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Unless I missed it, the essay doesn't include mobile phone location tracking or location search information in the speculation of how Google is doing this rich mapping.

I'm sure there's a lot of AoI value in these two sources, so I would expect it to be part of the big equation.
I'm kinda the same as GP. I used to get train then tube, not I get train then Uber. For me it's about 2x as expensive but 5 minutes shorter journey without having to deal with this[1] on 4 tubes a day. This also means I avoid this[2] at least twice a month when the tube inevitably breaks down.

It doesn't avoid the misery of the train which suffers from overcrowding every day and frequent cataclysmic failures adding anything from 30 mins to hours to your commute.

If only more companies would get on board with remote working. There is literally no need for 90% of people to be in the office 5 days a week.

1. https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/590x/tube-596...

2. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/08/05/17/2B201BF40000057...
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Blame all three.
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Yes, the Center for Study of the Public Domain at Duke Law School publishes exactly such a list every year.

Here's the one for 2017:

https://law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2017/pre-1976/
I still wonder why Wine exists at all given that Windows 10 is an excellent OS - definitely more secure than their counterparts, and completely free.
An event they would entirely deserve, if that's the case.
It would be better if it where user adjustable since they know what they need in their situation.
But not Free, nor open source. And you still have to pay license fees for it, they're just normally borne by the OEM.
Define "sketchy situations", please.
But weaker logic does not imply weaker philosophy.
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Indeed. I have made several approved corrections to Google maps over the years. They are responsive.
> pre-agreed price so you don't need to worry that you drive in circles

This isn't the case in the UK, it's always an estimate and I've had plenty of shitty drivers who don't know how to drive in London which have added 10 mins to a surge price journey because they've missed turnings, driven round in circles or taken the wrong bridge.
You don't, but I do. All of the above continue to be a problem on the incumbent taxi provider apps.

(For reference, I'm in Australia.)
Arguably then it’s not for you. I’m someone who comes from a background of the visual arts and always found the monolithic seeming walls of text that most programs come in very daunting until I found things like Processing where you can do things and have a quick, iterative visual approach to what you want to make.

I’m sure there were people who were against the concept of syntax highlighting when it began for similar reasons but I would hazard a guess that most people who code regularly find it invaluable.

I grant you that this probably won’t be useful for say, kernel programming, but it is also extremely new and an experiment. The worst thing we can do is ossify our ways of thinking and not be open to new and experimental ideas.
FYI, you can link to Apple Maps [0]. The equivalent URL isn't really much different [1]. A bit unfortunate that there's no consensus on the URL params between providers, though.

Trying to open that link on macOS from either Firefox or Safari shows a modal asking if I want to open it with the Maps app. I'm not sure what happens on iOS, but I'd expect something similar.

IMO, the lack of web client for Apple Maps makes it the worst of the bunch. Vendor lock-in is a tragedy.

I've been trying to use OSM more over the last few months, but it's hard to compete with Google on their home turf. Although OSM started to become more appealing as Google began requiring you to enable all sorts of data tracking for many or its features to work. If you disable location tracking you run into all sorts of bugs.

[0] https://developer.apple.com/library/content/featuredarticles...

[1] http://maps.apple.com/?ll=53.1983621,5.767509
How is it completely free?
That's a poor example, as it has in fact been the case that gold has been legal throughout the extreme majority of US history, including critically for the entire post gold standard era. Gold was partially illegal for only ~16% of US history, which fits very well with the term "unlikely."
Free for personal use, enterprise licensed are pricey
Uber didn't invent these things. My local taxi places have been doing them for years.
This really does go to show that cache invalidation is a Hard Problem. And that GetAsyncKeyState() is a bit of a pain even for Windows developers.
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We had app ride hailing in Nottingham, UK before Uber was even founded. It was an inevitability everywhere.

Rather funnily, we had a Twilio in Nottingham too many years before Twilio was founded.

The difference between EU and American startups is that there are VCs investing huge sums in US companies so they can do mass advertising.
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A lot of people preferred the more rounded 3D look of SGI's Motif hack and 4DWM.

I actually liked OpenLook/XView best, apart from that weird scrollbar.
Google Maps is also unbelievable when finding trains and such in other countries with a strange language. When I was in Japan I heavily used Google Maps because I could search using the latin (?) alphabet and get the correct kanji in return.

Without Google Maps, I would have been lost a lot more. With Google Maps I easily could find bus rides and stuff that otherwise would have been impossible.
I guess it's a matter of preference. I prefer the Waze UI when I'm driving. I find it easier to see the route to follow.
That’s a misunderstanding of Title IX. Under the Obama administration’s guidelines, incidents of sexual harassment and assault on university campuses were treated as violations of the victim’s civil rights. They were required to give a hearing if a purported victim came forward with an accusation to determine, using the “preponderance of evidence” standard, whether the alleged incident occurred, and if so, to discipline the student responsible under the university’s code of conduct. This might take the form of counseling, probation, suspension, expulsion, or whatever.

The Trump administration relaxed the requirement that universities adhere to the “preponderance of evidence” standard.

This is all, for incidents where a crime occurred, in parallel to the usual criminal court system. No university Title IX panel is trying criminal cases.
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Unknown unknowns mean you don't know if there's a way to make fast, long distance travel feasible.

From a Newtonian perspective quantum physics sounds like a complete joke. There are undoubtedly other discoveries yet to be made. I can certainly countenance that future scientific advancements could make what we think of today as being impossible as being possible without violating the laws we have discovered.
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If Flynn effect was real, we would expect to see average SAT scores improving (which we don't see):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAT#History

https://www.erikthered.com/tutor/historical-average-SAT-scor...

https://www.infoplease.com/us/higher-education/average-sat-s...

Flynn effect is a result of misunderstanding of IQ scale: "The basic misunderstanding is assuming that intelligence test scores are units of measurement like inches or liters or grams. They are not. Inches, liters and grams are ratio scales where zero means zero and 100 units are twice 50 units. Intelligence test scores estimate a construct using interval scales and have meaning only relative to other people of the same age and sex. People with high scores generally do better on a broad range of mental ability tests, but someone with an IQ score of 130 is not 30% smarter then someone with an IQ score of 100. A score of 130 puts the person in the highest 2% of the population whereas a score of 100 is at the 50th percentile. A change from an IQ score from 100 to 103 is not the same as a change from 133 to 136. This makes simple interpretation of intelligence test score changes impossible."
Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3950413/

Also worth reading:

http://www.iapsych.com/iqmr/fe/LinkedDocuments/rodgers1999.p...

https://newrepublic.com/article/115787/rising-iq-scores-dont...

https://www.cato-unbound.org/2007/11/08/linda-s-gottfredson/...
Besides Windows 10 telemetry being a privacy invasion, there are people who just prefer Linux or another Unix-like. Why would they switch to Windows?

E.g. take me. I have used UNIX in some shape or form since 1994. I do not have anything against Windows. Technically the NT kernel is a marvel of engineering. But my brain is just fundamentally incompatible with Windows. The UNIX shell is ingrained, vim keys are ingrained, etc.

definitely more secure than their counterparts

Based on what criteria? And what counterpart are you comparing Windows to? Linux with X.org? Linux with Wayland and SELinux? macOS?
That pretty much meets my definition of "not trivial".

In most Android phones (the ones I have used, at least), replacing the battery took less than one minute.
You could have phoned a private hire firm? They're the same taxi drivers you're paying, they're just using an app now.

Bit of a silly stance and rant in my opinion.
The 2012 Nexus 7 is an outlier because it has especially bad flash controller - by 2015 most of the devices were unusable due to degraded flash. TRIM helped very little.

Other devices suffer from similar effects - not as bad, but most devices certanly lose quite a bit of I/O performance (especially writes) over time which makes OS run noticably slower.
Because some people like Linux better but still need to run programs that are Windows-only.
"While a few decades ago, many Berlin streets seemed eerily traffic-free for such a major city"

Let's see, a few decades ago = at least 30 years = no later than 1987. The Berlin Wall fell in 1989. At that time, West Berlin was an enclave of West Germany located inside of Easy Germany.

So, perhaps that had something to do with the traffic in Berlin?
How do I run it on Linux? And no, that subsystem is not Linux.
I had the same feeling with The Hunger Games. The first one is amazing, the second starts to be repetitive. Didn't manage to get to the third one.
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> It's like you were limited to fill / charge your car at stations owned by the manufacturer

Only if you're looking to find fault. The analogy to cars works fine but only if you compare like for like.

There's a direct analogy to fueling and that's charging, which can be done from any electric source as long as you have the right connector (like cars).

Apps are more like car modifications. For most modern cars this is very hard to do without using the manufacturers own fitters or preferred suppliers. Some modifications are possible without their consent but they'd definitely void any warranty and they're not exactly encouraged.

BTW I'm not arguing that this is fine. Just that cars are as much, if not more, walled gardens than phones.

To be honest, given the economics of most consumer goods, it's hard to find anything that encourages non-manufacturer modification or repair. If courts were to really start fighting this, they need to fight pretty much everyone.
To take [0] as an example, the driver was easily arrested. If she had been travelling in a taxi, is it likely she would have memorised the plates?

The use of apps to book rides makes it very easy to trace drivers if anything untoward happens.

Route tracking also makes it easy to reclaim if an indirect route is taken (I have successfully done this with Uber).

Route tracking could of course be implemented with traditional taxis, but at the moment is a reason why ride sharing is considered safer.
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> Yes, but the Stoics weren't "primitive" really

They weren't that many either. Most of their greek / roman peers were still in the dark about common ailments and diseases, and resorted to all kinds of superstitions to treat them and fight them.

What I'm getting at is that this view of the primitive man as a stoic figure in tune with nature is severely distorted by our current worldview and knowledge. There was nothing "stoic" about the majority of them lived their lives.

More broadly, I'm trying to make the point that Kaczynski was a nutcase with a severe misconception of the human condition.
> I've never understood that cookie notification

"We are required by law to inform you that we use cookies for the nefarious purpose of tracking your online behaviour and undermining your privacy."

Hope that's clear enough now.
> "America is too spread out" is a bullshit argument.

It may well be a bullshit argument, but it's also an argument that I did not make.

My point was entirely that the markets do not seem to value high speed rail highly enough to justify its costs, and that the U.S. (for its faults) largely represents this low market valuation of high speed rail by not financing it. You seem to make an argument with the assumption that you know the utility of high speed rail is higher than the cost, I avoid this assumption.

High speed rail is apparently worth less than it costs, state pricing distortions included. You might like it, it might be attractive, it might make things more dense, you might think that's a good thing... and none of that matters because apparently it's just not worth it to the market which will be tasked with funding it, all things considered.
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But with Uber, you can message customer service who have a full gps trace of your trip. This actually works, I’ve done it. They refunded my entire trip, and I bet the driver has a mark on their record somewhere.
seem cool:

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It’s not a guess. Phones with removable batteries are thicker than “unibody” phones. Sorry but that’s kind of obvious.

If you need a reference: https://www.cnet.com/news/its-time-to-kiss-that-removable-sm...
What if I work a 60 or 80 hour work week? Do I accumulate sick days faster? What about states that mandate 1.5x pay for every hour over 40 in a week or every hour over 8 in a day? Can I force minimum wage waiting around at 5am in areas with insufficient passengers?

There are no companies that "have to do it already" where employees also have complete and total control over the number of hours they work and in what location they work.
Maybe they just want to study us. If we discovered an alien race it'd be pretty interesting to watch them evolve. It'd be just like the fun parents have seeing children grow up.
according to [0], the tulip bubble was not as big as most people would think

[0]https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/there-never-was-real-...
You should seek legal counsel as well, because it is clear that you are not an attorney (or, if you are, you should be disbarred for incompetence). The statue is clear; it plainly states the Government can only bring a civil action to enforce Title VII. Did you actually bother to read it?

As an actual attorney (this is not legal advice), I advise you to stick to what you know.
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> Like, a vast majority of the BTC wealth is in a tiny, tiny fraction of people who were mining BTC way back in the day.

Isn't that also true of fiat currencies though? Most of the wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few, and passed down through families as inheritance over centuries.
Brett Victor has done numerous experiments to try to improve the way we can visualise data or be more creative with it, combining the freedom of drawing on paper with the reproducibility of software.

I think what they are doing at DynamicLand is trying to similar experiments as Douglas Engelbart back in the 60s to try and find ways to bring more of the other innate skills we have into a computer that is not via a keyboard.

So like the mouse, it might seem like a toy but it has the potential to be combined with pure programming.

Also especially with neural networks that are learning how to code, we may be able to give more physical input to a neural network and it will produce the program.

All this is looking far into the future, so they don't know what the final outcome is either, but they're experimenting to find what works.
I had a Nexus 5 before which I replaced of about 2 years after buying it. Can definitely say performance improved after that (for a short while though as it was a cheap ebay battery).
I would find more ridiculous (or suspicious) someone carrying 2000€ in cash in this day and age for whatever reason, to be honest.

It is clearly a measure created to prevent tax evasion, which in Portugal is a real issue (as in most Southern Europe countries, I'm Italian) http://www.theportugalnews.com/news/may-2016-portugal-named-....

Since, as your parent says, in Portugal cashless systems are convenient are efficient, I don't really see the issue, aside from your personal preference.
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This is less useful than you think. What you need is the ability to look at a problem and solve it. Understanding the problem is a lot harder than most people (technical experts) realise.

Far too often, the technical expert solves a problem on the basis of their current solution space tools and not what the actual problem requires. In other words, they cannot think outside of the solution space box they are stuck in.

Knowing that there are all sorts of algorithms available for all sorts of variations of problems and knowing where you can get the information to implement a solution to your problem is a lot better than being able to reel off one or two algorithms and not know that there are other solutions.

Over the decades, I have become involved with various projects that were created by "programming guru's". They knew the systems involved and made solutions that showed off their "guru-bility". The problem - well the systems were a nightmare to make changes to. They used "industry standard" practise and supplied a solution that forced people to change how they did their business, without actually considering the business at hand.

One such system was built using dynamically generated SQL. Had the original "guru" actually thought more carefully about the problem in hand, no dynamically generated SQL would have been needed and making changes to the system would not have been difficult. In that particular case, I was there doing "after the fact" technical and functional specs. As part of my package of documentation, I included a specification for rebuilding the entire system so that it would be very easy to maintain and change and the runtime for each system run would have been (on my estimates) reduced to about 5% or less on then runtime of 25 hours.

To get everything back on track generally required rewrites (sometimes complete rewrites) to be able to extend these systems.

It is our responsibility to enhance the end-user experience not make life easy for ourselves.
...Or read the text of the Act. Not sure why you were downvoted.
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>Besides Windows 10 telemetry being a privacy invasion

Based on what criteria?

Windows 10 never allowed you to login with passwordless root. Case closed.
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I do all of my electronics development work on Linux. In part also using nonfree software. This is not a matter of principle for me, but a matter of productivity and efficiency.

- design circuit and PCB using EAGLE (nonfree – and BTW fuck that Autodesk subscription model).

- perform circuit simulation using LTSpice.

- compile firmware using a GCC toolchain – if using a MinGW port on Windows the linking times even for small images are abysmally long; I don't have time for that.

- since recently: synthesize and route FPGAs using yosys and the iceStorm tools.

- flash using OpenOCD.

Not all of these tools work without flaws under Windows (neither as port nor in the WSL). Of all the tools above there's only one for which no Linux port exists: LTSpice. That's what I use Wine for.
In Bucharest the city council just ruled that every taxi ride must go thru a central dispatch. This made all the apps/agregators illegal, Uber included.

Some legal taxi companies say will complain, because they can't imagine that we go back to '80s phone dispatch system, and the customers shall be able to use their apps to book the nearest taxi based on location, what a dispatch will not be able to do.
You think of credit cards as a way to transfer funds, but miss the "credit" part of the name.

I like having the option to to buy now and pay later at the same price point as paying right now.
> For me, using Firefox is the personal conscious choice you refer to.

Firefox marketing is effective but to be clear they have begun changing direction, pursuing a more practical "attracting the masses" approach (a la Signal) rather than paranoid/hyper-vigilant/engineer-style idealism (something some misinterpret Firefox marketing as still claiming), and as a result Firefox has been forced to course-correct several times due to public outcry.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15940144

A recent eye-opener for me personally was discovering telemetry's switch from opt-in to opt-out as of September.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/#firefox-by-de... (3 months ago) vs. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Telemetry/FAQ#Is_Telemetry_enabled_... (3 years ago)
It actually is quite hard to do it and have re-usable code.

There are various different ways the same email might get triggered, maybe the booking came from an API call, maybe it came from a new booking form, maybe it came from a 'send reminder' button.

In all cases, I have a booking object that will be in a different state of being filled in. The underlying need for data for the rest of the request is very different. Some of them need a fully filled in booking, some of them need the bare essentials. Our "fully load this booking" function takes like 150ms, which isn't cheap and a significant amount of the time of that is DB time, which is again our most in-demand resource.

CPU/Memory is (generally) under-utilized on web apps and letting the EF do it's lazy loading thing is usually the best solution.

As for explicit lazy loading, it's inelegant and way more code. One thing we know for sure, more lines = more bugs.

I'm not saying turning off LL is a bad thing, if it works for you, but I semi-regularly have a SQL profiler running while developing so I see when it starts kicking out loads of queries un-necessarily.
I heard of this "Windows 10" indeed but does it run on Linux ?
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