needs to take a hard look at their policies. It's no longer good enough to be barely right of centre, and support a token progressive cause. Right-wingers want to fix the job situation by destroying globalism, putting up tariffs, and strong-arming companies into bringing jobs back. And you know what, it'll work. It's sound policy economically, in a game theory "fuck you, I've got mine" sort of way, though far from progressive and won't build a better world. If left-wingers ever want to realise their vision, it won't be by crying over straw-men (Russians, Nazi frogs, etc...), they need to become truly progressive economically. This means guaranteed income, an end to our lottery society. But right now, the left doesn't have answers (well, they do, but not the political willpower). The right does, and all across the western world nationalist governments are going to pop up. The writing's on the wall.
I watched that episode just now after your mention of it. It was quite good.

At least in my version, the victims are complete fiction. The end result would amount to merely punking half of the internet. Fortunately, it also lacked all the terrible things I can't mention due to spoilers. :)

I've this pet theory which surmises that when you try to effect change, the efficiency of the effort is inversely proportional to any resulting negativity. Thus, anything that garners any negativity at all is probably a bad idea.

Realistically, counteracting mob mentality will come down to boring things like rethinking social media architecture to account for human nature.
I think back to when HDD's were "getting cheaper" at $1/MB (and every power of 10 since at that same price point) and shrug. While they'll certainly still have their place (similar to tape drives and other storage technology that used to be much more commonplace), there's every reason to expect the PPU of SSD's to continue trending downward.
Or it just shortens the runway, reduces revenue or slows down company expansion.
just a guess... google does not hold a monopoly over app selling in the android program space. there's the amazon store and i'm pretty sure one of the chinese hardware android companies have one.
But it's by such a tenuous thread that it's deceptive.
Is that TCO? Because unless you're comparing with warranty, power, and human costs, it's not accurate.
I'm failing to follow what's happening here.

If the patient doesn't pay the deductible, does the insurance company not pay anything at all?

My assumption would be that the insurance company has to pay, and then has to work out the deductible payment with the patient. What's the point of asking for an insurance card if the patient can simply not pay anyways?
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Framework based on four colors (Black | Blue | White | Grey) and three forms (Circle | Square | Triangle).

Project No.1 was introduced in 2015.

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Gotta keep that cost basis high to apply the ROR against! Build a big nuclear reactor paid for by the rate-payers pass go and collect 8-10% ROR!
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> I think a lot of the alt-right obsession comes from this as well.

Ironically the alt-right seems to be anti-war (at least when it comes to war with other superpowers, namely Russia), but there is definitely nihilistic tendencies within the movement. Sort of a "globalism sucks, so let's kill it with fire" thing...
The screenshots are from the "old" style coverage. We have much better views now: http://lab.llvm.org:8080/coverage/coverage-reports/opt/cover...

See for instance how having your cursor on top of each side of a condition tells you how many times each individual condition were evaluated!
Another side effect that might not be immediately obvious to many cis people -- VR provides a safe place to explore your gender identity without fear. Want to swap out for a female/male body when you look down? It's as easy as toggling a switch in many games.
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The "nanodegree."

If anybody ever tried to use that as a credential, they'd waste more words trying to explain what it is, and what it's worth, than if they just told you what they actually knew verbatim.

I have a nanodegree in microwaving hot pockets. Ask me to defend its intrinsic value.
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By that logic car insurance would cover brake service.
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an important sidenote to this: the taxes for the subsidy payments didn't disappear. The republicans could have used money earmarked for this exact purpose and instead decided that the government should keep the money. They chose that health care costs should rise and taxes should stay up.

And despite all of that, health care cost growth still dropped
You can install other app stores on Android. Amazon for example has one you can install. I believe it requires enabling app side loading, but it is perfectly possible.
I fail to see the difference between paying the first $15k at retail and paying an extra $1250/month in premiums, when all other coverage is equal.
Agreed on the first part. Don't know Ruby but the amount of hate PHP gets is not normal, especially for such a mainstream language
How many of those Python jobs are web dev vs data science / analytics / whatever? Ruby is mostly RoR, but Python is pretty broadly applied these days.
"My impression has been that this has mostly been about giving a cheap, easy to use software platform, and they've succeeded at that because of the price/performance balance."

It was chosen mainly for the low price. The performance was a little subpar but it had the advantage of a decent video graphics block.

"Now that this platform is more established, I imagine they can apply some pressure to get things like the video core to be more open"

Broadcom was one of the worst companies to get documentation from, even for their own customers. Unless you were a big customer, you're lucky to get the time of day from them. Hopefully, their new owners Avago will have a different attitude towards the open source community.
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> ACA puts a cap on the profits of insurers. They are not just increasing the premiums and pocketing the difference.

Unfortunately, I think it's percentage cap, not an absolute cap. So, if you're an insurer and want to increase profits by a dollar, you need to increase costs by a few dollars.
That sounds right to me, and it's insightful. Thank you for sharing this.