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US soft power and influence are waning (e.g. gutting if the state department) and the US consumer is about to take a hit with a massive transfer of wealth to the super rich. Even with the hard military power, I don’t see how the US is the “most successful country on earth”.
It's not about believing everything or nothing, I think: it is more about how to filter things you believe. Believing something is a way to be part of a group, and it seems to me that most humans (including me) tend to feel better when they are recognized as a part of a group. Conspiration theories offer an easy way to feel part of a very well identified group (made even stronger by the sensation of being a somewhat repressed minority): for some people this can be much more rewarding than accepting the rigor of actual science.
It is. Mostly started when Amazon landed in 2010.
I’ve been very happy with my 17” Dell Precision 7710. But I wanted a big screen and a laptop with lots of ports, room for 2 hard drives, etc.
Elon Musk is a brand, it is only coincidental that he happens to be a real person as well.
Anyone knows what the real battery life does on these because 5 hours is not very good and usually a seller is optimistic.
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Is that due to airco or electric heating? We have an average of 130W.
Hi, OP here! Just now got around to check Hacker News and reply. The thing with the apartment is, I've wanted to buy one for a while and in Romania there's a state aid that allows you to buy one with just 15-25% advancement. At the beginning of the year I had enough money saved up for the advancement and I was making about 1.5K euros monthly through work and another side-gig.

The thing is, a salary in Romania outside of tech is between 300 - 600 euros. With most people who have non-tech jobs (cashier, seller, construction) and even some it jobs being on the low end of that spectrum (even lower). I was making 4 times what most people make. My first job as a game designer gave me about 400 euros. With a 200 euro mortgage nowadays and savings it was a no brainer to finish up the game in the remaining month working full time on it and release it. However there were some problems on the developers side:

- The building had power, via a contract with the local power energy and a written promise from the developer that he will handle all the legal documents to connect me to the power grid properly and handle all the payments.

- The same thing as above with gas.

A few weeks ago I received an e-mail informing me (and all people who owned property in the building) that the contract they had with the power company will expire and we need to get our paperwork sorted out. Now again, I met with the developer and have in writing the fact that he was to take care of things. It turns out, he did but he just applied for all the permits and did all the paperwork but he didn't pay for anything. And I got word of this 1 week before the plug was about to be pulled. In that situation I had to run and pay for everything so I can keep the power up and work on my things. And gas since we all use gas for heating here during the winter - same story.
Now that's something I haven't heard about in the US for a few decades: strikes.

I'm partly kidding, but have there been any major strikes in the US lately?
Why does it feel like every choice for a phone is a losing choice nowadays:

- "Pure" Android from Google (Pixels and co): You end up being controlled by Google and enclosed in their ecosystem. They manage and decide the ToS for everything and you have very little say about it (as this issue proves).

- "Modified" Android from other manufacturers: Full of bloatwares and basically unusable after 6 months

- iPhone: Closed source and managed by Apple. Not a lot of technical options to customize if you don't like the default behavior (An issue I have with every Apple product).

For a non technical person, as a comment said above the iPhone is the best ethical solution. You get what you pay for and there are no shenanigans.

As a technical user however, I feel it is kind of sad to own an iPhone as I like to go deep and being able to modify a lot of settings and behaviors. I simply don't like the overly opinionated way iOS or MacOS handles the user (Which again would be fine for 99% of normal users).
It's becoming a thing in a lot of countries. There are a lot of discounts in France.
The former is more to the point and accurate enough. I think all of us in tech knew what the article was going to be about before we read it.

The problem is real though. We must reckon with the possibility that all these anarcho-capitalist dreams will go to hell once the necessary minimum overhead of handling crypto turns it into an _even more centralized_ medium of exchange.
If tere just was an alternative OS. Maybe even one that you can dl for a free. Crazy. I know. Itll never happen!
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Unfortunately we don’t live in a society where people who are passionate about art can pursue their passions fully and avoid starving or otherwise risking their quality of life. In our society merely choosing to pursue your art to your fullest extent is considered a business venture and not an artistic venture, and even choosing not to because of money reasons is itself a business decision.
Well yeah it is in no way quickly in that sense, you need 1-2 months to actually receive the money. Unless otherwise agreed.

It comes down to have the savings, but as well to have low living expenses or otherwise lifestyle in a way where you can downgrade it when needed.
I don't think life is that simple. Being a skilled developer/engineer has very little to do with the ability to save money.
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This Congress has been trying to gut healthcare and is about to pass an extremely destructive and unpopular tax “reform” bill. It is obvious they don’t care about popular opinion or even their chances for re-election.
It's entirely possible to be fond of the branding and still not glorify war
The lift relative to n-grams is underwhelming.
I'm in favor of network neutrality myself. My main criticism is that it doesn't go far enough, in that it only requires neutrality from network providers to content providers but not vice versa or like-to-like. But I do have a serious question for other supporters.

How can so many of those who are usually anti-regulatory "free market" extremists also be so strongly in favor of this regulation?

* This is their theory, not necessarily mine *
Internet service is a market. In theory, without network-neutrality regulation, providers can charge extra for certain services but market forces will limit how bad that can get. You can't charge for something that people won't buy. Customers will go to competitors who offer what they think are more favorable terms, including competitors who claim no limits at all (even if the promises are misleading or impossible to keep). This already happens in other countries. People post the price sheets as support for network neutrality regulation, but those same price sheets are also evidence that lack of such regulation does not mean the end of the internet as we know it. As long as the content differentiation is explicit and subject to consumer choice, not behind-the-scenes discrimination, there should be no problem.
* Now, back to my own thoughts *

If somebody believes (as I do not) that markets are fully capable of regulating themselves in all necessary ways, why would they support regulation in this one case? Is it just because this particular regulation is seen as benefiting them personally? Is it because their "free market" beliefs are really pro-corporate beliefs, and network neutrality as currently defined benefits the corporations they like at the expense of the corporations they don't? Can anybody provide a convincing alternative free-market justification for network neutrality?
The post says the guy lives in Eastern Europe.
Good point. Now that you mention it, I do remember trying and giving up on using it on a plane. It’s not a big deal for me personally because I get motion sick on planes so I usually just take a couple of Dramamine and sleep through the whole flight.
> Bringing web security issues to desktop apps

Wonderful :)
I am not sure about that (biggest battery in the world). This looks like a battery "pack" (an array of batteries connected in parallel/series). This looks like just a marketing thing to me, because there is nothing new or special about it. Just "the biggest".

Germany is also working on big batteries for years, but with a completely different strategy. A redox-flow battery with polymers and saline solution (https://www.nature.com/articles/nature18909) Here is a recent german article about it (http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/technik/brine4power-so-fu...)

This kind of batteries will hold 700 MWh.
> "Or just resold whatever Compal/Clevo are building"

Indeed, the Windows logo on the Super key in all but the "Manjaro Special Edition" confirms that. At least System76 takes the time and effort to customize the keyboard.

I don't blame them for wanting to cater to the vastly underserved Linux enthusiast market, but they haven't impressed me.
Yes, and also in other parts of Europe.

Why does this surprise you? The amount of celebrations (reasons to have sales) have increased throughout the years. If you got sales regularly people will wait till stuff's on sale. Now they gotta wait less long. It might seem silly, but the whole trick is to get people to buy things they'd otherwise not buy.
No, they're more like "home churches", which are what they sound like -- churches that meet in peoples' homes and put on their own services and activities with the budget they can scrape together.
That C compilers decide for themselves to say things that the programmer did not intended to do in first place, thanks UB.
> proponents of net freedom don't consider fast lanes to be a problem.

But the reply was in reply to Ajit's position that "we don't know what will happen because we don't have them".
> "Musk/Jobs/you name It"

Actually, I believe only those two receive such treatment. Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Facebook and current Apple innovations are always attributed, correctly, to the companies.

I see this as the result of a conscious intention by both Jobs and Musk.
Targeted ads are basically homeopathic medicine in a different market:

They take a small group of people with money who don't care about the shit you sell and honestly resent seeing your beef jerky ad when trying to buy a couch, dilute it with a bunch of people who once Googled "beef jerky" to figure out that one brand or make a funny meme so as to neutralize statistical qualities about the cohort you might not like, and pretend it'll do something for your business besides act like a sinkhole for your money.

But I've slowly come to think most business statistics are deeply flawed, but now we're trapped using them because there was an upward slope to the cliff and people are dumb. Even if you point out that their flawed number models caused their businesses to collapse over and over for no reason but poor optimization, most people just hear "made money for a while".

C'est la vie.
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I also thought the delivery was pretty good. But found the image quality too low to easily read the notes in the background (and would also have liked audio for the videos).
Which doesn't explain why the relief persists after you stop the sound. As an electrical engineer, it's as if tinnitus is the audio processing part of your brain being phase locked on one audio frequency and these external signals make it lose the lock.
Be reminded that by looking at the outside you do not know what's inside.
Yes, but sadly, not Thanksgiving
The American retailers have been busy promoting it, leaving the European competition little choice but to join in.

Few people realise it's related to American thanksgiving.
I got stuck on the Who page for a bit. I found it hard to distinguish between a white arrow and the tan background.
Strange. My US colleagues were surprised I have this clause and said it would be blatantly illegal in California. Guess they were wrong :)
Discounts are a thing, black friday not that much honestly.
We have other periods with discounts that are famous.
I believe black friday is only a thing in italy with regard to amazon and maybe some other online shop, and we definitely don't have people stomping on each other in front of malls at opening hours.
I've always been under the impression that the dismissal of the "myth of the 10x programmer" was more about its use as a general hiring filter rather than whether there exist prolific programmers (examples of whom seem readily available).
Not many people talk to people at the other side of the world.
The title and description say "Fabrice Beillard", so, no.
Well of course it is better the more savings you have. However for me when I started my entrepreneurial career, I think the fact that I didn't have much money helped to launch the business. I had to pretty quickly to launch some products to make revenue and/or have contracting gigs. That for me was huge discomfort zone, because I was used to the the comfy life of an employee. I have seen situations where people don't have financial pressure, then they end up building product in garage for 2 years, and in the end not launching it and returning to kind of employee role.
> Auction-based prioritization of bandwidth.

That's a really, really contrived example.

Firstly, it assumes that bandwidth is scarce, which it isn't in the access network.

Secondly, the incentives don't align. Everybody would bid maximum bid during prime time and zero at all other times, which is the same as not running an auction at all.

You either have the bandwidth to serve your customers during prime time or you don't. There is no middle ground.

Any other examples you'd like to try?

> If Netflix wants to pay extra so they stream video in real time that makes sense.

No, it does not make sense. It's not Netflix that wants to stream video in real time. It's the broadband subscriber that sends a request to Netflix and asks for a stream to be delivered to them.

The subscriber already pays for the broadband and the ability to stream. It is not reasonable to ask them to pay more. Also, in this day and age, in no way, shape or form is it acceptable for an Internet connection classified as broadband not to be able to stream video.

> Notably, this is more or less how the internet already works.

No, it's really not.

> Content Distribution Networks pay for access to ISP local networks, which gives them a fast lane to customers.

This is incorrect. CDNs may pay ISPs to colocate on-net on their networks, or they may not. CDNs may just as well colocate for free or not colocate at all. An ISP may peer with a CDN or get access to a CDN via an IX.

Nothing says the CDN has to pay. In fact, the ISP might even pay the CDN for a node. Or the ISP may even not qualify for a CDN node.

CDNs have nothing to do with fast lanes. CDNs work because of physical proximity.

> It's how virtually all content is already distributed.

A lot of content is delivered via CDNs, but not necessarily on-net.
Completely unrelated, but what's with all the characters having their arms open?
It honestly made me close the tab after one "page"
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>You can disable them, but they will forever sit in the flash storage you paid for.

That's true, but preinstalled apps sit on the /system partition, which is a separate partition from where your data is stored. The size is fixed so having it there or not doesn't affect how much data you can store.
To be fair though, if Tesla build say a giant electic powered jet airplane next year, it will happen because Elon Musk decides he wants an electric jet airplane, not because John Doe in the Tesla workshops is really good a welding.

Some people really do make that much of a difference. If none of the other people at SpaceX had existed in 2002 when Elon decided to build the company, so he'd had to hire all different people, there's a pretty good chance we'd still have reusable orbital booster rockets by now.
The one linked here is based on JSLinux [1]. All done by Fabrice Bellard of QEMU fame. If you look at the list, this is the first Microsoft Windows version running in JSLinux. Heck, its the first time a proprietary OS runs in JSLinux. Before, it was only Linux and FreeDOS.

What you linked is also based on QEMU btw.

[1] https://bellard.org/jslinux/index.html
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I was assuming 3000 cycles at 60% depth of discharge, which is what typical modern Li-Ion battery does, and an equivalent of 1800 full cycles. 129MWH over 1800 cycles is 232GWh, which is for $50M = $0.215 per KWh.
Yes but my understanding is that he (claims to have) coded it all in one month. After resigning.

Quite honestly, it sounds hard, but not impossible. This is not WOW we're talking about.
It's become a thing in Brazil recently. Halloween has also become unavoidable. I find this strange, because most people couldn't give you the time of day in english.
Yes. There was a major strike of screenwriters in 2008.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007–08_Writers_Guild_of_Ame...
Does that affect Boxing day deals at all?
Haha. I'm 10 years older than I was 10 years ago. Does that mean I'm the oldest I possibly could be?
Almost like if it was a religion.
Define major. Spectrum workers are striking regularly in NYC
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Ah I see, but then I return to my "lottery tickets" example; You can make millions with a single ticket, but there is no reproducible strategy for finding a winning ticket that doesn't exceed the payout in cost.

I'm sure plenty of women have tried it with Murphy, yet it was Mel B that ended up in a relationship with him, a well-know pop artist already. "one night in a bar" is misleading if there are requirements in getting into that bar, and being successful.

How can a woman guarantee bearing the children of 3 doctors? How many men would they need to have unprotected sex with until success? If this became a popular strategy, it would be easy to exploit for sex with male contraceptives.

> change the divisive nature of child support litigation

perhaps, but not to punish the child. Of course, regulation of female reproductive rights is a can of worms too.. Maybe a male-infertility pill/device might be a better idea?..
It s a bug, not a feature. I like how systemd can reliably track even double-forked processes, or how can I override only tiny parts of the unit definition, without having to rewrite the entire unit and thus the original definition is still updatable by upstream packages. Or how it can inform me, in what state either the given unit or the entire system is, including last few lines from the log. Or that there is unified system for unit activation no matter how they are activated (on startup, on socket, on timer, on demand by dbus, etc). Or that it can properly solve dependencies among services, and miriad of similar, small things, that together make a huge qualitative difference.

Ironically from your snark, systemd uses simple ini files. Launchd uses a specially bloated xml, because plists.
Entroware also resell these laptops - at a better price - https://www.entroware.com/store/laptops

All I want from my next laptop is to be powered via USB-C. I'm sick of dragging around multiple different chargers for my gadgets.
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Thanks :) . Nit: less TLAs, please.

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Jesus, that sounds like a nightmare! Hope you get it all sorted out. Probably even more expensive but any potential of suing the developer collectively with the other people? Sounds like they'll have annoyed a lot of people!
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So if I'd given you the Elon Musk brand 20 years ago and thrown the man in a Gulag, we'd still have Tesla electric cars, SpaceX rockets and solar roof tiles now?
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Electron makes things worse: it is not secure. Electron has many security vulnerabilities. The latest version is still based on old Chromium (58 & 59) so it inherits many of the security vulnerabilities published in Chromium 60, 61 and 62
The original title of the article had been changed. The one I used here was in fact the original one they chose.

Edit: even Musk himself acknowledged that in a tweet — https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/933576358793318401 — so don't freak out over a poor choice of words that later got updated by the news site... I would be super happy to update it here if that was possible (or mods could do this, please?)
> By what criteria is the USA "most successful country on earth"?

Given we're talking about the Internet. How about ARPANET?
Is there a Black Friday in Italy? I thought this would be a purely American thing.
Is there a good reason to allow unsafe eval in the Content Security Policy?
"lately"

That's almost a decade ago.
It is exactly the same between the two cases: the x object (either the array memory location or the integer memory location) can be changed by 'f' because mentioning the 'x' object name in a function call may implicitly converts to the address of the object, i.e. it passes by reference).
It is in Brazil for the last ~5 years. And we don't even have Thanksgiving here. It is just one more made up date to create advertising campaigns.

Started as a shy e-commerce thing here. Then became a huge e-commerce thing. Then a huge all commerce thing. I am seeing "Black Friday" promotions everywhere, from financial services to beauty treatments.

A common joke here is that it is "Black Fraud - pay 50% of the double of the price"[0]
Because a lot of shops just smoothly increase their prices in the previous weeks, so when the date arrives, they can advertise "50% off discounts". To the point that there are websites monitoring this kind of fraud and official agencies inspecting and fining companies.

[0] The pun "Black Friday" works in Portuguese too, as shops use the original term in English and fraud is "fraude" in Portuguese.
Over the past few years it's become pretty huge in Sweden at least.

edit: at least retailers are pushing it heavily. I don't know if the general population is really into it.
Being British I love the branding, but I am something of a WWII obsessive. WWII, the Battle of Britain, "the few", fight them on the beaches etc is a huge part of national identity in the UK. But it seems to me that WWII flavoured branding could be a huge marketing mistake in the EU territories Station X is targeting: Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, and the Netherlands.
I would actually be very surprised if they only lasted for 500 cycles. Apple currently says their devices last 1000 cycles and Tesla is very careful with their batteries. They recommend not charging it below and above a certain percentage in their cars and it would surprise me if it was any different in their battery packs (though I believe they do not have such an option -- they just do it automatically). Furthermore, those packs have dedicated cooling and a low discharge rate, and are made for a lot of discharges (unlike iphones, which are made to be purchased every two to four years).

According to Wikipedia[0], the original Powerwall was rated for 1000-1500 cycles and it would suprise me if Tesla's new powerwalls are not better.

So, they should be even cheaper then your estimate, especially when you consider that they will probably be used well after the 20% capacity lose.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Powerwall#cite_ref-te201...
Because a handful made it, and those are the ones that make it to the news, inspiring people to do the same. Till reality hits.